| The Doors – Break on Through (To the Other Side) Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| The psychedelic era of Break on Through (To the Other Side) wasn’t just about psychedelics. The full refrain was “Sex & Drugs & Rock n Roll” and pushing this Whole Package was a means to — break down the brains’ Self-Absorption & Pat Ideas & Defensiveness /\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\ Emerging finally able to See from Others’ POV & Make Up Our Own Minds & Communicate with a Confident + Unique Creativity \n\nThe results may’ve been mixed — However — At least it served to break down the near military degrees of conformity and authoritarianism still hanging over US All during the 1960’s concurrent Vietnam War & Civil Rights & Counterculture Eras | |
| Shel Silverstein – Don't Give A Dose To The One You Love Most Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| Don’t give the clap to Whoever’s got Your Back | |
| The Beach Boys – Surfin' Safari Lyrics | 7 years ago |
|
#1 GREAT SONG—Helped Launch The Teenaged Years of The Then—LARGEST GENERATION EVER PRODUCED BY THE USA... until the sheer Numbers of Their Kids—THE MILLENNIALS SURPASSED The Boomers... tho... in a more spread out population wave... whose birth rates were much lower [40% lower at the peaks] than at any point of the Boomers' steep rates of birth... except that there were now far more (Boomer) Americans becoming Parents than at any previous time in our nation's history... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post%E2%80%93World_War_II_baby_boom#/media/File%3AUS_Birth_Rates.svg #2 Some *Surfin' Safari* Terms & Phrases That May Be Unfamiliar... Woody = Woodie Wagon (truck or station wagon used to portage Surfers & Equipment to & between beaches) https://www.hagerty.com/articles-videos/articles/2014/05/15/surf-city-here-we-come Shooting The Pier = Surfing under a big Ocean Pier between it's numerous, cement pilings [NOT recommended] http://www.surfertoday.com/surfing/10875-how-to-shoot-the-pier Walking The Nose = Moving to the front of the surfboard and maybe doing something like Hanging Ten toes over the nose of the board. #3 As for... Huntington Malibu Rincón Laguna Cerro Azul Dohini (Doheny ??) Hawaii Peru Go Google Map 'em—Yourself. |
|
| The Rolling Stones – Wild Horses Lyrics | 8 years ago |
|
@[lairfans12:7389] - Not Guilty. I only read if/when there's something THERE. Whether or NOT You (or Anybody Else) sees IT (yet) too... Well—That is an entirely other matter. |
|
| Steppenwolf – Born To Be Wild Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| A college Gal-Pal buddy of mine from Plainfield, IL--JS--You Know Who You Are--Nailed IT when She opined that IF Anybody who is ever pulled over for speeding can establish that BORN TO BE WILD was playing on the radio station at the time THEN the this should be all the excuse necessary to get the speeding violation off their record. | |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival – Up Around The Bend Lyrics | 12 years ago |
|
Well Guyz... I know that this song was first 'ritten & recorded & released (The 3 R's of the Schools of Music) at the time of the Vietnam War era... And All That... HOWEVER--ZinbobDan, et al... These Lyrics Form A Template--That Fits Most of The Titanic Failures of Our Modern Era: The Vietnam War & Its Possible Responses--For One... The Massive Economic Collapse of 2007-2008--From Which We Are Still Struggling To Emerge--For Another. First Verse: There's a place up ahead and I'm goin' Just as fast as my feet can fly Come away, come