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JV wrote:
Good call on As It Is When It Was--has some of my fave lyrics from Bernard.
I would also vouch for Getting Away
Great lyrics. Its a crying shame the production and chorus lets this song down. It could have been fantastic rather than good.
"it those days when the sun was warm i ran in the street where i was born"
...evokes many memories of my childhood.
i'm going to go with confusion.
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do i win £40?
You're all wrong!
Its has to be Avalanche, if you listen REAL hard for at the lyrics you'll heard Barney say "this is about my life"
Dear Barney... The man has always said he didn't really know from where words were coming whil he was writing lyrics for NO. But if Ian Lyrics were introspective and metaphoric , i wouldn' say it's the same situation with barney's. Things are more "as it is when / just like it was". Things are more said in a direct style . I don't find any poetry in Barney's songs but, most of the times, facts or moods everyone can feel in his own life... I would agree with Old Monkey when he says "Close range" seems an autobiographical song. But the sang , as well, can be the autobiography of anybody . I found things that happened in mine, too, when i first heard this song . But , anyway, it's a good choice. In the old days, i used to think Temptation could be autobiographical, coz Barney seemed really concerned with the song...
But in CLOSE RANGE Barney is singing to someone else:
"You gotta pull yourself together man"
He could really still be singing for him, but Close Range almost sounds more like he wrote it for a friend. HEY NOW WHAT YA DOING is kind of similar, I think.
I think Republic is a very autobiographical album. SPECIAL sounds like a lot of personal thought went into the lyrics to that one.
J
No Holiday wrote: But in CLOSE RANGE Barney is singing to someone else:
"You gotta pull yourself together man"
He could really still be singing for him, but Close Range almost sounds more like he wrote it for a friend. HEY NOW WHAT YA DOING is kind of similar, I think.
I think Republic is a very autobiographical album. SPECIAL sounds like a lot of personal thought went into the lyrics to that one.
J
For the first time EVER. I find myself agreeing with you 100%.
