I love this song, but I've never figured out exactly what the lyrics mean. Can you help and/or post a song with confusing lyrics.


Broken Arrow
~ Rod Stewart

Who else is gonna bring you a broken arrow
Who else is gonna bring you a bottle of rain
There he goes moving across the water
There he goes turning my whole world around

Do you feel what I feel
Can we make it so that's part of the deal
I gotta hold you in these arms of steel
Lay your heart on the line this time

I wanna breathe when you breathe
When you whisper like that hot summer breeze
Count the beads of sweat that cover me
Didn't you show me a sign this time

Who else is gonna bring you a broken arrow
Who else is gonna bring you a bottle of rain
There he goes moving across the water
There he goes turning my whole world around

Can you see what I see
Can you cut behind the mystery
I will meet you by the witness tree
Leave the whole world behind

I want to come when you call
And I'll get to you if I have to crawl
They can't hold me with these iron walls
We got mountains to climb

Who else is gonna bring you a broken arrow
Who else is gonna bring you a bottle of rain
There he goes moving across the water
There he goes turning my whole world around
turning my whole world around
turning my whole world around
turning my whole world around

Yeah...I mean, I suppose it's some kind of metaphor, but who wants a broken arrow?

Most of Peter Gabriel's lyrics confuse me. I love his music and think he's a genius, but I've never been able to figure out what 75% of his songs are about. That is actully part of their appeal, infact. :)

MacArthur Park
( Richard Harris )

Spring was never waiting for us, girl
It ran one step ahead
As we followed in the dance
Between the parted pages and were pressed
In love's hot, fevered iron
Like a striped pair of pants

MacArthur Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!

I recall the yellow cotton dress
Foaming like a wave
On the ground around your knees
The birds, like tender babies in your hands
And the old men playing checkers by the trees

MacArthur Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!

[break]

There will be another song for me
For I will sing it
There will be another dream for me
Someone will bring it
I will drink the wine while it is warm
And never let you catch me looking at the sun
And after all the loves of my life
After all the loves of my life
You'll still be the one

I will take my life into my hands and I will use it
I will win the worship in their eyes and I will lose it
I will have the things that I desire
And my passion flow like rivers through the sky
And after all the loves of my life
After all the loves of my life
I'll be thinking of you
And wondering why

[extended break]

MacArthur Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!
Oh, no
No, no
Oh no!!

^ Those are strange lyrics. I love Donna Summer's cover of the song though. I think the song is about someone who is comparing the growing of a relationship with that of baking a cake. The relationship and the cake are then both destroyed in a storm.

^ Those are strange lyrics. I love Donna Summer's cover of the song though. I think the song is about someone who is comparing the growing of a relationship with that of baking a cake. The relationship and the cake are then both destroyed in a storm.
I like her version too, but hate the Richard harris version, so does everyone on 6the planet!

Yeah probably,but still the lyrics are strange LOL

I like her version too, but hate the Richard harris version, so does everyone on 6the planet!

Yeah probably,but still the lyrics are strange LOL

Yeah, comparing your ex to a cake is pretty weird. :lol: