Lyrics that make you say ‘eh?’

[CastorTroyWantsHisFaceBack]

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’?

I always thought it was "don't call me baby

You gotta learn baby that'll never do"

I thought she was meant to be mocking him by calling him baby.

Hah no I fully agree with that lol I over looked the daddy bit

@NearlyVegan I know Beyoncé isn't the only one to say daddy (usher I'm looking at you with Daddy's Home!) but it's a song I really like and I always think yuk when I hear that bit!

What's a fatty?
Or does she mean her dad is fat and you must not look at him?

I think the "chimney on her" is a reference to the death of the wicked witch in The Wizard of Oz...
I read in an interview around the time it was out that it was a reference to a black eye.

In my neck of ye woods its known as a shiner other places the slang is a chimney.
However everytime I hear
" what's she going to look like with a chimney on her?" I get the urge to reply "a Picasso "

I'm talkin' to ya
See you standing over there with your body
Feeling like I wanna rock with your body
And we don't gotta think 'bout nothin' ('Bout nothin')
I'm comin' at ya.

Side to Side by Ariana Grande.

Makes him sound like he's been decapitated and is looking up at his headless body. Also a double negative. Just no, Ari.

"I got so many clothes I keep some in my aunt's house."
"I've been to Southampton but I've never been to Scunthorpe"

Total and utter shite from start to finish

@OldAndWornOut

Fatty is her bum right?! He's looking at her bum wanting to have sex with her. (He being daddy 😳 aka Jay Z)

Ah, thank you.
It all sounds very perverted to me!

@alltoomuchrightnow
The “fine man” was a man who held her back from jumping, not her husband! Well I’ve Keats thought so anyway. The thing she whispered - not sure but either a bodily function or that drink made her horny perhaps - can’t have been that it made her sad as that wouldn’t be a rude thing to say.

The headless body ! Ha ha.
Also he would find it hard to be standing over there without his body !

"Do you ever feel like a plastic bag?"
Err, no Katy Perry, I don't.

Also Fifth Harmony's "Work from home."

"I'm sending pic after pic, gonna get you fired."

Yeah love, get the man sacked because you're horny.

Tunnocks, I did wonder... maybe she was horny as she was kissing him...the train stranger (ie one of the Kane brothers..not sure which)

re Beyonce..I always thought a 'fatty' was a hard on? In the 90s 'having a
full on chubby' was often used for it. Horrible song.

Drunk in love is vile especially this bit, Breastases?! And Tina Turner when she was abused by her husband?

Stumbled all in the house time to back up all of that mouth
That you had all in the car, talking 'bout you the baddest bitch thus far
Talking 'bout you be repping that third, I wanna see all the shit that I heard
Know I sling Clint Eastwood, hope you can handle this curve
Foreplay in the foyer, fucked up my Warhol
Slip the panties right to the side
Ain't got the time to take draws off, on site
Catch a charge I might, beat the box up like Mike
In '97 I bite, I'm Ike, Turner, turn up
Baby no I don't play, now eat the cake, Anna Mae
Said, "Eat the cake, Anna Mae!"
I'm nice, for y'all to reach these heights you gonna need G3
4, 5, 6 flights, sleep tight
We sex again in the morning, your breastases is my breakfast
We going in, we be all night

Various Ellie Goulding

'I guess we thought that's just what humans do' - get you, so alien with your strong hair, missus!

'And we're burning one hell of a something' - burning what?

'I can't see clear no more'

Most of mine have been mentioned.

Ed Sheeran's 'between your arms' - I always imagine some strange dance where he just holds his arms out at about shoulder height and she sways about between them, wondering what on earth he's on.

'Take your seaside arms and write the next line.' No, you write the next line. And maybe it could make more sense than this line.

'You make it rain, but I make it shower.' So, you're a bit of a rubbish version of whoever you're singing to, then.

'Her diary it sits on the bedside table
The curtains are closed, the cats in the cradle.
Who would have thought a boy like me could come to this?'
Oh stop moaning, chuck the cat out, and close the door so it can't get back in. Problem solved.

And I can't believe no-one has mentioned...

'MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
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'

Ellie Goulding’s “I’ll let you set the pace as I’m not thinking straight” - not the advice you’d give your teenage dd is it? She needs to hang out on the relationships board.

The lyrics to Delilah by Tom Jones are terrifying! How is this a popular song at weddings?!!!!!!

So before they come to break down the door
Forgive me Delilah I just couldn't take any more
She stood there laughing
I felt the knife in my hand and she laughed no more

Ok, so I luffs Deacon Blue (see username ) so I'm probably not qualified to comment on this thread, but I always thought Looking forLinda was about stopping someone jumping from a train.....

@Tunnockswafer , sorry, I missed your reply earlier.

Hope you’re not married to an Alan!

The other one I don't get is:

I got a man with two left feet
And when he dances down to the beat
I really think that he should know
That his rhythms go go go

And then she goes on about how he doesn't have to do any housework as long as he can dance. But two left feet mean that he can't dance. So no housework, no dancing ability. What exactly does he have going for him?