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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts) Fri Dec 21, 2018, 06:17 PM Dec 2018

It sure seems like everything is going to seed

Has there ever been such upbeat music put to downbeat lyrics?

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It sure seems like everything is going to seed (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Dec 2018 OP

Reminds me of a warning siren. WheelWalker Dec 2018 #1

"I didn't even know what it meant, I just liked how the words sounded." oberliner Dec 2018 #2

WheelWalker

(8,954 posts)

1. Reminds me of a warning siren.

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Fri Dec 21, 2018, 06:21 PM

Dec 2018

oberliner

(58,724 posts)

2. "I didn't even know what it meant, I just liked how the words sounded."

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Fri Dec 21, 2018, 06:23 PM

Dec 2018

As the opening riff rolled from his fingers, a lyrical theme began to form in Fogerty’s head. “I’d come up with the chords and melody,” he recalls, “and I got the phrase ‘bad moon rising’ from this little book I’d kept song titles in since 1967. I didn’t even know what it meant, I just liked how the words sounded.

https://www.loudersound.com/features/story-behind-the-song-bad-moon-rising-by-creedence

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