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Simple Minds: Alive and Kicking Meaning

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Song Released: 1985


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  1. anonymous
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    Jul 16th 2018 !⃝

    I think Alive And Kicking was inspired by the birth of Jim' s newborn daughter Yasmin... and i suppose it's about the naïvety and aliveness of young people involved in a love relationship!

  2. anonymous
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    Jul 10th 2018 !⃝

    I heard/noticed this song 3 times between Yorkshire n Cheshire I don’t know where or how I noticed
    But I was on my way to cremate my Scottish friend/father before taking as he had asked me to do back up to his favourite place on the Clyde near greenock
    I think he was talking to me for certain reasons mention in the song as well as me being there to live out my promisewed looked after each other for 30 years

  3. anonymous
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    Dec 30th 2017 !⃝

    "Alive and Kicking" was a little more obscure when it came out. We had the music first, and it just sounded so glorious, so positive. At the time we were working in America. I remember we recorded some of it upstate in the Catskills and then we came down to finish it off. We were in New York, it was summer, Manhattan. We could feel the band was really on the verge of something, and I think that positivity and that idea of hope formed the lyrics. By JIM KERR OF SIMPLE MINDS AT SONGFACTS
    When you read the lyrics you will see it's about two people. I agree with the first and second interpretation. The third interpretation, this can't be about God, Son or the Holy Spirit. Many people have pledged purity and unending faithfulness to another person around the globe. Not everyone are impure and unfaithful.
    Jaguar Knight

  4. anonymous
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    Dec 29th 2017 !⃝

    I actually hear the song as one to God or Jesus because of its purity and unending faithfulness which I don't see how a person could pledge to another human.

  5. anonymous
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    Sep 27th 2017 !⃝

    Its about love , and strong bonds , and everlasting love. That never dies.....

  6. anonymous
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    Oct 13th 2014 !⃝

    Can easily be interpreted as an acclamation of faith that by patience, love will conquer all adversity, all pain.


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