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Dire Straits – Money For Nothing Lyrics 21 years ago
Dire straits is a phrase people say when they are in financial trouble, "you're in dire straits."
The name was suggested to Mark Knopfler because of the bands finacial situation.

The song is about rising up out of the rat race and becoming a rock star, knopfler overhead workmen doing renovations on his house and this is where some of the lyrics come from.

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Beastie Boys – Shadrach Lyrics 22 years ago
Badfish64, i think the main part of the whole Shadrach Mesach and Abednago story is that they were pulled out of the fire by angels and proceeded to dance above it.

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Beastie Boys – Jimmy James Lyrics 22 years ago
side note: Jimmy james was what some of jimmii hendrix's friends used to call him, a hendrix guitar loop is used in this song

i know this isnt a meaning but i thought it would be good to add it.

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Beastie Boys – Song For The Man Lyrics 22 years ago
i cant remeber which one of them wrote this i think it may have been adrock. well anyway whoever which one of them it was, was sitting on a train and there was this girl like across from him and there were these two guys making wierd sounds at her, like trying to flirt with her or something, and she started getting really annoyed and then they kept doing it. anyway, she got off at the next station and after she left the two guys started "Grading" her on how good she was (who made you the judge and jury).

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Beastie Boys – Something's Got To Give Lyrics 22 years ago
The video clip for this song is just a load of american bombers blowing up stuff.
its a peace and anti-war song.

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Beastie Boys – Live Wire Lyrics 22 years ago
adam horovitz wrote this song about 2 people, some kid he thought seemed pretty cool, and his friend and former band mate dave schilkin who died of a overdose.

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At the Drive-In – Napoleon Solo Lyrics 22 years ago
"lets_start_over",
the reference to texas is to do with the death of 2 girls that cedric used to be in a band with and the whole band was friends with, they died in car crash on there way back to elpaso from austin. (austins yellow brick road= freeway/turnpike)
march 23rd is the day the car crash was on. "the music died" and "paved a wave of distance" is because during the earlier years of the members of atdi's career there was only a small handful of bands in the el-paso area and none of the members where girls, these 2 girls cedric were in a band with was basically the first elpaso band with girls in it, so they "paved" the way for other girls.

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At the Drive-In – Blue Tag Lyrics 22 years ago
this is a long shot, but "burning on the borders like we said we would", like quarreling middle easten countrys?, iraq-iran conflict or something to that effect, and "with 12 hard years of currency, we trade it all for the current scene", the government ignoring the peoples needs and spending all tax money on armed forces.

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Blink-182 – Wasting Time Lyrics 22 years ago
alpha5099,
im probably mistaken but i think "kinko's"
is a fast food chain in america sorta like mcdonalds,
"when i told her that i used to fry", i think is a reference to working the fryer (to cook french fries) at "kinko's", which is regarded as a really bad job and you get minimum wage.

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