| Oingo Boingo – Capitalism Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| @[PursuitofLife:42485] I realize I am replying 16 years later. But to answer your question, I think "serious satire" would be similar to the 1990s film "PCU". It's satirizing the whole political correctness, but beneath that, there is a major degree of truth and serious points being addressed. That movie, while 1994, was decades ahead of its time. | |
| The Kinks – Catch Me Now I'm Falling Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| It is definitely about the U.S. in the late 1970s. We were in bad shape economically and socially. Having a few years earlier, just gotten through Watergate and Vietnam...and by the time of this song, dealing with the poor Presidency of Jimmy Carter and stagflation, we were down and out. | |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience – In From The Storm Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I always assumed that this (like "Machine Gun") were pretty much Jimi's only major Vietnam songs. | |
| Harry Chapin – W*O*L*D Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I used to be a radio D.J. and I met many a guy who was now in their 40s & 50s, worked in a dozen or so radio markets through the years, had a ex-wife and kids he's lost touch with over the years, and just seemed miserable. Even the joy of being a radio D.J. is gone and they are kinda stuck in a rut like a drug addict. And everytime new music comes out, it just makes them feel older. It is a sad existance that I know well...and when I hear this song, it makes those feelings come right back to me. IT IS AN EXCELLENT SONG capturing a time back in radio. |
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| The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Little Wing Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I still disagree with many of the posts. I've read it many times that Jimi always believed that his dead mother watched over him like a guardian angel. Jimi had made up an unrealistic, happy version of his Mom in his head. In reality his mother had drug problems that led to her death when Jimi was just a kid. And she hadn't really been a part of his life since he was just a couple of years old. |
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| The Doors – Blue Sunday Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Wow chrisb1...I realize everyone is entitled to their own opinion...but I don't know how you can say this song is a downer. (Unless you mean in tone...not in quality and goodness.) | |
| Jim Croce – Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels) Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| This is the worst heartbreak song. By worst, I mean the best at tearing your heart-out!!! | |
| Harry Chapin – Taxi Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| I love this song...so sad and tender. Similar type song to Dan Fogelberg's "Same Old Lang Syne: | |
| Dan Fogelberg – Same Old Lang Syne Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I start to tear up just hearing that piano part at the beginning. This song and Hari Chapin's "Taxi" are both very similar. You run into an old lover under different circumstances and think about the old times. So sweet...awesome song!!! |
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| The Beatles – Piggies Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Oh how times have changed! I am a high school teacher and we have television morning announcements. They did a "PSA" about cleaning up your mess in the cafeteria at lunch...and they used this song as the background. The kids had no clue what song this was...and laughed when I was singing along. So much for meaningful lyrics in the administrations eyes...use it to make kids clean up! :-) |
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| The Beatles – While My Guitar Gently Weeps Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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STRAIGHT FROM A GEORGE HARRISON INTERVIEW: "I had a copy of the I Ching - The Book Of Changes, which seemed to me to be based on the Eastern concept that everything is relative to everything else, as opposed to the Western view that things are merely coincidental. The idea was in my head when I visited my parents' house in the north of England. I decided to write a song based on the first thing I saw upon opening any book -- as it would be relative to that moment at that time. I picked up the book at random, opened it -- saw "gently weeps" -- then laid the book down again and started the song. Some of the words were changed before I recorded it." He went on to say that John & Paul dismissed the song early thinking it was nothing special. (From things I've read, there was definitely a friction of John & Paul thinking they were better than George & Ringo...but I think we've all gotten this vibe from the Beatles.) He said Ringo was a sport about it. He was driving with Eric Clapton to the studio for the second day of recording, when he asked Eric to play on the song. Eric was reluctant because he didn't think John & Paul would be too thrilled. George said to forget about what they thought! Incidently, there is a sect of Hinduism called the Janes. Janes believe in an extreme form of non-violence. Hence, the walk around with a broom, sweeping the ground in front of them...so as not to step on any living creature. I wonder if this played a part in the song at all...I mean George would've known about the Janes from his study of East Religions. |
