| Judee Sill – The Kiss Lyrics | 2 months ago |
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@[BurningOldSage:54604] gaswhiz- You have no clue. You call Tony an idiot because you BELIEVE the Dennis Lambert that wrote this song is the same Evangelical Catholic Deacon Dennis Lambert. He is not. On top of that Deacon Dennis Lambert didn't become a deacon until 2004. FCS, pal. Your insight is as false as your knowledge. |
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| The Original Caste – One Tin Soldier Lyrics | 2 months ago |
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@[Tonyinflorida:54603] - Holy crap. Look at this guy's (gaswiz) apoplectic proselytizing. Apparently another "Christian" who was pro-bloodbath in Viet Nam. |
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| Kris Kristofferson – Me and Bobby McGee Lyrics | 2 months ago |
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@[Ex0dus:54602] - Great call at the time. Nearly 15 years later, they got it right. |
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| Rod Stewart – Every Picture Tells A Story Lyrics | 3 months ago |
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"You didn't ASK to come here anyway." While it could sound like "have", it's not. Find a good live version. "Have" doesn't even make any sense given the message of the song. Another misheard lyric on every damned internet site. |
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| Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Jeremy Bender Lyrics | 4 months ago |
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To all: The poetry and consideration you have given this song is surely thoughtful and thought provoking. Much applause. My view is a little different, only because I see a different conceit at work. Greg Lake often allowed lyrics live their own lives. He would invest in a line a concept, then find the poetry he felt would express it, and establish the tone of what was to follow. It's not just us who meets Jeremy Bender in the first couplet: Greg does too. So he follows him. He marries that first couplet to lyrics that have a relative feel in common as well as an aesthetic flow that jibes with Jeremy's (perhaps literal) devil-may-care attitude. And in doing so we get a plot more aimless than linear, that gives us scenes and pictures of Jeremy's dalliances but no clear story, just hints that are up to us to flesh out- and there are many tendrils to those lyrical bends. These have been well explored by the intrepid adventurers on this page and my personal take would add little. In the end, Jeremy ends this particular diversion (whatever the listener has decided that might have been) and gets on with his journey. |
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| Led Zeppelin – Kashmir Lyrics | 4 months ago |
| "Trying to find where I belong" | |
| Led Zeppelin – Over the Hills and Far Away Lyrics | 4 months ago |
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@[Zeppo1886:54247] - Holy shite. If you can't distinguish the very distinct acoustic guitars from the electric* on "Stairway" and "Over The Hills And Far Away" you wouldn't be much use in a studio! XD Hopefully 21 years have done much to cultivate your aural awareness. Good travels, friend. *There is an audible telltale acoustic string squeak, among the more obvious giveaways. |
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| Led Zeppelin – Over the Hills and Far Away Lyrics | 4 months ago |
| @[Fever:54246] Catt - Yeah, that'd just be silly! Aragorn played a harp. ;) (Hope you're still around after 23 years) | |
| Talking Heads – Puzzlin' Evidence Lyrics | 4 months ago |
| @[humancorporation:54245] - Yep. "In 1987, the FCC abolished the fairness doctrine..." - and that was all she wrote.Thank you for not being a fool. Just because Talking Heads/David Byrne made a comment with tongue-in-cheek doesn't mean he didn't invest belief in that comment. Ian Anderson, Ray Davies, Bob Dylan, Eddie Vedder, Chris Cornell et al, they ALL used plays on words and satire to make serious points. | |
| The Pretenders – Brass In Pocket Lyrics | 4 months ago |
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Wow. There's some serious misinformation in here. Cockney Slang hardly has some compendium to reference that covers every variation and permutation of every term. I know Neo-Gangsters who swear the definition of "Brass in Pocket" goes way back to the tried and true "brass knuckles" punching aid, and the "swagger" or "boss" definition is closest. The description of the intended lyric meanings by Chrissy Hynde backs that sort of interpretation up. In the end, the song is about setting your mind on attaining a goal via fearlessness and confidence- consequences be damned. As long as that figures in your interpretation, no worries. |
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| Aerosmith – Back In The Saddle Lyrics | 5 months ago |
| @[yiosh:54147] - Guns n Roses owes a lot of the raves they get for Moe's "Jungle" intro from "Saddle's" inspiration. | |
| Aerosmith – Back In The Saddle Lyrics | 5 months ago |
| @$p$ - I appreciate your imagination and I hope you use it well, but while H has a lot to do with this song, those aren't references to heroin. The song is about sex, sex and sex- in that order. After that, it's about more sex. | |
| Aerosmith – Back In The Saddle Lyrics | 5 months ago |
| @[10west:54146]- Hmmmm...yes, yes....Nope, I'm not following you. Isn't this song about dressage? | |
| Aerosmith – Back In The Saddle Lyrics | 5 months ago |
| @[rhink:54145] - There's a lot of double entendre, for sure. But there's a lot of just plain "entendre", too. ;) | |
| Drive-By Truckers – Decoration Day Lyrics | 5 months ago |
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Scott is right. Pretend I posted this in every thread Scott posted. |
