| David Bowie – Space Oddity Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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@[Sammyman10:24998] Oh, okay, we'll all just stop sharing our thoughts and feelings and stop using our imagination and turn off our creativity because you've got things all figured out. I'm sorry that you are so insecure that you need to denigrate others. You should really open yourself up to new experiences and stop assuming the worst about other people. It's a crappy way to live. It's an unhappy way to live. |
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| David Bowie – Space Oddity Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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It's possible Major Tom himself deliberately "flipped the switch" that cut off communication with Ground Control. But he's not necessarily committing suicide or ending up dead in space. The events can be interpreted as not dire -- but rather as a deliberate and momentary act by Major Tom OR a temporary circuit "glitch" that Ground Control can recover from (or even if they don't recover, the "rocket knows which way to go" and may be able to take him home safely. If Major Tom did it intentionally, it's because he's gained a radical new perspective on life that most of the human race will never have. The masses will never experience the earth from space. They'll continue to be concerned with small matters -- trivialities like "whose shirts you wear," (which helps explain why "Planet Earth is blue.") "And there's nothing I can do" - Major Tom can't help the human race because they will never have his perspective. You could say that he's having a god-like experience (or god delusion). In this moment, Ground Control seems so insignificant and that he doesn't even want to hear their voices. He wants to switch them off and have his profound moment floating in space -- in silence. Does this mean he's gone a bit insane? If he did go insane, does he come back to sanity in time to save himself? |
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| The Who – Baba O'Riley Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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@[nicole:8310] No reason to be irritated. The song should have been called "Teenage Wasteland" obviously. Calling it by a name that has no obvious link to the lyrics is just asking for confusion. Considering the number of songs we hear in a lifetime, we shouldn't have to expend so much energy to learn the name of a song just because of the song writer's whimsy. It's a trick name! |
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| Bob Dylan – The Times They Are A-Changin' Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I don't think Dylan that egocentric. The song is about all of us, the world we live in and world we create as each new generation makes their mark. | |
| Bob Dylan – The Times They Are A-Changin' Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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No. I think Dylan was thinking far beyond himself. These lyrics are timeless. Yes, it is directly referring to someone in the public eye -- like a politician or a rockstar. But the lyrics are so broad and universal (and beautiful) that it is also about ordinary people: people who succeeded/won and also people who failed but will later win when their time comes. could be about the winner of an election or it could be about a rock star or an unknown or an |
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