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| The Yardbirds – Farewell Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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I think about the Rapture when I hear this song because he’s talking about “people’s castoffs” like the clothing and other stuff people may leave behind after they’re raptured like in that episode of American Dad. And the “people snared within the wheel” could be people in cars being raptured only to get stuck in their cars. |
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| The Zombies – Butcher's Tale (Western Front 1914) Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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Since this song is about World War I soldier, the parts with the line “My arms won’t stop shaking” are definitely referencing shell shock, the form of post-traumatic stress disorder that many WWI soldiers suffered from. One of the symptoms of shell shock is shaking. You can see what I mean in this video: https://youtu.be/IWHbF5jGJY0 Also, I learned that barbed wite was a common tactic in WWI. Here’s the information I found on that:
During World War I, barbed wire was used for both defensive purposes and as a trapping mechanism. Soldiers would defend their trenches with barbed wire by installing the barbed wire a distance away on the ground from the tops of their trenches. When used as a trap, artillery and gun fire were sometimes used specifically to direct enemy soldiers into already constructed barbed wire snares. Source: National Museum of the United States Air Force
So the butcher’s friend likely got caught in an enemy barbed wire trap. |
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| Townes Van Zandt – Our Mother the Mountain Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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I agree with the commenter who said the woman is probably some sort of mythical creature. I believe she’s a siren or a river nymph because there are lines that talk about things associated with water like “her skin turned to brine” (brine is water strongly impregnated with salt) and her blue satin dress would move and look like water. Another is the lur-e-lei-oh line which sounds a lot like Lorelei who is the siren from German folklore whose beautiful singing voice lured sailors to their deaths.\n\nThe part where she shows her medallion to the man I think suggests that she is seducing him with promises of money or fame. However like the sailors lured to their deaths by beautiful sirens he is instead badly harmed by this woman. |
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| The Turtles – It Was a Very Good Year Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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TW: Mention of rape and murder\nI’ve read that this song is supposed to be a happy lighthearted song about an aging man reminiscing about his many romantic experiences but when when I heard The Turtles’ rendition of it, I didn’t get that impression at all. I immediately thought it was about a serial killer or rapist. The “small town girls” and “city girls” are actually women he murdered. The line “we’d hide from the lights” suggested to me that he would lure these women away from anyone who might witness and then kill them. And the lines “With perfumed hair/That came undone” could mean that their hair would become loose as he attacked and eventually murdered them. The last part about aging like fine wine could mean that as an old man he doesn’t regret his actions and seems proud of them. I think the maniacal sounding repetition of the line “It was a very good year” really gives the song a creepy vibe. I wonder if it was intentionally made that way by The Turtles. |
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