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| Her Space Holiday – Sleepy California Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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@[elizaveta:20588] For me (living 600 miles from my family) it is a good wake up call that the physical distance can be just a "lame excuse" for not really being grown up enough to deal with my own baggage and just reach out to people who I love and who love me, if "imperfectly." And people I should be cherishing now that I can, because when they are gone the bickering will seem like a stupid reason to have let months and years pass without reaching out. |
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| Her Space Holiday – Sleepy California Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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@[peachcake:20586] For me I wonder if his mom wasn't supportive of him being a musician. As in, "You can't do that. You'll starve!" Which is perfectly sensible advice very many parents would dispense. But we'd have a world with no Her Space Holiday if kids listened. |
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| Her Space Holiday – Sleepy California Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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This song really hits me at home. He talks a lot about the physical distance of living in California, when his family is elsewhere (Texas?). But he really admits, it isn't the geography that creates the distance with the family, it's him. He has chances to be near them, to visit his grandmother, to pick up the phone and he doesn't. The passage where he imagines his mom young is so beautiful too. He's recognizing that maybe they didn't get along well because life hardened her with disappointment. |
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| Her Space Holiday – My Girlfriend's Boyfriend Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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@[Forge1221:20584] for me the line "Hardships come in twos" means the funeral and the break up are unrelated events. As in: life is just sucking big time, he experienced a break up and lost someone at the same time. FWIW, he writes about his grandmother dying in "Sleepy California" track on the same album. It happens. Our family dog died the same week my parents split. |
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| Her Space Holiday – The Weight of the World Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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@[chrissy519:20582] Understand there is a strain of Christianity that is known as "prosperity Christianity," particularly popular in USA and the south. The premise being God rewards the good with a prosperous life and punishes the wicked with poverty and tragedy. It's nonsense, but it internalized as a belief system by far too many people. And this woman, is confused how she could be doing everything right and living such a sad, desperate life? "Jesus is like every man… he disappears." |
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| Her Space Holiday – The Weight of the World Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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It's a beautiful, poignant song. He's observing how religious has failed his childhood crush. She "still walks in his light" and says "the same words every night." And in return her husband drinks too much and beats her, and leaves her as the sole caretaker for their kids. She feels overwhelmed, forsaken by the Lord and suicidal. Faith is all she has to cling to, and even in a such a disappointing manifestation, it is at least something. A ritual she can go through to calm herself and feel less alone. It tells she's just being tried and it will all work out and make sense someday. Or will it? How many years and years will she pray for a better life but come home to a drunken lout who beats her? |
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| Her Space Holiday – A Match Made In Texas Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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@[Rachondaloose:19546] "Towing the line" is an idiom meaning doing what is expected of you, even if you disagree, or your heart isn't into it. He is referencing he's pretending to be straight and interested in the girls at the bar, but "the truth of it is that he just wants to kiss that boy." |
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| Her Space Holiday – A Match Made In Texas Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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@[Rachondaloose:19547] "Towing the line" is an idiom meaning doing what is expected of you, even if you disagree, or your heart isn't into it. He is referencing he's pretending to be straight and interested in the girls at the bar, but "the truth of it is that he just wants to kiss that boy." |
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| Her Space Holiday – A Match Made In Texas Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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I love the way he plays with the idea of the dichotomy of the American identity. On the one hand, yes, it's fair to say we're one of the freest, most diverse cultures. And yet, the expectations are still crushing for so many, most particularly on gender issues. Nothing seems to get Americans more riled up than girly men and butch women. So many people have little patience for people who don't, as the song says, "tow the line" on gender expectations. It's fair America has embraced a lot of androgynous and gender non-conforming heroes. But still, stereotypes like John Wayne and Marilyn Monroe are considered ideals: the macho, alpha male and simple, flirtatious, girly-girl. |
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| The Flaming Lips – Fight Test Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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@[madscience84:19309] "I don't know where the sun beams end and the star
Lights begins it's all a mystery"
I always thought this is a reflection of how his views changed. He is reflecting in the moment he faced the choice, he was certain it was better to stay cool. But that turned out wrong. Now he's reflecting he should have done the opposite: Lost his cool, demonstrated he loved her, tell her to tell the other guy to get lost and pick him. Fight for her. But in the time, not fighting was choice that was clear as night and day to him. Now he can't trust himself to tell starlight from sunlight. Night is day, day is night and he's lost his confidence in even making the right choices anymore. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – For You Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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Such a powerful and poetic song. For me, it's always been about a woman struggling with substance abuse or mental illness and the man who loves her. "Your life is one long emergency..." "I've broken all your windows and I've rammed through all your doors…" He's expressing what a struggle it is to be in her life. But he comes for her, he sees himself as her knight, her savior. He's hopelessly in love regardless what she puts him through. He knows the key to her salvation is in her own heart, her desire to turn the page on all the drama and walls she erects around her. |
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| Toto – Africa Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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@[Dumbdumb:17965] Correct that it's really not about a girl, specifically. The author has said he was inspired by the experience he and his classmates had as a Christian missionaries as youth. So in a literal sense it was about Africa, the continent. In a metaphorical sense as you allude, it's about possibilities. His whole life stands before him and it's greater than he ever realized. As a young adult, he can leave more than just his parent's home, his hometown, he can leave the USA. Falling in love with Africa opened his mind and heart that there are a million exotic destinations and adventures to be had in life. It's a very inspiring song from that view to me. |
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| Eagles – Tequila Sunrise Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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@[tinydncr:17923] I'm with you. I think the "he was just a hired hand" line is indicative of a class barrier too. She wasn't necessarily "running around" in a slutty way. She could just be a popular debutante (yes, maybe the ranch he works). She has many suitors. She's out of his league. She's nice and friendly to him, but doesn't see him as suitor material. She wouldn't date the help. He knows it. He has dreams he's planned to try, but for now, he's getting by. |
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| The Doobie Brothers – What A Fool Believes Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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@[olen:16367] Don't feel bad. This song has endured and been covered by dozens of big artist. There's a reason. Unrequited love is a universal human experience. Lots of people can relate to it's wisdom. The lesson is find someone who can see you through the same eyes. |
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| The Doobie Brothers – What A Fool Believes Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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@[Arthos:16365] Only quibble is he doesn't realize when she leaves that that's it. It isn't a big rekindling. It's just catch-up date she went through and will never repeat. See: "Anybody else could see.." He's still blind at the end of the date.
Anybody else would surely know
He's watching her go
But what a fool believes he sees |
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| Don Henley – The End of the Innocence Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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@[ebowtheletter:16003] I think it's important to keep in mind Ronald Reagan is a symbol for the entire Baby Boomer generation. Somehow the generation morphed from being personified in the 1960s by Nixon-hating college radicals protesting the Vietnam war to consumerist, flag-waving Ronald Reagan supporters. So the innocence lost isn't just about Reagan, it's about the whole idealism of the 1960s; surrendering the dream of transforming the world into a place of communal prosperity and peace. The insider-trading scandals of the 1980s, personified by Michael Douglas' "Greed is Good" speech in Wall Street, came to represent an every-man-for-himself, damn the consequences culture of unchecked greed and extravagant, amoral selfishness. |
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