SongMeanings Interpretations
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Elliott Smith - A Question Mark Lyrics
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about prejudice and misunderstanding because people never look behind things enough. he's saying he doesnt pre-judge people or life in general, he doesnt take ...
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The Shins - 40 Mark Strasse Lyrics
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It's about a prostitute during WWII (I think in Poland), and the boy in the song is younger than her and is in love with her. They live in the same town and he ...
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Mark Knopfler - The Ragpicker's Dream Lyrics
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The song deals is exactly what the title says it is - A Ragpicker's Dream. A poor and downtrodden guy dreams of living a quiet and comfortable life around ...
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A Silent Film - You Will Leave A Mark Lyrics
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This song has such few lyrics but from what i can tell it's about white guilt. Western Europeans are responsible for some of the worst crimes against humanity ...
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Mark Knopfler - Baloney Again Lyrics
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this song is about discrimination against African American people, from the point of someone feeling its sting, during around the time of Rosa Parks. Its a ...
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Mark Knopfler - Border Reiver Lyrics
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This is a good summary of the song. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. politicians ...
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Mark Knopfler - Stand Up Guy Lyrics
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The narrator, realizing that their days are numbered, offers the song's final and most haunting toast "Here's to absent friends" (if ever a friend of yours has ...
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Mark Knopfler - Cleaning My Gun Lyrics
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It's commentary on oppressive government in general. Many veterans don;t trust the government...they see the hypocrisy a little clearer I think. But to me the ...
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Mark Knopfler - Silvertown Blues Lyrics
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The song is about the Silvertown neighborhood of East London. It refers to the building of the doomed Millennium Dome that hosted the new years eve 2000 ...
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Mark Knopfler - Rüdiger Lyrics
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In general, it highlights the danger of hidden agendas, manipulation, and distraction, serving as a critique of those who exploit chaos and confusion to control ...
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Mark Knopfler - Heart Full of Holes Lyrics
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In general, it highlights the danger of hidden agendas, manipulation, and distraction, serving as a critique of those who exploit chaos and confusion to control ...
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Mark Knopfler - 5.15 A.M. Lyrics
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The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath ...
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Mark Knopfler - Monteleone Lyrics
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This is a good summary of the song. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. politicians ...
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John Mark McMillan - Carbon Ribs Lyrics
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The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath ...
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Mark Knopfler - Everybody Pays Lyrics
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The meaning of the song is: no matter how successful or rich you are, eventually you have to suffer and one day you're surely gonna die (But either on the strip ...
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Mindless Self Indulgence - Mark David Chapman Lyrics
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This song is basically about how all bands sound alike to each other, and that bands that actually make an effort to be different and care about the music are ...
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Mark Knopfler - Postcards From Paraguay Lyrics
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They have to steal from Peter to pay Paul. This person, however, was able to escape to Paraguay. There will be no postcards from Paraguay because they are not ...
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Mark Knopfler - Remembrance Day Lyrics
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The song's structure comes from how our experiences seem fixed, because the seasons circle around even as time slips away. The second verse is about the ...
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Faith No More - Mark Bowen Lyrics
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"The truth behind "the Mark Bowen" song, is that prior to having a permanent singer, the band named their songs after persons, places, or things that were ...
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Mark Collie - In Time Lyrics
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It basically says how you can out run whatever is bothering you, but the only constant in your life is time. You'll never beat it.
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Mark Lanegan - Wedding Dress Lyrics
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And burn like there's no more tomorrows? ... And forgive all my sicknesses and my sorrows? ... When I fall to my knees and I'm crying? ... Will you put on that long ...
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Mark Knopfler - So Far From the Clyde Lyrics
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This song isnt about any ship, well, Im no particular religious but from what I understand the ship in this som is Jesus, and the day of the beeching is the day ...
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Mark Lanegan - Hit The City Lyrics
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It's a song about selfdestruction. Hit the city could be a reference to an excessive lifestyle. He uses examples of Babylon, a once prosperous city that was ...