away if you're goin', Leave the sinkin' ship behind. Time to jump ship; leave the trappings of Upward-Mobility behind... & git back to basics--Baby. Refrain: Come on the risin' wind, We're goin' up around the bend. There are renewed spirits blowin'... Let Your Spirit Rise With Them... Up & Around The Corner... To A New World of GenNEXT-- Still--As Yet--Unknown Tho' Not Unknowable... A New World That Contains So Much of THE BEST of The Old--Briefly Described IN The Rest of These Lyrics: Songs & Smiles & Finger Lickin' & Banjo Pickin'... And--Since You've Probably Already Been Driven Just About To The "Highway To Hell's" Dead End-- Step Out NOW & Take A Walk Somewhere That's Truly Magnificent... in unspoiled nature And... Take The Time To... Ponder The BIG QUESTIONS of Life-- Allowing Your Mind To Run Freely With Its Thoughts... And Stimulating & Deepening Your Ideas In Good Conversation With Others... Conversations Held By "The Big Red Tree" Meaning--Someone Very Mature... And past Their "Summer Days"... yet still holding onto their productive assets (analogous to leaves)... They've endured enough of winter's chill in their nights to be about ready to drop off--and just before They go--They've turned quite colorful in these last days out on a limb... before They settle to a "down to earth" existence of releasing their "nutrients" to Others' wants & needs. We Often Pursue Our Dreams Beyond All Reasonable Limits-- To When The Dreams Become Our Nightmares... Then Someone--Like John Fogerty... Comes Along To Remind US... Jes' how ez it really is to git back to a better life than the one we got hooked into chasing after |
|
| Brewer & Shipley – One Toke Over The Line Lyrics | 13 years ago |
|
Lawrence Welk was NOBODY'S FOOL...His NOT-Too-Distant Ancestors hailed from the Alsace-Lorraine Territory of--Most Often--Germany...tho' these lands along the Rhine River and the Vosges Mountains have been Fought IN & OVER By France & Germany & even the Roman Empire--FOR CENTURIES. Actually--The Welk Family had even left Alsace-Lorraine for Odessa, Ukraine--Talk About Going From The "Frying Pan INTO The Fire"--Before FINALLY Immigrating To America (Strasburg, North Dakota) in the early 1890's. Lawrence Welk KNEW of Political Censorship of Writers & Artists & Musicians & Professors & Intellectuals of All Types & Stripes ALL TOO WELL--AND--The Need To STAND UP TO IT RIGHT AWAY...or There Could Be UnImaginable H-E-Double-Hockey-Sticks To Pay LATER. Lawrence Welk was born in 1903... His teen-years were--WW I... His 20-30-something years were--The Great Depression... His 30-40-something years were--WW II... His 50's were--The Second Red Scare--a.k.a. The McCarthy Era His 60's were--The Counter Culture Era...when--say what You Will about ALL That The "Free Spirits" Got & Did WRONG...What They Got & Did RIGHT Was To ADVANCE THE OPENING of GREATER AMERICAN SOCIETY To Previously Marginalized People of All Conceivable Identity Groups & Categories & Sources...AS WE'D NEVER DONE BEFORE--IN OUR NATION'S HISTORY... So NOW--It's 1970...Woodstock, The Moon Landing & The Manson Family Helter-Skelter Killings were just last year..The Summer of '69...I haven't been able to find out exactly when Lawrence Welk played this song on His Show...So I can't be certain whether or not the May 4, 1970 Kent State Shootings Had Happened YET...But Student Rioting WAS The "Order of The Day" When--Just 4 Days Earlier...On April 30--President NIXON Had Announced in a Televised Address--America's Invasion of Cambodia. When Nations Become Rocked By THIS MUCH Turmoil--Leaders Are ALWAYS Tempted To CRACK DOWN--"For The People's OWN Good"... 