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SongMeanings is a music website that encourages users to discuss and comment on the underlying meanings and messages of individual songs. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] As of May 2015, the website contains over 110,000 artists, 1,000,000 lyrics, 14,000 albums, and 530,000 members.
Songfacts is a music-oriented website that has articles about songs, detailing the meaning behind the lyrics, how and when they were recorded, and any other info that can be found. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ]
Lyrics are words that make up a song, usually consisting of verses and choruses. The writer of lyrics is a lyricist . The words to an extended musical composition such as an opera are, however, usually known as a " libretto " and their writer, as a " librettist ".
The song also refers to the "Cast Iron Shore", a coastal area of south Liverpool known to local people as "The Cazzy". [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Lennon dismissed any deep meaning to the mysterious lyrics: I threw the line in—"the Walrus was Paul"—just to confuse everybody a bit more. ...
The lyrics also refer to autobiographical details (i.e., the lyric "I got a kid, I'm thirty-three" although Hynde had just turned 32 when the single was released). [6] The harmonica solo near the end of the song is uncredited. Ultimate Classic Rock attributes the solo to Hynde, [7] who usually plays it during live performances of the song.
The song incorporates a lyric scheme where each verse forms the acrostic "F.E.A.R." (for example, "For each a road" and "Fallen empires are ruling").In an interview with Clash magazine, Brown said that a main influence for "F.E.A.R." was The Autobiography of Malcolm X, which preached the study of etymology, so that one could have "control over people through the use of language."
"Superman's Song" is the first single of Canadian folk-rock group Crash Test Dummies, appearing on their 1991 debut album The Ghosts That Haunt Me. The single was the group's first hit, reaching number four in Canada, number 56 in the United States and number 87 in Australia.
There has been much speculation about the meaning of the phrase and song title, "Pop Goes the Weasel". [ 1 ] [ 6 ] Some say a weasel is a tailor's flat iron, silver-plate dishes, a dead animal , a hatter's tool, or a spinner's weasel .