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| Simple Minds – Blood Type O Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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According to AI
"The song explores themes of conflict and nostalgia, set against a backdrop of introspection and self-realisation.
The lyrics delve into the complexity of relationships and the passage of time, ultimately questioning the authenticity of past actions and emotions". |
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| Simple Minds – Big Music Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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It just a song about music! Somebody asking to listen to great songs.
Written specifically for large concert venues. |
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| Simple Minds – Today I Died Again Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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It appears to explore themes of memory loss, disconnection, and the fleeting nature of life. The lyrics depict characters ("he" and "she,") who seem to be experiencing various forms of memory decline / amnesia. |
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| Simple Minds – Sweat in Bullet Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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An AI website once said:-
Sweat In Bullet presents a cautionary tale about the risks and tolls of relentless ambition, highlighting the potential loss of one's identity ("great face, white soul") and the potential for self-destruction. It encourages the audience to reflect on the balance between ambition and personal well-being, reminding us that success should never come at the expense of our mental and emotional health. |
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| Simple Minds – Changeling Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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An AI website once said " It conveys a longing to break free from societal expectations and embrace one's true identity, while also acknowledging the challenges and risks involved in doing so. It encourages listeners to embrace their individuality and resist the pressure to conform, urging them to be true to themselves in a world that often seeks to overshadow their unique qualities." |
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| Simple Minds – Veldt Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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An instrumental, overdubbed with animal noises and mumbled threats.
The genesis of this much discussed song remains unclear. Whilst the Veldt is the South African prairie, and the chimp impression is by Derek Forbes (bass player) the song was either about these huge expanses of land, or formed around the plot of a Ray Bradbury novel. |
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| Simple Minds – Superman V Supersoul Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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In 1998, singer Jim Kerr wrote:
"People are finding God in different places. Some stare at the sky. Others walk the desert. A friend of mine recently put forward the notion that God has taken to stalking the floors of discotheques!"
"The scenario in the song: An individual, closing his eyes after staring long and hard at a beautiful painting of a scene from the "Bhagavad Gita" finds that he is transported body and soul into the painted image - which in fact becomes reality all around him. There suspended in time for what feels like a whole night he finds himself drowning in the sights and sounds of a wedding procession which is taking place in the most heavenly blue moonlit garden."
"All around him the most sensuous music drifts and he listens while watching the screams and laughter of the beautiful young brides who cannot contain themselves as they receive the flirting and teasing attention of an obvious boy prince, who must be no other than Lord Krishna... the sense of joy is palpable as peacocks mesmerize, and it's there and then our character decides that this can only be the one true paradise..."
"Suddenly it's gone, where to!, where from? The man is left staring out the window of his loft apartment at the shimmering lights of the cityscape; and the sprawling chaos of the streets below. He vows on the spot to completely change his way of life; and tears well as he shifts his eyes back to the small calendar painting, given to him free last years, on the street by a "devotee" and now hanging on his kitchen wall."
"Paradise."
So now you know! |
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| Simple Minds – Changeling Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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The verses are sung almost identically to the verses to the theme tune of the "Wombles theme tune". The opening line to both songs are the same ("overground underground") |
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| Simple Minds – Premonition Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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The lyric "Remake and Remodel" is a nod to Roxy Music Its the name of a song on Roxy's debut album. Simple Minds were fans of Roxy Music. |
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| Simple Minds – Glittering Prize Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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For its 40th Anniversary, Jim Kerr put a post on Facebook. Part of the post read "The theme of the song (in keeping with the lyrical theme of the album, new gold dream) loosely deals with the notion of somehow finding ourselves becoming inspired. As in : Being struck by a divine influence, one that is directly and immediately exerted upon the mind or soul." |
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| Simple Minds – Life In A Day Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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Jim Kerr who wrote the lyrics once posted the meaning on Facebook. This was his post:-\n\nI’m not looking to change anything. No amount of guilt can change what has already happened anyway.\nNevertheless, I do understand that during my younger years my intensity was sometimes difficult for others to put up with.\nI thought I was merely being determined - and that that was a good thing. Still do.\nWhat is the alternative when the odds against you achieving even the smallest amount of all you have hoped for, are stacked so high that people advised. “It might be better not to dream so big.”\nSame types were always too ready to give the warning. “Beware that light at the end at the end of the tunnel you think you see - it might be a freight train coming your way. Etc.”\nWell, struggling to hold ‘my universe’ together as often I was back then. I’d rather have met that train head on than surrender hope.\nBeing ‘yourself’ in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is an accomplishment.\nMy obsession with that kind of thinking took shape as the lyrical theme behind our first release ‘Life In A Day.’ |
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| Simple Minds – Changeling Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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The title came first before any lyrics were written. The final lyrics \'down in the club" is a nod to Iggy Pop. |
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| Simple Minds – In Trance as Mission Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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This isn't the actual meaning but Jim Kerr (vocalist) once said:
"There's one line from In Trance As Mission that always freaks me out when I hear it: 'I hear the holy backbeat.' Y'know, it's like a Godly sort of Catholic thing. Those songs - Seeing Out The Angel, This Earth That You Walk Upon, In Trance As Mission - I don't know if it's a sort of godly feeling, or something. No one in the group practises religion, but most of the band are Catholic. I think you get stamped with that when you're young and it's there forever, you can't really escape it." |
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| Simple Minds – Room Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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Actually, regarding "The razors song" lyric...could it actually be "The rays of sun"? All lyrics state razors song but they have made mistakes before. |
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| Simple Minds – Up on the Catwalk Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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"Up on the catwalk" is a another way of saying "being famous" or "In the public eye". This song thrives on celebrity and the falling grace that coincides that. |
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| Simple Minds – Book Of Brilliant Things Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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In an interview in 1984, Jim Kerr said it was about learning. You are never too old to learn. You never stop learning. You learn from books. Books can contain brilliant things. |
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| Simple Minds – Hunter and the Hunted Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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In concert, the song has often been introduced with the line "Giving into temptation, this is Hunter And The Hunted.".
