Please post a link and feel free to either explain or not. This song is called 'This Moment' by The Incredible String Band. The album (I Looked Up) is listed as having come out in 1970, but they sang This Moment at Woodstock. Maybe it came out as a single before the album came out. I think the lyrics speak for themselves.
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And you may see me tonight with an illegal smile
It don't cost very much, but it lasts a long while
Won't you please tell the man I didn't kill anyone
No I'm just tryin' to have me some fun" Link - ( New Window )
You dig into the depths of prine's vast and storied catalog and that's the one you pick? I mean to each his own but of all the topics hes simply yet profoundly expounded upon Id like to thinm we can go deeper then some cute little ditty about getting high.
nobody knows the actual lyrics.
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Quote:
"But fortunately I have the key to escape reality
And you may see me tonight with an illegal smile
It don't cost very much, but it lasts a long while
Won't you please tell the man I didn't kill anyone
No I'm just tryin' to have me some fun" Link - ( New Window )
You dig into the depths of prine's vast and storied catalog and that's the one you pick? I mean to each his own but of all the topics hes simply yet profoundly expounded upon Id like to thinm we can go deeper then some cute little ditty about getting high.
There's nothing more important than being happy.
One of my all time favorites. Free Will (With Lyrics) - ( New Window )
There's a bunch of great lyrical Rush songs. Although I lean heavier towards the 70s and 80s stuff than Pearts last few albums where he came across like an old grump who doesn't like most people or religion.
If you want to get really deep and obscure, The Fountain Of Lamneth suite is a good one...its all a big metaphor for being born, the stages of life, and then growing old
I'm amazed at the quiet ocean
I'm amazed at your wrong devotion
I'm amazed at what the people saying
I'm amazed by a divided nation
Like the rhythm of the earth
I get disrupted
[Verse 2]
I'm amazed at all that has been
I'm amazed at all who be
I'm amazed at the TV stations
I'm amazed what they want me to believe
After all is said and done
Where is the justice
[Verse 3]
I'm amazed, the lack of evolution
I'm amazed at the lack of faith
I'm amazed at the love we're rejectin'
I'm amazed that we accepted this place
Like the rhythm of the earth and the rhythm of the ages
Like a rhythm I get disrupted
SugarBear... - ( New Window )
I've been meaning to get into that band
I just listened to the Capt Fantastic album start to finish today for the first time in a long time. We All Fall In Love Sometimes & Tower Of Babel are my two favs from that album
Listen to the brilliant ensemble playing of Banks, Collins and Rutherford. You can practically hear every nuance of every instrument. Sabrina, remove your dress. In terms of lyrical craftsmanship, the sheer songwriting, this album hits a new peak of professionalism. Sabrina, why don't you, uh, dance a little. Take the lyrics to Land of Confusion. In this song, Phil Collins addresses the problems of abusive political authority. In Too Deep is the most moving pop song of the 1980s, about monogamy and commitment. The song is extremely uplifting. Their lyrics are as positive and affirmative as anything I've heard in rock....
Great to see more Rush fans in this thread! Life in the dreary suburbs. (Freewill, Limelight and others also get me thinking but this one stands out)
https://youtu.be/Vf8jvSPA3XQ
Whiter Shade Of Pale
Just a common story of a drunken man trying to seduce a woman, but told with clever lyrics and interesting references
https://youtu.be/_BADDeIQWVQ
Cats In The Cradle
https://youtu.be/KUwjNBjqR-c
Lying Eyes, Eagles
Story of betrayal
https://youtu.be/Sucm1hOcf80
And my tunes were played on the harp unstrung
Would you hear my voice come through the music
Would you hold it near as it were your own?
It's a hand-me-down, the thoughts are broken
Perhaps they're better left unsung
I don't know, don't really care
Let there be songs to fill the air
Ripple in still water
When there is no pebble tossed
Nor wind to blow
Reach out your hand if your cup be empty
If your cup is full may it be again
Let it be known there is a fountain
That was not made by the hands of men
There is a road, no simple highway
Between the dawn and the dark of night
And if you go no one may follow
That path is for your steps alone
Ripple in still water
When there is no pebble tossed
Nor wind to blow
You who choose to lead must follow
But if you fall you fall alone
If you should stand then who's to guide you?
