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| Crack the Sky – We Want Mine Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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The song is a direct hit at their record label Lifesong (to which the band referred as "Lifelong"), and the less-than-profitable relationship they had. The band's debut was a contender for record-of-the-year in Rolling Stone (maybe it won, I don't remember) in 1975, but because the label didn't promote the record properly and because their distribution network was incompetent, it went more or less nowhere. Hence the lyrics above, which brilliantly fit the smart-ass tone the band set elsewhere. |
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| Genesis – Dodo/Lurker Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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I can't believe everyone missed this. The riddle during "Lurker" is, of course, a submarine, but the most obvious clue no one mentioned is the fact that "Submarine" is the title of another track Genesis recorded during the same sessions in 1981 that did not make it onto the album, but was instead released as the flip side to "Man on the Corner." |
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| Al Stewart – Post World War Two Blues Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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These lyrics are, I think, fairly straightfoward -- but, this track in a nutshell is a sort of UK take on "American Pie," including even a (unintentional?) tip of the hat to Don McLean.
There are references to the rise of the Commonwealth, the National Health Service, labour strikes, the Profumo Affair, the Suez Crisis, Hendrix, Buddy Holly, and a handful of other things. |
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| Steve Hackett – Every Day Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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Hackett's "Every Day" is spoken from the point of view of one who has failed to get a friend clean and sober and off drugs, and has failed -- the friend is now dead, though had already behaved like a zombie. |
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