| Soundgarden – Beyond the Wheel Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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@[SFy65B2G5rKbzps5acdHwQe6:44212] - Comment delayed, but... By Jove, I think you've f*cking nailed it...or something like that. |
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| Alice Cooper – Dead Babies Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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@[DuskRider:43350] - The info on Betty's father is scant. "Agrophile" is kind of a made-up word and most definitions attributed to it could be just as easily interpreted to mean he's worm food, dead. At any rate, I highly doubt he's rich, as Betty's mom would see Betty as her meal ticket, and bleed HIM for money instead of sleazing up the local bar. Everything else you have to say is right on the nose. The Band was ahead of its time in addressing many issues. |
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| Alice Cooper – Dead Babies Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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@[dixiesgreendaygrl:43349] - Alice retconned the song Steven, even prior to WTMN II. Plus- The violence of the abusive husband/significant other addressed on WTMN is separate from Steven, who killed a sibling out of psychopathy and jealousy. |
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| Alice Cooper – Black Juju Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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My apologies, kinda', not at all, to the guy who posted as AC... BUT This song is Gothic if you find VOODOO RITUALS gothic. ("Gothic"? Sheez.) Has no MEANING? You do Vince a disservice having the nads to post under his 2nd name with such an obtuse comment. Let me guess: "Hey Stoopid" and "Feed My Frankenstein" rank high on your list of fave AC songs. The song is from a lot of perspectives of the process, including the final verse whereby a man "zombie-ized", wakes up following the drugging and burial part of the ritual. Listen to the song, read the lyrics, it's pretty straight-forward. |
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| Alice Cooper – Blue Turk Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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@[Pink_Floyd_fan:43346] - If you are open to "new" music, acquaint yourself with the first 6 albums of The Alice Cooper Band/Group. Many, many styles. Their first WB release, "Love It To Death", actually created standards for SEVERAL rock genres After the clever "Is It My Body?", Side Two explores all kinds of music, finishing with an old Australian folk song. ? Yep. |
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| Alice Cooper – Blue Turk Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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This particular "necro" themed AC group song is about a couple, both alive, who play a weird game where she plays dead, because it turns them on. "Cold Ethyl" - off "Welcome To My Nightmare" - is also about a couple having sex ...but the girl's not playing. |
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| Alice Cooper – Blue Turk Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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@[morbid:43344] morag - "GREEK" is a term for anal. "Turk" is/was a term used to describe a tough guy open to a variety of experiences. Rod Stewart used the term in "Young Turks" (which really sucks, IMO); street gangs sometimes used the word along with their street or borough/burg to coin their name. |
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| Aerosmith – You See Me Crying Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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@[Rhysibabe:43258] - Maybe they thought it was a Bon Jovi song? PS- Hope you're doing well 16 years later. :D |
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| Pearl Jam – Deep Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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Cheeses. Folks- The song is the story of one guy. One young guy. ONE GUY. V1: He can't live at home. He can't live alone. He's lost and confused. He's on the top of a roof. As he sees it he's got three option: 1) Jump and hope a deity catches him 2) Jump and snuff it 3) Use the heroin syringe he's holding and make all these holes go away. Things are bleak. Decides if there's a G*d, he's never seen any sign that he cares about him. Decides not to snuff it. He shoots up. V2: Same guy. He's now wandering the streets looking for victims, He uses the knife. Does he stab someone, or plunge the knife into himself just to, you know, feel something, anything? Your call V3 This time he puts the knife to use definitively on another person. He nabs a young girl who never noticed him because she;s blissing out on the downtown Christmas display. Does he kill her? We don't know that. But, unfortunately, as the lyrics tell us, we do know that he... There's a reason this one is often left off the Christmas card list. |
