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| Gerry Rafferty – Baker Street Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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@[Orabidoo:16938] wow that makes total sense. She finds freedom from dependence on this guy who is always chasing happiness or whatever. She was chasing him for hers, or at least relying on him, maybe scared to be alone, etc. The next day the sun is shining it's a new morning, symbolic of her beginning of self reliance or realization or whatever. Thanks for that! |
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| Gerry Rafferty – Baker Street Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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@[edhesk1:16937] I so agree about the personal meaning, and I love hearing others' interpretations. But thank you because I didn't know about anything Gerry himself said about the song, although especially the last part about release/rebirth matches how I myself interpreted it. I love the comment by Electrosoldier when he says it's a deep and powerful song with more truth than he knows how to express. I agree on both fronts musical and lyrical. |
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| Gerry Rafferty – Baker Street Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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@[ElectroSoldier:16935] I love your comment. I would hazard a guess though that the truth in it is more universal. It's the state of mind of many who grew up under the impression that they knew what to expect based on who they were taught they were. I think that it is uplifting because I take the ending to mean that he finds freedom from the prison of untruth, and that's never a bad thing, even if it hurts like f**k at first, which I found it does. Love your thoughtful comment. Ya I know I already said that. :) |
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| Gerry Rafferty – Baker Street Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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@[PaulSouth:16934] or he is dying to self so to speak as I commented above. The sun is shining it's a new morning. He is waking up literally and figuratively. Just my take of course. It sounds like what I am going through, moving out of living just out of your head as an ego and realizing you're not who you thought you were which at first is terrifying because albeit miserable it was familiar. You realize liberation from the ego is exactly that, and you can see it when you start moving from fear to something like thank god I'm not me, and that I was wrong about buying into all the lies and bullshit I did when I was a kid about myself and how every other fucking thing in the world is supposed quote unquote supposed to go, least of which my life. Well it didn't but that is ok, I was an innocent kid, with unconscious parents. No judgement. It's no one's fault, and opens up to you realizing your true self under all the layers of who you are not. Thankful for the believing in new possibilities, and a surrender of what I thought I knew in exchange for opennes to the unknown, with trust. |
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| Gerry Rafferty – Baker Street Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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This is one of my all time faves. I have loved it since a kid in the 70's, my dad had "City to City" still one of the best albums ever imo. Also makes my best fucking music ever list! I think it's appeal stems partly from the fact that the lyrics hold value to almost anyone. Anyone who has ever sought happiness "just over the next hill" kind of thing. Making your "happiness" peace, contentment feeling loved, accepted, successful fill in your own blank, conditional on some outside factor that is not NOW. If you have experienced this, you understand the exhaustive trap that it is, that it is designed to be. Hopefully you don't have to spend an entire lifetime miserably searching "out there" for happiness or escaping your feelings of discomfort with yourself, or failure by going too far down the whatever you use to do this road. Distraction out of the now you eventually realize is robbing you of your life because life is ever only now. So whatever you use to escape or chase, drugs, booze, shopping whatever your chosen compulsion or achieving, using money as measure of self worth, eventually you see you never lacked anything in the first place, and you begin to learn to live, feeling like a fucking infant and really you are, in the now, wherever you may be. I think I know why my dad liked it to, the lyrics are more literal to his experience, at least imo but I realize it's my perception based on who I think he is and could be dead wrong. End of the day, just a great fucking song!!!! |
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| Max Webster – Let Go The Line Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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I have loved this song since I was a kid. I have only recently began looking at the possible meanings of the lyrics of some of these songs, why I was attracted to them before I could ever have known. To me, this sounds like the experience of someone who is in a shitty marriage perhaps, and goes for a drink and looks at the girl in the satin shirt and connects with her in an at first anyway unspoken way. They both feel the same and they know it. The guy is thinking he may "fuck it, let go the line, meaning approach this woman and of course the possibility of the sexual encounter is implicit. What I like today is that it mimics my own life experience, and the feeling that the connection is more than just physical, it is a connection between two people hurting in much the same way. My two cents. |
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