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| Elliott Smith – The White Lady Loves You More Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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This is another of his great songs where he packs so much anguish in a beautiful, delicate package. It's a lilting waltz, yet it's about the pain of loving someone addicted to heroin. He uses the phrase "thrown over" which was used in the early part of the 20th century for, as we so crassly put it, being dumped. Just a beautiful song. |
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| Steely Dan – My Old School Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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There's probably a lot of inside jokes, but this is mostly about a girl who Becker or Fagin left behind when they went to college in Annandale, NY. She was very sweet when she took him to the train station to go to school, but before he'd been there a month, she was in trouble and wouldn't be able to go to college at William and Mary. She also dumped him. Spring comes and he still has hopes for the relationship, but she wouldn't go on a trip to Mexico they had planned. She's still acting like a wild woman instead of the sweet girl who saw him off on the train to college.
Ultimately he looks at it from some time later, living in California and thinking he's never going back to New York or that girl. |
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| Steely Dan – BarryTown Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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It's about prejudice. It's an allegorical story that's really about white folks who pretend to be friendly with minorities but in reality they are as prejudiced as other people. |
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| Steely Dan – Parkers Band Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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About Charlie Parker's music. He once recorded for Savoy Records. Smacked into a trance relates to using heroin. |
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