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| Tim Buckley – Song To The Siren Lyrics
| 8 months ago
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It's a bit of a cliché on here, but for once I do think this is a song about drug addiction. The siren is the drug which has lured him in and he cannot break free. |
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| Tom Jones & Cerys Of Catatonia – Baby, It's Cold Outside Lyrics
| 10 months ago
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This is a light-hearted comic song and it's not about "date rape". The woman is in control, she's playing with him. She has every intention of staying but she's making him work for it. She's enjoying being persuaded. It's verbal foreplay. |
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| Glen Campbell – Rhinestone Cowboy Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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@[cornwell:32327] It's not about a gay cowboy. It's not about a cowboy at all. It's about attaining success after much effort and rejection.
Glen Campbell didn't write the song either. It was written by Larry Weiss. |
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| Grace Jones – Pull Up To The Bumper Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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Obviously it is about sex, but Grace did say in an interview (2008, Q Magazine) that it's not specifically about anal sex, although it can be if you want it to be.
" [She] was asked about the meaning behind her top 20 hit which includes the line “grease it/spray it/let me lubricate it” which is widely thought to be all about anal sex.
But Jones, aged 60, laughed off the idea. “I don’t think it’s necessarily about that. I think it means whatever you want it to. Because I kind of like the doggy position myself, but that doesn’t mean it’s going up me arse.” |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Thunder Road Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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Agreed, this girl is no teenager ("maybe we ain't that young any more").
He's asking her to "settle" - to give up waiting for Mr Right and accept someone she doesn't love.
Poor Mary. |
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| The Police – Don't Stand So Close To Me Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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She's "half his age", so it's clear he's no paedophile. This word is widely misunderstood. Paedophiles are attracted to pre-pubescent children. This song is about a nubile teenager. |
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| HURTS – The Road Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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The singer is remembering a girl who has died in a road accident. Perhaps he was the driver who knocked her down, and her ghost ("hallow") is haunting him. |
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| Ultravox – Paths And Angles Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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If I didn't know this was by Ultravox, hadn't heard the song, and just read the lyrics, I'd think it was Joy Division. Very Ian Curtis. |
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| Gilbert O'Sullivan – Alone Again (naturally) Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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Bloody awful song.
I never understood why this guy was so popular at the time. Horrible depressing songs with the kind of ghastly tunes that remind me of a treadmill or an exercise bike. They go on and on and round and round without ever getting anywhere. And they have that terrible earworm thing going on, where once you're reminded of them you can't get them out of your head. And not in a good way.
This one in particular is the most depressing song I've ever heard, and that's quite an achievement over 40 years. Give me Leonard Cohen or Morrissey any day, I can enjoy them but this bloke is shite. |
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| Cream – Badge Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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In northern England, the phrase "our kid" means "my brother", so I don't think it suggests that the singer has a son. He is talking about his brother. |
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