| Martha and the Vandellas – Dancing In The Street Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| @[spunkychick:44489] I don't think it's a coincidence that all the cities called out in the song were destinations in the Great Migration and still have a sizable and vibrant black community. | |
| Cream – SWLABR Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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I don't think it matters much to the song's meaning whether the W stands for "walks" or "was" but it looks like both camps are sort of right, lol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWLABR "The poet Pete Brown wrote the words and Cream's bassist Jack Bruce wrote the music. Bruce sings and plays bass guitar, with Eric Clapton on guitars, and Ginger Baker on drums. The title is an initialism for "She Walks Like a Bearded Rainbow".[2] Bruce later said the W stood for "Was" rather than "Walks"." Anyway, Pete Brown was the brilliant poet/lyricist for most of Cream's songs so I disagree this song is LSD-fueled gibberish. The bearded rainbow and the picture having a mustache are metaphors - either more in a literal sense, that she has a husband or another lover that she's cheating on with the singer, or a more general sense, that there's something off or not right about their relationship that the singer is struggling to define. Cream had another great song with an acronym title: NSU. I just learned from Wikipedia that according to Jack Bruce it stands for "non-specific urethritis" and was about a band member who had a venereal disease. All righty then! LOL Maybe Jack was trolling with that comment. |
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| Don Henley – The Boys of Summer Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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"After the boys of summer have gone" can have two meanings. Baseball players are affectionately called the boys of summer, a term started back in the olden days before major league baseball lasted until November, lol. So not necessarily that the girl was literally messing around with boys during the summer, but simply that the summer's over and she's gone. Maybe gone back to school. They had a summer romance that meant more to him, a townie, than her, a vacationer. Other than that small correction, agree with the general consensus that it's about reminiscing of youth and lost love. |
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| Don Henley – The Boys of Summer Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| @[rocker8902:39505] Deadheads are Grateful Dead fans. Known for passionately following the group around the country when they used to tour. Hippies, big on peace, love, and LSD. "Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac" is meant to show the irony of a 60's hippie now driving a Cadillac instead of a VW bus with flowers painted on the side. | |
| Madonna – Falling Free Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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The theme of MDNA is the dissolution of Madonna and Guy Ritchie's marriage. This song is heartbreaking but in the end, empowering. To me the key line is "when I let loose the need to know, we're both free, we're free to go". Think about when you break up with someone but you can't help yourself from still wanting to know about them, what they are doing, who they are seeing, it's like torture, but you can't help yourself. This song is about letting all that go, falling free. "Deep and pure our hearts align, now I'm free, I'm free of mine". Their hearts are no longer aligned or intertwined, she's unraveled hers and she feels at peace about it and able to move on with a clear mind. To me, this is not a hopeless song at all, it's the opposite, she's on her way to having peace of mind and being able to look forward. The face of God that stands above Pouring over Hope and Love That all of might, and life, and limb Could turn around and love again You can't fully be whole and "love again" until you have let go, and fallen free. IMO this is one of the most beautiful and mature songs she has ever written. |
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