"Kyoto in the snow". Kyoto is a city in Japan. |
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| Simple Minds – Love Song Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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According to Wikipedia: The song is reportedly an ode to the close bond between Europe and America: "a relationship that's lasted across the centuries, through good and bad times, a "Love Song" between two continents."
This kind of fits.... |
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| Simple Minds – C Moon Cry Like a Baby Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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This isn't the actual meaning but "C Moon" means "hip". The opposite is "L7" which means "square". This was coined by Paul McCartney in the early 1970's. |
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| Simple Minds – Speed Your Love To Me Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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The title of the song comes from the Unchained Melody lyric "God speed your love to me"
The lyric "24th cannot be this" was influenced by Jim Kerr's age at the time of writing the song (he could have uaed any number with 3 syllabuls in it).
Basically, its just a love song. |
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| Simple Minds – Book Of Brilliant Things Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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Original version was recorded 1983 and released early 1984 on the album "Sparkle in the rain".
A totally different version was recorded live summer 1986 and released 1987 on the album "Live in the city of light". |
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| Simple Minds – Book Of Brilliant Things Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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This isn't really a song meaning, but it is an interesting article and is taken from the bands official website.
Lead singer Jim Kerr is quoted as saying “more than music, ever since my earliest childhood years, books have meant so much to me. Books are revered all over the world and of course for many people certain books are sacrosanct. Books allow people to think for themselves, allowing access to knowledge forgotten or out of favour with the times. Books, as with recorded music, travel over time and distance greater than the author could ever accomplish in person. Dictators have throughout time understood how important it was to control knowledge – to control a nation! Books were burned and banned as a result. My father’s experience as a simple man who educated himself to the highest level, inspired me to write that song.”. |
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| The Stone Roses – Made Of Stone Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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To me it seems to be about someone who has witnessed a car accident (possibly suicide). They are going through the events in their head, what it would have been like for the driver.
The narrator to the song seems obsessive about it and wants to witness another car crash. |
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| The Shaggs – My Pal Foot Foot Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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Regarding not just this song, but the whole album. There are these rare moments when musicians together touch something sweeter than they’ve ever found before in rehearsals or performance, beyond the merely collaborative or technically proficient, when their expression becomes as easy and graceful as friendship or love. This is when they give us a glimpse of what we might be, of our best selves, and of an impossible world in which you give everything you have to others, but lose nothing of yourself. God bless The Shaggs! |
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| Simple Minds – Glittering Prize Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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There was a drama on TV in early 1976 called "The Glittering Prizes". This has nothing to do with the lyrics, but it may well have had an infuence on the title.
Plus, in 1979, the phrase was used in the song "Factory".
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| Department S – Is Vic There? Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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The music was written but it needed lyrics. Whilst at the record company offices, someone heard the Secretary call someone. When they answered she said "Is Vic there?". It's also her voice on the answer phone message in the middle of the song. |
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| Simple Minds – Today I Died Again Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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The line "The suit he wears dates back to....." etc is from a Monty Pyphon sketch. Slightly altered. This is according to
simpleminds.org |
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| Simple Minds – Calling Your Name Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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According to the book "The glittering prize" this song is about the frustration of not been able to perform live outside of Scotland. The song was first played live July 1979, so its probably true. |
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| Simple Minds – Room Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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Is it about someone who has done something bad in the past ("a secret sin") and they have trouble coming to terms with it ("a private hell"). As a result, they spend most of there time at home ("In your room").
Not sure about the line "The razors song". |
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| Simple Minds – No Cure Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Its about 2 gay guys called "The Cocteau Twins", sang from the point of view of a homophobic.
Originally called "The Cocteau Twins" back in 1978. |
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