If I knew the way I would take you home
Songwriters: Jerome J. Garcia / Robert C. Hunter
Ripple lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
You got to make the morning last
Just kicking down the cobblestones
Looking for fun and feeling groovy
Ba da-da da-da da-da, feeling groovy
Hello lamppost, what'cha knowing
I've come to watch your flowers growin'
Ain't you got no rhymes for me?
Doo-ait-n-doo-doo, feeling groovy
Ba da-da da-da da-da, feeling groovy
I got no deeds to do, no promises to keep
I'm dappled and drowsy and ready to sleep
Let the morningtime drop all its petals on me
Life, I love you, all is groovy
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The Unforgiven
Hehehe
Basically, it was WTF are they singing about until I read that they admitted that the lyrics were just a bunch of nonsense.
Listened to Sarah Vaughan's interpretation yesterday.
Wow.
Analog kid - cause that's just who I am.
White steps in the moonlight
They walked here too
Through empty playground, this ghosts' town
Children again, on rusting swings getting higher
Sharing a dream, on an island, it felt right
We lay side by side
Between the moon and the tide
Mapping the stars for a while
Let the night surround you
We're halfway to the stars
Ebb and flow
Let it go
Feel her warmth beside you
Remember that night
The warmth and the laughter
Candles burned
Though the…
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White steps in the moonlight
They walked here too
Through empty playground, this ghosts' town
Children again, on rusting swings getting higher
Sharing a dream, on an island, it felt right
We lay side by side
Between the moon and the tide
Mapping the stars for a while
Let the night surround you
We're halfway to the stars
Ebb and flow
Let it go
Feel her warmth beside you
Remember that night
The warmth and the laughter
Candles burned
Though the…
I absolutely love that album
Experienced this song in the past year. Feeling less hip with a couple of kids. Want more space. House hunting in the suburbs. Quiet. Fairly rural (compared to what we were used to). The one we settled on was owned by an elderly woman whose husband recently passed. Felt odd walking around and seeing their pictures everywhere. Bathroom literally had the hand rail in the shower. Every time we change something I feel...I dunno. Not "guilty". But at times it doesn't quite feel like its ours yet. Great tune.
America-Paul Simon
Cold Missouri Waters-James Keelaghan
Roll Me Away-Bob Seger
Off the top of my head.
Ana Ng by they might be giants. the whole song is thought provoking, but right before the final verse they say:
"When I was driving once I saw this painted on a bridge:
"I don't want the world, I just want your half"" and I found that to be an interesting lyric and used to wonder about it.
and this song was always a favorite of mine and my wife's from the time we were dating. She lived in RI, I lived in CT - we met in college. During the summer of my senior year in college (right after we met) I would make that drive back and forth often and once during the brutal drive from RI along the CT coast to my house I passed a bridge near New London, CT and it was spray painted with the following:
"What's gonna set you free?"
Every time I passed that bridge (probably a few hundred times from that point on through the rest of my life) I'd see that question and ponder what is gonna set me free.
I don't think it referenced the sleepy head song, I think it was just a random thing painted on a bridge.
At our wedding we had a DJ and had Ana Ng on our play list, major crowd pleaser
Anyway, Ana Ng, which I don't hear nearly enough anymore, always makes me think of that question. And it's a good question to contemplate IMO.
Try to catch the deluge in a paper cup
There's a battle ahead, many battles are lost
But you'll never see the end of the road
While you're traveling with me
Hey now, hey now
Don't dream it's over
Now I'm towing my car, there's a hole in the roof
My possessions are causing me suspicion but there's no proof
In the paper today tales of war and of waste
But you turn right over to the T.V. page
Now I'm walking again to the beat of a drum
And I'm counting the steps to the door of your heart
Only shadows ahead barely clearing the roof
Get to know the feeling of liberation and release
It's not the long, flowing dress that you're in
Or the light coming off of your skin
The fragile heart you protected for so long
Or the mercy in your sense of right and wrong
It's not your hands searching slow in the dark
Or your nails leaving love's watermark
It's not the way you talk me off the roof
Your questions like directions to the truth
It's knowing that this can't go on forever
Likely one of us will have to spend some days alone
Maybe we'll get forty years together
But one day I'll be gone
Or one day you'll be gone
If we were vampires and death was a joke
We'd go out on the sidewalk and smoke
And laugh at all the lovers and their plans
I wouldn't feel the need to hold your hand
Maybe time running out is a gift
I'll work hard 'til the end of my shift
And give you every second I can find
And hope it isn't me who's left behind
It's knowing that this can't go on forever
Likely one of us will have to spend some days alone
Maybe we'll get forty years together
But one day I'll be gone
Or one day you'll be gone
It's knowing that this can't go on forever
Likely one of us will have to spend some days alone
Maybe we'll get forty years together
But one day I'll be gone
One day you'll be gone
We had an apartment in the city
Me and Loretta liked living there
Well, it'd been years since the kids had grown
A life of their own left us alone
John and Linda live in Omaha
And Joe is somewhere on the road
We lost Davy in the Korean war
And I still don't know what for, don't matter anymore
Ya' know that old trees just grow stronger
And old rivers grow wilder ev'ry day
Old people just grow lonesome
Waiting for someone to say, "Hello in there, hello"
Me and Loretta, we don't talk much more
She sits and stares through the back door screen
And all the news just repeats itself
Like some forgotten dream that we've both seen
Someday I'll go and call up Rudy
We worked together at the factory
But what could I say if asks "What's new?"
