| Steely Dan – Black Friday Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| People over-analyze this. It's just a fun take on what the narrator is going to do when he loses everything. He's going to do ridiculous things, because none of it will matter anymore. End up somewhere in Australia, dead broke, feeding kangaroos? Why not? Might as well try to catch all the guys jumping from the top of the building. He's gonna cash in his debts and ditch his friends. He's joking about an apocalypse of some sort, similar to 'King of the World'. | |
| Fleetwood Mac – Hypnotized Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Read more about the lyrics here: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread879984/pg1 He said that one day in 1969, he and three friends were riding dirt-bike motorcycles in a large forested area near Winston-Salem. He described it as thick forest with bike trails worn through the woods. Deep in the middle of the forest was a large clearing. They had ridden their bikes there many times before, but on this day, when they reached the clearing, they were shocked to see a huge, perfectly round depression in the ground that was probably 80 - 100 feet in diameter . He said it was as if a giant iron ball had been pressed into the ground, buried halfway, and then lifted out. The dirt in the indentation was 'smooth as glass'. There was not a bump or a ripple anywhere. Of course they thought that it had somehow been man-made...dug out with bulldozers or something. But there was no machinery anywhere. There was no way to get any machinery there! There were no roads, just bike trails. They got really spooked and got the hell out of there. From what the guy said, all four of them were pretty spooked. From the comments: In Hypnotized you talk about a strange pond in North Carolina. What's the story behind it, and where's it supposed to be? A curious North Carolinian... (Louie Golden, Charlotte, NC, USA) A guy that I used to work with from Winston-Salem told me the story of he and some friends riding dirt bikes 20 miles or so out in the woods when they came upon a strange "crater" in the ground with smooth sides like melted glass. It was a "pond" in the sense that there was some rainwater in it I guess. There were no access roads or caterpillar tracks so it wasn't a construction site. I think the location must have been near Winston-Salem. They all immediately got the feeling they should get out of there. Maybe it was a meteor impact ? I just liked the imagery for the song. |
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| Pink Floyd – Sheep Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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This lyric is Exhibit A for why Roger Waters is one of the greatest lyricists of his generation. Such a powerful collection of briefly-sketched vignettes of casual dread leading to violent doom. In almost parable form, Waters paints a biblical fate for those who aren't aware of their true surroundings in a dystopian world. And the song is tremendous, from the gentle opening theme of the 'Grassland' leading slowly into the 'Valley of Steel,' then a classic Floydian interlude before one final verse and the near-immortal cascading anthem that closes out one of Floyd's most powerful songs. Fucking classic from start to finish. This rocks. |
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| The Alan Parsons Project – Standing On Higher Ground Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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To the casual listener, this is a song about moral superiority. The narrator stands apart from the world, too independent to be bothered with its violence and betrayal. But make no mistake: this is a song about moral cowardice, about turning away from injustice and refusing to get involved. He will not speak the truth; he avoids it. He sees no evil and wants no part of justice. He turns away from violence and the suffering of others. He thinks that by doing no wrong, he is still innocent, and does not have to exist in this world. The chorus is his desperate affirmation that he is above all the drama around him, that somehow his innocence is still intact, but whether he truly believes that or not is an open question. |
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