to get disproportionately angry when songs do not make sense

"When we collide we come together"

Really? Never knew that.

laughing so much. On the subject of song lyrics dsylexis DD thought some of the lyrics to "We didn't start the fire" were "touble in the sewage (Suez)" and - best one ever - "Belgians do the congo (Belgians in the Congo)"

"Boom Boom Boom,
Even brighter than the
Moon Moon Moon..."

What are you, 5 years old? F- for effort, katie.

Can I add my pet peeve of Club Tropicana please. Sorry if someone's already ranted mentioned it.

Chorus: All that's missing is the sea
Verse 2: Watch the waves break on the bay.

Why is the sea missing if there's a bay? Is Club Tropicana so amazing that even the laws of geography are reversed?

WTF is that song that's on Radio 2 every ten minutes...

I'm sitting in the middle of nowhere
Standing here with nothing to do

Well are you sitting or standing, make up YOUR MIND!!!

'Cheese' can also be a particularly strong strain of marijuana. Apparently. Perhaps that was the 'extra cheese' being referred to?

I agree re James Blunt: I too wondered what had become of the plan.

I really dislike this from Blue:
'The decision of the jury has not been spoken
Step in my house you find that your stuff has gone (gone)
But in reality to whom does the stuff belong'

I know it makes sense but I just don't think 'whom' and 'stuff' belong in a sentence together.

Isn't G6 a plane?

cuteboots Indeed, that's been bothering me recently too

Thjumbs - It is indeed the pompatus of love. Whatever that is

"playing with lightning", ah yes The wanted...that well known saying that you hear all the time.

WEll blow me, Manatee - I always thought that line was "cause I speak of the properties of love" - never realised it was pompatus - and here is the wiki entry on the word!

LaCiccolina - it took me ages to realise that that Police song was a stalker song; I used to love it because of the double bass playing in it, never crossed my mind how creepy it was until my drummer pointed it out to me one day - then it instantly became obvious.

particularly loving the righteous indignation at misheard lyrics. :)

'twisting my mellor refers to David mellor, ex Tory minister who had an affair with Antonia De Sancha, the twisting refers to a dubious sexual practise whilst wearing a chelsea top.

LaCiccolina People who choose a song about stalking as their wedding song are as stupid, as those who choose "You're gorgeous" by Baby Bird.

Can anyone tell me wtf a G6 is ?? And does Slizzard mean pissed? Also Sizzurp is that another word for Alcohol? This song does my head in

Poppin bottles in the ice, like a blizzard
When we drink we do it right gettin slizzard
Sippin sizzurp in my ride, in my ride, like Three 6
Now I'm feelin so fly like a G6
Like a G6, Like a G6
Now now now now now now I'm feelin so fly like a G6
Like a G6, Like a G6
Now now now now now now I'm feelin so fly like a G6

Never got the song by Police "Ill be watching you" darned f-ing creepy. Friends had it as their wedding song. I had to leave the room....

It's not fair to include Bob Dylan. All his lyrics are nonsense, but it's poetickal, innit

Now, Steve Miller:

Some people call me the space cowboy yeah
Some call me the gangster of love
Some people call me Maurice
Cause' I speak of the pompetous of love

WTF is the pompetous of love?????

"You don't have to say you love me
Just be close at hand
You don't have to stay forever
I will understand."

Excuse me, Dusty? If he doesn't have to stay forever, why do you "have to follow him and beg him to come home"? And how exactly can you justify asking him to stay close at hand in the same sentence?

Doesn't seem very understanding to me.

Let him go. He's just not that into you, pet.

Has annoyed me for YEARS.

Hate Do they know it's Christmas for this line:

Tonight thank God it's them instead of you

Seems a bit warped.

I'm sorry to have to do this but... a defence of the much hated lyric "I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair":

I think song is about the times when her parents were teenagers- one was a teen in 1969 and one in 1977 (there's a lyric that says "in '77 and '69 revolution was in the air" and one that says "my mum and dad were in their teens..."). So she puts things from '69 together with things from '77- i.e. a punk rocker (77) with hippy flowers in hair (69).

Another of the lyrics in the song is "when God saved the Queen she turned a Whiter Shade of Pale"- again a reference to the two eras (punk rock's Sex Pistols and hippy Procol Harum- although come to think of it, the lyrics to Whiter Shade of Pale are pretty damn ridiculous!).

Love this thread though- one that irritates me is Owl City "Fireflies", with the lyric "I'm weird coz I hate goodbyes"- erm, no that's not weird, most people don't like saying goodbye to their loved ones!!!

Lordy! I thought Justin Bieber's Baby Baby and Beyoncé's Single Ladies were inappropriate enough - that one's really though!!

Trills - I LOVE Tim Minchin

Thumbinnapuddingwitch

I had to have stern words with him to cease playing as a lullaby before she was old enough to pick up the words.

Has anyone mentioned Bob Dylan yet? Don't Think Twice'

'it aint know use in turning on your light babe
The light I never knowed'

It makes me want to throw my iPod out the window

Widow - I love the song too - it's just that line grates every single time, it's a pain. I'll be singing along to it quite merrily but I will not sing that line!
How sweet that your 3yo sings it - DH has just taught my just-4yo "Who let the dogs out" - you can just imagine how unimpressed I am with that, hey.

So it is. I've just been wrong all this time.