Author Topic: Song lyric interpretation(s) (Read 2894 times)

Dugout DickStone · « **on:** January 18, 2013, 08:53:01 AM »

Guys, I am not sure Eddie Money actually had booked two plane tickets departing that very evening to a paridise location. I think he was just inviting his lady to bone a bunch.

Thoughts?

slobber · « **Reply #1 on:** January 18, 2013, 08:55:51 AM »

Most songs are about sex and/or drugs, so you are probably right.

SabiNation · « **Reply #2 on:** January 18, 2013, 09:02:52 AM »

I don't pay attention to lyrics. Usually just make up my own words

Brock Landers · « **Reply #3 on:** January 18, 2013, 09:08:28 AM »

It's a metaphor. Plane tickets = seats in a vehicle and Paradise = his apartment.

Dugout DickStone · « **Reply #4 on:** January 18, 2013, 09:11:57 AM »

Quote from: Brock Landers on January 18, 2013, 09:08:28 AM

It's a metaphor. Plane tickets = seats in a vehicle and Paradise = his apartment.

XocolateThundarr · « **Reply #5 on:** January 18, 2013, 09:12:41 AM »

I think you may be on to something here.

slobber · « **Reply #6 on:** January 18, 2013, 09:17:08 AM »

Take The Boss's "Lucky Town" as an example.

Quote

House got too crowded clothes got too tight
And I don't know just where I'm going tonight
Out where the sky's been cleared by a good hard rain
There's somebody callin' my secret name

I'm going down to Lucky Town
Going down to Lucky Town
I wanna lose these blues I've found
Down in Lucky Town Down in Lucky Town

Sex, right?

Or what about Hanson?

Quote

Mmmbop, ba duba dop
Ba du bop, ba duba dop
Ba du bop, ba duba dop
Ba du
Yeah
Mmmbop, ba duba dop
Ba du bop, Ba du dop
Ba du bop, Ba du dop
Ba du
Yeah

Oh yeah
In an Mmmbop they're gone
Yeah yeah

Sex, sex, sex, and more sex.

Brock Landers · « **Reply #7 on:** January 18, 2013, 09:38:42 AM »

Quote from: Limestone on January 18, 2013, 09:11:57 AM

Quote from: Brock Landers on January 18, 2013, 09:08:28 AM
It's a metaphor. Plane tickets = seats in a vehicle and Paradise = his apartment.

Pack your bags we'll leave tonight = go find your purse because the bar is closing.

Institutional Control · « **Reply #8 on:** January 18, 2013, 09:39:40 AM »

When I see Eddie Money in that GEICO commercial I feel really really bad for him.

The Tonya Harding of Twitter Users Creep · « **Reply #9 on:** January 18, 2013, 10:00:39 AM »

Quote from: CFoD on January 18, 2013, 09:39:40 AM

When I see Eddie Money in that GEICO commercial I feel really really bad for him.

Lol, yeah, Eddie Money has a tough life. Sucks he got paid for that.

Stupid Fitz · « **Reply #10 on:** January 18, 2013, 10:06:30 AM »

Pretty sure Eddie Vedder isn't singing about a glorified virgin and a pelican.

GoodForAnother · « **Reply #11 on:** January 18, 2013, 10:12:29 AM »

Quote

I know a spot that I love full well

Quote

Ever it holds me with magic spell

Quote

Thy children will swell the cry

Institutional Control · « **Reply #12 on:** January 18, 2013, 10:19:11 AM »

I'm thinking The Whistle Song by Flo Rida might not be about a whistle. I think it's about life and how fleeting it is and you should live in the moment.

The Tonya Harding of Twitter Users Creep · « **Reply #13 on:** January 18, 2013, 10:23:23 AM »

Had a debate with a friend about Hotel California.

Its like, for sure a song about drugs/rehab... RIGHT? He didn't seem to believe me. Thought that was common knowledge.

Emo EMAW · « **Reply #14 on:** January 18, 2013, 10:30:53 AM »

Can anyone tell me WTF is going on here? This has plagued me for many years:

Quote

There will be droughts and days inundated
Unveilings free from saturation
Departures raised with no masquerading

There will be teachers that die by their own hand
Pundits that push headlong for atonement
Friends and followers devoted to living

There will be watchers that ply for new confines
Those committed to society's circles
Unwary cogs with no cadence of virtue
There will be right
There will be wrong

Drop of the hat and it's already started
Just like that and the deed is done
What I'd give for that hat to be medicine
The time is now to be on the run

There will be machinations unforeseen
Sleepwalking sense from a bad dream
No promenade walk in the parkway

There will be catchwords filled with infection
Circulars to prop up occasion
No golden mean to guide the footsteps

