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| Jethro Tull – Up To Me Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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@[fernandoof:51508] That was very interesting. Substance abuse is likely referenced multiple times. I thought he was skinny because of poverty. I assumed alcoholism but I think your interpretations of specific lines are really good. |
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| Jethro Tull – Up To Me Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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@[fernandoof:51507] That was very interesting. Substance abuse is likely referenced multiple times. I thought he was skinny because of poverty. I assumed alcoholism but I think your interpretations of specific lines are really good. |
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| The B-52's – Topaz Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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Group member Kate Pierson revealed to Onion AV Club that the song’s “topaz” theme is credited to a Maine-based psychic she consulted while the group was finishing up its Cosmic Thing album.
“You have two more songs that you should write before you record… and one of them is ‘Topaz,’” Pierson remembered the psychic saying. “I just see the word ‘topaz.’”
Pierson explained that the group had started writing the song that would eventually become “Topaz,” but they didn’t have a chorus.
“But after she said that, we were, like, ‘Oh, my God: Topaz is the perfect name for this new city by the sea!’”
After the song took on the “Topaz” title, band member Keith Strickland received a comic affirmation when he drove by a giant billboard promoting a Mercury automobile that read: “Topaz: The Right Choice.”
“In retrospect, it seemed so auspicious that that should happen,” she told Onion AV Club. “So we started jamming with those lyrics, and it just came together beautifully. The lyrics just make me tingle. It’s very meaningful. No matter how many times we sing it, it just feels very heartfelt. And it’s one of those songs that everyone knows, so when we play it, everybody gets up and starts shaking it a little bit.” |
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| Jethro Tull – Up To Me Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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Thanks for comments. I think writing my interpretation here must have created a desire to do some entries in a blog I was doing. I did an update on Up to Me and also Cross-Eyed Mary
http://vinylabyss.blogspot.com/2015/04/cross-eyed-mary-by-jethro-tull-my-very.html
http://vinylabyss.blogspot.com/2015/04/up-to-me.html |
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| Jethro Tull – Up To Me Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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@[michaelde:2786] Oh, I do not mean to take away entirely that this side of the album can be thought of as self referential. Inside of all of us can be parts of this fictional world. It truly can be life changing to believe that the interpretation of the world is up to you. Sadness can become joy, etc. I do not mean to take away the high level of genius Ian Anderson had to put this album together by my silly interpretation. But I am kind of sure I am right about this song as it is almost a carnival mirror image of the song "Inside" which had a lot of meaning to me in some sad times. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWhOdPyLefQ |
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| Jethro Tull – Up To Me Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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I have listened to Aqualung for 40 years or more. I have my own beliefs as to it's meaning. The general theme of "Aqualung" is not God. Nothing is ever that simple really. The complete theme of "side two" is God. The label on the original vinyl had "Aqualung" as the name of Side One and "My God" as the name of Side Two. Ian Anderson always said that the album was not a concept album. Indeed as even if it is interpreted as a "concept album" it is actually two of them. Ian Anderson later wrote "Thick as a Brick" to parody the concept album. I think his ego was much stronger than wanting to be labeled along with others as a writer of "concept albums." "Up to Me" is on the "Aqualung" side, which is loosely a bunch of Dickensian characters. One cannot listen to this side of the album and believe it is self referential, or references God's voice, because it is a mishmash of unsavory characters. It is fictional. I believe there is only one thing you need to know about "Up to Me" to understand it. This is a mentally unstable person who believes the entire world and it's doings is up to him. It is kind of a take on the ideas that were around in self-help books that you could change the world by just believing. In this sense, there is a subtle reference to God (but remember, this side is about unsavory characters in society, or people that we see and ignore, people who have fallen through the cracks of civilization) in that the insane person sort of believes he is God. But this is an oblique reference and entirely unlike all the direct references to God on the side "My God." The subject of God cannot be ignored on the entire album because in juxtaposing the two sides Ian Anderson has demanded that you think of who God is and what His actions are if there are all these unsavory characters in the world who should be pitied and not thought of as villainous. When listening to "Up to Me" think of the depiction of the insane asylum that is part of the album art. Here are happy crazy people. The rest should easily fall into place as this song is about the ravings of a mad man. |
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| Sam Roberts – Bridge To Nowhere Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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Too easy. The song would not be very deep at this level. You have relapses as part of the refrain.The refrain is rarely part of a narrative. You used repetition of lyrics to continue a storyline. I doubt the word "stoned" refers to actually being stoned. And one would not include that word in a song that was so literally about drugs in every line as you describe. Basically, I doubt your "self explanitory" assumptions.
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