| Roger Miller – King Of The Road Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I think the comma is correct above. "King of the Road" is a title he's given himself that's somewhere between self-deprication and a glorification of his humble existence. He isn't a man of means, but he has the one thing that's important to himself--freedom--so that makes him a King in his own mind. Similarly, my grandfather would proudly state he worked as a Pearl Diver when he was younger. "Pearl Diver" meant he was a dishwasher. Diving into those pearly suds every day had to have been a crappy job, but he did it with pride. |
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| Roger Miller – King Of The Road Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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The lyrics don't say he knows the names of children in the towns, only the names of the engineers' children. Part of the engineer's job is to throw the hobos off the train, or at least the hobos causing problems. But this hobo isn't causing problems, so the engineers don't throw him off. Instead, they actually like him, have friendly conversations and share details about their lives. About those locks: Those are probably abandoned houses or sheds. He is careful that no one is around so he doesn't cause trouble-- If he were causing trouble, those locks wouldn't remain unlocked. If he were damaging the places, those locks would be locked next time. I doubt he is trying the doors on occupied houses or businesses because that would cause trouble. |
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| Delta Rae – Bottom Of the River Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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@Aj204832 Good point about the spelling. There is a world of different between the so-called Prince of Darkness and those sheets that are so nice and cool in the summer, tempting as they might be. But Satan isn't the primary antagonist, he only makes a handful of appearances. The two most notable being as a talking snake with legs, and later when God allows Satan to kill 10 of Job's family members as part of a bet God makes with Satan. Guess which Biblical character kills millions, if not billions, of people, and untold numbers of kittens and koala bears, and elephants and... |
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| Delta Rae – Bottom Of the River Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Thanks for the undesired proselytizing, Meekliniz. Since you started, I will return the favor. No doubt you are trying to be helpful, but let me give you a few things to think about and study. Then I will tie your comments back to my original comment and the song. Odds are, you were born into your religion--lucky you, born into the One True branch of the One True denomination of the One True religion. Odds are, you accepted it as a child before learning any critical thinking skills. Odds are, as an adult, you only value confirming evidence. Odds are, you are aware of inconsistencies but brush them aside because that is easier than challenging your long-held indoctrinated-from-birth beliefs. Odds are, you get your science from non-scientists. Odds are, you accept what others tell you about the Bible on faith. Odds are, you haven't read the Bible straight through cover-to-cover. I could be wrong on a point or two, but the odds are on my side. Faith is belief based on insufficient or non-existent evidence. Your "faith" seems to color your conceptions of what knowledge is, and you falsely apply that standard to science. There is no room for faith in science. Science is driven by evidence, reason, and intellectual honesty. Science doesn't esteem faith by calling faith a virtue, because there is no virtue in believing things with insufficient evidence. It's dishonest to knock science down to the epistemological level of religion by saying "it's only a theory." The Theory of Electricity has brought you the Internet; Germ Theory has brought you better health and sanitation; various aerodynamic theories brought us airplanes. Even the most humble of technologies have a theory behind it. Science would have died on the vine had it not produced meaningful knowledge. Theories are models. Good theories--proven theories--are backed by evidence, and eventually, stuff that works. Evolution is a theory that has been proven repeatedly by multiple lines of independent evidence. And that knowledge is quite useful in our endeavors in agriculture, animal husbandry, protecting endangered species, and medicine to name a few. Science wins because it works. Atheism is not a "religion". It's a polite way of saying all those stories about all those all-powerful genies are fake. You don't believe that Zeus, Vishnu, Allah, Odin, FSM, or thousands of other gods described by people over the centuries are real. But you wouldn't call your disbelief in those gods "a religion." Add Yahweh to that list and that disbelief still does not achieve the status of "religion." That is called "special pleading" if adding any single god changes the argument. You make the claim God is real, it's your burden to prove it. How does God work, BTW? He must have been so busy helping everybody's team win 50% of their games, and getting rid of their headaches after they took an aspirin, that he just didn't have time to cure childhood leukemia, or to help _all_ the victims of that plane crash. Believers always make excuses for the so-called all-powerful. Odds are, I will read an excuse soon. You are partially correct about not all religions being right. Their contradictory claims means that--at most--only one might be right. That doesn't prove yours is right, or that any of them are right. Most likely, none of the thousands are true. If you follow their arguments, they all come down to special pleading, "The evidence we have is the same as they have, but ours is true and their isn't". You esteem faith, but faith has no method, it doesn't rely on evidence or reason. It all comes down to guessing what some so-called god wants people to do. If you rely on faith, you have no argument when God/Zeus/Allah/etc. tells someone to drown their babies in a bath tub; or to fly planes into buildings; or to protest the funerals of fallen soldiers; or conduct war against other Christians, as Catholics and Protestants did; or for parents to withhold medicine from their _own_ children that prevents their death. Do I need to go on? Here's the problem: Endorsing faith implicitly endorses the same thought processes that justifies all kinds of evil. So getting back to the lyrics and my original comment... You made that religion-speak sound so sincere and helpful, while unknowingly supporting evil. |
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| Delta Rae – Bottom Of the River Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Wow, they did that without auto-tune... there is hope for the human race! IMHO it demonstrates the power of emotionally-charged religious speak to get people to do evil things. Sounds like she is being helpful, but the song makes a desperate plea to commit the worst kinds of evil. Lyrics sound like they could be straight from the Old Testament. |
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| Paul Simon – The Afterlife Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Great satire. The afterlife probably isn't what you expect, nor is it welcoming or personal. Love the irony, a voice sugar-coated with love says, go get in line. |
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| Boston – More Than A Feeling Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I'm with you, that Marianne is long gone, he remembers her fondly, etc. However, "closed" and "slipped" are past tense. He is telling us what happened when she left. Closing his eyes is what lead to her leaving. Ok, there were probably other reasons, but if his eyes were "open", instead of relying on the music to escape his problems, he probably would have been able to deal with it and keep her. As for "the sun was gone", I don't see that as being delusional. Its just a metaphor for a gloomy day, or that something is depressing him. So he needs his escape. Cheers! |
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| Boston – More Than A Feeling Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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IHMO somewhat tragic. Escaping in the music is comforting and a good time for introspection. But it haunts him too. "I closed my eyes and she slipped away." He spent too much time lost in his music and it drove Marianne away. Absolutely fantastic song! |
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