| Uriah Heep – Illusion Lyrics | 7 days ago |
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maybe The star of so many SCREENS (not scenes) |
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| Queen – Spread Your Wings Lyrics | 3 months ago |
| @[vphi:54405] I doubt that Sammy is actually only sweeping floors; IMHO what his boss is saying to him is to expect no raise in money or status. Sammy-boy may in fact play a guitar like John Deacon | |
| Queen – Spread Your Wings Lyrics | 3 months ago |
| @[vphi:54404] It's closed since 1963 but was indirectly mentioned in Play with Fire, a song of 1965 by The Rolling Stones | |
| Queen – Spread Your Wings Lyrics | 3 months ago |
| I wonder if John Deacon means rather "Esmeralda's Barn" club in London than any random "Emerald Bar" | |
| Shocking Blue – Shocking You Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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A lot of misheard words here like sadly many other places including google's first results. Please make it right. We're shocking you until you turn to blue We're shocking you see what we gotta do Look out it's like electricity Don't think it's fantasy The sound of guitar is sparklin' lightning The sound of bass like a hurricane Join the crowd. I may be shocking you Rhythm of drums like a waving thunder Goddess of music brings a magic voice Join the crowd. I may be shocking you The wave of courrants knocks you down Like high tension is that magic sound Join the crowd. I may be shocking you The sound of guitar is sparklin' lightning The sound of bass like a hurricane Join the crowd. I may be shocking you |
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| Supertramp – Words Unspoken Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| as for the meaning, IMHO it could have been meant to be Juda's thoughts after Jesus got him out of the last supper | |
| Slade – Far Far Away Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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I doubt the 2 and 3. why rhyme real to unreal? why talk about a wrist? My version: I've seen the yellow lights go down the Mississippi I've seen the preachers of the world in Euphorial I've had a red light affairiste Without me even gettin' kissed It still seems so unreal |
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| Joan Baez – Flora the Lily of the West Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| But the words "Then go, my lovely Flora" in 1961 version — what did those mean? | |
| UFO – Can You Roll Her Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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confusing are distances between trivially connected words: 1 Hands upon my engines growin' [Vincent's deep throat breathin' out] so strong 2 Shadows [… …] grow longer |
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| UFO – Can You Roll Her Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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is "Vincent" a motor bike ("jets" then being just exhaust pipes)? in a song from 1976 album "No Heavy Petting", could there have been "V.I.N.CENT" from 1979 Disney SF movie? |
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| The Beatles – The End Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| but hadn't they been mocking The Nature Boy here, even keeping the metre? | |
| The Beatles – The End Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I suspect Lennon & McCartney are mocking The Nature Boy's moral: "The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return" See, The End lyrics can even be sung to The Nature Boy tune: "And 'in the end The love you take Is e'qual To the love That you make!" :) |
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| Les Humphries – Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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some pictures: the singers: http://i9.fastpic.ru/big/2010/0901/c7/12245b80a6484ab1684974008612b9c7.jpg the town of Jericho: http://pic.levkonoe.com/images/levkonoe/kanchikalexanderjerichoswallsfalldown.jpg |
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| Les Humphries – Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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"people of Bethlehem" seem to refer to King Herod's slaughter of the children "let my people go" seem to refer to Moses before Pharaoh No reference to the wall-crushing trumpets, though. There was another folk song report of a battle from Les Humphries Singers: Mexico. I wonder is it just as accurate :) |
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| The Doors – Spanish Caravan Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I wonder if the meaning of this song is rather simple after all. The Doors might happen to hear some Spanish music (Asturias by Isaac Albeniz, whatever) and wanted to make a cover version. Jimmy Morrison got an order to write some English verses. Two ideas came to his head: (1) this slow thing must be a lullaby and (2) an American like Jimmy or every other show-goer wants to know nothing about any realistic Spain, a country that had been war enemy to the USA for centuries. It would be much better to compose a baby lullaby from kid's fiction stuff like fairy tales or pirate stories or Arabian Nights (adapted for children). Hence this medley of make-ups and, even more telling, the repeating phrase "I have to see you again and again" — it means some page-turner, a comics, a bedtime favorite. "Carry me", "take me", "treasure is waiting for me" is not about just one place but a heap of sites from some adventure series. |
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| The Doors – Spanish Caravan Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I wonder if the meaning of this song is rather simple after all. The Doors might happen to hear some Spanish music (Asturias by Isaac Albeniz, whatever) and wanted to make a cover version. Jimmy Morrison got an order to write some English verses. Two ideas came to his head: (1) this slow thing must be a lullaby and (2) an American like Jimmy or every other show-goer wants to know nothing about any realistic Spain, a country that had been war enemy to the USA for centuries. It would be much better to compose a baby lullaby from kid's fiction stuff like fairy tales or pirate stories or Arabian Nights (adapted for children). Hence this medley of make-ups and, even more telling, the repeating phrase "I have to see you again and again" — it means some page-turner, a comics, a bedtime favorite. "Carry me", "take me", "treasure is waiting for me" is not about just one place but a heap of sites from some adventure series. |