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| Free – All Right Now Lyrics | 5 months ago |
| The song meaning's already been established. But why was she standing in the middle of the freaking street? (And, no, she wasn't a pro. Cripes.) | |
| Free – All Right Now Lyrics | 5 months ago |
| @[Eelsrule:54113] - I even SANG it that way. Hell, I KEPT singing it that way. Bet Paul Rodgers has too. | |
| Free – All Right Now Lyrics | 5 months ago |
| @[i8luigi:54112] It's weird that that was the case, since Free wasn't exactly "mellow", but I guess "rocker" was used (by "Free/Bad Co." drummer Simon Kirk) as an adjective for "up tempo". Also, points for not calling her a prostitute. | |
| The Doobie Brothers – China Grove Lyrics | 5 months ago |
| It might help some understand the lyrics if you spell "father" "Father". He's "The Preacher"; Miss Perkins "The Teacher" | |
| Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show – Sylvia's Mother Lyrics | 5 months ago |
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@[aussiedud3:54063] - Hey- Ladies of a certain age really had to put it out there in the '70s. |
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| Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show – Sylvia's Mother Lyrics | 5 months ago |
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@[procktheboat:54062] - Thank you for nailing it 18 yeas ago. |
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| Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show – Sylvia's Mother Lyrics | 5 months ago |
| I'm stunned at how many people think Mrs. Avery's last lines are an implication of any sort of empathy or respect for the caller: Sylvia's right there by this time (Grab your umbrella) and capable of hearing her side of the conversation; Mrs. Avery is acting as if she is speaking to a stranger. Of course, nearly 20 years there was no such thing as Wikipedia and so many other sources. Still, the above is a strange interpretation. | |
| Argent – Hold Your Head Up Lyrics | 5 months ago |
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Chris White wrote it. Russ Ballard sang lead. Punch it up on YouTube, "Argent Live". It's "Hold Your Head Up- WO-MAN!" (The word is not in the scream.) Everybody has their own ear, their own beliefs, their own "things they want to hear". But watch Russ live; honor the lyrics. It's an awesome message. BTW- The high note can be anything you want it to be. We sang it as either "High" or "AAHHH" or "Waaah" slide up to the chorus's high "D" depending upon whose job it was to hit it that night. |
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| Soundgarden – Blow Up the Outside World Lyrics | 5 months ago |
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@[myenemyisnear:54011] - Good insight. Better read on it than most. The song's hero also has a lot in common with the lonely man imprisoned by depression and fear in Chris's "Four Walled World". |
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| Kansas – Closet Chronicles Lyrics | 5 months ago |
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@[Talastra:54001] It isn't biblical and neither was "Portrait". Livgren never said anything about the Christ when the song ("Portrait") came out. After his full-on conversion to an evangelical form of Christianity, he couldn't very well explain that the song was his and Steve Walsh's musings on Nostradamus, a figure that many religious people across many a deist and theist devotion believe was occultist. Evangelicals also take a dim view of Catholicism, the one Christian denomination identified with Michel de Nostredame. |
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| The Who – Join Together Lyrics | 6 months ago |
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@[force263:53955] And I'm 5 years late. But "Juice Harp" and "Jew's Harp" are both correct. So is "Mouth Harp". It gets even funner to consider harmonicas are also referred to as "harps" and "Mouth Organs". I think there must have been a time when blues musicians and jug bands temporarily ran out of words and decided to call everything that didn't have a slang term already "harp". |
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| The Alan Parsons Project – Some Other Time Lyrics | 7 months ago |
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This song is about loneliness. More than that, it is about longing. It is about the almost universal human desire to be loved and understood. The key is the very first verse: "In a matter of a moment Lost till the end of time It's the evening of another day And the end of mine" Evening is not the end of the day for people with friends and family. Evening is a social time of day for most people- but not our player. Nothing is going to happen for this individual. They have thoughts, feelings and philosophies that they believe could be appreciated by someone other than himself. They feel they have worth that others- or the "right" other- haven't seen. So, in their longing they turn to the universe, hoping that out there somewhere is someone who shares their values, their insights, their philosophies. They pin their hopes on the scientific, the ethereal, the transcendent, the preter- or supernatural even. Quantum physics, wormholes, time space continua, inter-galactic communication/observation. So, there's a lot of science, yes. And it is a song written to/for nerds, but not exclusively. For loneliness is a universal phenomenon. It's an achingly beautiful song. |
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| Alice Cooper – My Stars Lyrics | 7 months ago |
