| David Bowie – Young Americans Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Sorry Imani. After re-reading this, I think I was totally off on the song the first time. My only retribution was that I said-I'm way too far away... to understand what the song means. I just re-read the song now and there's nothing too far reaching in it for my finite mind I think. The complex part is that he touches on first the immigrant girl wanting a young american.. then her finding her choice a slinky vagabond freak -- still wanting a young american.. he begs on the bathroom floor-- and then HE wants a young american (perhaps not an immigrant wife...) Then the second part of the song gets into generalities, we all want a young american.. but aint that poster love.. the last part is great, for all those who complain of the meager existence: Ain't there a man who can say no more? And, ain't there a woman I can sock on the jaw? And, ain't there a child I can hold without judging? Ain't there a pen that will write before they die? Ain't you proud that you've still got faces? anyways.. interesting song, I should be careful to respect bowie more next time. |
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| Pearl Jam – Better Man Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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When I heard the words, I thought it meant he was talking about one of the 1000's of girls Pearl Jam sleeps with, before she goes home to her regular boyfriend. Just look at Jenny-O above, I mean, these girls relate to the song just as much as a "battered woman". Who's the culprit: the wife batterer or the slut wife? Answer: the culprit is Eddie Vedder. You write like crap sometimes. |
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| Yes – Long Distance Runaround Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Bill Bruford did such a great job on this song... I never get bored listening to this song, just as long as I concenrate on the awesome drum composition.. It fits in so well with the music -- the guitar and keyboard is so straightforward, but the drums are shifting the foundation left and right all the way through -- yet the structure remaines perfectly sharp.. I wouldn't know how Bruford rates among drummer in pure technical mastery, but I would have to say that his composition was totally brilliant. |
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| Yes – South Side of the Sky Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I haven't read anything to verify or disprove what you have said above.. The image I had (before reading you all's) was like on that movie "Alive" with the soccer players, when their plane crashes in the mountains somewhere, and they end up having to eat the dead.. But some survive in the end... The "lala" part of this song is wierd - but freaking awesome -- the piano and drums are so fucking awesome too in this part -- especially when you are picturing that it's a daydream of someone who is barely concious in subzero temperatures... Then that fucking awesome machine sound comes in.. starts quitely.. gets louder.... and the reality of the subzero temperatures - empending death!! - wakes you out of that utopian hallucination! The only way to die is to die hard and like a man. I too am surprised that this song is not mentioned often among Yes fans --- I don't think they even play it in concert.. But I'm not much for the "popular" Yes songs... So I think this song is way more important than "Roundabout", but on the other hand, not as important as "Heart of The Sunrise"... About Bruford: when you listen to Alan White on Relayer, you see that Yes didn't really miss Bruford (white does fucking awesome on that album).. But a lot of credit still should go to Bruford on fragile (I wasn't as impressed on the Edge)... When I listen closely to the drum compositions on South Side, Long Distance Runaround, and Sunrise, I am so amazed at how clever -- and simply beautiful his drumming was.. Clearly Bruford was integral on fragile, but on the Edge, something is missing, and it makes sense to me that he departed at that point. |
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| Metallica – The God That Failed Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This song is yet another reason why the Black album was so great.. My least favorite songs: Enter Sandman, Sad But True.. The best songs are like this one - most dumb fans consider it the "album filler".. But when I hear lyrics like "The healing hand held back by the deepened nail", it catches my attention, and there's a lot to these black album "fillers" that the masses will never notice.. And the fans who believe the black album was a "sellout" never appreciate just how good this stuff really is. |
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| Metallica – The Struggle Within Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This could be written for themselves, like after being frustrated about their own (Hetfield / Ulrich) personality shortcomings.. I don't know if that is what it's saying though.. But assuming it's not directed to themselves, then probably it's to the stupid masses. Most people are stupid. Most people in these fanzines are stupid. Most Mathematics students are stupid. Most art majors are stupid. Most people with Phd's in Anthropology are stupid. Most high school dropouts are stupid. Most foreigners are stupid. Boredom sets into a boring mind.. The struggle within suits them fine. I am smart. Most of you reading this are stupid. Don't blame me, you seal your own coffin. |
