| Dennis Wilson – Time Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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This song is a pretty good example for the style of tracks and the “watery” element on the album: Music and voices come and go, something very deep goes on beyond the water's surface. The song starts with the piano, the mournful voice of Dennis Wilson, who sings never finding real love. He starts though with a woman who waits at home for him. She shall hold him. But I wondered: Why is this song called “time”? I think – and that’s the deeper part here – that even this woman can’t give him what he needs to find real happiness. In a spooky way it seems to mirror Dennis Wilsons lived life. Maybe some people just can’t find it. While we think these ones have everything, they’re, in a very specific and subject-related only way, positioned in the world and just can’t find an alternate way to see it. Then they comes the horns, also in a very haunting way, and the chords, and the songs goes on, fades out, with heavy blasts. We don’t know how the story ends, but it’ll do with a bang. |
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| Leonard Cohen – I'm Your Man Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I'm playing this song on guitar right now and thought a lot about the lyrics. I think especially the ideas of a obsessed lover or the failed dark romantic a great. Even the humour. But what else? I think that this song is about a man who is in general a bit to dumb to see how much women want from a man. He needs to be a doctor, he needs to be a boxer, and even be the father of a child which is not even his. Just to gain what? I don't think the protagonist in the song doesn't really know. The woman not either. There is just too much! |
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| Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Lucky Man Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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While I can relate to this song as something about being chances and the harsh reality of life, I think you can interpret this song as something very anti-modern. In present times, no one will go to fight for glory. This seems for the most people just stupid. But there where other times when you did go to battle to earn something, and make some experiences, that are just worth living, even if you'll die in these events eventually. So to me, "Lucky Man" is about that. You can read it in the lyrics, if you like, but more importantly, it's in the music and the general more happy and melancholicly tone of it. |
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| Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Lucky Man Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| That's a very interesting association. Thanks for sharing. | |
| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Wonderful Life Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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What has always strucken me with this song, is the strange difference between the dark music, some dark aspects of the lyrics, but the overall, well, outcome of the story. The protagonist seems to be some sort of romantic guy, let's say: dark romantic guy, who has found this one special woman. She is a bit of sceptic. She is with him, she could love him, but we don't really know. So the protagonist tries a litte bit to convince her. Yet he's uncertain and a bit anxious if their love will hold. This motive is quite common in Nick Cave's songs. What's so special in this particular in this tense situation is that the protagonist really believes in love and that you can find it in this world, in this life. Love is not some metaphysical concept, but something which people can build for themselves. They have the ability to make each other happy (like in that old Harry Nilsson song ;)). It's hard, but it can work. One of the best songs on that album, which heavily underrated, by the way. There are better albums, of course, but you know that these folks don't have made one bad album. Some good tunes on this. |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – People Ain't No Good Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I think the song is so brilliant, because the two meanings, which can be found here, become interwoven with each other. On one hand, it's about the lover that died and the narrating protagonist is quite depressed about that. On the other hand, it's the connection you want to find to other people, but often cannot. When we love people, family, friends or lovers, we always want to connect with them, but also we paint some very private, special image. We believe people are as we paint them. But very often it's not the case. The song says that, also with that line "It ain't in their hearts they're bad". So you can say that's that. Quite depressing, if you want to say, that you'll never really can connect to someone else. But there may be the one, whether it's a lover or friend, and their death values your relationship. In some way it's also a prayer like "Into my arms". |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Water's Edge Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I also do think that this song is heavy influenced by what Nick observed in Brighton. But I think it's a bit more to that, especially since the narrative on "Push the sky away" is more open. For me, the most important lines are: "Reach for the speech to be heard" and "But you grow old and you grow cold" I read in a YouTube comment that some parent felt a bit sad while listening because he or she had a son who has problems with speaking (I believe deaf-mute was behind this). So I thought about this. While I don't think this is adressed in the text, the song is a bit more about youth in general. Young people seem so struggeling. We people in the western world also seem to struggle even when we have fancy iPod headphones in our ear. To find the right answer, the right path and the best idea of this world seems to essential in this song. But this is the world on the water's edge: It's wide open, and if you're an optimist and you have the ability to talk to the girls, who mean everything, who can mean the world, even in your little hometown, you do it good. And maybe, when one gets older, he remembers that he hasn't this hunger and this good, maybe a bit naive, but nontheless lovely feelings anymore. This is not everything, there is some wordplay who's very mysterious (like "Bible of tricks"), but I like this idea. But what's with the pessimist worldview? :\ |
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| Atmosphere – Became Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I think most people get it, but I think you can interpret this in 4 different ways: 1) Actually, it's a about a dog. This seems a bit too dumb, but in the booklet of "The Family Sign" it is mentoined that the lyrics are inspired by an uncle. So why not? 2) It's about a girl. Some people interpret it that way, so why not? Slug has often written about girls. 3) Eyedea. This seems also pretty clear. The drugs got him, but on some point it's okay. 4) The idea of transformation come to my head. Like "When Life Gives You Lemons You Paint That Shit Gold", the "The Family sign" is a lot a bout family and especially about being a dad. So you have to use the camping, the dog, the wolves, the becoming as heavy metaphors for growing up and becoming a good person. This is always what I'm thinking, especially when I hear that mellow rhytm of the piano. Great track! Besides "Bad Bad Daddy" it's the best track on the LP. |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – We Real Cool Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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To me the whole song is about the success of science. From philosophy of Aristoteles to Heisenberg or even the great poets, who gave another insight to the knowledge of the world. It's a bit similiar to the Grinderman song "Go Tell The Women". But at some points some of these science inventions mind be a bit trivial. This can be seen at the stuff like the heels or something. The Good Shepard seems like a joke from the narrator. |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – And No More Shall We Part Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Frankly, as a non-native english speaker, I always thought it a bit different. The protagonist of this song had a very troubled relationship with that woman, but now, when they're getting married, it could all be good. At least, he hopes it and hopes that the marriage will save it. | |
| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Jack the Ripper Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I agree, is one of the finest Cave songs. One interpretation which comes to my mind is based on the title. Why "Jack The Ripper"? Is it just because a nerdy joke inside of this song? You can say that, but what if this is about THE Jack the Ripper? He himself is the narrator and angry about one of his victims which fits back while he's torturing her. And she fights back with style, with anger and aggression like he himself has. So I like both interpretations, the one with that real ugly partnership, and mine here, the worldview from the madman's head. |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Mermaids Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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At the concert in Offenbach, Nick told the audience, a bit joking, that this song is "not about an old guy who watches young girls, but about the deception of ideas". So I always had this thought that the songs is indeed more than what it reads on paper, especially since the lyrics on "Push the sky away" became more abstract. But I couldn't figure out what it was. Now, it makes really sense when you look at it. Especially the lines: "I believe in God I believe in mermaids too I believe in 72 virgins on a chain Why not? Why not?" ...are an evidence for this, as it seems to me. |
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