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| Simon and Garfunkel – I Am A Rock Lyrics
| 6 months ago
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When I was in my thirties, my mom told me that when I was in my early teens I used to play this song over and over to the point where she and my dad worried about me. I have no memory of that, but my early teens was a period where I felt a lot of loneliness and alienation, so I believe her. The narrator of the song has always struck me as someone who was badly hurt by people they cared about and responded by trying to build walls around their heart to avoid being hurt again... but that doesn't work very well.
John Donne wrote "No man is an island", and I'm sure Paul Simon was aware of that when he wrote this song. |
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| Gordon Lightfoot – If You Could Read My Mind Lyrics
| 6 months ago
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According to Wikipedia, the line "I'm just trying to understand the feeling that you left" was actually "I'm just trying to understand the feelings that you lack", and per his daughter's suggestion he started performing the song in concert with a slight change to "the feelings that *we* lack". |
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| Gordon Lightfoot – Sundown Lyrics
| 6 months ago
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@[shlep:53937] Some people are attractive in ways that don't come through well in photographs, only in person. And she was still in her mid-20s when she was involved with Gordon Lightfoot. A few years later she became addicted to heroin, which tends to take its toll on a person's appearance, which could explain why she didn't look so good in the picture you saw. |
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| Gordon Lightfoot – Sundown Lyrics
| 6 months ago
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@[Audiophile65:53936] His marriage was falling apart -- they divorced in 1973 -- and Cathy Smith's name was mentioned in the divorce papers. "Sundown" came out in 1974, and Lightfoot has admitted he wrote it because he was worried about what his girlfriend was up to, so the marriage was not the reason she had "commitment problems". At least, not the *only* reason. |
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| Hair – Three-Five-Zero-Zero Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Aha, very interesting. I see not quite all the lyrics are from that poem, though, just most of them. (And let me just say in passing: MAN, that's a long poem. Thank goodness for the Acrobat search function.) I wonder if the HAIR soundtrack credited Allen Ginsburg as one of the songwriters? |
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