8 / --As Nixon Was Doing...in John Dean's words to..."use the available federal machinery to screw our political enemies."...whose names were kept on a Master List of Nixon Political Opponents...a.k.a. "Nixon's Enemies List"... ANYWHO...Along comes 2 hungry musicians--Mike Brewer & Tom Shipley--among the 100's & 100's of such American Folk Singer-Songwriters that mushroomed up during the 1960's-70's...and they wrote--mostly as a joke--THIS Song...One Toke Over The Line... And It's cute & catchy & mentions Jesus & sweet Mary & Railway Stations & Momma & Going Home & Just ALL "Those Things" That A "Good" Country/Folk Song SHOULD Mention...and...Oh yeah...btw...it ALSO mentions "toke" several times because "toke" is in the Refrain about 4 x's...and the song is made up of MOSTLY--Repeating The Refrain... ...So NOW--The Vice President of the United States Under President Nixon--Spiro T Agnew--Feels The Need To PERSONALLY NAME Brewer & Shipley & THEIR Song--As Being..."subversive to American youth"... And--BAM!!--The NEXT Thing Anyone Knows IS That...Lawrence Welk has "Gail & Dale" perform "One Toke Over The Line" ON HIS SHOW and saying to His Audience..."There you've heard a modern spiritual by Gail and Dale." At The Time...MOST of US College Kids (Yes--I was a freshman in College in 1970-71--do the math)...were snickering & thinking that Welk was "clueless"...BUT NOW--40+ years later...I think that Ol' Lawrence Welk Knew EXACTLY WHAT He Was Doing...And He Sent A CLEAR MESSAGE To Spiro T & Co...When He Put This Number ON His "Clean Cut Family Show"... ...Because ANYONE Who Knows ANYTHING About Protestant SUPPRESSION of The Role of Mary IN THEIR VERSION of The Life & Story of Jesus Christ--And Protestant OBJECTIONS To Catholics As Being "A Cult of Mary" & "Mary Worshippers" etc. ... And Therefore--We TRUE AMERICANS MUST Keep "Un-American Thinking" Catholics OUT of Seats of Power & Authority ... Can Hear ANOTHER little Message Tucked INto This "subversive" Song. Anyway...Spiro T Agnew background was--Most Likely--Greek Orthodox...kissin' cousins of catholics...so--It's ALSO HIGHLY Likely That Spiro T Heard This (Mary) message--AS WELL--And Deliberately Pitched His "Subversive" Comments At THIS Song...Scoring Twice-- First--With "Republican Patriots" ALARMED By A "Toke" 'n "Mary" Song... And AGAIN--When Lawrence Welk Swung At Spiro's Pitch...Striking A Homerun HIT for a couple of starving musical artists... It's HOW Our American System Works--BEST... Learn The Rules...And How To Play...Pick A Team...And Join IN... THEN--It Becomes...Seriously Good...Fun. |
|
| The Band – The Weight Lyrics | 13 years ago |
|
RE: An 'extremely fundamental' detail v. A 'pretty irrelevant' detail... I've always heard--and confirmed the truth in my own life--that... "The Devil Is In The Details"--THEY ARE IMPORTANT. Oh & btw ... I love Your suggestion to write in 'Karma' & the Devil ... in place of 'Carmen' & the Devil walkin' side by side ... It Makes The Verse Work On More Levels--THAN EVER. |
|
| Creedence Clearwater Revival – Someday Never Comes Lyrics | 13 years ago |
|
