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John Grant – JC Hates Faggots Lyrics	11 years ago
@[xman2:378] Bara, I didn;t know that about his mother, but his father's homophobia fits right in with what I was implying by my comment--I was being ironic. I still read into Grant's lyrics the bittersweet hope that his father will come to accept his son.

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Magnolia Electric Co. – Hard to Love a Man Lyrics	11 years ago
I loved this song from the first time I heard it, but I didn't understand it until I realized it was a song being sung to me by the man who meant more to me than my own life, but who I turned away from. ("Goodbye was half the words you knew"--that was me.) Sure wish I had it to do all over again. I wouldn't have said goodbye.

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John Grant – Where Dreams Go to Die Lyrics	11 years ago
Grant says in an interview on YouTube that the guy he is talking about in this song is the same guy he sings about in TC and Honeybear. It is sad because all his love affairs seem to end up badly.

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John Grant – JC Hates Faggots Lyrics	11 years ago
"I hope your blind eyes will be opened and you'll see" I wonder what his parents thought when they first heard the song?

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Mark Weigle – Desert Plains Lyrics

11 years ago

In my opinion, Mark Weigle is the best voice of gay singer-songwriter music we have ever had. His work is available on iTunes. His work ranges from the 90's to today, and he continues to change and mature, and speak for the more thoughtful part of the LGBT community. His work makes most gay "folksingers" sound incredibly shallow in comparison. His songs are happy, sad, wide-ranging in their look at various sides of the gay world. They go from AIDS and the dangers of barebacking, coming out, good relationships to ones that end badly and to the extremely funny, raunchy, "My Lips Were Made for Sucking You." He and John Grant stand above the rest of the gay singers now on the scene. If you are a gay man you owe it to yourself to become familiar with Weigle's music.

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John Grant – Marz Lyrics

11 years ago

From what I know about Grant, this seems to be about his teenage years growing up gay in a small town (Parker, CO to be exact). He contrasts the cloyingly sweet "malt shop" young, straight love scene with his real desire to "go to Marz" where "your sweet 16 is waiting for you after the show...where you'll get your heart's desire...(and) I will meet you under the lights." If you know the small town high school scene and its alienation, you can relate to this song, particularly if you are gay.

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R.E.M. – Losing My Religion Lyrics	11 years ago
FF2010--I think you have come pretty close. We are older, and maybe we hear the song in a different way. I definitely agree that it is "related to accepting your sexuality and coming out." This is Stipes singing, after all. Notice how many of the comments posted for this song just assume he is singing to a woman. Maybe young listeners will grow into it in time, and abandon these preconceptions.

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Willie Nelson – Pancho And Lefty Lyrics	11 years ago
That part is obvious to us all. What is not clear is what P&L have to do with the person--sounding schizophrenic--who is sinking into the dream. Why is he dreaming of this archetypal Western story? Is he at last losing contact with reality entirely, as his mother weeps to see him slip into psychosis?

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Willie Nelson – Pancho And Lefty Lyrics

11 years ago

Nobody seems to notice that this song is in 2 parts. The second part (the actual story of Pancho and Lefty) is the DREAM the person in the first part of the song sinks into. The P&L story is obvious: P&L are friends (more than friends, some say), L turns P in to the Mexican Army, collects his money and returns East. Obviously L is the rat, and P is the good guy. What is not clear is what the relationship is between the P&L story to the first part (which ends with "sank into a dream." That is what we can speculate on.

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