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| The Kinks – Where Have All the Good Times Gone? Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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@[comedancing:50923]
Agreed, until you reach the final two paragraphs of the shown lyrics which I think is a parent's reply saying you may miss the good old days but life is easier today, just get your feet back on the ground and stop living such a complicated life for some of what you miss you could still have if you made the necessary changes to get them. |
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| The Beatles – I Call Your Name Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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@[The:42442] Great Wok I agree. It was written in the early years of the Lennon/McCartney songwriting partnership and whilst they had worked together on the tune the lyrics had been presented complete by John. This was unusual but Paul didn't give much thought. However Paul McCartney recently revisited the song for his 'Lyrics' project and wonders if John was calling out to his dead mother? It wasn't many years since she had died. John famously wrote 'Help' a few years later expressing his inner feeling so 1could he have been doing the same with 'I Call Your Name'? On re-reading the words as a young boy missing his mother and wondering if the reason she rushed across the road to catch the bus only to be hit by a car was because she had stayed longer with him at Mimi's than she should so perhaps her death was in part down to him. (Was I to blame for being unfair?) He may have felt guilt she had to visit him cos he was living with his Aunt Mimi instead of with his mother Julia.
The chorus "Don't you know I can't take it, I don't know who can, I'm not going to make it, I'm not that kind of man' could be interpreted as him feeling her loss so great he's not sure he'll survive. Who can survive the loss of a parent so young?Paul McCartney for he had survived the loss of his mum at a young age. Not being 'that kind of man' suggests he'd carried these feelings from childhood and they were still as strong as ever.
I dunno if Paul is correct but if he thinks it could explain John's lyric then The Great Wok is right in referring to the underlying sadness in the lyric. |
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| Madonna – You'll See Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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This song hurts big time when someone you've finished with sends it to you letting you see what a shit you had been. My shittiness didn't come from sharing love but from not sharing it, though she clearly thought otherwise. I never thought I meant much to her so was surprised reading the words to discover maybe I did. Good to read it made her stronger but it was never my intention to make her anything other than someone I saw now and again. Ironically it also changed me for I'm much more attuned to others developing feelings and the need to cut them off quickly if it's not what I want to happen. |
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| Free – All Right Now Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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It came out in the UK in 1970 and has been my personal number one ever since. Brilliant vocal, fantastic bass playing from a then teenager, steady solid drums, and the best guitar solo in a single ever - perfect length, perfect notes, perfect for air guitarists! No surprise it has been in the singles charts four times since over the years. If my memory of music could be erased and only one track inserted this would be it. |
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| Free – All Right Now Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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I agree it's about picking up a prostitute but his hesitancy once home by looking at her as a person unnerves her as if trying to make her question what she's doing.... "are you tryin' to put me in shame?" He thinks she thinks he wants to get down to it so says " slow, don't go so fast, don't you think a love can last?" This response reveals he actually fancies her and would like a relationship. This blows her mind thinking he is trying to trick her into thinking she can get out of the business and be loved as a person. He persists and convinces her he's serious and confirms to the listener it worked out cos it's "all right now" and "we're so happy together" yeah "everything's alright" |
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