| Liz Phair – Perfect World Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Seems pretty obvious to me. Poor girl, rich boy. Kinda like the song, "Down in the Boondocks" liz phair style. I like it. |
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| Eminem – Stan Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Amazing, the lyrics are truly beautiful, "I hope you know I ripped +ALL+ of your pictures off the wall." It is almost too much. I love it. |
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| Peter, Paul and Mary – Stewball Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I love this song. I realized that I could create an entire soundtrack for a movie out of Peter Paul and Mary songs because their folk style is so moving. Stewball reminds me of the kind of song that should be in The Royal Tenanbaums. | |
| Elton John – Rocket Man Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This song is based on Ray Bradbury's short story from the Illustrated Man by the same title (Rocket Man). If you would read the story, the song makes much more sense. However, it is one of those things which is written in such a way that allows the reader to interperet it in many different ways. That is the beauty of Elton's songs. |
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| Elton John – Levon Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Does anyone else wonder if the line, "And Jesus, he wants to go to Venus. Leaving Levon far behind." has a sexual connocation? Venus, the icon for women, would be opposed to "Mars" from Rocket Man. Perhaps Jesus is growing up and becomming interested in sex (losing that innocence of a child.) or perhaps he is choosing a different path. I hate to say "homosexual" but there could be some insinuation here. | |
| Eagles – Seven Bridges Road Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I can't believe no one else has commented on this amazing song. It is one of the most beautiful songs the eagles wrote. I googled and found this jewel at the website http://www.somethingabout.net/sevenbridgesroad/index.html: Steve Remembers "Seven Bridges Road" 7 Bridges Road was real.It is still real but I don't think it exists in the same way as I remember it due to development , etc. I lived in Montgomery , Alabama in the early 60's and had a group of friends there that showed me the road. It led out of town and after you had crossed 7 Bridges you found yourself out in the country on a dirt road. Spanish Moss hung in the trees and there were old farms with old fences and graveyards and churches and streams. A high bank dirt road with trees. It seemed like a Disney Fantasy at times. People went there to park or get stoned or just to get away from it all. I thought my friends had made up the name "7 Bridges Road" . I found out later that it had been called by that name for over a 100 years. That people had been struck by the beauty of the road for a long time, however , this is not the official name of the road. It is a "folk name". I never dreamed that anyone would understand or like this song. I played it for the first time one night in Montgomery and it got a big reaction. I was very surprised and thought it just because it was a local known thing and that was why they liked it. It is really not a commercial song. I still don't understand why people like it so much. In 1968 I was recording an album for A&M records. The producer wanted me to interpret songs. He didn't really want me to do any originals but we ran out of songs and I started singing 7 Bridges. We had been recording live with a trio. Me and James Burton and a bass player. Burton said " This one's ready we can do this one." The song sounded good and so the producer said ok. We put it down as it is now heard on the old A&M Album "RockSalt & Nails". Thats how it happened. SteveYoung |
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| Supertramp – Goodbye Stranger Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Fantastically used in the Magnolia soundtrack as Donny is walking into the bar for the first time. It gets me every time. I think it's about the end of a relationship because of the verse: Like a ship without an achor Like a slave without a chain Just the thought of those sweet ladies Sends a shiver through my veins Now that he's single, he is looking forward to his freedom to date all those hot 70's chicks. However he seems to run from his problems and one is left to wonder whether he will ever feel at home? |
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| Līve – Pillar Of Davidson Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I could listen to this song for hours on end. I have no idea what it is talking about and like Yellow Ledbetter, I don't want to know. | |
| Līve – Century Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I agree with spade's friend, this has got to be one of Live best songs. It builds so wonderfuly. Best line: "Everybody's anxious for the coming of the crisis, the collapse of the justice..." | |
| John Lennon – Working Class Hero Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I don't know about it being a parallel to Jesus. Perhaps you could read that in there somewhere. I really like the literal interpretation of this song. It's meaning is not hidden, but phrased in a beautiful way that everyone can understand. That takes talent. | |
| Alice Cooper – Only Women Bleed Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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As paulothemanio rightly points out, this song is not about a woman's period, however, using the phrase "only women bleed" helps develop the idea that women are fragile. The metaphor could even extend to include a girl losing her virginity. These connotations reinforce the main idea of the song (domestic abuse) and evokes empathy from the listener by showing the pain and suffering that a woman faces in life. Truely a great song from a great album, so unstereotypically Alice Cooper that it is attributed to his covers. |
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| David Bowie – Quicksand Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Ok, I am absolutely grooving over this song, I can't believe I didn't realize it existed until now. I have one question perhaps someone can answer. I am wondering about the meaning of the word, "bardo" and it's capitalization in the above lyrics. From what I gather, "bardo" comes from the name of the Tibetan book of the dead and is defined as an "intermediate state between death and rebirth." Oh f*ck me....I get it. That is absolute genious. Its as if the conscious thoughts of the person this song are cyclical and the use of the word bardo captures the feeling we all get when we see ourselves screw up in the same ways over and over. It's the quicksand of my thought, it drags me down into depression. I can't escape. |
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| Bryan Adams – Thought I'd Died And Gone To Heaven Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I can't believe I'm the only person who has commented on the great song. It's such a love song. If I were a woman, I would drop my skirt for any man who played this song for me. Seriously, there is some talent here. The meaning seems pretty ovbious. |
