Song Interpretations - Post a song, discuss the lyrics and what they mean to you

Quote from Elf Man

Like you'd ever do that....

Elf man, she just did exactly that recently at FW. Don't challenge her. I don't want her to go poof again!

Why do some songs have esoteric messages? Here is another one to add to the list. I highlighted what I think the key esoteric part of the song. I will post the interpretation after the lyrics.

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"Spinning Wheel"

What goes up, must come down

Spinning wheel got to go round

Talkin' 'bout your troubles, it's a cryin' sin

Ride a painted pony, let the spinning wheel spin

You got no money and you, you got no home

Spinning wheel, all alone

Talkin' 'bout your troubles and you, you never learn

Ride a painted pony, let the spinning wheel turn

Did you find a directing sign on the straight and narrow highway?

Would you mind a reflecting sign?

Just let it shine within your mind

And show you the colors that are real

Someone is waiting just for you

Spinning wheel spinning through

Drop all your troubles by the riverside

Catch a painted pony on the spinning wheel ride

Ha!

Someone's waiting just for you

Spinning wheel spinning through

Drop all your troubles by the riverside

Ride a painted pony, let the spinning wheel fly

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It's a song about BELIEF and the true nature of our Reality as humans. We are most definitely whatever we believe ourselves to be. So in the world "out there" we have hard and fast beliefs, such as "what goes up must come down" (gravity), and yet gravity is just a THEORY. Read what Nikola thought about Gravity. Listen to what Einstein said about Gravity before he died. Discover the "real" Albert Einstein that he grew into, not the E=MC2 theory that Society has forced his name to become.

The Spinning Wheel is us ("You got no money and you got no home, spinning wheel all alone") playing the Universal game called the Samsara. Round and round it goes...all along it follows ONE BASIC RULE, you are what you believe yourself to be. So when you spend your time "talking 'bout your problems" all you will ever get is more problems. This is why they suggest to "ride a painted pony and let the spinning wheel fly"...in other words, let go of all the bullshit rules and regulations that Society tries to control us with and embrace the INFINITE.

The most telling line of all in the song was,

"Did you find the directing sign on the
Straight and narrow highway
Would you mind a reflecting sign
Just let it shine within your mind
And show you the colors that are real"

Have you EVER found any real answers following the "straight and narrow highway" of society? Well, have you? I know I haven't. Why? Because Society ISN'T YOU! So how could it be? All answers for you lie WITHIN. "Would you mind a reflecting sign, just let it shine within your mind, and show you the colors that are real. Please remember, that MATTER is NOT solid and thus, like Linear Time, NOT REAL. Matter pops in and out of existence whenever we focus our thoughts upon it (The Double Slit Experiment), thus Matter and Linear Time cannot exist as the bastions of our true existence. This is why the ancients referred to our physical world as the MAYA, the Illusion, and true reality as CONSCIOUSNESS, which is twofold...one, each of us possesses our own, unique Consciousness only found by going inside ourselves, and two, each of our unique forms of Consciousness are ALL CONNECTED TOGETHER as ONE Consciousness, part of the Aether, the 2-Dimensional Unified Field of all there is. And this unified Consciousness can be called God Consciousness, as it represents all that is...thus, when we search for God (the Truth, SATYAGRAHA), we will find it through the vibration of Loving all things without judgment (the non-violent AHIMSA).

Thus, the song is ultimately about finding God by going within

Quote from Gina

I think a lot of lyrics are just not really thought through very thoroughly.

I do that a lot simply to make words fit the melody and the number of syllables that need to fit. I like words that sound cool and fit rather than words that have a literal meaning. I think it's more interesting to have vague meanings too because the listener will get to choose their own meaning,

Very true!

