| Aerosmith – Get The Lead Out Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Tyler is singing about picking up a woman on a dance floor by appealing to her sense of wanting to dancing. Yet, his drive is to use the dance appeal to have sex with her. The outro is a song sex metaphor. All of the sounds allude to sex. Oh and there is an homage to the Beatles in two trilled sustained notes, likely by Whitford as Perry isn't subtle nor schooled. |
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| Jethro Tull – Slipstream Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Ian Anderson's dad was dying at the time Anderson wrote these songs. Compare Slipstream to Cheap Day Return: (Here Anderson sings about the mundane which stands as metaphor for a stage and performance, his work, his career) On Preston platform Do your soft shoe shuffle dance. Brush away the cigarette ash that's Falling down your pants. (Here Anderson sings about the conflict of pursuing his life in rock versus being there for his dying dad). And you sadly wonder Does the nurse treat your old man The way she should. (Here Anderson reveals contempt for the idea that stardom could be more important than anyone's life.) She made you tea, Asked for your autograph -- What a laugh. So that bit about pressing on God's waiter your last dime as he hands you the bill likely is about Anderson paying the funeral bill at the church for his dead dad. And through the turbulence of his life (slipstream) he escaped (paddle right out) of the phoniness of it all (mess). |
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