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So, I believe this is a song about a guy that decides that he has to break up with a girl, possibly during sex or during an argument. If he doesn't break up with her, he's going to fall in love and make the mistake (for him) of being in an unwanted relationship.

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I guess the song is about the children paying the price of their fathers' wrong doings, but I could be wrong

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I honestly feel like it depends on how you interpret it. For example the chorus is pretty self explanatory. It explains that he's been fishing for over 27 years, I'm guessing owns a company and/or sells fish to stores. Fishing/boating brings peace to the character. Either his grandpa was a farmer, but he didn't like it, or his grandpa tried to get him into farming w/ him but he "couldn't stand the soil". For the heaven and hell part, I feel like it shifts towards homeless and very rich people. One having nothing, living on the streets, basically a hell, and one...

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I don't pretend to know what was really in Dylan's mind when he wrote it, but to me this is a song about longing for God. (I'm sure I'm not the first to have this take). It reminds me of Ecclesiastes - the writings of a philosopher who searches for meaning and fulfillment by chasing pleasure, then wisdom, then work, and so on, never really finding it.

This seems like a similar journey. Johanna (not far from Jehovah) may be a reference to God, or at least the idea of God - perfect love and wisdom and knowledge.

Maybe the...

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The most important thing people have to do before they even try to interpret anything regarding this song "or any esoteric works regarding its subject" is to first and foremost to understand the consept of a Dragon and what it truly represent and have represented within all ancient traditions "micro and macro" Cosmic and Kaos. Because it is NOT nor have ever been what most of you assosiate with a Dragon today

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I love this song. I think Vanessa wrote this song for Stevie Nicks to cheer her up after Stevie’s mom passed away unexpectedly.

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It's an odd choice but this might be my favorite Monster Magnet song, with "Spine of God" perhaps being second. In any case, I never thought too much about it but I think that the lyrics are a meditation on identity, guilt, self-actualization, and, perhaps most of all, memory and its power.

Wyndorf starts with a fairly mundane situation that we can all mostly relate to: reading a book and having that book conjure up memories from our own past. For Wyndorf this comes in the form of "ghosts," which is a repeating theme in the poem. The...

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  • Perhaps Wyndorf sees kinship with MODOK in this project of steering his own course in the face of naysaying and admonishing "ghosts." Once the chorus hits, we return to 1st person and remain there. Thus, perhaps the "blowing up" in the song's chorus is a reference to a plug-pulling of whichever voices (aka ghosts) that the occur when Wyndorf looks in the mirror, turns on the TV, etc. The fact that the events which prompt these figurative explosions range from mundane to profound, showcases the mind's unpredictability and randomness. In each event, a ghost comes back to haunt him but he decides to silence them and pursue his own destiny and be true to his own self. As with MODOK, we might not like who Wyndorf is or becomes but if he is to see his life-project through he cannot care about what others think.

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    Minneapolis was where TW spent a couple o years with Cyndi Lauper. He wrote " Who Are You Now " for her. Fallin' James was also in these periods. Hear of him in " Gun Street Girl. " I think that was James in the video for " Way Down In the Hole. "

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    The lyrics are very disturbing if you ask me. Really sounds like the angelic Olivia is with someone who doesn't take No for an answer. She says No, he ignores her. She tells him to go, he doesn't. Then she constantly considers giving him a little more love, as that might make it right. Giving in to sex, obviously, to keep him with her! He has his way with her then he goes home! WTF?

    Olivia was perhaps the perfect pop star, great voice, stunning beauty, those legs in her Midnight Special hot pants https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3_uO5Fa8Oo ! But you could...

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    one of his best songs and his best music video by far

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