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Mark Knopfler - Punish The Monkey Lyrics
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Your boss is going to let you take the blame for something. You (the monkey) are not the person in power. The boss (organ grinder) is going to get away with ...
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Mark Ronson - Bang Bang Bang Lyrics
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The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath ...
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Mark Knopfler - Prairie Wedding Lyrics
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Such a lovely picture Mark paints. A wedding , simple, but proper. Two people hoping that they have made the right choice. One of my favorite Knopfler songs- ...
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Iced Earth - High Water Mark Lyrics
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In general, it highlights the danger of hidden agendas, manipulation, and distraction, serving as a critique of those who exploit chaos and confusion to control ...
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Mark Knopfler - What It Is Lyrics
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This song, I must conclude, is about Edinburgh. Numerous references (Tollgate, Caledonian Blues, Charlotte Street, the parapet [which refers to the Castle]).
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Mark Knopfler - Haul Away Lyrics
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It is an allegory about a beloved wife who died young of an illness. The ship is life itself, not a literal ship. He misses her greatly as in the "heavy gold" ...
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Mark Knopfler - Sailing To Philadelphia Lyrics
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This song is obviously about Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, two British astronomers sent to the new world to survey the border between Pennslyvania and ...
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Mark Knopfler - The Last Laugh Lyrics
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This song is written as the perspective of the boys in the street, as a whole, and what path they are going to choose as they get older and grow into men. (This ...
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Mark Knopfler - Why Aye Man Lyrics
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great tune. the meaning is self explanatory. geordies emigrating to germany after maggie thatcher broke the unions in the 80s creating huge unemployment in ...
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Mark Lanegan - One Hundred Days Lyrics
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This song is morphine. There is a link between dreams and morphine as Morpheus was the god of dreams in mythology but that's trivia. This song probably is about ...
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Mark Lanegan - Come To Me Lyrics
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This song is about two people who are both patiently waiting for the other to come to them. for one reason or another, they haven't been able to or can't be ...
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Mark Knopfler - Madame Geneva's Lyrics
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Anyone who is familiar with William Hogarth work and the history of capital punishment in England during the 17th and 18th Century will find Mark's sources to ...
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Mark Knopfler - Speedway At Nazareth Lyrics
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This song is about the 2001 CART racing season. It is fictional though. No one ran at Long Beach with "three cracked vertebrae" that year, or any year that I ...
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Mark Lanegan - Borracho Lyrics
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The battle between the seductions of the Devil and the struggle toward the light. His need turns the desert into an ocean; the better angels have lost the ...
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Mark Knopfler - Devil Baby Lyrics
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In general, it highlights the danger of hidden agendas, manipulation, and distraction, serving as a critique of those who exploit chaos and confusion to control ...
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Mark Knopfler - Song For Sonny Liston Lyrics
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this song is obviously about Sonny Liston, who i've never heard of but am guessing was a boxer. the part that catches my eye is "like henry's hammer" which must ...
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Mark Knopfler - Whoop De Doo Lyrics
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Its a break up song, that's clear. The best part of the song is the sarcasm. The narrator is clearly sad about it, as is clear from the tune and the general ...
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Mark Knopfler - Hill Farmer's Blues Lyrics
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Mark Knopfler himself suggest it's about the hard work being a farmer in a time of foot-and-mouth disease which was plagueing UK at the time and many farmers ...
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Mark Knopfler - Let It All Go Lyrics
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The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath ...
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Mark Owen - Four Minute Warning Lyrics
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Meaning: It's nearly up, our life. All he cares about is his love. But it is saying use the time you have left wisely. He only has four minutes, that's four ...
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Mark Schultz - Think of Me Lyrics
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This song is written as the perspective of the boys in the street, as a whole, and what path they are going to choose as they get older and grow into men. (This ...
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Mark Knopfler - Don't Crash the Ambulance Lyrics
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The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath ...
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