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| The Doors – Spanish Caravan Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I wonder if the meaning of this song is rather simple after all. The Doors might happen to hear some Spanish music (Asturias by Isaac Albeniz, whatever) and wanted to make a cover version. Jimmy Morrison got an order to write some English verses. Two ideas came to his head: (1) this slow thing must be a lullaby and (2) an American like Jimmy or every other show-goer wants to know nothing about any realistic Spain, a country that had been war enemy to the USA for centuries. It would be much better to compose a baby lullaby from kid's fiction stuff like fairy tales or pirate stories or Arabian Nights (adapted for children). Hence this medley of make-ups and, even more telling, the repeating phrase "I have to see you again and again" — it means some page-turner, a comics, a bedtime favorite. "Carry me", "take me", "treasure is waiting for me" is not about just one place but a heap of sites from some adventure series. |
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| The Doors – Spanish Caravan Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I wonder if the meaning of this song is rather simple after all. The Doors might happen to hear some Spanish music (Asturias by Isaac Albeniz, whatever) and wanted to make a cover version. Jimmy Morrison got an order to write some English verses. Two ideas came to his head: (1) this slow thing must be a lullaby and (2) an American like Jimmy or every other show-goer wants to know nothing about any realistic Spain, a country that had been war enemy to the USA for centuries. It would be much better to compose a baby lullaby from kid's fiction stuff like fairy tales or pirate stories or Arabian Nights (adapted for children). Hence this medley of make-ups and, even more telling, the repeating phrase "I have to see you again and again" — it means some page-turner, a comics, a bedtime favorite. "Carry me", "take me", "treasure is waiting for me" is not about just one place but a heap of sites from some adventure series. |
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| The Doors – Spanish Caravan Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I wonder if the meaning of this song is rather simple after all. The Doors might happen to hear some Spanish music (Asturias by Isaac Albeniz, whatever) and wanted to make a cover version. Jimmy Morrison got an order to write some English verses. Two ideas came to his head: (1) this slow thing must be a lullaby and (2) an American like Jimmy or every other show-goer wants to know nothing about any realistic Spain, a country that had been war enemy to the USA for centuries. It would be much better to compose a baby lullaby from kid's fiction stuff like fairy tales or pirate stories or Arabian Nights (adapted for children). Hence this medley of make-ups and, even more telling, the repeating phrase "I have to see you again and again" — it means some page-turner, a comics, a bedtime favorite. "Carry me", "take me", "treasure is waiting for me" is not about just one place but a heap of sites from some adventure series. |
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| The Doors – Spanish Caravan Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I wonder if the meaning of this song is rather simple after all. The Doors might happen to hear some Spanish music (Asturias by Isaac Albeniz, whatever) and wanted to make a cover version. Jimmy Morrison got an order to write some English verses. Two ideas came to his head: (1) this slow thing must be a lullaby and (2) an American like Jimmy or every other show-goer wants to know nothing about any realistic Spain, a country that had been war enemy to the USA for centuries. It would be much better to compose a baby lullaby from kid's fiction stuff like fairy tales or pirate stories or Arabian Nights (adapted for children). Hence this medley of make-ups and, even more telling, the repeating phrase "I have to see you again and again" — it means some page-turner, a comics, a bedtime favorite. "Carry me", "take me", "treasure is waiting for me" is not about just one place but a heap of sites from some adventure series. |
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| The Doors – Spanish Caravan Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I wonder if the meaning of this song is rather simple after all. The Doors might happen to hear some Spanish music (Asturias by Isaac Albeniz, whatever) and wanted to make a cover version. Jimmy Morrison got an order to write some English verses. Two ideas came to his head: (1) this slow thing must be a lullaby and (2) an American like Jimmy or every other show-goer wants to know nothing about any realistic Spain, a country that had been war enemy to the USA for centuries. It would be much better to compose a baby lullaby from kid's fiction stuff like fairy tales or pirate stories or Arabian Nights (adapted for children). Hence this medley of make-ups and, even more telling, the repeating phrase "I have to see you again and again" — it means some page-turner, a comics, a bedtime favorite. "Carry me", "take me", "treasure is waiting for me" is not about just one place but a heap of sites from some adventure series. |
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| The Doors – Spanish Caravan Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I wonder if the meaning of this song is rather simple after all. The Doors might happen to hear some Spanish music (Asturias by Isaac Albeniz, whatever) and wanted to make a cover version. Jimmy Morrison got an order to write some English verses. Two ideas came to his head: (1) this slow thing must be a lullaby and (2) an American like Jimmy or every other show-goer wants to know nothing about any realistic Spain, a country that had been war enemy to the USA for centuries. It would be much better to compose a baby lullaby from kid's fiction stuff like fairy tales or pirate stories or Arabian Nights (adapted for children). Hence this medley of make-ups and, even more telling, the repeating phrase "I have to see you again and again" — it means some page-turner, a comics, a bedtime favorite. "Carry me", "take me", "treasure is waiting for me" is not about just one place but a heap of sites from some adventure series. |