I'm 58 now ... and have listened to &/or reflected upon these lyrics for close to 40 years. I've gone from being a messed up college undergrad [NOTE: In 1972--Who Wasn't ??] to having ... Found My Way [HINT: Sobering up helped–A LOT ... As Did Drinking Deeply (Instead) of The Great Music of That Day–As Well As That of MANY PREVIOUS ERA's] ... to teaching science & math to Junior High School aged Kiddos for a decade ... to raising My Own 2 daughters & meeting all the The Home Front responsibilities ... because my husband–a surgeon–could not be expected to tackle one more chore at the close of His Day ... which OFTEN didn't close until the wee hours of the morning ... Not Unlike A Rock Star’s “Day" The irony for us all–John Fogerty's Dad, John Fogerty, Your Dad, My Husband & MILLIONS UPON MILLIONS of OTHERS ... HERE & NOW & THROUGHOUT ALL of HISTORY–is that–The Work That We Must Do To Support Our Family TOO OFTEN Takes Us Far From Our Family–Insulating Us & Isolating Us From The Very People That We're Supposedly Doing So Much of Our Work For ... until our relationships with them are shallow and tepid–at best–more like "Motel 6" relationships–And The People We REALLY SEE&HEAR&PatOnTheBack&LIVE WITH–On The Road or At The Job–These People BECOME OUR "REAL FAMILY" ... leading to our divorce ... on many levels ... from the family back "home" ... a place that now feels more like a cold motel room that we occasionally check in to. Keepin the love alive... You know–It Don't Come Easy. Too many people seem to think that You Can't Sing The Bluez Until You've Really F***ed Up Badly In Life & Have A Personal Trail of Tears To Sing About. THIS IS A TERRIBLY WRONG IDEA. It's Quite–The Opposite ... People Who Have Messed Up Their Minds & Bodies & Relationships ... DON'T USUALLY HAVE VERY GOOD RECALL of Wot-In-Tha-"H"-"E"-Double-Hockey-Sticks THEY WERE DOING ... The True Blues Songs Come From Those Whose Minds Are Nimble&Well-Nourished & Whose Hearts Are Wide Open To All That Life Has To Offer–And Who Then Draw From ALL THIS–TRUTH–And Sing&Play IT OUT As Deeply Thought & Felt As They Can–With Notes of Wicked-Good Humor... ; D ANYWHO... Life IS Gonna Hand You Enough Lemons AS IT IS–So You Don’t Have To Go OUT of YOUR WAY To BE “The Lemon”... AND... We Are All Human Beings–With Human Limitations–So There Will Be Plenty of Times When We “Reach Our Limits” BEFORE We “Reach The End” of Our ASSIGNED TASKS [NOTE: Whether Our Tasks Were Assigned By Ourselves Or By Others Makes Little Difference ... We’re OFTEN Harder Taskmasters On Ourselves–Than On Others]... And When This Happenz– “Thangs” Start To Break Down !! |
|
| Creedence Clearwater Revival – Someday Never Comes Lyrics | 13 years ago |
|
vagrantStar ... It is clear why this song that was originally based on The Death of A Marriage ... resonates Truer For You interpreted as The Death of A Man--Your Father. I'm 58 now ... and have listened to &/or reflected upon these lyrics for close to 40 years. I've gone from being a messed up college undergrad [NOTE: In 1972--Who Wasn't ??] to having ... Found My Way [HINT: Sobering up helped--A LOT ... As Did Drinking Deeply (Instead) of The Great Music of That Day--As Well As That of MANY PREVIOUS ERA's] ... to teaching science & math to Junior High School aged Kiddos for a decade ... to raising My Own 2 daughters & meeting all the The Home Front responsibilities ... because my husband--a surgeon--could not be expected to tackle one more chore at the close of His Day ... which OFTEN didn't close until the wee hours of the morning ... Not Unlike A Rock Star's "Day." The irony for us all--John Fogerty's Dad, John Fogerty, Your Dad, My Husband & MILLIONS UPON MILLIONS of OTHERS ... HERE & NOW & THROUGHOUT ALL of HISTORY--is that--The Work That We Must Do To Support Our Family TOO OFTEN Takes Us Far From Our Family--Insulating Us & Isolating Us From The Very People That We're Supposedly Doing So Much of Our Work For ... until our relationships with them are shallow and tepid--at