| The Clash – English Civil War (Johnny Comes Marching Home) Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| I always though the line "Nobody understands it can happen again" chilling and powerful and even more relevant today. Everything is sunny and normal and you think it will always be that way until the day it isn't any more. | |
| The Kinks – Come Dancing Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| The lyrics as stated here are not entirely correct. Its "where" the supermarket used to stand not "when".\nThe line about her daughters getting away with things she never could is not in the recorded version or official sheet music instead it\'s a line about people who know her now would think she never could go dancing which makes the next line make a lot more sense "but if I asked her I wonder if she would".\nIt\'s a great song anyway but there are loads of incorrect lyrics to classic songs plastered all over the internet. | |
| The Kinks – Young Conservatives Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| This was an extremely perceptive song. I went to university in 1983 and the older students were still rebelling and having sit ins and protests about any cause they could think of. They left after my first year and everything changed the newer students were Thatchers childten and had a very different outlookintetested in getting good jobs mainly and zero interest in being anti establishment. They identified politically with the conservatives. | |
| Squeeze – Up The Junction Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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The lyrics are the self told tale of a love affair, a wanted pregnancy and child, and destroying what you have by being your own worst enemy. They are down to earth, plain spoken and direct and written as a normal person would speak. The lack of histrionics is part of what makes it so moving, it tells the tale and lets the listeners brain finish painting the picture and summon up an emotional response. It's also a very upbeat and engagingly pretty tune that suits the happy first verses the overlays some melancholic strings(?) near the rather sorrowful end. I particularly like the short train like drum fills at the beginning, a subtle scene setting suggestion to the listener of living near the railway lines around Clapham junction i think. |
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| Squeeze – Up The Junction Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| @[kellyllek:35502] ha ha I thought they were living alongside the railway and some of the arms were missing from the signals. so it was a sort of critique of annoyingly poor British Rail maintenance. | |
| Squeeze – Up The Junction Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| @[kellyllek:35501] ha ha I thought they were living alongside the railway and some of the arms were missing from the signals. so it was a sort of critique of annoyingly poor British Rail maintenance. | |
| Squeeze – Up The Junction Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| @[uncomplicated:35500] Her fake working class accent is so awful even Mick Jagger would cringe she went to private school FFS. | |
| Bruce Springsteen – Sherry Darling Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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"I ain't fighting, I give up, tell her she wins if she'd just shut up." You know, you want to be tolerant and nice, but sometimes some people just get right on your nerves and you just start having mean thoughts about them. |
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| Hot Chocolate – It Started With A Kiss Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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"You don't remember me do you?" has to be one of the most crushing heart breaking lines in pop music. His love for his childhood sweet heart is still there as strong as ever, unforgotten with a hope that somehow it will return if he meets her again like in some romantic movie. The reality when it happens is very different, he means so little to her that she simply doesn't remember him at all. Unrequited love is a terrible but beautiful thing to experience. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – I'm Goin' Down Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| The live recording for this song that is available from the Born in the USA tour at East Rutherford in 1984 is awesome. He really gets into the groove and the song just swings. | |
| The Jam – Strange Town Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| Great single with some excellent advice about fitting in somewhere that's new to you. Don't be weird! | |
| The Jam – When You're Young Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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A wonderful tune exciting, melodious with intelligent great lyrics. They were just on the cusp of mega success when this came out and you can see why. Paul and the boys were eally finding their groove with this and Strange Town. Still has resonance for me as grown up. No corporations for the new age sons? I wish. |
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| The Jam – Saturdays Kids Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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Shows how great the Jam were that a brilliant song like this was only an album track. Just evokes normal life as it was in Surrey at the time in an informed and witty way. Suggests quite rightly that the could be more to life for these kids. The points of detail in the song about silver paper in pints, lite a bites, and teenage boys amusing themselves by insulting each other are terrific and explain everything about why the Jam were adored by their audience. |
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| The Jam – Art School Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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Always loved this song. Joyful celebration of the positive liberating side of punk rock. The video was in similar vein and great too, the climax being Bruce F demolishing a strategically placed tv. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Hungry Heart Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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@[delia17601:30782] i always thought that the song was partly a description of male moral blankness. It doesn't glorify it , just spells out his thinking as he sees it People as they really are rather than what we would like them to be is not pleasant. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – I'm Goin' Down Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| A great song about a doomed relationship. I always thought the lyrics of third verse have a real rhythm and incisiveness about them, especially live. | |
| Bruce Springsteen – Hungry Heart Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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Its about wanting to be loved and not wanting to be somewhere where that's no longer the case. His marriage is finished, he admits they both ripped it apart and now he's back in Kingstown where he found love the first time hoping to find it again. The line about taking a wrong turn and just keeping going is just brilliant. It could have multiple meanings that take you beyond the song. Sometimes random stuff happens that just blows you in a certain direction in life and you just go along with it. |
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| The Boomtown Rats – Rat Trap Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| Rat trap | |
| Bruce Springsteen – When You're Alone Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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"There's things that will knock you down you don't even see coming" Bruce certainly got that right as I've learned at regular intervals. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Murder Incorporated Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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I always understood that this song was really about being crushed by the large soulless corporations that dominate our lives. He is likening them (in a not literal way) to the mafia for their pernicious influence. The song does actually work as an account of a life dominated and threatened by the real mafia, which is why Bruce is a genius and I love him. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Better Days Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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It's about how Patti saved him from himself. He felt like a worthless phony because of the enormous gap between his image as a ordinary working class guy and the reality that he was filthy rich and free of many of the cares he sang about. Patti rescued him from the hell of his self loathing and he realises he is on his way to happiness which it turns out is not so far away, in fact it's just a mile or two out of hell. Lyrically its one his best. The honesty about himself utterly charming and anyone who has ever disliked themselves for any reason will understand the emotions behind it. |
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