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| Looking Glass – Brandy (you're A Fine Girl) Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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@[figs:4467] Probably not true at all given that Looking Glass was an East Coast band formed at Rutgers University in 1969 and the song Brandy was released in August 1972. Kind of late for a 1970 wedding gift, let alone would they know some barmaid in California. |
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| The Cure – Killing an Arab Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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Lot of folks going pretty deep here on this. Don't need to go that deep. Think about being 15. Were you heavily into a bunch of existentialist BS or were you rolling fatties with your buds out in your treehouse? Now you couldn't just talk about it or somebody's mom would get wise so you made up code words. So instead of saying yeah we're going to blaze one you'd just say yeah we're killing an arab to mean smoking a jay right down to it burning your fingers. So killing an arab just means smoking a marijuana cigarette. Kind of like you say of an empty beer bottle that's one more dead soldier. Don't overthink it, killing an arab was just a cool way of saying smoking a roach. |
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| Paul Simon – Kodachrome Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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Buy a capital letter eh? "genious", I guess you were trying to write "genius"? You are pretty safe from being accused of that yourself yes? ROFLMFAO. |
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| Paul Simon – Kodachrome Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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OMG it isn't "Kodochrome" it's "Kodachrome" and Kodachrome wasn't a company it was a film made by the Kodak company. Your entire post is a grammatical disaster. What kind of memories do you have that appear in black and white? My memories of events are in color. I assume most people with color vision have memories in color as well. This is a logical disaster. Please, just go end your life or improve your posts. |
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| Paul Simon – Kodachrome Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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Currently the lyrics listed are for "The Sound of Silence", not "Kodachrome". When the correct lyrics are up I will explain them for you with the drug references. |
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| Norman Greenbaum – Spirit In The Sky Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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What makes you think you need to be saved young man? There is a place in the world for rebels. The Holy Spirit can only make you feel doom and damnation if you agree to it. Eleanor Roosevelt said that. |
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| The Mighty Mighty Bosstones – The Rascal King Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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The Rascal King is a drug reference. The part about behind bars or in front of them is regarding the tw0-faced nature of addiction. Then there is smething about "need" and "crack". Gotta admit I'm a little too baked to put it all together right now. |
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| Neil Young – After the Gold Rush Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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You're overthinking it BlueCoy. It's just a druggie song. I know some people are going to say Neil had seizures and didn't do drugs. He did weed. |
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| Laura Nyro – Stoney End Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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This is the original, "controversial' version. The watered down version changed around the the bit about the Good Book and reading between the lines of it. Fortunately that version didn't catch on. |
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| Laura Nyro – Stoney End Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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Kind of an extreme interpretation about the Biblical stoning thing. And you've posted the exact same comment 3 times.
Any chance this could just be about big conflicts and disappointments in life rather than extreme guilt about sinning? Especially since the first verse tells us she has already seen some flaws and shams in the Bible.
Getting the shit end of the stick doesn't mean somebody actually shit on it. Going down a stoney end could just mean going down a rocky path in life, not that you're so bad you'd likely be stoned to death.
So in the first verse she finds a big washout from the organized religion she believed in. Then she gets left by a lover. Then she has some raging torments as we all do. Each of these is so bad she feels like she doesn't want to go on and it hurts so bad she just wishes she could be a little kid again with her mother watching over her.
As an artist and as a female she probably didn't feel a whole lot of torment about being bisexual or gay. All women are basically latents and artistic types are less troubled by that sort of thing. |
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| Don McLean – American Pie Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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FALSE! The point of this site is the TRUTH, what the artist meant, not how someone interpreted it or guessed what it meant. |
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| Genesis – Land Of Confusion Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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Russia would exist, it existed before and during the Soviet Union. Russia is the country, the USSR was a political organization of the country. |
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| Norman Greenbaum – Spirit In The Sky Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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This is one of those songs that can fool you if you listen too closely to the lyrics. To get the meaning of this song try to gestalt the thing. Lie back, try to experience the song rather than just listen to the words. Give it a try. What did you get? Did you get smokin' weed? Yeah, I thought so. Think about this spirit smoke imagery sort of floating up in the sky away from you, and then again, and then again with each refrain. It's like taking puffs. and blowing out little smoke clouds and watching them float up in the air. There you go. The songwriter who created this was brilliant, working in drug imagery while ostensibly writing about religion. To experience a forest, don't focus too much on individual trees. To snatch the meaning of this song don't focus too hard on the lyrics and you'll discover the true intent, smokin' weed. |
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| Neil Young – The Needle And The Damage Done Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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The needle is a guy's penis. This song is about being anally violated. First I'll go through a backstory, then we'll go through each verse. For those who have never lived it the story goes like this.