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| Bobby Goldsboro – Honey Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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I have the same reaction to the "Top Rated" comment that one responder had: "Wow!" Damn, sir or madam, you took a few truths and then ran to construct a narrative as if you needed a "safe place" for shelter. Look, this song isn't "Diary" by Bread. "Honey" is about a man deeply IN LOVE with a woman whose innocent, guileless being enraptured him. She was NAIVE (kinda' dumb) - which the narrator reinforces by likening her to a child; not in a DEMEANING way at all, but a simple way (by a simple man) of describing this FACET of her personality- but a natural, INTUITIVE, loving soul (kinda smart). I could go on simply refuting other comments who missed the point (and were misguidedly lauded for their "insights") but the fact is this: "Honey" suffered from clinical depression. She may have even been bi-polar. The car "accident" may have even been a suicide attempt. The narrator loved Honey, but was in over his head. He didn't understand how the beautiful, endearing love of his life, who had so much love for others and so much to live for, could be suicidally depressed. He was a country boy, unworldly, and not equipped for the challenges Honey's condition presented him, In his simplicity, and, yes, his ignorance, he just assumed these moods would blow over. He always attributed her profound sadness to some trigger like a sad commercial, a sad movie, y'know, that way "womenfolk" can get from the slightest little thing. The guy was oblivious, not evil. And now, after all this time, he still can't wrap his mind around just how badly he missed the signs and lost the love of his life. He's mourning, still grieving, and still can't move on. The tree has become a living symbol of their love, every branch a representation of a mystery he wasn't equipped to handle, and may never unravel. But, people, read what he's saying without malice: He's trying to understand his lack, he's trying so hard that he's not grieving in a healthy way, and he has clearly never found someone to help him cope with this "mystery", one of which -as the lyrical cycle begins again at the end clearly (should) indicates to us- he can't let go, but hasn't the tools to solve. Cuz big simple men don't actively SEEK enlightenment. He knows he'll figure it out, eventually, by himself... ...alone. |
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| Don Henley – Sunset Grill Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| @[BryanMcGuire:42750] - You are correct. Specifically, the song is about The Sunset Grill while under the management of original owner "Joe Froelich", the "old man" who came from Vienna, Austria, to be specific. He was in no way, shape or form a "bartender". | |
| Don Henley – Sunset Grill Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| @[urbanman:42749] - The "old man" was not a bartender. He was Joe Froelich, the original OWNER, who emigrated from Vienna. | |
| Soundgarden – Slaves & Bulldozers Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| @[no_one69:40413] - They\'re playing the song in Cminor (I think it\'s higher on the album) which makes the note D#.. | |
| Bread – Diary Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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FIRST THINGS FIRST: My apologies- This is definitely TL;DR material. It's also another cynical rant on a song many people - including yours truly at a much more tender age - are emotionally attached to - and such rants are always self-indulgent, often pompous and inherently kind of insulting. But this song is wrong, people- very, very wrong... SONG MEANING (IN BLACK AND WHITE): SET SCENE: Likely at college. STORY: Creepy stalker type, with major boundary issues, surveils young woman he is fixated upon, who, likely while studying, lays down her diary (probably while digging through her book bag) under a tree. Creepy Stalker Guy invades girl's private space by reading her diary. The reason "...you'd never see it in her eyes" is because she doesn't feel that way about him, who she probably sees (if she sees him at all) as a bug, an insignificant little bug, one only useful as spider food, the prospect of which being the only reason our heroine wouldn't step on it. When the creep admits to having violated her privacy, believing - despite his many faults, which include the aforementioned boundary issues and a perverted projection issue- that he is the object of her affections, she seems to not care, because a) she heretofore didn't even know she HAD a stalker; and b) indifference and denial are better to exhibit than the desire to shoot one in the face. Despite this rebuke, committed to his delusion, Creepy Stalker Guy indulges in a disturbing fantasy wherein the object of his illicit desires is treated like little more than an ornament that he pampers and presumably parades around like the Stanley Cup. He steals her diary again, most likely because she makes the theft easy. This time she makes no bones as to who she is involved with. Creepy Guy finally gets through his thick skull that he has no future with her and calls off his hunt- most likely because her real man is a man of quality. He now revisits his romantic ideal, this time pretending to be the "better man" by stepping aside and wishing them all the best... when in reality he has no choice, and is lucky to have come through his obsession with all his appendages intact. The song is successfully