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| Genesis – Dodo/Lurker Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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If the riddle at the end is about a submarine, then the synth break could be some sort of code being transmitted to the radio operator on the sub, sorta like morse code, but with 3 or 4 kinds of dashes being the notes in the break. I may look into that sometime and post back... |
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| Genesis – Who Dunnit? Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Okay I'm listening to this song right now, and it's not that bad, perhaps one of many experiments that sounded bad, and in production they needed some filler and this was the best one. Or they wanted to make something that didn't have to be in the fight for best song. I don't know, but someone dunnit! |
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| Don Henley – You Can't Make Love Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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You can make, in literal sense, like create, money, friends, and an easier life. But you can't create love. What he's saying is that the word love has been synonymized to too many other things that you can create, but true love has to just happen. You just gotta keep your eyes open for when you find it, cuz you can't make it yourself. It pokes fun at the common phrase "Make Love", because what that has come to mean has nothing to do with real love itself. |
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| Styx – Rockin' The Paradise Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I think this song is sorta like the who's My Generation, except with more energy, and a a deeper connection to the problems that were/actually still are around in the world. He's basically saying that everyone's calling his (the young) generation lazy, and he is saying back that his generation can (if motivated) band together and make the world a better place by standing up to the negative and immoral figures in society. Kinda weird how this song was written in 1978 and all the stuff it's about still applies today! |
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| Genesis – Blood On The Rooftops Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I always though the line was "The rhyme on the time is mine..." because he was able to make a rhyme out of what time it was at the moment, kinda like 25 or 6 to 4 by Chicago, which a whole song about what time it was at the moment.
I like the line about Errol Flynn- he was an actor, so it's like he's saying that everything in the news in someway or another staged.
And what are the lines "When old Mother Goose stops - they're out for 23
Then the rain at Lords stopped play" about? More British television, I presume? |
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| Genesis – Afterglow Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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This song is amazing. It's one of the few songs that when I can sing along to, I sing loudly along to, because there's so much energy in it. |
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| Pearl Jam – Even Flow Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Was Eddie partially inspired by Jethro Tull's song Aqualung? They both talk about the homeless and neither of them paint a pretty picture of the protagonist. |
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| Pink Floyd – Pigs on the Wing (Part 1) Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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You may be onto something, MileSmiles, because Roger really likes flying, he even got his own pilot's license (not easy to do), that's what the song "Learning to Fly" (from A Momentary Lapse of Reason) is about.
Also, the acronym for Pigs On the Wing, POW, is the same acronym as Prisoner Of War. "Wondering which one of the buggers to blame" could refer to the soldiers wondering if one of the generals or higher authority person is the cause of their inprisonment, facing the boredom and pain of living in a 4-walled cell all the time and whatever forced labor or torture the prison imposed upon the prisoners.
Not the intended meaning of the song, of course, but aren't songs written so that the listener can enjoy pulling their own meaning or life connection out of it? If so, then are there any "right" or "wrong" sing meanings? Just something to think about. |
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| The Cult – Firewoman Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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This just might be the most rockin' song of all time! Almost no one else I know knew of this song but loved it after just the first verse. |
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| Andrew Gold – Lonely Boy Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I think this song is about a kid with very over-protective parents, by the lines "we'll teach him what we learned, Ah yes JUST what we learned" and "dressed him up warmly" suggest that they are trying to shield him from the parts of the world that they don't approve of. They tell him that he must be sheltered so much because he's their only son, which he accepts because he will have all of their love and attention. Then, they have another child and give all of their attention to it instead of him, yet continue to shelter him. He lives out his life as a minor very lonely because he is sheltered into loneliness and has no one that fully loves him. When he turns 18 (51-69), he left the family home, hoping to find someone to love him and make up for the sad and lonely life he had growing up. |
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| Jimmy Buffett – Why Don't We Get Drunk Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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When I was a kid, my parents would play the cd album "Songs Your Know By Heart" in the car on trips to the beach. They always skipped past this song. I listened to it the other day, and decided that I hadn't been missing much. Funny, yes; listen again, no. |
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| Red Rider – Lunatic Fringe Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Yes, this is a great song, but does anyone really know what it means? I mean, the first time I heard I thought he was saying "Lunatic Fridge", and was even more confused.
I got this from wkipedia-
"...is about what composer Tom Cochrane saw as an alarming rise of anti-Semitism in the 1970s, and was inspired by a book he read about Raoul Wallenberg." |
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