| Bob Dylan – Not Dark Yet Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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Another great song from this album. For me, just one word sums up this song. Cynical. The older one gets usually the more cynical one becomes. Especially, as the mind and body begins to fail, life loses optimism. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Nothing Man Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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Super song. This is a song about someone coming back home, who survived a terrible tragedy, whether it's just after 9/11, after a war, or after some other tragic explosion. He's probably severely injured and is honored as a hero in his hometown paper for his specific act of duty, though he doesn't feel like a hero. While his life has dramatically changed as a result, life goes on as usual in his hometown. In the last verse, he's drinking at a bar talking with the locals, who appreciate his service. "Pearl and silver". most likely is his handgun, which can end his torment, although it could be a necklace with a cross signifying the death of Jesus as "courage you can understand". "Nothing man" symbolizes someone who doesn't feel special or significant although he is honored by people for his heroism. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Nothing Man Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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Super song. This is a song about someone coming back home, who survived a terrible tragedy, whether it's just after 9/11, after a war, or after some other tragic explosion. He's probably severely injured and is honored as a hero in his hometown paper for his specific act of duty, though he doesn't feel like a hero. While his life has dramatically changed as a result, life goes on as usual in his hometown. In the last verse, he's drinking at a bar talking with the locals, who appreciate his service. "Pearl and silver". most likely is his handgun, which can end his torment, although it could be a necklace with a cross signifying the death of Jesus as "courage you can understand". "Nothing man" symbolizes someone who doesn't feel special or significant although he is honored by people for his heroism. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Nothing Man Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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Super song. This is a song about someone coming back home, who survived a terrible tragedy, whether it's just after 9/11, after a war, or after some other tragic explosion. He's probably severely injured and is honored as a hero in his hometown paper for his specific act of duty, though he doesn't feel like a hero. While his life has dramatically changed as a result, life goes on as usual in his hometown. In the last verse, he's drinking at a bar talking with the locals, who appreciate his service. "Pearl and silver". most likely is his handgun, which can end his torment, although it could be a necklace with a cross signifying the death of Jesus as "courage you can understand". "Nothing man" symbolizes someone who doesn't feel special or significant although he is honored by people for his heroism. |
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| Bob Dylan – Senor (Tales of Yankee Power) Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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Great song. I can sense Bobs deep desperation. Every line in this songs points toward his search for the truth, for answers, for comfort, ultimately for salvation. This song would most likely be his state of mind just before his conversion to Christianity, That is the answer he was searching for. And Jesus Christ was the one he should contact to bring him to the truth and show the way out. |
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| Bob Dylan – Is Your Love in Vain? Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| Great intro...title says it all. | |
| Bruce Springsteen – Nothing Man Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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A definite favourite song of mine. Pretty straight forward. Obviously the singer is miraculously still alive, after what seems to be a possible terrorist attack or some other kind of bomb attack. Now that he is back home, nothing has changed except he feels this previous event has changed everything in his life. The pearl and silver is most likely his gun, while I believe he's contemplating suicide. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – The Price You Pay Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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@[cybergrail:27825] I think this is another reference to man wanting to reach the heavens like the tower of Babel. Man like to play God or act like God, and thinks he can get into heaven or the promised land with God's mercy or help. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – The Price You Pay Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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@[cybergrail:27824] I think this is another reference to man wanting to reach the heavens like the tower of Babel. Man like to play God or act like God, and thinks he can get into heaven or the promised land with God's mercy or help. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – The Price You Pay Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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I have always thought Springsteens ballads, anthems, or protest songs were his best. This one song is the cream of the top. Great tune. The price you pay everyone can identify with. I believe this song is simply but eloquently about man choosing his own fate, doing it his way, building his own roads or life, but not doing it Gods way. And as a result he goes astray just like many Bible heroes {Moses for one} did in the past who had their moments when they were led into temptation, or simply failed at some point in their life. But since God is holy, and since we are all accountable to him, whether we know its our not, theres a price we pay or you pay for our misgivings or for our mistakes or our misdoings, and the suffering or the disappointment can be very great. The biblical story of crossing the desert toward the promised land amply illustrates Springsteens point. The people had a hard time trusting God, or believing that Gods way were the best way, instead the did things their way, or what was right in their own eyes. The truth is often hard to swallow, and we are often blind to the truth, and end up in difficult circumstances. |
