| The Who – How Many Friends Lyrics | 2 months ago |
| Has anyone else noticed that the line "But it's nice to find a woman who's keen on living" doesn't match what Roger sang? Listening to the isolated vocal, I hear "But it's nice to find a woman who'll stay on late", which rhymes with "rate" found a couple of lines later. | |
| U2 – The Unforgettable Fire Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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Nobody ever includes the really hard-to-hear lyrics at 2:50 - Ever, ever, ever high And here she comes Yet she's so far |
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| Brian Eno – Dead Finks Don't Talk Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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It is and it isn't. Here's what Eno said about it: “Dead Finks Don’t Talk” is the most randomly generated of my songs. I wrote the lyrics at home with my girl-friend with a cassette of the backing track from the studio. I sang whatever came into my mind as the song played through. Frequently they’re just nonsense words or syllables. First I try for the correct phonetic sound rather than the verbal meaning. Off the top I was singing ‘oh-dee-dow-gubba-ring-ge-dow.’ So I recorded these rubbish words and then I turned them back into words. It’s the exact opposite of the technique used in phonetic poetry where words are changed into pure sounds. I take sounds and change them into words. “Dead Finks” is not about Bryan Ferry. After all the music was recorded and the words written, Chris Thomas (my producer and Roxy’s as well) said, ‘You’ll get me shot for that track. It’s obviously about Bryan.’ So I listened back to it and it obviously was. It was certainly something I hadn’t realized. Essentially all these songs have no meaning that I invested in them. Meanings can be generated within their own frame-work. It may be a very esoteric thing to talk about but I don’t think it’s entirely out of the question. |
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| Kate Bush – Be Kind to My Mistakes Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| My favorite Kate song, because, having been married 20+ years, it rings the truest. We're not always sure what we want from each other, we can't share ALL our secrets, and when we screw up (because we're human), PLEASE show some empathy. In a word - accept us, warts and all. Isn't that what true love is? | |
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