There will be levels on high hills that appraise
There will be unchanging certainties
Barometers that follow the stampede
There will be right
There will be wrong

Drop of the hat and it's already started
Just like that and the deed is done
What I'd give for that hat to be medicine
The time is now to be on the run

There will be signposts of indication
Semaphore go signs and warnings
Hailstone halos and country-blues wailings

There will be strains that break out of straight time
To pave with grace different roads to the same place
No consequence to repay what's been given

There will be layers of means to an end
Drawn-out days before resolution
Dregs will rain down from all directions
There will be right
There will be wrong

Drop of the hat and it's already started
Just like that and the deed is done
What I'd give for that hat to be medicine
The time is now to be on the run

OK_Cat · « **Reply #15 on:** January 18, 2013, 10:42:50 AM »

Quote from: Emo EMAW on January 18, 2013, 10:30:53 AM

Can anyone tell me WTF is going on here? This has plagued me for many years:

Quote
There will be droughts and days inundated
Unveilings free from saturation
Departures raised with no masquerading

There will be teachers that die by their own hand
Pundits that push headlong for atonement
Friends and followers devoted to living

There will be watchers that ply for new confines
Those committed to society's circles
Unwary cogs with no cadence of virtue
There will be right
There will be wrong

Drop of the hat and it's already started
Just like that and the deed is done
What I'd give for that hat to be medicine
The time is now to be on the run

There will be machinations unforeseen
Sleepwalking sense from a bad dream
No promenade walk in the parkway

There will be catchwords filled with infection
Circulars to prop up occasion
No golden mean to guide the footsteps

There will be levels on high hills that appraise
There will be unchanging certainties
Barometers that follow the stampede
There will be right
There will be wrong

Drop of the hat and it's already started
Just like that and the deed is done
What I'd give for that hat to be medicine
The time is now to be on the run

There will be signposts of indication
Semaphore go signs and warnings
Hailstone halos and country-blues wailings

There will be strains that break out of straight time
To pave with grace different roads to the same place
No consequence to repay what's been given

There will be layers of means to an end
Drawn-out days before resolution
Dregs will rain down from all directions
There will be right
There will be wrong

Drop of the hat and it's already started
Just like that and the deed is done
What I'd give for that hat to be medicine
The time is now to be on the run

Talking about the finale of this years "The Bachelor"

Brock Landers · « **Reply #16 on:** January 18, 2013, 10:55:18 AM »

Quote from: GoodForAnother on January 18, 2013, 10:12:29 AM

Quote
I know a spot that I love full well

Quote
Ever it holds me with magic spell

Quote
Thy children will swell the cry

Sounds kinda rape dungeon-y. Time for some new words.

Fldermaus · « **Reply #17 on:** January 18, 2013, 11:19:30 AM »

Quote from: Emo EMAW on January 18, 2013, 10:30:53 AM

Can anyone tell me WTF is going on here? This has plagued me for many years:

Quote
There will be droughts and days inundated
Unveilings free from saturation
Departures raised with no masquerading

There will be teachers that die by their own hand
Pundits that push headlong for atonement
Friends and followers devoted to living

There will be watchers that ply for new confines
Those committed to society's circles
Unwary cogs with no cadence of virtue
There will be right
There will be wrong

Drop of the hat and it's already started
Just like that and the deed is done
What I'd give for that hat to be medicine
The time is now to be on the run

There will be machinations unforeseen
Sleepwalking sense from a bad dream
No promenade walk in the parkway

There will be catchwords filled with infection
Circulars to prop up occasion
No golden mean to guide the footsteps

There will be levels on high hills that appraise
There will be unchanging certainties
Barometers that follow the stampede
There will be right
There will be wrong

Drop of the hat and it's already started
Just like that and the deed is done
What I'd give for that hat to be medicine
The time is now to be on the run

There will be signposts of indication
Semaphore go signs and warnings
Hailstone halos and country-blues wailings

There will be strains that break out of straight time
To pave with grace different roads to the same place
No consequence to repay what's been given

There will be layers of means to an end
Drawn-out days before resolution
Dregs will rain down from all directions
There will be right
There will be wrong

Drop of the hat and it's already started
Just like that and the deed is done
What I'd give for that hat to be medicine
The time is now to be on the run

Pretty sure it's a lament for a broken condom.

j-dub · « **Reply #18 on:** January 18, 2013, 11:51:01 AM »

Quote from: dobber on January 18, 2013, 09:17:08 AM

Take The Boss's "Lucky Town" as an example.

