| Sugarloaf – Green Eyed Lady Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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You are all absolutely wrong. It's about the goddess of love, Aphrodite. Anyone with any knowledge of the occult would realize this and already know who the Green Eyed Lady is. Other than that, I appreciate the creative responses and will add I often associate this song with Stan Getz, the Girl From Ipanema, a goddess-like nymph. |
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| Pink Floyd – The Narrow Way, Pt. 3 Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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Ok, I get it now. I guess it took the right mood to come to this conclusion. This song is a metaphor for the human condition. The snappy guitars and happy riffs in the first part represent the human attitude toward living in the younger years, happy with life and filled with wonder. The transitions into the second part represents the young human personality coming to grips with the cruel adult life filled with a dread of reality. This focuses into the third part with a lyrical narration of the particulars of modern adult human life and reminiscing back to when they felt life was happier. The path is your life as it progresses toward your ultimate mortality. Death is the “darkness in the north”. The night that is beckoning is death and you can’t delay the inevitable. The “night birds calling” is the subconscious mind trying to remind you of your mortality, but your ego can’t catch the message. So you close off your senses and continue toward the end of your life without enjoying it. The mist, creatures, etc., are the product of your adult attitude toward the reality of surviving the demands of life. You know you can go back to having a happier attitude, but the fear of survival and mortality hold you back. But occasionally you can rest in the memory of your youthful zest for life. Back when there was “life with every morning” when you actually felt like getting up and meeting the day. |
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| Pink Floyd – The Narrow Way, Pt. 3 Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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First off, the lyrics are incorrect, here are the actual lyrics. “The Narrow Way” By Pink Floyd Verse 1 Following the path as it leads towards the darkness in the north. Weary strangers' faces show their sympathy, they've seen that hope before. Chorus But if you want to stay, for a little bit. Rest your aching limbs, for a little bit. Before you the night is beckoning and you know you can't delay. You hear the night birds calling you but you can't catch the words they say. Close your ears and eyes, be on your way. Verse 2 Mist is swelling, creatures crawling, hear the roar get louder in your ears. You know the folly was your own but the force behind can't conquer all your fears. Chorus And if you want to stay, for a little bit. Rest your aching limbs, for a little bit. Before you the night is beckoning and you know you can't delay. You hear the night birds calling you but you can't catch the words they say. Close your ears and eyes, be on your way. Throw your thoughts back many years to the time when there was life with every morning. Perhaps a day will come when the lights will be as close on that morning. Chorus And if you want to stay, for a little bit. Rest your aching limbs, for a little bit. Before you the night is beckoning and you know you can't delay. You hear the night birds calling you but you can't catch the words they say. Close your ears and eyes, be on your way. Parts I, II, and III in this song differ in mood, it seems part 1 starts off in a happy place, like fishing beside a small lake and enjoying sunny weather and wildlife. Then part two becomes dark and scary until it seems to focus by sliding two opposing tones down into a single note and then comes part 3 with the lyrics. Over all the lyrics seem to indicate to me that the protagonist of the song has traveled far and was nearing the "darkness in the north" on some kind of mission of "hope". He went there by himself and some "force behind" him is soon to follow him on his mission. This doesn't quell his fear at what is waiting for him further on. He wants to rest after a long hard journey, but it seems that he must travel by night and can't delay his mission. So he must close his "ears and eyes" to the increasing doom that every step north takes him. I would like to say that the "Lord of the Rings" books influenced this song and it was about the dreadful journey of Frodo to Mount Doom in Mordor to destroy the one ring. The books were published about 15 years previous to this song's release. However, the Shire, according to the map of Middle earth, was to the northeast of Mordor, and so he had traveled southwest in his journey, not north. Dark, drug influenced, psychedelic, and surreal, IMO this is one of the best tunes on Ummagumma. |
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| Soundgarden – Half Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Michiguy's Lyrical Analysis Line 1: "When I hand my love in, I'll be done." "When I" An eventuality that will occur to this person as opposed to "if I" or "should I". "hand my love in" "Hand in" could mean to give or return something with the implication that it is somehow owed or due, similar to the term "turn in". i.e. "I must hand in the report to the teacher". In this case however I believe it is related to the act of relinquishing a duty, i.e. "When the sheriff quits his job he must hand in this badge". "My love" I believe this is referring to this person's emotion of love. However, it could be the object of love like a person, a pet, a physical object, or whatever someone might have love for. "I'll be done" This could mean that this person is finished with a task, however, I believe it is more personal though, like giving up a struggle as in "I'll be finished" or "done with" . I see line 1 as a personal realization that the moment you give up on love, you are done resisting negative emotions like selfishness, greed and hate. Once you give up, the struggle is over and you are now done for. Line 2: "A handed glove hides the doors." Line 2 seems to be offering the reason behind the eventuality of line 1. i.e. "When I hand my love in, I'll be done." (Because) "A handed glove hides the doors". "A handed glove" I believe the glove represents authority, power, or both and the hand represents the action of manipulating, governing or directing the power. "Hides the doors" This part of line 2 seemed to mean that the governing power makes it impossible to find a way out of this situation. Chorus: "Half a chance- Half a chance (Note: Sounds like "Have no chance"). We still have a chance." I believe this means that until we, meaning all of human kind, give up our love, we still have a chance to resist evil and an opportunity to change the world for the better. Line 3: "Mr. Full, Mr. Have, kills Mr. Empty Hand." "Mr. Full, Mr. Have" To me, this represents the rich and powerful elite with their political and corporate interests. Mr. Full, Mr. Have is the one wearing the glove that hides the doors. "Kills Mr. Empty Hand" This part indicates to me how the agenda of the rich and powerful end up abusing (literally killing) poor and disinfranchised people who are powerless to fight back. Mr. Empty hand isn't wearing a glove so he has no power, also he is empty handed, having nothing or offering no resistance. The impression I get from line three is one of rich people living a life of excess on the backs of poor people dying in sweat shops and labor camps or of some multi-national corporation wiping out a population in order to gain their resources. Chorus: "Half a chance - Half a chance. We still have half a chance." The final chorus restates the urgency of having only a small opportunity left, half a chance, to change our collective fate. The overall message I get from this song is that if we give up love, we give up the struggle against evil and lose everything but until we give up there is the smallest chance we can over come. We should show love and compassion to the powerless and defend them from "Mr. Full" and "Mr, Have" with their "handed glove" that is trapping people and perpetuating the evil. |
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