best--more like "Motel 6" relationships--And The People We REALLY SEE&HEAR&PatOnTheBack&LIVE WITH--On The Road or At The Job--These People BECOME OUR "REAL FAMILY" ... leading to our divorce ... on many levels ... from the family back "home" ... a place that now feels more like a cold motel room that we occasionally check in to. Keepin the love alive... You know--It Don't Come Easy. Too many people seem to think that You Can't Sing The Bluez Until You've Really F***ed Up Badly In Life & Have A Personal Trail of Tears To Sing About. THIS IS A TERRIBLY WRONG IDEA. It's Quite--The Opposite ... People Who Have Messed Up Their Own Minds & Bodies & Relationships ... DON'T USUALLY HAVE VERY GOOD RECALL of Wot-In-Tha-"H"-"E"-Double-Hockey-Sticks THEY WERE DOING ... The True Blues Songs Come From Those Whose Minds Are Nimble&Well-Nourished & Whose Hearts Are Wide Open To All That Life Has To Offer--And Who Then Draw From ALL THIS--TRUTH--And Sing&Play IT OUT As Deeply Thought & Felt As They Can--With Notes of Wicked-Good Humor... ; D |
|
| The Rolling Stones – Wild Horses Lyrics | 14 years ago |
|
continued... TEARS MUST BE CRIED...because This One Meant SOMETHING... LET’S DO SOME LIVING AFTER WE DIE…some day…To This Life That Is Killing Us…when we will…slow down and simply enjoy our time together…some day…When We Meet Again… WILD HORSES COULDN’T DRAG ME AWAY WILD, WILD HORSES, WE’LL RIDE THEM SOME DAY WILD HORSES COULDN’T DRAG ME AWAY WILD, WILD HORSES, WE’LL RIDE THEM SOME DAY Let’s assume that–“Wild horses couldn’t drag me away”–IS what Marianne Faithfull said to Mick & Keith when she…First Came Back From Very Near Death: > THEY–Mick & Keith & The Rest of The Rolling Stones…Brian & Bill & Charlie, et.al…THEY ARE THE “WILD HORSES”–They Were The Horsemen of Her Apocalypse. Life with These Wild Horses could NOT “Drag her away” from This Life…YET…Although They Came “Bloody Close”…AND…By 1969–Brian Jones–one of the Rolling Stones Band’s Founding Members–WAS DEAD. Someday…SHE&WE ALL WILL LEARN TO “Ride The Amazing Wild Horses”…Instead of Being Pushed &/or Dragged Along…In Manners That Are Too Fast & Too Rough & Too Out-of-Control–For Our Own Good…If Not Theirs. > The “Wild Horses” of Marianne Faithfull’s Near Apocalypse were the Same Horses that dragged So Many Others of the 1960’s and beyond to Mental&Physical Breakdowns…& All Too Often–Death: 1. Excessive Consumption of a Myriad of Dugs– 2. Excessive Consumption of Alcoholic Spirits– 3. Malnutrition Due To Inadequate&Erratic&Interrupted Meals– 4. Dyssomnias&Parasomnias&Psychiatric-Meltdowns Due To Woefully Inaduquate&Erratic&Interrupted Sleep 5. Excessive Consumption of Uncommitted or Uncertain&Unpredictable Temporarily-Committed Sexual Encounters–Meeting Too Many Demands With Insufficient Support &/or Nurturing of Any Kind…For Far Too Long To Mick Jagger’s assertion…“Everyone always says this was written about Marianne (Faithfull), but I don't think it was; that was all well over by then”…I have a couple other quotes and a final observation: > “If you remember the 60's, you weren't there” -Robin Williams > "Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies" -Oliver Goldsmith Anyone Who Knows Anything About How Guys’ Minds Work RE: Deep-Messy-Personal-Baggage… Will Know That Mick’s Statement–IN TRUTH–CONFIRMS That The Song IS–About Marianne Faithfull… IT’S NEVER…OVER…BUT MOST GUYZ SIMPLY–DO NOT WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT…beyond the few distilled &/or cryptic phrases that they have crafted to cover The Sensitive Parts of Their Life’s…Hiz/Story… And…in efforts to preempt the airing of Her/Story...What Guyz WILL OFTEN DO IS...Talk About Is…How “IT” Is SoooooNOT About HER…After All…HOW Would SHE Know…Anything About Anything…When MOST of THAT TIME…SHE Was OUT of HER MIND??…and I was Cold-Stone Sober. |
