Perhaps the horse had forgotten to bring in his prized petunias the night before?
Joan Baez’s Diamonds and Rust, which uses light-years as a measure of time.
Brown-eyed Handsome Man, by Chuck Berry.
Sorry, Chuck, if the count was 2-3 he would have already struck out.
I think the second line refers to an eclipse where the sun ‘goes around behind the moon,’ so to speak.
“I shouted out, who killed the Kennedy’s, when after all, it was you and me”
Mick, um, Mr Jagger, sir, … I … I wasn’t even born yet.
LA’s a little weird, geographically. Although it’s on the west coast, there is identifiably a West LA and a West of LA. The ocean is kind of south and southwest of most of it, except for Torrence-to-Santa Monica. Oxnard and Thousand Oaks are clearly west of LA, as is Simi Valley.
I should clarify. The “East Side” is a neighborhood in Chicago, but it is not “a part of Chicago” in the sense that is used as a descriptor. In Chicago, the “sides” of Chicago ascribed to cardinal directions are North, South, and West Sides (of course), and then Northwest, Southwest (see my location for instance), and somewhat the Southeast or Far Southeast Side (that’s not quite as common, because the SE side doesn’t really get much press, but it’s distinct enough from the other cardinal directions that it often gets separated from the general South Side description.)
While there are berries that grow on vines, cherries do not, Sammy Hagar.
In the song “Low Life” by Theory of a Dead Man, the singer says he has an '82 Fiero with a car seat in the middle broken down on the interstate. Fieros were made model years '84-'88.
Eight days a week.
The 12th of Never
Greece is a peninsula plus a bunch of isles. I think it would make more sense to say “isles” because there are lots of them and if you went to only one you’d probably mention it by name, though.
I would argue that any song about the existence of love (at least as typically presented) can qualify as an incorrect premise.
Cotton Fields: Written by Lead Belly; sung by many:
…It was back in Louisiana
Just about a mile from Texarkana…
Whether you are talking about Texarkana, TX or Texarkana, AR, Louisiana is still about 25 - 30 miles at the closest. Mr. Belly should have known better, being from NW LA himself.
Um, Chicago didn’t die. It’s still there, and even if burned to the ground and was abandoned, an inanimate set of structures can’t die.
I’ve always assumed the second line was whimsical. (Then again, you definitely can go broke assuming random people, even random song writers, to be intelligent.)
How about this, though?
When the moon is in the Seventh House
And Jupiter aligns with Mars
then peace will rule the planets
and love will steer the stars…
I have no particular criticism of the last two lines, which can be taken metaphorically.
The song was no doubt written, however, by someone who believed in Astrology. It is interesting how badly Astrology is misrepresented by the writer. As a non-believer I recall far more “correct” knowledge than the writer. In fact, I would hazard a guess that I have forgotten more about Astrology than the writer!
I could go on for a lengthy post about the vagueness of the second line.
But I can briefly deconstruct the first line.
“Houses” as opposed to “Signs” are not “fixed” but are set by the calculation of something called the Ascendant. This is based on where the Eastern horizon is at the moment of a person’s birth. It is unclear whose “Seventh House” the moon has entered, and I have always assumed it was supposed to be that of the moon itself.
(We can speak of the “Sign” the moon is currently in, although the Zodiac constellations are of unequal width and so the “Signs” could never correspond to the constellations. Beyond that, the Precession of the Equinoxes shifts them out of sinc by at least one. Finally, when the sun “should be” in Scorpio it is mostly in Ophiuchus. This leaves off how many additional constellations the moon is in, in the Astronomical-- scientific! – sense.)
Ignoring the above problems, it just seems to me we would have to know how old the moon is to speak of which “House” it is in. And I’m not sure how one would connect it with the horizon on Earth.
Finally, the Age of Aquarius is about the Precession leading to being two “Signs” out of sinc with the constellations.
What does either of the first lines have to do with that?
I find the wrangling over South Hemisphere seasons amusing.
I live in Rochester, New York.
I recall two older sisters talking about snow in June.
YES, I said JUNE!
Local weather experts have assured us that some snow has fallen in EVERY MONTH in Rochester, New York!
YES!
EVERY month!
Including July and August!
SHEEEESH!
Steve Perry addresses the non-existing South Detroit:
Robert Johnson:
“Oh, baby don’t you want to go?
Back to the land of California
To my sweet home Chicago”
Pretty sure even he knew that Chicago was in Illinois.
I can’t imagine why you think that the song was written by a believer in Astrology. That song, as I am sure you know, was from the musical Hair. The entire thing was a tongue in cheek take off on the popular culture of the time. The whole point was that the hippie kids used those terms and had no idea what they really meant. The writer was looking for good rhymes using trendy terms and wasn’t trying to be accurate.
Oh, okay. :o
But I still say there has been snow in Rochester, New York in the month of June. 
M.T.A. or “Charlie on the M.T.A.” is a song about Charlie, who can’t get off of a Boston subway train because he doesn’t have the nickel exit fare surcharge.
So, as the lyrics go, he’s lost forever on the M.T.A.
But, also according to the lyrics:
“Charlie’s wife goes down
To the Scollay Square station
Every day at quarter past two
And through the open window
She hands Charlie a sandwich
As the train comes rumblin’ through.”
For f**k’s sake woman, put a nickel in the sandwich bag!