to get disproportionately angry when songs do not make sense

No explanation required:

"Spring was never waiting for us, girl
It ran one step ahead
As we followed in the dance
Between the parted pages and were pressed,
In love's hot, fevered iron
Like a striped pair of pants

MacArthur Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down...
Someone left the cake out in the rain
and I don't think that I can take it
'cause it took so long to bake it
and I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!"

Milky Milky...?!? (particularly disturbing for those who can remember Punt & Dennis/The Mary Whitehouse Experience:)

"...I met a girl down at the disco.
She said hey, hey, hey yea let's go.
I could be your baby, you can be my honey
Let's spend time not money.
I mix your milk wit my cocoa puff,
Milky, milky cocoa,
Mix your milk with my cocoa puff, milky, milky riiiiiiight.

They say I'm really sexy,
The boys they wanna sex me.
They always standing next to me,
Always dancing next to me,
Tryin' a feel my hump, hump.
Lookin' at my lump, lump.
You can look but you can't touch it,
If you touch it I'ma start some drama,
You don't want no drama,
No, no drama, no, no, no, no drama
So don't pull on my hand boy,
You ain't my man, boy,
I'm just tryn'a dance boy,
And move my hump.

My hump, my hump, my hump, my hump,
My hump, my hump, my hump, my hump, my hump, my hump.
My lovely lady lumps (lumps)
My lovely lady lumps (lumps)
My lovely lady lumps (lumps)
In the back and in the front (lumps)..."

Trills

dh told me stuart and maconie did this on't radio t'other night....they picked up the thin lizzy jail break thing.

i suspect they did it first, but this thread still made me smile!

Glo
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'hosanna in excelsis'
WTAF?

I love this thread has kept me sane over the last couple of days at work.
I used to work at a university in Turkey and when I was there this song was the most popular on going.
AS a foreign song "Kuzu Kuzu" to my ears direct translation was I want to kiss/f**k my sheep.Turkish slang which took ages for me to understand it refers to lady bits, made slightly more sense but the singer is bi but v cute

lyricstranslate.com
ook! My arms and wings are broken
No, I couldnt hold on
Hard! To be without you is hard
I couldnt get used to
Hit this stupid head by the stone
Against the wall - to get sevap*
Then forgive me, come to me
Lean my head against your heart
I felt blue, wasted away without you
Here I came back just like you said before
How much times I wanted to bring myself to your knees
This time I burned my pride down and came to you
You can leave me if you want to
And you can kiss me
But look into my eyes and listen to me first
Trust me, I understood this feeling inside without you
I repented
Spread this hot pepper on my lips

thought i'd put the video at the end so you could read the lyrics first rather than being distracted by his stomach.

www.dailymotion.com/video/x47xu_tarkan-kuzu-kuzu_music

laughing at "slip a sabre under the tree" now!! As pointed out, it's sable, and is of course highly un-PC now (or should that be PinC? )

Pishwife, I'd insert a comma there - "Mild, he lays his glory by" - perhaps meek would work better than mild in that context but humble won't fit.

Am I the only one who has been irked by a few carols lately?

"Mild he lays his glory by..."

He does what?

I love the DD who misheard Shakin' Stevens' "Merry Christmas Everyone!" I am going to sing her version from now on.

Sable!

"Santa Baby, please slip a sabre under the tree for me"?

Who does she think she is? One of D'Artagnan's friends?

I will never be able to listen to these songs again without laughing! Love this thread!

this Ole House has weird lyrics.

It is all happy and jolly but doesn't the person hang themselves.

The ghost with the fucking piece of toast.
And the evening news is completely random. Am just sad I got beaten to it.

Have always been highly irritated by

' This morning at 4.50, I took her rather nifty , down to an incubator, where 30 minutes later, she gave birth to a daughter'

WTF did he take her to an incubator to give birth, has always annoyed me, although I suppose at least he used an instead of a.

MrsPennyworth: "
"Well tonight thank GOD it's them, instead of you!"

Yeah, we're alright jack! Phew! Thank The lord Jesus Christ it's THOSE people starving and dying and not me!! "

I think that line's intended ironically, though, isn't it? It's meant to make you feel bad that you have a lovely comfortable life and these poor people are starving. Which is another reason I hate it. I don't want to be lectured to by a bunch of sanctimonious rich bastards who spend more in a week than I'll earn in a lifetime.

"I love ironic by alanis morriset and hate a majorty of oasis songs wtf do nearly all the lyrics mean?"

I agree about Oasis. Noel Gallagher is soooo overrated as a lyricist. He's crap.

Lunatic it wasn't Diamond Life, it was Smooth Operator.

Slightly off-track, but DD has misheard a Christmas lyric, but seems to have improved them.

Snow is falling
All around me
Children playing
Having fun

Tis the season
No one understands me
Merry Christmas
Everyone.

Thank you, darling girl. You're growing up just like your mummy.

To the DTKIC haters - I actually think that

Tonight thank God it's them instead of you

is the most powerful line in the song. It's deliberately cynical and intended to tug the guilt strings. Let's be honest, we are thankful when it's not us that bad things happen to.

As for Bob Geldof taking the credit, I thought it was common knowledge that Midge Ure wrote the song, I've always known it.

Don't think anyone has mentioned the ABC "That Was Then But this Is Now" classic line:

Can't complain, mustn't grumble
Help yourself to another slice of apple crumble
Woah woah yeah

Agree with all posters above about DuranDuran. WTF was Le Bon on about?

Don't say you're easy on me
You're about as easy as a nuclear war

Spandau Ballet weren't much better:

Thank you for coming home
Sorry that the chairs are all wrong
Left them there I could have sworn (how can you rhyme wrong & sworn??)
...
These are our salad days
Slowly being eaten away
just another Play for Today

The 80s was a dire musical decade...

I love ironic by alanis morriset and hate a majorty of oasis songs wtf do nearly all the lyrics mean?