| Peter Frampton – Lines on My Face Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| In the 70s, the phrase "lines on my face" generally referred to cocaine use (or abuse). When one looked into the mirror with lines on it, there was the effect of lines on one's face. I'm not sure how that fits in here, but I thought I'd add that two cents. | |
| Frank Zappa – I'm the Slime Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| The internet has replaced the TV, but Frank wouldn't have known that. It's always going to be something that will be the slime. | |
| Frank Zappa – Baby Snakes Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| OK, here's a new one. The fact that they live by the SMPTE code means that baby snakes are something that come out on tape when you've been cooped up in a studio all night and for days on end. SMPTE is a professional syncing code so that sound and pictures are perfectly aligned. Frank created some sounds that were often evocative of slippery wet things, so "pink and wet" might be what the image that he associated with these weird sounds. That's my theory. | |
| Neil Young – Albuquerque Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I grew up in Albuquerque. I went to elementary, middle, and high school from the late 70s and through the 80s in Albuquerque. Parents still live in Albuquerque. I will tell you this: These lyrics are dead on and Albuquerque is definitely a place where they don't care who you are. It's a giant lonely city and damn pretty. | |
| Frank Zappa – Mom & Dad Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| This is probably FZ's most serious, unironic, lyric. It's somber, grave, and Zappa isn't trying to make anything funny about it. | |
| Electric Light Orchestra – Lonesome Lullaby Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Such a great song--melodically and witch respect to chord progressions too. This song is clearly about a narcissist who go their come-uppance. The last two lines of the third and fourth stanzas are particularly nasty. All in all, this is an excellent song off of Zoom, and album that is highly underrated. | |
| Pink Floyd – The Narrow Way, Pt. 3 Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Wow! I'll be the first here? First of all, this is one of the most evil downward chord progressions in the verse ever written, even by Floyd standards. I think NW3 ranks up there with the song "Black Sabbath" in terms of pure evil menace, even as it came before "Black Sabbath". Again, Pink Floyd on the cutting edge. The song was conceived, written, and entirely played by Dave without any of the rest of the band in the studio. He even played drums. Lyrically, it's mysterious, but creepy, druggy, and, well...weird. This was just what Floyd was succeeding at at the time. "Ummagumma" is just a weird album and that's the highest praise I can give it. But this particular piece is so completely acid-drenched, but it's having a bad trip...is that good when it's Floyd? | |
| Peter Frampton – Doobie Wah Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Is it me or do absolutely NONE of Peter Frampton's lyrics make any sense? | |
| Gregory Alan Isakov – The Stable Song Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I'm not 100%, but I think he's writing this song about the song he's writing. More specifically, he's writing the song to the muse or spirit that brings him the creativity to write songs...this song. When he refers to "you" he's referring to this song or that muse: "Well I dragged you straight in the muddy ground And you sent me back to where I roam Well I cursed and I cried, but now I know" He's saying in the above verse to take what the spirit gives you or you'll dry up. He's learned that now. Such a beautiful idea. He's also saying that the spirit/muse that brings him the creativity or inspiration to write such a song can come and go whenever it pleases ("turn those diamonds straight back into coal"). Creativity is fleeting. I'd welcome any feedback comments. |
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| Talk Talk – Inheritance Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I believe this song has something to do with the futility of existence, the exposing of pretense, and the need to keep moving forward in spite of how ridiculous the endeavor. Hollis says: How we learn to linger on Head in sand Expecting the dour Don't you know how life goes on Desperately befriending the crowd To incessantly drive on In the first partial stanza, Hollis is saying we just hang around simply to hang around, with our heads buried, unaware, expecting the worst. Obviously, this is sad commentary, but commentary that many people can relate to in our world. In the second partial stanza, Hollis sings that we must get along with other people (befriending the crowd), befriending the masses, pretending that we want to be a part of something we actually don't, all for the sake of constantly persisting and moving on (To incessantly drive on). Hollis is making commentary on the human race's need to keep going on but questions why. Without anything less than pure redemption, we're all screwed. |
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| Jeff Buckley – Murder Suicide Meteor Slave Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I think I read in Dream Brother, the bio of Jeff and Tim Buckley, that this song was compared to spirit and vision of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. That the song was at that level of recording genius. Jeff was going to change everything, and in a sense, he did. Miss him terribly. | |
| David Gilmour – Murder Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| My impression is that these lyrics referred to Roger Waters. I somehow get that the "ending another man's life" was a nod to Roger's treatment of Richard Wright who was effectively kicked out of the band during the Wall sessions. Roger also had a menacing stare and the "in the background, the eyes that just stared" could be reference to that as well. | |
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