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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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...