| Donovan – Mellow Yellow Lyrics | 6 days ago |
| @[LVMan777:51030] IMHO, it's about several things, including homosexuality, according to Christian fundamentalists back in the late 60's. | |
| Donovan – Mellow Yellow Lyrics | 6 days ago |
| @[LVMan777:51029] No, it's about several things, including homosexuality, according to Christian fundamentalists back in the late 60's. | |
| Donovan – Mellow Yellow Lyrics | 6 days ago |
| I'd heard back right after the song came out & even some years later that "mellow yellow" was English slang for a gay person, a homosexual & in fact, Donovan & rock music in general was attacked by some Christian fundamentalists as celebrating a gay lifestyle, drug use, & sexual promiscuity. | |
| Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Jerusalem Lyrics | 19 days ago |
| @[evander:50873], not necessarily to you but to the ones casting the downvotes...why?? | |
| Molly Hatchet – Fall Of The Peacemakers Lyrics | 1 month ago |
| @[Pitpit:50698] I agree bro, don't let the fear-ridden, guilt-ridden narrow-minded Christian proselytizors get to ya. It's so very obvious about whom this song is written. | |
| Molly Hatchet – Fall Of The Peacemakers Lyrics | 1 month ago |
| @[karenhlu:50697] I assume you're either his widow, his sister or daughter, no? If so, you'll still need a lot more than just your interpretation, memory or what you've been told, to make me believe this song is about the Pope or President RR, when everything points to Lennon, JFK & Rev. MLK, Jr.. | |
| Molly Hatchet – Fall Of The Peacemakers Lyrics | 1 month ago |
| @[garydwilson:50696] Wtf does that mean, did he say something sacrilegious? | |
| Molly Hatchet – Fall Of The Peacemakers Lyrics | 1 month ago |
| @[Sunlover:50695] Yes indeed, the song is a moving tribute to three great men, Lennon, MLK, Jr, & JFK & I would say, tho the song doesn't clearly reference him, his brother, RFK. Kick-a** but still a great sensitive song. One other point is all these born-again believers who won't miss a chance to inject J. C. & their personal Christian beliefs wherever they can. | |
| Boz Scaggs – Lido Shuffle Lyrics | 1 month ago |
| @[LeeA3:50648], that's also a very good explanation. | |
| Boz Scaggs – Lido Shuffle Lyrics | 1 month ago |
| @[cmmumu:50647] That's pretty good. | |
| Jefferson Airplane – Have You Seen the Saucers? Lyrics | 1 month ago |
| I really love this song & the flip side "Mexico," as both environmental awareness & the issue of UFOs are both highly relevant even today, the latter especially. I saw this performed by a revamped JA in '93 at a free concert put on by them in Orlando's Church Street area. | |
| Jefferson Airplane – Mexico Lyrics | 1 month ago |
| This song is one of the great protest songs of the 60's, early 70's, calling out Nixon over his implementation of Operation Intercept, cutting off our supply of pot from Mexico to which so many of us had become accustomed. | |
| Jefferson Airplane – Mexico Lyrics | 1 month ago |
| @[palealien:50501] Not "that damn race" but that "damned race" in saying how they have been damned by the rest of society in a manner of speaking. | |
| Jefferson Airplane – Mexico Lyrics | 1 month ago |
| @[DeusFNL:50498] She wasn't referencing drugs per se but marijuana in particular, she also references the plight of blacks as 2nd class citizens during that time. | |
| Jefferson Airplane – Mexico Lyrics | 1 month ago |
| @[dthesq:50497] She refers to blacks as being a "damned race" in that they have been damned by fate, white society or the gods, whatever, but she certainly doesn't mean it as a slur. She sings of the Black Panthers who though a bit misguided, were fighting a revolution of black emancipation. She does certainly tell others not necessarily to "do" anything but wants people to confront the truth about our society & how blacks had been unfairly incarcerated beyond what was justified. | |
| America – Sandman Lyrics | 1 month ago |
| @[Danelle1:50381] Indeed it is a great fkn song, in fact, the whole album just blew me away when I first got it back then in '72. | |
| America – Sandman Lyrics | 1 month ago |
| @[HoboSpartan7:50380] I agree, everything I'm pulling up on the song leads me to that conclusion. | |
