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| After the Fire – Der Kommissar [*] Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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Granted, I rarely listen deeply to this song...but it sure sounds like someone explaining to a cop about a drug-connected woman he'd met up with. |
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| Guns N' Roses – One In A Million Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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@[ChrisG:33742] Nicely put. I really think (as you and others here seem to) that Axl was looking through many pairs of eyes in that song, showing how brutal the relations between groups are and how much distrust flies in all directions.
The lyrics would likely lead to social-media mugging today, but I think it's a great, stark, brutal song that has a worthy message for just about anyone...if they can put off being offended for a few minutes. |
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| Elvis Costello – I Want You Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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@[andola:30796] I'm glad you mentioned the Fiona Apple version, because her delivery in that video is...masterful, as is the band's. There's points in that video where I've joked with my son that her eyes may have actually killed someone in the audience...because damn, she was THERE.
I'm not much of an EC fan, but kinda like with some Bob Dylan songs...they can be translated very well indeed.
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| Nazareth – Please Don't Judas Me Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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@Дмитр I don't know that I got the specific meaning you posted, because it seems to be more of a "don't prejudge me", as that is a betrayal all by itself. The song certainly lists other conditions-manipulation, annihilation, and so on- but I always got the feeling that the song was taking place as a relationship was going from casual to more involved...and the narration came from a point of a painful, wary history.
Where your friend is involved, it's a double-edged sword for the parent and the child alike. The more grown a child gets, the more freedom they want...but their activities can also lead to more danger, for which the parent is still needing to be aware. I'm totally on the fence, here, because children NEED their parents to be able to look out for them, even (especially?) in adolescence...but privacy needs to have its own rules as well. |
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| Guns N' Roses – One In A Million Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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@Sniperwulf 2 As I understand it, the whole point of the song is that it was written from the point of view of a character, not necessarily reflective of Axl's feelings/beliefs.
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| Nazareth – Please Don't Judas Me Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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I always got a lot out of this song.
It always struck me as an intense moment in a growing relationship, one where the narrator lays down the conditions for things to continue. He's been burned before, many times in many ways, so his list of conditions is both threatening and pleading...and comes from his emotional core.
The Album, "Hair of the Dog", is one of the absolute best in hard rock history. |
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| Talking Heads – Life During Wartime Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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What's kind of frightening about this song is that it's close to how a lot of people are feeling nowadays, with NSA surveillance and similar issues very prevalent in everyday life. The idea that people might want to get vans, loaded with weapons, meeting out by deserted gravesites, staying away from windows...it's creepy. |
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| Aerosmith – S.O.S. (Too Bad) Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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This is a favorite Aerosmith song of mine, Steven's talking about fictional parents as an explanation for his wicked nature, when his parents are actually classical musicians. It's still a great tune, great lyrics, and one too many people have never heard. |
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| Concrete Blonde – Carry Me Away Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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It's a poignant song, Johnette singing about a lost love, gets wonderfully passionate about "any promise we make is as easy to break as the plastic people on a wedding cake". She still wishes the best for her former lover, stating "I hope you find her with me or without me". |
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| Concrete Blonde – (Love Is A) Blind Ambition Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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As often as I've listened to this, I keep coming back to it being a rationalization (or a portrait of someone in denial and rationalizing) deep feelings for someone. Johnette almost seems to scorn any deeper meaning to the feelings, just saying it was "the heat of the night, and love was a blind ambition"...but it also can mean that someone is trying to tell themselves that while still feeling deeply. With Johnette, it could go either way. Freakin' great band, great song. |
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| Aerosmith – Combination Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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This song is supposed to be a kind of confessional, a snapshot of what it's like to "get what you want". Joe talks about how thin he was (barely stay on, 'cause I'm so Goddam gaunt), dangers of dealers (gotta pay, come looking for me), and how ugly their life was despite money and fame.
My fave song of all time, has been forever. |
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| Concrete Blonde – Scene Of A Perfect Crime Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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A song about the loss of innocence and idealism as youth fades away...and how you end up tough and calloused even as you try to defend your gentler natures. The losses are "the perfect crime", and you can never go back because the scene is all across your life. |
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| Concrete Blonde – Jenny I Read Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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Not one comment? This song's too good for that!
This is a song about a celebrity, worn-out and showing the mileage. From one side, you have the onlooker talking about how "she USED to be..." while the woman in question hides in her mind, with all the "miles and the memories all to herself". |
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| Concrete Blonde – Take Me Home Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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Red October nailed it.
The song hurts in fantastic ways. The line about "we felt nothing much at all, and it felt great" is amazing, remembering either nights in drunken numbness or the way we act invincible when we're younger. I've been there both ways, often.
A great song that's gotten me through some very rough times. |
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| Concrete Blonde – Roses Grow Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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Fan-fuggin'-tastic song. Johnette's talking about the filth and character in L.A., reminding people that "up through the cracks, up through the broken glass...roses grow". She sees beauty in all the crime and chaos of Los Angeles, and does a great job describing it. |
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| Concrete Blonde – God Is a Bullet Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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The song's about guns, and how a life is "gone forever in a trigger slip". Johnette (who I believe is one of the best lyricists ever) is singing about how fragile and cheap life gets on "the wrong end of a gun". |
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