I have a boyfriend. Neither one of us is gay. Because he's not gay he was never going to get the experience in life of doing somebody up their bunghole. He said he really liked me and if I really liked him then I should let him do me in the A. That way we'd have that experience in life. Friends do that for each other, otherwise we'd never get to do that since only gay people do that. It would be like living your whole life and never going to the Grand Canyon. Makes sense, right? He was real persistent about it and kept telling me how nice I was so I let him do it and then he kept coming back telling me what good friends we were and wanting to do me more. Pretty soon he was bringing more boys over so they could do me and get that life experience sort of checked off you know? I wasn't their bitch or anything and I did some of them too just to prove I wasn't gay and liked taking it in the butt or something. The guys with thin, skinny dicks we called needles because that's what it hurt like when they did you versus the guys with big equipment where it hurt like they were shoving their whole arm or a g.d. tree branch or something up there. Eventually we all took a big long extended trip to Oklahoma City, I don't even remember why. I think we just wanted to have some fun. Most of these guys started doing it so much with so many new boys that they turned gay, including my boyfriend. Now let's go to the song.
First verse. The guy kept poking me around my bum with a big stiffie and telling me sweet nothings when we were supposed to be just having a nice nap. That was the start of all the damage he did to me emotionally plus it tears up your rectum too.
Second verse. We lost all these nice boys in the city because they were taking the needle so much. They never did come back. They just turned gay and stayed in the city. Even my manfriend got affected.
Third verse. Pretty self-explanatory. As far as the milk/blood thing that was really insightful. I was trying to keep the friendship going even though I was afraid he was turning gay and was spending more and more time in OKC. So I was taking his milky cum in my ass mixed with my own psychoemotional plus real physical blood (it tears) instead of just running away from the friendship.
Fourth verse. Real bittersweet. Neil is telling us that anybody can get turned, there is a bit of latent homo in every guy. Funny, people only used to say that about women. These guys really did become sex junkies which ruined them and losing all these nice boys plus my friend was really like the sun going down.
I am aware that superficially the song seems to be about drugs. Neil may have even thought he was writing a drug song but the imagery is too clear. This is called unconscious plagiarism and George Harrison got sued for it once. While he was alive. You are writing a song you think is about one thing but really you are being influenced by something else you aren't aware of. No this does not mean or prove that Neil Young is secretly gay. He wrote Southern Man but that doesn't mean he once owned slaves. Being a geologist doesn't mean you're a rock, it means you have an understanding and appreciation of them.
No I'm not gay either and I had my girlfriend screw me up the butt a couple times to prove it.
Thanks for your time and I hope you gained an appreciation of how to look beyond the obvious to see what the real meaning of a song could be. Every time I hear this song I still cry a little bit and my asshole hurts a little bit. |
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| Creedence Clearwater Revival – Proud Mary Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Proud Mary refers to a woman's genitals.
The song is about prostitution. "The Man" was her pimp. She left working for her pimp to hook on her own and found what, for a hooker, was a better life. Most other interpretations of this song cannot explain "Pumped a lot of pain". *A. A hard working hooker is going to be in some pain from being pumped so often. A guy using a hooker is looking to relieve some kind of pain so this lyric has a double meaning, she is also pumping the John and his pain. "Cleaned a lot of plates" is about oral sex. A woman's labial lips when together look like a stack of plates so 'licking the plates clean' lets us know this hooker has branched out with her new found freedom and good life and is now doing women as well. "Big Wheel" is her John and his rhythmic humping is how the Wheel keeps on turning. So now we see clearly how "Proud Mary" is indeed her pussy which she is quite proud of and it's "burning" from so much sex. "Rolling" has long been slang for sexual intercourse. *B. At the end she is trying to recruit more girls without money to become hookers. They will not have to worry, plenty of people on the river will give them money for sex.
Hitching a ride on the river queen is interesting. Fit in with everything else here it just seems to be saying that her lot really improved when she set up shop as a whore on a river showboat instead of just drifting around as a street hooker. But there is a way this could have been kind of a dig, with wild foreshadowing. *C.
*A: It's not 'pane and you don't pump propane anyway. Kudos to osubuckeye420 for thinking this could have been about pumping iron but he didn't tie it all together.
*B: Think "roll in the hay" among other things.
*C: If you know this band you know several things are true. They were from San Francisco, but pretended they weren't from San Francisco. Among themselves they were about the bitchiest band ever. The songwriter's brother, and also a bandmate, died of AIDS. So .... was he trying to take a little jab at someone by saying he hooked up to a River Queen? I don't know if the writer took it up the a.., I don't know if the guys in the band did. In the 60s and 70s you couldn't have had a career if the public knew. But in a song about prostitution maybe he was working in a message to the underground that yeah, some of the band went both ways or maybe they were just pure gay. |
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