| Kate Bush – Running Up That Hill Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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@[chriswarne:36067] VERY unique view of the song, I like yours, thoughtful |
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| Kate Bush – Running Up That Hill Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| @non-croyant Hi, I am Kevin From the Future and I would like to inform you - EVERYBODY these days, in 2050, THINK they love Placebo, but it isn't actually them. | |
| Deep Purple – Child In Time Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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It is his Uncle and Dad who were in the Bosnian war together, one of them got hit be flying lead. They did a bad thing, fighting and killing - yes the troops too not just the generals and the politicians. Then they came home all PTSD and probably were not great as parents in that state. It sounds like an expression of being abused. Sorry but I think these lyrics are about as crappy as Rock music ever wrote.I mean, was there any effort at all here? Nope. just scribble 4 lines and repeat or howl. These lyrics do little to help anyone understand what he was going thru, or his Dad and Uncle.... other than "you bad,. you might get hurt" The music is stunningly awesome though, his guitar licks were being honed here. Ya the crowd is hilariously out of touch, lol |
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| Eagles – Hotel California Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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Okay, but there are questions remaining... the lyrical analogy to heaven popped out at me recently - "the warm smell of colitas, rising up in the air" and the girl with the candle is saying "I am the LIGHT and I am the WAY" Plus, the more obvious "mission bell" calling to him, and of course "this could be heaven or this could be hell" SO!! - maybe they were talking about life and living and dying, and the corporeal state being both heaven and hell - hinting at their agnostic bent perhaps, thinking that we don't go to heaven, or hell, that is all just made up stuff to control the masses, and therefore "you can never leave" [planet earth] [not without a spaceship, but back then nobody had their own spaceships like today]. [Branson] I am atheist, but the heaven thing could not be ignored. "Welcome to Life on Earth".... naw thats not it, that is just the way I would do it I suppose.. Now argue with me.[no not "agree"with me - argue. agreeing never furthered any discussion ever. |
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| The Rolling Stones – Shattered Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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what does Sha oobie mean, or is it just a songwriter`s need for the right feel like shah - OOOoooobie The other non-word is `Smatta, I assume it means `What is the matter |
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| The Rolling Stones – Shattered Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| @[heyjude55:27345] - on that topic, what does Sha oobie mean ( sorry to correct you, I like Sha-Doobie better, lol¸) | |
| Nine Inch Nails – Hurt Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| @[SaintPsilocybin:26844] "Dirt"? Wow these comments are not only full of wisdom but also tidbits like "Dirt is heroin" - I didn't know that and I used to be a heroin dealer!! ;LOL | |
| Vanilla Fudge – Ticket to Ride Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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This is, of course, a Beatles song - but I liked the Vanilla Fudge version better way back then. Listening now to Beatles' "21 #1s" is surprisingly awesome - the remastering lets George's guitar be heard and it is spot on solid studio musician quality. John's guitar is always heard, despite... ok don't speak ill of the dead. The crisp harmonies, the added instruments and other George Martin ideas, it all comes through and there is lots to listen to. It has been three weeks since I found it for $10 - 21 Beatles #1 hits over just 6 or 7 years. As for this song, his girlfriend doesn't like him much. Same theme as Day Tripper. John was insecure and angry and abusive with women, and they left him. Yoko got the upper hand, John met his match and in his mind that meant that he belonged to her. Not just "with her" but "TO her". That is what I think this song reflects and portends |
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| Steppenwolf – Magic Carpet Ride Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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The light came on for me today when driving to this great road music - the "magic carpet ride" is rock-star lingo for sex on the [carpet covered] floor. The comment about the Lamp being the desire to keep a certain mood going is right on. |
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| Simon and Garfunkel – The Sound of Silence Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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@[PencilNeckedGeek:12489] TVs do not use, have, rent or sell NEON. I think he means neon signs advertising the material goods that are crushing us mentally and physically |
