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| The Beatles – Savoy Truffle Lyrics
| 2 months ago
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It's about a box of chocolates -- Mackintosh's Good News chocolates -- they were eating at Eric Clapton's. George is singing about a bunch of different named candies in the box, and a few names he made up. The savoy truffle had a flavor something like an Almond Joy candy bar, and he liked it. HOWEVER, he obviously throws in a dig at Paul, with the line:
"We all know Obla-Di-Bla-Da
But can you show me, where you are?" |
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| Barbra Streisand – Stoney End Lyrics
| 11 months ago
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I swear at certain times she's singing the phrase "cradle me" it sounds like she's saying "crader me" a little too blatantly. Probably her accent but it's always bugged me. |
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| The Beatles – Drive My Car Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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Everybody's either overly complicating this song or misinterpreting it. It's simply about a guy with a woman who is bragging that she's going to be a star and telling him he could be her chauffeur (and "maybe" she'll love him). She's making herself out to be more than she is. In the humorous ending, after all this big deal about her car, she admits she HAS NO CAR (and it's breaking her heart)(but she has a driver and that's a start!!). |
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| Carl Perkins – Matchbox Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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"would a matchbox hold my clothes". Interesting. Ringo sings it as "with a matchbox hole in my clothes". Wouldn't be the first time the Beatles got lyrics of a cover song wrong. |
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| Bob Dylan – My Back Pages Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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I have heard the phrase "half-wracked" for decades and am pretty sure it means "not well thought out". Just to confirm, I Googled it and there\'s no definition anywhere. The main hits relate to this song. This is weird, since you can find the defiinition to almost anything else in seconds. |
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| The Beatles – It's All Too Much Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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I know the "to Jorma" idea has become popular, but John and George hadn't even met Jorma at that point. Paul had, but not the others. And it is John speaking it, not George. I believe John says "to your ma" or "mum" or maybe something obscene, which they cut - it sounds like they cut out mid-word(s). And the lines after the verses are I believe "we are dead ... krishna" - George says it and then Paul laughs. I think he's joking along the lines "this song is so crazy we'll never live it down". (Which is wrong - it's one of their best songs!) |
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| The Beatles – It's All Too Much Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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@[Mad:35546] Dan Actually I don't believe George knew Jorma yet. Paul had met him earlier in 1967. But George met him later that year - after this song had been recorded. |
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| Elton John – Tiny Dancer Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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"Lay me down in sheets of linen". Came here to figure out what the hell he says in that line. It's always driven me nuts that I couldn't figure it out. Now I know. Elton has one song after another with difficult to understand lyrics. This line from Rocket Man, for example: "Rocket man burning out his fuse up here alone". And Get Back Honkey is filled with them. |
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| Chuck Berry – Maybellene Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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So why is rain water pouring under the hood, doing his motor good? It seems cold water on a hot motor would do harm. |
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| David Bowie – Space Oddity Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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This song is about a man who had been living a heterosexual lifestyle, but suddenly realizes he is gay. The space element is to symbolize how alienated he suddenly feels. He finds he is "floating in a most peculiar way" and "the stars look very different today". Yes - through his new lenses of homosexiality. And he's fine with it. "Planet earth is blue and there's nothing I can do." He's gay and it is what it is. Tell his wife basically "I'm gone, I loved you but that's not me any more." Don't get me wrong ... I am not gay, nor am I pushing a gay lifestyle. I am merely interpreting the song. |
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| The Beatles – Martha My Dear Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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"It's a communication of some sort of affection but in a slightly abstract way – 'You silly girl, look what you've done,' all that sort of stuff. These songs grow. Whereas it would appear to anybody else to be a song to a girl called Martha, it's actually a dog, and our relationship was platonic, believe me." -- Paul McCartney, 1997. |
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| The Beatles – Martha My Dear Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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The lyrics can be read as if the song is about his dog, Martha, or Jane Asher. Paul at one time said it was about his dog. If he later changed that to it being about a woman, well, maybe he didn't want to look like a fool writing a love song about a dog. |
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| Donovan – Hurdy Gurdy Man Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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The Hurdy Gurdy Man and his sidekick the Roly Poly Man were inspired by the Maharishi in India, where Donovan wrote the song. I've always thought Donovan tokk Dylan's Mr Tambourine Man as a starting point and took off in a slightly different direction. The tambourine man brings music which breaks the monotony of a guy on the streets at 4;00 a.m. The hurdy gurdy man inspires peace and love. |
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| Grateful Dead – Truckin' Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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This song is not about drugs or women. It's a nice wholesome song about the weariness of constant travel and how Jesus can save you from a life of confusion. |
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| Tom Petty – Refugee Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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The site got the lyrics wrong. The first three words are "We got something", not "We did something". Big difference in terms of the meaning. |
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| The Beatles – She Loves You Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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@[liverdude:21239] And in my opinion one of the top, if not THE top, songs of the century, for a number of reasons. |
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| The Small Faces – Itchycoo Park Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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I don't understand the "bridge of sighs" reference at the beginning. That bridge is in Venice, Italy. But "Itchcoo Park" is in England. Is there also a bridge at "Itchycoo Park" called the bridge of sighs? |
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| Chicago – Hard to Say I'm Sorry/Get Away Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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The lyrics above are wrong. He sings "after all the hoo we've been through". Yes it makes little sense, but that's what the singer sings. If he's not singing that, he needs speech therapy. |
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| Grateful Dead – Mexicali Blues Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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A racist ("watchin' flies and children in the street") gringo down in Mexico gets his just deserves and gets a case of the Mexicali blues -- VENEREAL DISEASE. Great song by the Jerome Garcia/Robert Hunter songwriting team. I think Jerome made some outstanding contributions to this song. |
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| Bob Dylan – Mr. Tambourine Man Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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Dylan just won the Nobel Prize for literature, and this song, more than any, exemplifies why. Absolutely brilliant, moving lyrics about a very particular moment and sentiment. The final verse is particularly amazing. |
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| Tom Petty – American Girl Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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Suicide? Are you people nuts? No way. It's about a girl that recognizes there's more to life out there than the small place she lives, and she wants to go out into the great big world to find it! And the difficulties in leaving her old life behind, because of old commitments and such. |
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| The Beatles – I'll Cry Instead Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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John was writing things like "chip on my shoulder that's bigger that my feet" (lmao!), while Dylan was writing poetry. John became aware of and sensitive to that contrast and really beefed up his writing around this time. Still ... a great song ... one of many greats from the AHDN album. |
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| Pink Floyd – Astronomy Domine Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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One of my favorites songs - the live version on Ummagumma. Incredible performance. I don't know what it's about, but very spacy and fun to listen to. |
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| Bob Dylan – Mr. Tambourine Man Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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It’s the high that you feel when you’re tired from doing a lot of things and have done them well. You’re tired (“my weariness amazes me”), but feel energetic and good. So you don’t want to sleep. He’s walking in NYC at maybe 6:00 in the morning feeling good in this way. The streets are empty and dead. “The ancient empty street’s too dead for dreaming”. Yet he seeks sensory stimulation of some sort because he’s not “dead” — though weary, he’s feeling so alive. Then he gets behind a tambourine man who’s walking along, playing the instrument. Mental stimulation he so needs, amid the otherwise deadness. That’s all it takes, in that state of mind. He’s elated by and for that moment reveres the tambourine man. It’s a momentary kind of unique feeling which Dylan perfectly lyricizes for this song. Tomorrow he may see the tambourine man and not even notice. |
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