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| Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan – No Place To Fall Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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WHAT? One of my favorite songwriters covered by one of my favorite singers and his lovely musical partner... omigosh, i had better find this music! Glad you put up the lyrics so i learned this important news! |
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| Radiohead – Street Spirit (Fade Out) Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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Holy fuck. Sorry, words are failing me. I have been listening to Lena Hall's version of this, part of her Obsessed Radiohead series. I am in another world. Actually just another view, a truer view of this world we're all in. I am so happy there are others who enjoy being here-- that's a real paradise; i mean to be able to immerse ourselves in this art, to feel another being's heart and soul reflecting on mortality and deadly truths in the most beautiful melodies (which my sadly unpracticed and unwieldy voice can't resist attempting to repeat)-- that is a rarely wonderful thing. |
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| Thom Yorke – Analyse Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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"A self-fulfilling prophecy..." Exactly. We are here to analyze "Analyse." I am just getting started and will enjoy all your analyses! |
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| Radiohead – The Bends Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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@[Elysium18:34064] Here we are almost ten years after your comment. Covid-19 happened. I see all the liberals (which i used to consider myself) jumping on board; this is the moment, their anti-Vietnam, their Woodstock, their "I'd like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmony..." moment. I keep thinking of this song because i think that's what's going on with a lot of the lock-step conformity and hatred and oversimplification of issues that have gone with this crisis and the supposedly uplifting effect they have had on our souls, even as the economy (and some people's lives) have tanked.
People love to feel they are part of a higher movement, something bigger than just them and their little lives. It's a tendency that can make great things happen, or horrible things. Thom gave voice to the need for it. |
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| Sugarloaf – Green Eyed Lady Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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@[Cannaman:25096] Very good. I think you're onto something here. Strolling toward the sun=leaning into the sun; smoothing every wave that comes... of course.
Though the idea that the Lady is a boat makes sense, too. Not ominous and dangerous like the sea itself, more something that smooths the waves, is a friend to man, etc.
OK maybe the songwriter was kicking back on a beautiful boat while enjoying some of Nature's Finest, and thought of how the weed and the watercraft were both Green Ladies... but Green-Eyed sounds better, not so jealous.
Thanks, Cannaman. |
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| Townes Van Zandt – Rake Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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@[psfresh:6655] Wonderful! I got that that was the general meaning of the song, but hadn't thought about how it was his own laughter (proud and boastful, as you say) that clues him in. |
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| Elliott Smith – Last Call Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I think... the song changes around the time of "Church bells, and now i'm awake." A transition from specific to universal themes. He was talking about the particular situation of this girl he's splitting from (and i even think that, in another example of Elliott's excellent wordplay, the "last call" is not only about a drink but literally about a last phone call, from which she can "switch him off safely.") But now he is speaking in general of wanting absolution, a spiritual reprieve. And i think "she" is of course God, but also his mother. (Elliott, i bow down to your noble spirit!) He knows the god of comfort and relief is the Goddess, the Mother. I wouldn't go so far as to call it an Oedipal thing. I just mean, we know he loves his mother, and here he is ashamed and bitter about not living up to her/the Creator's plans somehow, and he begs her to grant him forgiveness and forgetness.
I freakin' love the way it builds after that point. Unbelievable. Who else can do that? |
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| Elliott Smith – No Name #1 Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Hey NoName, That is weird-- that you thought the melody felt like floating. I got the same sort of thing! I was kind of tired or wasted or something, and hearing him going up like that into that simple, sweet, "Leave alone.... leave alone..." well it was almost nauseating, in a trippy sense, it was so sweet. I mean that in a good way-- maybe i should say it made me giddy. By trippy i mean like a deja vu... i knew the melody just had to circle up to there, it had forever and always... but i never would have been able to think of it myself. God thank you Elliott! |
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