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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:
101North · 19/12/2011 13:43

I've just been informed that the words to the Alanis Morrisette song, Ironic. Are in fact

Its a death row pardon two minutes too late

not as I have always thought (and makes SO much more sense)

Its a death row hard on two minutes too late Xmas Blush

theluckiest · 19/12/2011 13:35

Think someone mentioned the first line 'There she was just a walkin down the street singin do wah diddy diddy dum diddy doo'

..which is reason enough to call the police I suspect. But then we also find out that she is
'Snapping her fingers and shuffling her feet' which adds to the image that in fact, she may be one of the Walking Dead. In which case...

'She looked good(looked good), She looked fine(looked fine)'. No Manfred Mann she probably did not.

'She looked good, she looked fine, And I nearly lost my mind'

Ah. You said it, pal.

Oasis have much to be ashamed of. Namely 'She's Electric' which boasts the shamelessly crap 'She's got a sister, And god only knows how I've missed her
On the palm of her hand is a blister' which may have a sexual subtext but reads more like they just couldn't be arsed.

yellowraincoat · 19/12/2011 13:12

Yeah, CalamityKate, I know that's what he meant, it's just such a cringe-inducing line, don't you think? It's self-referential and not in a good way.

CalamityKate · 19/12/2011 13:01

I tell the kids it's "your SAX is on fire" and it's about someone whose musical instrument bursts into flames.

CatPussRoastingByAnOpenFire · 19/12/2011 12:57

Has anyone seen the Michael Macintyre sketch about sex is on fire? It's hysterical!

CalamityKate · 19/12/2011 12:49
extremepie · 19/12/2011 12:46

'Waaaaaooooooooo'

'Your sex is on fire'

???????????????????????

What? Why? How?

The rest of the song makes about as much sense as that does!

I really hate that song - and not just because of the stupid lyrics.

QueenLush · 19/12/2011 11:37

And yes, to "Young girls with eyes like potatoes."

QueenLush · 19/12/2011 11:36

Surely it should be the subjunctive and "I wish I were a punk rocker with flowers in my hair"?

May I offer you "From my hands I know you'll never be, more than twist in my sobriety." And the whole lot of the song is crap - I was asked to translate it into German when it first came out. I couldn't, I just couldn't. (I did manage to translate "On Ilkley Moor bart 'at" into Romanian though. The high point of my career, I think.) Grin

EcoLady · 19/12/2011 11:21

Belfast I always heard it as "young girl with eyes like potatoes" ...

culturemulcher · 19/12/2011 11:10

chestnuts absolutely. It's got to be one of the most insulting songs ever written.

chipmonkey · 19/12/2011 11:05

For SaturdayNightBeaver

Quodlibet · 19/12/2011 10:28

Right George, so let's get this straight.

'Last Christmas I gave you my heart
But the very next day you gave it away'

However, sometime in the intervening year, you seem to have got your heart back again, or grown a new one, since

'this year to save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special'

I think George is recycling his Xmas presents.

lurkinginthebackground · 19/12/2011 09:52

Ooo it's making me want to play my old vinyl now except we don't have a record player anymore. Apart from the one in the loft, hidden under all the
crap carefully boxed things which may come into use one day.

saffronwblue · 19/12/2011 09:42

That is of course a possibility, Asinine.

MigratingChestnutsOnAnOpenFire · 19/12/2011 08:53

Ok, So i always got irritated by the line:

You say it best when you say nothing at all

because, to me, that's just a thinly veiled attempt to politely say 'shut the fuck up'!

BelfastRingingOutForXmasBloke · 19/12/2011 08:50

Young girl with eyes like pesetas?

Very material-girl.

norriscoleforpm · 19/12/2011 08:40

Oh dear - I thought the lyrics to La Isla Bonita were young girl with eyes like potatoes oops.

AsinineLadiesDancing · 19/12/2011 08:39

Saffron

Unless the question is directed at more than one person?

inmysparetime · 19/12/2011 07:38

Madonna's "La Isla Bonita"
"young girl with eyes like the desert" - what? Dry? Gritty?

HecateGoddessOfTwelfthNight · 19/12/2011 07:32

ceelo green

'forget you'

Is he talking to her, is he talking to him?

i see you driving round town with the girl I love (so talking to the bloke)
If I was richer I'd still be with ya (what? the bloke you've just this second said is driving round town with the girl you love?)

One minute it's 'you' and 'her' and the next he's addressing the woman. Or is he. I just don't know and neither does he. He just swaps randomly back and forth. It doesn't make any sense

and has anyone said ARRRGGGGGHHH your sex is on fire? I mean, unless someone's poured petrol over them mid coitus and struck a match, then I don't know when the hell he's on about.

GoldenGreen · 19/12/2011 07:17

babymutha your sister caused you unnecessary pain. It's "you've read Karl Marx, and you've taught yourself to dance".

saffronwblue · 19/12/2011 07:14

Voulez vous coucher avec moi, ce soir?

Surely more likely to say veux tu?

This has bugged me for decades. And I too loathe the attic/classic lyric.

karatekimmi · 19/12/2011 04:34

Loving the post

  • Adele, if you've "made up you're mind" and "don't need to think it over" why the fuck do you then wail on about whether you should "give up or just keep chasing pavements?"
yellowraincoat · 19/12/2011 02:49

Later versions of This Charming Man are "pamper"; earlier "pander".

From some shite Robbie Williams song: "That's a good line to take it to the bridge".

Just cringe.

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