| Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Southern Cross Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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I have always LOVED this song ! Maybe it's because I'm a Pisces! (Water sign, fish picture/symbol, dreamy, flowing, imaginative, self analytical. And so many good interpretations here! I think my thoughts line up with most people's. No one mentioned one of my favorite lines, which I consider addresses our messing up over and over, even when we know better. But it is so much easier to make the same old mistakes. "So we cheated and we lied and we tested, 🎶 And we never failed to fail It was the easiest thing to do." !! (I love that " fail to fail.") The next line puzzles me: "You will survive being bested,. Somebody fine will come along, Make me forget about loving you." First it says "YOU will survive being bested." But then "Somebody fine will come along , make ME forget about loving you." So HE will "survive being bested." Of course they BOTH will survive being bested. Poetic license? I just wanted it to be consistent!! |
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| Bing Crosby – Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Funny, the inaccurate history that some of these comments give. The last comment from March 19, 2013 attempts to correct them, but doesn't make it very clear what he is saying. Seems to expect people will pay attention long enough to compare what he said with what they said. He's saying that the song was not written right after World War I ("The Great War" it was called, before Word War II happened) World War I ended in 1918. This song was written in 1931. It was not written about Theodore Roosevelt paying or not paying the soldiers the money they were owed for fighting in WWI. Theodore Roosevelt was President from 1901-1909. World War I hadn't started yet. WWI took place from 1914 to 1918. Theodore Roosevelt died in 1919. Googling this matter of the soldiers not getting paid in WWI, I see that this is not true. Soldiers were paid in for fighting in both world wars. FRANKLIN, not Theodore Roosevelt was President around the time this song was popular. Franklin Roosevelt saved the country from the Great Depression. (something that current (2015) Republicans don't like to admit.) because he did so by putting the unemployed to work creating great public works, like dams. This song IS about the people of this country fighting WWI, building railroads and cities, and now finding themselves jobless and poverty stricken. This happened because of the mishandling of money by the rich, similar to how it has been mishandled recently by Republicans, and Republican policies. After the Great Depression, anti-trust laws were instituted. They kept big businesses from joining with other big businesses and muscling the small businessman out of the competition. When there is nothing but big corporations and no small businesses, they can charge whatever they want for goods. Anti-trust laws have been ignored. The recent Trans Pacific Partnership is horrifying to me and should be to any American. How is a small business in America supposed to compete with businesses in other countries where the worker is paid one tenth or less of what the American worker is paid. You see now that more and more people should be singing this song. How many people's parents worked and worked to buy a house to leave to their kids—and those houses are gone. The kids didn't get them, they live in apartments. So that is what this song is about. The people working their fingers off and getting nothing for it—stolen from them by the rich. Except they did not know what happened to it, just that it was gone. Now we know—what happened in the cash of 1929 has been analyzed. Obama has been a pretty good President. There is nothing more ridiculous, there has been nothing as ridiculous in the history of this country as the shark, Donald Trump, actually the front runner in the Republican campaign. The country continues to march toward disaster, as the rich involve us in more wars to distract us from the fact that 1 % of the population owns 99 % of the wealth of this country. This is America? This is a democracy? The people of America voted for THIS? I don't think so. |
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| Laurie Anderson – Sharkey's Night Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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These lyrics are from "Home of the Brave." and they are somewhat different from "Sharkey's Night" on the album "Mister Heartbreak." Just a thought about these lyrics, as I came here TO FIND OUT! Sharkey is a character of Laurie Anderson's. One thing I think is that he embodies what it's like to be a human being trying to figure out what's going on within him and around him, which is not something that people usually try to describe. Also, he personifies as certain kind of American who thinks in cliches. In this version, he seems to supports conservative political leadership that recommends overly simplified points of view, such as war as a solution to international problems, lowered taxes without consideration for the consequences, pro-business legislation etc. Politics at the time were not as gruesome as they are now, (1984, and this is from my POV as a Progressive Democrat) but she could feel the temperature of the wind. The political reference comes from "I went down to the Big DC. Also, the angels have "big boots" thumping around above (not thunder, he says) and this could be a reference to all the dead soldiers from the Viet Nam war. Sharkey is friendly, loud, talks in cliches. Makes contact without really feeling the other person. There's "Sharkey's Day," too, at the beginning of Mister Heartbreak. That is much longer and more rambling. Sharkey's voice (loud, mocking, garrulous) on Mister Heartbreak is William S. Burroughs, "co-founder of the beat generation." |
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