| Bruce Springsteen – Queen of the Supermarket Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Wow what a song. It rises from a seemingly mundane beginning through a melody which will just not leave your head to the line "As I lift my groceries in to my car I turn back for a moment and catch a smile That blows this whole fucking place apart" which is incredibly unexpected and gives so much extra resonance to the infatuation. Personally, I feel that only men of a certain age can truly understand what Bruce is getting at here. It's about more than unrequited love - it's about the role of supermarkets for singles rendezvous, and about you settle in to looking for friendship, love and inspiration within your own narrow band of daily experience. A lovely song. |
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| Kirsty MacColl – Free World Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Absolutely about Thatcher. The pocketful of plastic is about credit cards, as in the "dollar on elastic". It is about how we were encouraged to spend without thinking. "If I wore your shades could I share your point of view" refers to Thatchers blinkered vision of what was good for us. Actually it was just about what is good for her...... |
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| Kirsty MacColl – Autumngirlsoup Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think this song should be looked at in the context of its place in the Tropical Brainstorm album. The song before is Here Comes That Man Again, about cybersex and how it is ultimately unfullfilling. Autumngirlsoup is about sex for the sake of sex, then Celestine is about her sexual alter-ego. These all lead to England 2 Columbia 0, about betrayal by a married man who kept his status hidden, and when she finds out, Kirsty escapes to Latin America in Alegria and Us Amazonians, where she finds her inner strength. Semi-autobiographical I think. How we miss Kirsty - the best UK songwriter bar none |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Gypsy Biker Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| The tears and goosebumps comments are so appropriate. With a son in the British Army I find it especially powerful - what a terrible price these young men and their families pay for politics. I like the echoes with Born to Run, where the highways, cars and bikes offered a means of escape. I used to hope that I could live in a Bruce Springsteen song. Now, I think I maybe do... | |
| Bruce Springsteen – Your Own Worst Enemy Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I think this song is most definitely about what Bruce sees as the collective responsibility of the american public in electing GW Bush. As a Scot looking in from the outside, it echoes how I felt about Margaret Thatcher. It is a wonderful song full of brooding threat, I think..... | |
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