| The Beatles – Good Morning Good Morning Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I once went to a show hoping the girl I liked was there. Heard this song and wondered if John ever did the same. | |
| Bob Dylan – Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Listening to this song the first 10 times I had no idea what was going on, but I loved it. Now, reading the lyrics, I'm starting to see more structure. Notice that each verse begins with four lines that more or less establish some new character(s). For each verse, in order, they are: the ragman, Shakespeare and the French girl, Mona and the railroad men, Grandpa, the senator, the preacher, the rainman, Ruthie, and the neon madmen. The following four lines in each verse portray Dylan's interaction with those characters and situations. Those second four lines each describe some type of negative feeling or circumstance that Dylan has. For each verse, in order, they are (roughly): feeling trapped ("can't escape"), helplessness ("stolen", "locked"), conflict ("smoked my eyelids", "punched my cigarette"), loss of control ("lost control"), unluckiness ("wouldn't it be my luck"), accursedness ("he cursed me"), disorientation ("strangled up my mind"), lack of fulfillment ("your debutante just knows what you need, but I know what you want"), and repetitiveness ("going through all these things twice"). And of course the final three lines repeat over and over Dylan's lamentation at being stuck in the same place forever. Now, your guess as to what that all really means is as good as mine. But I think that Dylan's poetry, at least in this particular era, is more concerned with evoking atmospheres than it is with telling a particular story. In that capacity, I believe it succeeds with flying colors. |
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| The Shins – Port of Morrow Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| James Mercer is my favorite living poet. | |
| Dirty Projectors – Offspring are Blank Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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This song refers to the marriage of an eagle and snake. Nietzsche's Zarathustra had an eagle and a snake as companions. The back cover of Bitte Orca has a picture of Nietzsche. Just saying. |
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