| James Taylor – Baby Buffalo Lyrics | 24 days ago |
| @[antysoo:50558] buffalo and joe could be parents' pet names for each other. My mom and dad were grundoon and albert. | |
| Rickie Lee Jones – Night Train Lyrics | 1 month ago |
| @[Icon6386:50341] I agree, the lyrics don't even have to mean anything. It's a feeling. The track is just pure gold. | |
| David Gray – From Here You Can Almost See the Sea Lyrics | 2 months ago |
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Dark favorite. A couple at the end of their life, maybe they've been squatting in a building now being demolished or the "demolition" is society's collapse from a cataclysm (they're picking the locks, must want the darn from the socks). Committing suicide to avoid the horror of being old folks under siege by young ghouls. Think of McCarthy's "The Road", countless events of history. He's choosing his own way out and dreaming of more poetic endings. Dream of diving into water so cold it makes your bones ache. Hesse's young character dies like that in the Glass Bead Game. "Saw a film once" - Orca dying in the movie ("Orca") with ice freezing over the air holes. Two cold water endings - to "see the sea" seems to be looking to the big sleep. Such a bleak and beautiful song. |
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| Fairport Convention – Farewell, Farewell Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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The dialog form of the lyric is very much like the original Willie O' Winsbury version as recorded by Sweeney's Men that Richard Thompson adapted with his own lyric. The first four lines (chorus) are the 2 deceased speaking to the survivors (the Band, and perhaps all roving minstrels who rise for the moon and risk their lives on the winding road). The next 2 lines are the survivors asking Martin the drummer if he will return to see his drums. And will you never return to see Your bruised and beaten sons? He answers. "Oh, I would, I would, if welcome I were For they loathe me, every one" - They loathe him since he's beaten them so regularly. The rest of the lines are for the seamstress. The dead sleep along side each other. The north wind beckons the survivors to take up the road again. |
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| Echo and the Bunnymen – Bring On The Dancing Horses Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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@[charles108:17516] Others in this vein - Bowie's Life on Mars, Belle and Sebastian's Fox in the Snow. At 60 years of age, middle class father, I still feel these songs. Mac brings a more triumphant side of adolescence (got through) in "The Game" and John Mayer scored a top hit with "No Such Thing as the real world" same stuff there. |
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| Patty Griffin – Big Daddy Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| Watching a bear at the salmon run. Bears ain't vegan. | |
| Ramones – Beat on the Brat Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| Ramones are from NY. Donnie is from NY. Donnie is a bully. Donnie is a brat. | |
| Patty Griffin – Big Daddy Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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@[Buck:9862] It dawned on me that they may have been watching grizzlies fishing at a stream. |
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| Echo and the Bunnymen – Bring On The Dancing Horses Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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@[IqbalHamid:2159] Actually Mac's album Candleland has that song - it's called Horse's Head, it's a bit more literal. |
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| Echo and the Bunnymen – Bring On The Dancing Horses Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| This is about the same general subject as Pink Floyd's The Wall and Tears for Fears' Mad World. It's the way children are mistreated in their school years, and it's also taking a stab at the empty promises of religion (every lie you've heard). | |
| Echo and the Bunnymen – The Cutter Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| This is about corporate layoffs, and the plight of those, some 6 feet tall, who must labor their days away as another drop in the corporate ocean. I'm thinking Mac might have spent some time on cubicle row before they got the ol' drum machine going. The singer is thinking how he will feel at death's door after a life having been a corporate slave. | |
| King Crimson – Cadence and Cascade Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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Oh, I am dead sure it's about what I said. I used to be a poetaster and a musician too, and of course a Crimson fan of old. He uses "they knew him" in the biblical sense. "Caravan hotel" - the road life - bands travel in caravans, and the hotels take on a glam party theme ("Sequin spell") when the caravan pulls in. "Kissed his name" - groupies certainly do it for the fame association, the bigger the star, the better notch in the gun. He has a song on "Islands" called "Ladies of the Road", which is more down to earth in approach. |
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| King Crimson – Cadence and Cascade Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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This is about Sinfield on tour with King Crimson. The band plays and Pete, being the non-performaing member of the troupe, has the opportunity for a visit with a couple of Ladies of the Road. They find him just a man. Really - that's what it's about. |
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