| Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Helpless Lyrics | 3 months ago |
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This touching song by Neil Young basically conveys the message "you can't go home again." He pines for the town of his youth, which holds much significance: "All my changes were there." He could go visit the town but he can't return to his youth. He and the town have both changed, leaving him feeling "helpless, helpless, helpless." This song inspires many listeners to think of their own childhoods and their places of significance, and knowing that we can't return to our youth, we may shed a tear and find ourselves singing along: "Helpless, helpless, helpless .." |
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| Randy Newman – Marie Lyrics | 10 months ago |
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This song is on the thematic album Good Old Boys, about southern rednecks. The "I" is Marie's husband, a drunk who works in the steel mills of Birmingham, Alabama, and sings about his home town in another one of the songs on the album. The sad melody is matched by the poignant and ironic lyrics: this guy is a terrible husband -- crazy, weak, laxy, doesn't listen, doesn't even help his wife when she's in trouble -- and yet he professes his undying love for her! One of the many hypocrisies expressed on this album's indictment of the south. |
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| Little Feat – Dixie Chicken Lyrics | 11 months ago |
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Lowell George of Little Feat wrote the music to Dixie Chicken, but he did NOT write the lyrics. They are by one of his songwriting partners, Martin Kibbee, who is quoted in many places telling the story of the lyrics. He and Lowell stayed up all night trying to write a song, and Lowell had the riff but they couldn't come up with words. While driving home, Kibbee passed a billboard advertising "Dixie Chicken" -- and he was inspired. He says he had the lyrics done by the time he got home. He doesn't explain what a Dixie chicken is, or a Tennessee lamb, but isn't it obvious? You be my lover, I'll be yours. Or you be my sugar daddy, I'll be your sugar baby. What's brilliant about the song is that the chorus is so joyful even though the story is sad. In the end, it doesn't matter that she took advantage of so many of "us." We all had great fun with her, and now we're in this happy drinking club of her discards, singing the broken promise she made: "If you'll be my Dixie Chicken, ..." |
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| Little Feat – Dixie Chicken Lyrics | 11 months ago |
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Lowell George of Little Feat wrote the music to Dixie Chicken, but he did NOT write the lyrics. They are by one of his songwriting partners, Martin Kibbee, who is quoted in many places telling the story of the lyrics. He and Lowell stayed up all night trying to write a song, and Lowell had the riff but they couldn't come up with words. While driving home, Kibbee passed a billboard advertising "Dixie Chicken" -- and he was inspired. He says he had the lyrics done by the time he got home. He doesn't explain what a Dixie chucken is, or a Tennessee lamb, but isn't it obvious? You be my lover, I'll be yours. Or you be my sugar daddy, I'll be your sugar baby. What's brilliant about the song is that the chorus is so joyful even though the story is sad. In the end, it doesn't matter that she took advantage of so many of "us." We all had great fun with her, and now we're in this happy drinking club of her discards, singing the broken promise she made: "If you'll be my Dixie Chicken, ..." |
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| Moby Grape – 8:05 Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| One of the most poignant and beautiful heartbreak songs of all time. The singer is begging their lover to stay, but knows they are not going to. 8:05 could be the time or could be a train departure time; the song works either way. The melody and chords add to the lonely feeling of the lyrics. Guitarist Jerry Miller wrote this tune. | |
| The Howling Wolf – Built for Comfort Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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"Built for comfort, not for speed" is a reference to the size of the person you are having sex with. A heavier person is easier to rest on or ride on during sex, thus "built for comfort" for a long session. A skinnier partner is better for a quickie, thus "built for speed." The latter is referenced in Little Richard's "Long Tall Sally," a tall and skinny girl (or crossdresser who is bald) who is "built for speed." This is also the derivative of the term "spinner," a small and thin girl who can literally be spun while on top. |
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