| Bob Dylan – Wagon Wheel (Demo) Lyrics | 2 months ago |
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This song sounds like I've Been Working On The Railroad or Camptown Ladies...Doo da Doo da I'm glad people like it and it was succesful for Old Crow and Darius. I was surprised to hear it was something of Dylan's but I'm not surprised that he didn't take it seriously. I had a two inch thick Dylan song book back in the 80's and I'm pretty sure this wasn't in it. |
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| Pink Floyd – San Tropez Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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@[Xavier624:46418] Another thing...if you listen to the song, Waters clearly says "slide a rind down behind a 'sofer' in San Tropez". Do peaches have rinds? Don't ask me, he wrote it. Maybe he was hepped up on goofballs at the time. |
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| Pink Floyd – San Tropez Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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I think it's about this newly rich rock guy who is able to go anywhere he wants, combining thoughts about his dream while in St. Tropez with his experiences roaming the countryside and wondering if it changed his relationship with his girl, who might be having trouble processing all of it as well and wondering where they stand. Knowing how Roger Waters is, I suppose it could be some tricky way to describe the thoughts of some imaginary soldier returning from war, but I doubt it. |
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| David Gray – Babylon Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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I think Babylon was his cute nickname for an old girlfriend and she asked him to stop using it. Something like Baby Lon. If it has some deep meaning then David should come out with it. The song is about exactly what the lyrics say...I'm not sure how he could be more clear. He added a third verse because it seemed like the song needed closure. |
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| Nick Drake – River Man Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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I believe his parents. At this point just before putting out his first record he was excited and hoping for success. As others have alluded to, his studies in English literature are apparent in the lines he used from books and poems he'd read that he used in his songs. It was fashionable for song writers in those hippie days to write fictional accounts based on whatever they thought angst-ridden teens wanted to hear. Like Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett, he started going downhill due to the drug use. I'm sure the lack of record sales didn't help with his deteriorating mental condition, but that was well after this record. I think Occam would say it was the same thing that happened to Syd and many other free spirits of the time when he unknowingly put poison in his mouth. What's the song about? Probably a collection of mopey college kid thoughts. |
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| Fiona Apple – Paper Bag Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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The same thing happened to me. I was looking for a sign to tell me if my fiancé who was pregnant with my baby was the right one for me. Suddenly I saw a chariot coming down the street adorned in diamonds and emeralds and I thought “this is an omen, my dreams are coming true!” But then as it drew near I saw it was just a garbage truck with some new chrome. I called my fiancé right away and called it all off, no way I’m living a garbage truck life. She agreed and called me a psycho. This is a rather sarcastic and sardonic comment. |
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| Bush – Everything Zen Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| I love the sound of it. I think it's just nonsense lyrics like many rock songs....just a jumbled mess to make the writer seem smarter than he is. | |
| Neil Young – Expecting to Fly Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Interesting to hear this on the soundtrack of the Jennifer Lawrence movie 'Joy'. To me it just sounds like the typical emotions of a young guy who set up his life around a girl and how he felt as the events unfolded and his expectations fell apart. I get a kick out of how every 60's and 70's song is about drugs, Richard Nixon, or some other weird thing. I suppose it could be , but I'm going with Occam's Razor on this one until Young says differently. This is exactly the way I was thinking in my early 20's when the dream girl decided I wasn't the one and moved on. |
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| David Gray – Babylon Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Yeah, this is what I'm hearing.....Babylon is the woman he's singing to. Does he refer to her as Babylon because she's confused? Maybe...who knows?? The other replies are very elaborate, though. | |
| Deep Purple – Smoke on the Water Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| 10 year old guitarists love this song. So you guys are saying this isn't about a bunch of dopers dropping their doobie while they're passing it around and starting a boat on fire? | |
| Robert Plant – Big Log Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| A big log is a long trip...a trucker term. | |
| Phoebe Buffay – Smelly Cat Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I believe this is a song about the Illuminati trying to control the coffee house industry. 'They never take you to the vet, you know you're not their favorite pet' is obviously a reference to the secret disdain for the independent coffee shop owner with his folksy amateur musicians dropping by and the Illuminati's desire to put all coffee drinking and folk singing under its control. | |
| R.E.M. – Beat A Drum Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| This is such a beautiful interpretation of this song.....I'd hate it if they just wrote some stuff about a guy walking around the farm talking to dragonflies. I wish the writer would give us a hint about what inspired it and what some of the imagery represents. | |
| R.E.M. – Losing My Religion Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Interesting takes that make sense. I don't have any idea what the band members were thinking or whose idea it was...I just assumed it was about a relationship that the writer could see was going bad. He was participating in it ,going through the motions,while recognizing the signs of another one going down the tubes. I'd always equated losing my religion with a love relationship losing it's passion... which is similar to the music business interpretation of being an artist outside of himself who doesn't believe in it or think he can continue. |
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