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| Elton John – Rocket Man Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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First of all, this is a great song, lyrically and musically. I believe this song works on two main levels, as many good songs do. One , It's a song where the two verses and the choruses quite literally and visually describe a real astronaut, and his unique, adventurous job travelling to Mars, "going to where no man has gone before." ( similar in scope to Columbus back then, sailing the seas on his way to discovering the new world, that became America with over 300 million inhabitants today. A new colony of Europe) 1ST VERSE He describes himself or identifies himself mainly as a rocket man, because that's what he is, that's where he is (inside a type of rocket or spaceship) that's what he is dressed as in his rocket suit, and that is his job description. Though he's trained hard for this exciting moment to enter space, nothing could really prepare him for the severe alienation he feels now, and the crippling loneliness that he describes. He is a social animal, a family man, but as a rocket man he has been specially trained to be and act more like a machine without feelings or regrets to accomplish his difficult Mars mission. (Like the movie "Into the wild, where had big dreams of living in Alaskas, far away from humanity, hoping to become one with pure nature, only to find out the hard way, its better to be with someone. Or like the movie Mar-ooned where Tom Hanks alone on this island makes a human face. ) CHORUS He knows that most likely he won't ever be returning to Earth. But he still holds onto a thread of hope that one day he will return again, though forever changed, and famously reknown as the "rocket man". He even knows he will more likely die as the rocket man, in outer space somewhere or the first man to arrive on Mars, sacrificed for mankind's future hope of one day establishing Mars as colony of earth. He will live out the rest of his life as rocket man and die alone , "burning out his fuse up here alone." But overall, the main goal of travel to Mars seems to be the hope of one day it becoming a colony of earth. 2ND VERSE He knows Mars is much too hostile a planet to inhabit. But for the sake of science, its more of an elaborate experiment for scientists and rocket man is their Guinea pig or their monkey. Although he's a rocket man, or astronaut, or spaceman, he can't possibly understand "all the science", since his main focus or job is travelling to Mars, another planet in our solar system, where man has never been before, but badly wants to go, despite the enormous risks and the enormous amount of time it would take to get there, since that first man going to Mars will experience incredible alienation, and face constant psychological and physical stress of such great magnitude, that will cause drastic changes to his body and his mind i.e, threatening his sanity. On the secondary level, the acute feelings of alienation and loneliness that Rocket man is describing, almost everyone can relate to at one time in their life. Whether it be leaving home for the first time, or travelling to a foreign country. or the plight of a refugee, or escaping from reality through various means whether it be thru withdrawal, or on a drug trip, or in the spiritual realm or fantasy world. And Mars is a metaphor for that place that perhaps sounds enchanting but its void of life, unbearable. |
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| Elton John – Rocket Man Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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First of all, this is a great song, lyrically and musically. I believe this song works on many different levels, as many good songs do. One , It's a song where the two verses and the choruses quite literally and visually describe a real astronaut, and his unique, adventurous job travelling to Mars, "going to where no man has gone before." ( similar in scope to Columbus back then, sailing the seas on his way to discovering the new world, that became America with over 300 million inhabitants today. A new colony of Europe) 1ST VERSE He describes himself or identifies himself mainly as a rocket man, because that's what he is, that's where he is (inside a type of rocket or spaceship) that's what he is dressed as in his rocket suit, and that is his job description. Though he's trained hard for this exciting moment to enter space, nothing could really prepare him for the severe alienation he feels now, and the crippling loneliness that he describes. He is a social animal, a family man, but as a rocket man he has been specially trained to be and act more like a machine without feelings or regrets to accomplish his difficult Mars mission. CHORUS He knows that most likely he won't ever be returning to Earth. But he still holds onto a thread of hope that one day he will return again, though forever changed, and famously reknown as the "rocket man". He even knows he will more likely die as the rocket man, in outer space somewhere or the first man to arrive on Mars, sacrificed for mankind's future hope of one day establishing Mars as colony of earth. He will live out the rest of his life as rocket man and die alone , "burning out his fuse up here alone." But overall, the main goal of travel to Mars seems to be the hope of one day it becoming a colony of earth. 2ND VERSE He knows Mars is much too hostile a planet to inhabit. But for the sake of science, its more of an elaborate experiment for scientists and rocket man is their Guinea pig or their monkey. Although he's a rocket man, or astronaut, or spaceman, he can't possibly understand "all the science", since his main focus or job is travelling to Mars, another planet in our solar system, where man has never been before, but badly wants to go, despite the enormous risks and the enormous amount of time it would take to get there, since that first man going to Mars will experience incredible alienation, and face constant psychological and physical stress of such great magnitude, that will cause drastic changes to his body and his mind i.e, threatening his sanity. On the secondary level, the acute feelings of alienation and loneliness that Rocket man is describing, almost everyone can relate to at one time in their life. Whether it be leaving home for the first time, or travelling to a foreign country. or the plight of a refugee, or escaping from reality through various means whether it be thru depression or withdrawal, or on a drug trip, or in the spiritual realm or fantasy world, inner space. And Mars is a metaphor for that place that perhaps sounds enchanting but its void of life, unbearable. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – One Step Up Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| @[michaelbax:4619] I also think one step up and two steps back reminds me kind of a dance, too. Great metaphor. | |
| Bruce Springsteen – One Step Up Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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This great song and this album remind me of Dylans blood on the tracks. Like Dylan, Bruce here isn't writing about other characters, he's speaking about himself. It seems at that time after marrying a glamorous model and living in Hollywood that he lost his roots, his way, becoming someone he really wasn't. Who hasn't been down that path. Of course in One step up he expresses what he's sadly come to realize, that his glamorous relationship aint working out. Like brilliant disguise, probably not much depth or real love in their marriage. One of his best albums about his love life back then. On equal par with Dylans classic Blood on the tracks, |
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