manipulative. It paints a portrait of a sensitive young man experiencing unrequited love, and you just know that if the object of his fixation gave him a chance he'd win her heart like he has won ours - when in reality his behavior is indicative of a controlling and abusive nature, and ANY female should RUN from a relationship with him, even if he WAS the subject of her private thoughts. David Gates' sweet sweet voice, skillful songwriting, and beautiful melody inspires us to root for and even identify with this emotionally unstable lad. It isn't healthy. One should not feel kinship for such a maladjusted soul; one should not strive to be so self-involved that they should insinuate themselves so invasively in someone else's life without even so much as a cohesive rationalization. The song is touching, but, oh, so wrong. |
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| Led Zeppelin – Kashmir Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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@[rash_powder:37548] - "This songs was writen in the 70s. If Lord of the Rings was written then, no one knew about it. " I mean, I know that lukeofearl already addressed it, but...Holy f*ck! |
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| Led Zeppelin – Ten Years Gone Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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@[TheKooster:37546] - Sorry, but "Blind stars of fortune, Each have several rays" is indeed correct.Beautiful lyric. Plus "grow" not "go" the first time. He's saying that maybe he didn't have to head out on his own because he feels just as strongly about her as he did then. Other little stuff, but it's just ticky tack sh*t. I'd like to see you do Kashmir, tho. There is one line EVERYONE gets wrong. It's truly amazing. I'm not saying it isn't hard to kin- it is. But the fact NO ONE gets it right blows my mind. |
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| Foghat – I Just Want To Make Love To You (Muddy Waters cover) Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| Oh- Foghat (which featured former Savoy Brown members; if you're not familiar with Savoy Brown and you like Foghat- or even if you don't- look 'em up, in ALL they're various incarnations) gave us "Fool for the City" and "Slow Ride" aside from their great cover of this song, and both those were actually written by them. They also did a great cover of Willie's song "My Babe". They had a good dose of soul for a bunch of white boys. ;) RIP Lonesome Dave. | |
| Foghat – I Just Want To Make Love To You (Muddy Waters cover) Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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The song was written by Willie Dixon. Muddy recorded it (with Willie- of course- and Little Walter blowing a down n dirty harp), then Etta James made it a little more famous. Foghat took a little from Muddy -especially the feel- a little from Etta and rocked it up. They did the song justice. The lyrics are a bit messed up here. They're messed up in the same way all over the net. I've corrected lyrics (but not these) a few times on this site and they always get reset, so screw it. You want to know them, just listen to Muddy. |
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| Reunion – Life Is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me) Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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@[Milfred101:37432] - Been over a decade, but Dougville is absolutely right. Also included at the end is the Stevie Wonder classic "Uptight!" |
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| Oliver! – I'd Do Anything Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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What's nifty about this tune is that while he's playing the "cute lad", you can tell Dodger's hoping for more than just a peck from Nancy - provided Bill Sykes isn't around. And that's the song's point: no matter who it is, if you can push the right buttons in the right kind of way, you can make someone do all manner of things for you; especially if a little "sugar" is in the mix. It's one of many clever songs that play cute upfront, but are really a lot darker than they sound. GREAT musical. |
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| Oliver! – I'd Do Anything Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| @[AudreyDeanna287:37306] - Yep. Horrible decision. I did "Oliver!" and our lad hit all the notes, still sounded like a boy, and - most importantly for me - acted like one! And this was a community production. Sure, the kid went on to have a professional theatre career, but we hardly had their resources and we still could find an Oliver! that didn't come off like the most fey of Tiny Tims. (Super effeminate Tiny Tims really piss me off.) | |
| Queen – It's Late Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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@[ozonefiller:37284] - I know this is somewhat late - no pun intended - but... You, my friend, earn the cookie. This song is about a manipulative, conniving lover who mercilessly toys with the affections of another, doing just enough to string them along (while shamelessly blaming THEM for it) til they blow up the relationship after getting caught cheating (for the whateverenth time?). And what a ******* diva! The last two lines of the final act, pure unadulterated GAS! Clever stuff by May. |
