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Subject: BLINDED BY THE LIGHT-LYRICS
| Subject: RE: BLINDED BY THE LIGHT-LYRICS |
Date: 12-06-2003 |
| Author: NullUserName |
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Hi Meredith. I'm not exactly sure what it is that you're trying to say. Do you mean that people speaking their mind annoy you or that people who speak their mind and end up looking like idiots annoy you? And... are we still going to talk about Blinded by the Light or just talk about how Meredith appears to be a bitch? (and you do
appear to be a bitch, Meredith, that's why I'm giving you the opportunity to clear up what you're saying). 
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| Subject: RE: BLINDED BY THE LIGHT-LYRICS |
Date: 12-13-2003 |
| Author: Meredith |
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I think everyone has a right to free speech! I don't care if people speak their minds! I'm not trying to get people to bottle up what they are trying to say. I was just thinking that maybe people should inform themselves of the whole story before putting in their own two cents..
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| Subject: RE: BLINDED BY THE LIGHT-LYRICS |
Date: 12-18-2003 |
| Author: HzDonut |
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Hey Meredith, don't let that anonymous poster calling you names bother you. If someone is afraid to attach his handle then his comment carries zero weight as far as I'm concerned. I understand where you're coming from Meredith, but have you considered this; sometimes someone posts a reply while you're in the middle of typing and
sending yours? At other times people talk just to be heard. Either way it's never going to stop, so why don't we move on? What do you think about the lyrics? Is it about rum running (pfffft) or coming of age?.
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| Subject: RE: BLINDED BY THE LIGHT-LYRICS |
Date: 12-28-2003 |
| Author: Mark |
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After several readings and listening to the version By Manfred man Here is the answer to the first part of your question "Bruce Springsteen-Zomba Music Publ.Ltd.
Blinded by the light
Revved up like a
Deuce
Another runner in the night" Now secondly and most important is what do these so lyrical words mean ... Seaveral things but most important Is what the song means to you and how it makes you feel. to me its adolescence in there prime a coming of age out for a good time in the same since as " Pork's " but I looked this up to explain to my
16 yr old son that it wasnt douche and I accomplished that Thanks for all the input and answers to our wondering minds Mark.......
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| Subject: RE: BLINDED BY THE LIGHT-LYRICS |
Date: 02-17-2004 |
| Author: NullUserName |
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Someone at some point mentioned that the blinded by the light lyrics are about someone being hit by a car. I'm no expert, but that just felt right to me. Looking over the lyrics (for the MMEB version, which I DID think was ELO =P) it seems like it COULD be that some people on drugs in a car hit a someone while they were running, or
something like that. As to those who say it has no meaning, I thought this at first, but upon noticing that the lyrics repeat topics (like tripping the merry-go-round), I think it probably was designed to be saying something. Finally, as the song I was listening to wasn't the original, I think MMEB may have interpreted and altered to their own ideas, because the lyrics, though similar, are in a
very different order in their version..
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| Subject: RE: BLINDED BY THE LIGHT-LYRICS |
Date: 02-17-2004 |
| Author: David |
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Ok most of you are wrong. The song's about nothing sexual at all. Bruce Springstein did the original, and most of the lyrics you find on the internet are from his song. ELO shortened it up a little. Ok regarding the refrain, he says "wrapped up like a douche." But the lead isn't supposed to say this. he couldn't read sprinstein's
handwriting. what the original lyrics say are "cut loose like a deuce, another runner in the night." the phrase "cut lose like a deuce" is a term in poker when you immediately get rid of two cards you dont' like Two= Deuce. So it's nothing sexual. The lead of ELO just sang what he read but he read wrong..
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| Subject: RE: BLINDED BY THE LIGHT-LYRICS |
Date: 02-17-2004 |
| Author: David |
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Ok most of you are wrong. The song's about nothing sexual at all. Bruce Springstein did the original, and most of the lyrics you find on the internet are from his song. ELO shortened it up a little. Ok regarding the refrain, he says "wrapped up like a douche." But the lead isn't supposed to say this. he couldn't read sprinstein's
handwriting. what the original lyrics say are "cut loose like a deuce, another runner in the night." the phrase "cut lose like a deuce" is a term in poker when you immediately get rid of two cards you dont' like Two= Deuce. So it's nothing sexual. The lead of ELO just sang what he read but he read wrong..
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| Subject: RE: BLINDED BY THE LIGHT-LYRICS |
Date: 02-17-2004 |
| Author: Captain Calamity |
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...and you read wrong too, David. It was actually Manfred Mann's Earth Band who recorded it, not ELO. ;o).
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| Subject: RE: BLINDED BY THE LIGHT-LYRICS |
Date: 02-17-2004 |
| Author: garyd |
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I don't mean to complain but, please stop saying ELO sang this song. They never did and never will.
Thanks, now i feel better, i just had to get it off my chest..
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| Subject: RE: BLINDED BY THE LIGHT-LYRICS |
Date: 02-17-2004 |
| Author: John |
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Holy crap ! ! I thought this discussion /disection of the lyrics to Blinded by the Light got completely wrung out before 1979. I just went through almost 50 posts and quite frankly some of the ideas are scary.
Somebody
please tell me on what release did ELO record this song?
"Wrapped up a like a douche"? what are you like 10 years old? Even when Manfred Mann did it,... it was nothing more that a husky voice slurring the word "deuce". ..."Couldn't read the manuscript"?
{laughable}
Here's some to ponder:
Led Zeppelin from Stairway to Heaven..."And there's a wino down the road"
The Kingsman from Louie Louie..."I shot my load all in her
hair"
Jimi Hendrix from Purple Haze,..."'scuse me while I kiss this guy.
