Questions tagged [lyrics]
For questions about the words used in a song. Use with another appropriate tag, such as [meaning]. Note that questions asking to identify the lyrics in a song are off topic, as are questions about literary interpretation.
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Chasing the clouds away
A number of popular songs from the 1960's and 1970's contain a variant of the phrase "chasing the clouds away":
Moody Blues, 1967, Forever Afternoon (Tuesday?): "It doesn't matter to ...
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What is "bends" in "Barely even friends, then somebody bends" (Beauty and the Beast)?
Does it mean "change of attitude", or does it mean "submit" or even "surrender / giving up the defense"?
I could not find reference to "change of attitude" in ...
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Is there a term for minor "additional" lyrics in songs?
Many songs have "minor" phrases added in - either officially or in common practice - at the ends of lines, which comment on the lyrics but can be left out without affecting the lyrics' ...
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Phrase Request: Lyric Subversion [duplicate]
I've noticed this quite often from Disney sound tracks.
Lyrics are in a certain rhyming scheme - one line happens and the next line approaches the end of the line, but the last word subverts the rhyme....
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Meaning of "get out" in "He gets out when he can" [closed]
In his famous hit Working Class Man, Jimmy Barnes sings:
He believes in God and Elvis
He gets out when he can
He did his time in Vietnam
Still mad at Uncle Sam
I can't make sense of the second line. ...
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"You can cream on me"
I was listening to "Let it Bleed" by The Rolling Stones, and the lyrics say
Yeah, we all need someone we can cream on //
Yeah and if you want to, well you can cream on me
On the Cambridge ...
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Conditional sentence in the song "What Makes You Beautiful" [closed]
A small part of the lyrics in the song "What Makes You Beautiful" is
If only you saw what I can see, you'll understand why I want you so desperately.
But according to the second ...
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What does 'picket fence' mean here? [closed]
Today I was listening to a song from Fall Out boy called Miss missing you.
At one point in the song, they sing the line: "Baby you were my picket fence".
I know what a picket fence is, but I ...
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What did Lady Gaga mean when she sang that she's heard a "sine" from above?
In Lady Gaga's song featuring Elton John "Sine From Above", she sang that she has heard a "sine" from the sky. Sine is defined as the very famous mathematical function in Cambridge ...
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Meaning of "tint your wing" in the song Burning of Auchindoun
In the Scottish folk song Burning of Auchindoun appears the following lines:
Crawing, crawing, for a' your crouse crawin'
Ye burnt yer crop an tint your wings an oor before the dawnin
I'm interested ...
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"Some may be from showing up" meaning in the Rose Tattoo by Dropkick Murphys
I am trying to get the meaning of the song. As far as I can tell, the man is describing his tattoos, or, rather, recalls circumstances where he's got them. I think I understand most of the verses, ...
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Can someone explain to me the meaning of the verse "in over your chest is way too deep"?
I was listening to the song "Wetsuit" by the band "The Vaccines" when I met with these weird lines:
"Submerged, your vision's just obscured
You're a lot like me
In up to our ...
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Literary phrasing (gold-pressed)
Gold pressed temptress of silence
Let the morning call unanswered
And ransom the day off
Song: Good Love, by Zola Blood
What exactly is gold pressed? A fictional reference or some metalsmith ...
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"Melts all your memories and change into gold"?
"Smooth Operator" song lyrics goes like this:
Face to face, each classic case
We shadow box and double cross
Yet need the chase
A license to love, insurance to hold
Melts all your memories ...
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Meaning of the phrase "frog-walker" in reference to a horse
The Marty Robbins song Strawberry Roan describes the story of a cowboy trying to break an old horse, the eponymous Strawberry Roan (I'm unsure of any connection to the various films of the same name).
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