| Bob Dylan – All Along the Watchtower Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| @[Backstage:38101] excellent interpretation. I, personally, lack the courage to even try to interpret most of Dylan's obscure songs, I just let the words flow thru my ears, to tingle and astonish whole swaths of neurons in their passage. I worked with a technologist who absolutely hated it when I played Dylan,..he'd actually get mad: how can you listen to that garbage?! No one knows what the F he's talking about!!! | |
| Lucio Battisti – I giardini di marzo Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| @[JayZlo:38100] it's almost like he (the singer) is hopelessly neurotic. To a neurotic, everyone else seems to be acting a part, trying to look appropriate. Eleanor Rigby putting on the face that she keeps in a jar by the door. It reminds me of a scene in the book Nausea, by Sarte, where the obviously neurotic protaganist is watching someone in a phone booth, he can't hear the conversation, but it seems to the neurotic watcher that the guy in the booth is some kind of actor, like not real. | |
| Lucio Battisti – I giardini di marzo Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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The song has at least two major themes. In the first part he's despondent, weary, shy around people, neurotic. His mom's death...oh, Lucio! what feeling, Lucio puts into this his entire soul, it's uncanny. The line where he sings about his mom's dresses: "il piu bello era nero coi fiori non ancora appassiti" can actually take your breath away, like some bittersweet, profound hurt. The part where he's thinking about his Mom, obviously in the past,..and the part about remembering her dresses, the prettiest one being, as I take it, the one she wore in her open casket (the prettiest dress was black, with the flowers still not wilted...),..he's on some park bench near a school, watching happy students, life is going on vibrantly all about, even an ice cream vendor is on scene. But this is no Saturday in the Park, by Chicago, because the protagonist is like an alien among the living. His life force has deserted him; neurotically he's "searching for the courage" to imitate the happy people around him, but he's too melancholy to do even that, and goes home "defeated" and more neurotic than ever. The second major theme is he's mulling over his love, starting off catatonically, like an Italian Hamlet....what year is this? what day is this? (what dreams may come...)...then he starts to revive, and pours out the most lovely love poetry ever written, full of natural force and human frailty at the same time. Le mie mani, come vedi, non tremano piu.... The entire song is a sublime Lucio Battisti tour de force. |
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| Lucio Battisti – Mi ritorni in mente Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| excellent translation. I have one difference in mind, though,..I'd translate "dolce come mai" as "sweet as ever"...because in the first two stanzas he's not denigrating her, he's worshipping her memory. | |
| Lucio Battisti – Mi ritorni in mente Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| @[norm113633:38099] yes to both your points,..it is c'e cualcosa, and how the entire drama pivots on an almost casually tossed out "a smile"...what writing! I love the second time Lucio sings the line "dolce come mai"...like his words are falling off a cliff of profound despair, along with the instruments. | |
| Pink Floyd – Dogs Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| I thought of this song when that Miami Beach condo collapsed the other day. | |
| Pink Floyd – Dogs Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| @[Floydman444:38098] thanks, that's good stuff. | |
| MercyMe – I Can Only Imagine Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| I see no reason to interpret this song, the meaning is darn clear. What gets me is the purity of the song, how authentic and sincere. I remember hearing it on the overhead speaker at work a few times, thinking it's a pretty goofy song. Then one day it just kind of stunned me, how much I wanted that joy and hope the singer obviously has. I ended up flying to Reno to his concert,..yeah, me the lifelong "nothing matters" atheist, now I own ALL of Mercyme's albums. I haven't heard a group this good since the Beatles. | |
| Elton John – Talking Old Soldiers Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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I think the lyrics are mistaken. "there goes old man Joe again"....doesn't make sense. Because the next line is "well I may be mad at that"...so the previous line should be "there goes old mad Joe again." Listen to the song, there's no "n" at the end of the word "man." Obviously the protagonist knows his mind is pretty shot, and he's been driven mad by death and destruction, I guess today they'd call it PTSD. It's almost startling how Elton and Bernie got inside this old man's head like modern day Doestoyevski's. |
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| Elton John – Madman Across the Water Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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there's an element that reminds me of Uncle Albert: "we so sorry but we haven't done a bloody thing all day....the kettle's on the boil..and we're so easily called away" I know from experience how utterly boring it is to spend time with sick or demented relatives, ..you know how it's hard to leave them to their lonely bed, but sooner or later you just blurt out "we'll come again next Thursday afternoon" as you make your guilt-ridden way to the front door, usually with some lame lie/excuse like "it looks like rain." |
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| Elton John – Madman Across the Water Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| @[mark2marie:38097] this is an excellent interpretation of a very cryptic long. Thanks! | |
| James Blunt – So Long, Jimmy Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| there are at least two Jimmys in the song. Many references to Hendrix, and the Riders on the Storm riff at the end is a direct reference to Jim Morrison. Also, the organ solo sounds like the exact Hammond organ the Doors used, and the style of the organ solo is very Door-like. If anyone is interested,..listen to the instrumental ending of So Long Jimmy, and then listen to the instrumental beginning of Riders on the Storm: identical. What a cool song! Hendrix and Morrison. I'm sure Hendrix would be "glad for the experience." | |
| James Blunt – Tears And Rain Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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This has to be the most fascinating song ever. I'm obsessed with it, the chorus is angelic; the lyrics are intensely personal. When my father in law died in his bed of Covid, after the coroners took away the body,..I went back to my room and automatically played this song, over and over, and just balled my eyes out and felt strangely united with all humanity....oh, this journey thru the valley of tears--a great consolation is that we all share it together, no exception. If you connect with this song, you will love the following beautiful songs of our shared lamentation: Oh my soul, by Casting Crowns Sundown, by Gordon Lightfoot |
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| Bob Dylan – Precious Angel Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| @[TheThornBirds:31631] for a Jesus guy, you sound supremely judgmental. What's your trip, man? | |
| Bob Dylan – Precious Angel Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| exactly,..why everyone thinks it's "touch up the night" is beyond me,..he very clearly says torch up | |
| Lucio Battisti – Mi ritorni in mente Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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the lines: "se e qualcosa che non scordo"...I think they got it wrong,..should be "c'e cualcosa che non scordo" ..anyway, wonderful song. The entire song revolves around the line "un sorriso",..it's a moment so transient, fleeting, and yet it profoundly changed the course of 3 people's lives. |
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