| Procol Harum – A Whiter Shade of Pale Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| The song, according to the explanation of the writer, is about a drunken sexual encounter between a couple who are breaking up. Period! | |
| Procol Harum – A Whiter Shade of Pale Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| @[carlton73:41154] Well, you are NOT relating to what the song writer had in mind and tells us in his own words! Go did a little more. This place is full of self centered fools. Chauser has nothing to do with the lyrics. The writer tells us that he has never read Chauser! | |
| Procol Harum – A Whiter Shade of Pale Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| @[PTCGAZ:41153] Way off of the point the song writer says he had in mind! | |
| Procol Harum – A Whiter Shade of Pale Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| @[sexobscura:41152] Why? That is NOT the song\'s intention. You are just making it up or going along with someone who made it up. You are not taking the song for what the writer says it is. \r\n | |
| Procol Harum – A Whiter Shade of Pale Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| @[beep54:41151] No. It is NOT. Google what the writer tells you of the song. It is all laid out in a response above (with all 4 verses)! Has nothing to do with Chauser! Has nothing to do with Titanic! Has everything to do with drunken sex between a pair who are splitting up. | |
| Procol Harum – A Whiter Shade of Pale Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| @[beep54:41150] No. It is NOT. Google what the writer tells you of the song. It is all laid out in a response above (with all 4 verses)! Has nothing to do with Chauser! Has nothing to do with Titanic! Has everything to do with drunken sex between a pair who are splitting up. | |
| Procol Harum – A Whiter Shade of Pale Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| @[beep54:41149] No. It is NOT. Google what the writer tells you of the song. It is all laid out in a response above (with all 4 verses)! Has nothing to do with Chauser! Has nothing to do with Titanic! Has everything to do with drunken sex between a pair who are splitting up. | |
| The Rolling Stones – Waiting On A Friend Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| "The writer," Jagger, is quoted as saying in 1983, "Just let me be cynical for a moment. First of all, it's really NOT about waiting on a woman friend. It's just about a FRIEND; it doesn't matter if it's a man or a woman. I can see people saying, Oh, we're all much older now, Mick's writing this much more compassionate stuff, must be about a real person. But that's only in their perception of it." So, if it's NOT a "real person" what is it? | |
| Firefall – Cinderella Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| @[doug114491:33974] How about she didn't leave that day and through strife and hard times they finally couldn't stand each other to the point she finally did leave, and he did not see his son grow up and have all the toys and joys a boy should before he got too old for them? As pointed out, Larry Burnett (writer) was interviewed about the song and although it was not about him, it was about people he saw going through difficult relationships. Quote: "I certainly didn't have a wife or a girlfriend who was pregnant and I was working my butt off trying to support us. None of that was going on. But it was certainly happening around me in other people's lives." | |
| Firefall – Cinderella Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| @[roger10566:33973] No.... it's "Did he have" as in the father was not there to know. | |
| Firefall – Cinderella Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| I have always felt the same way. Touching song about a nasty subject. You love the song until you start understanding the lyrics. | |
| Firefall – Cinderella Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| @[Maxsdad:33972] Oh, alas, I think there's regret. He remembers her and the boy and wonders if the boy had all the toys and the joys he wished "his son" to have because he was not there for them. | |
| Bob Dylan – All Along the Watchtower Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| It is amazing that this thread has been alive since 2003. There are as many opinions on the meaning of these lyrics as there are comments here. Some of them are similar. Let me add mine, which I must say, is "similar" to others' opinions, but I think different in a way that makes sense and I hope stands as a credible explanation of the thoughts behind the lyrics. Mr. "Dylan" was not a religious man, per se, but was a thinking man and a well read man. He was very aware of the Bible and its teachings and while maybe not adopting every chapter and verse as "thee true religion", adopting it as a moral guide to life and a foretelling of "the end" for all of us, and "hope" for something more. I believe the joker and the thief are one and the same person... Bob Dylan. I believe he is inking his own confusion/anguish/realization as he talks to two different sides of his own person. He is the joker, as he pokes fun at the press, society, humanity, and ultimately, life, but he is also the thief, as he takes their money and adulation and lives "the fine life" while all the time being "poked" by the reality that the accumulation of worldy wealth is not the measure of a good life. He (and the biblical princes - of Isaiah if you wish) built their fine homes and "walked the watchtower" to protect them, their families, and their posessions against all forces (outside the walls) that would try to take that "fine life" away... including God. In the end, he comes to the understanding with his two personas that life is not just "a joke" as many believe, but has true meaning that can affect lives for a long time, if not forever. Funny thing is, this is an early song in a long career and he continued playing the part of the joker, while listening to and becoming the mature, thoughtful thief. Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) was much the same kind of man and writer (if not poet), always commenting on the frailties and failures of human society while knowing all too well that he was a part of it, with the same human frailties and failures. I have heard Mr. Dylan state in interview say that the timeline of the verses in this song is kind of flipped around, so the joker and thief of the last verse were riding outside of the safety of the walls of society when they decided to try to take some "relief". Ultimately, there was no relief to be found, only the confusion of the first verse. In between, there are his descriptions of material wealth gathering, a past awakening ("But you and I we've been through that and this is not our fate") and reaffirmation of the realization that life has meaning and is not just God's joke. ;) | |
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