| Cyndi Lauper – She Bop Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I love Cindy. This is a great song. The chorus seems to imply that everyone does it, helping to take away the stigma. For other songs about female masterbation, check out 'I Touch Myself' by the Divinyls. It's also a classic. |
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| Boz Scaggs – Georgia Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Spot on. I've listened to this song many times and it's never clicked, but I think you might be right. | |
| Boz Scaggs – We're All Alone Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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A beautiful song by Boz Scaggs. One of the best off the magical Silk Degrees album. When I was teenager, I had a friend who insisted on playing only loud grating music by Led Zeppelin, and the like. But when he heard this song in my house he was stunned. He wanted to listen to it repeatedly. Though I've listened to this song intently dozens of times, I could never understand the wording. Perhaps it was the phrasing, perhaps Boz's accent, whatever. The LP didn't come with lyrics in the sleave. But now that I read the song, I think the meaning is fairly clear. It's about two people finding safety and comfort in each other. We're all alone, safe from the concerns of the outside world. The singer quiets and calms his worried companion. We're safe here together. 'Close the window, calm the light'. Whatever bad story she has experienced, it doesn't need to be told, 'throw it to the wind'; like roses, it will wither. She can escape it now. If need be, they can escape together in the quietness of a dream. |
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| Billy Joel – Zanzibar Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Rated +1 In Zanzibar, Joel uses sporting analogies in talking about life or women, as men often do, especially when hanging around in a bar. We do the same in my country, but here it is cricket and not baseball. So I've only recently discovered who 'Rose' is. Pete Rose was good enough to enter the baseball Hall of Fame until he ruined his chances in a betting scandal about ten years after Joel wrote the song. He signs his autograph "I'm sorry I bet on baseball, Pete Rose". Now Joel has changed the lyric in his live concerts to, "Rose, he knows he'll never reach the Hall of Fame". He also sometimes changes another line to, "She's waiting out in Shantytown. She's gonna pull her panties down for me," which makes it pretty clear where the thrust of the song is heading. I object to someone earlier suggesting that Joel doesn't care too much about his lyrics since he writes the music first. Most Joel fans think his lyrics are great. Writing the music before the lyrics is just how it works best for him.  If you look at his early stuff (e.g. Summer Highland Falls) you'll see when he tried to do it the traditional way, and it came out a bit cheesy. 52nd Street is just about my favourite music album. I think it won the Grammy for best album that year. In Zanzibar he throws in an unusual augmented 5th chord (music theorists can help me out here). He does the same for one or two other songs on the album, such as 'Rosalinda's Eyes'. I suppose anyone can throw In an unusual chord, but Joel showed his music mastery in mixing those ingredients to create a distinctive new flavour and win a swag of new fans along with that Grammy.   |
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| Billy Joel – Zanzibar Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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In Zanzibar, Joel uses sporting analogies in talking about life or women, as men often do, especially when hanging around in a bar. We do the same in my country, but here it is cricket and not baseball. So I've only recently discovered who 'Rose' is. Pete Rose was good enough to enter the baseball Hall of Fame until he ruined his chances in a betting scandal about ten years after Joel wrote the song. He signs his autograph "I'm sorry I bet on baseball, Pete Rose". Now Joel has changed the lyric in his live concerts to, "Rose, he knows he'll never reach the Hall of Fame". He also sometimes changes another line to, "She's waiting out in Shantytown. She's gonna pull her panties down for me," which makes it pretty clear where the thrust of the song is heading. I object to someone earlier suggesting that Joel doesn't care too much about his lyrics since he writes the music first. Most Joel fans think his lyrics are great. Writing the music before the lyrics is just how it works best for him.  If you look at his early stuff (e.g. Summer Highland Falls) you'll see when he tried to do it the traditional way, and it came out a bit cheesy. 52nd Street is just about my favourite music album. I think it won the Grammy for best album that year. In Zanzibar he throws in an unusual augmented 5th chord (music theorists can help me out here). He does the same for one or two other songs on the album, such as 'Rosalinda's Eyes'. I suppose anyone can throw In an unusual chord, but Joel showed his music mastery in mixing those ingredients to create a distinctive new flavour and win a swag of new fans along with that Grammy.   |
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