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| Donovan – Candy Man Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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@[mossyoak83:31591] Yep! That's what it's all about! lol I've been playing/singing this song since the 60s! It's an old one. |
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| David Bowie – The Man Who Sold the World Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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In 1939 Glen Miller (and his orchestra, of course) recorded a song called "The Little Man Who Wasn't There". That song was just music put to a poem written in 1899 by Mearns called "Antigonish". I wouldn't be surprised if Bowie heard that song growing up and made some (pretty masterful) changes to come up with something new. |
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| Cream – Dance The Night Away Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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I think this song is about growth and separating oneself from those around us who inhibit that growth. The Incredible String Band also has a lot of such songs that talk about finding a little door behind the mind which is the greatest treasure.
The lofty language of the song emphasizes the desire to remove ourselves from our tiny surroundings and to escape our little pond and go out and develop a more universal mind, see things in new ways (as The Incredible String Band would say, "Cooking soup with stale words and fresh meanings, it tastes so good"), allow ourselves to think new thoughts, dare ourselves to grow. And dance is just about the ultimate symbol for freedom and delight - the sheer joy of escape, freedom, growth. Dance the night away could also mean to dance darkness out of our lives (dance it away, as in throw it away).
Just my little two cents. |
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| Pink Floyd – See Emily Play Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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I just don't see this song as being about suicide. I think the key to the meaning of this song is the name Emily. This name is not a usual name. It conjures up images of an upper-class family, or a family that has pretensions of being upper class and have foisted this on their daughter - and she feels somehow trapped by it. She longs to know what others who are more "down to earth" (thus the "gown that touches the ground" i.e. being grounded) but she is out of touch with "normal" every-day people, and so she "feels inclined to borrow somebody's dreams till tomorrow." For someone who is thinking of suicide, there IS no tomorrow. Also, why borrow dreams if you are going to commit suicide? It doesn't make sense. She wants change in her life - fundamental change - and she cannot wait "another day" because she doesn't want to have a life like her parents ("In the room the women go/Talking of Michelangelo"). She doesn't want to misunderstand what is going on in the society around her, so the "other way" to break free from this oppressive life is to lose her mind (meaning to start with a new perspective) and "play". Playing is another way of rebelling, and that is exactly what Emily is doing. It says SEE Emily play - she is playing right now. "Float on a river forever and ever" reminds me of "The Wind in the Willows" - and the name of Pink Floyd's first (Barrett) album took its name from chapter 7 of that book. |
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