submissions
| Ben Folds Five – Don't Change Your Plans Lyrics
| 13 days ago
|
This is part of a long history of songs about a person moving to L.A. to seek fame and fortune, leaving home and everyone there. The most famous is "Midnight Train to Georgia," but there's also "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere" and "Do You Know the Way to San Jose?" (Side note: The last of these is a Bacharach/David composition, and Ben Folds Five was clearly going for that type of feeling with this song's arrangement.)
However, whereas those songs are from the point of view of the fame-seeker going home (or at least considering it), "Don't Change Your Plans for Me" is about other person being the one who goes back. The person who decides to go to L.A. is enough reason for him to keep living, but not enough to keep living in L.A. He wants her to continue seeking what she wants even though he feels he can't stay there. |
submissions
| Camper Van Beethoven – When I Win the Lottery Lyrics
| 1 year ago
|
|
From the songwriter at https://davidlowerymusic.com/blogs/300-songs-blog/posts/46-the-van-part-1-when-i-win-the-lottery-i-m-gonna-buy-a-new-van: "I rear ended someone on the CA17/I280 interchange in Santa Clara. In the long run this was fortuitous. The tow truck driver launched into a monologue that became the basis for the song When I Win The Lottery. Over the course of the 30 minute ride... the tow truck driver confessed to a series of small felonies and a profound contempt for virtually every aspect of our society. Most striking was his contempt for religion and patriotism. He was out of his mind but totally fascinating." |
submissions
| Dead Kennedys – I Fought The Law Lyrics
| 9 years ago
|
|
Unfortunately, many of the things here - both comments and lyrics - reflect the common knowledge of the subject, and are thus just plain wrong. The main thing here is the "Twinkie defense." For the long version, see the Wikipedia article, but the short version is that eating junk food was seen as evidence that the health-conscious White wasn't in his right mind, not that eating junk food excused murder, which was the popular perception at the time. That led to the "diminished capacity" defense - a legal defense White used - being eliminated for all defendants. The idea that the murder of the mayor was cheered by the police is utterly ridiculous; the whole city was in shock and mourning. Also, people thought White got off easy with only a few years in prison, but he killed himself less than two years after his release. Although justice might have failed, what happened to him might have arguably been worse than life in prison and his life shorter than a life on death row. Almost no one wanted anything to do with him after that - not his family, not other officers. Still, many people remember this as his killing a gay man after eating Twinkies as him getting away with murder. |
* This information can be up to 15 minutes delayed.