"Nothing, what's with you? Nothing much to do"
So if you're walking down the street sometime
And spot some hollow ancient eyes
Please don't just pass 'em by and stare
As if you didn't care, say, "Hello in there, hello"
Basically, it was WTF are they singing about until I read that they admitted that the lyrics were just a bunch of nonsense.
Lennon was sued for that song. He stole lyrically from chuck Berry's song "You Can't Catch Me". The publisher sued, and to make good Lennon re-recorded a couple of songs they owned and released them on the album "Rock N Roll"
I'm not a huge Bob Dylan fan, and I certainly won't post one of those encyclopedia's in their entirety, but so many of his songs would belong in this category...
I'll go with Blowin' in the Wind.
I used to think the song was about abortion, but in an interview with Corgan I read it was about the child abuse he suffered at the hands of his parents.
From the interview:
I didn’t have the guts to kill my parents, so I thought I’d get back at them through song. And rather then have an angry, angry, angry violent song I’d thought I’d write something beautiful and make them realize what tender feelings I have in my heart, and make them feel really bad for treating me like shit
Disarm you with a smile
And cut you like you want me to
Cut that little child
Inside of me and such a part of you
Ooh, the years burn
Ooh, the years burn
I used to be a little boy
So old in my shoes
And what I choose is my choice
What's a boy supposed to do?
The killer in me is the killer in you
My love
I send this smile over to you
Disarm you with a smile
And leave you like they left me here
To wither in denial
The bitterness of one who's left alone
Ooh, the years burn
Ooh, the years burn, burn, burn
I used to be a little boy
So old in my shoes
And what I choose is my voice
What's a boy supposed to do?
The killer in me is the killer in you
My love
I send this smile over to you
The killer in me is the killer in you
Send this smile over to you
The killer in me is the killer in you
Send this smile over to you
The killer in me is the killer in you
Send this smile over to you
For me it's Children of Children.
He's got the poetic gift of being able to evoke the feeling that you've lived in a time or place and experienced something, even if it's miles outside your experience.
Nobody feels any pain
Tonight as I stand inside the rain
Ev’rybody knows
That Baby’s got new clothes
But lately I see her ribbons and her bows
Have fallen from her curls
She takes just like a woman, yes, she does
She makes love just like a woman, yes, she does
And she aches just like a woman
But she breaks just like a little girl
Queen Mary
She’s my friend
Yes, I believe I’ll go see her again
Nobody has to guess
That Baby can’t be blessed
Till she sees finally that she’s like all the rest
With her fog, her amphetamine and her pearls
She takes just like a woman, yes
She makes love just like a woman, yes, she does
And she aches just like a woman
But she breaks just like a little girl
It was raining from the first
And I was dying there of thirst
So I came in here
And your long-time curse hurts
But what’s worse
Is this pain in here
I can’t stay in here
Ain’t it clear that
I just can’t fit
Yes, I believe it’s time for us to quit
But when we meet again
Introduced as friends
Please don’t let on that you knew me when
I was hungry and it was your world
Ah, you fake just like a woman, yes, you do
You make love just like a woman, yes, you do
Then you ache just like a woman
But you break just like a little girl
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We're finally on our own
This summer I hear The drumming
Four dead in Ohio...
Absolutely devastating event for the entire country. I knew a Soldier who was posted in Germany at the time. He took the Kent State incident very badly and made noise about it. He was subsequently sent to Viet Nam.
Or so he told me...