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03-02-2011, 08:55 AM | #2892 (permalink) | |
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Lou Gramm - "Midnight Blue"
This is a song that gets played all the time on the Iowa radio station I usually have on at work, and so I decided to look it up today and read the lyrics. The sound of the song doesn't grab my attention much, but while listening to it yesterday I noted with more interest that the song uses colors (which exist only in the mind) as metaphors to explain a sense of a feeling or desire ("cherry red") and of the unknown ("midnight blue")...at least those are my interpretations:
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03-02-2011, 03:14 PM | #2897 (permalink) | ||
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I'm a little rusty with my German, though, so the song doesn't hit me as strongly in German as it does in English, BD. But German and Germans are always cool. I want a yellow pant suit! Now for more 80's awesomeness, my other favorite German song: Nena - 99 Luft Balons
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03-02-2011, 05:59 PM | #2898 (permalink) | |
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German: Völlig losgelöst von der Erde Schwebt das Raumschiff Völlig schwerelos English: Earth below us Drifting, falling Floating weightless Calling, calling home I know some German because I took it in high school. If I made the effort to become fluent in it, I could probably pick it up quickly. Currently listening to: |
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03-02-2011, 06:47 PM | #2900 (permalink) |
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Through my Revox tapedeck (you can listen while you record with those machines )
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