| Genesis – The Battle Of Epping Forest Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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@[jonarcee:9041] "fires acorns..." is said in a voice that reminds me of old Goon Show characters like Blue Bottle. MPFC was wrapping its run on the BBC, so campy characterizations were fairly entrenched in entertainment. To me it's another distinguishing element that helps define a character we can't see otherwise - and there's a lot. Just like when Liquid Len speaks his vow, I went from picturing any old/young lush to a large, brawny, beer-swilling hooligan. |
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| Electric Light Orchestra – Sweet Talkin' Woman Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I like how Huey Lewis copped the call-back verse endings for "Do You Believe in Love". Jeff's lawyers are snoozing. | |
| Electric Light Orchestra – Waterfall Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Why is a waterfall an illusion? Could be the perceived passage of time: "falling evermore down on you" being meaningless. Or if compared to love just a subjective perception of bliss. |
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| Electric Light Orchestra – Turn To Stone Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"you will return again someday / to my blue world" A callback to "Shangri-La" I think. |
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| Electric Light Orchestra – Sweet Is The Night Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Nobody's Child part II Haunting track indeed, Kelly's voice is gold. |
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| Electric Light Orchestra – Strange Magic Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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improbable but interesting Beatles connection: 1970 Beatles' annual Christmas record to their fan club was (understandably) recorded seperately. John just turned on a tape recorder & strolled around the Queen's Gardens with Yoko and chatted. Yoko: the air is so crisp and all...it's like a strange magic invading the processes of our thinking... Very improbable, but I'd also wager Jeff collected all those Christmas records... |
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| Electric Light Orchestra – Starlight Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Jeff does alot of anthropormophic writing on this album: he talks to animals & whales, writes a symphony to rain & addresses sky & night formally. Here he personifies his love as starlight, looking first at him & then away (a star radiating in all directions). I think he draws a nice analogy on the randomness of finding a love out of everyone in the world. Yet just how special is it when you realize the same constellation shines on everyone? Later he makes a confession about this flighty girl to the glow of the moon, swearing it to secrecy. The line that's always confused in this love song me is the "you had me all summer long". Unless it's 'had' in the sense of Evil Woman, maybe saying enough is enough. |
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| Electric Light Orchestra – Shangri-La Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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another Beatles' nod, and a foretelling of the next album's title. Definitely 'will' return, as Karnitschnig says. |
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| Electric Light Orchestra – Rockaria! Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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but Rockaria! is... When I got to see EII live, I was darn impressed by Kelly nailing the aria in falsetto. |
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| Electric Light Orchestra – Mister Kingdom Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I can see that link, webmasterdee. Jeff does an A to A rhyme then a meandering followup that doesn't rhyme. Likewise 2 quick lines followed by a rambling lead-in to "across the universe". Stylistically similar in pace too. Meaning wise, it's certainly about dreams elevating a poor soul from the mundane world, but also at the beginning perhaps a touch of (suicidal) envy of the dead. From The Moody Blues' "Question" (1970) But in the grey of the morning, My mind becomes confused, Between the dead and the sleeping, And the road that I must choose. |
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| Electric Light Orchestra – Jungle Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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wvhillrunner's quote pretty much is the meaning. Though it takes a dream-state to realize, 'dumb' animals have a simple & better perspective about life on Earth than we. |
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| Electric Light Orchestra – Ocean Breakup/King of the Universe Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| "A"cid | |
| Electric Light Orchestra – Fire on High Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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The forward-lyrics should be noted: a choral group sings the title of the song throughout. "Fire on High" I've always thought to be a foreboding of judgement day, or as "time is not (reversible)" suggests, we're rushing headlong towards a techological doom. A warning to turn back. (though on an LP if you didn't stop spinning it backwards the needle might fall off the record). Also fwiw, I remember CBS Football using the chorus as theme music in the 70's. Great stuff. |
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| Electric Light Orchestra – Evil Woman Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Nobody intrigued by the singer's hole in his head? Maybe the woman is evil enough to commit murder, which is why she has nowhere to go but better leave town. | |
| Electric Light Orchestra – Down Home Town Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think Jeff might've been inferring another jab about American back country folk; 3rd eyebrow might be what bridges the other 2 eyebrows into what's know as a 'unibrow'. Or what gpciie said. |
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