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Lyrics that make you say ‘eh?’

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CastorTroyWantsHisFaceBack · 07/04/2019 12:52

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’?

OP posts:
Ferfeckssake · 09/04/2019 07:08

Funniest had got to be from Careless Whisper by Wham
" Guilty feet have got no rhythm"
So if you see a crap dancer , wonder what they are guilty of GrinGrin

3in4years · 09/04/2019 07:08

James Blunt
You're beautiful...
I have a plan...
I don't know what to do...

Follow your plan you sick, stop whinging

3in4years · 09/04/2019 07:11

I see someone beat me to it on page 5.

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moofolk · 09/04/2019 07:12

Must be a reason why I'm kind of my castle
Must be a reason why I'm freeing my trestle

(Is that what is says? Why? Does she need to free up her trestle table? Is she about to do some decorating? Has she got more dinner guests than expected?)

Must be a reason why I'm making examples of you.

moofolk · 09/04/2019 07:12

Ok at least I do know it's king of my castle

Al2O3 · 09/04/2019 07:18

That Little Mix song where suddenly it goes “Motorbike, motorbike.....bike, bike, bike, bike...”

A song about motorbikes I guess.

iklboo · 09/04/2019 07:28

It's apparently

Must be the reason why I'm freeing my trapped soul

But trestles are a bugger to get out if they're in that cupboard under the stairs Grin

bugeyedbarber · 09/04/2019 08:13

"I'm serious as cancer - rhythm is a dancer" by Snap

As English is not my first language I spent my childhood bopping to this without understanding it. Only when we moved here and years later, I got that line. In fact my mate hummed it at me and I said: Shut up. This CANNOT be the line!

So he played it and it was.

I still howl at how pedestrian and tone deaf it is. Also that I didn't know it was in the song until I was 30.

Banging tune tho.

PinkBlueStripes · 09/04/2019 08:44

It's concrete jungle not jumble no?

PinkBlueStripes · 09/04/2019 08:46

'Lyrics you misheard' thread coming soon..

goose1964 · 09/04/2019 08:54

The Killers Human, are we human or are we dancer?
Makes no sense at all.

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flapjackfairy · 09/04/2019 09:59

Another one that gives me the rage is Timber
Sorry if someone already said this but the whole sexualised nature of the song annoys me ( yes i am v old ).
But the bit where he says

I'm slicker than an oil spill
She says she won't but I bet she will.

That really helps reinforce the message that no means no doesn't it . It is depressing just thinking about that one !

WhenIsTheEasyBit · 09/04/2019 10:15

Current one making me giggle is the one where she (Ann-Marie I think?) sings that they're "Singing at the top of both our lungs". How did that 'both' get through?

Andromeida59 · 09/04/2019 10:17

The man who can't be moved. Really creepy lyrics.

exWifebeginsat40 · 09/04/2019 10:25

yes to Ed Sheeran’s clunky, robotic ‘dancing in the dark, with you between my arms’.

just sort of arms out straight then, with her shoulders between your forearms?

inside, Sheeran. with you inside my arms. or within, or just change it to ‘dancing in the dark, love between our hearts’ or something christ.

although, i think Perfect is best approached as a slow, mournful conga, viz:

dancing in the dark
you between my arms
barefoot on the grass

etc.

Bambooshoot · 09/04/2019 12:25

The one that drives me mental is "should I just keep chasing pavements". Why? How? You can try love, but it's not like they're going to run very fast.

I kind of see her flailing wildly on the spot which I'm not sure is the image she wanted to portray.

Blompitude · 09/04/2019 12:56

ABC - That was then, this is now:

Can't complain, mustn't grumble
Help yourself to another piece of apple crumble

alltoomuchrightnow · 09/04/2019 14:47

Bamboo, in the video as I recall it's more rolling than chasing! Still none the wiser.

alltoomuchrightnow · 09/04/2019 14:48

Apple crumble!!!! He sounds like a really old Nanna.

Thatsashame · 09/04/2019 18:18

Shakira whenever wherever

le42 · 09/04/2019 18:24

Every time I heard this in Drunk in Love by Beyoncé it makes me retch

Can't keep your eyes off my fatty
Daddy, I want you, na na
Drunk in love, I want you

NearlyVegan · 11/04/2019 13:06

@le42 why

They are garbage lyrics but I don't see the issue. Am I missing something?

le42 · 11/04/2019 13:12

@NearlyVegan Calling the person you are having sex with "Daddy" is gross 🙉

KissingInTheRain · 11/04/2019 13:31

Most pop lyrics are meaningless shite.

But I am an admirer of an ingenious rhyme. The best ever is from I’ll Never Fall in Love Again.

What do you get when you kiss a guy?
You get enough germs to catch pneumonia

Go on then, rhyme something with ‘pneumonia’...

After you do, he'll never phone ya

Absolute fucking genius.

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