| Eagles – Hotel California Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| @[D_Psi4or:40028] "Mirrors on the ceiling / The pink champagne on ice", with some earlier hints, may refer to the lifestyle the bosses of drug business live. Look: the woman buys a jevelery at Tiffanys, drives mercedes benz (those days AFAIK it meant even more than cadillac). She and her ilk drink champaigne (compare with the wine, which is unavailable for "ordinary" guests!), play sexual orgies (that is what mirrors on the ceiling are for), i.e. they do not do drugs themselves, just live off them. | |
| Genesis – Home By The Sea Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| Interestintg that the lyrics refer - almost explicitly - to Eagles\' "Hotel California". A voices (of ghosts?) say: Welcome to the... etc. But this reference is also somehow perverse. \nA guy had stopped in Hotel California because he just needed to rest. Then he was trapped: "You can check-out any time you like, / But you can never leave!". \nOn the other hand, a guy who enters home by the sea does it in bad intention. He\'s not a tired man looking for a stay. He\'s also not driven by pure curiosity. He isn\'t a kid, who\'s just exploring, like those girls in "Picnic at Hanging Rock". He\'s also not e.g. a historian of architecture, wanting to catalogue an old building and maybe put it on the list of protected objects. He\'s just a burglar, who wants to rob the house. And he gets punished with having to stay there for ever. \nOn a deeper level, "home by the sea" may symbolize any troubles we put ourself in "on our own wish". Drugs (the way "Hotel California" is often interpreted) or any other addiction? AIDS infection (or unwanted pregnancy) through casual sex? Prison ("crime doesn\'t pay" etc.)? A deadly sin leading to hell? It\'s not so essential, what it is, because all this examples are based on the same principle. We do something we know is very wrong, because we believe it\'ll be beneficial for us. Then... "Welcome to the home by the sea!" | |
| Deep Purple – Black Night Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| In the last verse - did he really say "I can't see dark night", or rather "I can't see dark LIGHT"? | |
| ABBA – Does Your Mother Know Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| @[modestmaus:35422] That's right! It is just clasiic r'n'r in disco suond "sauce". | |
| ABBA – The Day Before You Came Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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The song tells about a day before someone (or something?) came. That is obvious. And musically the song is sad. Which can mean the protagonist is sad because something has happen. I can also mean that her life was sad before it has happen. And then it happen. But what was it? You say she found love, now she tells her boyfriend how hopelessly aimless her life was before he came. You say their relationship turned out to be toxic, now she misses the life before he came. You say she met death, now she tells them about last day of her earthly life. You say the song is addressed to her bandmates, and protagonist is the singer herself, her life was aimless before she joined the band. Everything could happen. Maybe she met a drug-dealer who sold her a joint, and what she says is just logorrhea. Or maybe she found God. In general we all agree on one thing: we do not know what has happened. Which can mean only one thing: we do not need to know it. Then what is important? First, this song is a short, and yet great reportage about an ordinary day from the ordinary life of ordinary office worker in late 70s / early 80s. And, except the details, of ordinary office worker, irrespective of time and place. Life full o routine, where everything repeats itself. And it is very important to notice how she tells about it. She does not say she remembers what happened that day, hour by hour. She only says what "must have" happen. Why? Because the same happened every day "since (she) finished school". Every day was the same, so that particular day also must have been so. "Oh yes, I'm sure my life was well within it's usual frame", she admits. On the evening, like every day, she watched "Dallas" (TV series about rich family) and read latest book by Marilyn French (who wrote about toxic relationships). It may suggest one or the other thing happened to her next day. But as well it can mean nothing. She could just watch "Dallas" because it was popular, and read French who was popular too. That would only confirm what was said above: she lived ordinary life, in short: lived like everybody. Only one thing she remembers for sure: there was a rain that day. Why this? Because it was the only distinctive fact. All other things were like every day, except it did not rain every day. Second important thing, maybe even more important: she says "It's funny, but I had no sense of living without aim". Because that's how it really is. As long as our life is aimless, we are not aware of it. Since we have found our purpose (for example our professional vocation), then even if we do not live 100% on that purpose yet, we already know our life so far was empty. Now we know where we are going, and from that perspective we see that before now we were turning in circles. Yesterday it was invisible to us, today it is just obvious. And it does not mean life became easy and sunny overnight. No, living on purpose is often harder and more busy than living aimless life (compare to "Super Trouper"!). But there is no return. What we know, we cannot un-know. And that is it. No story. Pure psychology. |
