| Joni Mitchell – A Case Of You Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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In order to understand most of folk rock from this generation, one must go back to the Laurel Canyon and the unique gathering of those who were either directly involved in the intelligence and military-industrial complex OR were descendants or victims of this group. A good read, for starters, is the article written by David Gowan called "Inside The LC: The Strange but Mostly True Story of Laurel Canyon and the Birth of the Hippie Generation, Part I" BY DAVID MCGOWAN, MAY 08, 2008, The Center for an Informed America http://www.illuminati-news.com/articles2/00201.html Joni Mitchell was involved in this group, as was Crosby, Stills, Nash, Jackson Browne, Mama & Papas, Manson, Frank Zappa, Neil Young, & more. Neil Young even stated that most of the folk songs that we hold dear were actually written by MANSON! This was a group of mind controllers and Luciferian/Satanists. She cited Shakespaere - ""I am as constant as a northern star" And I said, "Constantly in the darkness" He is arrogant, but she states that there is no LIGHT in him. He is dark. She says, "I'm frightened by the devil. And I'm drawn to those ones that ain't afraid." She admits that she is not 100% sold out, but still bound by and strangely attracted to the ones that are into the devil in a major way. It does sound like she spoke with his mother or grandmother...or sister... who knew the depths of depravity in which he dwelled. "She knew your devils and your deeds. And she said "Go to him, stay with him if you can... Oh but be prepared to bleed" This is the truth. This is a song crying out in anguish over the relationship that she has with this arrogant, devil-worshiping man...who is likely mind controlling her also using MK Ultra trauma-based mind control. All you people who listen to this song and hear bluebells chirping are so deluded! This is a cry from the depths of an existence that makes a woman want to click her Ruby Red slippers and go home to Kansas... "Oh Canada". But he dominates her life and she cannot get free. His picture drawn twice. You can check out, but you can never leave. Welcome to the Hotel Laurel Canyon, California. |
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| KT Tunstall – Suddenly I See Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I totally agree - the admiration is much more than just wanting to be like someone. Ick. And she's taller than most And she's looking at me I can see her eyes looking from a page in a magazine Oh she makes me feel like I could be a tower A big strong tower yeah She got the power to be The power to give The power to see |
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| Talking Heads – Road To Nowhere Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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CONT. how often are we prisoners in our own mind, our own depression, victims of our own judgments of others come back to visit upon us? how often are we locked in our own inner torment of various kinds, seemingly unable to get free? the various forms of "lack" and personal inner ailments abound, including all the social illnesses such as relationships gone bad. Byrne is trying to say...there is a better life to be had! he stirs you up by giving you five minutes of FUN where you can feel the joyful beat and hear that 'it's all right, baby, it's all right" from him. We're on a road to nowhere Come on inside He's as a skilled psychiatrist leading the patient into the inner chambers of self-inquiry...but he does it with lively percussion instruments that will move the body into FUN in order to move out of DEPRESSION OR LACK OR WHATEVER AILS OUR SOULS! This is an absolutely beautiful song, and very healing and inspiring. |
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| Talking Heads – Road To Nowhere Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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i don't think that this is about the road to OBLIVION at all. it's absolutely about the road to PARADISE, and few that are able to wake up out of the rigid, politically correct, broad road that everyone takes. he's trying to wake others up...to take that ride...there's TIME...but you don't really have to GO ANYWHERE. it's about BEING. but, like a cattle driver, he is cracking a whip trying to get the audience to GET MOVING ALONG THAT PATH. paradise is down a certain road...but it's not THERE...it's HERE, INSIDE the road to nowhere is a road that doesn't go THERE...it begins and ends in ME the city (paradise) is within me...not a literal city out there the city is growing, because the 'evangelical' songster is cracking the whip to awaken more souls who will come along on the ride... the ride to paradise within (the road to nowhere...no literal place...but rather the journey we must take internally) he's saying that there's time to work it out...within ourselves...and reassures us that, 'it's all right' Byrne is a very POSITIVE and upbeat person. he's not nearly so critical of things in society as he is always LEADING and UPLIFTING to a higher elevation, spiritually, physically and soulfully. that's why his lyrics have to 'hit the body' and get it to move, as he has stated. WELL WE KNOW WHERE WE'RE GOIN' BUT WE DON'T KNOW WHERE WE'VE BEEN AND WE KNOW WHAT WE'RE KNOWIN' BUT WE CAN'T SAY WHAT WE'VE SEEN AND WE'RE NOT LITTLE CHILDREN AND WE KNOW WHAT WE WANT AND THE FUTURE IS CERTAIN GIVE US TIME TO WORK IT OUT |
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| Talking Heads – Road To Nowhere Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| i don't think that this is about the road to OBLIVION. it's about the road to paradise, and few that are able to wake up out of the rigid, politically correct, broad road that everyone takes. he's trying to wake others up...to take that ride...there's TIME...but you don't really have to GO ANYWHERE. it's about BEING. but, like a cattle driver, he is cracking a whip trying to get the audience to GET MOVING ALONG THAT PATH. | |
| Talking Heads – Road To Nowhere Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Love your description about the galloping drumbeat...great observation | |
