| The Warning – Z Lyrics | 8 months ago |
| @[GStrecker:53559] You're completely full of ****. Brainwashed. | |
| Van Halen – Little Guitars Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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"Catch as catch can" is an older phrase you don't hear too much these days. It means to do what you have to do by whatever means you can manage; making do with what's available. The singer is trying to convince the woman that he loves her, and she wouldn't be lonesome if she would just take him seriously and love him back. She turns her eyes from him, thinking he's not what she's looking for. He goes for broke, telling her how he feels, and that he'll do if she would just consider it. |
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| Joe Tex – I Gotcha Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| @[tjareth:44833] I think he just called her out for teasing him. He got her. | |
| Joe Tex – I Gotcha Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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@[NomadMonad:44832] He ain't my Lord. I don't have lords. This is just a fun song. This is a guy calling out a girl who teased him. He got her. |
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| ZZ Top – Pearl Necklace Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| I've never bought a woman jewelry, but I've give plenty of women pearl necklaces. Don't knock it 'til you've tried it! lol | |
| Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians – What I Am Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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I've read several interpretations, and I think people see what they want to in it. Good lyrics let you do that. I don't think this is pro-religion or pro-philosophy. Edie was quite young at the time of the song, and with most people that age, long conversations about personal philosophies are almost inevitable. The singer is rejecting the formal study of philosophy and religion, preferring to just be "what I am," without looking too deeply into it. |
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| The Sundays – Summertime Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Like most of The Sundays' lyrics, this song is clever and evokes the curiosity/fear/joy of the first date. The song is touching on the basically universal search for romantic love. "Some people wind up with the one that they adore," contrasted with "the one that they abhor" shows us the singer's awareness that love is a tricky game, and relationships can end up being something that, like sunshine, "banishes the dark," and bring the joy the singer (like all of us) hopes to find in romance. It can also fail to bring a connection. I think that's where the singer is at. She hasn't found the love of her life, but is still hopeful. "Get up a voice inside says there's no time for looking down Only a pound a word & you're talking to the town" Here, she's willing to try again. But, trying to meet new people to date is never easy, and fraught with difficulty. She doesn't know what to say in her new ad: "But how do you coin the phrase though that will set your soul apart? Just to touch A lonely heart" A tough proposition. What do you say to show complete strangers who you are, and attract someone who will make you feel like the feeling in the chorus, where it's thrilling and something you never want to end? David and Harriet met in college, not through a dating site. The singer here is a typical young woman who desperately wants to fall in love and be swept away, like in the fiction she mentions. "Is this how it happens?" she asks, apparently feeling the glorious joy of the chorus, but wondering if it's real, or just her dreams of love being solely in her own head. We're left to wonder how it will turn out, and if her pleasure is temporary, or will last. Like summertime itself, it won't always be like it feels now. "& it's you & me in the summertime We'll be hand in hand down in the park With a squeeze & a sigh & that twinkle in your eye & all the sunshine banishes the dark" We all want to feel that way. We all hope to find someone who is as thrilled to be with us as we are to be with them, even though it seems like just a dream. Personally, I never found anyone who made me feel that way. I wanted it. I even pretended, hoping it would grow into that. It never lasted, and now that I'm old, I gave up and don't care anymore. I'd rather be alone than with someone I "abhor." I hope that the singer does find what she wants. I hope you all do, because while all my affairs ended badly, I'm just one guy. Take that chance. You may get hurt, but there's that tiny chance that it could be just what you're hoping for, with a squeeze and a sigh and a twinkle in your eye. |
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| The Cult – Edie (Ciao, Baby) Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I always thought it was "A wind caressed your cheek." That's what it sounds like to me, anyway. | |
| Ringo Starr – Photograph Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Yes, it's a very simple and heart-tugging song. It could be about a lost love, a dead friend, or even your dead dog. The line, "I want you here to have and hold, as the years go by, and we grow old and gray" makes me think it was, originally, about an ex-lover. Ringo later met Barbara Bach and fell in love (lucky guy!). We don't know how long they've been apart, or why. What comes through is his sadness at having only a photograph to remember her by. After George's death, it took on a different meaning for Ringo. George helped him with this song, and it's my favorite Ringo song, ever. The last 2 beatles are vegetarians. I hope that helps them live a good long time, because they're both still fantastic! |
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