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| Tom Petty – You Don't Know How It Feels Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I'll admit, I love rolling joints and I love to smoke, but I think you stoners need to get real and understand something. You never solve any problems by lighting up a joint and so I think the lyrics of this song are bullshit. Sure it sounds nice to think that all your problems are going away for a while as you get high but in the end you're gonna come down and those things are still going to be there. From what it sounds like, the person in this song has had his heart broken and he is depressed. So to make things better he grabs his bag of weed and heads out to smoke; thinking about what happened and ruined relationship. The "you" in the second line isn't a person, i think it's his stash. If that is true, he is smoking by himself, one of the saddest things that you can do. Getting high by yourself when you want to be with someone else is the most depressing thing i can imagine. And the line "You don't know how it feels to be me" is really stuck up, like a whiny kid or the asshole a few rooms down to wants to talk to you about his problems and when you tell him how to help himself all he says is, "you don't know how it feel." Can it, bitch. I used to think this song was a upper, now it just gets me pissed. Eat me. |
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| Neil Young – Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black) Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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There are multiple versions of this song, on Live Rust, he does two, "out of the blue" and "into the black". But you all know that. My favorite line is, "It's better to burn out than to fade away." I almost shot myself in the face with a 357 after hearing that line. I'm scared of fading away. |
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| Pearl Jam – Given to Fly Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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One of my favorite songs, I've probably listened to it a hundred times, and each time I get something different from it. I don't know what Eddie wrote it about, but I know what it means to me. I picture a person disillusioned by life, society, family; needing to escape from all of the pain and suffering. In a quiet place he rests, tuning out society and finding the answers to his questions. The wave is symbolic of his answers/conclusions/new ideas that are sometimes painful to accept. He realizes how much better life is now and he wants to reveal this to all the people still in bondage. What are they chained to: their bullshit life, "working a job you hate, to buy shit you don't need." Perhaps a dead relationship or their own guilt for something they didn’t do. He's rejected, beaten, stabbed, people don't buy it and they can't understand why they should change. They don't see themselves chained to their suffering, but dependent on it. He doesn't give up but lives on. When I listen to this song I always think of the book, "a brave new world" and the savage who rejects their 'superior' culture and is ridiculed for it. It's mind blowing to think that millions and millions of people could be wrong, and just one person has it right. |
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| Billy Joel – Piano Man Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| So many songs are about that, i think it is more specific. | |
| Neil Young – Powderfinger Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I always thought this song was about a young man who was protecting his woman from the bad guys in town, (like coward of the country) and he ended up shooting someone important. So they sent the toops out to capture him. He sees them coming and is shot on the dock while waiting for them with his Dad's gun. It's probably about war. |
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| David Bowie – Space Oddity Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Seriously, people, this is about the meaning of the song. We can all read the lyrics and see that it is a story about a n astronaut launching into space, but the meaning behind it is much deeper. I really don't think it was about drugs. I'm sure Bowie was on drugs when he wrote this, but this song is speaking about the life of a celebrity. Gren901 was right, once you are famous, you are an oddity, alienated by your fans. Look at the lyrics, “You’ve really made the grade And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear." The advertisers want to whore you by their latest shit with your name. I think in the end he commits suicide. Perhaps it's about one of Bowie's rocker friends who couldn't take all the bullshit and pulled the plug. |
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| Pink Floyd – Paranoid Eyes Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I don't know why, but this has always been one of my favorite songs. It reminds me of a better time long ago when things better. The mood of this song engulfs the listener and transports him to some ethereal plane where time stops. Either that or I just want to kill myself because it is so sad. Would someone tell me why this album is rated as Pink Floyd's worst album? |
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| Eagles – Hotel California Lyrics | 22 years ago |
| Teddy is right, it makes more sense than any of the other analogies that ppl have been giving. I can see how Drugs, the LA rockscene and Hell are all related though. There doesn't have to be one right answer, it could be symbolic of many things. | |
| Pink Floyd – Mother Lyrics | 22 years ago |
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IMJM4371. Perhaps i can answer your question. Pink Floyd seems to be addressing how when we are young we have expectations put on us that chain us to society. Certain things that we have to do, like go to school, get a job, get married. The wall is symbolic of that opression, which in a mad cycle traps us and before we know it, we end up forcing those same values on our children.Round and round it goes ever higher. That whole idea reminds me of a quote from Fight Club: "My father never went to college, so it was important that I go. I graduated, called him long distance and asked, 'Now what?' He said, 'Get a job.' When I turned twenty five, I called him again and asked, 'Now what?' He said, 'I don't know. Get married.' We're a generation of men raised by women. I'm a thirty-year-old boy and I'm wondering if another woman is really the answer we need." The child has no free though, he keeps asking his mother, "Mother, should I.....?", "Mother do you think.....?". And he'll grow up believing the same things his mother did even if they are wrong. This song seems to me to be very similar to "Welcome to the Machine" from WYWH. Opression and free thinking. It's beautiful though. |
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| Led Zeppelin – Stairway to Heaven Lyrics | 22 years ago |
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Yeah, i'm the baddest, most hardcore LZ fan out there, i was 2 fucking years old when i bought all of their albums and I was listening to StH in the womb. Good fucking god! It doesn't matter how old you were, the point of these comments isn't you, it's the song. I heard that Page didn't really know what StH was about, but AnferFuckinE[y] seems to do a really good job of finding his/her own meaning to the song. That is what everyone has to do for themselves. There isn't one correct way to interpret what they wrote, that is the beauty of the song. Call me a high ass junkie, but StH has such elusive lyrics, that i wouldn't be supprised if they were inspired in the same sort of way that the authors of the Bible are claimed to have been inspired. That God actually came down and indirectly gave them the lyrics. I mean if you believe that God works in all sorts of way, why wouldn't he not want to inpress on the people of earth this beautiful song about the moral struggle of life. Just a thought to add to your day. -Think i'm full of shit, plz drop me a line. |
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