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| Devo – Puppet Boy Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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This is the fun thing about Devo - their songs can be widely open to interpretation. For this song, there is no direct talking point but interpretations can range anywhere from the small to the large. I think they're talking about the life of postal workers, though. |
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| The Monkees – Salesman Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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It could be a hidden message about drug dealers and other unwanted things. Or it could be straightforward. The 1960s weren't exactly subtle, when the fab four's peers were using profanity in songs (e.g. Jefferson Airplane using the MF word in "Volunteers"...) |
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| Talking Heads – Burning Down the House Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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Metaphor - the song is steeped in it. Metaphor, allusion, word jumbles. Otherwise "Boom babies" makes no sense. Reverse it and make it "baby boomers" and the point they might be making starts to appear.
I might be reading into it way too much, though... but most people in the recording industry prefer to snort cocaine - not to watch it vaporize into the atmosphere where nobody can get high off of it. |
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| Talking Heads – Burning Down the House Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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Metaphor - the song is steeped in it. Metaphor, allusion, word jumbles. Otherwise "Boom babies" makes no sense. Reverse it and make it "baby boomers" and the point they might be making starts to appear.
I might be reading into it way too much, though... but most people in the recording industry prefer to snort cocaine - not to watch it vaporize into the atmosphere where nobody can get high off of it. |
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| Talking Heads – Burning Down the House Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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It's about voodoo economics. The building is our economy or country. "Boom babies" = "baby boomers", perhaps. "ordinary guy" = congressman who thinks making $172,000 per year is not enough to live on, while supporting policies that hurt everyone else in the building.
The sad part is, this song was written - what - 30 years ago. But the people who called the incoming economic change "voodoo economics" certainly suspected something wasn't right, or else they would not have called it that. |
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