| Kenny Loggins – Celebrate Me Home Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Re: the meaning of "Gimme a number" 1. He could be asking tor a place in line at the bakery or meat counter. I guess that expresses the feeling of wanting to be part of a group, but the feeling of the song is about being with friends, not anonymous strangers, so it doesn't make a lot of sense. 2. He could be asking for a celebratory joint, spliff, doobie, as in "Pass me that number." But the context of the following lyric seems to suggest the third option: 3. "Number" could refer to a song. This is reinforced by the immediately following lyric, "Give me one more song..." So he's asking for a number, a song to perform? The most logical answer, but it seems a bit screwed up emotionally to me. As if "give me one more song" is a request to be moved, inspired, so that he will write a song about it - this song, in fact. But to call it a "number," as in performance, that's troubling. Like the whole thing of being home with loved ones isn't really genuine, but rather just grist for his ego as a performer, one more song, one more "number," to perform. Maybe really diehard Loggins fans are so into him that they don't mind this, but it puts me off. I'm hoping for: 4.Some other interpretation? Anyone? |
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| Nirvana – Floyd the Barber Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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This song was no doubt influenced by the legend of Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street - see Stephen Sondheim's Broadway a musical, 1979-80, revived and recorded through the 80's and 90's. See http://www.pbs.org/kqed/demonbarber/ Aunt Bea's counterpart is Nellie Lovett - dying smothered in Aunt Bea's muff is analogous to being baked in one of Mrs. Lovett's pies. |
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