| Eels – Woman Driving, Man Sleeping Lyrics | 5 months ago |
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Wow, I'm the first person to comment on this song in 20 years! I think that @[intrepidchicken:54161], who wrote the most recent comment 20 years ago, is right. When you hear the song in 2025, when I'm writing this, and he sing about a woman using a physical map, I realize that the song is now set firmly in the lost past. What I like is how it starts like a movie and puts you right in the scene. I can picture the whole thing, but now I imagine it taking place all the way back in another age. |
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| Melanie Safka – Brand New Key Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| @[1222222:49449] Roller skates required keys in those days. You locked the skates on. This is sung from viewpoint of a sexually experienced teenaged girl who wants a boy to use his key on her. | |
| Melanie Safka – Brand New Key Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| @[kevin:49448] I don't know if you were joking 21 years ago when you asked this question, but no, the key is a metaphor for a teenaged boy's penis. However, what it literally meant was a key to her roller skates. You had to lock on skates in those days with a key if you wanted to use them. | |
| Joni Mitchell – Raised On Robbery Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| Everyone always assumes that the woman in the song is a prostitute. But I just think she's lonely and not very bright. Would a hotel hooker really be so clueless as to try to seduce a gambler invested in the Maple Leafs by insulting the "jokers" who are watching the game? | |
| Steely Dan – Brooklyn (Owes the Charmer Under Me) Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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The Eden Roc is an apartment building at 1869 83rd Street in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn. There are 83 units and six floors, and the "charmer" lives one floor above the song's narrator. Becker and Fagen would have also been well aware of the Eden Roc, the Miami luxury hotel. The hotel opened in 1955 with a lot of publicity, and whoever built the Brooklyn building, which opened one year later, was probably trying to connote that the building was quite nice, which it is. Before you laugh at the pretentiousness of such a move (I can guarantee that Donald and Walter did), realize that the Eden Roc Hotel itself copped its name from the even more luxurious Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc on the tip of Cap d’Antibes. President Street and 83rd Street are about 20 minutes away from each other, but it's not a big deal since you can get from one to the other via I-278, 11th Avenue or 3rd Avenue. |
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| Squeeze – Goodbye Girl Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| @[AHyacinthGirl:44199] I realize that I'm responding more than a decade after you wrote this but just for the record he's saying "My wife has moved to Guernsey, which is a British island." However, you're right because in the American single version they changed it to "Boston," of all things. Didn't help the record to chart here! Maybe they should have replaced "lino," since no American has ever heard a linoleum floor called that! | |
| Toots And The Maytals – Monkey Man Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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The other interpretations of this song here are wrong. Toots Hibbert explained it himself to an attractive reporter: "Well, 'Monkey Man' is all about a girl, a very good-looking girl like you. I fell in love with her, and then a monkey-looking man took her away from me -- but I thought she was in love with ME! The guy was ugly, and not good looking like me, ha ha!" You get it? She's hugging a big guy instead of Toots, and the dude looks like a monkey. "Monkey Man" has nothing to do with bouncers. "Monkey Man" DOES have something to do with late great producer Leslie Kong. He produced it! (If the song had been a putdown of Kong why would Kong put his money into releasing and promoting it? Think these things through, people!) |
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| Roy Orbison – Crying Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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I've heard Orbison sing Crying a hundred times, and I've also heard Don McLean's version a lot. And after all these years, I just realized it doesn't quite make sense. It starts: I was all right for a while I could smile for a while But I saw you last night You held my hand so tight As you stopped to say, "Hello" Oh, you wished me well, you couldn't tell That I'd been crying Over you Here's my problem. What's the chronology here? It sounds like he's saying he was all right until he saw her last night, but if that's right, how could he have just been crying? Shouldn't he have been crying AFTER he saw her last night? If he was crying BEFORE he saw her last night, then he was never all right in the first place, even for a while. He was either smiling or crying but he couldn't have done both! Am I missing something? |
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