What does C'mon C'mon mean?

The Von Bondies: C'mon C'mon Meaning

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C'mon C'mon Lyrics

On another day c'mon c'mon
With these ropes I tied can we do no wrong
Now we grieve cause now is gone
Things were good when we were young

With my teeth locked down I can see the blood
Of a thousand men who have come and gone
Now we grieve...

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  1. anonymous
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     Mar 2nd 2020 !⃝

    Right on Rebecca Dean. It's also like the youth is newly over. Or the realization of it is. Going from receiving pleas of wisdom and warnings from those who came before, to becoming one who is now...Wise...and staring at the youth. Admittedly ashamed by the weight of a bitter urge to plea.

    I am The Five.

  2. anonymous
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     May 29th 2017 !⃝

    The rope is our realization of the fraying umbilical cord of lost youth inevititablty remeberbered with sad sentimentality on many levels and so many reasons. It is a first clear image of our finite lives; the realization of how much longer traditional adulthood really and its disappearance of youth's seemingly constant, and therefore seemingly normal daily, even inevitable, excitement of frothy days and nights, it's varieties of people, places and time itself. It is the grim knowledge of a long and certain tedium required for a continued and certainly dull, sad, haunted series of decades until death. There is for many a stage of panic and entrapment we know we must somehow endure; an Grieg stricken isolation of unfulfillable and , for many, unendurable loss. It is be physically as well as psycholically painful, exhausting and irretrievable. This loss of effortless and, though we know it not yet, expected froth and enchantment in daily life can contaminate the inevitable next and normal stage of life. And memories can lose their balance of positives and negatives, become mawkishly sentimental erased of the normals ups and down they, too, contained. Nostalgia becomes the herion of these memories of choice numbing us to the possible joys that, if given a chance, can enlarge, multiply and synthesize the menories yet to be made in a new and ineluctable next era of life.
    The memories of my young adulthood were nothing less than magical. They were so charmed that all of us in our family of friends knew just how unimaginably charmed those times were. So many are gone: so many are dead and dying, and we clinge achingly to those of us still living in one way or another. How could times of such glamour, in its original, archaic meaning, have been real? Did we dream them? If so, we awakened with a terrifying jolt, the sheets soaked, and we sobbing.
    Only the few of us left have the strength to linger over the many pictures something urged me to take. All are in albums color coded: Halloween; Christmas; summers; birthdays; dogs and more dogs; and, oh, the grievousness at out ingratitude of the beauty of our youth. If a fire broke out in my house I'd first toss my dog out a dirt or window to safety. Second, out would fly the picture albums.
    I am sixty this year and the end has easily discernible features. We few left of that golden age look at those pictures with our typical wacky joy, but now a patina of pain, wonder, disbelief and appreciation.
    We were Pittsburgh's "Club Sunnyledge" as Rob always called us. We sparkled and we glowed and we reveled in our youth. There are those who wouldn't believe the stories we could tell.

    Most people don't experience anything anywhere near the shimmer that for each day was for us of the ordinary. But that's not the point.

    "Things were good when we were young"

    Rebecca Dean

  3. anonymous
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     Jan 29th 2016 !⃝

    Wtf. I heard the song in the car after I got done doing a massage and I felt the need to look it up... I'm still saying to myself"" what the f*** ""why did I listen to the radio... why do. I listen .to the radio ???why am I not part of the underground movement??? I guess it be because I've been wriing a dark comedy about music on the radio being a conduit between two characters..still..wtf..mm

  4. anonymous
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     Jan 29th 2014 !⃝

    It does seem to suit being Rescue Me's theme song

  5. anonymous
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     Feb 18th 2009 !⃝

    It's about a abusive relationship. It's through the eyes of the person being abused and she's looking back on their 'good' years during the relationship (as well as commenting on her current situation).

    Neal

  6. Kulix
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     Apr 26th 2006 !⃝

    The writer looks back on his younger life- at his previous adventures with nastalgia. He misses his the excitement, and weeps, because he wants to relive it- or at the very least, live a new adventure.

    I feel much the same way- Which is probably why I interperet the song in this way.

  7. Lamarcus
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     Jan 4th 2006 !⃝

    This is a song about growing up and learning from your mistakes as you go.


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