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| Yes – The Gates of Delirium Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I am so thankful to Jon, Chris, and Steve, for sticking through without regards to pretentious Bruford and Wakeman. Them high school drop outs could do this? My guess is that they were picked on for not finishing high school... they were doubted... and guess what... They shoved the best music of the 20th century up all their critics asses. I'm forever thankful for their monumental triumph - in Topographic Oceans and Relayer. |
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| The Band – The Weight Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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| The Band – The Weight Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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tayzra is a bofoon for that Fanny "interpretation. Lustfrog almost got it right, well, Lustfrog is right, but the words aint sharp! Most of the posters here must be serious prudes or something, to not catch that meanin... The comma placement is misleading: "Take a load off (,) Fanny".. Could be talking to fanny, but "Take a load for free" sounds like he's talking to any John out there. She be givin it up, cause she want's it like that. Just like a Christian to commit a mortal sin, and not have the courtesy to charge for it, and clean up them blisters. "I do believe it's time To get back to Miss Fanny, you know she's the only one Who sent me here with her regards for everyone" I think that hits the nail on the head.. OKOKOKOKOKOKOKOK -- that's only one meaning that I have time to understand -- it's the meaning that you get just from listening, without any research required.. Hell, I like the Band because they said what they meant for the most part. May offend you up there who may be Jesus freaks.. Just do us all a favor and grow some soul! |
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| Eric Clapton – Bell Bottom Blues Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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| Eric Clapton – Bell Bottom Blues Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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ECisGod brings up an interesting point, now it's time for ENGL 101 Critical Analysis - How To: Says Whitlock, "When you let a horse run a race, it will run its finest race on its own. When you get some musicians and you get some creative people, you give them the opportunity to do what they're supposed to do, and they'll do just that. Given the right circumstances, they'll perform at their peak. They'll draw from the source. These songs don't come out of your head. They're not something you sit down and figure out. They're things that flow through you - we were just instruments, just like the instruments in our laps. We were provided an opportunity to lock ourselves away and let the creative principle of the universe flow through us." There is only one clear point you have established EC: Eric Claptons "unconditional love" (as catherineks suggested) for Patti Boyd is bullshit. Eric Clapton was a shallow guy, like most rock stars, albeit a great musician. But it seemed so natural for you to say I was wrong, but it's not that clear to me that my original point is wrong, maybe you can enlighten me more.. Since he met his Persian princess for a week, why such sentimental drivel for the lyrics, if it's about Clapton's feelings for her? I was pretty confident with my analysis, and I think I was confident for a good reason - a reason you didn't refute..... I listened to the song at face value. I took nothing away from the "Context" other than that it was made around 1970 or so. Did they expect the listener to pull a Persian princess out of that song? At face value, it's clear the words are the kind of things you'd say to a woman.. but like I said above.. pretty extreme, as if you had just beat her, and want her to forgive you. It seems obvious to me that the musicians may perhaps realize that the word "Blues" has something to do with music. The fact that "Bell Bottom" is the adjective, and "Blues" is the subject.... umm.... English 101 - Means you should join my side or get roasted for incompetence. Thanks for the good contribution, about the Persian princess fling -- it's something I was happy to learn about.. But as someone who thinks ECisGod, I was dissapointed that you couldn't have heard the real vibe of the song -- that Bell Bottom Blues is a song about music. It may be a multi-interpretation type of song for sure, but I at least expected you to feel a real vibe from a great song.. Learning about a song never hurts it! The way to enjoy a song is to understand it. Hell, I may have helped you! |