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| Simon and Garfunkel – The Sound of Silence Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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@[myusik:12488] - The thing is this - People need to stop saying "People need to stop...." OOPS I did it didn't I. shit I have to stop doing that. |
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| Three Dog Night – One (Harry Nilsson cover) Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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First off,I want to point out that it isn't a crime to say negative things about iconic rock songs... That being said.... "One" was written by that greatest of rock crooners/writers Harry Nilsson [i.e. "Without You"], sadly dead before he died... and he had his magical way of using one line, just 4 or 5 words, to make a complete song. That might have been the way to go with "One" because up until he wriites "Yes...." everything clicked nicely - even "Two..." because "two" is not the opposite of "one" but "yes" is the opposite of "no" and therefore cannot be "the saddest". Oh, I don't no. No - I know, its yes on the one hand but no on the two hand. No is the saddest experience you'll ever know Yes, it's the saddest experience you'll ever know |
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| Ella Fitzgerald – Makin' Whoopee! Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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"Makin' Whoopee!" is a golden silly song - the title means having sex - which was surprisingly riske' for 1928, and it still causes shy people to blush because the feel is just so darn jiggiddy. Quote Wiki: "Makin' Whoopee!" is a jazz/blues song, first popularized by Eddie Cantor in the 1928 musical Whoopee!. Gus Kahn wrote the lyrics and Walter Donaldson composed the music for the song as well as for the entire musical. -end quote - I found it in an old pile of sheet music and I gave it a whirl on my new Ewi ["Electronic Wind Instrument"] with a clarinet sound and by golly, it is really fun to play. Everybody smiles when they hear it, and it tends to run through one's head all day, on a good day at least - and if it isn't a good day this song can change that!! From 1928 until today, 2014, it has not lost a bit of it's charm. Many people have recorded it, Nora Jones might have been the latest to do so, in 2011. Ella, Frank, and other "swingers" made use ot the sexual reference on their "album for Swingers" word plays. More recently names such as Elvis Costello+ Diana Krall, Elton John, oh - who is Rachael McFarlane? - she did it in 2012 [tough luck, Nora]. And wasn't there something about John Lennon getting sued for using the music [sans lyrics] as one of his own? The chord changes are classic, logical, and standard - and I am sure they have been used by many artists in their own way. Ooooo, Makin' Whoopie [with you?], yaaaa. |
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| The Beatles – Across the Universe Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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This is the time of the Alignment in the Galaxy: the Dark Rift and Humanity and then I thought of this song... this song is not about "2012" but the fact that John Lennon the angry young man could write such lyrics got my attention... Words were coming through to John, thoughts not of his own mind were coming from the Universe....even Lennon described something like "channelling" was going on for him. ------- Not to compare, just a kick at the can here, to the tune of Across the Universe: Something brought me back to John, today when all my time was gone; It writes itself he said ot this, as I wondered how it is.... that John was such an angry one and yet he wrote such peace-filled stuff? Channelled through the Universe - this explains his awesome verse. and now we are about to cross into the Age of Aquarius. Somethings going to change our world Somethings got to change our world Lennon may yet help us all, a dark soul bathed in light. |
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| The Who – Behind Blue Eyes Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Wow I love how this site gets such creative comments! Its all good even if some of it might be 100% wrong, lol. I think it is just the usual "blue" meaining "being sad", poetic way to say "the pressures of my job get me down, but I cannot let on, I have to keep up my image". Great lyrics can mean different things to different people, without a direct specific meaning.[like Stairway to Heaven?] Wiki: ""Behind Blue Eyes" is sung from the point of view of the main villain of Lifehouse, Jumbo. The lyrics are a first-person lament from Jumbo, who is always angry and full of angst because of all the pressure and temptation that surrounds him" So "Who" is Jumbo? Is Jumbo "The Who"? Who are YOU? {sorry, getting creative here] "Jumbo controls the grid" But of course, Jumbo's lament could be Townsend expressing something of himself, lets as Whofreak777 PS from fussyprick - grammar error in lyric above it says "let me wear YOU'RE coat" should be "let me wear YOUR coat", or it means "let me wear YOU ARE coat". [I don't have the album lyric here - is it the same?] |
