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| Kate & Anna Mcgarrigle – Talk to Me of Mendocino Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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It’s just the blues she’s singing of here, and Kate boils it down to a trip across the country. She never has the blues until she catches them in NY State. Then she runs away west as far as she can, out to where “but the rocks remain.” One can infer lost love in the song mix here [“Won’t you say come with me”] but IMO the idea of Mendocino is the final destination in the singer’s search for peace. God Bless you, Kate McGarrigle. |
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| John Hiatt – Walk On Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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Is this song a true tragedy? Is the loss of hope all we have when we wipe away love and our sense of selves? Have all JH’s experiences added up to this? “Don’t look back. Don’t ask questions. Don’t even try to understand.” Walk on. Walk on. |
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| Buffalo Springfield – I Am A Child Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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What does this line mean: "The sky is blue, and so is the sea. What is the color, when black is burned?" Is it a reference to a nuclear holocaust? |
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| Steely Dan – Any Major Dude Will Tell You Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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Wow. I did not know about the squonk, but it are a great metaphor for the therapy of tears. It also works well with the band's sardonic side, if you buy into the "clever without being droll" description by Wenaolong above. |
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| Kenny Loggins – The Real Thing Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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"The woman screamed at me and cried..." Where does this fit in the rest of the lyrics, which are largely in the form of an intimate conversation with the singer's child about divorce?
The entire stanza seems to lose some focus, with "How could anybody be so selfish, and treat you all so cruel?" That sounds like the father imagining Amanda's voice, but could be read as the father sniping at her mother too.
I love the song because it deals with the effects of divorce on children, but wish this stanza were clearer. Then Loggins goes straight away to the line that really troubles me.
Does anyone share my confusion? |
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