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| Eric Clapton – Bell Bottom Blues Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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ECisGod brings up an interesting point, now it's time for ENGL 101 Critical Analysis - How To: Says Whitlock, "When you let a horse run a race, it will run its finest race on its own. When you get some musicians and you get some creative people, you give them the opportunity to do what they're supposed to do, and they'll do just that. Given the right circumstances, they'll perform at their peak. They'll draw from the source. These songs don't come out of your head. They're not something you sit down and figure out. They're things that flow through you - we were just instruments, just like the instruments in our laps. We were provided an opportunity to lock ourselves away and let the creative principle of the universe flow through us." There is only one clear point you have established EC: Eric Claptons "unconditional love" (as catherineks suggested) for Patti Boyd is bullshit. Eric Clapton was a shallow guy, like most rock stars, albeit a great musician. But it seemed so natural for you to say I was wrong, but it's not that clear to me that my original point is wrong, maybe you can enlighten me more.. Since he met his Persian princess for a week, why such sentimental drivel for the lyrics, if it's about Clapton's feelings for her? I was pretty confident with my analysis, and I think I was confident for a good reason - a reason you didn't refute..... I listened to the song at face value. I took nothing away from the "Context" other than that it was made around 1970 or so. Did they expect the listener to pull a Persian princess out of that song? At face value, it's clear the words are the kind of things you'd say to a woman.. but like I said above.. pretty extreme, as if you had just beat her, and want her to forgive you. It seems obvious to me that the musicians may perhaps realize that the word "Blues" has something to do with music. The fact that "Bell Bottom" is the adjective, and "Blues" is the subject.... umm.... English 101 - Means you should join my side or get roasted for incompetence. Thanks for the good contribution, about the Persian princess fling -- it's something I was happy to learn about.. But as someone who thinks ECisGod, I was dissapointed that you couldn't have heard the real vibe of the song -- that Bell Bottom Blues is a song about music. It may be a multi-interpretation type of song for sure, but I at least expected you to feel a real vibe from a great song.. Learning about a song never hurts it! The way to enjoy a song is to understand it. Hell, I may have helped you! |
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| Metallica – Don't Tread On Me Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I disagree with yllas.. this song is not being satirical about liberty or death.. it is living the liberty or death.. This is a wonderful song, I love the Americana that it portrays, that old school Civil War type of brutality.. That American ethic.. Give me Liberty or Give me Death.. It's something that every American can perhaps identify with, or be affected by... That if we would be attacked.. on the ground... That deep down inside we know what to do... Most importantly we know who we are, we know who the "us" is, and who the "them" is, and we know there is only going to be one survivor. Deep down, we know it is us... and so do they.. The rattling of her tail has really been inflamed ... since 9/11... And we are ready to strike, and I hope we aren't provoked.. All this mockery by the French and the Germans.. such stupidity.. They (and their stupid citizens) didn't realize that the whole point of there foriegn policy is to look good to the American people, regardless of what some politicos are doing with our foriegn policy.. But the overall impression is that French and German leaders openly declare the American public as bafoons... Hello! that's obvious!, What about the french and german public? Total idiots, such self-dishonesty they have.. The only conclusion is that the real idiots is not so much George Bush, as it is the European leaders.. America is the only friend to have.. Unfortunately, the future is not garaunteed.. Ground wars are won with the passion, lethal deadly sting of hate and vengeance.. But the real dominance is of technology... It is a real interesting question .. what is going on with Japan and America on the question of technology.. But at this point I stop.. The public should not be aware.. it is confidential.. and our fangs must forever strike the deepest fear into the rest of the world.. We should not abuse ourselves with freedom of speech -- use the speech for love and spirit.. But to secure peace is to prepare for war.. we must dominate technology -- through Americas other strength -- we are the final frontier of Western (scientific) Enlightenment.. and that vein must be nourished in our young men who are to become scientists.. Ok, enough for now. |
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| David Bowie – Young Americans Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Imani, I think the "American Dream" idea doesn't really make sense.. I mean, South Koreans have great reason to want to become Americans -- they are worried about getting nuked! The reasons for immigrating - leaving your people for the American heathens that everyone that's not here loves to hate - and not even being accepted here (nor should they be) after your arrival -- the reasons are complicated. I don't think David Bowie would have tried to oversimplify that with such an inspired song -- inspired, because the message is very simple, and energizing. |
