Lyrics that make you say ‘eh?’

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Lounging on my Sunday afternoon and listening to an amazon playlist.

Toni Braxton - he wasn’t man enough for me comes on.

The lyrics make no sense

What are you thinking?
Did you know about us back then?
Do you know I dumped your husband, girlfriend?
I'm not thinking 'bout him
But you married him
Do you know I made him leave?
Do you know he begged to stay with me?
He wasn't man enough for me

If she’s not thinking about him, why is she singing to his poor wife that he begged to stay when she dumped him?

Have you any songs that make you say ‘eh? You’re just talking shite now love’?

This thread highlights that some people don't understand quite straightforward lyrics.

This thread highlights that some people don't understand quite straightforward lyrics.

'It was a big big world, but we thought we were bigger
Pushing each other to the limits, we were learning quicker
By eleven smoking herb and drinking burning liquor
Never rich so we were out to make that steady figure'
'

Yeh right...who were you? Drew Barrymore?

@CheeryByeNow

Good job someone superior to us has come along to explain it all. Off you go then....?

Duran Duran - A View To A Kill 🙄

T'PAU's China in your Hand made no sense to me!

Oh yes, all of these!
Can’t wait for explanations...

I add to this - hotdog, jumping for..alberquerque...

I even read an explanation & it still made no sense!

Maybe Shakira’s lyrics were a pop at Toto, who clearly did get confused about mountains...

I loved the running commentary on James blunts beautiful
'Oh so no plan then' 😂😂

What a pointless load of waffle about some poor woman that's met some randoms creeps gaze

I happened to listen to some Roxette a little while ago. I don't remember thinking their lyrics were bizarre and stupid as a teenager. I must have not really listened.

My Mama told me not to mess with sorrow
But I always did, and Lord, I still do
I'm still breaking the rules
I kick it up
I kick it down.

Cos every time I seem to fall in love
Crash! Boom! Bang!
I find the heart but then I hit the wall
Crash! Boom! Bang!
That's my real middle-name
It has always been the same
That's the call, that's the game and the pain stays the same.

And for what it's worth - I get the main gist of their songs and the general meaning. The individual bits of lyrics are just very stupid and often bizarre to me.

“Life is no Nintendo game, but you lied again
Now you get to watch her leave,
Out the window, guess that's why they call it window pane”

Just no Eminem.

Agree with whoever said Ed Sheeran and 'between my arms'
No Ed! It's in my arms or between my legs. That's just English!

Also agree with the querying James Blunt, although to be fair, from that album Beautiful probably made the most sense of all the songs...

*channels Gwen from Gavin and Stacey

"Starting to feel just a little
Confused like a coffee machine in an office"

Shakira - She Wolf 🐺

I just had to add Cornflake Girl to my Spotify playlist. I got rid of all of my cds a while back and am occasionally reminded of things i once enjoyed but no longer own!

*Don’t call me baby, you’ve got a nerve and baby that’ll never do

Well I never, I thought it was
‘Don’t call me baby, you got another lady that’ll never do’*

Its "don't call me baby, you got to know that that will never do".

It's our god forsaken right to be loved

That one always gets on my nerves- but recently I heard a live performance when I let YouTube go on auto play, and he changed it! He sang "God-intended". Someone must have pointed out that it didn't mean what he thought it meant.

@Badwifey I think In the west life song he means that's alll he's got that's good because previously in the song he mentions his flaws

@Palominoo tug me meaning wank

Another Katy Perry one, that tiger and bumble bee one. Her lyrics might make sense but they could have been written by an 8 year old.

The Marilyn manson one does make sense, if you associate with people they will run off on you (I have no idea how clean apes are mind). They also sang about a steak being cold but wrapped in plastic, sounds very deep but I have no idea what the point is.

Erasure, always: open your eyes, I see your eyes are open.
Well yes. You just said to open them!

A winters tale,David Essex: The nights are colder now. Maybe I should close the door.
MAYBE? You think? If it’s cold shut the bloody door. You go on to explain that it is or was snowing so there should be no MAYBE about whether or not that door needs shutting! Think of your heating bill!

Hunterhearshelmsley, isn't it,
'You've got some nerve and baby that'll never do' ? that's what it sounds like anyway. Or my hearing is way off

Bagpiss i’ve Just watched and listened to the video —more times than I dare admit— and it is definitely “you’ve got some nerve and baby that’ll never do” plus if you google the lyrics it just doesn’t flow with “you gotta know that it will never do”
Plus in the opening of the song she calls him baby too!
Way too over invested in this for a Monday morning

GrandmasNightie, lol thanks, I was going to try and listen but hadn't got around to it yet, But you're right on that the other lyric doesn't fit the tune, when you try it in your head anyway I've had it as an earworm all morning so far.

The Chorus of "China In Your Hand" makes perfect and profound sense. Goodness only knows what the verses are on about.

Hot Dog. Jumping Frog. Alberquerque.

It's not meant to mean anything. He's the King of Rock & Roll and any old guff will do, so long as it sounds catchy.

Paddy McAloon, the Tyneseide Gershwin, is capable of writing sublime lucid lyrics, check Cars & Girls or We Let The Stars Go, but he also promotes the idea of words that 'Just sound good.'