 SongMeanings Interpretations
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Led Zeppelin - Poor Tom Lyrics
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This track is about is about questioning why the sky would choose to be blue if it had the choice to be anything else, “blue also meaning sad,” states frontman ...
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Placebo - Peeping Tom Lyrics
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"It's about voyeurism. It's about being a peeping tom. I try in the song to place you inside the head and make you feel the emotions of this voyeur and try and ...
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Yo La Tengo - Tom Courtenay 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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Tom Waits - Green Grass Lyrics
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It talks about not wanting to be forgotten, though being dead, and not being able to let go of a loved one. In books and movies, we always hear that in the case ...
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Tom Petty - The Waiting Lyrics
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Waiting for anything is the hardest part, the anticipation just kills you. The wait is just one more obstacle we have to overcome to get what we want (and maybe ...
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Tom Waits - On the Nickel Lyrics
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This track is about is about questioning why the sky would choose to be blue if it had the choice to be anything else, “blue also meaning sad,” states frontman ...
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Tom Waits - Chocolate Jesus Lyrics
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While the obvious connections with suicide or alcoholism could be drawn easily, more subtly this song could be about someone who views the world through a ...
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Tom Odell - Another Love Lyrics
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The song is about him being with a new partner and then describing how he can't commit emotionally to that person because he was hurt so badly by his previous ( ...
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Tom Waits - Alice Lyrics
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This song is about obsession/paedophilia and yes the Dodgson (aka Lewis Carrol) / Alice Liddell affair is the vehicle we travel in. ' To go skating on your name ...
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Tom Petty - I Won't Back Down Lyrics
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-- where the lead characters wore shades). So I think this song is about a guy who wears shades as a way of hiding his insecurity after learning that his ...
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Tom Odell - Can't Pretend Lyrics
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Well, the song seems like it's about a person who has fallen in love with someone but they don't want to admit it. They try to hide, but ultimately it end up ...
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Tom Waits - Blue Valentines Lyrics
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This track is about is about questioning why the sky would choose to be blue if it had the choice to be anything else, “blue also meaning sad,” states frontman ...
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David Bowie - Space Oddity Lyrics
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This song is about alienation and distancing yourself away from people by getting so lost in your mind that you're high up above everyone else. It's about ...
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Tom Petty - You Don't Know How It Feels Lyrics
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This song is about wanting to turn off the static in your life for a little bit and get some peace. The "you don't know how it feels" part is him feeling a ...
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Rush - Tom Sawyer Lyrics
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It's about individualism and not mindlessly bowing to authority, (religion, government, etc.). This song was written in Neil's Ayn Rand influenced period. Look ...
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Tom Waits Lyrics, Songs, Albums And More
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Sonic Youth - Tom Violence 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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Tom Petty - You Got Lucky Lyrics
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"If you don't feel complete. If I can't take you all of the way, then go..." means that, the moment HE realizes that he is no longer her priority, then the ...
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Peter Schilling - Major Tom (Coming Home) Lyrics
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This to me is Major Tom describing a profound experience - not a drug induced high, not even an NDE - but a full dying experience. I see this as a tribute to ...
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Tom Waits - Downtown Train Lyrics
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It's about loneliness and dreaming of love that can't be reached. he is looking at the girl in the window, she is looking at the bright lights of the city, both ...
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Tom Petty - Even The Losers Lyrics
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This song in my opinion is about keeping faith in yourself, even when things go wrong (example: in this song it sounds like he broke up with a really great girl ...
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Tom Waits - Invitation to the Blues Lyrics
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This track is about is about questioning why the sky would choose to be blue if it had the choice to be anything else, “blue also meaning sad,” states frontman ...
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Tom Waits - Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen) Lyrics
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More Featured Meanings ... 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 ...
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Tom Waits - Come on Up to the House Lyrics
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You gotta come on up to the house." This seems like a fairly hopeless message: You keep wanting to struggle for survival, but 'There's nothing in this world ...
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Bruce Springsteen - The Ghost Of Tom Joad Lyrics
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-- where the lead characters wore shades). So I think this song is about a guy who wears shades as a way of hiding his insecurity after learning that his ...
