| Neil Young – Powderfinger Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| The single best story-song ever written. A boy becoming a man in the harshest of ways, long before it's time. Tragedy does Neil good. | |
| Neil Young – Tonight's The Night (Parts I & II) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Neil famously said that this is not an album for 11 in the morning. He was working through his grief at two close friends dying to the needle. The whole album was recorded in a warehouse over the course of two weeks. They ate burger after burger and drank lots of tequila. Most of it is drunken pain. Kind of like an Irish wake? But he doesn't seek to wallow in it, or escape it. But to live in it for long enough to get through it. But he didn't really come out of it until the Zuma album, says Neil. |
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| Leonard Cohen – Love Calls You By Your Name Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Pressure of living. Tightness of life. Not misery, but the intensity of the pain of being alive. Reminds me of someone who once said, "when the heart breaks, it breaks open." |
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| Butthole Surfers – 22 Going On 23 Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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First time I heard it, I thought that the song was really divided into two parts. The first part about the woman having been raped, and I felt the music was compassionate towards her suffering. I mean, it helped me to feel the fear and pain she may have felt. The lyricist then talks about how futile "western medicine" can be towards things of this nature, a viewpoint with which I agree......... Then the second part has a different woman crabbing on about not being able to watch her soap operas on TeeVee, and travel, because her husband is a jerk. She sounds like a cow mooing, compared to the first woman's obviously deep pain which you can hear in her voice. Hence the cow's mooing........ I don't think Gibby is hateful enough to make fun of the first woman. |
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