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| Steely Dan – Charlie Freak Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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The song, like all others have said, is amazing. But, I wanted to add on to the other interpretations. Mainly that I think the whole song is the protagonist retelling the story of Charlie Freak to a homeless man named "Jack," or he's just saying it for the rhyme like in the song "Do it Again." But the reason the protagonist is telling this story is that the protagonist is trying to offer help to the homeless man/Jack by giving him the protagonist's home or something of the sort to sleep. The problem is Jack/the homeless man is skeptical as to why he would offer to do such a thing. The protagonist then explains his sympathy for Jack/the homeless man and the homeless which originated through his experience with Charlie Freak; and with the final lines "Now come my friend I'll take your hand And lead you home" he takes Jack/the homeless man to his home thereby overcoming his greed and shares his home with some of the poorest among us. This is just my thought, I think it ties up the song nicely. |
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| Steely Dan – Rikki Don't Lose That Number Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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I don't have an interpretation, just I can't help but compliment Donald Fagan and Walter Becker. I mean, how many meanings has everyone come up with? Ricki Nelson, Rikki Ducornet, gay seduction, pot, LSD, or just some random girl named Rikki. These two may have not known that it would cause such uproars among Internet forums, but they know how to write with a deviant sense of vagueness. Anyone can make a case for any meaning but the only way we'll know for sure is if Fagan and Becker confirm; and that won't happen anytime soon. |
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| Smash Mouth – Out Of Sight Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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(This is my ramble, my interpretation is the paragraph below.) This is my favorite Smash Mouth song, more emotion and sense than Fallen Horses in my opinion. The album this song comes on (Smash Mouth (It's eponymous)) I remember owning, the album was amazing when I was a kid. Now that I look back I still enjoy it as my favorite Smash Mouth album, though this song stuck out as did Disenchanted and Keep It Down as unique to the album. Even when I had an assignment in 9th grade to name a song that was the song of my life, I chose this song. I had to use Yahoo meanings to try to decipher the meaning of this song for me, my teacher saw the meaning though. Now I'm taking a gap year from college after graduating from high school writing the occasional morose poem and talking about learning how to play the guitar and speak French (Sadly I'm not joking, don't I sound like a freaking hipster?). This fact reminds me of this song and possibly skewers my interpretation by bringing me to rely on personal experience rather than put myself in the character's shoes. Nonetheless, it's just an opinion. On the hole I love this song and can listen to it five times over at once without getting tired of it. Now below is my interpretation.
Now, after that ramble here's my interpretation of the song: I believe this song wasn't written about Paul Delisle, Steven Harwell, or Greg Camp, but rather written about a mutual friend who felt left behind or even a sort of fictional character who had a friend that was changed by fame. While Smash Mouth was chasing after a mundane form of fame this friend/character was still living in his basement getting stoned "And tomorrow's another year could you tell us what happened 'cause we weren't here." Still, while Smash Mouth is basking in as much fame as they can get "And you're a star now, blinkin' bright" they've left this guy "And you drive so fast now, out of sight" who's desperately seeking help "the ticker tape wants us to fail ... but you are my friend in miles radio waves, stations, and dials, and smiles. Cities and towns, slow down." only to be left in the dust as his old friend drives out of sight as the music fades on the words "out of sight." It annoys me hearing the same Smash Mouth song get overplayed when there are gems like this among it all. |
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