“California Dreamin’” is a song by “The Mamas & The Papas written in 1963.
A short kind of simple song, jet so great and amusing. It’s a melodious slice of '60s pop nostalgia and it so mellow you just can sit back and relax.
The lyrics talks about a guy that is out on a cold winter day and he is longing for the warm California.
First verse:
“All the leaves are brown and the sky is gray I've been for a walk on a winter's day I'd be safe and warm if I was in L.A. California Dreamin' on such a winter's day”
The first verse describes that he is walking on a cold winter day where the leaves are brown and the sky is gray. And that he would be warm and safe in California.
“Stopped in to a church I passed along the way Well I got down on my knees and I pretend to pray You know the preacher liked the cold He knows I'm gonna stay California Dreamin' on such a winter's day”
On he’s walk he goes in to a church because he is cold and he is trying to get warm. So he goes in there and pretending to prey just so he can be warm. The preacher like the cold just because that when it’s cold outside many people will come in to the church and that good for the preacher and the preacher know he is going to stay just because it’s so cold outside.
“All the leaves are brown and the sky is gray I've been for a walk on a winter's day If I didn't tell her I could leave today California Dreamin' on such a winter's day California Dreamin' on such a winter's day California Dreamin' on such a winter's day”
The line “If i didn't tell her I could leave today” i don’t really get, it doesn't fit in with the song, because the song was written by John Phillips on a winter night in Manhattan when his young wife, Michelle, was homesick for Southern California. It doesn’t make sense because it’s his wife that is longing home…
Michelle said this about the song “It sounded like a dream”.
A song about longing for California, just Envision the clear skies, sun-washed beaches and swaying palm trees...:)
The guitar melody can I say is really harmonic and just that can carry you away in wonderfulness….
"The Great Beyond" is a song by R.E.M was written specifically for the 1999 movie "Man on the Moon"
"Man on the Moon" is a 1999 American biographical film about the American entertainer Andy Kaufman.
First I can say that this song can be interpreted in more than one way. The song was written for the movie "Man on the moon" describing Andy Kaufman and his way to the top.
It's known that R.E.M's lead singer Michael Stipe that writes the most songs by the band is known for his political and social activism. And he is also really concern with the planets health how the world is today, and many of R.E.M songs is interprets in that way. He is no person who writes songs with random texts and he is someone who wants to change the world.
Let's start by saying that it was written to express Andy Kaufman's views on life.
The film is about his desire to reach the top and his total disregard for anything that stood in his way (although not much did). The song reflects the attitude he must have adopted in order to take over America. The lines "I'm pushing an elephant up the stairs" best reflects the challenge he took and also "bending spoons" reveals how he managed to achieve it. His rise to fame was meticulously planned and it goes to show that anything is possible when you put your mind to it.
Moving on to the more "deeper" meaning behind the song covering the political, social and the view of the world in R.E.M's way.
I think it's obvious that this song expresses doing something that is very hard to achieve. This would be an argument for the Andy Kaufman theory but in another way it can be describes a discussion between the song writer(Michael) and another person being the rest of the world.
"I've watched the stars fall silent from your eyes All the sights that I have seen I can't believe that I believed I wished That you could see There's a new planet in the solar system There is nothing up my sleeve"
Michael is saying that those (blinding) stars, is the lies that there is nothing wrong with the planet or the society and that it's not the first time this discussion has come up.
I think that this planet stands for the sight of the world that Michael wants his discussion partner to see. What if we found a new planet in our own solar system? We would have high hopes and wishes that we might move there one day for the case that our own planet might be collapsing. And that this is the truth and there is nothing that can make it untrue.
"I'm pushing an elephant up the stairs I'm tossing up punchlines that were never there Over my shoulder a piano falls Crashing to the ground"
"I'm pushing an elephant up the stairs"
Michael is doing a really hard job trying to tell the world something, he need to neutralize lies that is spread around every day. It's hard for many people to understand that all the things that is happening to the planet and the society because they just turn the back against it and think that someone ells takes care of it.
"I'm tossing up punchlines that were never there"
Meaning that Michael is trying new ways and arguments he never used before to make people realise everything.
