| Pink Floyd – Ibiza Bar Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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the lyrics below are a lot more accurate. I remember traveling to Amsterdam in the late 90's to find Pink Floyd bootlegs and also found a book of their lyrics to date. A long trip and no small expense to find stuff that is all so easy nowadays on-line. The song as well as the album More deals in great part w/ the experience of making a film and gives the sensation of a story of an actor within the story of the film. The son Cybelline gives the listener the same cinematic sensation. I'm so afraid Of mistakes that I've made Shaking every time that I awake I feel like a cardboard cut-out man So build me a time When the characters rhyme And the storyline is kind I've aged and aged Since the first page [ Find more Lyrics on www.mp3lyrics.org/E7Pt ] I've lived every line that you wrote Take me down, take me down, From the shelf above your head And build me a time When the characters rhyme And the storyline is kind And if I'm left On the shelf like the rest And the epilogue reads like a sad song Please pick up your camera and use me again And build me a time When the characters rhyme And the storyline is kind |
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| Jethro Tull – With You There To Help Me Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| A CD release of Tull's Isle of Wight Festival performance from 1970 has come out and the version of With You There to Help Me sounds great! | |
| Jethro Tull – With You There To Help Me Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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And who but the cultured Ian Anderson would attend to the grammatical detail of "with whom I can be ...." American English seems to have banished the use of this relative pronoun, objective case "whom." Makes this language teacher proud. You guys above are spot on. Freaking genius in lyrics and music. Did sixty days for just one night. Just one night back where we're known, loved and appreciated make on hand in there for sixty days out in the whatever desert we have to wald through. "Did sixty days" conveys the sense that even work we choose to do, in Anderson's case concert touring, can feel like a sentence at times. |
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| A-Ha – Take On Me Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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The lead singer's range seems incredible on this song. Do people how know A-ha well know if this is computer enhanced, or is this singer another Shawn Phillips? Phillis is a singer-songwriter who spanned the 60's until this decade with great material, mainly on A & M records. He's a great spokesmen for musicians whose independence is always threatened by the consolidated, often anti-creative power of the major record labels & distributors. Back to "Take on me", I find the word reversal of "Take me on .. Take on me" to be one of the great richness of our English language. Such word order changes can be just playful w/ no meaning change. Kitten cat comes here vs Here comes cat kitten; other times the're a completely different meaning, e.g: To walk her over (to the library) vs. To walk over her (disregard, maybe even run over her) To put out for the boys (grant sexual favor)(vs. To put the boys out for a favor (inconvenience them) Take on me, seems to mean, as least in my baseball parlance mentality "pass on me.. say thanks but no," as a batter might look at but not swing at a certain pitch (he takes on the fastball, low and away." Thus it might be two opposite notions in a fickle relationship. take on me (no thanks), take me on (as a partner, lover). Do other listeners attribute special meaning to "Take me on ... Take on me"? Again, I'm really curious to know about the authenticity of this singer's range. |
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| Tears for Fears – Everybody Wants to Rule the World Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Zebra's interpretation isnteresting but comes across as quite contrived and facile in it's forced connection to Orzabal's perceived gay activism. Apparently there is no evidence that either band member was gay or had a pro-gay agenda. And if they did, so what? Aren't the malaise, aimlessness and indecision that Zebra attributes to homosexuality actually conditions that we all shared in the late 20th century and in great measure still do in 2008, in a world dominated by greed, the threat of nuclear war and the accumulation of power in the hands of fewer nations and fewer large non-human insitutions. The Orwellian 1984-inspired interpretation posited by ZachKing88 seems a lot more plausible. |
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| Jethro Tull – Back to the Family Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Is this a five-beat signature like "Living in the Past"? This is a catchy rythym but my ear and musical knowledge aren't good enough to tell. This is a sensiive retelling of the yearning we have for the quiet life back home, nearer the womb. But it seems you can never quite go back home, for the pastoral becomes boring and most of us seem to eventually head back to the frazzled busy-ness of being "gainfully" employed and "successful". |
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| Jethro Tull – Reasons For Waiting Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| This one keps meaning a lot to me, just as it did to an idealistic teenager in the 70's to a near 50er now. The merging of Ian's flute with the orchestral strings works well without beint overly sentimental. The notion that honesty and faith in others and one'se self: "You're not seen, you're not heard, but I'll stand by my word, came a thousand miles..." still resonates for me as I think of the people truly loved in my life. Nice rythym guitar throughout. | |
| Chris Smither – I Am the Ride Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I appreciate Chris Smither's well placed distrust in "the system", saying: Prison sirens wailing That security is failing Do not inspire a lifetime of devotion The fail-safe stuff of our aseptic, material-protective mass mentality is not part of the ride we really yearn for. It's pride, the bad kind and a sense of duty... keep producing "wealth" that are the obstacles from living truly the ride. When I contemplate the failings of our country and the government that our apathy and docility have led us to deserve in these last few decades (the US has been going downhill since they killed RFK) it's not surprising that angeles grieve. Chris gets, it. Go see him live if you can. He readiates brilliance & perception. |
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| Jethro Tull – Sossity, You're a Woman Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Makes me think of Hamlet's screed, "Frailty, thy name is woman. What a contrast of tone and sense of the nature of femaile comanion to that of Inside. Is Sossity a common name or nickname in Great Britain? |
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| Jethro Tull – Teacher Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Unclecolley is on the a good track, I think. The teacher is an unlikely one, perhaps a rather less thoughtful, fun-seeking friend that gets the narrator to loosen up and "find yourself some fun", away from a rather humdrum, "you're worth only what you do for work" mileu. We learn lessons from all kinds of teachers. I can relate to this, as I have older siblings whose adventures and misadventures in the sixties have taught me a great deal both with good and bad examples. I don't see a comment about religion in this song. Certainly that bent is more obvious in Thick as a Brick and Aqualung songs. | |
| Jethro Tull – Inside Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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| Jethro Tull – For Michael Collins, Jeffrey, And Me Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Intriguing song, and a poignant recollection it inspires indeed, of the lonliness that I as a young kid imagined that Michael Collins felt, orbiting the moon in the command module. I wionder what Tull listeners' take is on the mentions of the ape's curiosity, the monkey's seed and the humanoid thrill. Does this link with the "money power win" notiion? Is Ian saying that despite a great feat of human ingenuity, going to the moon, we're still primitive and primal back here on earth. Kudos to sonmeanings.net for providing a forum for thoughtful exchange of ideas on great artists like those of Tull! |
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