Monday, March 27, 2023

The Inspiration

 Some song lyrics seem to make more sense than others but even at that it might not be the meaning that the song writer was going for. A couple of interesting examples of this are "Total Eclipse of the Heart" which was written by lyricist John Steinman to be a vampire love song originally named, "Vampires in Love" for Nosferatu, a musical he was working on at the time. The Neil Diamond song, "Sweet Caroline" had everyone wondering who Caroline was which he managed to keep a secret until 2007 when he finally revealed it was Caroline Kennedy. Of course he had no relationship with Caroline since she was just a child but when he was writing the song about his wife Marsha and her name didn't fit the lyrics he saw the picture of Caroline riding a horse in a magazine and her named worked perfectly. 

 





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