| The Doors – End Of The Night Lyrics | 3 days ago |
| Some lucky people are born in the place and with the people they will spend their lives with. Others must search, rove and wander to find where they belong. Some come into success, happiness and so forth easily, others must fight and strive for it. Using diurnal vs. nocturnal metaphors here is powerful. Not everyone has an easy path. But sometimes the richest are the most difficult. For they take you to places few have been. | |
| Seal – Future Love Paradise Lyrics | 9 days ago |
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There is so much optimism and hope in Seal's music, and this song along with several others both on this album and its follow-up "Human Being" is truly indicative of that. I always like to imagine he sees things to come that most do not, similarly to how Nick Drake did 💙💙. |
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| George Michael – Heal The Pain Lyrics | 10 days ago |
| If you strip away the overtly romantic context, this is my ethos in life. If I can help those around me whom I love to ease their burdens and remember the beauty and joy of life, I will 💙💙. | |
| Little Feat – Willin' Lyrics | 1 month ago |
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This song and me, we go way back. I will never not BELT IT OUT when I hear it. Hell, if I ever get around to singing karaoke, this'll be the first song I do. If they're cool enough to have it in the list. It's one of the classic trucker songs and a map of the Southwest too, but it's also about hope and keeping on keepin' on. It's atmospheric, witty and heartfelt, and it just might transport you somewhere else. |
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| The Sword – Barael's Blade Lyrics | 3 months ago |
| If Professor Tolkien wrote metal lyrics, they would be like this 🖤🖤. | |
| The Waterboys – The Big Music Lyrics | 4 months ago |
| This song struck me like a hammer the first time I heard it long ago. This is one of the best artistic descriptions I've ever seen of finding one's purpose in life, spiritual awakening, the transformation that comes from being out in nature and experiencing the ineffable and what it is like to be touched by something far greater, grander and stranger than everyday life. It is one of the core songs that resonates with who I am and my own life experiences. | |
| Nick Drake – River Man Lyrics | 4 months ago |
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This song is so deep, dark and magical. Like a mysterious river with unknown headwaters and murky depths. I feel it's a meditation on life, depression and death. The conflicting desires that come from going through the darkness - to fight and move on, or to give up. Both can be so seductive. But it's also so very elemental, the rhythm itself feeling like the movement of a river, either watching from the bank or floating upon its surface. Nature understands when others do not. And there is peace, wisdom and solace there not to be found in any church or cathedral. Not sure if Nick intended that, but the acoustic guitar, gentle tone and brightness amid the melancholy is there. The River Man himself reminds me of Tom Bombadil and Goldberry from 'The Lord of the Rings.' Gentle and helpful but enigmatic ancient spirits of nature. Goldberry is described as "the River-woman's daughter." But he could also well be a euphemism for Charon the boatman of the River Styx. |
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| U2 – Walk On Lyrics | 4 months ago |
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"You're packing a suitcase for a place none of us has been A place that has to be believed to be seen" That is such a brilliant lyric and it speaks directly to my magical, restless, whimsical spirit. This song is enchanting. |
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| The Waterboys – Medicine Bow Lyrics | 4 months ago |
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This song found me in my twenties. I was in very much the sort of place it describes, restless, wild, in search of something more than what I had, on the edge of breakdowns and breakthroughs. It helped me through that and it still does now and then when in a similar place. The times when it feels like you're sitting in the audience during a set change in a show, impatiently waiting for the next act. I will always treasure the music of The Waterboys. |
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| Jethro Tull – Reasons For Waiting Lyrics | 4 months ago |
| My favorite song of all time and my personal anthem. It's whimsical and airy but also earthy and playful. Full of romance, winks, poetic flourishes and the like. This is how someone in love sounds. Whether it's in love with a person, an idea, a place, a time or something else. | |
| Uriah Heep – Traveller in Time Lyrics | 5 months ago |
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Considering that this was a British band with propensity for sci-fi and fantasy themes in their lyrics and "Demons and Wizards" came out in 1972, I highly suspect this is about the Third Doctor's exile on Earth in early 1970's Doctor Who. Exiled by his people the Time Lords for interfering in space and time, Jon Pertwee's Third Doctor worked with international organization UNIT in the UK, fighting alien threats and other weirdness. He bitterly lamented his exile and inability to use the TARDIS. I might be wrong, but I suspect they were watching the BBC and got the idea... |
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