| Steely Dan – Through With Buzz Lyrics | 2 months ago |
| @[walterfan:54652] I dunno, the song is from around 1974 and the events you describe were more around 1980 | |
| Elvis Costello – Deep Dark Truthful Mirror Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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@[james708463134:31654] EC: "This is a real image from a nature film I saw once on TV. I wanted to get across here that the character’s hallucinating." "I showed everybody the lyrics and I explained it in simple terms, so there was absolutely no ambiguity in the meaning of it. I said ‘Here's a drunk guy, he's on his way home, he won't go home, he's chasing something that isn't there. He won't admit his problem and he starts to hallucinate.’ It's a simple thing. "Now, if I wrote that on the sleeve it would take away some of the mystery, and stop people from going, "Well what the hell does it mean, 'butterfly drinks a turtle's tears'?" You know, "Jesus wept, he felt abandoned." You have to leave space in the room for people's imagination to run around in. I make no apology for using those images, 'cause they're very striking. I mean, what am I supposed to have? A voice that goes [whispering with hands cupped round his mouth], "And then he started to hallucinate." Wouldn't that spoil it? Isn't that kind of treating people like children? |
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| Mott The Hoople – All the Young Dudes Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| @[spanky2689:27528] There's an interview on Uncut where Ian Hunter says that when they recorded it Bowie said it needed something more at the end, and he had dumped a bottle of beer on a heckler at the previous night's performance, so he added a rap based on what he had said to the guy | |
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