| Metallica – Turn the Page (Bob Seger cover) Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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wikipedia got us covered https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn_the_Page_(Bob_Seger_song) "Inspiration "Turn the Page" is about the emotional and social ups and downs of a rock musician's life on the road. Seger wrote it in 1972 while touring with Teegarden & Van Winkle. Drummer David Teegarden (of Teegarden & Van Winkle and later the Silver Bullet Band) recalls: We had been playing somewhere in the Midwest, or the northern reaches, on our way to North or South Dakota. [Guitarist] Mike Bruce was with us. We'd been traveling all night from the Detroit area to make this gig, driving in this blinding snowstorm. It was probably 3 in the morning. Mike decided it was time to get gas. He was slowing down to exit the interstate and spied a truck stop. We all had very long hair back then – it was the hippie era – but Skip, Mike and Bob had all stuffed their hair up in their hats. You had to be careful out on the road like that, because you'd get ostracized. When I walked in, there was this gauntlet of truckers making comments – "Is that a girl or man?" I was seething; those guys were laughing their asses off, a big funny joke. That next night, after we played our gig – I think it was Mitchell, S.D. – Seger says, "Hey, I've been working on this song for a bit, I've got this new line for it. He played it on acoustic guitar, and there was that line: "Oh, the same old cliches / 'Is that a woman or a man?' " It was "Turn the Page." Tom Weschler, then road manager for Seger, remembers the same incident: "Turn the Page," Bob's great road song, came along in '72, while we were driving home from a gig. I think we were in Dubuque, Iowa, in winter and stopped at a restaurant. We stood out when we entered a store or a gas station or a restaurant en masse. At this restaurant it was particularly bright inside, so there weren't any dark corners to hide in. All these local guys were looking at us like, "What are these guys? Is that a woman or a man?" – just like in the song. ... That was one incident, but there were so many others on the road that led Seger to write that song." |
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| Amon Amarth – The Last Stand Of Frej Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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If i had to guess it would be about not giving up and and fighting even if victory is impossible, even if you absolutely have no chance of wining or even tiring you opponent, you still should stand and fight and do what you can like just scratching your enemy "I run the horn Deep into his eye" also the fact that everything else is dying or dead or burning makes no difference "Everything around me burns" since you have to fight, either because,it's more honorable to die fighting, or you have to, or you can do, or just not dying without a fight also his death at the end means that, while he is dying and all it lost, he is smiling and somewhat relieved since he did all what he could and did not give the enemy the satisfaction of begging or running, he died like a boss all that of course is in a metaphorical sense like if someone you love has cancer and he/she is dying, you just don't give up, you try and try, and even if there is no cure or hope. you will do all you can to make him/her death less painful and anything else you can do to cheer him/her, or the like. or if you are fighting and invading army that is 100 times stronger, you still fight and do what you can or anything like that |
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