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"Come all you faithful..." Good people: False prophets play a large part in My Stars, but as Desperado70 indicated, the last words of the song comes from the original 1951 science fiction classic "THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL" The song posits that once you strip away all the philosophy of existence (in humanoid form) relative to the universe and the tactical doctrine of "Mutually Assured Destruction", the movie's "protagonist" Klaatu is less a benefactor saving the Earth (and subsequently the universe) from itself, and more of a fascist forcing the will of unseen entities upon our planet in the name of doing "what's good for us". Instead of a benevolent- if somewhat dispassionate - Klaatu, the song asks what if instead he dropped all pretense, used the doubtless legions of disillusioned humans that would be attracted by his very existence as his own army, and along with his faithful companion wreaked destruction, threatening entire annihilation, if his every whim was not addressed. The words "Gort- Klaatu barada nikto" are the words a confined/injured Klaatu has Patricia Neal's character Helen say to his helpful robot pal in order to rescue Klaatu. Gort, well, he makes a statement with his response. Along the way ACG throw in colorful terms, sprinkling the song with imagery that suggests a tilted reality suitably skewed to this world and its themes, even if they weren't directly lifted from the film. ACG, thank you so much for this and all your incredible work. What material. |
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| Soundgarden – Beyond the Wheel Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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@[SFy65B2G5rKbzps5acdHwQe6:44212] - Comment delayed, but... By Jove, I think you've f*cking nailed it...or something like that. |
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| Alice Cooper – Dead Babies Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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@[DuskRider:43350] - The info on Betty's father is scant. "Agrophile" is kind of a made-up word and most definitions attributed to it could be just as easily interpreted to mean he's worm food, dead. At any rate, I highly doubt he's rich, as Betty's mom would see Betty as her meal ticket, and bleed HIM for money instead of sleazing up the local bar. Everything else you have to say is right on the nose. The Band was ahead of its time in addressing many issues. |
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| Alice Cooper – Dead Babies Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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@[dixiesgreendaygrl:43349] - Alice retconned the song Steven, even prior to WTMN II. Plus- The violence of the abusive husband/significant other addressed on WTMN is separate from Steven, who killed a sibling out of psychopathy and jealousy. |
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| Alice Cooper – Black Juju Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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My apologies, kinda', not at all, to the guy who posted as AC... BUT This song is Gothic if you find VOODOO RITUALS gothic. ("Gothic"? Sheez.) Has no MEANING? You do Vince a disservice having the nads to post under his 2nd name with such an obtuse comment. Let me guess: "Hey Stoopid" and "Feed My Frankenstein" rank high on your list of fave AC songs. The song is from a lot of perspectives of the process, including the final verse whereby a man "zombie-ized", wakes up following the drugging and burial part of the ritual. Listen to the song, read the lyrics, it's pretty straight-forward. |
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| Alice Cooper – Blue Turk Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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@[Pink_Floyd_fan:43346] - If you are open to "new" music, acquaint yourself with the first 6 albums of The Alice Cooper Band/Group. Many, many styles. Their first WB release, "Love It To Death", actually created standards for SEVERAL rock genres After the clever "Is It My Body?", Side Two explores all kinds of music, finishing with an old Australian folk song. ? Yep. |
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| Alice Cooper – Blue Turk Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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This particular "necro" themed AC group song is about a couple, both alive, who play a weird game where she plays dead, because it turns them on. "Cold Ethyl" - off "Welcome To My Nightmare" - is also about a couple having sex ...but the girl's not playing. |
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| Alice Cooper – Blue Turk Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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@[morbid:43344] morag - "GREEK" is a term for anal. "Turk" is/was a term used to describe a tough guy open to a variety of experiences. Rod Stewart used the term in "Young Turks" (which really sucks, IMO); street gangs sometimes used the word along with their street or borough/burg to coin their name. |
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| Aerosmith – You See Me Crying Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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@[Rhysibabe:43258] - Maybe they thought it was a Bon Jovi song? PS- Hope you're doing well 16 years later. :D |