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| Blackmore's Night – Way to Mandalay Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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Mandalay is a city in Myanmar, former Burma, and big center of Buddhism. But is this really just a song about a city in Asia? "I wandered down the pathway, through the misty moor" It happens in UK. The "way to Mandalay" is purely metaphorical. It's about striving to achieve some goal. Freedom? Spiritual enlightenment? Perfection in art? "Like I knew he did a thousand times before" Words "on the way to Mandalay" are almost-quotation from Rydyard Kipling's poem "Mandalay", which says "on the road to Mandalay". That's likely him, who walked the moor "a thousand times" before Candice did. The poem tells about British soldier, who, quartered in Mandalay, found there freedom, good times and love ('hot' relationship with Asian girl). Then, back on British Islands, he longs for that place, that time. And that's probably how Candice felt. "Voices seem to echo "Come talk with me a while Just around the corner, just another mile..."" 'Voices' aren't real voices of course (she's not schisophreniac!), but her thoughts. If she tried to achieve spiritual enlightenment (satori?), the thoughts would be what stays in the way. But it could also be just her hopes: 'Come on, I know you're tired, but go on, you've gone so far yet, soon you'll be there!'. "I had heard the stories, her legend served her well A mystic's myth or fable, truth or fairy tale" Her feelings are ambivalent. She follows the idea ('legend'), but now she starts to doubt it. The legend was appealing, but not everything that 'sounds good' is really a truth. "A raggle taggle gypsy, with a toothless smile Said "Sit with me my darling, let's talk a little while..."" Ambivalence again. Gypsy often pesonifies freedom, with all advantages and dangers it brings, but traditionally also symbolized a liar once. 'Toothless smile' can mean old age (experience), or... poverty. Though 'raggle taggle', can also mean just 'eccentric'. Gypsy is ambiguous character then. Maybe he or she talked to Candice when she was a little girl ('sit with me my darling, let's talk a little while' - that's the way people often talk to children) to rouse some hankering in her soul. Now she follows it, but feels doubtful. "And the road goes on, seeming ever longer on the Way to Mandalay (...) The mile went on forever, the minutes turned to days (...) The moment lasts forever, at least it does for me" It takes too long! She hoped she'd get there after shorter or longer time / effort, but the goal seems to move away instead of getting closer... "And the road goes on, forever will I wander on the Way to Mandalay" ...so she starts to seriously doubt if it's achievable at all. "Could I have been misguided by the mystic's ways?" She had got some (spiritual?) guidance, but now she asks herself if it was worth anything. She suspects that she's been just tricked - maybe by some cunselor, maybe by her own intuition. She's afraid she follows the pure illusion. "Caught between what happened and what could never be" She asks herself, hasn't she lost the very contact with reality. Maybe - she thinks - what she wants to achieve, is inachievable, just impossible, and has nothing to do with the things that really happen. The song tells about slowly losing all the hope, but not giving up despite of it. What it expresses, some people call 'a difficult optimism'. |
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| The Cranberries – Pretty Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| People full of complexes tend also to be unkind to the others. Maybe Cranberries turn to such a kind of person in this song. It says simply: "You are good as you are, and I am good as I am, too. So you needn't be so rude. 'Cause if you will, I can't forbid you to do it, but won't exert any influence on me". That's all. So simple, so wise. | |
| The Cranberries – Show Me Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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The songs had been written from the point of view of a person completely lost in their life. "Show me to the end of the night Show me to the end of the day Show me to the end of tomorrow, tomorrow" Night, day, tomorrow - are not places. They exist in 4th dimension: time. Show me to next day and to next to the next - tell me, how to live my life. "Show to me the path I should take Show to me the choice I should make Show me direction, direction (...) And if I ever lose my way And if I ever go astray Show me direction, direction" I don't know what to do next, I lost my sense of direction. What to choose? Where to go? What's my next step? Im confused. But on the first place: who's being asked of it? A friend? A lover? A family? All the people? Therapist or personal advisor? We don't know yet - but the requests itselves sound dramatic. "Show me the way Show me today" I can't wait no longer for an answer. Give mi the answer today. Like Gwen in "28 Days", asking with her head up: "I need help. Now!" BTW: so sad, that it doesn't work in reality the same way like in the movie - but the association