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| Led Zeppelin – Hats Off to (Roy) Harper Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| I am a huge Zeppelin fan...but I think this is the worst Zeppelin song. And there are very few Zep songs I dislike. | |
| Bob Dylan – One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below) Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I always thought it was Bob commenting about a wild girl who he wants for a relationship...but being wild, she'll never settle down. This is a haunting song. Always been one of my favorite, late at night, alone with a beer song. |
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| The Jimi Hendrix Experience – You Got Me Floatin' Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| Hmm...I guess you're not a true Hendrix fan. This song was written and sun by Jimi. I think you're confusing this song with "She's So Fine" on Axis:Bold As Love album. That was written and sang by Noel. | |
| The Doors – Not To Touch The Earth Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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"Dead president's corpse in the driver's car. The engine runs on glue and tar." Kennedy's horse-drawn car with casket in it?!?! (Get it...horse...glue & tar.) |
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| The Doors – Maggie M'gill Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Isn't this a song Jim wrote to his unborn child (who ended up being aborted?) His unborn child is Maggie M'Gill and he is the daddy who got drunk. I remember reading this somewhere. Incidently, I believe this is the only song that Ray Manzarek plays guitar on. He supposedly knew only one riff on the guitar...and this song uses it. Great riff as well. |
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| The Doors – Blue Sunday Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| Beautiful, simple love song. I sing this to my wife. We had our first date on a Sunday...with clear blue skies. | |
| Donovan – Catch The Wind Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| Both versions of this song are incredible. The lyrics kill me. I always took it as a guy professing his love to a girl for the last time. Kinda saying, "Listen, I've told you a million times how much I love you. I'll describe it one last time. If you don't get it then I am finally gonna leave (catch the wind....and blow out of your life.)" | |
| Bob Dylan – Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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God I love this song. Play it on guitar all the time. First song I ever played on guitar for my wife when we were dating. Talking about being away from home and everything goes wrong. Screw it at the end...go back home. |
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| Bob Dylan – If You See Her, Say Hello Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Beautiful song...from a perfect album. The most intimate and personal line: "She might think that I've forgotten her, don't tell her it isn't so." The line still gives me chills. You can hear the quiver in Bob's voice saying that he is still upset. The music tries to keep it light-hearted...but his voice and lyrics cut right through the charade! |
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| The Who – Happy Jack Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| I thought I heard that this song was about masterbation back when I was young. | |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Voodoo Child (Slight Return) Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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This song was just a blues jam recorded in the studio late one night. Steve Winwood (yes, that Steve Winwood was a good friend of Jimi) and Jack Cassidy (of Jefferson Airplane) played bass. This song was litterally a jam! Entitled Voodoo Chile (as in "Child"...the same way people say "wanna" instead of "want to") Some confusion comes from some pressings of the original album, mistakingly listed the title as "Voodoo Chili" because someone must've screwed up! |
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| The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Third Stone From The Sun Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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There are two origins of this song. Chas Chandler (Jimi's manager) says Jimi wrote this after he was introduced to Science Fiction of Issac Asimov by Chandler. Another story says that this song is Jimi's interpretation of an (believe it or not) old Daffy Duck cartoon. There was a space duck episode once that the song supposedly follows closely to. |
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| The Jimi Hendrix Experience – One Rainy Wish Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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This, along with "One Rainy Wish" and "Bold As Love" may be lyrically the best Hendrix ever wrote about love. There is no more powerful feeling that part about 45 seconds in or so when the line "I have never laid eyes on you" kicks in. THIS IS THE ORIGINAL POWER BALLAD....20 YEARS BEFORE THEY WERE HUGE!!! |