| Talking Heads – Wild Wild Life Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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The support for your interpretation is there - look at the audience of just normal middle class Americans, unsuspecting of what they could step into if they aren't careful. How this mimicks places like Nashville or the "Live Musical Capital of the World".. Branson in Missouri. People such as these in the vid, flock to these places looking for the great life of entertainment. But what do you find...people like Jerry Lee Lewis, Kris Kristopherson, Jimmy Buffet and all the other Wizards of Oz (mind control handlers). It's everywhere in Hollywood... read Cathy O'Brien's book (Trance Formation of America) or Brice Taylor's book "Thanks for the Memories" - Bob Hope was her mind control handler. That is only the start...think of the social psychological engineering and all the technology now to remotely affect the mind. I know of a businessman in the 80's who got him some wild wild life - and he ended up in the looney bin several times where they did all kinds of things to him. Peace of mind? Piece of cake! Thought control! You get on board anytime you like Not to mention he's now living under a railroad bridge. Sleeping on the interstate Woah ho ah Getting wild, wild life Little did he know that the high life he enjoyed back in the 80's and on into the 90's would completely ruin him forever. He mutters and walks around and hears voices all day. I'm sure he'd say: Spending all of my money and time Oh, ho ho Done too much wild, wild We wanna go, where we go, where we go Oh, ho ho! I doing wild, wild I know it, that's how we start Uh, huh Got some wild, wild life |
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| Talking Heads – Slippery People Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| i like your post, paraclete. very well said. | |
| Talking Heads – And She Was Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| wow, you are kinda uptight on this FACTS thing, huh? DB has been really open about this fact on many occasions. I would have preferred to imagine the meaning as something a little more transcendent rather than a tripped out hippie chick with her neural synapses probably so fried that she can't even remember the story the way he told it (so she says later to Byrne). But it's the truth, and it is quite surreal just saying YOOHOO CHOCOLATE DRINK FACTORY. | |
| Talking Heads – And She Was Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| yeah...missing persons... those not at attention, falling in line with the politically-correct manner in which to find worth and happiness. Those persons willing to take the road less traveled and live a life that is uniquely their own to live. awesome. | |
| Talking Heads – Once In A Lifetime Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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(cont. from previous): You may get your once in a lifetime crack at achieving (what we call) the American Dream, but is that really living? Is one really flowing with the true Water (Spirit) of Life to a greater place. Have you lived a deliberate life - one that fulfills your own unique destiny? If not, the WATER will come...water dissolving...water removing...and will whisk away all that is not based on a proper foundation of truth. Going along with the sheeple in the world is not a path of LIFE. It is not a joyful one, either. One day one wakes and says, "What have I done?" Byrne seems to always enjoy hydroplaning on the surface of the water...dancing all the way. Life and spirit are always there calling to us to Return, but if we do not, the Water will take us to the ocean. A man has no control over the ocean, and cannot retrieve that water from the bottom. Best to check ourselves now...before we let too many days go by and we begin to drown. |
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| Talking Heads – Once In A Lifetime Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think that we tend to over-analyze what the artist intended, when sometimes what we take from a work is much greater than the original intent. An example is "And She Was". I was rather let down to learn that the inspiration was a high school peer using acid in the grassy lot adjacent to the Yoo Hoo Chocolate Factory in Baltimore. While that was rather quirky and cool, it was nothing like the transcendent and ethereal overcoming triumph of a free female that I had imagined. To boot: Byrne said that the gal who inspired the song approached him once, and she remarked that the song didn't really resemble her recollection of anything that occurred back then. Wow. Let down? or, did she just fry all the main brain cells that might help her recall? I believe that the water in this song is the inevitable force of life...you can plan to be ORDINARY and get all the trappings of life, a house, car, 2.5 children, etc...keep up with the Jones', but the water always returns to the sea. And money comes and money goes. cont. |
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| David Byrne – The Great Intoxication Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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David Byrne explains the meaning of this song, HIMSELF (see his Union Chapel video of this song - there is an intro there which explains how the song came about. Byrne was observing his friend fall in LOVE...the Great Intoxication is LOVE. He wrote the song as if he was writing a letter about the guy to his girlfriend. Then, months later, he realized that the song could also apply to his own life. The Union Chapel video is intoxicating itself. It's an amazing set with an exquisite admixture and interplay of colours and sounds and ideas. This prodution is wondrous. |
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| Talking Heads – And She Was Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I guess if you don't have acid, another type of climax would be suitable... | |
| Talking Heads – And She Was Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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It's definitely inspired by his high school friend who dropped acid in the nearby yoo-hoo chocolate drink factory. he says so in the Austin City Limits vid (see their website) and search 'chocolate factory' on his own website. HOWEVER...even the girl did not remember it that way when he met her decades later. So, the lyrics are given to reinterpretation by Byrne's imagination himself. I think that the song is simply transcendent. I would like to be so free to take off my dress and move with the earth right there with it and move out in all directions. How 'bout you? I'm talkin' about WITHOUT the acid. (Those days are over...lol). |