itself can be meaningful. "Take me to the darkest hour" Why to the darkest hour? Why not to the brightest one? "Psalm 23" says: "If I even walked through the dark valley (other translations say: valley of death), I will not fear of evil, because You are with me". So this song could be a prayer; kinda continuation of "Electric Blue". "You can take me even to the darkest hour, 'cause I won't fear of anything - with You". "Show to me the strength and power" Give me more strenght to go on with my life. "Give me the key" The line sounds ambiguous. Give me the key opening the door to my future, if I'm to have one at all. But "the key" means also: "the code". Explain me, how it all works, for I don't understand neither the life, nor the world. If I understood, maybe I would find my way. But I don't understand. Everything looks like a chaos to me. Teach me how to find a way, then I hope I'll never lose it. "Show me the way" For the last time they ask for a guidance. Help me, 'cause I'm stuck. I may never go forward anymore, if you don't show me the way. It could be a song about the Dolores' feelings during hard time. Especially as the entire "Roses" album is full of confusion. Many lyrics sound like confessions of a woman who feels she lost not only her man's love, but also entire sense of diection. But this particular lyrics are also very universal. The simple words, which could be said by anyone of us, any man or vwoman - sometimes at least. There are moments, when I feel I could pray with this song. |
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| The Cranberries – Linger Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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Which only shows, how sensitive and easy-to-hurt person She was. Because when you listen to the song itself, you could believe a lot more did happen than just a kiss. Also, the phrase 'You've got me wrapped around your finger' seems to support my years-long suspicion that Cranberries were strongly inspired by The Police. ;-) |
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| The Cranberries – Will You Remember? Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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I don't think so. Maybe black limousines and bunches of flowers, even champaigne, are in use on prom nights in US, maybe even in Ireland too, I don't know. But "future we planned" and "things that we swore" seem to bring to your mind wedding rather than a ball for students. To me, it's clearly a wedding song. But the punchline confuses me, because when Cranberries recorded it, Dolores and Don were just about two years married and I doubt she did sense then, that something was going wrong. And the lyric sounds like if a narrator was ex-wife. Maybe it was about some other couple, a friends for example, whose relationship did disintegrate. Or maybe she wrote it having a depressive phase and thinking he didn't love her anymore? Who knows? The song is also very interesting musically. It sounds like an funfair tune or musical-box, or a song from an old vaudeville. Sometimes makes me think of "Girl With No Eyes" by David LaFlamme & It's A Beautifil Day. |
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| The Cranberries – Sorry Son Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| Oh, I forgot: the people She was feared of, and now "all seem worthless" to Her, might be pharisees, or maybe also Herod, who She once escaped from. Now she's not feared of them. First, because they have done all they could already, they cannot do anything more. Second, since she's inspired by Holy Spirit again, She knows they're nothing but a bunch of helpless ingorants. | |
| The Cranberries – Sorry Son Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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Maybe, just maybe it's a Passion song. Look at it the way as follows: the "long supper without you" makes you think about funeral banquet of course, but also it brings The Last Supper. Of course, The Last Supper was a supper with Him (Jesus Christ), but there had to be another one "without Him" on Good Friday, after Christ was crucified and buried. Then look at it from St.Mary's, His Mother's, point of view, but the way like if it happened now, not almost 2000 years ago. Well, when She answered "yes" to the arcangel, when he offered her a role of God's Mother, she was kind to him. But now She thinks it was also cruel, because She knew her Son was destined for martyrdom, so She may feel guilty somehow. She feels sorry She agreed to give birth to Him. Now she gets a ride on the bicycle, like she rides the tricycle - she wants to feel like a little girl again (tricycle = children's bike?), like She did before "everything happened. She sees "the sun in the trees", so it's an evening. And she feels "the psychedelic breeze" - as usual "psychodelic" is associated with drugs, but in fact means just something like "consciousness-expanding". Would it be a blasphemy, if we interpret "the psychedelic breeze" as Holy Spirit? It would explain the not-so-sad mood of the song: now She already senses what's gonna happen next (Resurrection). What do you think? |
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| The Cranberries – Sorry Son Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| It's on the studio album titled "Bury the Hatchet". I don't know about any compilation nor live album which would contain this track. | |
