| Queen – These Are The Days Of Our Lives Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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@mazzauk Technically the song's lyrics were written by Roger Taylor. Not Freddie Mercury. |
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| Led Zeppelin – Around and Around (Chuck Berry cover) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| A Chuck Berry song released in 1958 covered by Led Zeppelin. | |
| Led Zeppelin – All My Love Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This is a song about Robert Plant's son Karac who died of a stomach ailment in 1977. From the Song Remains the Same it is obvious that with his blonde hair and blue eyes that he is an Aryan. |
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| Led Zeppelin – Achilles Last Stand Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Indeed this song was written whilst Plant was in a wheelchair and it was originally entitled "The Wheelchair Song" but it's meaning is obviously a lot deeper than that. I believe that it is a song basically about being a soldier in Ancient times (either Greek or Roman) and going off the conquer distant lands. The lyrics: "Oh Albion remains sleeping now to rise again" is most probably a reference to both the poet William Blake poem The Dance of Albion and to the old British Empire (Albion is the poetic name for England). Whilst the lyrics "the mighty arms of Atlas hold the heavens from the earth" is a direct reference to Greek mythology. |
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| The Beatles – All You Need Is Love Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| People don't write songs like this anymore. It's got so much meaning. | |
| Led Zeppelin – Dazed and Confused Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This song is NOT a cover of the Yardbirds but Page had begun working on it while he was still in the yardbirds. | |
| The Who – I Don't Even Know Myself Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I personally believe that it is about people judging people without having met them or really knowing them and that it's also about lack of self confidence. Supposedly when Pete Townshend wrote this he was pissed off with critics and that trying to tap into his head when he believed that he really didn't know himself. | |
| The Who – Pictures Of Lily Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| It's defintitely about pornography and it's also about adoloscent fantasies which, in the case of this kids life, can actually cause somebody to have difficulty dinstinguishing the fantasy world with the real world. Ted Bundy attiributed becoming a serial killer (to an extent) with an addiction to violent pornography. | |
| The Who – Tatoo Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I believe that this song has two main themes or meanings: 1. What makes a man a man from a philosophical viewpoint and the differing opinions about it, and: 2. Young people often do things in their youth that they end up regretting when they're much, much older. |
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| The Who – I Can't Explain Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| According to the documentary Amazing Journey the Story of the Who the song (which was Townshend's first) was him basically trying to emulate the Kinks. The song, I believe, is much more meaningful then most Kink songs (I believe it's probably based on You Really Got Me) because the song can be transscribed into any subject that a person feels very passionate about. | |
| The Who – Heaven And Hell Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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It seems to come from an idea or challenge of how does one explain the nature of Heaven and Hell to a small child (or someone of likeminded intelligence). Heaven is simply that "place where you go if you've done nothing wrong" and hell is that place "where you go if you've been a bad boy." What's the nature of these places? Well in Heaven "you grow feathered wings" and there's "harps singing hymns (presumably religious)" whereas in hell there's fire so you'll "burn away." The chorus seems to have roots in the occult, mythology and in religion as all of these subjects seem to have as a central motif eternal life. |
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| The Doors – The Crystal Ship Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Supposedly this song has influences from Celtic Mythology. | |
| The Beatles – I Am the Walrus Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Firstly it's about drugs. Secondly, it seems to be some sort of philosophical statement. | |
| The Beatles – Strawberry Fields Forever Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Seems to be about psychedelic drugs. | |
| The Beatles – A Day in the Life Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| It's about how humourously screwed up the world actually is. | |
| The Doors – Down On The Farm Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Maybe Jim Morrison's trying to say that the country life's much better but the city lifes more addictive. | |
| The Doors – Do It Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Jim's trying to tell young people what a tremendous influence they have as a group. They need to be more involved in world affairs because at the end of the day it will be their responsibility in the future. | |
| The Doors – Dead Cats, Dead Rats Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I'd have to agree with BigEvil. Sort of like how the rich can screw up anything. | |
