| Seals & Crofts – Summer Breeze Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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dude like u can look up the word 'jasmine' in the dictionary or on wikipedia. that tip applies to any word or term you could ever need defined. |
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| Radiohead – Codex Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Another radIOhead puzzle based on the number 10 and binary... like that conspiracy i read about at Cracked.com about how In Rainbows fits into OK Computer? Or maybe this album fits into Amnesiac somehow (some of the previous comments have been leaning that way)? Or maybe this is all crazy speculation... looking for meaning where we don't need any.... idk would b cool though. |
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| Radiohead – Codex Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Did u think to look up what Codex means before posting? | |
| The Tragically Hip – Poets Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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2nd Chorus Don't tell me what the poets are doing Those Himalayas of the mind Don't tell me what the poets are doing In the long grasses over time... Really you need those two lines (mind, grasses) to get the song. Really. |
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| The Tragically Hip – Poets Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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most of the lines are about pot... beutiful, beautiful pot. Or maybe its about the desire to legalize pot being crushed by an obstinate government. this song is from 1998 or so, right? So once upon a time... the Liberals are running Canada and a small number of Canadians are asking them to legalize pot... The government says: "Don't tell me what the poets are doing in those Himalayas of the mind", meaning, of course, "don't tell me how great it is to get high, to the highest part of the mind, where the poetry, art, and beauty in the world come from. Don't tell me about that." "Don't tell me what the poets are doing In the long grasses over time..." Grass, again... is a pot puffed word (btw the lyrics are wrong right now) Government vs. Pot is like culture v. nature... or Civilization and its Disconents. The Canadian government doesn't want to know that all of the artists who produce culture for it are also on drugs. Art is born of a free mind, but the government wants the culture without the freedom/ Boo! "Don't tell me what the poets are doing" they say "Don't tell me what they do on the street, how they get paid, or how the bloody universe is altered when you try it!" Governments dont deal with the 'reality' of marijuana's prevelence in their country. They dont want to hear about it. Its never going to be legal, they say. The government is mean like that. The obstinate government, identified in the lyrics as the "He who aims to be the Archetypal Father", does reach out an olive branch of peace to those liberals looking for some more freedom. Around the time this song was released, the Canadian government enacted a law that allowed women to be topless in public (unfortunately, Canadian women proved to have too much sense to take up this offer. Too bad for the men, but really its much too cold to go around topless). This legislation is the origin of the next line: "there's nothing more that you need now that your lawn is cut by bare breasted women", which is 'thanks to us' says the government. 'You're welcome for the topless women, so dont bother asking for anything more, like legalized pot. No way, hoser.' And thats why to this day (2011) possession of pot is illegal in Canada... because the liberals offered us public nudity instead. And that never panned out so everyone loses except the women. That stroy is as true as any of the Hip's true histories, and more subtle than some of their other pot songs. |
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| The Beatles – She Came In Through the Bathroom Window Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| but i suppose this song DOES follow a song 'Polyethene Pam' about a transexual... or something stranger still | |
| The Beatles – She Came In Through the Bathroom Window Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I thought this song, especially the first verse, was very sexual as well but I would never think to correlate 'she' with 'penis' |
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| The Beatles – Polythene Pam Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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If a guitar could laugh it would sound like the guitar part in this song. This song is hilarious and somehow the Beatles can convey this through their instruments. Amazing. Also, to reply to a comment that 'Robbie190' made almost five years ago... The lyrics of a song don't necessarily have to reflect the attitudes of the singer or the writer. |
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| David Bowie – Cat People (Putting Out Fire) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This song is so powerful! I love getting my eyes all red and listening to it |
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| The Kinks – The Village Green Preservation Society Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| 'genius' may be a bit of a stretch.... | |
| King Crimson – The Court of the Crimson King Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Wow, what a dick! Good music tho |
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| Talking Heads – And She Was Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This is a really great song, but it makes me sad to see that this has forty comments while the song 'The Lady Don't Mind' only has two. In my mind, these songs are very intimately connected (not least because they appear on the same album: Little Creatures). I would suggest that the people who enjoy And She Was give a listen to the underappreciated Lady Don't Mind. I think they really inform each other. As they both feature unnamed female protagonists (She/Lady) it might just be economical to assume a shared identity. But more to the point is the thematic silimarities of death?/hallucinatory drug trip/journey into the mystical depths of the unconscious/acceptance of life and death. It seems to me that the songs are sort of mirror images, with 'She' being lighthearted and upbeat with dark undercurrents, while 'Lady' is somewhat darker on the surface of things but really quite enjoyable if you give it a chance. |
