| Lisa Marie Presley – Better Beware Lyrics | 3 months ago |
| Pretty sure she says 'relation,' not erection...lol | |
| David Bowie – Weeping Wall Lyrics | 7 months ago |
| This, played loudly, is the perfect ambiance for opening the door to trick-or-treaters! | |
| David Bowie – Future Legend Lyrics | 7 months ago |
| I have loved this since the first time I played it. Ahhh...the ambiance! | |
| Bobbie Gentry – Fancy Lyrics | 7 months ago |
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Just listening for the 784,654th time....and it's just perfect in every way. Just incredible. The only reason it was remade was to scoop up a boatload of money from a more modern and accepting audience. But it is a completely different song than the other one that sounds slapped together in a few takes without a thought for the meaning. This song captivates me still, after 50+ years. Takes me to the deep South and the poverty of some who lived thru truly hard times. And the powerful spirit of a poor young girl being abandoned to her future with only a red dress and her wits to keep her alive. She not only stayed alive, she turned her hard beginnings around, became self sufficient, successful and someone with respect for herself. She didn't let the naysayers and judgers stop her. She's the one sitting in the drivers seat at the end. So, not a song about a poor girl, but a song of hope and how you can rise up no matter how far down you started. There is a huge difference between a singer who simply belts out a song that is on a page in front of them, and someone who can convey an entire experience with their voice. Telling not just a story with words, but taking you inside it and making you feel like you are there, with their interpretation. |
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| Bettye Lavette – He Made a Woman Out of Me Lyrics | 7 months ago |
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This is an absolutely awesome song. I can't believe it was written by 2 men. But hearing this song at such a young age when everything about women's sexuality was a big no-no, was very real. Bettye's version was not the one I heard first. I know both her and Bobbie Gentry made it their own. A great song and two powerful women singing it. I apologize because I know this review belongs under Bobbie Gentry, but Songmeanings has stripped that album to only 4 songs. Disgusting. I came here looking for Bobbie Gentry's version tho, because it was on one of the hands-down best albums ever, produced by Rick Hall. And this song, along with the title song Fancy (classic written by Bobbie Gentry herself!), and some very fine covers like Rainmaker, Something in the way he moves, Find 'em fool em' and forget em', Delta man, If ya gotta make a fool of somebody...all take me to the heat and laid back feeling of the south in a way nobody ever has before or since. |
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| John Lennon – #9 Dream Lyrics | 8 months ago |
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@[scimitar_255:48178] I've read that the number nine had great meaning for John, nothing to do with Revolution number 9. And there is way more to that piece than the number 9 being repeating over and over. |
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| Sinead O'Connor – Kyrie Eleison Lyrics | 9 months ago |
| what does this song mean? | |
| Lisa Marie Presley – How Do You Fly This Plane? Lyrics | 9 months ago |
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Lisa Marie Presley was an incredible singer and songwriter. As the only daughter of her icons father, and the fact that she would always be overshadowed by his huge presence in modern music...she managed to carve out a completely unique place for herself Storm and Grace is my favorite album by her. I was so excited when I heard this album I couldn't wait to hear her next. I hope she found peace. |
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| Lisa Marie Presley – Storm and Grace Lyrics | 9 months ago |
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Lisa Marie Presley was an incredible singer and songwriter. As the only daughter of her icons father, and the fact that she would always be overshadowed by his huge presence in modern music...she managed to carve out a completely unique place for herself. This song is just beautiful, as many of the tracks from this album are. |
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| Sinead O'Connor – Troy Lyrics | 9 months ago |
| @[right2innocenc:47840] You are correct, this song is not about a lover or her father, it is about her abusive mother. | |
| Rickie Lee Jones – The Last Chance Texaco Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| I love the sounds of the cars going by too. Such a great song, performance, story. | |
| U2 – One Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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Family, relationship, fellow human... "We're one, but we're not the same We get to carry each other, Leaves you, baby, if you don't care for it" |
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| Tommy James And The Shondells – Crimson and Clover Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| This song is obviously about love. And yes, Tommy James did drugs like a lot of artists then. Lyrics are about love, music is influenced by drugs. Beautiful song. | |
| Lisa Marie Presley – Storm of Nails Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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If only I were a cat right now, meow I'd look around and go lay back down |
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| Lisa Marie Presley – Un-Break Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| Living every excruciatingly painful second, minute, hour, day, week, month, year, decade of your life...feeling like you've done something unforgivably wrong, but you don't know what it was/is, and yet you are being punished for it. Trying to fix what never needed fixing...only understanding, and acceptance. | |
