| Bruce Cockburn – If I Had a Rocket Launcher Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| @[River:39059] Wolf Guatumala, not Nicaragua. American troops? The Reagan administration was giving military assistance to Guatemala but there were no American troops in either country. | |
| Bruce Cockburn – If I Had a Rocket Launcher Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| @[River:39058] Wolf Guatumala, not Nicaragua. American troops? The Reagan administration was giving military assistance to Guatemala but there were no American troops in either country. | |
| Bruce Cockburn – If I Had a Rocket Launcher Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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No, the song is not about an individual. No, Guatemala is not "name-dropped". No, it's not about Nicaragua. In early 1983 at the invitation of the world hunger organization OXFAM he toured two Guatemalan refugee camps on the border with Mexico. "I was in this refugee camp, hearing these unbelievable stories of the atrocities these people had fled from, stories that were beyond anything the grossest slasher movie could come up with, and in the background was this helicopter going back and forth along the border. The Guatemalan flyers had a recent history of having strafed the camps from the air, even though the camps were in Mexico. The desperate condition these people were in, and their dignity in the face of that desperation, all this horror made me feel the people in those helicopters had surrendered their humanity long since. When I wrote 'Rocket Launcher', I was in San Cristobal de Los Casas in Mexico. I was in a hotel drinking a bottle of Scotch the day after I came out of the refugee camps, and I was in tears thinking about it and wrote the song." |
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| Gerry Rafferty – Baker Street Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Yes, autobiographical but there is much more in the "sun is shining" verse which is the concluding verse. The song tells the story of the night before he woke up to a new morning where the sun is shining and he can go home. He did what a lot of struggling performers do, he signed the first contract shoved in his face without understanding what it said. He spent years getting out of that contract. The new morning was the morning of the day he officially was free of his old contract. So, finally, he was able to get more of the money generated by the music he had written and could sign to a new label and record this song which made him uncomfortably famous. And since he was only in London dealing with the lawyers, he could go home. All most performers really want is a reasonable amount of success and a long career. To give it a grade it would be like a C+ to a B+. But the music industry isn't like that. It's either Ds, D - or Fs or A to A+++++ I know a guy who went through it and finally getting out of his RCA Wooden Nickle contract (yes, it was actually called Wooden Nickle) it gave the right to his own songs back to him to re-record if he wanted and reopened his options with other labels and publishers. It was like Christmas, New Years, and Mardi Gras rolled up into one. |
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| Marc Cohn – Walking In Memphis Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| i would delete my first one if i could. i find out i was wrong. I was thinking of the big delta where the mississippi empties into the gulf of mexico. | |
| Marc Cohn – Walking In Memphis Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Being from Mississippi how do you feel about him saying Memphis is the home of the Delta Blues. The Mississippi Delta is the Delta in Delta blues. |
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| Marc Cohn – Walking In Memphis Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| He says "ma'am, I am tonight". He's saying he's caught up in the power of the moment, not that he really is a christian, otherwise he'd have said, "Yes Ma'am I am a Christian". | |
| Gerry Rafferty – Baker Street Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Yes, autobiographical but there is much more in the "sun is shining" verse. He did what a lot of struggling performers do, he signed the first contract shoved in his face without understanding what it said. He spent years getting out of that contract. The new morning was the day he officially was free of his old contract. So, finally, he was able to get more of the money generated by the music he had written and could sign to a new label and record this song which made him uncomfortably famous. All most performers really want is a reasonable amount of success and a long career. To give it a grade it would be like a C+ to a B. But the music industry isn't like that. It's either Ds, D -s or Fs or A to A+++++ I know a guy who went through it and finally getting out of his RCA Wooden Nickle contract (yes, it was actually called Wooden Nickle) it gave the right to his own songs back to him to re-record if he wanted and reopened his options with other labels and publishers. It was like Christmas, New Years, and Mardi Gras rolled up into one. |
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