| Uriah Heep – Paradise/The Spell Lyrics | 2 months ago |
| @[Operations666:50362] Mehhh, IDK about that, I see on this site a lot of new age type Christian rock fans trying to read into great classic songs a lot of imparting their own, too often newly-found religious fervor, imparting a lot of nonsense about writers coming from a Biblical perspective. Having written that I must say your perspective is spot-on in its reflection of the eternal struggle between good & evil, the forces of darkness vs the love of light. Satan or whomever the antagonist is here, reminds him that he is not found just in the darkness of night but in so many different facets of life itself, in the end they wind up warning each other it seems, that each stands ready to do battle & each one will go forward with an eye peeled towards the other. | |
| Uriah Heep – Paradise Lyrics | 2 months ago |
| I'm a bit disappointed in UH for digressing from what would have been a fantastic concept album; D & W starts off with a great intro to his writing about what I had hoped would be entirely about his spiritual journey after his meeting & communing with the Wizard. I had always maintained in my mind that the album followed through & stayed the course in it's telling of the writer's spiritual journey, but in further analyzing the songs & lyrics, I can see how they meander from this search for truth & enlightenment mixing it with a simple search for an eros love. | |
| Uriah Heep – Traveller in Time Lyrics | 2 months ago |
| @[Bearserker:50361] To each his own opinion but I would highly disagree that this is about that when the whole album is centered around Demons and Wizards. | |
| Uriah Heep – Traveller in Time Lyrics | 2 months ago |
| @[Farmacist57:50360] Oh but it's much more than that, as a Genius contributor wrote on their website, this is a man traveling through time trying to help mankind, in order to pay for his crimes, yet what crimes he's committed is anyone's guess. | |
| Uriah Heep – Traveller in Time Lyrics | 2 months ago |
| @[Farmacist57:50359] Oh but it's much more than that, as a Genius contributor wrote on their website, this is a man traveling through time trying to help mankind, in order to pay for his crimes, yet what crimes he's committed is anyone's guess. | |
| Uriah Heep – Traveller in Time Lyrics | 2 months ago |
| @[Farmacist57:50358] Oh but it's much more than that, as a Genius contributor wrote on their website, this is an answer or another refrain to their song on Demons & Wizards named TRAVELER IN TIME, where the writer is traveling through time to help mankind in order to "pay for his crimes." | |
| Jethro Tull – Skating Away (On the Thin Ice of a New Day) Lyrics | 2 months ago |
| @[Kopachris:50309] Yup, mine too. | |
| Jethro Tull – Skating Away (On the Thin Ice of a New Day) Lyrics | 2 months ago |
| @[Kopachris:50308] Yup, mine too. | |
| Jethro Tull – Skating Away (On the Thin Ice of a New Day) Lyrics | 2 months ago |
| @[Kopachris:50307] 🤔 | |
| Jethro Tull – Skating Away (On the Thin Ice of a New Day) Lyrics | 2 months ago |
| @[sirdon:50306] Good analysis. | |
| Jethro Tull – Mother Goose Lyrics | 2 months ago |
| @[CHAKA:50192] No...really?? | |
| Michael Penn – Disney's A Snow Cone/Bedlam Boys Lyrics | 3 months ago |
| No particular meaning but Michael was one of the most underrated & least appreciated singer/songwriters of the 80's & 90's. | |
| The Moody Blues – House Of Four Doors, Part 1 Lyrics | 3 months ago |
| @[siggmaestro:50094] What?? First you impart some lofty Christian meaning to their music, then you turn around & say they're going against Christianity, so which one is it? While vehemently disagree with Skep Tical & his vicious attack on you, I agree with him that you appear a little confused. Again, wtf? | |
| The Moody Blues – House Of Four Doors, Part 1 Lyrics | 3 months ago |
| @[anthony114:50093] Spot on, except for the drug-induced statement; yes we were all getting high as f back when we first heard it, but I listen to it now under the influence of nothing but my daily meds, Adderall, which I don't think gets me high. I agree with your first sentence, I've seen all kinds of folks try & impart some mystical religious connotation to their music when it is nothing of the kind. | |
