to get disproportionately angry when songs do not make sense

Travis: "why does it always rain on me"....
As someone on the radio said, it's because you live in Scotland, you twonk!

Andy: Eh, Georgos. We need to belt out a seasonal one.
Georgos: What?? Pass the hairspray, darling boy.
Andy: No, honestly. We've got fine minutes to come up with a shitty rhyming scheme that the girls will LURVE.
Georgos: What? OK. I'll get my bic out.
Andy: Yes, write one quick, mate, and then we can go out and cop off with loads of girls!!!
Georgos: What? Oh, OK, darling boy. Won't be a mo. And can't wait for a bit more Lady-Time.

(5 minutes later)

Georgos: Hey, Andy. Whaddya think?

Last Christmas
You Gave me your heart
But the very next day
You gave it away
This year
To save me from tear
I'll give it to someone special.

Andy: That's great mate. Let's go and shag some girls. And shouldn't it be tears. Oh, never mind. The Ladees are calling us, mate.

WeAllWantSomeRattyPudding Wonderwall comes from the film of the same name. It's about a reclusive guy who becomes obsessed with the woman next door and watches her through holes in the adjoining wall.

No points for Meatloaf though - he's very clear if you read the lyrics what it is he won't do (screwing around etc).

If you're asking for me, for Christmas, Maria (?p) Carey, then it is a fucking lot....it's not all you want....

YANBU. I have long wanted to start a support thread for people who are overly obsessed with nonsensical song lyrics.

My personal bugbear is the (sadly little-played now) Sk8terboi by Avril Lavigne-Wibbley. This was in the charts when I was a chalet girl who spent my day grafting and listening to shitty Alpine radio who played it more or less on repeat. I used to send home group emails to my family and friends and dedicated a good portion of one of them to a long rant on this insane and hypocritical song. Didn't get many replies to that one

Also almost anything by Lady Gaga.

She's not broken,
She's just a baby.
But her boyfriend's like a dad, just like a dad.
and all those flames that burned before him.
Now he's gonna fight your fight, gonna cool the bad.

You know that I love you boy.
Hot like Mexico, rejoice.
At this point I gotta choose,
nothing to loose

Don't call my name.
Don't call my name, Alejandro.
I'm not your babe.
I'm not your babe, Fernando.

WTAF?

And Ace of Base, why does she want another baby? TELL ME!

Inthepotty for you. And I apologise, I got it wrong. It's actually 'screwing around'. Much more eloquent.

www.lyricsfreak.com/m/meat+loaf/id+do+anything+for+love_10177854.html

It's one of the songs thats always irritated me.

The Beatles

I am the ape man
I am the walrus

Make up your mind, which one are you? And stop smoking weed..

Someone Like You by Adele - if she only wants the best for her ex, why is she turning up uninvited wanting to remind him that it isn't over for her?

Stalker!

'You're so vain
You probably think this song is about you...'

Ummm yes!

My first ever post on AIBU...

This thread has me in tears. Have read put loud to the husband who is also crying.

Bravo!

This song seems to be written by someone who thought they had a wide vocab but really were just well versed in health and safety policies or something, I HATE these lyrics with a passion,,,,

'Free to manipulate when I stipulate
That is my prerogative
I tell you free to manipulate when I stipulate
It is going round round tell you what I found'

What the ACTUAL?
This used to play on loop when I worked, for a short period in Dorothy Perkins bore me to death.

HappyHippy transit pah. That's just rationalising what is clearly nonsense.

Nicole Fucking Scherzinger makes me want to poke her in the eye everytime she uses 'me' instead of 'I' - "Me like the way that you hold my body" - WTAF? Speak properly you thick shithead.

Also, in Elvis Ain't Dead, he's trying to vainly convince himself Elvis isn't dead, even though he knows he is, because the next line is "Elvis ain't dead/and you're coming back to me" i.e. he knows she isn't coming back but he's trying to keep his head in the sand about it.

Sweet Caroline woah woah woah
Good times never seemed so good
I've been inclined
To believe they never would.

What?

Candid I'm more baffled than ever!

But Cannonball does make sense! He learnt by doing the opposite - as in "stones taught me to fly"/"life taught me to die" so you learn to fall by floating like a cannonball, i.e. not floating at all.

Going slightly off the thread, but still on a song-related note, my husband has a really annoying habit of changing lyrics of songs (to what he thinks they sound like) and subsequently ruining them for me. Latest example of this is Adele's 'Set fire the the rain' which he pointed out sounds more like 'Set fire to Lorraine'. Always makes me think of Lorraine Kelly now...

Ah clearly not just me who feels so strongly about snow in Africa!!

"love will save the day"
Really?! I will forget the fire brigade and ambulance then and get writing a lonely hearts ad

Wake Me Up When September Ends

Sure, no problem. What time?

Inthepotty the That is sleeping around as sung by the woman in the song which means that the song makes no sense at all

I would do anything for love but I won't sleep around

Why would you sleep around for love?

Um the atlas mountains in AFRICA do actually have snow at christmastime, so Midge Ure shove that in your gross generalisation pipe and smoke it.

Ariadne I have pointed that out to my dh before because it really bugs me and he said that they are in transit which is why they don't know where it's going to happen. I googled the lyrics but could see no reference to this so-called transit!