to get disproportionately angry when songs do not make sense

I want my true love to by me chocolates, some rather nice perfume, cashmere sweater and some earrings. If he turned up here with maidens milking, leaping lords and a couple of turtle doves, it would be more than the halls that were being decked! What a load of old tosh!

'Tonight thank God is them instead of you'

What a lovely sentiment.

Do They Know It's Christmas? It's a question, innit, so if you think you know the answer, fine.

I can't believe the nitpicking over this song. IMO it's a brilliant song, it got the message over without being sickly or maudlin, and including a nice melody and all the Christmassy bells and baggage. (Which has ensured its longevity and that people would hear it and buy it over and over again).

Really the politics,theology, geography etc has nothing to do with the content of the song. It's a song, not an academic dissertation. I think Midge did a fantastic job to come up with something so effective so quickly.

Live and let die makes perfect sense.

I'm going to live, and I'm going to let you die.

Thisone - good point - but they still knew/know it's christmas time, even if they think Jesus was born on Jan 7th, eh... They had Christianity centuries before us, after all. Re context Percy, maybe you don't know the Ethiopian highlands are incred fertile, so despite rainfall shortfall, famine of that level cld have been avoided and was exacerbated by war with Eritrea (trace that one back to the western colonialists). So the lyrics are wrong, and give a false pic, but woz a good tune and raised lots of cash. Peace out

Ohhh thread is much too long to read all... has anyone mentioned
'in love for the first time, and this time I know it's for real'
by

Cult- I think your right, typing error. still odd lyrics though don't you think?
Then goes on to say something about return the ring, he knows so much about these things.

Belfast thank you! I've never been able to stand that song because of the 'in, in' line... but
'If this ever changing world in which we're living / makes you give in and cry' makes PERFECT sense.

erm lurking isn't it ponder?

I always loved the Smith's lyrics:
Why pamper life's complexities when the leather runs smooth on the passenger seat?

"IF this everchanging world ..."

It's a conditional sentence!

Oh, and this is a thread to get disproportionately angry about trivial things. It's in the thread title.

"LIVE AND LET DIE:
No one person on this thread has considered Paul McCartney's complete lyric; just concentrating on a single (mis-heard) phrase. Well of course you won't understand, then, will you?"

Actually the line is stand-alone understandable, thanks. Mis-heard maybe - but whether it's "In this everchanging world in which we're livin' " or "in this everchanging world in which we live in" (which, incidentally, 90%+ of lyrics search engines have it listed as), context makes fuck all difference.

Saturdaynightbeaver that is just mean. Especially as I now have that song on permanent loop in my head.

Also
The little lord Jesus laid down his sweet head.

Was he already supporting his own head on day 1, sitting up perhaps and looking around before he laid it down?

Some of you have no poetry in your souls!

But there is never an excuse for poor grammar.

Thank you BelfastRingingOutforXmasBloke - I'm afraid I was a bit of an Emperor's New Clothes Kid last night to explain to the rest of the crowd. Indeed, those lyrics are quite brilliant, as is the said line from the Sex Pistols. I also think whoever wrote "Call me Mr. Flinstone I can make your bed rock" deserves to be Poet Laureate.

I've been to Paradise but I've never been to me.
I've been undressed by kings and I've seen some things
That a woman ain't meant to see

What are those things? What are they? This has been bugging me for 30 years!

You ask me if I love you
And I choke on my reply

Yet you keep seamlessly singing!

Well I hate that bloody awful Macarther Park song. Its supposed to be a classic but it just bugs the bloody hell out of me.

'someone left a cake out in the rain, and it took so long to bake it and I'll never have that reciepe agaaaaaaain'

Now that line is a filler if ever I heard one!

I love REM. They are fab.
But if you look at their lyrics most of their songs ethier dont make any sense or have really ordinary bland words. How do they make their songs sound so great?

WHO IS GOING TO STICK UP FOR THE SONGWRITERS?

LIVE AND LET DIE:
No one person on this thread has considered Paul McCartney's complete lyric; just concentrating on a single (mis-heard) phrase. Well of course you won't understand, then, will you?

"But IF this ever-changing world IN which we're LIVIN'
makes you give in and cry,
say 'Live and Let Die'."

Where's the fuckin' problem? Grammatical. Perfect Zero Conditional sentence. Makes sense.

Similarly, PUNK ROCKER:
ButterPopcorn and I seem to have grasped what the rest of you don't understand. She put it very well, up-thread:

'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!).'

Well done, ButterPopcorn The songwriter is clearly writing about two different periods of revolution, and conflating them to convey a general yearning for rebellion. Why is that so difficult to understand?

PMPL @ April I totaly agree with over marking but Chelsee did also dance awfully compared to previous weeks!

Back to thread - disturbing lyrics; If I was your mother by Bon Jovi - ewwww...

Nottheblinkinggrufalo:
It's we live our life in different sizes
I love her body especially the lines

It's basically a song appreciating different body shapes and sizes.

While I'm being unreasonably annoyed at ignorance of the laws of physics, in "saved the best for last" the Sun does go round the moon, but only from a lunar centric frame of reference. Using that frame of reference it would always do that, there is no possible frame of reference where the Sun sometimes goes round the moon.

PMSL at April for being on the wrong thread, and at Saturday for her apPALLing joke in response to the Katy Perry song rant by mrs. Shrek!!

Ahh, much needed giggle after a fraughtish shopping trip with the family...