| The Doors – Dawn's Highway Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| He's also commenting on how impressionable children can be. One event can create a person. Especially if it happens to him or her at an extremely young age. | |
| The Doors – Dawn's Highway Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Jim Morrison did actually witness a car accident as a small child involving Native American Indians out in the desert. Whether Jim actually believed that there was Indigenous American souls running around in his head is a topic for debate. | |
| The Doors – Curses, Invocations Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| It's a poem about prostitution. Pure and simple. | |
| The Doors – Crawling King Snake Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| When one considers the fact that Jim Morrison refferred to himself as "the lizard king" this song seems almost fitting. | |
| The Doors – Children Of Night Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Probably a lengthened version of wake up. Jim must have taken certain portions and used them in the celebration of the lizard. | |
| The Doors – Cars Hiss By My Window Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| It's about sex in Jim's favourite motel Alta Cienega. It has a similarity to John Lee Hooker's Nightmare. | |
| The Doors – Carol Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Awesome Chuck Berry song!!! | |
| The Doors – Build Me A Woman Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| According to Ray Manzarek it's a song about Jim wanting a big fat woman who can give him lots of love and cook him meals and stuff. | |
| The Doors – Break on Through (To the Other Side) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song is rooted from two sources. Nietzsche's Ubermemensch and Aldous Huxley's the Doors of Perception. The Ubermensch is someone who can perfectly carry out Nietzsche's theory of sublimination. Which is to turn all desires into worthwhile endevours. The theory behind the doors of perception is that our brains filter reality and to open the doors of perception is to have the ability to stop this process whenever one choses. So the combination of the two is to break on through to the other side!!! |
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| The Doors – Blue Sunday Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Yet another homage to Pamela. One verse, very clean and simple. | |
| The Doors – Black Train Song (Mystery Train) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Jim's homage to some old blues cats no doubt. The early ones use to travel the country by jumping on freight trains. | |
| The Doors – Black Polished Chrome Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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It's about a record producer who lives, works and hangs out around sunset blvd. He's rich from being a producer and he's got a fast car. Either a record producer or a tv presenter. |
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| The Doors – Bird Of Prey Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| It's about freedom. Although "am I going to die" does make it sound poetically morbid. | |
| The Doors – Been Down So Long Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| The line "been down so long that it looks like up to me" is taken from a book by Richard Farina. Although it does seem depressive. Deos this reflect Jim's mood at the time of writing this? | |
| The Doors – Back Door Man Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Great Howlin' Wolf song. I got the original. The Doors took at the verse about being "shot full of holes" after Jim Morrison was arrested on suspicion of murder (he'd said something about murdering somebody.) | |
| The Doors – Babylon Fading Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Sounds sort of Spanish. But Babylon was in modern day Iraq. Perhaps Jim was reffering to America slowly become more and more diseased (no offense intended). | |
| The Doors – Baby, Please Don't Go Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I guess Jim had broken up with Pamela again and this reflects that. | |
| The Doors – Away In India Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Awesome, awesome, awesome. Great improvisation that can be fitted in anywhere!!! | |
| The Doors – Awake Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| The first part up to "WAKE UP!!!" is something Jim Morrison liked to repeat at concerts and at clubs. The second part "had this dream stopped?" is about the unconscious. | |
| The Doors – Angels And Sailors Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Seems to mean reflect life in general. The more unspoken (at least when Jim Morrison wrote this) parts of life and society. | |
| The Doors – An American Prayer Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Supposedly Jim started writing this whilst he was on holiday in Jamaica. It's a sort of patriotic statement to his country (even if Jim Morrison doesn't appear to be entirely patriotic). | |
| The Doors – American Night Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Well, it is about having a good time in life. Dig the roadhouse blues section. "we're going to the roadhouse going to have a real a good time." | |
| The Doors – Alabama Song (Whisky Bar) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Remember that it was a Bertold Brecht and Kurt Weil song for the Opera Mahagony. Although it is somewhat symbolic of Jim's alcoholism (the first part not the second part). | |
