| Gerry Rafferty – Baker Street Lyrics | 9 months ago |
| @[BreakOnThrough:53329] I like your comments. I really wanted this song to be about one person, but the pronoun usage is strange because sometimes it refers the third-person "he" and sometime it speaks to the second-person "you". I like your explanation. It reconciles the different pronouns and makes sense. | |
| Jellyfish – The Ghost at Number One Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| Perhaps it's about Brian Wilson? | |
| Guster – Barrel Of A Gun Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| @[phlurt1719:34820] I guess if you want to go with the masterbation theme, that line could mean he's trying to hide his erection while walking in public. | |
| Guster – Barrel Of A Gun Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| @[DMBGus:34819] That one line might be about masterbation, but that doesn't make the whole song about masterbation. | |
| Paul Simon – Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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I know this is way off base, especially after reading Paul Simon's own comments about the lyrics, but my interpretation had always been: The singer in his youth comes from a white, privileged family, but he has an Hispanic friend from a family of less privilege. The crime committed is simply the fact that he is seen hanging out with his Hispanic friend. The lines about his mother spitting on the ground and getting taken to jail are an exaggerated sense of how his family and society feel about him associating with Julio. |
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| Elton John – Rocket Man Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| This song is about loneliness, loss and isolation. | |
| Rush – The Spirit Of Radio Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| @[Mystrocool:23504] Thanks. I thought that line sounded familiar from somewhere, but I couldn't make the connection. | |
| Styx – Mr. Roboto Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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@[jimshine:11104] A Comment About the Word "MODREN" The movie "Westworld" was released in 1973. Mr. Roboto was recorded by Styx in 1982. Westworld was a movie about a futuristic, adult-themed amusement park, populated by extremely lifelike robots, where you could live out your fantasies, by role playing amongst these robots. In the movie, they bounced between a "Medieval World" (Western European life during Medieval times), a "Roman World" (life in Rome during the Roman Empire), and Westworld (life in in the Old West of the United States). Although very lifelike, the robots weren't entirely perfect. The robots are programmed not to hurt any of the vacationers, but by the end of the movie, all the robots are malfunctioning and killing everyone. The tagline from the movie was "Westworld...where nothing can possibly go worng!" (Note, the word "wrong" is misspelled "worng".) The word "modern" in Mr. Roboto is deliberately misspelled "modren" as a tip of the hat to the movie Westworld. It also hints that our alter-egos, although employed to shield the inner-self, are still fallible and subject to malfunction. |
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| Styx – Mr. Roboto Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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@[realplastictrees:11103] A Comment About the Word "MODREN" The movie "Westworld" was released in 1973. Mr. Roboto was recorded by Styx in 1982. Westworld was a movie about a futuristic, adult-themed amusement park, populated by extremely lifelike robots, where you could live out your fantasies, by role playing amongst these robots. In the movie, they bounced between a "Medieval World" (Western European life during Medieval times), a "Roman World" (life in Rome during the Roman Empire), and Westworld (life in in the Old West of the United States). Although very lifelike, the robots weren't entirely perfect. The robots are programmed not to hurt any of the vacationers, but by the end of the movie, all the robots are malfunctioning and killing everyone. The tagline from the movie was "Westworld...where nothing can possibly go worng!" (Note, the word "wrong" is misspelled "worng".) The word "modern" in Mr. Roboto is deliberately misspelled "modren" as a tip of the hat to the movie Westworld. It also hints that our alter-egos, although employed to shield the inner-self, are still fallible and subject to malfunction. |
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| Styx – Mr. Roboto Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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A Comment About the Word "MODREN" The movie "Westworld" was released in 1973. Mr. Roboto was recorded by Styx in 1982. Westworld was a movie about a futuristic, adult-themed amusement park, populated by extremely lifelike robots, where you could live out your fantasies, by role playing amongst these robots. In the movie, they bounced between a "Medieval World" (Western European life during Medieval times), a "Roman World" (life in Rome during the Roman Empire), and Westworld (life in in the Old West of the United States). Although very lifelike, the robots weren't entirely perfect. The robots are programmed not to hurt any of the vacationers, but by the end of the movie, all the robots are malfunctioning and killing everyone. The tagline from the movie was "Westworld...where nothing can possibly go worng!" (Note, the word "wrong" is misspelled "worng".) The word "modern" in Mr. Roboto is deliberately misspelled "modren" as a tip of the hat to the movie Westworld. It also hints that our alter-egos, although employed to shield the inner-self, are still fallible and subject to malfunction. |
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| Bob Dylan – All Along the Watchtower Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| @[Backstage:10382] I love this interpretation. Well done. | |
| Queen – '39 Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| @[DouglasNC:4440] Brilliant interpretation! | |
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