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| The Decemberists – June Hymn Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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It's a metaphor using the bright colour of the animal to evoke the colour. It's a common thing. Hank Marvin played a salmon pink Stratocaster; that doesn't mean he had fish stapled to it. |
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| Dire Straits – Lions Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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Glad I'm not the only one who thinks of Trafalgar Square when they hear this song. This song really strongly reminds me of my first time in London. Early February (2003 I think), sat by Nelson's Column around 7pm, dark with the last of the winter's chill in the air...the only other people around a group of teenagers and two security guys stood talking, the lights of traffic flashing past. Mark Knopfler describes it perfectly. |
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| Wilco – Bob Dylan's 49th Beard Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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I see where you're coming from. It seems both positions are valid; things "getting weird" between the couple, the breakup, then the "beard" being grown as a metaphor for wisdom, and things "getting weird", the man "growing the beard" by trying to come to terms with it in a way that just creates an even bigger barrier and the breakup stemming from that. |
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| Wilco – Bob Dylan's 49th Beard Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I agree with Agurus except for one point. Everything is future or present tense ("you'll be happier when I'm gone" and "as I turn to go" as examples) until the final verse. It then shifts to past tense; "wonder if you knew when I got blue, and things got weird, I started growing Bob Dylan's beard".
I think that the singer's attempt to "grow Bob Dylan's beard" is what led to the breakup of the relationship, not his way of coping with it. |
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