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| Talking Heads – The Good Thing Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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yeah this is definately an overly rational explanation for everyday life like good things can only be achieved if you follow pre-determined methods. i hope most people arent like this, and that there is no formula that would render life pre-decided and meaningless, where we could be replaced by robots with their superior algorithms. OMG its all coming true! anyways, this is missing the last line of the song (right?): 'Watch me work!' |
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| Talking Heads – The Lady Don't Mind Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Really? There was nothing more to say about this song... nothing more to say over four whole years? But this song is so excellent! Does nobody realize this? There must be something meaningful in its lyrics (not that I can figure it out). The first line, about jumping out the window... suggests death? Or at least an acceptance of it. The window thing is also heavily emphasized in the video (not that it is ever jumped out of). of course, the great surge of energy that comes along in those two parts that come after 'i kinda like that style' mostly reminds me of some pumped up hallucinatory craziness. Or maybe its just another song about cocaine. The way those parts are sort of removed from the rest of the song sort of reminds me of the disjointed songs on their first album. It's too bad (imo) that this energy never really goes anywhere, and the song just fades off as it does. I hope there is a longer version out there... somewhere. |
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| The Beatles – Octopus's Garden Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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My favourite interpretation of the song is the drug one. It's one of my favoutire 'getting high' songs by The Beatles. Particularly in the second verse when the back-up vocals sing 'high' just after Ringo passes by the word. And then the word 'head' comes up... another trippy word, if you know what I mean. Ah, its so beautiful when you're spaced out on this. Moving on, there is a lot can be said for the sexual/escapism interpretations as well. Perhaps I shouldn't be so surprised that no one has mentioned this yet, but oceanic feelings, underwater caverns, and a yearning for peaceful shelter are all standard Freudian symbols for an unconscious fixation on the maternal, specifically for a longing for the unperturbed existence of the womb. Food for thought. |
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| Talking Heads – Thank You For Sending Me An Angel Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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yeah, this song is great. i mean, seeing this performed at the start of the Stop Making Sense movie totally revs up the action, like it just comes out of nowhere after those slow versions of Psycho Killer and Heaven. And the guitar parts are great, and Mr. Byrne is so... energized in his own quirky way... and he really is walking circles around the rest of us. Who wouldn't envy such a crazy man? |
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| Talking Heads – Making Flippy Floppy (Stop Making Sense Version) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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that's a pretty complex commentary, inmotionxii but i think the song is simpler than that - and i believe it even adovates avoiding such in-depth investigations for meaning.... like the song is about life in general... not a specific baby and certain experiences, but about common random observations about what it means to be human. i mean, when you think about it, isn't human life ridiculous on a whole lot of levels that just happen to be pointed out here? And there are lots of reasons to be down about it, but we just get over it and move on. Like, the character (your) starts off sort of unmotivated, but gets some good advice about life: life doesn't make sense... so stop making sense. |
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| Talking Heads – I Want To Live Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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strange insights into what it means to be alive and moving forward damn, this song really gets me going. it's too good to have not made it onto an album, which im not sure it 'really' did. Sugar on My Tongue is great too. |
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| Talking Heads – Moon Rocks Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Ah, no comments at all? That's not fair. Well, I'll be honest, I hate how this song starts, but once the tempo picks up the rest is smooth sailing. And the bits about the moon are the best. |
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| Talking Heads – Lifetime Piling Up Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| well, when a song begins with the words 'i have tried marijuana'... so blantantly, not even using some new metaphor, you can be pretty sure that this is supposed to be about that miraculous drug and how it feels to be 'higher, higher' than everyone around you... as you look down on their silly conventional lives. Actually it reminds me of that other TK song, The Big Country, except with a very different feeling of being excited and fulfilled by being seperated from humanity, instead of disparagingly judging them. | |
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