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| David Bowie – Changes Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Of all the lines in any David Bowie song, there is nothing that sticks in my mind more than: "And these children that you spit on As they try to change their worlds Are immune to your consultations They're quite aware of what they're going through" When I was a teeny bopper, I didn't understand it. Now that i'm older, around 25, I find myself on the opposite end of that comment - I mostly depise teenagers.. and I like to spit on teenagers, when I'm not running them over in my Volvo (i.e. in America, where I am from duh!)... Because they so painlessly seek sex and drugs (and rocknroll), and seem to be offended by the idea of wisdom (and rocknroll). End result, a guy like me just wonders, as people have expected for the past 5000 years, that society is in decline.. Then teenagers who can't read or think reply with "500 years ago, people thought teenagers would ruin society too, and it never happened" or something along those lines.. But of course, that's an empty thing to say, or course bad things happened... I mean.. thousands of passionate wars have been fought and 100 million Jews were killed in concentration camps, and eventually, perhaps America will no longer exist - and the young seem to have no interest in keeping that from happening. With all due respect to David Bowie.. he is a man who had a lot of heart.. an introspective man.. who has brought visions to me that I value and cherish.. Again, unfortunately, I never got the Jap girls in synthesis - the one vision I would have like the most.. But that line above particularly bothers me, because it sort of says to me that there is an "us" and a "them", and me and David Bowie are on different sides.. Instead of basically saying "they are immune to my bullshit", it would have been nice if he could have bridged our differences with some thoughtful discourse... But then again.. Well.. Differences... Sometimes it is exactly those differences that makes a music provocative.. His song provokes me.. I don't know if that's good.. But surely puts the music is up there in the ranks.. |
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| Eric Clapton – Bell Bottom Blues Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I'm sorry I acted like such a tyrant by dominating this songs meaning with repeated comments... I happily got carried away on the fact that there was a semi discussion here.. which I probably ultimately killed..But about Bell Bottom Blues being a great song.. It's been my experience that any time you listen to a song over and over and over again, eventually, you don't desire to hear the song anymore.. i.e. you get bored with it, no matter how great the song is. It's a question of what gives us that nearly sexual feeling of music enjoyment.. that moment when we ever enjoyed it.. really enjoyed it.. That moment we try to go back to... May sound perverted, but that's the ultimate reality when you listen to music without participating in it.. As if the music should merely caress your organ.. But Bell Bottom Blues is so sexy.. It makes me want to scream like Michael Jackson and brake a glass like Wesley Willis. I too wonder if my overanalyzing depth will ruin all of my chance to enjoy music.. Then again, my point of living is not to be a music critic.. My point of living.. My life -- is music.. It is like music... And that's where I connect.. |
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| Eric Clapton – Bell Bottom Blues Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I'm sorry I acted like such a tyrant by dominating this songs meaning with repeated comments... I happily got carried away on the fact that there was a semi discussion here.. which I probably ultimately killed..But about Bell Bottom Blues being a great song.. It's been my experience that any time you listen to a song over and over and over again, eventually, you don't desire to hear the song anymore.. i.e. you get bored with it, no matter how great the song is. It's a question of what gives us that nearly sexual feeling of music enjoyment.. that moment when we ever enjoyed it.. really enjoyed it.. That moment we try to go back to... May sound perverted, but that's the ultimate reality when you listen to music without participating in it.. As if the music should merely caress your organ.. But Bell Bottom Blues is so sexy.. It makes me want to scream like Michael Jackson and brake a glass like Wesley Willis. I too wonder if my overanalyzing depth will ruin all of my chance to enjoy music.. Then again, my point of living is not to be a music critic.. My point of living.. My life -- is music.. It is like music... And that's where I connect.. |
