| John Prine – Clocks And Spoons Lyrics | 4 days ago |
| @[ginena:55275] silence is golden till it screams, right through your bones… | |
| John Prine – Forbidden Jimmy Lyrics | 4 days ago |
| Could be. I never saw him perform this at any of the concerts I attended, but I’ve always loved this song. I saw a show a couple of years before he died where he said that all of his repertoire is kind of like a joke and he hopes that his fans get the punchline before it’s all said and done. He’s told so many stories about so many songs and often there are multiple stories to every song. I just never heard one for this. I knew he was friends with Jimmy Buffett but he sings about several Jimmys… I almost can see it because of the three water skis and the water bell. Picture in a picture show Jimmy is James Dean because he says James Dean went out to Hollywood and put his picture in a picture show. Now the kid with two first names… He probably changed the names to protect the innocent there. | |
| John Prine – One Red Rose Lyrics | 4 days ago |
| @[OldMan222:55274] Lastly, I completely disagree that this is a eulogy, especially after seeing the comments from multiple people listing exactly what John said about this song. I’ve been listening to John Prine for 50 years now and even to this day I’m still figuring stuff out that he says. I’ve been kind of on a quest to find the meaning behind everything because I saw the video where he said a couple of years before he died that his whole repertoire of music was kind of like a joke, and he just hopes that his fans get the punchline before it’s all said and done. | |
| John Prine – One Red Rose Lyrics | 4 days ago |
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@[OldMan222:55273] IDK why I’m saying anything but it’s clearly a metaphor and it’s beautiful. It’s just like saying it’s raining cats and dogs… It’s comparing one thing to another and it’s very beautiful because it’s late at night and the only light on in the house is in the kitchen, so it’s just a dreamy image that it falls asleep there behind the curtain on the bedroom floor… Think about my Mexican home where he says the windows feel no pain… Heat lightning burned the sky like alcohol… He’s making a play on words with the window pane, but saying the windows feel no pain. Obviously nothing’s burning the sky but that entire song is filled with gorgeous imagery. Think about any of his songs as he’s a wordsmith and that’s one of the things that makes his music so cool, memorable and timeless. He’s terribly punny - just see onomatopoeia I don’t wanna see you speaking in a foreign tongue… One of his songs. You can see any of his songs for examples of how beautiful his language is. In the song he was in heaven before he died… He says the harbor is on fire with the dreams and desires of 1000 young poets who failed cause they tried for rhyme without reason floats down to the bottom where scavengers eat them and wash out with the tide. OK, you can see here that obviously the harbor isn’t on fire. He just has a beautiful way with words… To represent all of the lost lovers who tried to write passionate letters to their significant others, but as it says (comparing to the ocean) that rhyme without reason, just like a piece of lost bait, floats down to the bottom, where the scavengers/bottom feeders of the ocean eat them, they wash out with the tide and are gone forever… One of my favorite lines is silence is golden until it screams right through your bones. Again, do you see the metaphor here? Silence can never be loud obviously not in traditional way anyway but it’s very clear what he’s saying… It’s golden and great - until it’s driving you insane. |
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