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| The Doors – The Crystal Ship Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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RE: The crystal ship is being filled A thousand girls, a thousand thrills A million ways to spend your time When we get back, I'll drop a line Lots of discussion about the second line, but now that 40 years of women's lib has educated [most of] us, it is clearly objectifying women as sex objects to say "a ship fulla chicks is 1000 thrills"... maybe something JM wasn't even aware of due to his own sex object status... In any case, I really think it makes more sense to say "a 1000 PILLS" [are a 1000 thrills]. Leave it to the recording industry to mess up the art [by not letting him say "pills"]. --- hey! What do you think if this novel idea nobody hit on yet: - if you multiply 1000 pills X 1000 thrills, you get A MILLION ways to spend your time", but that doesn't make sense because 1 pill = 1 thrill, so it makes a case for something altogether different: "a 1000 girls X 1000 pills = a million thrills" So thats the way I am going to sing it: "a 1000 girls, a 1000 PILLS, a million ways to spend your time" |
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| The Band – Golden Feather Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Its straightforwards I suppose, about embracing native traditions as a way to "find whats worth keeping", including a good partner. We don't place much value on "whats worth keeping" anymore. Capitalism, greed, immediate gratification, etc. are the hallmarks of this age... when we lose it all we will once again know what is worth keeping. The music is soothing and sweet, so is Robbie's vocals. The guitar work is like eating fudge. He is such a star, without showing any sign of it. |
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| Steely Dan – Home At Last Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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mr fly, ald gator - ya, I go with that one - homesick for NYC. I thought sex, ha. Penis. Could the "the danger on the rocks" be about illegal drugs? {i.e. cocaine rock} and that California offered either a trigger or a refuge from it? I am just groping around here... Feeling tuned in after aldergator's explan. |
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| King Crimson – Matte Kudasai Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Ya, but - inpraiseoffolly I think you might give some credit to the way Adrian Belew etc has managed to make music express the emotion of what is not being laid out clearly by the lyrics. In fact, the great lyrics often leave the meaning to be decided on by the listeners, or that they lyrics could be interpreted differently for each listener, for them to apply to their own lives or experiences [like "Stairway to Heaven"?] I picture an old black woman sitting there, waiting, waiting... probably waiting to die of old age... the "sad america" she sees out her front door.. Whatever, it is a beautifull song. |
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| Johnny Cash – Hurt (Nine Inch Nails cover) Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Johnny Cash was addicted to morphine, as am I. We do try to get away from the pain, real physical pain, we do try "kill it all the way".... but there is no way to take away the memories of all these years of suffering and wanting to die and people letting me down and me letting people down... What the hell HAVE I become? What kind of life is this? "The old familiar sting" is either the needle going in, or the tingles that morphine injections give the user [some addicts like the tingles, others do not]. After many years of enduring these bodily pains, it does become "the only thing thats real". And how about this!! - "I wear my Crown of Thorns, on my liar's chair" - I think it says the pain is there but it is numbed by the morphine so it is a kind of lie. And "broken thoughts i cannot repair" is about how morphine numbs the mind. How about this line: "you are someone else, I am still right here" - is that about how other people seem to change over the years but we feel just like we allways did? Thats terrific poetry. Anyway, ya , i am pretty sure it is about Johnny's morphine addiction. I think Johnny admitted this publically towards the end of his life. I never did hear about the pains he might have endured though - was he ever injured or something? no illness as far as i know... And ME? terrible pains for 30 years, new pains coming on, been addicted to morphine for 20 years now. It isn't working so well anymore, I have to take a lot to numb the pains... "Beneath the stain of time, the feeling disappears" might refer to that [for me anyhow]. My most lovely girl I know, whom I would love completely, is unable to be intimate [emotionally or physically] because of the terrible abuses she suffered as a child. This is very painfull for me, not being able to get close to her and yet loving her so utterly. This song brings it all up, I cried for hours this morning, and I was up all night again with pain [Trigeminal Neuralgia]. Life is pain, pain is life, carry on carry on. |
