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| Bob Dylan – 4th Time Around Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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I really do see this song as Dylan primarily referencing his relationship with John Lennon (which the Beatles did as well...) |
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| Phil Ochs – Pleasures Of The Harbor Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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Judging from the poem on the back cover it could be about suicide, the war or his return from Europe -- or more likely all of the above (there has to be SOME politics on the album after all...). |
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| Phil Ochs – Miranda Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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@[LtAxlerod932:36244] Could be referring to someone like his girlfriend of the time. Although Phil loved her innocence from what I have seen when she did speak, even making very good points, he snapped back or otherwise put her down. |
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| Phil Ochs – Doesn't Lenny Live Here Anymore Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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He mentions in the interview with Studs Terkel in '71 that it is about himself with "offshoots" of Lenny Bruce. I think that is the only way it makes sense coming at the end of Rehearsals with Retirement, even if the cause was worth fighting for he might not be in a position to be that champion for other reasons. |
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| Phil Ochs – William Butler Yeats Visits Lincoln Park And Escapes Unscathed Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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It seems to be about his girlfriend getting maced in the protests, which would of course have been more widely known at the time and not at all now. Yeats is almost certainly referring to himself who would rather claim she was dead than continue searching. As Phil said in an interview in 1971 the song describes a poet who "visits the chaos" before retreating to the outskirts. It is a major theme of the entire album in one way or another. How much of the political turmoil of the time should impact him personally and what is the nexus between the public sphere and his immediate environment (Chicago, LA. or even the bottom of the ocean where he claims the victims of the Scorpion disaster chose to remain rather than come back to the nightmare of life on earth). |
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| Phil Ochs – Rehearsals For Retirement Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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@[Jerrybear:35699] I don't think this is all that depressing honestly. He is still trying to come out of a creative box refusing to be defeated. Maybe it is clearer in some of the poems of that period. Phil also egged on the depression and reveled in it, according to his brother, believing that he had to suffer for his art. And he did use it to create beautiful words, poems, songs and performances without playing up the victim analogy. Other people may not have had a choice in their fate but until almost the end, he did. |
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| Phil Ochs – The Harder They Fall Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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@[LtAxlerod932:35663] I would agree but it is ultimately a vicious cycle. Leaders undermine trust by creating apathy and chaos. But he is no less condemning the public for responding with indifference to situations that should demand action. |
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| Phil Ochs – Doesn't Lenny Live Here Anymore Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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@[cgraham:35114] That is interesting. My favorite version is
Fiddler takes a sniff and picks up the fiddle
As you race from wall to wall, stumble down in the middle
And you’re torn apart
No lower point to start
And you feel you’d like to steal a happy heart
before the swore verse as he did it in Montreal. |
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