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| Mad Season – Black Book of Fear Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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From what I could find McCready thought it could help support Layne being around sober band members. I\'m not sure if they were sober, though, in 1999 guitarist John Saunders overdosed. Still, many people struggle with substance abuse and maybe they had been successfully sober for some time. \n\nI know that at least three of the band members had substance abuse struggles, so it could have been personal experience or may have been looking at a specific person. I feel it\'s more likely their combined experience, all but Layne are credited as songwriters on this song.\n\nGreat songs are relatable to a wide range of people because they\'re open to interpretation in a way that allows us to see something in ourselves in the song. For me right now the song connects to depression. I feel like the crime scene lines refer to setting up your home to allow you to use without outside scrutiny. There\'s a balance between being specific enough, using figurative language, and leaving some room for a range of interpretation. I think that this song does a great job with that balance. There\'s still a lot of the song that\'s unclear to me.\n\nThe great boxing trainer Cus Damato taught that fear is a part of the coward and the hero, it\'s how the hero understands fear and uses it to motivate themself to struggle through the hard days, become unstoppable, and finally a champion. The coward runs, hides, quits, gives in, and gives up. Depression makes me want to hide away, substance use makes it possible to hide from myself. It all makes sense here I think. |
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| John Prine – Pretty Good Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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This song, like many of his, is about lonely people. All his friends are car salesmen, who are friends with anyone until they know you well enough to realize you aren\'t buying. The second verse says after \'the deed\' things are pretty much as they were before the act, same for his dog getting pregnant, or various religions and their gods. Just someone not very well connected to others and feeling isolated and alone |
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