| Al Stewart – Time Passages Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| @[neilmc:6440] - I know this is an old post, but this review nails it! The nostalgia and sentimentality of good, simpler times leaves us curious as to what we've given up as we've grown up and gained more responsibilities. We can even dream about these times during sleep, or daydream about it, and then come back to realize that's the only place it continues to exist (when you realize you are not in a crowd re-connecting with an old flame, but all alone in that moment). Getting a ticket on the last train home tonight is a matter of wanting to return to our real lives. That is, even though we have fond memories, we realize we have made good choices and love the life we currently have. Still, there is a part of ourselves that continues to travel back to the past, and even tries to justify itself in doing so by rationalizing that we could learn something valuable about ourselves, but it's a BS game, because we've already learned those lessons. This song is all about pure emotional nostalgia, and how it creeps in from time to time. | |
| Alanis Morissette – Princes Familiar Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I know this is WAY late, but I semi-agree with one of the other posters. I was thinking that when she is NOT beginning with the address of Papa, she is actually singing to the entire female population to break out of molds and figure out who they are (sometimes by making mistakes, similar to the advice in her song "You Learn"). Off and on, however, she is telling fathers of daughters everywhere to show them all they ways that their man should be toward them and treat them kindly and relate to them. She is saying that the father's example is what will result in their expectations being high, as they should be, so they won't get treated like crap. |
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