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| Lesley Duncan – Love Song Lyrics
| 7 months ago
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Why did Burt Bacharach get credit for this?
Seems like this lyric change would fit the song better: "You say it's very hard
To leave behind the life *you* knew" |
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| The Pretenders – Tattooed Love Boys Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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The Guardian links are dead. Is she the female artist who controversially said she was raped but kinda deserved it.
also "Stop Snivelin" ... "Stop Sobbibg" ... any connection? |
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| Pink Floyd – Free Four Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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1) I never heard this song before. I assumed it was something done recently after I got into new wave and stopped listening to bands like Pink Floyd. So I was surprised to learn it was actually before Dark Side of the Moon. 2) it sounded like a post-2000 Ringo Starr song at first. 3) Does Roger Waters voice always sound like this? My familiarity with Floyd is limited. |
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| Edward Bear – Last Song Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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@[Songster5:33841] Fuck you. To post a thought-policing comment like that ten years after the original comment is pure psycho |
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| Van Morrison – Whatever Happened to PJ Proby? Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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Van compares himself to other artists of his day who were authentic, with no compromises, but didnt go anywhere with their careers. He wonders whether the bus he jumped on was the right one. |
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| The Clash – Koka Kola Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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"Treat me nice says the party girl" is almost certainly a reference to the way girls in the 80s would seek out the men who had the cocaine to "treat them nice". A basic upper-middle class party move in the 80s. |
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| Bob Marley and the Wailers – Guava Jelly Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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I'd like to think Guava Jelly was a metaphor for a soothing balm of reconciliation and not simply a lube oil. Making this a "lets get it on" song rather than a subtle masterpiece |
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| The Clash – Lover's Rock Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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Ironic! I was just having a conversation with a woman who told me that Chinese men are notoriously cagey about admitting they fathered a child. Related? |
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| Desmond Dekker – 007 (Shanty Town) Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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Is Ocean 11 (I actually hear Ocean's 11) a reference to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean%27s_11_%281960_film%29
It fits. The rude boys loot and shoot like the gang in this film. |
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| Edward Bear – Last Song Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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They're the Beatles of the World as far as I'm concerned. I love the Beatles, but the Beatles always maintained the "cool" veneer and never cut as close to the heart as EB did. |
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| Leonard Cohen – Here It Is Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Instead of :
Here is your cross,
Your nails and your hill;
And here is your love,
That lists where it will
what I hear is:
Here is your cross,
Your nails and your hill;
And here is *the* love,
That *lifts* where it will
The love is the love for all humankind
The cross will lift where it will and impale the "lover" at whatever spot it chooses. This is a reference to the Christian's duty to "carry one's cross" |
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| Okkervil River – Bruce Wayne Campbell Interviewed on the Roof of the Chelsea Hotel, 1979 Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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There was an interview done with Campbell in 1979 from the Hotel. It was supposedly the first one since his Jobriath days. The lyrics here don't track the interview very much at all. Here's the zip file of the page scans of the interview. See if you can come up with any parallels:
http://championstudios.net/jobriath/attitude.zip
Dying in 1983, he could not have know he had AIDS but might have been aware of some venereal-based disease. VD is often described as a "fire". In the interview, he describes getting a lot of mail from the Health Board. And fire is also the fire of passion. His sexual partners only bloom on the fire of that passion and therefore are limited emotionally. Despite the "fire problem" he says he is winning because he lived the kind of life he wanted to live. Campbell was raised an Army brat and moved constantly and therefore was probably quite distant from his father. The real interview has Campbell acting schizo. He speaks of Jobriath in the third person and at one point says Jobriath died. And therefore the part of the lyrics where he talks to his "old self" is consistent.
Don't miss this very clear Youtube video from his rooftop Pyramid at the Chelsea:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c5kMO-xs_M |
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