| Bob Dylan – Queen Jane Approximately Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Hm.. i do think this song is autobiographical. my interpretation does make it seem that queen jane is marijuana though.. verse 1: When your mother sends back all your invitations And your father, to your sister, he explains That you're tired of yourself and all of your creations, Won't you come see me Queen Jane? Won't you come see me Queen Jane? -this verse seems to be about dylan going electric, and the "mother" "father" "sister" figures may be people close to dylan who dont support the idea of him going electric. verse 2: Now when all of the flower ladies want back what they have lent you And the smell of their roses does not remain And all of your children start to resent you, Won't you come see me, Queen Jane? Won't you come see me, Queen Jane? -"flower ladies" are all of the physically appealing women that dylan has spent time with, but none of them have left a mental impression on him. i cant quite explain the line about children, but again this verse has a nuance of being unwanted, unappreciated. verse 3: Now when all the clowns that you have commissioned Have died in battle or in vain And you're sick of all this repetition, Won't you come see me, Queen Jane? Won't you come see me, Queen Jane? -in this verse i think clowns he has commissioned are band members he's teamed up with over the years. the line about repetition clearly states that he was tired of acoustic stuff and just wanted a change. verse 4: When all of your advisers heave their plastic At your feet to convince you of your pain Trying to prove that your conclusions should be more drastic, Won't you come see me, Queen Jane? Won't you come see me, Queen Jane? -Hm. i believe advisors are the people who sign dylan to musical contracts and get him record deals. they "heave their plastic"--(cd's, tapes, records). the other part of this verse means that producers and fans wanted dylan to have all of this turmoil and sadness in his life that he may not have had at the time. verse 5: Now when all the bandits that you turned your other cheek to All lay down their bandanas and complain And you want somebody you don't have to speak to, Won't you come see me, Queen Jane? Won't you come see me, Queen Jane? -i have no reasonable explanation for this last verse.. but that's just what i got out of the song hope it wasn't hogwash to all of you |
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| Bob Dylan – The Times They Are A-Changin' Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Come writers and critics Who prophesize with your pen And keep your eyes wide The chance won't come again And don't speak too soon For the wheel's still in spin And there's no tellin' who That it's namin'. For the loser now Will be later to win For the times they are a-changin'. do you think this verse talks about how writers appointed dylan the "voice of his generation"..? |
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| The Doors – The Soft Parade Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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i think this song is about the futility of human life/existance. morrison states that there is no god and we work all our lives and devote it to something just so we can lay a mere 6 feet below the surface of the earth and have our bodies rot. "I'm proud to be a part of this number" i think in that line hes trying to say he's glad he can realize what life really is and hes not a blind christian/catholic throwing their lives away. the last few stanzas that begin with- "A cobra on my left" makes a lot of inferences to animals. perhaps morrison is trying to say that we are no different from the beasts that surround us on earth. "The deer woman in a silk dress, Girls with beads around their necks" i think that line is saying that humans are no more evolved than any other species, but our intellectual advances (silk dress, beads) allow us to try and separate ourselves from so called "beasts". no matter the meaning, morrison was much beyond normal human thought and most of his songs are enigmatic in that he didn't communicate his emotions like normal people did. let me know what you think and i hope my thoughts weren't just malarky to some of you. |
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| Elton John – Indian Sunset Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| does anyone think that he's referring to himself as the red sun and the hills of gold are his sort of heaven? the way he words it that's how it presents itself to me | |
| Bob Dylan – Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| do you think the very last stanza says you'll find god and woody both in heaven? | |
| Bright Eyes – Bowl of Oranges Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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i think this song is about ecstacy. in the first verse i think the whole bit about dreaming means his sober reality (dream) was flawed (loophole) so he adjusted it. the next verse he talks about everything seeming new and made just for him. in the next he makes a reference to touch (just hold my hand) which is generic to using ecstacy. the following verses are melacholy. connor says in the 4th and 5th versesthat he has cried and that's why he wrote that song. after the high of ecstacy wears down there's no serratonin left in your brain and many people cry their eyes out. |
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| Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| to me it seems that this song is criticizing someone they loved or cared about for doing drugs. in the first part of the song he asks this person if they can decipher between two contradicting things. when he says 'wish you were here' he may be saying he wishes he was in a conscious reality instead of a drugged up state all the time. | |
| Bob Dylan – Bob Dylan's Blues Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| dylan is humurous in this song yet very satyrical. i think its a stab at the publics response to his music and practically thrusting all this responsibility onto his shoulders about speaking for a generation and whatnot. | |
| Bob Dylan – Ain't A-Gonna Grieve Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| dylan's ability to relate himself to so many different kinds of music is mind blowing. this sounds like an all-out african american spiritual. but my interpretation is that it doesn't matter what color or race we are all humans are gonna end up the same. the resounding like about not grieving seems to say that its pointless to be sad. | |
| Brand New – The No Seatbelt Song Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| it seems to me that jesse wrote this song about a girl who gave who gave him none of her time. he was willing to give up everything for her and she treated him as valueless.(fix me to a chain around your neck and wear me like a nickel) a nickel isn't worth much in this day and age. it also seems that she may have lead him on to believe she was into him | |
| Grateful Dead – Uncle John's Band Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| there is a poem called 'buck dancer's choice' that i tried to read once but i gathered no sense from it. it may have influenced jerry and this robert hunter to write the song. | |
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