"Over my shoulder a piano falls Crashing to the ground"
This means that Michael is having a breakthrough in the discussion because he's discussion partner opinion is changing. He is "breaking trough".
"And all this talk of time Talk is fine But I don't want to stay around Why can't we pantomime, just close our eyes And sleep sweet dreams Me and you with wings on our feet"
I think that he expresses that talking about history is quite easy."And all this talk of time, Talk is fine" You don't hurt anybody's feelings because it has happened a long time ago, you can carefully criticize the present time finding parallels in dark ages and you can express how things have developed and come so far. Yet he says that he doesn't want to "stay around". He wants to draw conclusions for the present time and even dream sweet dreams of a future as it could be. I think that the phrase "sleep sweet dreams" is not meant literally. He could also have said "imagine if the world was like that ..." as John Lennon did in his song "Imagine" :)
"I'm breaking through I'm bending spoons I'm keeping flowers in full bloom I'm looking for answers from the great beyond"
"I'm breaking through"
Referring to what I said about the line "Over my shoulder a piano falls, Crashing to the ground" that he is changing peoples opinions.
"I'm bending spoons"
Have you tried? It's not the easiest task. It's a reference to the line "I'm pushing an elephant up the stairs" a now he is on the way to achieving that task, he is doing something impossible and then manage to do that.
"I'm keeping flowers in full bloom"
Michaels attitude is to change the world - to make it a planet where people are more important than profits. He is trying to keep alive the positive picture of his dream throughout all the critical questions of his discussion partner.
"I'm looking for answers from the great beyond"
What is "The Great Beyond" in this case? It is what Michael wants the world to be like, he is trying to convince people that there is something wrong with the planet and the world and that this "Great Beyond" is a world that is good for everyone.
"I want the hummingbirds, the dancing bears Sweetest dreams of you I look into the stars I look into the moon"
"I want the hummingbirds, the dancing bears"
This expresses how free and beautiful the world can be in the "Great Beyond"
"Sweetest dreams of you"
Michael is dreaming about when his discussion partner referring to "you" is accepting all this and joins him in he's thought about "The Great Beyond".
"I look into the stars I look into the moon"
I don't really know if this means starts as the first line in the song but that wouldn't make much sense. I think that he is just creating a beautiful picture. Maybe looking into the starts means yearning that his dreams come true for him.
In the end it come to say that it's all about doing the impossible, about putting your mind to something and achieving the impossible. It's the realization that you can do anything and sustaining the realization. And I think that if you don't have a bit of this spectacle on life you wont come far...
I think it's a song that really goes into your soul and dance with you. The song takes you away from the real world and away from all your problems and you can feel all the love and happiness in the world. The song makes you want to jump up and down, and the song makes you want to shout out your love and happiness and you feel like you are on top of the world. you can never tire of the song, you can listen to the song over and over again and each time you listen to it you shiver through your whole body.
"Jumper" is a song by the American rock band Third Eye Blind, released on their 1997 self titled album, and written by vocalist Stephan Jenkins.
In my opinion this song is about putting the past away...
the lyrics there says are these two kids. One of them is trying to get his friend to stop thinking about suicide and is trying to convince him that "everyone has a reason to put the past away" and start over. he says that he knows it might be hard for him and that he would understand if after he helped him he didn't want to see him again. But the kid did take his own life referring to the line: "We'll he's on the table and he's gone to code And I do not think anyone knows what they are doing here And your friends have left too, you've been dismissed I never thought it would come to this"
But in the end the song says that even thought he killed himself his friend was there for him and accepted his decision because that's what's friends are for. The chorus:
"I wish you would step back from that ledge my friend You could cut ties with all the lies that you've been living in And if you do not want to see me again I would understand, I would understand, I would understand"
says that he is trying to help his friend and that he is there for him and he would understand his decision.
The line:
"Everyone's got to face down the demons Maybe today, you can put the past away"
is just a sum up off the song that says that everybody have problem and in this case a troubled past that will not heal by it self in their life that they have to face and deal with or it will break them down.
Everybody need sometime a friend, a love, brother, sister mother, father or just a person that understands them that's there for them in every situation to help them, and make the best out of the situation...