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| The Jimi Hendrix Experience – My Friend Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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OH DO I LOVE THIS FREAKING SONG!!! Done as a jam in the studio late one night. I think Steve Winwood and a few others were in on it. The bar room sound effects were added later on to make it sound live. But it was done in the studio. This is a masterful look into the way Jimi felt about himself. (ala Burning of the Midnight Lamp, Hear My Train AComin') My Friend says how he has so many people that want to be around him because he is "Jimi Hendrix" the rock star. His only true friend...the only one he can trust to be there in good times and bad...is HIS SHADOW!!! Upbeat song that is pure blues sadness. Incidently, I believe Noel Redding claims that the idea for this song was stolen by Jimi from one of Noel's own songs he wrote for his solo outfit "Fat Mattress". |
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| The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Little Wing Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| Another song about Lucille Hendrix (Jimi's Mom) Often he romanticized the memory of his late mom. When in reality, she abandoned him. (See "Gypsy Eyes" & "Angel") | |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience – If 6 Was 9 Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I think Robert has it partially right. I think Jimi was also discussing how the counter-culture became a marketable image and all of a sudden, it became hip to be a hippie. The same way Grunge became hip and fashionable in the early 1990s. There was a time when wearing flannel meant something (I guess), but after a while it was showing up as a fashion style. Jimi is saying that he is a true "different person". You can dress and look like me...but you will never be me. "Go ahead on mister business man, you can't dress like me " |
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| The Jimi Hendrix Experience – I Don't Live Today Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| One of many songs written by Jimi about the sorry tale of what happened to American Indians. | |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience – House Burning Down Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Hendrix's civil rights song. He was influenced by Martin Luther King a lot. He didn't understand why the black community would burn down their own neighborhoods and riot. You can't change anything through violence. Only through education and learning will anything change. "He shouts retired and disgusted so we paint red through the sky I said the truth is straight ahead so don't burn yourself instead Try to learn instead of burn, hear what I say, yeah, yeah." As typical with Jimi, he throws in some science fiction at the end to describe the dead souls departing earth. Incidently, what a great crying guitar sound on this song!!! |
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| The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Highway Chile Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| It's Hendrix's autobiography | |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Hear My Train A Comin' Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Incidently, listen to the 12-string acoustic solo version of this song. It was featured in the Jimi Hendrix movie from the 1972 Warner Brothers movie. It can also be found on the Jimi Hendrix Blues CD released in the early 1990s. It was Jimi's first time playing a 12-string acoustic. But he picks it up and starts playing this song. He actually started crying while playing it. You can tell how personal this song was to him. This version kills me. |
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| The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Hear My Train A Comin' Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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What an incredible song. Hendrix hated his hometown...hate his high school....hated the people who he felt thought he wouldn't amount to anything. So he writes the fantasy song. He leaves the town to get away and when he comes back he will be a big star and rich enough to buy the town and show everyone. This happened in a sort of way. Jimi never graduated from high school. (He got in trouble and joined the army.) The school always viewed him a useless. But when he was a big star, his high school invited him back to give a speech to the school and they billed him as "a distinguished former student." It made Jimi laugh in disbelief. |
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| The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Hey Joe Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| This is not about Vietnam....it was an old blues song, remade by Hendrix and countless others. Matter of fact, a group called "The Leaves" released a version of it about 6 months before the Jimi Hendrix Experience did. It is a typical story-telling old blues song. It is very literal....a guy kills his wife beause he caught her cheating on him and is running from the law. | |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Foxy Lady Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| From my research, this one one of the few songs that Jimi NEVER got tired of playing. This one was very personal to him!!! | |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Drifting Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| Incredibly beautiful and tender song. You could hear the tears in Jimi's throat as he sings it. | |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Dolly