I would have just put him in the hospital. Really wouldn't have thought twice about it.
Wait- OMG! The song is really about...?
Elton John's High Flying Bird is a song about.... suicide??! Thought for years it was just another song about lost love. For whatever reason the full meaning of he lyrics didn't sink in until today on the drive in to work, "The white walls of your dressing room are stained scarlet red. You bled upon the cold stone like a young man... in the foreign field of death."
That song will never be the same for me again. Its much, much better now. Damn that Taupin was good.
That song will never be the same for me again. Its much, much better now. Damn that Taupin was good.
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Billie Holiday's classic "Strange Fruit" is about lynchings in the South. Lyrics are very obvious but the title isn't: Southern trees bear a strange fruit Pastoral scene of the gallant south Here is a fruit for the crow to pluck |
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.loudersound.com/feature... Nantucket Sleighride ends with canabilism. Turning Japanese by The Vapors is about jerking off. |
One that I always found sadly amusing was Sting's "Every Breath You Take," which was about stalking an ex. To show how little attention people pay to lyrics/music's message, this was a popular wedding dance song. As a Christian I disliked how the Beetles imported Eastern religion in to "My Sweet Lord", where halfway through the song the backing vocals shift from "Hallelujah" to "Hare Krishna", etc. |
What I find amusing is your take on George Harrison's art. " Harrison wrote "My Sweet Lord" in praise of the Hindu god Krishna,[1] while intending the lyrics as a call to abandon religious sectarianism through his blending of the Hebrew word hallelujah with chants of "Hare Krishna" and Vedic prayer.[2] The recording features producer Phil Spector's Wall of Sound treatment and heralded the arrival of Harrison's slide guitar technique, which one biographer described as "musically as distinctive a signature as the mark of Zorro".[3] Preston, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, and the group Badfinger are among the other musicians on the recording." |
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