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| Concrete Blonde – Joey Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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i only read the first two postings...yeah, maybe his flaw is drinking, but i have just got back from a war zone...and i think the war inside is just the crap he cant talk to her about...thats why she still loves him even though he's a jerk...thats why she can forgive him BECAUSE ITS NOT ABOUT HER |
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| Weezer – Hash Pipe Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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hey fuckheads, this site is NOT called TELL US HOW MUCH YOU LOVE THIS SONG...it is called SONGMEANINGS you fucking imbiciles...and even if it was, what makes you think anyone gives a fuck if you "just looove this song soooo much" ? Stupid waste of fucking human skin slacker morons with nothing to say and nothing better to do, why don't you take up a cause and do something with your lives, or create something you useless scabs. |
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| Toto – Africa Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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to: rainsinafrica
you are the closest person to guess the truth so far. The band just threw the song together, and didn't even like the way it turned out. They tried to keep it off the album, and when the label released it as a single, they all thought the execs were stupid. It became the highest selling single off the album. |
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| Coldplay – Clocks Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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This song is about getting molested by a Catholic priest and his struggle with weather to come out with the truth of it all. |
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| Stone Temple Pilots – Unglued Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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this is about a serial killer who stalks women, and the line should be 'Know where to look, and know where to find you'. He masturbates to moderate his obsessed feelings and murder lust. He is full of loathing and self hatred because he knows what he is doing is wrong but cant control himself. |
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| Five for Fighting – Superman (It's Not Easy) Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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This song is about a sports star who is gay. 'Flying' is a metaphor for being a fairy. He'll never see home because his dad hates his fag son and Kryptonite is AIDS. 'A pretty face beside a train'...well i won't go there. And the word 'clouds' is a code name for his boyfriend Klaus. |
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| Blue Öyster Cult – Don't Fear The Reaper Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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ENOUGH WITH THE FUCKING COWBELL REFERENCE!!! O.K, we get it, you all saw the SNL episode, you laughed your ass off and ran out to the head shop and bought the "More Cowbell" tee-shirt, wore it around campus, and got to tell that fucking story twenty or thirty times when someone asked you what it meant, and laughed your ass off all over again like Beavis and Butt-Head...
GET OVER IT!! That was like, in the last mellenium or something. You don't all have to show us you're in the club!
Aw geez, I probably just asked for a crapflood of "MORE COWBELL!" Huh huh...huh huh..heh.. |
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| Toto – Africa Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Let me add...by "open mind", I mean "open like anything could wander in from anywhere", and by "interesting" I mean "strange", and that "someone should study it", and by "study", I mean someone should keep an eye on him. |
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| Toad the Wet Sprocket – Fall Down Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Dude, this song is so about the 'life of the walking dead' of drug addicts. Maybe you need the perspective of an addict or someone who has been close to that lifestyle or known people in it to really see it, but if you read the lyrics with that in mind, I think it becomes almost unmistakeable. Their comming down off a high, out of dope, and out in public trying not to be obvious of their condition (maybe they just got pulled over by the cops).
What I love about Toad is that they're lyrics can mean more than one thing within the same framework, as in 'when will we fall down' might mean literally collapsing (maybe dying) from dope sickness or an overdose, or go to jail finally for good. 'Knowing you ain't got nothing left' can mean the desperation of having run out of dope or run out of options. 'Been too long this time' means they've pushed the envelope way too far and stayed srung out past the breaking point.
'She hates her life, her freinds her skin...' is all about the self-loathing addicts feel for the wreckage they've made of thier lives, and the bad associations with likewise dedegenerates (addicts, dope whores and biker dealers). Her 'reutation she can't mend' is about the immoral and humiliating comprimises she's made with her body for the sake of drugs that are well known to thier circle of dopers that fuels her escape deeper into addiction.
Annother Toad dual line is the one about 'someone always being there for bail' could be literal, or could mean there was always someone who could hook them up when they were desperate for more.
I always thought the song was a blend of two addicts hurtling towards rock bottom and could see the end rushing up to meet them, and/or the two of them at some dealer's house with nothing to pay with but her body, therefore: 'for a good friend, I was never there at all'. |
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| Toto – Africa Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I actually have come to realize that the interpetaions of the listeners are more creative than the artist sometimes really are. Through the debate on this song, I've gotten comfortable relying on what I want the song ( and all songs) to mean, or what it means to me. I really loved REVTANGO'S Vietnam version, it really shows an open and interesting mind. |
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| Everlast – What It's Like Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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The part of the video that always got me is when they (the song's characters) all commited suicide by jumping in a pond. The first few people I showed the video to (all girls) cried at that part. It was my favorite song for a long time...still is up there though. |
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| Five for Fighting – Superman (It's Not Easy) Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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This song always reminded me of my father. A large, powerful man who always did the right thing, who seemed superhuman to me. He never took a day off sick from work, was a four letter athelete all four years in high school, and was a good dad in all those ways most people seem to wish thier dads were; warm, funny, tough when he neeeded to be, and a rock of patience and integrity. As I grew older, I came to realize a more realistic version of the man: a person sometimes unsure of the choices he made in his life, a man with regretts (as we all have), and a dreamer with an un-manly emotional side that only makes him more a man to me. When I hear this song, I always think of my dad as the mythological father I once saw him for and the vulnerable human that I came to know he is as well.