Dagger Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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This song is about Mick Jagger and Jimi's girlfriend Devon Wilson. Devon threw a birthday party for Jimi...but Devon always had a thing for Mick Jagger too. The story goes that a glass Mick was holding broke and cut his finger. Devon went over and started sucking on Mick bloody finger. Devon and Jimi had a love/hate relationship. Incidently, when that party ended, Devon ended up going home with Mick Jagger. Mick in turn wrote the song "You Can't Always Get What You Want" for Jimi Hendrix. Think of those lyrics: "I saw her today at a reception A glass of wine in her hand I knew she would meet her connection At her feet was her footloose man I went down to the Chelsea drugstore To get your prescription filled I was standin' in line with Mr. Jimmy A-man, did he look pretty ill" Ah...semi-rock and roll fueds!!! |
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| The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Crosstown Traffic Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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This song is about one of Jimi's girlfriends. (I forget exactly which one.) But she was trying to tie down Jimi. But at this point in his career, his life was 1,000 miles per hour and he doesn't have time or the ability to slow down for the pace she would like. She wants to come along, but he's telling her no cause you always try to slow me down! |
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| The Jimi Hendrix Experience – 51st Anniversary Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Lucille and Al (Jimi's parents) had a terrible marriage. It influenced Jimi. Jimi wrote a song here against marriage. Howard Stern (who always rails against young people getting married saying the guys don't know what they are getting themselves into) should have the guys listen to this song. This is an anti-marriage song, sung by Jimi. |
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| The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Belly Button Window Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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It was Mitch Mitchell's (the drummer) whose wife was pregnant. They used to joke in bed about the baby looking out through the belly-button window. Hendrix thought that was great and wrote a song about all the thoughts the fetus must have while looking out. As typicaly with Jimi, he took an idea and his own pains enter into it..."'Cause you know if ya just don't want me this time around, yeah I'll be glad to go back to Spirit Land" A simple, yet powerful song. |
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| The Jimi Hendrix Experience – 1983 ... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be) Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Jimi's love of science-fiction!!! The end of the world is coming...nuclear holocaust. Screw this, I'm gonna go live peacefully in the sea, away from my troubles. Under the sea, oh under the sea....Disney song? This is an awesome song. Listen to Rainy Day, Dream Away...into....1983 (A Merman I Should Turn To Be)....into....Moon turn the tides slowly....into....Still Raining Still Dreaming. 15-20 minutes of mental escape. |
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| The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Gypsy Eyes Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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This song, if I remember correctly, is about Jimi's mother. (One of many songs about her.) Jimi had major issues with his mother abandoning him as a child. He has almost romanticized her as being a good mom...and he seems to continually want to know if she loves him. The true story is that of a messed up woman who died young. While Jimi's mother was pregnant, his father was fighting in WWII. Jimi's mom had an affair with a guy named Johnny. Hence, when Jimi was born and his dad Al was fighting in the war, Jimi was named Johnny Allen Hendrix. Jimi's mother basically abandoned Jimi as a baby with relatives. When Al came back from the war, he went searching for his boy. He found him named after himself and his wife's boyfriend. So, he changed his name to James Marshall Hendrix. Jimi spent his entire life not knowing his mother and she died when he was a child. So as typical with a child, he created a fictional belief of her. The telling verse is as follows: I remember the first time I saw you The tears in your eyes look like they're tryin' to say Oh little boy you know I could love you But first I must make my get away Two strange men fightin' to the death over me today This describes when Jimi's mom left him with relatives and describes the issue with Jimi's Dad and her boyfriend. |
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| The Jimi Hendrix Experience – All Along the Watchtower (Bob Dylan cover) Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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First off...while Bob Dylan wrote this song, he has "given" it to Hendrix. Bob thought Jimi's version was so good that he claimed, "The song is no longer mine...but is Jimi's." Jimi had a different interpretation of the song. He viewed the song to be about all the people using and abusing his career and life: His agent, the fans, the women, his bandmates. They were all pulling him in different directions. |