| Lisa Marie Presley – You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| @[Leonora77:44706] I agree. It must have been a devastating betrayal, to have been taught to believe in something, and to believe in something, something you lived your life by...only to discover it's all a lie. I guess it happens to everyone, you one day question long-standing beliefs about the world, and suddenly your eyes are open. | |
| Rod Stewart – The Killing of Georgie (Part I and II) Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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I loved this song when it came out, best song on the album IMHO. I think he knew Georgie. Rod said this about writing the song in an interview: While the outlines of Georgie's story, and his murder, are true, Stewart admits: “I wasn't on the scene when it happened, so I embellished a bit.” ... " |
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| Rod Stewart – The Killing of Georgie (Part I and II) Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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@[ThorValhalla:39019] That you were able to figure out what this song is about when the lyrics make it obvious must be quite the accomplishment for you. And all you are saying, is that you think it's fine if someone stays out late and parties as long as they are straight. Otherwise you think it's ok if someone murders them just for being gay. I'm sure you are baiting but I don't care. This song is awesome and deserves better than your comment. That you were able to figure out what it's about, when the lyrics make it obvious is quite the accomplishment for you. Don't know how this comment has the most points unless you had all your friends vote for it. And yeah, all gay people should stay in the closet because that is where they will be happiest, and it will make people like you more comfortable. |
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| Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Down by the River Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| Seriously? this was written by Neil Young, not the Bee Gees | |
| Harry Nilsson – Rainmaker Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| I've never heard Harry Nilssons version of this song but Bobbie Gentry did a great version on her Fancy album. It's one of my favorite songs. | |
| Helen Reddy – I Am Woman Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| Great song by Helen that gave women a voice at a time when they didn't have much of one. It said basically that girls and women deserve respect and the right to live life on their own terms and making their own choices. No more no less. I was just a kid but it was a powerful song that I still love. And she got so much s**t for singing this song. | |
| Helen Reddy – I Am Woman Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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@[Freedom:26693] Lover It is so much easier in modern times to stay at home and raise kids. Not that it is easy, just easier now than it was then. And women always have two jobs, while you have one. When men like you realize that THEN women will have a real choice. Things re not fair weven now. When people say they are pro-life, they mean the burdon is all on the woman. It always has been but I hope someday men will be held half responsible for a child being brought into the world. Until then women should not be judged and the only ones to pay for becoming pregnant. Because birth control doesn't always work, and most men do anything to avoid doing their part. I could go onand on, but sick of priviliged men talking about how much better it is FOR THEM to stay home. Of course it is, because you only have one job, its all men ever have. So when you work full time AND take care of the kids, house, etc, then you can wonder if women are happy. |
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| Dolly Parton – I Will Always Love You Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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In an interview Parton said, “...But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.” Parton was attempting to make a break from her role on Porter Wagoner‘s syndicated television show at the time she wrote the song. “I was trying to get away on my own because I had promised to stay with Porter’s show for five years. I had been there for seven,” she said. “And we fought a lot. We were very much alike. We were both stubborn. We both believed that we knew what was best for us. Well, he believed he knew what was best for me, too, and I believed that I knew more what was best for me at that time. So, needless to say, there was a lot of grief and heartache there, and he just wasn’t listening to my reasoning for my going.” She continued, “I thought, ‘He’s never going to listen. He’s just going to bitch every day that I go in to talk about this.’ So I thought, ‘Well, why don’t you do what you do best? Why don’t you just write this song?’ Because I knew at that time I was going to go, no matter what. So I went home and out of a very emotional place in me at that time, I wrote the song, ‘I Will Always Love You.'” Even though she was determined to move on, Parton especially wanted to convey a message of gratitude in the song. “It’s saying, ‘Just because I’m going don’t mean I won’t love you. I appreciate you and I hope you do great and I appreciate everything you’ve done, but I’m out of here,'” she explained. [That’s] basically what I was saying. And I took it in the next morning. I said, ‘Sit down, Porter. I’ve written this song, and I want you to hear it.’ So I did sing it. And he was crying. He said, ‘That’s the prettiest song I ever heard. And you can go, providing I get to produce that record.’ And he did, and the rest is history.” |
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| David Bowie – Can You Hear Me Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| @[fyschee:22819] Sorry the link doesn't work but you can just search for Cher and Bowie on youtube. There is also a medley of oldies mixed with Young Americans from the show. | |
