| James Taylor – Something In The Way She Moves Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I don't mean to sound like a broken record, but this song reminds me of a love song to heroin. It's all in there guys. But perhaps it just is a simple love song. When I listen to it, though... heroin. |
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| Bob Dylan – Farewell Angelina Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I agree with you Drake. Dylan is singing this love song to Angelina riddled with a larger metaphor about the banes of society in general, war and violence a particular topic he brings up again and again, to explain the ups and downs (mostly downs) of his love with Angelina. The jacks and queens Have forsaked the courtyard Fifty-two gypsies Now file past the guards This to me does remind me of the Holocaust. Jacks and the Queens, higher in a deck of cards, the higher-ups in society who had the power to actually do something to stop the horrors of the Holocaust, turned their backs and the fifty-two gypsies are either Jews or perhaps literally the gypsies that were also murdered. And I can't help but think about war, either, especially in the last verse. The machine guns are roaring The puppets heave rocks The fiends nail time bombs To the hands of the clocks Call me any name you like I will never deny it The beginning of this verse is reminiscent of war, perhaps 'Nam since Dylan wrote this in the 60's. Machine guns is a clear image, and the puppets a great symbol of the common soldier/man being manipulated by the government to do whatever they like with them. A puppet only does what the person controlling it decides. Dylan is telling Angelina that she can blame him all she likes for what happened to them, and for the violence and particular ruthless nature of mankind/society, he will not fight or defend himself is she does. Dylan is trying to find a place where he can escape all of that? These are my initial impressions of this song, anyway, I might be all wrong. |
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