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| David Byrne – A Soft Seduction Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This song grabs me - the music, the lyrics, its a work of art! The lyrics seem like "collected qoutes and wisdoms", such as "the laws of chance, strange as it seems, take us exactly where we most need to be". Still, the music is right for the lyrics. Also, I have a question - The recorded version is NOT "Being in Love don't mean you're free", its more like "Being in love, on the water" but I cannot make it out very well. Any ideas? |
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| Sarah Brightman – O Mio Babbino Caro Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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So she wants to go get engaged to the handsome man, eh? Puccini might get famous all over again, at least for O Mio Babbino Caro, after young Jackie Evancho sang it on AGT. Do the opera afficionados here feel she was up to the task? [ha] Link> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlovAMM0z84&feature=player_embedded#! |
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| Adrian Belew – Not Alone Anymore Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Oh, the heartache and pain!! My goodness... When Adrian Belew sings this, on the "Young Lions" album, I cannot help but feel like I am "that guy" who found his old girlfriend had found a man while he was away. I fair near break down, it is a stunning vocal and compositional achievement. I have yet to hear the Travelling Wilbury's version [they wrote it> Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty, George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison ] |
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| Steely Dan – Home At Last Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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GreyBlue guy - I think you are onto something with the love theme. Perhaps about a sexually abused girlfriend who can't get close to him, waiting for her to come around, not being able to leave... Good lyrics can allow the reader to relate their lives to those words, as if it were written for them, and this one is hitting the nail on the head for me so thats why I see it this way. "I know this super highway," - is love, which scoops you up and takes you along, you don't seem to have a choice. We have all been there before {"This Bright familiar sun"} but he isn't so sure about how the girl is responding, the whole thing is confused {"I~~ guess that I'm the... lucky one"}. "this peaceful shore" - again, is love, as has been going on forever and ever in humans...but not quite like this {"you THINK you heard this one before"} But even as time passes and she learns to trust him {"the danger on the rocks has surely past"}, he can neither leave nor progress to real intimacy with her [not just just about sex, btw] She is nice to him {"smooth retsina" } but she has a bit of anger in her... {"calm before the storm"} because most abused women have those outbursts. Calling in the reservation is the commitment to loving her, maybe marriage. He has been married before. He will try his luck again. I wonder if she ever warmed up to him? And was it Becker or Fagan that knew the sexually abused girl? I bet they both knew more than one, since it is so common. |
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| Steely Dan – The Royal Scam Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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It becomes ever more clear over the years that a "cheap labour class" is indeed a royal scam. Globalisation means America doesn't even need to let them in, but rather just set up a factory in Haiti. But when this was written, many immigrants were let in only to be kept down so they would not expect too much. |
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| Steely Dan – Brooklyn (Owes the Charmer Under Me) Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Yup. the Charmer lived under the stairs and thinks Brooklyn owes him. | |
| Steely Dan – Brooklyn (Owes the Charmer Under Me) Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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A song about a socialite in the big city [a race of angels] got jilted, took a fall from grace? Now I will go read that amazing link to the interview. |
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| Steely Dan – Turn That Heartbeat Over Again Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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It has been playing in my head all day. Its one of the greatest ones [I know, they all are]. Ya, but it sounds a bit like incest too. Perhaps it is a song about someone who turned into an abuser himself, and has all that to deal with. "love your moma, love your brother" - his dad doing it to the family? In any case, the lyric "Turn that Heartbeat Over Again" is a very intriguing line no matter what it means, a classic. Its like it describes a certain part of the human condition that we otherwise cannot grasp. It could trigger some meaning to you that you have trouble putting into words, or that you never thought about before but you knew you were feeling them. And when combined with the music, that simple melody on those 5 words, and then the break to sparse instrumentation, then with harmony at the end - you can hear it now, right? Ahhhh, its great. |
