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| Richard Harris – MacArthur Park Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Get over it, Zinbob. I agree with you that this song has some absolutely beautiful imagery (my passion flow like rivers through the sky!), but I totally disagree that the use of bizarre domestic imagery (cake and a pair of pants) ruins it. It's not unusual during tragic times for the mind of make particularly bizarre associations or for a person to suddenly see their situation with a bizarre humour, and that's what going on here. Plus it's just a song, and there's no need for it to be totally serious. The cake image does work, especially with the melting icing, and silly as it is, I think it all works great with the song. |
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| Pink Floyd – San Tropez Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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"lazy summer day song" really says it all. Nothing captures the essence of a carefree day outside in the warmth than this song. |
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| Pink Floyd – Time Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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The song song is obvious- the first half is about a wasted childhood, when people just kill time rather than using it, because it seems so limitless to them. The second half is when the person suddenly realises how much of their life is gone, and time suddenly seems so finite. In desperation, they try to "catch up with the sun", trying to make plans (note the desperation and carelessness of "scribbled"), but in that too they fail, and they finally end ("the time is gone, the song is over") their life before them with nothing they had expected or hoped for carried out ("thought I'd something more to say"). |
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| Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Well, taken on it's own, this song has pretty obvious drug references.
Taken in the context of The Wall, it's a scene in which Pink has gone completely catatonic (as usual, trapped behind the wall, etc.), and the others, including his clearly useless doctor think that he's in a drug-induced stupor.
Obviously, I'm pretty sure that the words of the doctor aren't supposed to be his actual words, there's no way a doctor would be stupid enough to say "can you tell me where it hurts", they're just an overview of how mistaken the doctor, and therefore the rest of the world are, just as in the words sung in mother are not actually supposed to have been said by the mother. |
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| Pink Floyd – Echoes Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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I don't know why you'd find it depressing, the last verse is clearly happy.
I have no idea what this song is about, but the lyrics are absolutely genius. I can't think of a more vivid description for the scene in the third verse than "and through the window in the wall come streaming in on sunlight wings a million bright ambassadors of morning", it sounds almost like something out of Gormenghast. I can see the scene so perfectly, and the last line "And so I throw the windows wide and call to you across the sky" is just wonderful.
A true masterpiece, whatever the **** it's about! |
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| Gerry Rafferty – Baker Street Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Fun thing to do: go to the Sherlock Holmes museum and hum this tune really loudly constantly for 8 hours every day for 4 weeks, or until somebody kills you.
DISCLAIMER: May not be fun.
Anyway, what exactly is this song about? |
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| The Alan Parsons Project – The Raven Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Another in a series of songs based on Edgar Allen Poe stories- or, in this case, poetry. This song certainly does the poem justice, it's great-- although the pace (of the lyrics at least) is a lot faster than that of the poem. |
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| The Alan Parsons Project – Pyramania Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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This was about 'pyramid power', the fad from a few decades back (60s, 70s, or 80s, don't ask me, I wasn't alive then), sparked, I believe, by somebody discovering that if you left a razor blade in a pyramid, it got sharper. Immediately people put them everywhere, claiming the affects that this song mentions (imporves all your food, etc). A while later, somebody realised that you can leave a razor blade anywhere and it will get sharper. Oh well.
I'm pretty sure that this song is mocking pyramid power, especially because of "Instead, all I ever get is a pain in the neck and a/Yap yap yap yap yap yap yap" |
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