Quote
House got too crowded clothes got too tight
And I don't know just where I'm going tonight
Out where the sky's been cleared by a good hard rain
There's somebody callin' my secret name

I'm going down to Lucky Town
Going down to Lucky Town
I wanna lose these blues I've found
Down in Lucky Town Down in Lucky Town
Sex, right?[/b]

Or what about Hanson?
Quote
Mmmbop, ba duba dop
Ba du bop, ba duba dop
Ba du bop, ba duba dop
Ba du
Yeah
Mmmbop, ba duba dop
Ba du bop, Ba du dop
Ba du bop, Ba du dop
Ba du
Yeah

Oh yeah
In an Mmmbop they're gone
Yeah yeah
Sex, sex, sex, and more sex.

what about that supposed hiatus dobber? what the eff happened to that

Stevesie60 · « **Reply #19 on:** January 18, 2013, 11:57:12 AM »

Quote from: Kelly Klarkson Kreep on January 18, 2013, 10:23:23 AM

Had a debate with a friend about Hotel California.

Its like, for sure a song about drugs/rehab... RIGHT? He didn't seem to believe me. Thought that was common knowledge.

Yes. Had a friend who talked to Don Henley one time and he said it was about him becoming a Christian, but moreso about drug rehab.

"And I called up to the captain, please bring me my wine" - about communion
"We haven't had that spirit here since 1969" - apparently referencing a big Christian movement that was at the end of the hippie movement

This is probably my favorite lyric:
"They stab it with their steely knives, but they just can't kill the beast" - about cutting cocaine, not being able to "kill" their habit

WillieWatanabe · « **Reply #20 on:** January 18, 2013, 12:00:00 PM »

http://rapgenius.com/

The Tonya Harding of Twitter Users Creep · « **Reply #21 on:** January 18, 2013, 12:20:45 PM »

Quote from: Jakesie60 on January 18, 2013, 11:57:12 AM

Quote from: Kelly Klarkson Kreep on January 18, 2013, 10:23:23 AM
Had a debate with a friend about Hotel California.

Its like, for sure a song about drugs/rehab... RIGHT? He didn't seem to believe me. Thought that was common knowledge.

Yes. Had a friend who talked to Don Henley one time and he said it was about him becoming a Christian, but moreso about drug rehab.

"And I called up to the captain, please bring me my wine" - about communion
"We haven't had that spirit here since 1969" - apparently referencing a big Christian movement that was at the end of the hippie movement

This is probably my favorite lyric:
"They stab it with their steely knives, but they just can't kill the beast" - about cutting cocaine, not being able to "kill" their habit

Thanks, Jake! Good to know someone around here reads my posts!

Bill Clarahan · « **Reply #22 on:** January 18, 2013, 01:52:00 PM »

Quote from: Emo EMAW on January 18, 2013, 10:30:53 AM

Can anyone tell me WTF is going on here? This has plagued me for many years:

Quote
There will be droughts and days inundated
Unveilings free from saturation
Departures raised with no masquerading

There will be teachers that die by their own hand
Pundits that push headlong for atonement
Friends and followers devoted to living

There will be watchers that ply for new confines
Those committed to society's circles
Unwary cogs with no cadence of virtue
There will be right
There will be wrong

Drop of the hat and it's already started
Just like that and the deed is done
What I'd give for that hat to be medicine
The time is now to be on the run

There will be machinations unforeseen
Sleepwalking sense from a bad dream
No promenade walk in the parkway

There will be catchwords filled with infection
Circulars to prop up occasion
No golden mean to guide the footsteps

There will be levels on high hills that appraise
There will be unchanging certainties
Barometers that follow the stampede
There will be right
There will be wrong

Drop of the hat and it's already started
Just like that and the deed is done
What I'd give for that hat to be medicine
The time is now to be on the run

There will be signposts of indication
Semaphore go signs and warnings
Hailstone halos and country-blues wailings

There will be strains that break out of straight time
To pave with grace different roads to the same place
No consequence to repay what's been given

There will be layers of means to an end
Drawn-out days before resolution
Dregs will rain down from all directions
There will be right
There will be wrong

Drop of the hat and it's already started
Just like that and the deed is done
What I'd give for that hat to be medicine
The time is now to be on the run

This is really pretty simple, the guy ate some spicy tex-mex , had a couple of tequila's and had a bad dream which he wrote about

AbeFroman · « **Reply #23 on:** January 18, 2013, 01:54:47 PM »

Did Jimi Hendrix really say "Excuse me, while I kiss this guy"?

I'm not judgmental, but very interesting.

OK_Cat · « **Reply #24 on:** January 18, 2013, 01:55:35 PM »

Quote from: AbeFroman on January 18, 2013, 01:54:47 PM

Did Jimi Hendrix really say "Excuse me, while I kiss this guy"?

I'm not judgmental, but very interesting.

yes, but not in a homosexual way.