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| The Faces – Stay With Me Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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@[roryjones:37283] - You do realize that he was upfront about his intentions, right? Hateful? How?: The guy is a pig, he tells the woman he's a pig, he tells the woman what to expect from him, and in this way he's more honest than 90% of the pigs- male OR female - in this piggy world. So either accept the song for what it is or leave it alone. After all, songs about female pigs who talk in the same damn way get celebrated while male pigs get eaten alive...or cured into bacon. PS: I recommend you read the much subtler lyrics of Queen's "It's Late". Now THAT bastard is hateful. |
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| Syd Barrett – Octopus Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| @[exobscura:37282] - If you really are/were a friend of "Mr. Jones", drop us dogs a line. | |
| Syd Barrett – Octopus Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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@[mammadaddio:37281] - Upvoted, though I DO see fun commingling with the terror. BTW- Totally tied to the Octopus all the kids of our generation (I'm making a big assumption here) rode at the carnival. My memories are lighter than yours. Cheers! |
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| Led Zeppelin – The Song Remains the Same Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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This is about the power of music to be eternal, and that it's best to aspire to evoke an atmosphere of passion, joy and/or awareness. So choose your words, your feel, your melody and your rhythm carefully. Remember: whether you're experiencing California sunlight, Sweet Calcutta rain, or Honolulu starbright, a song like Paul Anka's "Having My Baby" is still a soul-sucking abomination. And that's a painful eternal truth. |
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| Billy Squier – Everybody Wants You Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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It's about a Club Girl, a Party Girl; clubhopping, freely sharing her body- though our narrator suggests it has as much to do with insecurity as any "fun" she claims to be having. As has been pointed out, by the end of the narrative she's caking on the makeup and mixing cocaine ("Days at the mirror, patchin' up around the seams" is a double entendre) and alcohol to fool herself into believing a) She's as hot as she always was; b) it's as satisfying as it once was. |
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| The Guess Who – Laughing Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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Just an observation: The song is not about an "ex-", it's about a "never was, but..." The subject hung around and pursued a relationship with the object of his affection, never realizing that that person was toying with his desires to stroke their own ego until the "cat" grew tired of playing and let the "mouse" go, laughing all the way. (Yeah- Cats do SO laugh!) "The Heartless Ex" angle is still valid, tho, because the personality type of the "cat" is the most relevant aspect of the song's emotional impact. |
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| The Guess Who – Laughing Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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@[A_Mick:37037] Yeah- If you're a Psycho B****. >:D |
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| Warren Zevon – Lawyers, Guns, And Money Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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@[scumbagstyle:36108] - Agreed, except I'll go so far as to say it's a rich American kid who globe trots and leaves a trail of irresponsible behavior -often criminal- in his wake. The son of a Politician, Forbes 500 member, etc., it doesn't matter: Daddy has enough juice to get him out of ANY situation ANYWHERE in the world; "mending his ways" is an option he doesn't feel the need to explore. |
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| Donovan – Season of the Witch Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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@[akess:35099] - Dimitry is absolutely correct. Donovan's even stated that it's not just hard drugs, but simple recreational pot use. |
