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- Somewhere Only We Know
Somewhere Only We Know Lyrics: I walked across an empty land...
- Lyrics
In regards to the meaning of this song: Before a live...
- Bob Dylan
I Could Have Told You: 0: I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last...
- All My Life
it is the chorus that holds the full meaning: "Hey, don't...
- Foo Fighters
When Foo Fighters released a debut album written and...
- Corey Hart
The hit single "Sunglasses at Night" propelled Canadian pop...
- Underneath The Stars
I love this song. To me, it has the same dreamy and ethereal...
- Demon Hunter
songs; Song Name Comments; A Broken Upper Hand: 12: A Fear I...
- Somewhere Only We Know
Songfacts - the stories and meanings behind the songs, with songwriter interviews and lyrics.
- “Closing Time” // Semisonic
- “Imagine” // John Lennon
- “Total Eclipse of The Heart” // Bonnie Tyler
- “Just Like Heaven” // The Cure
- “Like A Virgin” // Madonna
- “Harder to Breathe” // Maroon 5
- “Summer of ’69” // Bryan Adams
- “The One I Love” // R.E.M.
- “Semi-Charmed Life” // Third Eye Blind
- “American Girl” // Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers
Semisonic frontman Dan Wilson predicted the second life of the band’s only big hit; in 2010, Wilson told The Hollywood Reporter, “I really thought that that was the greatest destiny for ’Closing Time,’ that it would be used by all the bartenders.” But when Wilson penned lyrics like “Time for you to go out to the places you will be from,” the song’s...
When Rolling Stone named the former Beatle’s ubiquitous hit the third-greatest song of all time, John Lennon’s hallmark lyrics were described as “22 lines of graceful, plain-spoken faith in the power of a world, united in purpose, to repair and change itself.” But the feel-good sentiments behind the song Jimmy Carter once saidwas “used almost equal...
“Total Eclipse of the Heart” is the kind of big, bombastic power ballad that could only flow from the pen of frequent Meat Loaf collaborator Jim Steinman. He called the number a “Wagnerian-like onslaught of sound and emotion” in an interview with People, and American Songwriter’s Jim Beviglia christened ita “garment-rending, chest-beating, emotiona...
Entertainment Weekly recognized The Cure’s synth-slathered love song as the 25th greatest love song of all time, but also questioned, “Just what is this scream/laugh/hug inducing trick?” Turns out, the lyric that threw most fans of The Cure for a loop just refers to a sudden shortness of breath. The only thing that might be more oblique than the ly...
Turns out Mr. Brown (who thinks “Like a Virgin” is “a metaphor for big d**ks”) and Mr. Blonde (“It’s about a girl who is very vulnerable”) both misinterpreted Madonna’s smash hit in the opening scene of Reservoir Dogs. Even though Madonna famously settled the fictional debate by autographing a CD for Quentin Tarantino—“Quentin, it’s about love, not...
At first blush, the single off Maroon 5’s debut album Songs About Janeseems to be, well, just another song about Jane, the name of a girlfriend with whom lead singer Adam Levine shared a rocky relationship. But though the album’s lead-off single sounds like a racy nod to the jilted lover Levine claimed to be his muse, “Harder to Breathe” stemmed fr...
Born in the winter of 1959, Bryan Adams would’ve only been 10 during the eponymous summer of one of his best-known hits, released in 1985. But “Summer of '69” isn’t so much Adams waxing nostalgic over the dog days of 1969 as much as it is a reference to the sexual position of the same name. In 2008, Adams told CBS Newsthat “a lot of people think it...
When Georgia natives R.E.M. unleashed their first Top 10 single in concert, the band’s guitar-slinger Peter Buck felt baffled by audiences’ romantic reactions. “I’d look into the audience and there would be couples kissing,” Buck said. “Yet the verse is ... savagely anti-love ... People told me that was ‘their song.’ That was your song?” Singer Mic...
Radio purists of the ’90s probably missed out on the fact that the upbeat Third Eye Blind anthem is about a couple on a crystal meth binge—the two censor-triggering words in the line “doing crystal meth will lift you up until you break” would get backmaskedin an edited version of the song played by radio stations. Why make a song about such a serio...
Sorry, urban legend enthusiasts. Tom Petty’s 1977 standard wasn’t inspired by a University of Florida girl who died by suicide. Though the song’s second verse references both a girl standing “alone on her balcony” and “could hear the cars roll by out on 441” (a highwaythat runs near the Gainesville campus), Petty shot down the misunderstanding on n...
Oct 21, 2014 · Conspiracy theorists often find ‘secret’ lyrics by playing records backwards. BBC Culture picks apart the myths to find the best subliminal meanings.
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Apr 26, 2024 · Some songs transcend mere melody and rhythm, resonating deeply with the existential heft they audaciously undertake. ‘Weight of the World’ by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (BRMC) is one such sonic odyssey that dives into the core of human burden.