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| The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Burning of the Midnight Lamp Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I love this song. Also, I happen to be a HUGE Hendrix fan. Not to pat myself on the back, but I would call myself on of the top 100 experts in the world on Hendrix. This song, I also read was about, and took it to mean, it was about suicide. A guy has nothing going in life, feels lonely, and has no reason to go on living. But he knows that suicide is wrong and tries to take it one day at a time. If he makes it to midnight, he feels like he succeeded surviving through another day. |
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| Bob Dylan – Ballad of a Thin Man Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I see this song much different than you guys. First off, I love it. But I view it as a song about a guy that views himself as a freak...when in reality he is more of a geeky guy with little self-confidence. The song is Bob Dylan's message to Mr. Jones (could be a side of his personality) telling him that he is not so weird and to straighten up. Let's take it verse by verse: First verse: Mr. Jones comes by and finds his girl in bed with another guy. He just walks out. Second version: He ask God why this is happening, and God tells him (or he thinks God tells him) I am taking everything away from you. Third verse: He visits a carnival and visits the Geek (a person who bites the heads off of chickens.) A geek is a freak by way of his actions. For some reason, the two of them feel a connection. Fourth verse: Mr. Jones has a lot of friends from different walks of life, but they aren't real friends...they always take advantage of him. He is also a very smart guy and feels more comfortable with the other typical "nerds" (academics.) Fifth verse: A sword swallower at a carnival. Another guy who is a freak by way of what he does. He and Mr. Jones find common ground again. (Great line: "Here is your throat back, thanks for the loan." A sword swallower would scratch the back of his throat while performing. Well instead of using his own, why not use Mr. Jones'? You know the feeling when you are upset, especially after a relationship ends. It feel like a lump or hurt in the back of your throat.) Sixth verse: A one-eyed midget is a freak...not cause of what he does (like the geek, sword swallower, and Mr. Jones) but because of the way he looks. He gets in Mr. Jones face and bascially says, "Look at me. I am a freak. Tell me what is so freakin' weird about you. Nothing huh? Get the hell out of here!" At this point, you would figure that Mr. Jones has learned his lesson...unfortuantely no. Seventh verse: He goes back home and once again his girlfriend cheats on him and he is the one that apologizes. "He puts his eyes in his pockets"...He acts like he sees nothing. "There ought to be a law Against you comin' around You should be made To wear earphones" Bob is saying this should be illegal to keep you from being hurt. You should have to wear earphones so you don't have to listen to your girl lie to you again. Will Mr. Jones ever learn? Maybe the Counting Crowes know..."Mr. Jones" is kinda a sequel to "Ballad of a Thin Man". Both the lead singer and Mr. Jones want to be more normal and life of the party. |
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| Bob Dylan – Desolation Row Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I always viewed this song as a description of life in the inner city back in the 1950s, 1960s, etc. Picture a poorer version of the set of Alfred Hitchcock's "Rear Window". I grew up in a neighborhood similar to this in New York City (albeit in the 1970s) and I get images of it. It becomes a very self-contained world. Everyone has their story and troubles. Half the people dream of getting out...while the other half views this as the place they live and will die. The rest of the outside world pays lip-service to inner cities like this...politicians make PR appearances during election years...and less expensive forms of family entertainment rule. That's what I see. I could be completely wrong...But it is 11 minutes of pure theater of the mind. |
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| Bob Dylan – Desolation Row Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I always viewed this song as a description of life in the inner city back in the 1950s, 1960s, etc. Picture a poorer version of the set of Alfred Hitchcock's "Rear Window". I grew up in a neighborhood similar to this in New York City (albeit in the 1970s) and I get images of it. It becomes a very self-contained world. Everyone has their story and troubles. Half the people dream of getting out...while the other half views this as the place they live and will die. The rest of the outside world pays lip-service to inner cities like this...politicians make PR appearances during election years...and less expensive forms of family entertainment rule. That's what I see. I could be completely wrong...But it is 11 minutes of pure theater of the mind. |
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| Bob Dylan – Simple Twist of Fate Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| I always saw this as a sad song about meeting your soulmate, but the time just wasn't right for you. You spent one great night with her and didn't realize this WAS the person you're supposed to be with until it was too late. | |
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