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Thread #48907   Message #736851
Posted By: Clinton Hammond
25-Jun-02 - 05:47 PM
Thread Name: Help: Dirty Old Town? Meaning??? (MacColl)
Subject: RE: Help: Dirty Old Town? Meaning???
It's a song I don't mind not meaning anything... I don't really care much for it, but like I said above, it can be sorta fun to play and 'swing' to... and audiences do sorta tend to get off on it...

I was just wondering if the lyrics seemed as vacuous to anyone else as they seem to me...

What was it Edger Allen Poe said?

"Music, when combined with a pleasureable idea, is poetry. Music, without the idea is simply music. Without music or an intriguing idea, colour becomes pallor..."