The vast majority of lyrics over the last 40 years are just as you stated. I think the Beatles were one of the first to really go that route. Other bands even discovered they could put almost any lyric into a song and nobody really cared. It didn't hurt the songs and in some cases left them open to unlimited interpretations. Some of it was playful like the song "if you see kay" which was a play on F U C K because when you sing "If you see Kay" it sounds like you are saying F U C K or vice versa. There was a lot of experimentation with lyrics especially in the 1970's. Once the 80's came along, the lyrical experimention became less and less thought out. For the most part it was how fast can you come up with lyrics and get songs pumped out. Studio times were shortened and the music business became much more of a BIG money game. Musicians for the most part had less and less control and record companies had more and more power and control. Between 1982 - 2000 the radio business completely changed from the previous 60+ years. Thousands of independant stations were gobbled up and mega companies fought for market control. National syndication became a big thing too changing programming in most parts of the country. The small market DJ's rarely would play a new record that a manager or band would drop off at the station anymore for example.

The lyrics of some of the greatest songs are said to come to the song writer as opposed to the song writer just creating and fitting lyrics into a song. Is that demonic? Does it mean that they have some kind of special abilities that most others don't? Much has been written and discussed about how the lyrics for some of the greatest songs came to be.

"Sometimes words have two meanings" - Stairway to Heaven

F U C K & If you see Kay - April Wine

The video won't link, so you have to watch it on youtube I guess. Maybe it is an age appropriate thing although this song was played on the radio in the 80's all across America.

Quote from KdF

Then there were the Censors of the 60's and early 70's.

Creedence's "Women's Tits and Elephants are Dancing in the Yard" Could not pass the Censors

So it Became

"Mammary's and Elephants are Dancing in the Yard"

And that passed. I get a chuckle every time I hear that song.

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Where did you hear that tall tale about Tits?

CCR's lyrics are some of the more difficult lyrics to make out. The line actually is "Tambourines and elephants are playing in the band"

Mammary's and elephants,

Quote from KdF

Don't believe "Google Lyrics"

What is Google lyrics?

I don't use Googull for anything.

John Fogerty's 3 year old son helped him write the song. John said he wanted his son to recognize some of the lyrics his son helped create when they were together.

Quote from GHOST 333

When my world collapses.

I fall to this song and cry.

That is a GREAT song. I like most everything Sade has done.

Quote from Gina

This is not really a song interpretation. Well I guess it's sort of is.

It's just very interesting to me. It's interesting how extremely talented Finneas and Billie Eilish are.

https://variety.com/2020/music…s-no-time-die-1234865243/

Will you post something by Billie Eilish that is good? I have listened to a little of her stuff and tried to watch her show on Netflix, but she seemed to be trying too hard to be a unique snowflake to me. Everything was sort of done to attact attention to herself, I quickly became turned off. Did I judge her too quickly? Maybe, I dunno. I didn't really feel like she was being genuine with people, more like she was pretending, but wanted people to think it was real.

I agree with #7

I think the song is about Adam, the lead singer, and the bassist from his old band (Mr. Jones) wanting to be famous. Adam has said in interviews that he and his friend went to see his friend's dad's band who was fairly famous the night he wrote the song. At the show they saw an even more famous drummer who had like three girls all over him and that is the basis for the beginning of the song that many people have been trying to figure out. Furthermore, as others have noted, after the CC got famous from this song Adam changed the lyrics around during live performances to reflect how his views on fame had changed.

The most interesting stanza from the song, in my opinion, which no one seems to be focusing on is the one about painting pictures with different colors and how his favorite color is gray and if he knew Picasso he would buy himself a gray guitar and play. This is hugely intelligent because Picasso had a lot of different periods some of them like the Blue Period and the Rose (French for Pink) Period that were defined by his use of certain colors (which in tern reflected different moods.) Both the blue and the rose period reflected the moods that characterized Picasso's life at the time ((Hence, the line all of the colors are very very meaningful). Although Adam says gray, he seems to be referring to Picasso's Blue Period, which was when Picasso was depressed and his paintings very somber as expressed in color (Blue and Blue-Green but sort of Greyish) and subject matter (beggars and prostitutes and eldery people). One of his best known paintings from this time period is the old guitarist which is probably what Adam is referring to when he writes "If I knew Picasso I would buy myself a gray guitar and play," especially because the old guitarist is barely able to play in the painting. It's also notable that Picasso was Spanish and there are references to Spainish dancing in the beginning of the song, and barrio (Spanish for neighborhood) later in the song.