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| Pearl Jam – Deep Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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Cheeses. Folks- The song is the story of one guy. One young guy. ONE GUY. V1: He can't live at home. He can't live alone. He's lost and confused. He's on the top of a roof. As he sees it he's got three option: 1) Jump and hope a deity catches him 2) Jump and snuff it 3) Use the heroin syringe he's holding and make all these holes go away. Things are bleak. Decides if there's a G*d, he's never seen any sign that he cares about him. Decides not to snuff it. He shoots up. V2: Same guy. He's now wandering the streets looking for victims, He uses the knife. Does he stab someone, or plunge the knife into himself just to, you know, feel something, anything? Your call V3 This time he puts the knife to use definitively on another person. He nabs a young girl who never noticed him because she;s blissing out on the downtown Christmas display. Does he kill her? We don't know that. But, unfortunately, as the lyrics tell us, we do know that he... There's a reason this one is often left off the Christmas card list. |
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| Bobby Goldsboro – Honey Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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I have the same reaction to the "Top Rated" comment that one responder had: "Wow!" Damn, sir or madam, you took a few truths and then ran to construct a narrative as if you needed a "safe place" for shelter. Look, this song isn't "Diary" by Bread. "Honey" is about a man deeply IN LOVE with a woman whose innocent, guileless being enraptured him. She was NAIVE (kinda' dumb) - which the narrator reinforces by likening her to a child; not in a DEMEANING way at all, but a simple way (by a simple man) of describing this FACET of her personality- but a natural, INTUITIVE, loving soul (kinda smart). I could go on simply refuting other comments who missed the point (and were misguidedly lauded for their "insights") but the fact is this: "Honey" suffered from clinical depression. She may have even been bi-polar. The car "accident" may have even been a suicide attempt. The narrator loved Honey, but was in over his head. He didn't understand how the beautiful, endearing love of his life, who had so much love for others and so much to live for, could be suicidally depressed. He was a country boy, unworldly, and not equipped for the challenges Honey's condition presented him, In his simplicity, and, yes, his ignorance, he just assumed these moods would blow over. He always attributed her profound sadness to some trigger like a sad commercial, a sad movie, y'know, that way "womenfolk" can get from the slightest little thing. The guy was oblivious, not evil. And now, after all this time, he still can't wrap his mind around just how badly he missed the signs and lost the love of his life. He's mourning, still grieving, and still can't move on. The tree has become a living symbol of their love, every branch a representation of a mystery he wasn't equipped to handle, and may never unravel. But, people, read what he's saying without malice: He's trying to understand his lack, he's trying so hard that he's not grieving in a healthy way, and he has clearly never found someone to help him cope with this "mystery", one of which -as the lyrical cycle begins again at the end clearly (should) indicates to us- he can't let go, but hasn't the tools to solve. Cuz big simple men don't actively SEEK enlightenment. He knows he'll figure it out, eventually, by himself... ...alone. |
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| Don Henley – Sunset Grill Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| @[BryanMcGuire:42750] - You are correct. Specifically, the song is about The Sunset Grill while under the management of original owner "Joe Froelich", the "old man" who came from Vienna, Austria, to be specific. He was in no way, shape or form a "bartender". | |
| Don Henley – Sunset Grill Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| @[urbanman:42749] - The "old man" was not a bartender. He was Joe Froelich, the original OWNER, who emigrated from Vienna. | |
| Soundgarden – Slaves & Bulldozers Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| @[no_one69:40413] - They\'re playing the song in Cminor (I think it\'s higher on the album) which makes the note D#.. | |
| Bread – Diary Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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FIRST THINGS FIRST: My apologies- This is definitely TL;DR material. It's also another cynical rant on a song many people - including yours truly at a much more tender age - are emotionally attached to - and such rants are always self-indulgent, often pompous and inherently kind of insulting. But this song is wrong, people- very, very wrong... SONG MEANING (IN BLACK AND WHITE): SET SCENE: Likely at college. STORY: Creepy stalker type, with major boundary issues, surveils young woman he is fixated upon, who, likely while studying, lays down her diary (probably while digging through her book bag) under a tree. Creepy Stalker Guy invades girl's private space by reading her diary. The reason "...you'd never see it in her eyes" is because she doesn't feel that way about him, who she probably sees (if she sees him at all) as a bug, an insignificant little bug, one only useful as spider food, the prospect of which being the only reason our heroine wouldn't step on it. When the creep admits to having violated her privacy, believing - despite his many faults, which include the aforementioned boundary issues and a perverted projection issue- that he is the object of her affections, she seems to not care, because a) she heretofore didn't even know she HAD a stalker; and b) indifference and denial are better to exhibit than the desire to shoot one in the face. Despite this rebuke, committed to his delusion, Creepy Stalker Guy indulges in a disturbing fantasy wherein the object of his illicit desires is treated like little more than an ornament that he pampers and presumably parades around like the Stanley Cup. He steals her diary again, most likely because she makes the theft easy. This time she makes no bones as to who she is involved with. Creepy Guy finally gets through his thick skull that he has no future with her and calls off his