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Buffalo Tom - Late At Night 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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Bob Dylan - Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues Lyrics
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The song is about forgetting about one's limits and suffering the consequences (lost in the rain/you're down/really make a mess out of you/I cannot move/leaves ...
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Tom Waits - Dead and Lovely Lyrics
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This track is about is about questioning why the sky would choose to be blue if it had the choice to be anything else, “blue also meaning sad,” states frontman ...
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Tom Waits - Black Market Baby Lyrics
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My 2 cents: "She's a black-market baby; she's a diamond that wants to stay coal" references something that could be brilliant if only it were given time and/or ...
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Tom Waits - What's He Building in There? Lyrics
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He's not building anything; that's the point of the song. Tom Waits is singing from the point of view of a representative of the paranoid townspeople who view ...
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Tom Waits - That Feel Lyrics
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Well to someone it's being happy, as they know their sun will shine someday again, for some it's feeling worthless and empty, which comes always back to them, ...
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Tom Waits - Make It Rain Lyrics
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The rain nurtures life and makes things grow. It washes things clean. So, basically his wife/girlfriend left him and took everything, including his friends.
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Tom Petty - Yer So Bad Lyrics
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This song is so simple it is so blunt that you can't help but smile when he sings it.... it's about graditude and devotion to his significant other ad how no ...
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Tom Waits - Ol' 55 Lyrics
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Ed Sheeran tells a story of unsuccessfully trying to feel “Amazing.” This track is about the being weighed down by emotional stress despite valiant attempts to ...
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Tom Waits - Burma-Shave Lyrics
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This is a fantastic piece of poetry on so many levels. It all starts with using Burma Shave as a symbol for the highways of America, which are symbolic of the ...
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Peeping Tom - We're Not Alone Lyrics
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Both of these evoke commotion and crowd and I think that it essentially means "We're not alone in this crowd of people who try to play different roles in each ...
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Tom Waits - I'll Be Gone 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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Tom Waits - Ruby's Arms Lyrics
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Ed Sheeran tells a story of unsuccessfully trying to feel “Amazing.” This track is about the being weighed down by emotional stress despite valiant attempts to ...
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Ben Folds Five - Tom And Mary Lyrics
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Tom and Mary in the song are actually the names of 2 people that run a recording studio. On a certain day, Ben folds was in this studio and heard the phrase " ...
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Tom Waits - New Coat of Paint Lyrics
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This track is about is about questioning why the sky would choose to be blue if it had the choice to be anything else, “blue also meaning sad,” states frontman ...
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Tom Petty - It's Good To Be King 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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Tom Petty - Breakdown Lyrics
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They're at a stand still. But rather than say, 'work it out yourself' or 'come back when you're ready to speak more calmly', the speaker shouts 'Break down and ...
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Tom Waits - Martha Lyrics
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I think the meaning is pretty clear. This person got really burned in a previous relationship, and because of this is unable to love and show care in his ...
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Tom Waits - Big in Japan Lyrics
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Ed Sheeran tells a story of unsuccessfully trying to feel “Amazing.” This track is about the being weighed down by emotional stress despite valiant attempts to ...
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Tom Petty - It'll All Work Out Lyrics
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Anyway.. the meaning is pretty obvious... There was a girl he loved but when she needed him he wasn't there for her, and now that she's moved on and is with ...
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Tom Petty - Into The Great Wide Open Lyrics
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The actual meaning is to make you question if you actually are a rebel without a clue. As in, do you just go with the flow, and don't do something for your own ...
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Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombone Lyrics
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Ed Sheeran tells a story of unsuccessfully trying to feel “Amazing.” This track is about the being weighed down by emotional stress despite valiant attempts to ...
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Tom Waits - Time Lyrics
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The chorus of this song is repetitive for a very specific reason: Death is telling us, as the audience, that it's time that we love in our lives, before it's ...
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Tom Waits - Step Right Up Lyrics
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This track is about is about questioning why the sky would choose to be blue if it had the choice to be anything else, “blue also meaning sad,” states frontman ...
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Buffalo Tom - Soda Jerk Lyrics
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While the obvious connections with suicide or alcoholism could be drawn easily, more subtly this song could be about someone who views the world through a ...
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