Eiffel 65 "Blue"

Clearly about depression? About the digital age, an infomaniac lighting up his whole life with blue items? The background effects that live "inside me" walks around the brain of the singer. And, the indistinguishable "aba-dee-aba-di" could be provoking a sense of restlessness that comes from hooking in to the 'net', among other impersonal 'personal' items. Is this new age of media and interconnectedness making us feel any less lonely?

"Somewhere Over the Rainbow" _Your Favorite Artist_

"Somewhere...bluebirds fly..." in a place where "dreams really do come true." After we wish upon a star, the past is in the past with clouds behind. In this dreamy wonderful world, "that's where you'll find me" makes me wonder why this guy wanted to leave in the first place. The "dreams that you dared to" might mean that he or she did not want to wait for someone from the past. Maybe, he is saddened by a past lost, but more likely it is about continuing to dream big somewhere else, when and where 'someone else' cannot tether the balloon of infancy, sailing like a "lemon drop" up in the sky. Good luck finding that blissful place, and let me know when and if you do!

"21 guns" Greenday

1. Twenty. One. Guns?
"Do we know...when it's not...does it take your...feel...suffocating"
"Pain...Pride...Hide...Heart...Ruin"
The first phrases of this song could easily skip the transitional prepositions.
Then the chorus encompasses "Give up the fight, lay down your arms."
"When you're at the end of the road...when your mind breaks the spirit of your soul..."
"Faith walks on Broken Glass" makes it seem like it was a good-natured soul who lost his pride in a situation. But then, the "Hangover doesn't Pass", somehow it's a bit more of a personal failure. Again, we're in "ruins." And once the bridge kicks in and explodes with "did you stand too close to the fire? like a liar looking for forgive from a stone?", we reach the only non-clice part of the piece. I believe this song has less to do with being fired upon, but more like 21 years of anguish, assaulting others with personal flaws, and self-destructing...and then asking for an emo patch. A great song nonetheless, but quite trite in its delivery of commiserating youthful angst and regret.

"Forever Young" Rod Stewart

Is this song about his actual physical son? Maybe.
Counter-evidence suggests not.
"Grow to be proud, dignified and true."
"Do unto others as you'd have done to you."
"Be courageous and brave, and in my heart, you'll always stay, forever young."
Sound like he is trying to convince himself that he is staying young.
Maybe he had second thoughts about "prince or vagabond".
He keeps repeating forever young like he still isn't convinced.
This is a beautiful song, but there is some cheap element about the guitar solo.
This looks to be a song about a man who lives his eyes through a persona of a boy, overbalancing his own life's failures "wisdom of a lifetime, no one can ever tell" suggests he didn't take other's advice through his life.
"win or lose" I certainly hope.

Jimi Hendrix/Bob Dylan "All Along the Watchtower"

The joker is alcohol.
The thief is marijuana.
The watchtower is a street filled with isolated people.
The joker says "businessmen drink my wine".
The thief says "Plow men dig my earth".
Both alcohol and marijuana control a man's mind as he wanders the streets on a lonely night (the watchtower).
"There are many here among us." (others who are just as confused wandering the streets as the man in the story).
"The hours are getting late."