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| Chris Cornell – Disappearing One Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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Curtains draw open and closed. When a SHOW closes, the curtains are (at least) metaphorically closed. When we arise in the morning, the curtains are metaphorically opened. The subject sees their idols on the stage. She or he (I'll stick with "she" for the rest of this analysis for expedience sake) wants to reach out to them, she wants them to help her, heal her; she doesn't understand how they can speak to her through their music, but won't speak to her in real life. When the show ends, the curtain's drawn, and that barrier remains. At home, she returns to listening to their music, hoping for salvation, while pining and wallowing in self-pity. The stars never meant that. They want her to experience life, be inspired by their music to recognize herself and accept that it's up to her to be her own catalyst for change. But she lies there on her bed like a martyr, until she falls asleep listening to their music. In the morning, they are, of course, still not there. She opens the curtains and curses the day, but she'll put those same songs on again, knowing that at the very least there are people out there that understand her pain. Maybe, someday, she'll figure out that their message actually is that the people who understand her aren't confined to them, the musicians whose affection and attention she so craves. And she can't find those people by locking herself in her room. (For me, the key to this interpretation is the line "Dreaming only of the ones who never dream of you". Her "dreams" are being "ignored" by MORE THAN ONE party.) |
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| Pearl Jam – Deep Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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On the edge...of another wrong set of lyrics on Song Meanings. The worst offender has to be: "Young virgin here from heaven Visiting, yeah" "YOUNG VIRGIN?" At Christmas time? Derp. "Visiting YEAH?" For the record the line is: "Yon virgin, down from heaven, Visiting hell" And before any asks why I don't correct the song: I've corrected a number of lyric sets. I even set "I Wish" by Stevie Wonder straight by using and citing correctly the lyrics FROM STEVIE'S OWN SITE!!! After accepting them, not long after they were reverted to the "original" WRONG lyrics, obviously transcribed by a white person with a bad ear. (I'm a white guy with a good ear.) It's hard to get the SONG MEANING RIGHT when you're using the WRONG LYRICS to analyze it. |
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| Bad Company – Shooting Star Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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@[mattgursky:30478] Hendrix didn't die from a drug overdose. He died from hiatal hernia. While Jimi enjoyed the Beatles and played a wild version of Sgt. Peppers, he learned to play by ear from '50's songs. He gre up with his dad. The song was about a made up guy with the generic-good-old-fasioned-rock-n-roll name of JOHNNY. Not sure why that is so hard for people to accept. |
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| Bulletboys – THC Groove Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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"The Mighty Tower of Power Horns Blow!" Oh no, it's "By the time will pass we'll hold on" LOL!!! Criced, you clowns that run around the internet sabotaging lyric pages just to prop up your egos. I mean, chimps on acid, for real. |
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| Bulletboys – THC Groove Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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LOL! The lyrics of this song as written down by chimps on LSD. Bra-voo songmeanings hack. |
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| The Who – Won't Get Fooled Again Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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@[Acewrite:28923] - I have to disagree, Ace. Money and power: That combo will always be the boss. As Isaac Asimov wrote in the Foundation, all systems will be corrupted by money and power. It is inevitable. |
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| The Who – Won't Get Fooled Again Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| Song Meaning: "We Will Get Fooled Again". | |
| Pink Floyd – Sheep Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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@[epic:27215] jess Right. Snowball represented Trotsky, Napoleon = Stalin. |
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| The Original Caste – One Tin Soldier Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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I'm very well aware the song is a fable, and it's a powerfully emotional one. Lambert and Potter did a fine job of marrying the lyrics to a melody suitable to the passion of their lyrics. But besides being shamelessly manipulative, the moral hangs by one skinny thread: The Mountain People are complete idiots. Let us get this straight: Your valley counterparts are psychos propelled by avarice to slaughter for fortune. The sum total of the Mountain People's "treasure" is a big ol' rock that reads "Peace On Earth" on the bottom or inscribed in the earth. Now, setting aside questions like... - "Why did they feel the need to hide the inscription under a rock? Who exactly was going to steal it?" - "Why couldn't they just carve it into the rock itself, or paint it all over their houses- Hell, blaze the slogan on your t-shirts!" ... why did they play coy with a group of angry people who were "Asking for the buried treasure; Tons of gold for which they'd kill"? Did they have a DEATH WISH? A MARTYR COMPLEX? It seems to me that all they had to do was let the Valley People come up the hill, turn over the rock and say, "That's it. That's the treasure." Then they could let the Valley People search to their hearts' content- yeah, out of line and invasive, but the alternative was the slaughter of their village. SO- THE "REAL" MORAL OF THE STORY IS THIS: Don't play coy with psychos. |