Black Sabbath from Paranoid...."Don't you f%*k my brain"
REM from The One I Love...."Another bra to occupy my
time"
Zeppelin again from Whole Lotta Love...."You need Kool-AidT, woman I ain't droolin'.
Pink FLoyd from the fade out of Another Brick in the Wall...How can you have any pudding if you don't beat your
meat"
......but I digress.
I saw a lion he was standing alone,...with a tadpole in a jar.
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| Subject: RE: BLINDED BY THE LIGHT-LYRICS |
Date: 02-18-2004 |
| Author: BEN |
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FAR OUT! John, Please tell us more about the lion with the tadpole!.
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| Subject: RE: BLINDED BY THE LIGHT-LYRICS |
Date: 02-18-2004 |
| Author: John |
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Strangely enough the "lion with a tadpole in a jar" IS an actual lyric.
Make your own reference towards it's meaning. .
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| Subject: RE: BLINDED BY THE LIGHT-LYRICS |
Date: 02-18-2004 |
| Author: pete |
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Yes, and in 'Stairway to Heaven', I always think he's singing 'if there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed'. LOL!
What? You mean he IS singing that? Oops. ;o).
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| Subject: RE: BLINDED BY THE LIGHT-LYRICS |
Date: 02-18-2004 |
| Author: HzDonut |
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David's reference to poker playing being the explanation of "cut loose like a deuce" is intriguing to me (if that is indeed the original Springsteen lyric...I don't own the album), but even if it's true it doesn't change my mind as to the meaning of the song. Alas, when I google search for "cut loose like a deuce" +poker,
it only turns up on name that tune forums or blogs such as this. I would think there would be at least one page on the web relating this to poker slang if it were so. Any poker players want to confirmn or refute David's explantion?.
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| Subject: RE: BLINDED BY THE LIGHT-LYRICS |
Date: 03-29-2004 |
| Author: brett |
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Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce,
another runner in the night....
obviously, the deuce is referring to the Ford
hot rod, and the runner in the
night....moonshine runners who used hot
rodded cars to RUN moonshine down roads
during the night, so they wouldn't be caught
by the law, and if they were, they could outrun
them..
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| Subject: RE: BLINDED BY THE LIGHT-LYRICS |
Date: 02-19-2004 |
| Author: brett |
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this is is response to those who thought it was
about rum running...close. and
whiskey...close...we like to call it moonshine
though. yep. revved up like a deuce,
another
runner in the night. the deuce is a hot rod that
moonshiners used to run alcohol, white
lightning, whiskey, moonshine, what ever you
want to call it, during prohibition.
they would
run at night in fast cars so that cops couldn't
catch them. .
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| Subject: RE: BLINDED BY THE LIGHT-LYRICS |
Date: 03-01-2004 |
| Author: CLINTBROOKS |
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i think instead of "calliope crashed to the ground" they really say "the golliath: he crashed to the ground".
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| Subject: RE: BLINDED BY THE LIGHT-LYRICS |
Date: 03-01-2004 |
| Author: Rog In Ontario |
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This forum brings tears to my eyes! Man I hear this song and "Bam" I'm instantly thrown back to my childhood (1970-75) 5 to 10 years old.
I remember growing up in Sault Saint Marie ONtario Canada and those long free summers
listening to AM Radio CKCY and CFYN with my buddies and all those summer nights in the city at the pool-hall and out at my camp.
We sampled purple mini micro dot LOL (half a hit) actually and freaked out! Oh how this song brings me right back over and over again. I recall all of us
belching out what we thought the lyrics were "Reved up like a douche bag in the middle of the night" although we would fill in the the "bag" as that part appeared missing LOL....
To be honest I too thought that ELO sang this song..."Evil Woman" was another
favourite...
Clint, are you saying that it's a Goliath and he gets blinded by the light and is taken down by a slingshot? Makes sense but don't think so!.
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| Subject: RE: BLINDED BY THE LIGHT-LYRICS |
Date: 03-09-2004 |
| Author: SiPep |
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I'm not a music expert and I am not one of those people that think EVERYTHING is about drugs... but lets face it the world isn't exactly drug free. I would personally have to say this song is about COKE that's right. BLOW! You can't drink it and it isn't a dollar for 20oz out of the pop machine but it hit the American culture
hardcore and it was a whole different experience compared to WEED (not the kind you find between your flowers). COKE is totally an up and going type of drug that puts you in a type of euphoria. This song talks about being revved up like a deuce. And I can't think of anything closer to being geeked then a car with all that revved up power waiting to take off.
So the first part of the song that talks about the Indians and the merry go round I think could represent what culture was like with weed and then the introduction of coke. Especially to the reference of sneezing and weezeing.
Then there is the blinded by the light part. On coke everything just seems so high and perfect and I think he is saying "blinded by the light" meaning it looks so good but she isn't seeing what she is doing.
Then there is this part.
She got down but she never got tight she's gonna' make it through the night.
I think this is in reference she came off of coke... but she never got tight. Like her mind wasn't right.
So this is my OPINION as it stands only on the merits of my mind. Maybe
I'm and evil person that sees evil things but I have a feeling imp not the only evil one so there is a small chance I'm at least on the right idea.
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| Subject: RE: BLINDED BY THE LIGHT-LYRICS |
Date: 03-29-2004 |
| Author: Maggie |
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I'm just glad to have a choice other than "duche." My only contact with calling cars duces does come from "Little Duce Coup" and it never occurred to me to think of a car here in this song. I'm not a songwriter, for those of you who are here's an idea for a song--at the spot on the side of the road, way out in the dark country
side, where all the (uhg!) used condoms are thrown out the window--maybe something about "There Grows Another Rubber Tree Plant." >:-} I know it's sick, my point is that it makes as much sense as any of these other 'misconscrewed' lyrics. =:-) .
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