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| Gordon Lightfoot – Black Day In July Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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The “body of the dead youth” could be that of 15-year-old Jason Jones, the very first casualty of the riots. He had been sitting under a tree when a gang of white youths running from the police exchanged fire, and was hit in the chest. Of course, other young people, one no more than four, were also killed. |
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| Rush – Kid Gloves Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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This is the only song on the album whose title phrase actually occurs within the lyrics. |
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| John Mellencamp – Jack and Diane Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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A country song popularized by–among others–Red Foley and Ernest Tubb, called “Don't Be Ashamed of Your Age," states that, on the contrary, "Life ain't begun until you're forty, son; that's when you really start to go to town!" |
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| John Denver – Back Home Again Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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This song expresses the loneliness of the long distance trucker–and it does so in a memorable and beautiful way that only JD could have done. He will be sorely missed. |
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| Simon and Garfunkel – Kathy's Song Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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Years later, Simon mentioned Kathy in the “Late Great Johnny Ace,” where he reminisces about how in 1964 “I was living in London with a girl from the summer before.” |
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| Don Henley – The Heart of the Matter Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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I heard this song on the radio about 23 years ago. After it finished, the radio announcer said, "That's Don Henley with a song about letting go of anger after suffering a broken heart." |
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| John Denver – Rhymes And Reasons Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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The song is one of several of Denver’s–“Catch Another Butterfly” is another–that attempts to revive in us what we left behind as children. The chorus phrase “It is written from the desert to the mountains they shall lead us” echoes the Biblical passage “and a child shall lead them” (Isaiah 11:6). |
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| Gordon Lightfoot – Cherokee Bend Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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Why the line at the end about the boy riding in the rodeos? The excitement associated with them is quite out of sync with the overall grim mood of the song. |
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| Gordon Lightfoot – Miguel Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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The way the young man crosses the river to see his beloved is reminiscent of the classic myth of Hero and Leander. |
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| Simon and Garfunkel – Overs Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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I think it's interesting to compare this song with one that Simon wrote thirteen years later–"Train in the Distance"–about the failure of his marriage to Peggy Harper. |
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