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| Joel Plaskett – Love This Town Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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could miniature tim be a tim hortons reference...cause if so that'd be awesome....as well the first bit sounds like some good east coast fun times and hospitality....he must have had a bad experience in kelowna eh!!! |
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| Joel Plaskett – Lonely Love Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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this is a very good song...first of all, for non-canadians maybe i can clear up some of the cancon in this song...number one road is the trans-canada highway....it is very popular for people from where i am from in ontario to hitchhike out west, and surprisingly easy...as for the song...the first verse is about building a relationship (growing a plant/wind under our sails)...and then i think it is about being away from home on tour across canada...he is talking about how lonely he is missing someone....then he says that his heart will hitchike when he can't remember this person he misses...third verse i think the wire could represent a telephone call or the telephone wires that line the highway...through the thick and the thin sounds like a vow to stick together no matter how hard it gets being away...that is my take.... |
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| Joel Plaskett – Absentminded Melody Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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ahhh first comment....the first verse reminds me of being in a smoke filled pub...lots of cool metaphors....second verse it seems to me like he is thinking that maybe he is getting too old to be out partying and should be growing up...yet it is hard to learn how when your youth and pubs and music is all you know...it is amazing how time can fly by when all the good times keep coming then you wake up one day (as the sun comes) and it is "gone" |
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| Joel Plaskett – True Patriot Love Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I agree that this song must in some way be about politics. However, there is an emotional side to it. Some interesting political things though. Obviously the "put up the white flag so we can paint it red and blue" could be a sarcastic remark about how canadians let their culture be dominated by american's. Or it could be about free trade. The like a broken record but the records' still spinning line is very clever. Does anyone remember when Reagan and Mulroney sang irish eyes on national tv. Although likely not related there is a musical connection between politicians and these two countries. Another one..."Getting into bed seemed easy enough
Getting out's a little harder to do
"...I believe trudeau said that living next to america is like sleeping in a bed with an elephant...whenever it moves you notice, whether it is good or bad...or this lyric could be about getting into bed with the americans through free trade, but now that we see some of the negative effects (i dunno when this was written but softwood lumber sticks out in my mind) and we want out it is difficult. I am not going to comment on the obvious lyrics about our national anthems. Also, some have said it is part about politics and part about a relationship. Well I believe Canada and the United States have a relationship. A pretty darn important one (we are the worlds largest trading border). So he could actually be using a real life relationship as a metaphor for the one between these two fine nations. Anyways, hope that brings some good insight to the political aspects of the song as i interperet them. |
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