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| The Distillers – Young Girl Lyrics
| 3 months ago
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@[afireinside643:54321] what i heard somewhere too. Red-haired girl named gertrude I've always imagined. keep her real full name out to not repunish the victim or the memory of the victim. Guys ply girls with drugs to get their pants. |
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| Bob Dylan – It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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This is my standard example of great writing. In some short story, Hemingway wrote: "She loved to fish. She loved to fish with Nick." Evokes all the teen girlfriend stuff without saying it right? Suggests, in the succession of sentences that it's not really the fishing that matters but the being together. Well, in this song, Dylan writes "Don't the moon look good, mama, shinin' thru the trees? Don't the brakeman look good, mama, flaggin' down the double-E? Don't the sun look good goin' down over the sea . . .but don't my gal look fine when she's comin' after me?" That final bit, by itself, might not be so great but after those 3 "goods," the "fine" is rendered, I dunno, exceptional. Well, that's what I think anyway. |
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| Bob Dylan – It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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@[theoddball:48730] Yup. Now consider: mid-60s, Dylan kicks off this song with " . . . can't buy a thrill." Early 70s, Steely Dan so names their 1st album this. On that record is Midnight Cruiser, chorus line--I am another gentleman loser, drive me to harlem or somewhere the same. Early 80s, Gibson writes Neuromancer, in which lead character (hero idn't the right term), who finds his mentor at a hacker bar in Miami--the Gentleman Loser. And in 2017 I see Steely Dan in NYC wearing a shirt that says "Gentleman Loser--Best Drinks in the Sprawl." That's sorta how you make a (counter)culture, how you recognize your tribe. |
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| Bob Dylan – From a Buick 6 Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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@[DAS:48729] JETS It's a small bore shotgun. Sorta the other end of the spectrum from a 12 gauge--though I think there might have even been 10 gauge cannon things at some point. Whatever, a .410 gauge is the smallest diameter I've ever heard of. Now, not to be graphic, but this is the blues here--don't you want this woman to keep your .410 all loaded with lead? Ummm, keep desire alive so to say? |
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