| Grateful Dead – Sugar Magnolia Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| my dog is named for this song, no lie we call her maggie but her name is sugar magnolia. | |
| Grateful Dead – Teddy Bear's Picnic Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| OMG I didn't know the dead did a cover of this. Must.. find... now. | |
| Grateful Dead – Uncle John's Band Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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finding meaning in this song never was important to me especially since I was young enough when I first heard it that the Idea of the song "uncle johns bear" sounded really great. yes I know its not bear but that's what I heard and I would always see the little grateful dead bears dancing to it in my head with one big one leading the rest by the ocean. Or sometimes teddy bears. I still always see that only now they have little instruments and are a band. Plus the line "how does the song go" was a good one for leading into one of the famous Dead Jam Sessions, which my father refers to as taking advantage of the *ahem* state of mind of the audience (yeah, my dad never denied using psychotropic drugs) sort of reminds me of "mr. tambourine man" too don't know why |
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| Grateful Dead – Oakie From Muskogee Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I don't think pot was the only thing in that pipe | |
| Grateful Dead – Forever Young (Bob Dylan cover) Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| ok how many songs are on the list for the Dead and Bob Dylan I'm starting to think I never switched artists | |
| Bob Dylan – Blowin' in the Wind Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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ok so here goes ahem I have always wanted to make a Folk song cover band called "Forever Banned(/band)" because of the lyric in the first verse. |
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| Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Teach Your Children Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Don't you ever ask them why, if they told you, you will cry, so just look at them and sigh and know they love you. I love this line there are so many ways I can think of it being true. |
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| Paul Simon – That Was Your Mother Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I love this song, makes me want to get up and dance, every time, without fail, when I hear this song I will start to boogy a little no matter where I am. If that's my prayerbook Lord let us pray best line in the song, I love it. |
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| Paul Simon – The Sound of Silence Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| perhaps its that in the form of the mass media (that was just coming into swing at the time of this song) we are breeding our own message, at the time we should also note that it was part of the times for the people who stood up to be shut down, by police action (I was just talking to my mom about this today). But the message got out it was still there but you had to find it. | |
| Paul Simon – The Sound of Silence Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I had always heard this was about the war in vietnam but then there is a funny interview with the monty python crew where someone asked Michael Palin if the dead parrot sketch was about vietnam. Of course the message speaks (eerily) to all of us the words I always remember Ten thousand people maybe more People talking without speaking People hearing without listening People writing songs that voices never share this could apply to totalitarian regime or just the totalitarian regime which is human complacence and mob mentality. Hear my words that I might teach you Take my arms that I might reach you" always positive, I have no idea why this sticks with me but its beaten in my brain and still remains And the people bowed and prayed To the neon god they made And the sign flashed out it's warning In the words that it was forming And the sign said "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls" Whisper the sounds of silence I love this verse it is creepy to me ("neon gods we made" just hits to many chords like reading Farenheit 451 its to real in its imaginings) but the line about the propehts and the subway wall is just so RIGHT the true voices of a silent society are the vandals, the disenters, not that I advocate vandalism for its own sake I just really get this line. This song is so chilling in its message, it makes me want to cry and hope for humanity. |
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| Paul Simon – Under African Skies Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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as far as who Joseph is I like to think he is just a man, I mean the continent of Africa is a big place, there are lots of people there. To me the song is simply about what it says This is the story of how we begin to remember This is the powerful pulsing of love in the vein After the dream of falling and calling your name out These are the roots of rhythm And the roots of rhythm remain If we were to skip from the bible to just normal human history, (lets not even take in the evolution debate though I'm tempted) this album is about African music and American music's roots in it. There is something moving about the beat of this song (the African beat) and to me the song evokes this image of a sort of African Everyman who is from a different world than me but still has the same basic human instinct for rhythm and music as I do. |
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| Paul Simon – Under African Skies Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I remember when my parents would play graceland on the way home from my grandparents' house (they lived in the country and we visited them every sunday so there are a lot of memories of hearing songs in the car at night) I would hear this song and see the dark skies through the window and it was always beautiful, of course I was very young to even understand the lyrics or who Paul Simon was but I usually fell asleep about this point in the album so it was sort of a lullaby for me. | |
| Paul Simon – Father and Daughter Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I totally understand When my mom first played "surprise" and I heard this song I thought, well there is one less song to plan for my wedding. I used to make up weird sitcomesque circumstances where I could get Paul Simon to sing this at my wedding. |
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| Paul Simon – Graceland Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| ah lets tear apart "Graceland" I like to think that Graceland is just meant as a place holder in that it is somewhere to go but the journey is what is important, a pilgrim must travel to a destination. I'm sad to hear that about the ghosts and empties part since I always loved that line. This actually is an interestingly whimsical album for its subject matter, I do know that when I would play this at the pool I had more people who knew lyrics to these songs than any other album I played while lifeguarding. | |
| Paul Simon – Crazy Love, Vol. II Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I love this song, Paul Simon once said that Fat Charlie the Arcangel is just a random character that sort of happened, and for some reason despite me wanting every song to have hidden meaning, the openess of this song makes it better for me I don't think this song is supposed to be serious, its a frivolous look at a serious issue that far too many people deal with. "Well, we'll just have to wait and confer" I love this line, I think it speaks to how love is so bueracratized today, we have to have a license to get married, we have to file for divorce, the lawyers and procedings take forever "and then there's all the weight to be lost" because we are just going to go out and find someone else and do it again because thats what society demands. |
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| Paul Simon – All Around the World or the Myth of Fingerprints Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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The obvious take (and my first take) on the song is that the myth of fingerprints is as the talkshow host says "I've seen them all and man they're all the same" meaning that since the recognition of fingerprints (along with retinal scans and voice matching technology and such) we all have this Idea that we have a single identifying factor that says "this is me and no one else" when we are all human the line says to me that you have to look for the differences to see them but we still base our identity on those differences. The other way I look at it comes from when I posited my theory to my dad and he said he always thought that the myth of fingerprints was an idea that there is always some definite place to put blame and a definite way to define it, i.e. the fingerprint at a crime scene which of course is in and of itself circumstantial, but we have this idea that its clear cut evidence of guilt or blame. I like to apply this to the second verse "there is no doubt about it, it was the myth of fingerprints thats what that old army post was for." In war we have this idea of someone starting something, there is a blame to give but in the end lack of real evidence against someone forces us to stop thats why the post is "abandoned now just like the war" if you think about the line "there is no doubt about it" is part of the myth of fingerprints. I don't know if Paul Simon meant the second part or not but I think he would appreciate people drawing their own meanings. |
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