The way Bob Lind has described the meaning of “Elusive Butterfly” is at it being existential in nature. And what it is ultimately meant to point to is the notion of the pursuit of our life’s dream,...
“Walking in Memphis” is one of those songs which, according to its author, is literally about an event that transpired in his real life. Back in the days before Marc Cohn blew up and was...
Cher’s “Love One Another” is a general love song, as implied by the chorus, and it is one that is explicitly put into a macrocosmic context. So we don’t have to burden ourselves trying to...
Cher’s “The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s in His Kiss)” explores the view that one of the surest ways to find out if a man truly loves a woman is through his kiss. Though not...
On “After All”, which was purposely written for the 1989 film “Chances Are“, Cher and her implied significant other have had a topsy-turvy relationship but somehow seem to always find their way back to each...
“The Beat Goes On” uses “beat” as a metaphor to represent life in general. The main message it carries is that life, just like a rhythm keeps moving along with all its challenges, and...
“Welcome to Burlesque” happens to be one of the songs performed by Cher and Christina Aguilera off the “Burlesque” album for the movie with the same name. It describes what essentially goes on during...
The main theme of Cher’s “Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves” is that of poverty, hypocrisy and prejudice experienced by working-class families. The narrator tells the story of a family in which the women dance to...
Cher plainly discusses the issue of racial discrimination and its effects in the song “Half-breed”. As the title depicts, the narrator is a woman who is of half Cherokee and half Caucasian descent. Though...
On this Cher classic, the narrator visits a fortune teller (Dark Lady) who advises her to end her affair with her lover because she sees that he is unfaithful to her. Hurt and confused,...
