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Likely a reference to the middle-to-old-aged celebrities dating women young enough to be one of their daughters.
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Brad Pitt, actor and producer who has also described as one of the world’s most attractive men.
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Bowie compares celebrities to Satyrs, a class of lustful, drunken woodland gods. In Greek art they were represented as a man with a horse’s ears and tail, but in Roman representations as a man with a goat’s ears, tail, legs, and horns.
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Jack Nicholson, star of such acclaimed films as The Shining, Easy Rider, and The Departed, among others.
And I'll build a house inside of you
I'll go in through the mouth
I'll draw three figures on your heart
One of them will be me as a boy
One of them will be me
One of them will be me watching you run Wolf Parade – You Are a Runner and I Am My Father's Son
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She had a history, but she had no past
When they shut her down, the Russians moved in
Now I'm too scared, I'm too scared to even walk on past Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Jubilee Street
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Jubilee Street is here a Red Light District taken over by the Russian mob. Bea is a prostitute, or even the former madame of a whorehouse.
When asked by The Sun if he was referring to the Jubilee Street located in his hometown of Brighton, Cave replied: “If people think they’re going to have a good time down Jubilee Street, I’d say forget about it unless they’re particularly interested in going to the library or Yo Sushi. When I was writing that, I had it in my mind that Jubilee Street was another, more colourful street. Then I was actually walking along it, looked up and went, ‘Oh no, this is fucking Jubilee Street.”
And I think about my life
And wonder why
That I slowly die inside
Every time I turn that truck around right at the Georgia line
And I count the days and the miles back home to you
On that Highway 20 ride Zac Brown Band – Highway 20 Ride
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Highway 20 is a major east–west Interstate road in the south-eastern United States that runs 1,535 miles (2,470 km) between Texas and South Carolina.
Songwriter Wyatt Durrette explained the inspiration of the highway’s role in the song to The Boot:
“‘Highway 20 Ride’ is a song I started writing when I was probably a year into making the drive from Atlanta to Augusta, Georgia [to see my son]. I had gone through a divorce. She moved back to where she was from in South Carolina, and the halfway point was Augusta. I was bartending and took every other weekend off to spend time with him. It was a very painful time in my life, not having enough time together and having to bring him back. I worried about how he will perceive me as a father. Am I doing the right thing? I was going through all the things everybody goes through in that situation.”
Many lives were lost with the records of a football team Sea Power – Canvey Island
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Canvey Island is located in the Thames estuary where it is disconnected from the mainland of south Essex by a network of creeks. Since it lies below sea level, it is prone to flooding at strong tides, and in 1953 a flood swamped the island causing the deaths of 58 residents. This song was written by British Sea Power singer Yan after he listened to a radio documentary about the disaster.
You know I couldn't wait
I want to set this place aflame
Frame by frame ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead – Luna Park
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Trail of Dead drummer Jason Reece wrote this song. Frontman Conrad Keely told The Skinny:
He was the one who decided to write about this theme park in Coney Island that had been burned down in arson numerous times. I think he used that as a metaphor for burning down something that he loved, destroying something that was close to him.
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