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| UFO – Martian Landscape Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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"Everyone knows that the sun in his land is stronger" I hear "in THIS land" (so it is "my" land, not "his"; no "he" is mentioned elsewhere) "Don't let it turn into a nova" I suspect no nova was involved, it was rather "Don't let it turn in, to and over" "Where all the freedom is mine and it comes" I hear "it calms", a rhyme to "your arms" As to the meaning, I am totally confused. |
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| The Beatles – I'm Only Sleeping Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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hey is there anybody who cares for the animated clip to this song, made in the same year of 1966? The one where cartoon Lennon falls asleep and is made to sing this song to put a fire-breathing dragon to sleep while the dragon keeps adding to the musical score a lot of roaring? I have just time-coded subtitles, but I could not catch some words and I am not sure of the words I did caught. See for yourselves: My subtitles are here http://www.opensubtitles.org/ru/subtitles/3709744/the-beatles-en The cartoon is the last of The Beatles Ñartoon TV series by Jack Stokes (season 3 episode 6 = Wait/I'm Only Sleeping), the wrap-around story of I'm Only Sleeping begins at 13:00. |
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| The Beatles – I'm Only Sleeping Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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catchy rock-n-roll about sleepiness, unthinkable thing made real. I could not resist to use it commenting on an animated gif anaglyph of a cat being disturbed http://www.flickr.com/photos/ur4chun8/3683200315/in/set-72157617909798584/ |
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| Joan Baez – Manhã de Carnaval Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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transl. by Thomas Keyes Apr. 14, 2005 Morning, such a nice morning Of a happy day that has begun! The sun has risen into the sky And shone in every heart Then dreams have returned To the heart After this happy day, I don't know if another day will come, And our tomorrow, After all such a beautiful tomorrow Of carnival. My heart sings. Joy has returned. So happy The morning of this love! |
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| Joan Baez – You Ain't Goin' Nowhere Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I understand that Bob Dylan writes this as a woman, awaiting for Bob Dylan. But "kings supplied with sleep" puzzle me. | |
| Joan Baez – Wayfaring Stranger Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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It sound like a road song, however it's really a hymn. "Over Jordan" and "over home" are 2 different overs. The second one is like in "come together right now over me" in the Beatles' English. |
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| Joan Baez – The River In The Pines Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I take it that "rocket" here is a raft of lumber accelerated in a deadly chute. And it's taken for granted that the bride dies after her darling. There hangs a dark premonition from the very beginning of the ballad, and when both lovers are done with it is even like an alleviation. By Joan Baez's performance it has its dark beauty, but what a dark way to look at life. |
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| Joan Baez – The Mockingbird Song (Hush Little Baby) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Looks like the words came from kids. To make the lullaby singer's voice sweeter the words are to please, not a baby, but a 6 years old girl (with diamond ring and looking glass) and boy (with a dog named Rover). The word play is like Mother Goose Rhymes. If this be used as lullaby, it will be by a kid baby-sitter, not by an adult like the baby's mother. | |
| Joan Baez – The Carol Of The Birds Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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nice for kids, the melody and all. Joan's singing is felt like organ's play here. For parents, it digs a hole: how can we refuse our kids' desire to feed animals, not to eat them? It demands us to do 2 hard things, create something like meat trees (anyway to make some vegerables produce animal quality nutriments); to build houses large enough for kids and animals. |
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| Joan Baez – So We'll Go No More A-Roving Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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a polite way to talk yourself out of a lady's company if I ever saw one! It is softened by talker's slipping grief in the last line, though. |
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| Joan Baez – Railroad Bill Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I am completely lost. I love the song and miss the meaning | |
| Joan Baez – O Come, O Come Emmanuel Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Wow, so ancient and so clear. Them in 1100s never said never talk with terrorists holding captives, they paid ransom and felt it's OK. |
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| Joan Baez – North Country Blues Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Well, if there is no job here why not go somewhere else? Is it such a tragedy? Bob Dylan left his home at 16, Joan left her university at her first year... Maybe it was hard for ordinary people, to move to strange places? It was not Joan that made this song sound sad, Dylan sang it sadly, too (though not quite so blue). |
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| Joan Baez – Mary's Wandering Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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So slow descripting that it might be some black humour. Or is it just dictated by bolero genre? Getting louder is subtle, you do not discover it until it is too late - you are caught in marching and have to come to the end. |