| The Cranberries – Just My Imagination Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| Oh, yes, the initial phrases of vocal lines sound somehow alike, but not to the degree of copying. It could be pure coincidence as well. You try to play various sequences of notes and some sound good, so you use them. And sometimes two people hit on similar one. | |
| The Cranberries – Fee Fi Fo Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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Yes, this lyric is undoubtedly about child abuse, but I think there's more to it. Well, O'Riodan was great composer or co-composer, but not always equally good as lyricist. Sometimes, however, she 'made it' and this song is one of that positive examples. First, it's interesting on literary level. Dolores uses 'fragmentary narration' here, a bit like Joyce used to. So-called 'stream of consciousness'. Short description of what happens, then associations and reflections appear just like that, with no 'bridge' between, next short description etc. Second, this song is also a statement, and the religious one. 'God helps those who help themselves' is typically Protestant approach. Dylan in 'With God on Our Side' did negate this approach from Jewish point of view, looking at history and politics. Cranberries did the same from Catholics side, and on individual example. Because if God really cared only of those who care of themselves, then what about someone too weak to self-protect (child in this case)? And even worse: if God was always on stronger one's side, then what if a sinner is strong enough to get everything he wants, does sinner 'have God on his side' then? Cranberries seem to believe it doesn't make sense. Next intriguing issue is the title, that 'Fee Fi Fo' which the song begins and ends with, and which seemingly couldn't fit less with such a serious subject. It sounds like careless whistling, sign of some disrespect. It can be the abuser's approach - he doesn't care at all what he just did to a little girl (destroyed her self-respect, robbed her from dignity, killed her innocence) - which would mean he's a kind of psychopath. Also this can be the approach of other people, who either don't notice at all something wrong has happened, or pretend they didn't notice, or (at the worst) underestimate it, thinkin' it's trifle. Or it can be the victim's attitude, who tries to either hide from herself a real meaning of what's happened, or just forget it, to proctect herself from the mental pain. Also the sound of car engine on the very end of track sounds meaningful.Maybe it symbolizes that perpetrator has escaped from punishment, avoided it. And notice that the same or very similar sound effect returns on the beginning of 'Dying Inside' (on Cranberries' next album), which's lyric could descript the effect of this abuse: he hurt her very 'self' so hard that now she's dying inside, and he still couldn't care less. |
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| The Alan Parsons Project – Eye In The Sky Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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@[JamesMarks:18583] Well the gambling and Las Vegas casinos, ceiling cameras etc. were INSPIRATION undoubtedly. But the OUTCOME itself is much more ambiguous. It's what could say any person who thought they were in a fair game and suddenly they found out they were cheated. A gambler who discovered a secret of gambling house, yes, but also a lover whom their partner cheated on, the voter disappointed by politician, boss deceived by employee or employee deceived by boss etc. Generally the song is abuot disillusion which makes us free ("you're going to find out the truth, and the truth is going to free you", as the Bible says), though it can be painful at the same time. By the way: if the speaker was God, the addressy had to be someone who just died and now is transferred under the Devil's jurisdiction ("another fool"). Then it could make sense. ;-) |
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| Asia – Wildest Dreams Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| PS. I know that USA supported UK in this war, and it's not what I'm asking of. Wetton sings: "From Washington across to California / the fighting breaking out in Leicester Square". Is it just irony? "Fighting for Great Britain", which's safety wasn't really at stake (at least directly)? Or do I overlook something? | |
| Asia – Wildest Dreams Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| Alright, the song seems to refer to Falklands War. "They fight for king and country", so it's about British soldiers. This war was big victory for UK, but also big tragedy for many people who suffered from it. Generals, admirals, politicians had their victory, they got their medals, but forgot of those who really fought this war, and for whom that was tragedy too. The soldiers now try to forget what they went through and what they did. Now Asia are afraid that this victory, combined with forgeting about the price of it, will result with increasing popularity of militarism, which may lead to totalitarianism repressing all who disagree with that. I understand that all. Though I'm not talking about if I agree or disagree with lyrics, anyway I understand. BUT what's America doing there?! | |
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