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| Suzanne Vega – Widow's Walk Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I've also heard this called "The Windows Talk".
This song is an extended metaphor, comparing the break-up of a relationship to the loss of a ship at sea. Although the narrator knows the love in her life is gone ("I knew that ship was empty by the time it hit the rocks") she can't seem to accept its absence entirely ("Though I saw it splinter I keep looking out to sea"). Like the survivor of a disaster, she is doing her best to learn lessons from the love she has lost, but reflects somewhat bitterly on human nature in both seafaring and relationships. |
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| Bran Van 3000 – Drinking in L.A. Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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OK, am I hearing things? The one aspect of this song that no-one has commented on so far, and which isn't even mentioned in the lyric transcript, is exactly the one I wanted to ask about: "He's alive, alive! / And mighty thirsty already..." Is it a sample? If so, from what/where? |
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| Needtobreathe – Shine On Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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If I'm right... this sounds like it's about two people re-evaluating the relationship between them, knowing it can't be quite the same as it used to be (whatever that was...) but not feeling resentful about that, just a mixture of regret and good memories. And still being part of each other, just not in the same way. |
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| Ben Folds – All U Can Eat Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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...Is nobody else freaked out by the hatred in this song?
I know my first reaction is to go "...no, Ben, nobody else wants to see those harmless people in the National Geographic. You're giving the impression of being a lunatic misanthrope, and a twisted one at that." |
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| Westlife – I Did It For You Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Does anyone know what was meant by this song?
I can't work out what this is. It feels like a love song, or at any rate a song about love-- though not necessarily romantic love. But I can't think of any appropriate situation for these words to be spoken... some sort of irreversible, sad, yet loyal decision? |
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| DJ Bobo – Chihuahua Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I don't know whether this is true or not, but there was a persistent rumour at my high school that this song was originally about TEQUILA, and they changed it to Chihuahua at the last moment, passing the censors but no longer making any sense. Hence "What can make you dance? Oh, Chihuahua, What can bring you love, oh, Chihuahua." It makes a LOT more sense if you consider it might have been "tequila". |
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| U2 – Peace On Earth Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I saw a film of a U2 concert, once. At one point Bono stopped singing (not this song... I forget which) and began reciting a list of names. Among them were a Shaun, a Julia, a Gareth, an Anne and a Breda. Suggesting that the names he mentions here are very real people. |
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| Richard Marx – Hazard Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I've never really understood what it was that made the townspeople "prejudiced" against the narrator in this song. He doesn't mention anything that would cause their odd closed-mindedness, and the mere fact of being an outsider surely wouldn't be enough. Anyone here got any idea what he's driving at?
And is there a real town called Hazard? I used to dream of it when I was smaller, but not like a nightmare-- just the exotic strangeness of having a town with such a name. |
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| Dire Straits – Tunnel Of Love Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Dire Straits have made sure that Spanish City, which was pretty much defunct by the time I was old enough to know, will always live in this song. I love the introduction pick-up from the Carousel Waltz, and-- I know this is silly-- it always gives me a thrill to hear the words "from Cullercoats and Whitley Bay," places which are within half an hour's drive of where I grew up. Makes a change from all these American towns I've never heard of. |
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| McFly – She Falls Asleep, Pt. 2 Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I've always seen this as being about someone who's very depressed, coping with a crisis and possibly ill as well, but still carrying on for the sake of someone she cares about. Hence "When she's asleep the air she's breathing is for you, and why she wants to live."
Unlike the rest of you, I don't think she dies (although there is a point in the song at which she possibly wants to), but she doesn't come out of her sadness/illness either. There isn't really a resolution, which is backed up by the hanging line "Please save me, I've been waiting" followed by the final chords. |
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| Robbie Williams – Handsome Man Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I agree that this song is silly and rather pompous, but-- I may be wrong-- I get a feeling of fragility off it as well. The line "If you don't need me I don't exist," sounds more heartfelt than a simple joke song. |
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| Robbie Williams – Revolution Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I think this song is about a really significant change of direction in a person's life. A turning point, if you like, when they realise everything they've been doing is counter-productive and they know that turning round isn't going to be easy, but it's the only way. "Everybody hurts sometimes but love shines on."
Coming after the darkly desperate Love Somebody, this track is like the calm after the proverbial storm. It's an adjustment from resentment to acceptance, in my view. Or am I just reading too much into this? |
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| Robbie Williams – Me and My Monkey Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I think this song might actually be about Robbie's problems with his own character and behaviour. It makes a lot of sense to think of the monkey as being a self-destructive, outrageous side to Robbie, that he was beginning to see as a separate personality and more trouble than it was worth.
The scene with the monkey having a "good time" while Robbie cleans his shoes and watches pay-per-view TV seems to show just how detached Robbie is becoming from his "monkey" and its behaviour, but at the same time he can't seem to do anything to stop it. "Trying to understand why he did what he did, Why he did what he did when he did," Robbie says, the voice of reason, while the "monkey" spends his (Robbie's) money and generally acts like a reckless clown. The last line would be a pretty fair estimation of Robbie's feelings, I would guess. |
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| Kula Shaker – Tattva Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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As far as I've found out (thanks be to search engines) "Acintya bheda bheda Tattva" means "Oneness, and at the same time, difference." Either very deep or meaningless, depending on your point of view. |
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| The Pogues – Fairytale Of New York Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I've always seen it as the song of a couple who start off remembering the past on Christmas Eve, then get into a long argument and scream at everyone how much they hate each other. Yet somehow, as the bells ring out for Christmas Day, they realise how much they depend on one another. He may be drunk and she may be cold, but their dreams still belong together. (I like the way the last verse seems to tie the two different melodies of the song together.) |
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| Robbie Williams – Kids Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Does anyone know what the backing lyrics are that Robbie (?) sings during two of this song's choruses? I know they exist but can't find them anywhere. The best I can make out is something like "Taking me over... deeper mystery (?) ...making me want you" over and over. |
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| Robbie Williams – I Tried Love Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I actually really like this song, the "hidden" track from Escapology (12.10 on the last track). In a rare occurrence, Robbie seems to have found the exact balance point between jokey silliness and musical excellence. The wordless repeat of the chorus towards the end has something about it that contrasts with the light mood of the words-- it sounds quite tender and dreamy. But the words are still amusing, without resorting to shock value or silly sexual comments. "Does God ever get it wrong/Where has Gary Barlow gone?" Genius. |
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| Jason Mraz – Curbside Prophet Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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This is odd. The version of the song that I've heard has "They want to have my baby" in place of "What's up with M.R.A.Z.?" |
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| Kate Bush – King of the Mountain Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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My father thinks that some of this song's lyrics might be to do with a movie named Citizen Kane. He says there's a sledge called Rosebud that a child rides on ("In the snow with Rosebud and king of the mountain"), and an elderly, rich man all on his own ("Why does a multi-millionaire/Fill his home with priceless junk?") |
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