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| Frank Zappa – Who Are The Brain Police? Lyrics
| 5 months ago
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Zappa said in reference to it: "A lot of people police their own brains. They're like citizen soldiers, so to speak. I've seen people who will willingly arrest, try and punish their own brains. Now that's really sad. That's vigilante brain policism. It's not even official, it's like self-imposed. ... It's hard to pin it down to one central agency when you realize that so many people are willing to do it to themselves. I mean, the people who want to become amateur brain police, their numbers grow every day – people who say to themselves, 'I couldn't possibly consider that', and then spank themselves for even getting that far. So, you don't even need to blame it on a central brain police agency. You've got plenty of people who willingly subject themselves to this self-mutilation." I think he uses plastic and chrome/chromium to mean both what we generally think of as being solid(ly) (chrome) real or reasonable and what we feel is more pliable or we're less sure about (plastic) is all 'melted', meaning we've lost the ability to stand on or accept our own ideas or convictions we've come to through perfectly logical reasoning if it sounds too controversial or may be outside the box of what polite society thinks. |
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| Frank Zappa – Who Are The Brain Police? Lyrics
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@[truthlovelife92:54100] Zapp was adamantly anti-drugs; at least recreational ones. No one in his band could do them, either. If he found out about it, he'd fire them; like he did to Lowell George. He sure as hell wasn't doing acid. He didn't like pot, either, Ward. This has NOTHING to do w/ murder. |
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| Van Morrison – Saint Dominic's Preview Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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@[vasnmoGo:52093] You mean when he was in his 60's?! Wtf do you expect? Sound like some lame millennial. He has decades of fantastic recordings, a great many very poetic. |
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| John Prine – The Great Compromise Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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@[keets55:51751] What a clueless remark. If you think there's no 'heart' (silly metaphor anyway, since everything is written with your brain (head) in "Let It Be", "Across the Universe", "Don't Let Me Down", "You Never Give Me Your Money", "Something", "Golden Slumbers", "The Long and Winding Road", and "Here Comes the Sun" then you're hopelessly lost as to what 'heart' means in that context. Prine also wrote some pretty silly songs as well, and others where he missed the mark trying to be topical. |
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| John Prine – The Great Compromise Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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@[Brachs:50145] In the liner notes to his 1993 anthology Great Days, Prine writes of this song, "The idea I had in mind was that America was this girl you used to take to drive-in movies. And then when you went to get some popcorn, she turned around and screwed some guy in foreign sports car. I really love America. I just don't know how to get there anymore." |
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| Elton John – Tower of Babel Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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@[bobbico:35647] Bud, puhlenty of people knew he was gay. He was called out on that years before this song was written. Taupin, his bandmates, and friends & family certainly knew. This isn't 'about sinners' as the central intent of the song. It's much more about the lowlifes that successful people & their money always attracts. As John & Taupin started to gain fame, these types all came out of the woodwork. The sense of them being sinners does play a part, as the arrogant forces who ordered the building of the tower were taken down for their affront to 'the lord'. So the song equates those figures with the arrogant affluent and their 'enablers'- the types who will use you for the partying time, but never be there to be that 'shoulder' when you need it. |
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