| The Doors – Adolf Hitler Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Supposedly it's a joke. An example of Jim Morrison's sometimes sick sense of humour. | |
| The Doors – Across The Sea Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Great poetry. | |
| The Doors – A Little Game Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This is easy. It's about mind expansion. The game called Go insane. | |
| The Doors – A Feast Of Friends Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Well. Firstly I think it's a personal statement "prefer a feast of friends to the giant family." Secondly, I think it's a reflection on the human races tendency to glorify people after death no matter what they've done "death makes angels of us all." And thirdly, it's a damn fine poem. |
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| David Bowie – Life on Mars? Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I think what Bowie is saying is that when you look at society with a different pair of eyes you begin to realise just how fucked up it actually is. | |
| Cream – Sunshine Of Your Love Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Does anybody think that "it's the morning and just we two" might just have sexual connotations to it? It is the psychedelic, free love 1960s after all! | |
| Bob Dylan – Like a Rolling Stone Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I personally think this is a song about how much we get used to living life in the manor in which we do and what it does to us when it changes drastically. Prejudice definetely plays a role in this song. The whole song is summed up in the question "how does it feel?" Also, "you shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you" is a very, very, very true saying. Unfortunately that's precisely what a lot of people seem to do. |
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| The Doors – Five to One Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Here's how I've interpreted it: Yeah, come on. Love my girl. She lookin' good. Feel it, come on. One more. Jim was drunk. End of story. This first verse is just complete drunken gibberish. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Five to one, baby One in five These are ratios. Whether they mean blacks to whites, young to old, pot smokers to non pot smokers we will never know. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- No one here gets out alive, now This is Jim's joke. We'll all die eventually. Nobody gets out of life alive. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You get yours, baby I'll get mine When Jim was fighting with his girlfriend Pam she shouted "you get yours" and Jim replied "you get yours baby and I'll get mine." So it's basically a reference to Pam. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gonna make it baby if we try Jim's saying give life a go. You'll make it if you try. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The old get old and the young get stronger May take a week and it may take longer They got the guns but we got the numbers Gonna win, yeah, we're takin' over Jim's talking about the young people in the US. They outnumbered the older generations "and the young get stronger." But he's also saying that we have to be patient for change to occur. He's also reffering to a type of oppression: guns. He's trying to remind us that we've got the numbers over their guns. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Your ballroom days are over, baby By 1968 the Doors were slowly beginning to decline from their 1967 ballroom days. By 1969 they were playing much larger venues such as Madison Square Garden. A fan said this to Jim Morrison word for word also. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night is drawing near Shadows of the evening that crawl across the years You walk across the hall with a flower in your hand Trying to tell me no one understands Trade in your hours for a handfull of dimes Jim's reffering to Pam's heroin addiction. Night is drawing near is reffering to her deppressive stupors that she'd get into. Shadows of the evening refers to the massively shortened lifespan that his girlfriend would face because of her addiction. Flower in your hand refers to Pam being a hippie. Trying to tell me no one understands refers to her refusal to let people help her (yes this is very hypocritical thinking) and trade in your hours refers to hand over your life and becoming a slave to heroin. In essence Jim really hated heroin. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get together one more time This means what it says. Get together one more time. He's telling people to get together to try and solve some of the problems in the world. Together we can do it. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hey, come on, honey. You go along home and wait for me, baby I'll be there in just a little while. You see, I gotta go out in this car With these people and get - Anybodies whose heard the end of this will understand that this is basically Jim reffering to what he liked doing most. Getting drunk with a bunch of friends. |
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| The Doors – 4 Billion Souls Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This song just represents human nature. Human beings invariably decide to destroy the world they live in without thinking about the consequences. Although Jim was being highly optimistic in this song. | |
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