| The Moody Blues – House Of Four Doors, Part 1 Lyrics | 3 months ago |
| @Skep Tical, damn dude, why all the anger, siggmaestro is merely telling it as he sees it, erroneously imho, but if it makes his life better, wtf, ya know? Who are you to swear at him with such vitriole? Read my comments, I disagree with him but don't condemn him for his beliefs, & neither should you! | |
| The Moody Blues – House Of Four Doors, Part 1 Lyrics | 3 months ago |
| @[siggmaestro:50092] I agree with your first two lines, but where do you get the idea many of their songs are religiously philosophical? None of them, to my knowledge (& I'm a HUGE MB fan) have ever said ANYthing about any religious connotation in any of their music. If you want to ascribe that type of meaning to it, I think they would say by all means knock yourself out, but don't try & proselytize to others based on your interpretation. If you choose to believe what I consider to be a fairy tale concocted by well-meaning followers of JC but twisted over 2,000 years into a story meant to sedate & control the masses, that's certainly your business, but as a recovering Christian myself, I fail to see the attraction anymore, based on what we now know about the afterlife; read books about NDEs & you'll start to understand. | |
| Michael Penn – No Myth (Romeo in Black Jeans) Lyrics | 3 months ago |
| Like a previous post wrote, indeed MP is/was one of the most underrated music lyricists in his era, I bought both his first two albums (I think they were) while a member of the Columbia Record Club back in the day, probably late 80's, who reviewed his music quite favorably & because of his being Sean's brother of course. Still listen to them & have always wondered why he never achieved anymore success than he did. | |
| Michael Penn – No Myth (Romeo in Black Jeans) Lyrics | 3 months ago |
| @[Douladawn:50104] What do you mean "he explained it succinctly," are you saying he literally explained his lyrics while onstage? | |
| Neil Young – Broken Arrow Lyrics | 3 months ago |
| @[andrew1090:50070] Good answer. | |
| Neil Young – Broken Arrow Lyrics | 3 months ago |
| @[Laylah77:50069] Exactamente! I see so many people take a lot of liberties when they write what they "think" was in NY's head when he wrote it, whether he actually said it or not. | |
| Neil Young – Broken Arrow Lyrics | 3 months ago |
| @[stevend1354:50067] Now how the f do you know that? Can you reference any public comment by Neil that reflects that? | |
| Neil Young – Broken Arrow Lyrics | 3 months ago |
| @[tennisluvr71:50066] So what, his observation is accurate; I was there and know what the era means to me, there's no way anyone who wasn't there & who wasn't immersed in the times can really explain what it was to us who were. | |
| Neil Young – Broken Arrow Lyrics | 3 months ago |
| @[ndo:50065] Sounds good in theory but I don't think Neil ever referenced any of that as to the meaning of the words. | |
| Neil Young – Broken Arrow Lyrics | 3 months ago |
| @[expectingtofly:50064] Spot on, that makes a helluva lot more sense than frednurk 100's opinion that it was a reference to the JFK assassination. Songfacts.com pulls from a Rolling Stone interview with Young where he says he wrote it when his "head was in a bad place," he makes reference more than once that he dedicated this song to his old The Squires bandmate, Kluh or Klun, something like that, who, they say, was brought into B. S. as a temporary replacement for another band member's absence, and Neil was given the sorry role of breaking the news that he was out of the band when he had thought he was a permanent replacement. | |
| The Moody Blues – Dear Diary Lyrics | 3 months ago |
