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08-28-2014, 07:19 AM
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what are songs about?
hmmmm?
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08-28-2014, 07:22 AM
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Time... but make up your own damn mind.
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08-28-2014, 07:27 AM
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¿qué?
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08-28-2014, 07:34 AM
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Chicks and "doin it", or trying to "get some".
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08-28-2014, 07:37 AM
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war and tribute
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08-28-2014, 07:41 AM
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And then there is the Blues, which is clearly about "not gettin any".
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08-28-2014, 08:36 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Andy Hamm
And then there is the Blues, which is clearly about "not gettin any".
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lol
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08-28-2014, 10:01 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Andy Hamm
And then there is the Blues, which is clearly about "not gettin any".
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You're listening to the wrong blues tunes...
Copulating Blues Volume 1
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08-28-2014, 11:47 AM
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New love
Lost love
Found love
Death
Life
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08-28-2014, 12:00 PM
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Stuff
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08-28-2014, 12:02 PM
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Previuos last two posts covered it all..nearly.
Don't forget "Jacking Your Body"
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08-28-2014, 12:45 PM
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its always about the life, the universe and everything ... and about the fact, that 21 is only half the truth. and that the whole truth doesnt get you anywhere, too.
:-)
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08-28-2014, 01:02 PM
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They're about what is, and what isn't.
What could be, what should be, what would be.
They're about things you have, and things you don't have.
They are about things you can't have.
They are about reality, and fantasy.
They are human.
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08-28-2014, 01:10 PM
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They're about three minutes and fifteen seconds.
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08-28-2014, 01:12 PM
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They're about time, they're about space.........
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08-28-2014, 01:13 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Fex
They're about three minutes and fifteen seconds.
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Some of the really great ones are only 2:30.
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08-28-2014, 01:28 PM
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Yes, hence the word 'about'.
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08-28-2014, 01:42 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Fex
Yes, hence the word 'about'.
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Yeah, I meant no harm by my statement.
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08-28-2014, 07:38 PM
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“The songs have got to relate to people. The purpose of many of my songs is to shorten the distances between people so they’re not so alone. The words have got to mean something. They have to … otherwise there is no reason to have them.”
- Graham Nash
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08-29-2014, 01:25 AM
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“The songs have got to relate to people. The purpose of many of my songs is to shorten the distances between people so they’re not so alone. The words have got to mean something. They have to … otherwise there is no reason to have them.”
- Graham Nash
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This is either the most profoundly eloquent statement on the subject or a load of pretentious bollocks. You decide....
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08-29-2014, 08:35 AM
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Songs chould be about the most important things. For instance, feeling some tits.
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08-29-2014, 08:38 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dea-man
Songs chould be about the most important things. For instance, feeling some tits.
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Now that is the most profoundly eloquent statement on the subject
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08-29-2014, 09:15 AM
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Cottage cheese, sometimes cheddar but mostly cottage cheese
Mine are anyway
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08-29-2014, 09:59 AM
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"songwriters speak for those who cannot express themselves" Pat Luboff, Pete Luboff
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08-29-2014, 10:02 AM
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The one I'm writing at the minute is about catching pleurisy on purpose to get off work sick
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08-29-2014, 10:17 AM
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so all songs are about something as long they have lyrics?
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08-29-2014, 10:18 AM
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Quote:
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so all songs are about something as long they have lyrics?
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I am sorry but, I can't believe you asked such a question.
What do you mean?
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08-29-2014, 10:20 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by for
so all songs are about something as long they have lyrics?
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I've written a few stinkers that have loads of lyrics and are about fuck all.
I would'nt advise going down that route
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08-29-2014, 10:20 AM
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Even if a song has only "one word", that "one word", is tied, in meaning, to "some thing".
If the song has "no words", but has "a title", then the title obviously has "some meaning", to the author, and the song.
Even if the songs lyrics are nothing more than "random flow of thought", the author, and the listener will build some kind of understanding, as to what the words mean.
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08-29-2014, 10:22 AM
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This thread is not about songs.
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08-29-2014, 10:22 AM
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then there is the frog chorus by Paul Mccartney
so songs dont have to be about anything at all
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08-29-2014, 10:26 AM
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This thread is about "frogs".
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08-29-2014, 10:33 AM
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What are frogs about?
Usually about three to five inches.
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08-29-2014, 10:33 AM
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Songs don't need words or titles to have meaning. Instrumentals can have meaning. And lyrics can mean nothing, or mean only what the listener wants them to mean.
And then there's Love Me Do by The Beatles, which absolutely means something, but I really wish it wouldn't.
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08-29-2014, 10:46 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dea-man
I am sorry but, I can't believe you asked such a question.
What do you mean?
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i couldn't believe i've asked that either, knew was in trouble the time i pressed submit
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08-29-2014, 10:56 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by tls11823
What are frogs about?
Usually about three to five inches.
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Some of the great ones are only 2-1/2".
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08-29-2014, 11:02 AM
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There is only one thing that all songs have in common and that is time, so all song are about the passing of time. One could argue that all songs also share the use of auditory vibrations but I've "heard" a few songs over the years that have made a point to use no sound so they are literally just sectioned off measurements of pieces of time.
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08-29-2014, 11:06 AM
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Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
Fritter and waste the hours in an off-hand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way
Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
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08-29-2014, 11:42 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dea-man
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
Fritter and waste the hours in an off-hand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way
Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
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You have run the gamut of my emotions. Sob. (That's sob the verb not the abbreviation)
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08-29-2014, 12:18 PM
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What are they not about?
AMIRITE?
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