| Van Halen – Why Can't This Be Love? Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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personally i think this is a song about loving someone who doesn't love you back even though the two go along very well. the lyrics are a bit ambiguous, but i think that's what comes out of it the most clearly. also i didn't notice it was sammy hagar the first time i heard. come on guys, if you want to argue about band members do it somewhere else, this is a lyric meaning site. |
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| The Beatles – Come Together Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| This song wasn't meant to mean anything. It was a response to people trying to interpret "I Am the Walrus", which in turn was a response to people overanalyzing other Beatles songs in search for meaning, and such motivations are well documented. While Beatles songs appear to be fun to analyse it seems the Beatles themselves didn't like it, so please respect the artists. | |
| Gino Vannelli – Brother to Brother Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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I am surprised that no comments are here (at time of writing) even after Rick Beato shined a light on this song. Oh well, here is my interpretation of the lyrics. "Brother to brother Let us join our hearts and hands Yeah, if we love one another We hold the key to the promised land" The singer is asking us to put aside our grudges and prejudices, for love will get us to the "promised land", whether that be Heaven, a place on Earth, or a specific condition in human history, such as a golden age or an era of peace. "Think of all that we've been through The shucks and jives and royal blues" Even though we have differences, we have all been through the cornerstone moments of the human experience. "Let us pray our time will come When this world will live as one" Let us hope for that "promised land" place or era mentioned earlier. "Brother to brother Now don't let the devil get you down" Don't allow the hardships you've gone through or are going through weigh on your mind and bring down your self-esteem. "Because it's bread and it's butter That makes this whole damn world go round and round" It's the good things that we all have in common (the "bread" and "butter") that keep us going. "Do you know where we went wrong Tell me why the lines are drawn?" How did we come to a state of so much grudging, prejudice, and overall hatred (the "lines")? "Let us break our boundaries down And live our lives on common ground" Once again, the singer is saying we ought to put aside our differences, and live our lives based on what unites us (the "common ground".) After this, the instrumental section kicks in until the last part of the song. I think this instrumental part, especially the famous guitar solo, is meant to be emblematic in a musical way of what the lyrics have so far said in words, especially the "promised land" place/era. "Mothers and fathers Where will tomorrow's children be?" He is asking the current generation of adults, will "tomorrow's children" be able or willing to bring or sustain that "promised land" state? "Oh Brother my brother Let us live out lives in peace" He is reiterating his call for moving forward to the "promised land" place/era, which does not neccesarily have to be just a era of peace, but most golden ages take place in peaceful times. "Brother to brother Brother to brother (repeated)" We are all brothers and ought to treat each other as such. This is supported by previous stanzas. I encourage you all to come up with your interpretation and, if you haven't yet, listen to this hidden gem. It's a great song not just in lyrics but in virtually every instrumental asset used. |
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| Led Zeppelin – Stairway to Heaven Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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Allow me, a song enthusiast and occult analyzer, to state my opinion on the matter. First off, let's start with the interpretation of the song. I personally think there are many possible valid interpretations. Unlike what Heyuhmaybe says, I don't think that his/her intepretation is anywhere close to the "intended meaning behind the song", and presisely because Stairway was meant to be interpreted in many ways, even if some interpretations clash, like Heyuhmaybe's and erikarcibo's. Regarding "Everything is you and you are everything [is] the central ideal in satanism", I have no reliable evidence to support this. There are two major satanist ideologies; theistic satanism, where satan is worshipped as a deity (what everyone thinks of by the term), and LaVeyanism, which treats Satan as a concept rather than a entity, and, to my knowledge, does not require worship elements. Regarding "That's what HE is", I am unable to find any reliable evidence for this happening in any Led Zeppelin concert. Regarding darkoff's comment: Although it is true that Jimmp Page once occupied the Boleskine House (which was a former Crowley property), there are two important things to keep in mind. 1. I cannot find any reliable evidence that Crowley himself was a theistic satanist or a LaVeyan. Rather, he was the founding Thelemite, which is considered New Age. Although Crowley did cite satanistic motifs in "The Book of the Law", it is unclear why. 2. Jimmp Page never described himself as a Thelemite nor was he ever inducted into the Typhonian Order. There are more things to unpack here. 1. The notion that Stairway contains satanic backmasked messages has been debunked literally thousands of times, and the general scientific consensus is that the perceptions of such is more attributable to the human mind than to the song or the band who played it; basically, people find what they want to find, and believe what they want to believe. 2. There is not sufficient evidence to suggest that Stairway was meant to be satanic forwards either. Like I said before, this song was meant to be interpreted multiple ways, and was executed to such a degree that any possible conclusion is possible given the interpretation process is not rigid. I hope this clears things up and we can get back to enjoying songs without getting caught up in the war on music. |
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