| It brings home the endless state of the lives of most people, being so caught up in day-in, day-out trivia of life that we can't see, or choose not to see, the world around us. It's still the same today, were letting our precious freedoms be usurped in the name of "the greater good." As a retired man with estranged children & 3 divorces under his belt, I'm not so caught in the lives of a spouse, children, grandchildren, etc., that I don't have time to ruminate over the state of our world. Most of us, however, let ourselves be so caught up in distraction that the world could be burning down & we'd not concern ourselves with it. Ray writes of a self-absorbed person so caught up in the rat trap that he pays no attention, even of the explosion of a hydrogen bomb, which, in the 60's, was big news, recording for posterity his inane & meaningless daily life. | |
| The Moody Blues – Dear Diary Lyrics | 3 months ago |
| @Sumpdog Again, exactly...the person's life is so hung up on minutiae that he doesn't comprehend what's going on in the world, i.e., exploding an H-bomb. | |
| The Moody Blues – Dear Diary Lyrics | 3 months ago |
| @Tom_And_Jerry Exactly, back in the 60's, the H-bomb was big news with many people in the streets protesting it's development. It's sounds confusing when he writes "but it wasn't anyone he knew," referencing, I assume, that "somebody" exploded the bomb, but whoever it was, he didn't know them, not getting it that it was a country, not a person. | |
| Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Affairs of the Heart Lyrics | 3 months ago |
| While this beautifully haunting ballad by Greg Lake doesn't chart with most ELP fans as being worthy of a kind word, it spoke to me of something we've all experienced at one time or the other, well, most of us anyway. We've all had a great love affair that started out as he describes when first seeing her "across the room," only to later have it transition into the most painful heartbreak that sought to nearly destroy us. The first 50 times I played it, lol, it sent chills over me & gave me a fleeting glimpse of a propensity for love that I seem no longer able to feel. At 71, it merely evokes a memory of some of the great or doomed loves of my life. | |
| Jethro Tull – Steel Monkey Lyrics | 4 months ago |
| I couldn't figure this one as I've never heard of a steel monkey, but I love this song, Ian & Martin showed they can still rock! Knowing Ian's songwriting, it must be more than just about high-rise steel workers; in the lyric about angels arm in arm helping him not fall from the sky evokes to me, images of the proverbial fallen angels. | |
| Fleetwood Mac – Rattlesnake Shake Lyrics | 4 months ago |
| First contributor is correct, as Fandom.com writes it is indeed about masturbation as you can hear when he makes a joking reference to Mick Fleetwood's "he don't care if he ain't got no chick." Lol | |
| The Moody Blues – One More Time To Live Lyrics | 4 months ago |
| This song evokes in me such a powerful emotion, I read it as him saying he has more than any kind of materialistic wealth could ever buy, but I must admit that his words far surpass just that, he writes on all the negative things going on in the world & even comments on the so-called wise ones of the world who write nothing but "worldly rhymes," but I gotta say Idk who it is he considers "the wise." He clearly takes issue with violence of any kind & says those who "want to fight" are apocalyptic. He is confused by everything he sees in the world, especially the hypocrisy of those would "turn the earth to sand yet 'permit no crime.'" He tells us that he's changing his own world by changing his own life (as well as the lives of others) when he refers to "changes in my life, inspiration, elation, salvation, communication & (most of all) compassion. " | |
| The Moody Blues – One More Time To Live Lyrics | 4 months ago |
| @[rossyboy:49804] Bam! Spot on! They were not openly religious in any sense of the word, their music far surpasses any such label or connotation. | |
| The Moody Blues – One More Time To Live Lyrics | 4 months ago |
| @[thesithempire:49803], "the band was Christian??" This may be true but not as you think, they were only in a cultural sense, I seriously doubt any of them openly espoused any kind of "Christian" lifestyle as their music rings with Easter religion mysticism. I wouldn't want to hang that label on such deeply philosophical music. | |
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