| David Bowie – Can You Hear Me Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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Have this song as a duet with Cher and Bowie from her TV show back in 1975. I originally recorded it on my little panasonic tape recorder, then recorded it to cd and finally made it an mp3 which I've been playing a lot lately. Still love it as much or more than back then. You can see the clip on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeRtk2zVVCw. I've read several places that Bowie doesn't remember doing the Cher Show as it was during his drug?/sleep deprived days. I like the version from Young American's, but the duet with Cher will always be the one I love. Beautiful song! |
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| Amy Winehouse – Rehab Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| The line that always gets me is "I just, oh, I just need a friend." | |
| Yvonne Elliman – I Can't Explain Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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Yvonne does a great version of this song on her Food of Love album. I have always thought that Yvonne would have been in the same leage as other top female performers of her era like Stevie Nicks, Heart, etc., if she hadn't had such huge success with "If I can't have you," which made her synonymous with the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, and overshadowed everything else she ever did including her fine performance as Mary Magdalene in Jesus Christ Superstar. She did several excellent albums before hitting big with that song. Her first self titled album, and "Food Of Love", which included her great version of "I can't explain. She wasn't a songwriter but sang every song as if she had written it herself, with her beautiful smooth as molasses voice. |
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| Yvonne Elliman – Can't Find My Way Home Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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Yvonne does one of the finest versions of this song. Actually she did two versions, both included on her greatest hits cd. The second version is the best. I have always thought that if she hadn't had such success with "If I can't have you," which made her synonymous with the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, and overshadowed everything else she ever did including her fine performance as Mary Magdalene in Jesus Christ Superstar, that she would have been in the same league as other top female performers of her era like Stevie Nicks, Heart, etc. She did several excellent albums before hitting big with that song. Her first self titled album, and "Food Of Love", which included her great version of "I can't explain. She wasn't a songwriter but sang every song as if she had written it herself, with her beautiful smooth as molasses voice. |
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| Bobbie Gentry – Fancy Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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@[Letmein:16471] Probably because it was originally a hit for Bobbie Gentry in the early 70's. Reba's was recorded much more recently and therefor more known to younger people today, and yet it still comes in 2nd place to anyone who heard the original. No, thats not true. Reba's doesn't even register with anyone who has heard Bobbie's version, there's just no point in listening to a copy when you've heard the best. |
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| Bobbie Gentry – Fancy Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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This is one of the best story songs ever written. It's one of the best songs ever written and recorded...by Bobbie Gentry, not Reba. Reba's just doesn't have IT. Already sung perfectly by Bobbie Gentry. This was the first album I ever bought, and it is still probably my favorite album. Produced with legendary Rick Hall at Muscle Shoals. I always loved this song because it was about a poor girl with nothing but a red dress and some advice from her mama, and she turned it around and made sure to never be in that position again. |
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| Creedence Clearwater Revival – Who'll Stop the Rain? Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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From John Fogerty's book Fortunate Son: pg. 195: That's really a protest song...I was going at it sideways. With "I went down Virginia," I'm talking about Washington, DC. "I watched the tower grow" is their Tower of Babel. I'm talking about the BS, really. Political spin. I think the song was done enough like a fable that you don't necessarily have to know what it all means or even worry about it. pg. 320: "I went into "Who'll Stop the Rain," a song very much inspired by those times we lived through together (Vietnam). |
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| George Harrison – Stuck Inside A Cloud Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"Talking to myself crying as we part Knowing as you leave me I also lose my heart." sounds like a break up song too. |
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| Kylie Minogue – Where the Wild Roses Grow (feat. Nick Cave) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| like a ghost who can't find peace because she was murdered | |
| Persephone's Bees – Nice Day Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I may be wrong but I hear her sing (and the lyrics make more sense as): politicians on the radio and tv today talkin' 'bout how great it is in USA |
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| Madonna – Swim Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"Let the water wash over you Wash it all over you Swim to the ocean floor So that we can begin again Wash away all our sins Crash to the other shore" This is one my favorite songs from the first time I heard it and it made me feel hopeful. It is saying choose to swim away from, instead of accepting, the hopelessness all around us. The water washes away (baptises) our past mistakes, so we can forgive ourselves, begin again and change. |
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