| Gordon Lightfoot – If You Could Read My Mind Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Hey jackass, here's how this site works: People share THEIR thoughts, response, etc to a SONG. Nobody here cares what YOU think about other posters. Get over yourself, you hipster POS. Just because you stole all his music and put it on your iphone doesn't make you better than the people who heard his song over the years on FM radio and felt the need to write something here about their response to it. |
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| Counting Crows – Rain King Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| A rain king is a shaman or natural priest or call it whatever you want to, and look it up if you feel called to. | |
| Great Lake Swimmers – Your Rocky Spine Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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A well made song such as this has as many meanings as the hills have ups and downs. It reminds me of a girl I know from the Niagara area of Canada. What a woman. Too bad I live half a continent away... "The glaciers made you" refers to the landscape being shaped by the advance and retreat of glaciers during the previous ice age. But in a way...didn't those events also create the people who were born in those regions? By shaping the landscape as they did, they altered the destiny of all those to come from there. Put a valley 5 miles away from where it is, shape the hills differently, etc and people wouldn't have lived where they lived, they woun't have met the same people they would have met, a town grows to become a city in a different way, etc. So these distant geological events, in this case the advance and retreat of glaciers, created the people who are from there, who live there, the same as they created the rivers and hills. See, one thing I love about this song is how it blurs the line between a woman and the land itself. This idea that people are intimately connected to, a part of, the world around them is an old one, and if it is a too forgotten idea now, we should remember it, because in times past it was the idea that people were separate islands unto themselves apart from the people and world around them that was strange. |
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| Tinie Tempah – Written in the Stars Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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rippedflowerpetals: he could have just said 'a trillion miles away' to cover a large number of stars or 'a zillion miles away' because a zillion isn't a fixed sum. I mean come on, what if somebody listens to this song and builds a spaceship, thinking they can make it to another star in only a million miles, eh? EH? They'd be completely screwed when they ran out of gas in ~3 million miles. |
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| Tinie Tempah – Written in the Stars Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Voting +1 for science haha. | |
| Andrew Gold – Lonely Boy Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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It's about family planning lols. Wait, what? Normally you'd think having a sibling would make you less lonely, but somehow it didn't work out that way for this guy. Even though it's a substantial chunk of the lyrics of this song, it somehow comes off to me as just like, one example of how even something that should have been great for him didn't quite work out like it was supposed to. Like a lot of families these days, they just end up moving far apart and he watches the cycle repeat itself from who knows how many hundreds of miles apart. Instead of a payoff where he ends up really close with his sister, they just have to live out their separate lives, far apart. So in the very beginning of his life, he resents his sister for the attention she got, and somehow he can never shake a guilty feeling for that, and then when they are older, he misses her badly and how physically and also emotionally far apart they have become. And you get this sense that there's this big journey implied in between, where just mentioning this family stuff is like a big secret, the kind of thing you might just barely guess at as being the thing in the corner of somebody's eye, as they stare off into the distance over a beer. I just saw Atlanta's "Yacht Rock Review" in Athens GA and this was one of their best numbers! Also, guess who went home losers tonight...GA TECH, that's who! They had it projected on a big screen, it was totally epic. The dorks lose again wooooooo looooosersss WOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! |
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| Keane – Black Burning Heart Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think it's a prayer for vengeance. Specifically, drug prohibition has destroyed the life of one of the author's friends, or maybe one friend too many. The sentiment reminds me of The Pretenders "Back on the Chain Gang" and most specifically the part "the powers that be that force us to live like we do bring me to my knees when I see what they've done to you. And I'll die as I stand here today, knowing that deep in my heart, they'll fall to ruin one day, for making us part." The author may be referring to himself, or he may have written the song to be about the people who are speaking out against the evil scourge of drug prohibition, which is about exploiting the weakest people. Disappearing into the ocean depths is not a new imagery for Keane or for British and Irish music in general. Fantasizing about throwing yourself into the sea is generally about not being able to face the rest of your life without someone you loved very dearly and never wanted to live the rest of your life without. You don't want anyone to see you, you don't want to see anyone, you don't want people to miss you, you don't want anybody to come looking for you. You don't want them to know the hurt that you have felt at the loss, you just want to fade from their memory somehow. They combined that imagery well with another, related sort of drowning. That is the gangster trope of putting cement shoes on somebody and throwing them into a deep river or the ocean. They say Lake Tahoe has some extremely creepy places to dive, where because of the cold and fresh water and lack of much of an active ecosystem at depth, there are areas where there are hundreds if not thousands of preserved bodies dressed in 20s and 30s and 40s and 50s clothes, bullet holes in their foreheads, throats cut, etc. So one possible fate of those with the courage to demand essential reforms, is just such a burial, and the only grave inscription (cenotaph aka here lies _____, he died on ____ from _____ ) or shroud for someone who dies like that is the sky. The imagery of driving on roads, a burning heart, those parts seem to be describing heroin use, they are fairly common choices of imagery. But the black, burning heart is the heart of a man who wants vengeance for the death of one or more loved ones. The "death" doesn't have to be literally that they died of an overdose or something. It's the 'death' of the future life they could have had together. Literally dead or just the death of how things should have turned out, and having to live a much more wretched sort of life, it doesn't really matter. Every new black burning heart is one step closer to the ruin Chrissie Hynde wrote about. The accumulation of those black burning hearts, who live a prayer for vengeance every day, is inevitable given the monstrosity of the system. The system will step back from the edge of ruin one day, or one day they will find they have created one black burning heart too many, a tipping point will be passed, and things like an angry mob tearing apart the corrupt officials in the street will be common for a time. Like a dam can only hold so much water, the people can only hold so much misery. This prayer for vengeance is about more than just the evils caused by drug prohibition in the name of safety and morality and such, but I think it's pretty obvious that for the particular inspiration, it's grievance #1 weighing on his mind. There is very likely a dead friend in particular it refers to for the author. But everyone can feel that the guiltiest, greediest people are 'running the world' now. And there are more ways that they 'feed on the weak' than just the sham of 'drug prohibition.' |
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