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to get disproportionately angry when songs do not make sense

564 replies

WTAF · 14/12/2011 21:44

In the car today, radio on, and they start playing All Around The World by Lisa Stansfield. Instantly I felt the rage creeping up.

'Been around the world and I, I
I can't find my baby,
I don't know why, why he's gone away '

YES YOU FUCKING DO, LISA! Allow me to refer you to your own words, not 30 seconds ago, when you said (and I quote):

'We had a quarrel, and I let myself go
I said so many things, things he didn't know
And I was oh, oh so bad'

And then, and then, LISA, you go on to say

'I did too much lying, wasted too much time'

So you do know, you know exactly why he's gone away, so you should just STFU and concentrate on finding him to apologise. Not singing that bullshit trying to make us feel sorry for you, when clearly it is all YOUR FAULT.

I feel better for that. Anyone else?

OP posts:
BelfastRingingOutForXmasBloke · 20/12/2011 14:03

BoF, you've obviously never been in a brawl at the Original Chicago Pizza Pie Company.

(Fond memories of fights gone by in the USA...)

RudolphthePinkNosedReindeer · 20/12/2011 13:28

But they are both large and round.

There, for me, the resemblance ends.

LEttletownofBOFlehem · 20/12/2011 12:47

I have never once been hit in the eye by a pizza.

BelfastRingingOutForXmasBloke · 20/12/2011 12:39

Well, it is pizza pie.

Sorry the songwriter didn't use the common abbreviation, 'pizza'.

WidowWadman · 20/12/2011 12:26

When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie...

Make your mind up already, is it pizza or pie?

RudolphthePinkNosedReindeer · 20/12/2011 12:15

And MissMarple you are so right about the rainbow song, it has irritated me for Decades.

RudolphthePinkNosedReindeer · 20/12/2011 12:13

No, but for the purposes of the song, consider these to be your only choices for the duration of one verse Grin Love that song, always thought I might rather be a pig!

Saturdaynightbeaver · 20/12/2011 11:04

Would you like to swing on a star, carry moonbeams home in a jar, OR WOULD YOU RATHER BE A FISH??? Are these really my only two choices?

ElephantsAndMiasmas · 20/12/2011 11:04

Oh gosh while we're on George Michael, thanks for this, George:

"When you've been loved
When you know it holds such bliss
Oh the lover I still miss
Was Jesus to a child"

Er - what? Nice paedophiley Jesus you have there.

Also from Boney M:

"Belfast - it's the country that's changing!"

No no no no no no. Not a country. No.

bettythebuilder · 20/12/2011 10:35

It's a seasonal one, so I only need to get disproportionately angry at this time of year, but if a little drummer boy had turned up Parruppapumpumming a couple of days after I gave birth, I would have set the ox on him.

VickityBoo · 20/12/2011 09:07

MsMarple we don't 'do' that rainbow song. I remember being taught it at primary school then being confused about learning the correct order!

Melpomene · 20/12/2011 08:22

Yes MsMarple, also it should be "good as HIM", shouldn't it?

Re the Katy Perry plastic bag line, I think that may be referencing the film American Beauty which has an extended scene depicting a discarded plastic bag floating in the breeze. It's portrayed as being beautiful and profound in the film but left me pretty cold.

Melpomene · 20/12/2011 08:20

Yes MsMarple, also it should be "good as HIM", shouldn't it?

Re the Katy Perry plastic bag line, I think that may be referencing the film American Beauty which has an extended scene depicting a discarded plastic bag floating in the breeze. It's portrayed as being beautiful and profound in the film but left me pretty cold.

thisonehasalittlecar · 20/12/2011 01:20

Grin Grin Wine

MsMarple · 20/12/2011 00:43

Good thinking thisonehasalittlecar, in that case we should change the words to avoid confusion:

christian children all must make
wine for their dear parents' sake

Wink
thisonehasalittlecar · 20/12/2011 00:36

otoh msmarple if any of my dcs perfected that water into wine trick I'd be well chuffed.

MsMarple · 20/12/2011 00:21

Oh and seeing as it is coming up for Christmas, there is a really annoying line in Once In Royal David's City:

'Christian children all must be
mild, obedient, good as he.'

Now maybe I am wrong, but the only story I know about Jesus as a child is him running off from his family at 12 years old, leaving them frantically searching the whole of jerusalem for 3 days until they eventually found him in a temple. Is this really how they want children to behave??

Thanks for letting me get that off my chest - I can go about real life a little bit lighter now.

MsMarple · 20/12/2011 00:00

My pet hate is the stupid 'I Can Sing A Rainbow' song. It goes "Red and yellow and pink and green" but there is no pink in the rainbow, so clearly you CANNOT sing one at all.

I am trying to re-teach my son my own version with the right colours in it but I fear that against the massed ranks of nursery teachers I am fighting a losing battle!

Or perhaps I am over-reacting...?

OhDoAdmitMrsDeVere · 19/12/2011 22:08
Xmas Grin

Cheers Wine

Saturdaynightbeaver · 19/12/2011 22:05

Absolutely! Couldn't have put it better myself. Cheers Wine

OhDoAdmitMrsDeVere · 19/12/2011 22:03

Gimmi lickle bass mek me whine up me waist......

Saturdaynightbeaver · 19/12/2011 22:00

Sey me gi' you heart attack MrsDeVere Xmas Grin

OhDoAdmitMrsDeVere · 19/12/2011 21:51

saturday I love that song!

HecateGoddessOfTwelfthNight · 19/12/2011 21:42

erm. no. But thanks for the offer. I'm flattered.

Saturdaynightbeaver · 19/12/2011 21:39

Would anyone like to see me in my pants and ting by the way?

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