By the way, my dad hates to fly. |
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| Toto – Africa Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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ok, I HATE IT WHEN IM WRONG!! It is Olympus. I went to the official Toto website (TOTO99), and I also found an article of an interview with Toto's drummer in Drummer Magazine where he explains the origins of the song:The initial idea for this song came from David Paich, playing on his piano. Jeff explains the idea behind the song: "... a white boy is trying to write a song on Africa, but since he's never been there, he can only tell what he's seen on TV or remembers in the past. Geographically it doesn't make sense... The Kilimanjaro isn't near the river named in the song."
It just goes to show that somtimes you really shouldn't know too much about the meaning behind a song you like, or the lack of imagination or artistic investment by the creators just might ruin it for you. Furthermore, the band awlays hated the song and wanted it cut from the album. A record exec convinced them not oly to keep it, but released it as a single. I guess thats why this is the only song I like by these guys. I was an accident. |
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| Toto – Africa Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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ok, I HATE IT WHEN IM WRONG!! I've just checked on the official Toto website (TOTO99), and it is OLYMPUS. I also read an interview on the site with the band's drummer, where he explains the inspiration behind the song in Drummer Magazine:
The initial idea for this song came from David Paich, playing on his piano. Jeff explains the idea behind the song: "... a white boy is trying to write a song on Africa, but since he's never been there, he can only tell what he's seen on TV or remembers in the past. Geographically it doesn't make sense... The Kilimanjaro isn't near the river named in the song."
I guess the moral behind all this is; sometimes your better off never knowing the true interpertations, because your incorrect version may be more imaginative and romantic, and may be ruined by the lack of forethought or artistic investment by the creators. The interview also said the band never liked the song, and wanted it cut from the album. A recording exec convinced them it was not only good, but worthy of a single. Because of that, a band member joked, they never pick the singles to market an album themselves. |
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| Toto – Africa Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Not to be a smartass burntfire, but just how sure is "pretty sure?" Have you read the linner notes or something? I haven't, and that's why I'm on this site, but I'M 'pretty sure' its not Olympus--not because it dosen't make sense, just that it makes more sense poetically to be empress. Plus, its one line I always tought was pretty understandable. |
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| Blue Öyster Cult – Don't Fear The Reaper Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I heard the interview where a band member claimed DFR begun (at the time of writting) as a song about eternal love, and somehow got darker and darker in tone as it was re-written and recorded, untill it became something that resembles a song about suicide or death (your choice), but saying that had been unintentional. I don't care what they say, whatever their original intent, it became a song that is undenyably about death, weather they want to admit it or not. I imagine most rock musicians are not above deceit when it comes to a songs underlying message. In retrospect, it may not have been a good idea to be known for a song glorifying suicide in the days after the Ozzy Osbourne "Suicide Soloution" lawsuit, and I'm sure BOC had people telling them to quickly get on record saying the song's meaning had a lighter, warmer, fuzzier intent, and to poo-poo interpertations involving death, unless they wanted to go back to playing bar mitzvahs to pay for the avalanche of civil suits they could expect. I mean, c'mon, its called "Don't Fear the REAPER!" for crap sake.
At any rate, i've always loved it with its dark association with death, and the idea of Death as this cloaked harvester of souls, but it always seemed to me to be about a woman whose love has gone ahead of her to the afterlife, (it dosent have to be suicide) and she pines for him so much so that she has no fear of Death, and longs for the moment when they will be reunited. I imagined her waisting away in her yearning unto death, as Christopher Reeve does in the movie "Somewhere in Time," to be with his one true love who has died before him. Tragic, but powerfully beautiful. |
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| Bee Gees – Stayin Alive Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I came to this site because my friend has maintained for years that 'Staying Alive" was about being homless and living on the streets of New York. I tend to doubt that, but I have tried to decipher it in that way once or twice (for humor's sake). What I came up with is that "the New York Times affect on man" refers to homless people trying to keep warm by blanketing themselves with newspaper when they sleep, or stuff it into thier clothing as insulation.
Not a good explination, but it was just to mess with my freinds idiotic interpetation. I think I believe the one about the lies about men and male culture in the TIMES, though. |
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| Toto – Africa Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Oh, I forgot to add, I think the line is "hurry boy, SHE'S wating there for you." That would add to my theory that it's partly about discovering his soul mate. |
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| Toto – Africa Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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The line is "rising like an EMPRESS above the Seranghetti" that ought to de-fuse the controversy over 'comparing a moutain to a mountain.' Also, it's interesting to think the song may be about slavery, as I'd allways thought the line about the rains was "I MISS the rains down in Africa." Slavery or not, it seems it could be a man who spent some significant time in Africa, met a woman he fell in love with, returned home, and now is awaiting her arrival to join him, while fondly remembering the magical time on the continent where they met. Interesting. I am no fan of Toto, but for some reason this song always captured my imagination. I've always wanted to go to Africa as a day-dreaming student in school, and go on great adventures bring aid to famine-struck areas, travelling via bush pilots, hanging out with ex-patriot big game hunters and stuff. But the real world Peace Corp.s requiers you to have some sort of abillity or training they are in need of, so I guess its back to the coal mine for me. Anyway, I always secretly loved this song. |
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