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merc Paragoomba Level: 15 Posts: 48/75 EXP: 15873 For next: 511 Since: 03-15-04 Since last post: 504 days Last activity: 339 days |
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| Not to be a place to post an entire song and leave it at that, but put down a song and lyrics to them, and what it means to you. | |||
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Toxic in a sublime state of mind Level: 75  Posts: 464/2857 EXP: 3732709 For next: 94195 Since: 03-15-04 Since last post: 3 days Last activity: 8 hours |
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| Paint It Black This comes to mind whenever people talk about meaningful, so here goes. I first heard this song when I watched Full Metal Jacket, a moving movie in its own right, at the credits, and I thought it was really catchy. I go ahead and assimilate it into my collection, and looked at the lyrics, and they're about a funeral. I was at my best friend's funeral, and the lyrics just made perfect sense. |
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Arwon Zora Level: 35  Posts: 22/506 EXP: 278115 For next: 1821 Since: 03-15-04 From: Terra Australis Incognita Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 10 min. |
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| AUGIE MARCH - THIS TRAIN WILL BE TAKING NO PASSENGERS We will adjust to this new condition of living like a man with his entrails now out him not in, after certain techniques of torture accustoms himself to a new condition of living... TRAAIIIIIIIIN Thoughtful godless men find god in them at the age of twenty-five but in a year death gains favor and they think themselves the more alive, You'll find them in the loose caboose where the pills are kept and the stupid juice, This one has a sleeping wheel, this one has a willing noose Onward and on to the ends of love, pricked vanity, habit and ruse. Onward and on to a premature silence where death finds too much use. Fifteen year old whores in training, eyes a'batting, arms a'flailing, skin aflame, in this fire-fanning express, If you're on board amazement follows fear and rounded by dismay it takes the corner into the day after today which is a father's sorrow Onward and on to the ends of meanness where kindness is the means of the earth. Onward and on, awakening finds us too sensual beings from birth ("I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry lady, I am sorry, I'm sorry lady...I'm sorry") TRAAIIIIIIIIN Pods of wealthy blonde gobbets with red-rind eyes getting pecked at by the heroin sparrows of the western skies, It may be married to the tracks but this train flies and it's taking no passengers. "We'll stand on his hand, that's how you pin your man, we'll smash him from Preston to Epworth!" Onward and on to the ends of reason, where malice is the means of the earth. Onward and on, this strange-wrought bird, onwards and over the black coffee earth, Onward and on, this laughing train to the ends of its low, low mirth... Where the media make it with the media whores, Lady Time minces man-meat with her contract claws for a barbecue with the veterans of the talkback wars in the outback palace... of one John Laws. O we will adjust to this new condition of living like a sailor with his hands tied behind his back imprisoned after sailing into foreign waters, unawares, accustoms himself to a new condition of living. But a shadow falls between this hurtling intent and its realisation, for its government is rotten and therefore it's civilisation which is certainly taking no passengers TRAAIIIIIIIIN What does this song mean? Well, it's basically comparing Australia/our world in general, to a train that is hurtling into hell, hurtling across the landscape, not stopping or slowing down, not taking on/letting off passengers along the way. I guess you could call the lyrical content a series of snapshots of this hell-bound train - suicidal drug addicts (pills and stupid juice), fifteen year old whores in training, harsh refugee policies (sailor with his hands tied behind his back after sailing into a foreign land), John Laws, and so forth... with the narrator as a sort of demonic conductor. By Augie March standards this song is extremely fast, exhilerating, even brutal. Comes out of nowhere and stomps all over you. What it means to me? Well, it was the first Augie March song I got into - the music caught me first, and then I discovered it had some of the most beautiful lyricism I'd ever heard. Augie March shows me that "amazing lyrics" and "amazing music" can go hand in hand. The song like most Augie March stands up to serious literary analysis. It hangs together as poetry even without music - read it aloud and find out. I guess This Train, among others, means to me that there can be beauty and poetry in modern music, even if not enough people have heard it. (edited by Arwon on 03-23-04 10:41 PM) |
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SOLDIER officer 81 Newcomer Level: 6 Posts: 4/8 EXP: 548 For next: 359 Since: 03-25-04 From: Iowa, United States Since last post: 460 days Last activity: 261 days |
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| CATS IN THE CRADLE Lyrics My child arrived just the other day He came to the world in the usual way But there were planes to catch and bills to pay He learned to walk while I was away And he was talkin' 'fore I knew it, and as he grew He'd say "I'm gonna be like you dad you know I'm gonna be like you" And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon Little boy blue and the man in the moon When you comin' home son I don't know when, we'll get together then You know we'll have a good time then My son turned ten just the other day He said, "Thanks for the ball, Dad, come on let's play Can you teach me to throw",I said "Not today I've got a lot to do", he said, "That's ok" And he, he walked away and smiled And said "You know I'm gonna be like him, yeah You know I'm gonna be like him" And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon Little boy blue and the man on the moon When you comin' home son? I don't know when, we'll get together then You know we'll have a good time then Well, he came from college just the other day So much like a man I just had to say "I'm proud of you, could you sit for a while?" He shook his head and said with a smile "What I'd really like, Dad, is to borrow the car keys See you later, can I have them please?" And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon Little boy blue and the man in the moon When you comin' home son? I don't know when, we'll get together then You know we'll have a good time then I've long since retired, my son's moved away I called him up just the other day "I'd like to see you if you don't mind" He said,"I'd love to, Dad, if I can find the time You see my new job's a hassle and kids have the flu But it's sure nice talking to you, Dad It's been sure nice talking to you" And as I hung up the phone it occurred to me He'd grown up just like me My boy was just like me And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon Little boy blue and the man on the moon When you comin' home son? I don't know when, we'll get together then You know we'll have a good time then. And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon Little boy blue and the man on the moon When you comin' home son? Its not so much the words, but the song itself comes from one of the happiest periods of my life. I don't know when, we'll get together then You know we'll have a good time then. |
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Kon-Tiki Red Paragoomba Level: 13 Posts: 33/52 EXP: 9163 For next: 1104 Since: 03-15-04 From: Looks like you'll be the one going... Since last post: 579 days Last activity: 339 days |
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Two songs, first one "Who will save the sane" by Type O Negative, the second from the movie Natural Born Killers, the song "Waiting for the Miracle" by Leonard Cohen.
This feels as if it's about what I've been experiencing for years, that, since I'm not really what you'd call a standard human, most people look at me from out of their own little world and think I'm strange, then close their world while watching me from behind their windows, not even giving me a chance to see further than the strangeness.
This song's dark, beastlike mood, along with the missing all your chances because you think you wait for something gets me to look back and see all the missed chances I had. Another thing that makes this song really meaningful to me is that, when I first found it, I met my first love after not having seen her for four years and around the time I listened to that song, she told me something I didn't know at all, that, those four years ago, I told her right in her face I loved her and I could've gotten her for that (she fell for my honesty), but I didn't notice it, was busy looking for signs. Now, four years later, she has a bf for years and I'm still waiting for somebody. Well, errr *cough* those two songs're only meaningful to me personally because of above reasons. Dunno if they'd be meaningful to anybody else. Now let my scurry away under a rock before I blush  |
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