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| Joan Baez – Manhã de Carnaval Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I still can not believe that this lyrical piece is anticipation of a carnival and Brazilian one, too. It is dreamy and for me it is the signature tune for the musical program at radio Liberty, the Russian service. Canta o meu coracao alegria voltou, tao feliz a manha deste amor My heart sings joy again, so happy the trick of love |
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| Joan Baez – Lincoln Freed Me Today (The Slave) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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brain wash of slaves, the ugly thing done to all the Soviet people. I like guitars here, they tell between the lines the hot incriminations to masters of slaves. I am really happy to outlive the Soviet power, to have Internet and everything including Joan Baez songs and this web site. In Stalin period, I might be crushed. |
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| Joan Baez – Last, Lonely and Wretched Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Funny point - "you were well fed". Altogether the song is melancholic. Some people are stars (like Joan), some are ordinary but can cope with life, and some just go down to be homeless and junky, and it's hard to tell when it had to be and when it could be helped. So yes, we are sorry for our unkindness, our desertion and our blindness... But we remain distant in this song, which makes it sweet; otherwise it would be unbearable. |
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| Joan Baez – I Wonder As I Wander Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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It is a 2 times slower version of "Down In Yon Forrest" and clearer, too. It is a good thing to wonder why the Good does not prevail the way some mighty king might do. |
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| Joan Baez – Diamonds and Rust Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| can you please quote from "A Voice to Sing with" | |
| Joan Baez – Down In Yon Forrest Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I am confused at this forest carol. Seems rather druid to me. I like the tune, the style, but I am confused. | |
| Joan Baez – Battle Hymn of the Republic Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think this is the tune that influenced Internationale; after 1945 meeting on Elba, Red Army soldiers took this tune to Soviet Union with some random Russian words - and those were the first version that I learned the tune with, in 1960-s. Now I look at this hymn - well, it does remind me "Arise ye workers from your slumbers, Arise ye prisoners of want"... |
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| Joan Baez – Te Ador Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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It seems that the language is Portuguese, with mentions to tattoo, but the first line puzzles translate.google.com. Myself I think that it is the first line I can understand: "adore thee, love thee" (though why it should be two different "thee" as "te" and "tu", I wonder). Altogether I do not understand what is happening in the song and why it is so hot. Is it some complain, like "We love you, why do you stigmate us?" It certainly has the magic of a strange language song though. |
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| Joan Baez – Cantique De Noel (O Holy Night) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Joan sings in French so we hear about the Fraternity (and the end of the slavery, see the line 4 of the stance 2) in the original language of Voltair. And she sings with all the jubilant joy needed for Christmas carol, too. | |
| Joan Baez – All in Green Went My Love Riding Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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If "my love" is a hunter, "I" be the prey? I just can not believe in such masochist meaning of such a jentle art song. |
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| Joan Baez – When Time Is Stolen Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This dying waltz is a bitter sweet memory of short while in which Joan's husband came from prison, burned another calling-up paper and came under arrest again. Being a star singer married to anti-war activist makes life awfully public, and so this song hosts some leading actors ("lovers") escaping secretly after the show to steal a moment of time for their privacy. A dusty curtain is a hateful image of any dead-line. I think if Elena Bonner (the wife of the famous Soviet dissident Andrey Sakharov) knew this song back in 1978 she would welcome Joan Baez more warmly in their Moscow flat. Time had been really hard on both sides of the Cold War front line. |
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| Paul McCartney – Monkberry Moon Delight Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I suspect here some low irony at a bad English speaker, an underpayed piano player at a cheap restaurant. "Wind" is wind band which is louder than piano by far. "Attic" is a narrow place where the piano player has to fit. Yes, he can't tell a "ketchup" from a "catch up", and he mixes other words, too. "Letter" may be some Eastern Europe alphabet of Billy Budapest... But one must speak English well to see the narrator's failours... |
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| Joan Baez – Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| do you mean from the line "I said goodbye unnoticed"? | |
| Joan Baez – The Trees They Do Grow High Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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The story depicts morals so ancient it must seem unreal to us, yet Joan's performance makes it deeply touching. Boys of 14 being married to mature girls of 24 - was it a tool to rein in men's power over women? But in this song the girl gets no power, just a lot of waiting, a brief moment of married life - and long years as a widow with a child. She does not blame her father, her boy husband or the fate, she just treasures her memories. Nowdays such attitude would be submissive and pitiful, in this ballad it is sorrowful and beautiful. Such is the wonder of song and Joan Baez. When I was a teenager speaking no English and hearing even less, I played this number endlessly, trying to fill the title with any sad meaning... |
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