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  2. Songs of the Underground Railroad - Wikipedia

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    Another song with a reportedly secret meaning is "Now Let Me Fly" [3] which references the biblical story of Ezekiel's Wheels. [4] The song talks mostly of a promised land. This song might have boosted the morale and spirit of the slaves, giving them hope that there was a place waiting that was better than where they were.

  3. List of backmasked messages - Wikipedia

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    The song title is backmasked in the opening 30 seconds of the song. Judas Priest "Love Bites" "In the dead of the night, love bites" Admitted to by Rob Halford during the subliminal message trial. Halford said that "When you're composing songs, you're always looking for new ideas, new sounds." [52] KMFDM "Sucks"

  4. Wade in the Water - Wikipedia

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    In 2002, Maryland Public Television in collaboration with the Maryland Historical Society and Maryland State Archives, produced "Pathways to Freedom: Maryland and the Underground Railroad" as a teaching guide, which included a section on how songs that many slaves knew had "secret meanings" that they could be "used to signal many things." They ...

  5. The Deeper Meaning Behind the "12 Days of Christmas" Song - AOL

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    "Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." Whether you love it or hate it, the "12 Days of Christmas" song is a holiday staple.

  6. SongMeanings - Wikipedia

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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.

  7. Song of the Free - Wikipedia

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    The song alludes to, and explicitly states, the lack of freedom experienced by African Americans, and of their servitude to masters who controlled them. It highlights the dangers they were willing to face in order to escape enslavement, including death. Every stanza ends with a reference to Canada as the land "where colored men are free".

  8. Secret Messages (song) - Wikipedia

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    "Secret Messages" is a song recorded by Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) and is the title track (and opening track) of the 1983 album Secret Messages. The song begins with strange effects and a backmasked voice (saying "welcome to the show") followed by a burst of morse code, before the song proper begins with a staccato keyboard part followed by ...

  9. Subways of Your Mind - Wikipedia

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    "Subways of Your Mind" is a song by German rock band Fex, recorded in 1983. In the 2000s, a recording on a cassette tape from a radio broadcast in the mid-1980s was uploaded online and garnered significant attention.