| Don Henley – The Boys of Summer Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| @[rieta11513:34739], I can't say that I ever did! I can see where you're going with it for certain. I think mine and her personalities are too different from Rhett and Scarlett to relate though. I think, outside of this song, the other comparison that I have connected is Wrapped Around Your Finger by The Police. She was older than me, I was a naive kid. Years later, after so much experience in life and relationships, "you will find your servant is your master". That song gets me every time. | |
| Sixx: A.M. – Life After Death Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This is an excellent summary of how Sixx came to a realization after all he had been through, and put himself through. "It's not my job to blame anyone anymore. I just need to accept the path I was given" For the first time in his life, coming to terms with what things are and cannot be changed, and embracing what he has been given. |
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| Kix – Don't Close Your Eyes Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"As I lay down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take" She is still alive, just in need of friendship and prayers that she can see that life is worth living |
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| Skid Row – Wasted Time Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Very good lyrics from a band not usually known for that. It just killed me to see one of my best friends slowly dying from a drug addiction when this song was popular. He got in to drugs because he really didn't think anyone liked him. Whether he thought it was numbing him or making him more socially acceptable that way, I'll never quite know. Haunting lines, "Can you feel me inside your heart as it's bleeding? Why can't you believe you can be loved?" | |
| Soul Asylum – Runaway Train Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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A lot of good posts on this song, and it probably was meant about drugs and/or depression. Only one poster, Akari55, said what I have always thought though. It's about the self-destruction of an affair. I lived it myself, and by the time I was able to sort out the mess I had created, this song hit me like a ton of bricks... "so many secrets I couldn't keep...one more promise I couldn't keep......this time I have really led myself astray" About really letting your own life get out of control. |
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| Bob Seger – Against the Wind Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This song is a touching commentary, looking back with regrets for past mistakes, loves lost, but still moving forward. A lot of people can relate in their own way. For me, it was the simplicity of young love, believing it would be forever. Then things settle down, I make poor decisions, drift away from my marriage, have an affair, and ultimately destroy what I had. Then I find myself alone, alas, "deadlines and commitments" remain. Life can suck sometimes, and you usually have only yourself to blame. But keep moving forward, life goes on... | |
| Don Henley – The Boys of Summer Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Henley's "Heart of the Matter" was the song that I always carried with me in my head to accept the lost love of my life twenty years ago. That was until she looked me up last year and I found out things were not what I had always thought. She had always regretted losing me, we began talking again, and then she confessed that she still loved me, more today than back then. I played that song again, and the rest of Henley's Greatest Hits, and suddenly I came upon "Boys of Summer", a song I had heard many times, and always thought of it as a good song of reminiscing of lost youth. Now I see the real genius of the song. He sings of his lost love for most of the song, he's gonna get her back, he's gonna show her what he's made of. There's going to be a happy ending. Then the bridge leads to the classic line: Out on the road today I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac Little voice inside my head said don't look back, you can never look back Though I knew what love was, what did I know? Those days are gone forever, I should just let em go A lot has been made of the reference to the irony of a non-conformist Deadhead driving a Cadillac, which deserves some merit. But for me, it's the next lines that hold the most weight for me. I didn't know what love was, I only thought I did, and I thought I was in love with her. I've grown and changed so much in twenty years. I don't love her anymore. I can't look back that way anymore. It's just a memory, it's gone. |
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