| Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Teach Your Children Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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My parents are baby boomers and were in college in the late 60's and early 70's. Don't get me wrong, I love 80's & 90's music, but the 50's, 60's, & 70's will forever hold a special place in my heart. Anyway, I grew-up listening to my parents music on every car ride and of course while doing yard work, etc. I kind of lost track of this song for a number of years, but rediscovered it this evening while searching for song to play on my guitar. I have two sons that are both younger than four and having not heard this song since having boys of my own it took on a whole new meaning . . . My grandfather is 98, has just had a stroke, and is close to dying. My mother is taking care of him and I see how her care for him is similar to the care she gave me. My parent are in their early 60's and it is the first time in my life that I am able to see that they will not live forever. I also look at my two boys and know how wonderful and difficult life will be for them and that my relationship with them will grow and evolve over our lifetimes. When I roll that all together this song really hits home . . . For me this beautiful song somehow manages to capture the feelings of joyous hope, as well as that undercurrent of fear that raising children (or life) evokes, while simultaneously portraying the full circle of life and paradox that becoming a 'parent' is. In the end . . . good or bad, sunny or cloudy, I'll remember all I can do is "just look at my boys and sigh and know they love me." |
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| Ray LaMontagne – Can I Stay Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Wow . . . how often do you get to feel like the sentiment in this song? I have been reliving past loves all morning. This song reminds me that I feel infatuation or fleeting love are no less important, nor should they be honored any less than 'true' love. It reminds me of my experiences with love and how often infatuation can turn into true love? I truly feel like this song is about a void that is being filled, if even for only a moment, and how all of life can be put on hold when two people are living in a cocoon of collective space, knowing that they are both entirely unique and special to one another. |
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| Ray LaMontagne – Shelter Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I feel like an ass coming so late to the Ray party . . . he has inspired me to take up the guitar. I think that is song can mean so many different things. I am all about the chorus: "All of this around us'll fall over I tell you what we're gonna do You will shelter me my love And I will shelter you I will shelter you" May be too simplistic but, I feel like he means that all the shit in life will come and go, but what will always be there is this imperfect love between two people sheltering each other from the storm. |
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| The Moldy Peaches – Anyone Else but You Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Funny, I just found this song. My first though was, Shit I gotta get my wife and I guitars and start playing and singing duets. Then after I listened to the lyrics I just felt awesomely old (in the best way possible). I’m just about 30, happily married with a wife that is 7 months pregnant. We are both sixth grade teachers and we own a nice little house in Northern CA. But, on some level we both feel like we are just barley responsible enough to wake up a get out the door. Then there is a song that’s lyrics include the Contra code for 99 lives for two players I mastered in middle school. As well as a reference to Don Quixote and John Henry, and the word “Turd.” Life is great, and this song somehow seems to be an affirmation that my wife and I are, in fact, responsible enough for anything as long as we are together. | |
| The Beach Boys – Surfin' U.S.A. Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| My Dad grew up surfing in Ventura in the 60's. I grew up surfing in and around the SF Bay Area in the 90's. The deal was if I had "A's" I could cut school to surf in the morning (had to be in class for tests or by 11 am). Tough life . . . Had "A's" and just told the teacher I was surfin'! Now I am a 6th grade teacher and a few months away from being a first time Dad myself. I can't wait to tell my son, "If you have 'A's' we'll tell the teacher we're surfin!" | |
| The Beach Boys – Surfer Girl Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Anyone who surfs, really anyone period has had (or wanted) a "surfer girl." Will always be a classic surf love song. Tried to get the DJ to play it at my prom in 1996, but the dick though it was too "old school" or some shit. There are only two way to appreciate this song, with LOVE or with tons of LOVE! | |
| Ben Folds – Still Fighting It Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| How about this . . . It's a dad that loves his son, struggling with the knowledge that his son will have to face many of the same hardships he has faced. But everything will be OK as long as they are "still fighting it." As a man about to have a son, evaluating my relationship with my dad, this song hits home in a very immediate way. Maybe the best lesson I learned from my dad was ALL you need to do is be honest and loving with your kids. It worked for him, I hope it works for me . . . I'll let you know in 20 years. | |
| Loudon Wainwright III – Grey in L.A. Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Is this about the love/hate relationship w/ weather, life, and LA? Not loving rain, fame, or LA it reminds me of how much I hate grey sky's, lame people, and traffic. Yet, listening to this song it might all just be bearable . . . | |
| Loudon Wainwright III – Daughter Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| just having a baby in a few months and thinking how lucky musicians are to be able to write music for and about their children. i may have to try, because what is more bueatiful than a father singing to his daughter? | |
| The Beach Boys – Catch A Wave Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Just the fast lead in with deep drum reminds me of the quick few strokes before you actually "catch a wave!" Then, just to let the statement sit there in the opening . . . "Catch a wave and you're sitting on top of the world" . . . boom, so sweet, uber cool! | |
| The Beach Boys – Catch A Wave Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Just the fast lead in with deep drum reminds me of the quick few strokes before you actually "catch a wave!" Then, just to let the statement sit there in the opening . . . "Catch a wave and you're sitting on top of the world" . . . boom, so sweet, uber cool! | |
| The Cure – Catch Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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It seems to me that the verses of this song are about the comparison between a first love and a love (years later) that is reminiscent of that first love. Like the memory of your first love is so faint or idealized that it seems like she may have only be a dream. So faint, that you feel like you “never even caught her name.” There is also the sad undertone of the chorus. The feeling that loves is fleeting and unpredictable, so volatile that the “girl was always falling, again and again, and I used to sometimes try to catch her, but never even caught her name.” |
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