| Leonard Cohen – A Singer Must Die Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| @[jazzmanchg:29485] That explanaition fits the song perfectly | |
| Patti Smith – Birdland Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| This is a fantastic piece of art from a fantastic album. Patti's voice on this song, how she distorts it, the lyrics, the music. A great song but like a lot of the album, disturbing as well. Not only about the grieving of a son for his father, I think the son goes so far as to commit suicide so he can join his father. | |
| Squeeze – Goodbye Girl Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| This song is still about fantasising/masturbation. Couldn't see how to edit contributions here so adding to last week's comment. The final verse actually changes nothing. It is a silver razor, not bracelet (as suggested by the lyrics shown here). The silver razor along with the waistcoat and the clubroom locker keys are all symbols of ostentation, wealth. And all part of his fantasy. It doesn't bother him that he has lost them because he never had them. Just as he has never actually had or lost any of the women as they were all just masturbation fantasies. He wakes with a shake (masturbation) but turns around to find them and they're gone. Jersey, a rich tax haven where his fantasy wife has gone. Then as always, back to reality and back home and back to the cheap lino on his bedroom floor. | |
| Squeeze – Goodbye Girl Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| This song is still about fantasising/masturbation. Couldn't see how to edit contributions here so adding to last week's comment. The final verse actually changes nothing. It is a silver razor, not bracelet (as suggested by the lyrics shown here). The silver razor along with the waistcoat and the clubroom locker keys are all symbols of ostentation, wealth. And all part of his fantasy. It doesn't bother him that he has lost them because he never had them. Just as he has never actually had or lost any of the women as they were all just masturbation fantasies. He wakes with a shake (masturbation) but turns around to find them and they're gone. Jersey, a rich tax haven where his fantasy wife has gone. Then as always, back to reality and back home and back to the cheap lino on his bedroom floor. | |
| Squeeze – Goodbye Girl Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| @[Macanone:24482] yes, thanks, a little off as you say. | |
| Squeeze – Goodbye Girl Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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First two verses suggest masturbation. Fantasising in the morning about girls he saw but may not even have spoken to last night. So 'waking with a shake'. Then after the fantasy, back to reality. The same sunlight shining on the same lino, so actually still back home and still alone in his cheap flat. Last verse ruins that theory though. |
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| Leonard Cohen – Take This Waltz Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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The line in the first verse: "There's a piece that was torn from the morning" Should this be: "There's a PEACE that was torn from the MOURNING?" I wonder, as it follows the line: "There's a tree where the doves go to die" As in dove of peace and mourning death. |
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| David Bowie – Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| @[aztecdoug:18416] A long time now since you wrote this interpretation but I've always wondered what this song was about. Your interpretation fits. Adding to your rock and roll analogy, there is " You can't hide beat" and "Blue but nobody home" (as in blues but with no soul) | |
| The Clash – Inoculated City Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| I assumed the toilet cleaning advert was a metaphor for the use of agent orange in Vietnam. Flushing (with chemicals - agent orange) sure beats brushing (soldiers going in to do the dirty work). | |
| David Bowie – Blackstar Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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A band member had said this song is about ISIS or IS. Since refuted but perhaps there is something. Blackstar was originally 2 separate songs. Perhaps the first part at least is about ISIS or IS. Elsewhere on the album, Bowie sings: "I'm dying to," which almost certainly hides: "I'm dying too." Perhaps: "In the centre of it all, your eyes" hides: "In the centre of it all, your IS." Go back from eyes to Is (ie more than one I). Sounds the same. Then from Is (more than one I) to IS (Islamic State), looks the same. |
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| David Bowie – 'Tis A Pity She Was A Whore Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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I like an interpretation I've seen elsewhere on the web (posted by Yakbutter). "I think this song is about time and references his earlier song of that name. In the lyrics of ‘Time’ is the line ‘he flexes like a whore’. Don’t worry that the fact that the whore is now a ‘she’. Time has no gender. In the second line he writes ‘hold your mad hands’. These are the hands of a clock. The ticking of a clock is represented by the accelrating electronic beat as time goes by faster and begins to draw to his end. I feel that the line ‘that was patrol, this is the war’ contrast his perception of time now compared to how he perceived time when he wrote the earlier song. There is a final clue in the subject of the John Ford play on which the title is based. The central theme of that play is incest which resonates with the famous line from ‘Time’ – ‘incestuous and vain’. Just to add to that, 'kept my cock' could refer to the loss of the libido and of the cockiness of his youth. A pity that time has moved on so easily from him and into other's embrace. |
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| David Bowie – Eight Line Poem Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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@[colintron:8771] I know this is 5 years ago now but it all makes sense. |
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| David Bowie – The Man Who Sold the World Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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Whatever this song is actually about, I can't shake off what I thought it was about when I first listened to it more than 30 years ago. Remember that Sympathy for the Devil by the Rolling Stones was released in 1968, The Man Who Sold the World in 1970. Jagger and Bowie are from London and were the same age. Sympathy for the Devil is overtly the devil meeting and talking to the audience. There is no ambiguity. It's a cool idea for a song. Maybe Bowie liked the idea of this meeting and wrote The Man Who Sold the World about a chance meeting with Jesus. How the song fits the idea: They pass on the stairs. Jesus said that all mankind was his friend (including David). But wait, says David, you died alone, a long long time ago. No, not me, I'm still here (still the center of many people's lives). But hey, it was all a trick, I sold (as in conned, tricked) the world. David's first response is Ok, that's funny, it was bullshit then. Good to meet you all the same. Then David starts thinking about what the meaning of life is now, if there is no God. Why we are here? That all those people since Jesus, that believed, actually died alone. That he is alone. Then the last verses suggesting that even though we don't know the answer, we carry on, pretending that everything is OK. We sell the world. I like the way Bowie never explicitly reveals the meaning of his songs. He'll give clues but no more. |
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