| Bob Dylan – Like a Rolling Stone Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Someone once said to me it was about Marilyn Monroe, and in alot of ways that works (diplomat = mistah kennedy i think) But I don't think it holds up in enough areas. I like the comment McShark wrote on 06-05-2004. I think he captured it |
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| Jethro Tull – Songs From The Wood Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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ps. spacepirate: "If the lyrics for Songs From The Wood, by Jethro Tull, are incorrect, please use the Report Thread in the forums so that our team of moderators can make the needed changes. Please do not post the corrections within the comments. " -Songmeanings.net |
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| Jethro Tull – Songs From The Wood Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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"I am the wind to fill your sail. I am the cross to take your nail: A singer of these ageless times. With kitchen prose and gutter rhymes. Songs from the wood make you feel much better." The song's a social satire on a public view of artists and songwriters. Of course it's mainly just a nice intro thingo, but yeah, 'I am the cross to take your nail' might even be seen as a comment to groups like songmeanings.net (yeah i know the internet was not around back then) that strikes me as an observation of how music is generally just a board on which to post your own interpretations, the fact that he alludes to religion is probably because he doesn't like dogma and is voicing a distaste for the way people use music to get their points across (in an extreme way Charles Manson comes to mind) 'Songs from the wood' is his name for stock music which people throw ideas at, and 'make you feel much better' can be taken at face value: unloading hangups and voicing opinions through criticism makes you feel Much better. |
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| Jethro Tull – Thick as a Brick (Parts 1 & 2) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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i think this song is about nobles, and other high ranking people, probably of an older time or, through metaphor ('castles by the shore' could be metaphor), our own times. 'Your deafness a shout' I think the first few lines are his little intro, in which he establishes what he thinks about his subject. When he talks about 'your sperm' being in the gutter, i think he's mocking his subject, acting like a pomp'filled old patriarch perhaps scolding less proper children. I think his saying 'and your wise men don't know how it feels to be thick as a brick' is another set of mockery, in that he is pretending to be a 'wise man' (an estsablished, well respected noble) who has never known what it's like to be stupid, but the way he says the worlds 'thick as a brick' - so full of sarcasm and mockery - shows that he is lacing his satire with another layer of meaning. I could go on but i'm out of time with this comp, i'll come back later |
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