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Tea for One Led Zeppelin – Tea for One
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This slow blues epic is the last song on Zeppelin’s 1976 album ‘Presence’. It follows the same chord progression as the ‘70 Zeppelin song “Since I’ve Been Loving You.” According to Jimmy Page, he wanted to do the same thing to see how much different of a band Led Zeppelin from the time of the original song. The lyrics, written by Robert Plant, describe the feeling of homesickness that he felt while on tour.

On Aug. 4, 1975, between the Led Zeppelin tours, Robert Plant and his family were vacationing in Rhodes, Greece, where he and his wife; Maureen, had a serious car accident. Mainly due to tax reasons he left his wife in Greece and recovered back in England. This song is written based on the loneliness time of Plant when he was far away from his wife.

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After the car accident in Greece Robert was indeed a tax exile, meaning he couldn’t live in Britain for a year. After recuperating from the accident on the island of Guernsey, he and Jimmy Page moved to Malibu, California where most of Presence was written.

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Unhappy Girl The Doors – Unhappy Girl
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This is a poem written by Jim Morrison about a girl, like many young girls in todays society, who are afraid to “swim in mystery” and are therefore unhappy with their lives. These women will spend their adulthood regretting the chances they could’ve taken when they were younger.

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You're lost little girl The Doors – You're Lost Little Girl
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The Little Girl Lost is a 1794 poem published by William Blake in his collection Songs of Innocence and of Experience. This poem represents Blake’s pattern of the transition between “the spontaneous, imaginative Innocence of childhood” to the “complex and mature (but also more dangerous) adult state of Experience.” Could easily be taken as an homage to one Jim’s favorite poets.

Songs later on the album including Unhappy Girl and I Can’t See Your Face In My Mind follow a similar theme.

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Bodies confused
Memories misused The Doors – Strange Days
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This line likely refers to alcohol consumption and what it does to people. ‘Bodies confused’- people stumbling around trying to keep their footing. ‘Memories misused’- blacking out.

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Or find a new town The Doors – Strange Days
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If they are no longer welcome to play their music here, they will simply find a new place to play.

This could possibly be a reference to the Whisky a Go Go bar that The Doors used to play at in 1965-1966. They got kicked out in 1966 for playing “The End” and for Jim Morrison screaming “Mother, I want to fuck you” on stage.

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The doors only play at the Whiskey a Go-Go for about a month in 1966

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Our casual joys The Doors – Strange Days
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Strange Days are good days because so much happens in them. However, one who has many Strange Days will no longer appreciate the casual days where nothing important or significant happens.

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Strange days have tracked us down The Doors – Strange Days
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Part of being young in this world, specifically between the ages of 14-22 (the period of hormones), is experiencing strange things and strange days. Your life changes so quickly in those years and it’s all so strange, these lyrics capture that.

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You're Lost Little Girl The Doors – You're Lost Little Girl
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This is the second track on Strange Days (1967). The song’s title can be a reference to the poem “A Little Girl Lost”, by William Blake, written in 1794. Given the connection Morrison had with Blake’s work, it might just be.

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Aqualung Jethro Tull – Aqualung
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This song is the first track and the title track on the 1971 Album called Aqualung.

Much of this album was, in fact, inspired by frontman, lyricist and singer Ian Anderson’s then-wife Jenny Franks' photographs of the homeless along the Thames Embankment in central London.

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the most underrated song and album ever!!!!! JETHRO TULL FUCKING ROCKS!!!!!!

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Aqualung means pneumonia.

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Overhead, the albatross
Hangs motionless upon the air
And deep beneath the rolling waves
In labyrinths of coral caves
The echo of a distant time
Comes willowing across the sand
And everything is green and submarine Pink Floyd – Echoes
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This likely is describing the creation of earth or the creation of humans, either way, it is about the small chance of everything going exactly the right way for us to appear where we happen to be.

This could also allude to a Samuel Taylor poem, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” in which the mariner is at sea with his crew mates and they see an albatross in the sky (which was considered to be a good sign or a holy symbol), to which the mariner decides to shoot it while it’s flying above them. However, everything went to hell so the other crew mates blamed the mariner and made him wear the albatross on his back.

It’s about biodiversity. How albatrosses and marine life have a common ancestor and that’s why everything is green and submarine.

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The albatross is the sun because it brings good fortune to the earth via its life giving properties. The following line describes the first creature to walk onto land

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The firt verse and the first chorus where different when the first iteration of echoes was created. The song name was “Return of the Son of Nothing” and it started with the following lyrics:

“Planets meeting face to face
One to the other cried, how sweet
If endlessly we might embrace
The perfect union deep in space

Heaven might this once relent
And give us leave to shine as one
Our two lights here forever, one light blended

And in that longing to be one
The parting summons' sound is drawn
I see you’ve got to travel on
And on and on, around the sun"

These lyrics have quite an opposite imagery to the albatross and the sea. Instead of diving in the deep oceans looking at the echoes of the past, the lyrics were more about looking up to the firmament, which is why the second chorus ends with “No one flies around the sun”. But Roger Waters (and i don’t know if the rest of the band too) didn’t want the critics and the listeners to define Pink Floyd as a Space Rock band, a theme that was quite recurrent in their songs since “The Piper at the Gates of Dawn,” because he thought that would limit them as a band.

About the meaning, I think it tries to convey that after all we are all the same, we come from the same place, from those labyrinths of coral caves. And in the second verse this idea is reinforced in the lyrics “And I am you and what I see is me”.

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I think it is talking about the evolutionary transition from sea creature to land creature (amphibians and mammals) and air creature (bird)

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“and deep beneath the rolling waves … the echo of a distant time” This is a reference to marine life being the “echo” of human evolution, i.e. our past form.

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I think he interpreted this Vwrse the wrong way

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This might be the dumbest thing I have ever read on Genius. Nice try at incorporating Coleridge though. The first verse and chorus present a non-human, probably pre-human, “submarine” perspective that moves toward the surface and the light. It is a metaphor of change and evolution. The Song Bio suggests the subject of this metaphor: the development of human empathy, whether it occurs on the level of the individual or en masse, as a species.

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