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| David Bowie – Young Americans Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Something regarding American love and marraige.. (married with children was the best TV show ever.) Listening to this song I can't help but think that David Bowie was pretty inspired, and compelled, for some reason. But the more I think about the lyrics, the more I feel I am way too far away from the sexually elite to understand what the song means. |
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| David Bowie – Young Americans Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Something regarding American love and marraige.. (married with children was the best TV show ever.) Listening to this song I can't help but think that David Bowie was pretty inspired, and compelled, for some reason. But the more I think about the lyrics, the more I feel I am way too far away from the sexually elite to understand what the song means. |
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| Lou Reed – Heroin Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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note to readers: i considered the ambiguity of whether or not I had actually taken heroin. Above, the reference to heroin is the song, not the drug. The intoxication was coming from whisky.. and it cutting through my digestive system after a month and a half of significant drinking. I'm not trying to be a druggy poser, but I wanted to right this addenda in case any hard core heroin user decided to write that I am faking my ailments, and I hadn't taken heroin.. I don't know the pains of heroin.. That's not the point of my heroin interpretation. |
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| Lou Reed – Heroin Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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(heroin - rocknroll animal) At this point in time in my life when I had already grown up, but then agian, nothing was meaningful anymore, or something was meaningful.. The love of the other side, that is my love, and it took me only a month and a half of ever deeper experiences to find my health was deteriorating And all along i could break down and cry for this drug. this drug heroin was in my blood, and went through my neck.. into the center of my head... and i could hear the organs playing and the gentle arpeggios flowing and then all the sudden my heart would start to speed up as i was closing in on dying. as the blood begins to flow.. as it shoots across his neck.. and leads to a "center in my head" sung so accurately into my emotions i would cry everytime i lay there on my bed alone and i am better off dead and i can hear the organs playing and the guitars crying slowly in the center of my head the heroin glows into my life that was i cannot want it to go and better yet i am contented with the world but the pain is felt in my nose .. and in my veins and my organs inside my body is aching but i am in heaven time is now less timeless moment forever is until the pain shall grow but i will always be in heaven i will always be in heaven my tears will find their way into a new life and a new world long gone with this universe, long after this universe is gone my tears my tears will find there way into an eternity that i guess i just don't know i guess i just don't know |
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| Eric Clapton – Bell Bottom Blues Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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i don't doubt clapton said that the entire album was about boyd... But the thing that I totally identify with in this song is the title "Bell Bottom Blues".. Music Yes. The word "Blues" could be associated with the heartache.. I agree. But I don't think that he could have the Allman brothers and the all star line up if it was all about his fetish.. If I were the other musicians, I'd be there for the music.. Because clapton was a kick ass guitarist (he WAS, now he's over the hill).. not for emotional support and for tranvestite Lola style bonding. Songs like this have many interpretations.. I don't think Clapton cited anywhere a specific prescription for the exact meaning of any of his songs on Layla, other than that they are all about her. Just take a step back and listen to "bell bottom blues"... they are jamming.. and singing.. the music. Oh yeah, and it's about Patti Boyd. |
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| The Beatles – Within You Without You Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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The music here is very ..shall I say.. eastern, and most people can't stand it... I didn't like any of George's Sitar experiments except for this one. Mainly, he sings directly from the heart, not just the music, but the worlds, the expression.. "If they only knew"... I think he must have known that his utopia would not catch on in the world.. But this song expresses that utopia, and it's a great place to go, in the hussle and bussle of everyday life, it can be an antibiotic against machinism. But please, do not take too much of this antibiotic. |