So thinking that I was going to do a review of the In Flames concert but I have notice that it's not the easiest thing to do. There is a lot of part to remember from the concert and my memory is not the best, and I think ill never bring pen and paper to a concert that big.
But I can say that it was an really good concert with 4 pre bands and In Flames as the main act.
Pre bands: KILLSWITCH ENGAGE DEAD BY APRIL EVERY TIME I DIE MAYLENE AND THE SONS OF DISASTER
The first pre band was good but "Every Time I Die" was not so good, the band had no teamwork and no good songs and the singer fail a few time trying to motivate the audience, and "Dead By April" is not live, will never be good live and have like 2 or 3 good songs so they did not put on a good performance. But "Killswitch Engage" put on and really good performance and they started out good with "My curse" witch is my favourite song and they ended good with a cover of "Holy Diver" witch really motivated the audience.
In Flames opened up with a strong performance of "Cloud Connected" and trough out the whole performance they had the momentum even through the less known song. The song list was really good and the only negative thing with it was that they did not play "episode 666".
Best was "Come Clarity" where it sounded better then the original recording and with a really nice background visual and firework.
The teamwork in the band was just awesome and the singer was really good with the audience.
The ending with "Alias", The Mirror's Truth", "the Quiet Place", "Take This Life" and "My Sweet Shadow" that In Flames always end the live performances with was awesome.
One negative thing with the concert was that the audience was not so much on fire, many in the audience just stood still and didn't ever sing with...
So today I'm going to see In Flames live in Malmö.
In Flames is a good melodic heavy metal band and they have a few good song, and for the last couple of weeks i have discovered a few more good song so I am looking forward to the concert.
I'm also going to try and do a concert review, i have always wanted to try and it can be fun:D
just to put up something, not my favourite in flames song but a really good one. "Delight And Angers"
though I have listen to Queen for many years I did not came across this song for about a half year ago and it strikes me now how good this song really is.
"'39" is the 39th song in the Queen studio album chronology.
The song's lyrics are a science fiction short story which concerns twenty volunteers who leave a dying Earth on a spaceship in search of new worlds to settle. They return to report success, 100 calendar years later, with only a single year passing from the volunteers' perspective (due to time dilation). The lyrics imply that the song's protagonist faces his child upon return to Earth:
"Oh so many years have gone though I'm older but a year Your mother's eyes from your eyes cry to me"
This, and the fact that all his peers and friends have died, are a terrible grief to the protagonist, as the final words insist:
"For my life Still ahead Pity me"
Brian May described the song as follows:
"It's a science fiction story. It's the story about someone who goes away and leaves his family and... because of the time dilation effect, when you go away, the people on Earth have aged a lot more than he has when he comes home. He's aged a year and they've aged 100 years. So, instead of coming back to his wife, he comes back to his daughter and he can see his wife in his daughter... a strange story. I think, also, I had in mind a story of Herman Hesse, which I think is called "The River". A man leaves his hometown and has lots of travels and then comes back and observes his hometown from the other side of the river. He sees it in a different light, having been away and experienced all those different things. He sees it in a very illuminating way, 'cause I felt a little bit like that about my home at the time as well, having been away and seen this vastly different world of rock music... totally different from the way I was brought up, and I had those feelings about home."
It's one of those song that can have a deeper meaning thou the songwriter didn't mean for it.
I think it can be interpreted in a way that when you go out on a big journey to a new world or place you get much experience and knowledge that you take in and can use in the future. And when you come home you share your experience with the people and notice that they are still the same people or have maybe changed in some way but you feel like a different person in one way or another or maybe more then one.
Music can describe all the feeling a human can have in one way or another. When I listen to music it expose all my feeling in that lyric. Music is not just a lyric with music in it, it´s so much more. A lyric describes your inner feeling and the lyric really talks to you.
Music is the most beautiful thing in the whole world because when you listen to it you can really just sit/lie down a relax and forget all your problems for a few minutes...
just a 18 year old guy that loves music over everything else,, i can listen to everything im very open when it comes to music.:D my favorit band is obvious QUEEN<3 the music i listne the most to is the music that was written from the 60's to the end of the 80's the music was best then and will always be:D<3
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