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| Elvis Costello – Alison Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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Elvis said in an interview about this song, "the sad face of this beautiful girl was somebody he saw in a supermarket and supposed he had a momentary crush on this girl. But in a way the song became a premonition of his ability to be constant (faithful)." Basically, he was talking about being unfaithful to his wife and family. He said "he can acknowledge what happened in the past,but can't go back and change it." |
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| Yes – Soon Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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I think sun vs. Son makes sense given the background. Sun rising to find a new day and peace in the future.
Out of Wikipedia - background behind Soon:
"The Gates of Delirium" is a 22-minute track that Anderson described as "a war song, a battle scene, but it's not to explain war or denounce it, really ... There's a prelude, a charge, a victory tune, and peace at the end, with hope for the future."[7] Moraz recalled discussing War and Peace and Leo Tolstoy with Anderson as they both read the book, after which Moraz showed Anderson a French science fiction comic book with "Delirious" in the title. Moraz said, "he related to it immediately so I think that perhaps as a title 'The Gates of Delirium' came from that".[10] Anderson and White stopped by a scrap yard and bought metal car parts which were used as percussion during the song's battle section.[11] During the battle section, White formed a tower of the parts and pushed it over to make a crashing sound. The track concludes with a gentle melody and a lyrical prayer for peace which later became known as "Soon". |
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