Bloody hell, the grammar in Babooshka!

[Pinkarsedfly]

‘She could not have made a worst move’?
‘Before she freezed on him’?

Freezed?? Come on, Kate!

Was everybody distracted by the bikini in the video?

Oh sod the grammar, it's a fabulous song! I love Kate

Me too. But really...freezed?

It’s even worse than ‘4am in the morning, carried away by a moonlight shadow...’

Wouldn’t be 4am in the afternoon, would it?

‘Freezed on him’ gets me every time as well OP. Love the song though

4am is the morning! What on earth makes you think it's the afternoon?

@pinkyredrose OP meant that why would the lyrics need to be ‘4am in the morning’ when ‘4am’ on its own tells you it’s the morning

Oh i see!! That'll learn me to skim read!

And, and ‘there’s going to be a jailbreak, somewhere in this town.’

Er...the jail?

I’m too pedantic to enjoy music these days.

Is it worst? I always assumed 'worse'.

It definitely sounded like ‘worst’ this morning.

It was like a bucket of cold water

I love Moonlight Shadow so much, except for that annoying line. Why on earth couldn't he have written "4 o'clock in the morning" which scans in exactly the same way, but actually makes sense!

I sing it that way in a pointed manner, Isadora, while staring at the radio

She is Kate Bush. She can write what she likes.

OK, I'll give you freezed.

But Oasis? "Slowly walking down the hall, faster than a canon ball"? W. T. F. ?

She wanted to test her husband
She knew exactly what to do
A pseudonym to fool him
She couldn't have made a worse move

Definitely worse. But 'freezed' is wronger than Wrongy McWrongface

I’ve looked up the lyrics on several sites because I’m tragic

Some say worse, some say worst. It sounds like worst, though.

The Oasis one is bloody awful, I agree.

I hear worst as well. In fact she seems to actually accentuate the T

I was well into adulthood before I understood the premise of Babooshka.

I mean, a worse choice? They presumably recognised that they were deeply attracted to each other, in cheating? Or have I completely missed the point?

And I thought it was 'breezed' on him.

Freda Payne's 'Band of Gold':

'You took me from the shelter of a mother I had never known'

Nope. She was unknown and therefore never provided shelter.

It has to be “freezed” otherwise the assonance (?) won’t work. Is that what it’s called? The mirroring of vowel sounds in the lyrics. Also it’s an opportunity for a- let’s face it- bit of a screechy bit. And KB never passes up an opportunity for a screechy bit.

It’s music so poetic licence applies!

I think ‘Band Of Gold’ is using enjambment, which causes confusion.

‘You took me
from the shelter of my mother, I had never known
To love any other’

Milijah it’s the same premise as the Pina Colada song, when you think about it.

MayFayner if only she could have chosen another word!

Seized?
Squeezed?
Pleased?

Just like his wife when she still pleased him?

Also, thinking about it too much, the daft bat gave him a massive clue by choosing the pseudonym ‘Babooshka’. It means ‘Grandma’.

She’s been selling him short. I reckon he knew it was her all along by her shit grammar

I reckon he knew it was her all along

Yep, I suspect that's the real reason he turned up. He was playing along.