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| The Beatles – Baby You're a Rich Man Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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One of the things I like about "Baby You're a Rich Man" is the clapping.. I always wonder to myself.. which of the beatles are doing the clapping? Is it just one of them, with multiple tracks recorded? All 4 of them? Or just a stagehand doing the clapping? This mystery may forever bother me.. |
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| Pink Floyd – The Final Cut Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Aside from this being a great song, there is a great deal of meaning in the last section "thought I oughta.." I'd be interested to know what the "held the blade in trembling hands... didn't have the nerve to make the final cut" means... He only went half way in his confession there... Judging from the words, I would think he is talking to his wife. But you can't take out of context that he knew he was going to disappoint a lot of fans, and perhaps even knew he was throwing away his Pink Floyd career. For her? Probably. For himself? Maybe. For me? I'd like to believe so. It must be difficult to find emotion 3 years after writing an album like "The Wall", and its metaphysical consequences... But Roger beat the odds, and found it here. The cost was losing his LSD fans, and his "Sunshine", but he gained a fan in me. |
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| Yes – Heart of the Sunrise Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This song is an absolutely gorgeous piece of art. The lyrics are all impressionistic, except for the section including the line "dreamer easy in the chair that really fits you", which basically is saying the rest of the lyrics are impressionistic. Other than that, the title of the song definitely suggests a topic: Sunrise. I was on a long drive home in the countryside one evening, listening to this song, and the topic - sunrise, really caught my attention. There were moments in my life when I happened to observe the earth is a miniscule body in the universe, and I'm just a flea living on the earth, in a universe much larger than I can imagine... And during the sunrise, the reality of our miniscule body dissapears in favor of an illusion that our earth, and the world of men, is vast. The sun is the giver of this life to us. The Sun was a reccurring topic in many Yes songs.. The sunrise is a mind altering experience... at at least, the first time you realize the depth of the song's meaning. Again, it's impressionist... Arguably the best song of Yes. I get the impression that this song had an effect on them as a group - having written it. The lyrics on following albums very impressionistic.. The way they wrote songs was simply more meaningful, beautiful, powerful than other bands of less talent (and we need to thank the LSD community for providing the financial support to make it possible!) Heart of the Sunrise was the true sign, I think, that they had the rare ability to successfully complete these massive compositions. How could you take any piece of that 11 minutes away... It's all so beautiful. |
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| Eric Clapton – Bell Bottom Blues Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Umm... that's just what he's saying... Actually, I used to think the song had to do with a woman, because the words are something you'd say to your wife after you beat the shit out of her. But I never realliy liked the song because everything seemed out of place.. the meaning! What the hell does "Bell Bottom Blues" have to do with a woman, and why the hell should I identify with it? If Bell Bottom Blues is a woman, then I don't know anyone like her, and the topic doesn't do anything for me. But the fact -- so I think and you never can know unless Clapton comes out -- that Bell Bottom Blues is the music, really makes the whole Layla album kick ass. It's a direct statement that the music was not processed bullshit designed for making money. But judging from your reaction, the sentiment didn't matter. |
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| Eric Clapton – Bell Bottom Blues Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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It doesn't make total sense that the subject (Bell Bottom Blues) of "Bell Bottom Blues" is a woman, in spite of the Layla album being inspired by Mrs. Harrison. (What does 'Bell Bottoms' have to do with a woman? Unless it's some sort of insider thing..) "Bell Bottom Blues" is actually one of the few songs on the album that doesn't explicitly reference Patti Boyd. The subject of "Bell Bottom Blues" is the music itself. (I.e., a bunch rock-n-roll elite in bell bottoms hard at work doing their thing.) The Music of Layla is very distinct, a sound I haven't personally heard anywhere else. The making of the music is a love in of itself, and it is the music of Layla to which this love song is dedicated. (It may take a musician to appreciate.) Eric Clapton indeed found other lovers, but it's my opinion that this one was the most notable love of his life. If I were him, I would indeed want to go back to "Bell Bottom Blues", even to this day (2005). After 30 years of hardcore drug use, I doubt "Bell Bottom Blues" will have him back. Love stories are sad. But clearly a great song. |
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