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| The Doors – The Crystal Ship Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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And then I found THIS COMMENT: This song came from poetry written in Jim Morrison's notebooks. He wrote it after splitting up with his girlfriend, Mary Werbelow, in the summer of 1965. While the "Crystal Ship" is sometimes thought to represent drugs, Ken Rafferty from The Annotated Lyrics makes this case: This song has nothing to do with drugs and everything about Jim Morrison's heavy relationship with his first love, Mary Werbelow. As a poet, he did nothing more than use transparent images for his relation to the past. He (Jim Morrison) hasn't let go of her as evidenced in the first line, "Before you slip into unconsciousness, I'd like to have another kiss." That means the protagonist had already left her in the physical realm, but has not left her subconsciously. The thought of her still burdens him and he just wants another kiss to somehow make it feel better. "Another flashing chance at bliss, another kiss." Again, he cannot seem to let go of their love, their relationship, and how much she meant to him. "The days are bright and filled with pain." He's moved on and is now doing very well as a singer/songwriter in a rock band in L.A., but he still has feelings for her and this song is his testament to her that he still has feelings for her. "The time you ran was too insane." Jim was one to mock even his girlfriends- he would tease others, but mostly, he was testing them. This line very well could be a reference to a time he felt bad about verbally teasing her- knowing that it upset her. "The streets are fields that never die, deliver me from reasons why, you'd rather cry, I'd rather fly." A simple line that confirms the end of the relationship and that the protagonist is willing to move on. The streets are fields are his memories, and because they are vague memories now, they also present a reason why he can forget. And that last stanza confirms his growing popularity as a lead singer for a rock band with an ever-growing popularity. The beauty of it though is how he is saying to her that no matter how big he becomes, he will still think of her, and even call her, when he gets the chance. |
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| The Doors – The Crystal Ship Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Before I read the lyrics, just listening to the song, I wanted to think it was being sung to Mother Earth, as in "I want to embrace you one last time before we both die". But no, I have to agree, it is about drugs and love and tripping, which is good stuff too. |
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| Michael Jackson – Morphine Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Well it certainly is topical now, now that MJ is gone. Some think the demerol affected his heart... I don't see why MJ would keep taking demerol if he was taking it to satisfy an addiction need; most addicts would move up to morphine or heroin because they are less damaging to the body, and more satisfying. Obviously, he could get any drug he wants, he had his own doctor at his side all the time. The lyrics are difficult to follow, with various people/drugs/points of view doing the talking...It takes a close listen eh. We miss you MJ! |
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| Chris Rea – The Road To Hell (part 2) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Showstopper!! Well done Kronos!! It has been 8 months since you posted that, and nobody could say a thing, it is a perfect analysis. Not to dispute what you said, but it is just interesting that AFTER Chris Rea wrote these lyrics, the world fell into a credit crisis {"And all the roads jam up with credit And there's nothing you can do"}... but I guess he wasn't referring to that. :) It is the sign of great lyrics when they are not specific but can apply to anyone's life, or all our lives. Stairway to Heaven is like that... this is on the same high level of writing. I also found it interesting that Rea didn't rhyme when it would have been easy, in the first stanza. {could have said "every poisen that we know"} ; And then later he makes it hard to sing/listen to by staggering the phrasing: Oh look out world take a good look, Look who's down there, You must learn this lesson fast, and learn it well. {i just found it awkward, but I am not saying it shouldn't be this way] I am working on a home-studio version of this song, just for my own fun... you have helped me a lot with your interpretation/analysis. Thanks kronos! |
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| The Beatles – Because Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"Because the wind is high, it blows my mind" - it really makes me do a double take every time I hear it!! Probably room for a few meanings... one being that when in the company of a stoned person [i.e. "the wind"}, it makes me feel a bit stoned/strange just to hear the words they say, and therefore "it blows my mind". There must be more phrases... would it be wrong to try to extend this theme? It is like JL started an entire genre of "practical comparisons with natural phenomenon", and that it should not just end with these three. |
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