|
| The Rolling Stones – Wild Horses Lyrics | 14 years ago |
|
continued... COULD MAKE ME FEEL BITTER OR TREAT YOU UNKIND… no…none of this will alter my feelings nor my responses 2U…Adult/Child…whom I’ve loved…but am at a loss to…save WILD HORSES COULDN’T DRAG ME AWAY WILD, WILD HORSES, COULDN’T DRAG ME AWAY…tho’ they came…close…very close I KNOW I DREAMED YOU A SIN AND A LIE…in the Mind’s Eye of my dreams you were…evil & untrue…or was that My Own Reflection that my dreamweaver mind presented to me wearing…Your Face…Who knows??…Who Cares??…NOT me I HAVE MY FREEDOM BUT I DON’T HAVE MUCH TIME…I’m Booked Solid–Baby–Doing What I Want To Do…Doing What I’m Meant To Do…the share of my time for you…& the rest of my posse…are “the crumbs” that fall from my…TIMETABLE…so…hold on tight and keep up with me…Your Pacesetter…if you can FAITH HAS BEEN BROKEN”…this line of Wild Horses can refer to BOTH: > The “Broken Fidelities” in The Crazed&FAST TRACKED 24/7 Rolling Stones 1960’s-1970’s WORLD of Sex&Drugs&Rock’n’Roll AND > “Marianne Faithfull has been Broken”…overdosing nearly to her death on “This Life” as a Rolling Stones/Mick Jagger muse…which must have been one hellava “Life In The Fast Lane–Everything–All The Time” existence…SHE must have been Truly Special for them to have even “Noticed” her going MIA…let alone vowing to shed tears while they “sit and watch as [her life nearly does] go by”… > And, of course, other interpretations, as well. |
|
| The Rolling Stones – Wild Horses Lyrics | 14 years ago |
|
This Song...Wild Horses...Operates On MANY-MANY Levels of Truth …Factual & Symbolic… Coincidence??? CHILDHOOD LIVING IS EASY TO DO…as just a bunch of Big Kids…getting whatever we want…whenever we want…at very high Self-Indulgence/Responsibility ratios THE THINGS YOU WANTED I BOUGHT THEM FOR YOU…we had…“Christmas”…every day…only…WE Were “The Babe(s)” GRACELESS LADY YOU KNOW WHO I AM…and I always thought this line started out “Gracious lady”…how close these opposites sound to each other…when they are PRONOUNCED by “YOU KNOW WHO”… who also made the line in Live With Me–I got nasty habits; I take tea at three–SOUND LIKE —I got nasty habits; I take THC…After All…”YOU KNOW WHO” IS A MASTER of…Slips of The Tongue YOU KNOW I CAN’T LET YOU SLIDE THROUGH MY HANDS…I will hold on 2U…all will KNOW that I tried to keep you from crashing & burning…When We Were All Flying Too Damn High… WILD HORSES COULDN’T DRAG ME AWAY WILD, WILD HORSES, COULDN’T DRAG ME AWAY…tho’ they tried to…even if they did not realize what-all they were…doing I WATCHED YOU SUFFER A DULL ACHING PAIN…the Void of Loss&Abandonment&Insecurity that a child suffers when their Mom & Dad & Home…crack & break & die away–that no shower of “Gifts” then or later in life will ever…Make Full NOW YOU DECIDED TO SHOW ME THE SAME…my heart’s all but torn out and what remains is heavy with grief…which–after all–is only how you have felt…for as long as you can remember… NO SWEEPING EXITS OR OFFSTAGE LINES…No Little Queenie-Get off of my cloud-Drama routines…No “19th nervous breakdowns-'Cause you see I'm on losing streak…and just can’t get no satisfaction…Bitch |
|
| The Rolling Stones – Wild Horses Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| ricksusa…are you and Mackenzie Phillips…sisters? | |
* This information can be up to 15 minutes delayed.