| The Beatles – Blackbird Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Actually, according to the person who penned the song, John Lennon, it is about a black woman living in Liverpool who everyone used to ridicule and abuse. Like most songs that John Lennon wrote they are about his childhood. | |
| The Decemberists – A Record Year for Rainfall Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"The song was sort of written in the fall, there was alot of rain, and a record year for rainfall being kind of a metaphor for one's disposition over the course of a year. And the song is basically about the crumbling of a relationship, um, you know, by way of, the, sort of comparing to the fall of the Roman Empire." In Colin's own words he was comparing the crumbling of civilizations to the crumbling of relationships. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfmaMHWGGmc&feature=related |
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