hunt- most likely because her real man is a man of quality. He now revisits his romantic ideal, this time pretending to be the "better man" by stepping aside and wishing them all the best... when in reality he has no choice, and is lucky to have come through his obsession with all his appendages intact. The song is successfully manipulative. It paints a portrait of a sensitive young man experiencing unrequited love, and you just know that if the object of his fixation gave him a chance he'd win her heart like he has won ours - when in reality his behavior is indicative of a controlling and abusive nature, and ANY female should RUN from a relationship with him, even if he WAS the subject of her private thoughts. David Gates' sweet sweet voice, skillful songwriting, and beautiful melody inspires us to root for and even identify with this emotionally unstable lad. It isn't healthy. One should not feel kinship for such a maladjusted soul; one should not strive to be so self-involved that they should insinuate themselves so invasively in someone else's life without even so much as a cohesive rationalization. The song is touching, but, oh, so wrong. |
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| Led Zeppelin – Kashmir Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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@[rash_powder:37548] - "This songs was writen in the 70s. If Lord of the Rings was written then, no one knew about it. " I mean, I know that lukeofearl already addressed it, but...Holy f*ck! |
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| Led Zeppelin – Ten Years Gone Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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@[TheKooster:37546] - Sorry, but "Blind stars of fortune, Each have several rays" is indeed correct.Beautiful lyric. Plus "grow" not "go" the first time. He's saying that maybe he didn't have to head out on his own because he feels just as strongly about her as he did then. Other little stuff, but it's just ticky tack sh*t. I'd like to see you do Kashmir, tho. There is one line EVERYONE gets wrong. It's truly amazing. I'm not saying it isn't hard to kin- it is. But the fact NO ONE gets it right blows my mind. |
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| Foghat – I Just Want To Make Love To You (Muddy Waters cover) Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| Oh- Foghat (which featured former Savoy Brown members; if you're not familiar with Savoy Brown and you like Foghat- or even if you don't- look 'em up, in ALL they're various incarnations) gave us "Fool for the City" and "Slow Ride" aside from their great cover of this song, and both those were actually written by them. They also did a great cover of Willie's song "My Babe". They had a good dose of soul for a bunch of white boys. ;) RIP Lonesome Dave. | |
| Foghat – I Just Want To Make Love To You (Muddy Waters cover) Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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The song was written by Willie Dixon. Muddy recorded it (with Willie- of course- and Little Walter blowing a down n dirty harp), then Etta James made it a little more famous. Foghat took a little from Muddy -especially the feel- a little from Etta and rocked it up. They did the song justice. The lyrics are a bit messed up here. They're messed up in the same way all over the net. I've corrected lyrics (but not these) a few times on this site and they always get reset, so screw it. You want to know them, just listen to Muddy. |
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| Reunion – Life Is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me) Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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@[Milfred101:37432] - Been over a decade, but Dougville is absolutely right. Also included at the end is the Stevie Wonder classic "Uptight!" |
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| Oliver! – I'd Do Anything Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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What's nifty about this tune is that while he's playing the "cute lad", you can tell Dodger's hoping for more than just a peck from Nancy - provided Bill Sykes isn't around. And that's the song's point: no matter who it is, if you can push the right buttons in the right kind of way, you can make someone do all manner of things for you; especially if a little "sugar" is in the mix. It's one of many clever songs that play cute upfront, but are really a lot darker than they sound. GREAT musical. |
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| Oliver! – I'd Do Anything Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| @[AudreyDeanna287:37306] - Yep. Horrible decision. I did "Oliver!" and our lad hit all the notes, still sounded like a boy, and - most importantly for me - acted like one! And this was a community production. Sure, the kid went on to have a professional theatre career, but we hardly had their resources and we still could find an Oliver! that didn't come off like the most fey of Tiny Tims. (Super effeminate Tiny Tims really piss me off.) | |
| Queen – It's Late Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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@[ozonefiller:37284] - I know this is somewhat late - no pun intended - but... You, my friend, earn the cookie. This song is about a manipulative, conniving lover who mercilessly toys with the affections of another, doing just enough to string them along (while shamelessly blaming THEM for it) til they blow up the relationship after getting caught cheating (for the whateverenth time?). And what a ******* diva! The last two lines of the final act, pure unadulterated GAS! Clever stuff by May. |
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