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| Talking Heads – And She Was Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| too funny | |
| Talking Heads – And She Was Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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It's definitely inspired by his high school friend who dropped acid in the nearby yoo-hoo chocolate drink factory. he says so in the Austin City Limits vid (see their website) and search 'chocolate factory' on his own website. HOWEVER...even the girl did not remember it that way when he met her decades later. So, the lyrics are given to reinterpretation by Byrne's imagination himself. I think that the song is simply transcendent. I would like to be so free to take off my dress and move with the earth right there with it and move out in all directions. How 'bout you? I'm talkin' about WITHOUT the acid. (Those days are over...lol). |
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| Jackson Browne – My Problem Is You Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I have been involved with a musician, and I have to say, I would have loved him to sing a song about me in front of the world. Whoever JB wrote this for, is blessed. Most musicians are more worried about making sure that the groupie line isn't diminished by them thinking that the artist is a one woman man. I have no problem telling right from wrong The way some people do I know exactly where these arms belong My problem is you Waiting here for you |
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| Jackson Browne – Jamaica, Say You Will Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I have thought that same thing - summer love, young love, vacation love. Probably Jamaica is not her name, but a family vacation trip that they took. It would be fun to know that you were the one that had a fling with him when you were younger, and he wrote one of his first songs to you! It's a great song - he does look so young there. I have loved growing up to JB and also seeing him grow and mature over the years. Also, David Lindley. Their "marriage" is just too cute. Once Jackson performed live on TV and he wore a David Lindley T-Shirt under his jacket. They've probably had a better relationship over the decades when most male/female relationships, hehe. |
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| The Chicks – Not Ready To Make Nice Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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agreed with other posters - one of the greatest comeback songs ever. let's face it, anyone that says that they LOVE WAR is warped. it's clear now after the fact that WE STILL HAVE WAR CONTINUING with this new idiot also. to quote a movie line: THERE'S NO HEAD TO CUT OFF... IT'S A CONGLOMERATE. so, her comment about bushco was somewhat amiss, because we're still over there and expanding. you can't blame ANY American for wanting our boys home. it's only those caught up in the left and right propaganda that get all bent out of shape. they're just flip sides of the same coin. those in the shadows run our world and the politicians are scum, but they're just puppets of the elite globalists. you know, each of them will get what they deserve. glad the chicks are back just doing their thing. time does heal all wounds. time is the best equalizer, too. |
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| Bob Dylan – Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think that you have come closer to beginning to interpret the song lyrics than anyone else. I think it's a metaphor for the gal changing - it's a BRAND NEW leopard-skin pillbox hat. Of course the metaphor and lyrics are couched in sexual innuendos. That's cool for a dude to be able to sit back, be aloof/sarcastic and poke fun intellectually at the target of his ??? (disapproval, ire aroused, rejection, loss, etc.) How better for a male to do this than to objectify her and her snob hat sexually. And then let her know that for all her high class, she left the garage door open where she was getting it on (more meaning there re garage door, most likely, as well.) The female could be a real female OR a composite. Since people always want to play super-sleuth, Dylan just gives minimal info ("It's just about a hat, man"...) That keeps the mystery alive. Why de-mystify the lyrics and spoil the fun? I think that musicians start with an impulse from real life, but they merge that into something that works to create a song. It doesn't have to stay true to the original meaning, UNLESS the purpose is solely a slam. Like the "You're So Vain" song by Carly Simon... |
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| Bob Dylan – Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think that you have come closer to beginning to interpret the song lyrics than anyone else. I think it's a metaphor for the gal changing - it's a BRAND NEW leopard-skin pillbox hat. Of course the metaphor and lyrics are couched in sexual innuendos. That's cool for a dude to be able to sit back, be aloof/sarcastic and poke fun intellectually at the target of his ??? (disapproval, ire aroused, rejection, loss, etc.) How better for a male to do this than to objectify her and her snob hat sexually. And then let her know that for all her high class, she left the garage door open where she was getting it on (more meaning there re garage door, most likely, as well.) The female could be a real female OR a composite. Since people always want to play super-sleuth, Dylan just gives minimal info ("It's just about a hat, man"...) That keeps the mystery alive. Why de-mystify the lyrics and spoil the fun? I think that musicians start with an impulse from real life, but they merge that into something that works to create a song. It doesn't have to stay true to the original meaning, UNLESS the purpose is solely a slam. Like the "You're So Vain" song by Carly Simon... |
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