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| The Original Caste – One Tin Soldier Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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@[NoiseIsNotMusic99:26914] I feel the same way. Even after I stopped my seminary catechism my faith colored a lot of my lyrics. I was an insufferable twit, and my regret is many. If only I could go back and apologize to everyone I offended with my self-righteous, sanctimonious pronouncements. |
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| UFO – Mother Mary Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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@[bill102064:24473] - Wild line reading, Bill, and I'd prefer it, gives the song a fascinating spin. But it's "wild colonial boy". You can make it out pretty clearly (as clear as it's going to get, anyway) on "Force It", the second chorus. Even on the other repetitions of the line you never hear a "d". Now, I suppose you can hear him sing "why I clone your boy" if you're so inclined, but as cool a perspective as that would add, it's not the lyric. Won't stop me from singing it that way now, though- giving you full credit, of course. ;) |
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| Gordon Lightfoot – Sundown Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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@[Audiophile65:24360] - Some others have the tone right, and there's one interesting interpretation, but you have it right, Audiophile65. Back in the day it was pretty well known, but for more than one reason (including the tragedy you cited) Gordon avoided talking about Cathy Smith, at least until he was good and ready to do so. |
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| Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Marrakesh Express Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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@[Whispering_sorrow:24015] - I sure wish that wouldn't affect your affection for that lovely line. Pot isn't exactly evil. :D But, you can breathe easy, without the scent of acrid smoke intruding upon your lovely imagery: I'm willing to bet that the "garden" smell represents the flower hair wreath worn by his companion, fashionable with the flower children of the day, and still popular today, especially at festivals and weddings. In the era of the song, both men and women wore a combination of Eastern garb, leathers from Morocco, robes and flowing shirts from Nepal and India, and, of course, flowers in their hair. So you have no cause to reimagine the scenery that decorates your mind as you listen to this evocative song. Enjoy. |
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| Manfred Mann – The Mighty Quinn Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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"I like to go just like the west," "The Mighty Quinn", as sung by Elmer Fudd. |
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| Electric Light Orchestra – Fire on High Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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@[OneKnight:23688] You're obviously NOT one of THOSE preachers because, feeling as you do, I am willing to bet that you don't go around telling kids ELO makes "Devil Music". :D |
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| Electric Light Orchestra – Fire on High Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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@[shogunblade:23687] That's Bev Bevan you hear at the beginning. |
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| Elton John – Razor Face Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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@[bridip:23035] - Bingo. You got it, friend. |
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| Rush – Fly By Night Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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@[RUSHMAN:22262] - Angus Young? RushMan, how do YOU know what Agnus Young sounds like when he sings? (I really wanted to add "- have you showered with him? ;)", but even with the inclusion of the "winky emoticon" I thought you might take it personally, when, honestly, I'm just basting your bulls. ;) ) BTW- Plant and either Bon Scott or Brian Johnson could NEVER hit the notes Geddy does. Roger Taylor of Queen, maybe. Take it easy. |
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| Stevie Wonder – I Wish Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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@[pearced:22047] Stew is saying that once you are in college (or working, or apprenticing, or popping out kids of your own) and you are on your own, responsible for your ownself, beholden to NO ONE, you look back wistfully to those days when you thought answering to somebody was a real drag (and spent your time figuring out ways to get around that), when in reality they were the days you miss the most. |
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