| Jackson Browne – Fountain Of Sorrow Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| er, I meant to write "Fountain of Sorrow", sorry for the misspelling. | |
| Jackson Browne – Fountain Of Sorrow Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Go to youtube.com and look up this song. He has an intro to Fountain of Sorrows and tells what the song is about. He saw a gal that he had dated previously, and she looked amazing. They renewed a relationship. However, he said that, in retrospect, it was a much more generous song than she deserved. Obviously, the relationship went south after that. I wish people would be more careful about just assigning the meaning of every song to the memory of his deceased wife. Besides the fact that the dates don't add up, he has already stated what the song was about. |
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| Jackson Browne – Lives In The Balance Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I like that he had the boldness to mention the SHADOW GOVT. Altho, he must not really take that to heart, or he'd realize that Dems and Repugnants are flip sides of the same coin. He wouldn't be campaigning for Edwards and Obama. Waste of time, IMO. The agenda goes forward no matter which party is in power. i.e. no balanced budget, LOL. Obama is furthering the war, not bringing guys home. Wish he'd give up on his alignment with 1 of the 2 parties...waste of time! I want to know who the men in the shadows are I want to hear somebody asking them why |
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| Jackson Browne – Jamaica, Say You Will Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Summer love... vacation love... that sort of thing?? | |
| Jackson Browne – Jamaica, Say You Will Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| When you see him play this when he's younger, it looks like she's someone he cared for in his youth (younger years). Before the models and Darryl Hannah! :) | |
| Jackson Browne – Rosie Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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OMG, peeps! You know that JB loves his double-entendres. First, Rosie is the in-heat half-grown female pup (GROUPIE!) trying to get into the gig backstage. The sound guy tries to set her up for himself, but she takes opportunity to "upgrade" and get a real BAND MEMBER...not the sound guy. The more I watched her watch them play The less I thought of to say And when they walked off stage the drummer swept that girl away AND Well, I guess I might have known from the start She'd come for a star Might have told my imagination not to run too far Of all the times that I've been burned By now you'd think I'd have learned That it's who you look like Not who you are Instead of "Rosie" the groupie, he's left with Rosie Palm (and her four sisters). Geez, I'm a chick and I know that this song is about a wanker. Recently in Philadelphia, a guy in the crowd yelled out "ROSIE!" and JB said that it's always a guy who calls out for Rosie... and not just that... but with so much.................................... .....................................................................................................................................................................................CONGESTION!!!! The guy is backed up and needs a release. This is about jerking off, plain and simple. For Pete's sake. Or Bob. Or Tom. or David... or Jackson???? hehe |
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| Jackson Browne – In The Shape Of A Heart Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| shows you how great of a songwriter JB is... look how wordy I was just trying to express the meaning that I see in his lyrics! gotta love him... | |
| Jackson Browne – In The Shape Of A Heart Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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JB uses the heart-shaped ruby necklace as a metaphor to draw us in. A ruby is the most precious of stones. A heart is also precious, also a life. Women are typically the ones in the relationship who let things build up and, sorry to say, men are quite difficult to deal with (especially young, untrained ones with lots of testosterone.) Very difficult being involved with a musician, I can attest to that one personally. Also, mnen have a tough time with women who generally don't know how to handle a guy, and who take to nagging him. The gals will nag and complain, and escalate the conflict. Generally, even amidst the conflict, the man is oblivious. He isn't listening to what she's nagging about, because she's still there. Men understand action and logic, and nagging is neither of these. He generally believes that she just likes the drama of nagging and he doesn't, so it's a power struggle and he doesn't HEAR. Hear what she's missing. She generally doesn't properly communicate her needs in a proper way to give him an opportunity to meet those needs (if he's so inclined.) Sometimes, it was doomed from the start because, for example, you're not going to get a musician to give up music to make his life about you and not his guitar and crowds! Didn't think that thru from the start..those shallow waters and reefs were there from the start. By the time that the man is really starting to get it, it's too late. It's like Natalie Portman's character in the movie, "Closer": "I don't love you anymore, GOOD BYE." (Jude Law asked her in the beginning if she ever left a man that she still loved and she said NO. Later, she did tell him that line and she did leave...after he dealt a blow to her face.) Obviously, there was a physical altercation that Browne alludes to, perhaps just throwing an inanimate object: "There was a hole left in the wall From some ancient fight About the size of a fist Or something thrown that had missed.." The fist and it's resultant "hole(s)" are a metaphor representing the escalating conflict and it's damaging layers in their hearts. The first hole could mean an actual altercation, but the other holes appear to be a metaphor for the damage done to the heart, not more physical holes in the home...rather the house is the relationship and the nights that were spent in conflict, not building true intimacy. "And there were other holes as well In the house where our nights fell Far too many to repair. In the time that we were there" Who can't relate to the slow, eventual unraveling of a relationship. He gives the antedote later... "Speak in terms of a life and the living Try to find the word for FORGIVING..." How can a couple get to the place of forgiveness and moving past the hurts. Generally, one of the two will move on to the elusive "one who fits them like a glove"...thinking the grass is greener. He uses the necklace later in the song again as a metaphor...as is often the case in relationships, the man "gets it" once she's gone. He's left behind with all his feelings of pain but also of the knowledge of his love for her....the necklace that he can tangibly HOLD in his hand. He is realizing that she wasn't just bitching to bitch or nagging to nag. She is now gone, and it's all too apparent that he's feeling all these feelings so acutely. All he can do is throw up a defense by putting the knowledge and feelings of HER in that secret place of pain back where the point of conflict began...in that secret place deep down. The mind in its infinite wisdom will deal with pain by enveloping the pain and conflict with defenses and splinter that off and tend to dissociate from the core personality or conscious mind. You can't camp out there where it hurts...so you dissociate and move on. Maybe to that fairy tale one that will fit just like a glove...where there aren't the shallow waters and unseen reefs (but there always are). "And I held it in my hand For a little while And dropped it into the wall Let it go, heard it fall..." It's a masterful use of the device of the metaphor. I agree that it's one of his best song lyrics! There's at least one performance (see youtube.com) where he looks like he really isn't doing so well while singing the song. You gotta love JB for always showing us his heart. He's one of the few performers that I can say that I feel that has affected my life all these decades just because he's shared his. |
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