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Song lyrics that bug you!

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BillStickersWillBeProsocuted · 28/09/2023 17:38

I was listening to Objects in the rear view mirror by Meatloaf the other day and it contains the line:

"If life is just a highway, then the soul is just a car"

That line always bugged me - for a start that's a pretty big "if" but apart from that surely in that analogy the body is the car and the soul is the driver?!

Another one is maybe a bit more Niche but Tim Minchin has a song called "Grew on me" where he likeness his love for his wife with various illnesses (it's actually much more sweet than that makes it sound!) which contains the line:

"The successful removal of you would probably kill me too"

Surely if it kills the patient you can't call it a successful removal?! What really bothers me is “the attempted removal of you” would fit the song just as well and make more sense!

Anyway I'm bored at work so thought I'd see if anyone else has any pedantic lyrical bugbears?!

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IsThisNameTaken · 28/09/2023 17:43

Ed Sheeran, Bad Habits - "conversations with a stranger I barely know". They're either a stranger or somebody you know a bit - can't be both!!

C1N1C · 28/09/2023 17:46

The Tamperer ft. Maya

"What's she gonna look like with a chimney on her?"

imnotthatkindofmum · 28/09/2023 17:46

Stereophonic - all in one night

"She's got a baby in her stomach" I'm sorry did she eat it??

People often say belly, tummy etc rather that uterus but stomach is a specific organ name, not just a generalisation of the torso. So weird!

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BillStickersWillBeProsocuted · 28/09/2023 17:51

IsThisNameTaken · 28/09/2023 17:43

Ed Sheeran, Bad Habits - "conversations with a stranger I barely know". They're either a stranger or somebody you know a bit - can't be both!!

I've noticed that one as well - I knew I had more when I was typing my origional post but couldn't bring them to mind!

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saltnsaucey · 28/09/2023 17:55

This is so bored at work ha ha

MrsMoastyToasty · 28/09/2023 18:02

I'm afraid of the dark
'Specially when I'm in a park
And there's no one else around
Ooh, I get the shivers
I don't want to see a ghost
It's a sight that I fear most
I'd rather have a piece of toast
And watch the evening news

From "Life" by Desree.

It's the ghost/most/toast rhyme that bugs me, closely by going into a park after dark. Doesn't she know anything about personal safety?

Mysterian · 28/09/2023 18:18

"Are we human or are we dancer". And it is "dancer" singular.

Can dancer(s) be human too? I think so.

BeautifulWar · 28/09/2023 18:28

Do you ever feel like a plastic bag...

Er, no Katy Perry, can't say I have.

Drifting on the wind, wanting to start again?

That's still a no...

TheDogsMother · 28/09/2023 18:33

I'm never gonna not dance again by Pink. Drives me nuts !

miraveille · 28/09/2023 18:33

"At tea time everybody agreed"
Why tea time? What's that got to do with it.
It could be
"It seems like everybody agrees"
Or
"As you can see, everybody agrees"

And I'm a Swifty, but i hate this line

Vitriolinsanity · 28/09/2023 18:35

How precisely does one chase a pavement?

JesusMaryAndJosephAndTheWeeDon · 28/09/2023 18:38

That bloody Gary Barlow charity awfulness that goes:

There are words that can't be spoken only sang

😱😱😱😱😱😱

Sung Gary, sung is the word you want

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BillStickersWillBeProsocuted · 28/09/2023 18:38

miraveille · 28/09/2023 18:33

"At tea time everybody agreed"
Why tea time? What's that got to do with it.
It could be
"It seems like everybody agrees"
Or
"As you can see, everybody agrees"

And I'm a Swifty, but i hate this line

I think I can shed some light on this one!

A new slang term "to spill the tea" means to gossip - so I think she by "tea time" she means when people are talking shit about her!

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sockarefootwear · 28/09/2023 18:39

Don't know who sings it (poss Ed Sheeran?) but there's a song that was on the radio almost constantly not long ago, with a line something like:
'driving at 90 on these country roads'

The song seems to be reminiscing about fund stuff he did when he was younger. I live in the countryside and it really irritates me that this song seems to be suggesting that driving like a dick in the countryside is just a bit of harmless fun. I may be showing my inner grumpy old woman.

PleaseBePacific · 28/09/2023 18:40

So many from Ed but especially:

You and me are thrifty, so go all you can eat
Fill up your bag and I fill up a plate

Annoys me every time

PleaseBePacific · 28/09/2023 18:42

sockarefootwear · 28/09/2023 18:39

Don't know who sings it (poss Ed Sheeran?) but there's a song that was on the radio almost constantly not long ago, with a line something like:
'driving at 90 on these country roads'

The song seems to be reminiscing about fund stuff he did when he was younger. I live in the countryside and it really irritates me that this song seems to be suggesting that driving like a dick in the countryside is just a bit of harmless fun. I may be showing my inner grumpy old woman.

Yes...another Ed classic

Castle on the Hill

focusonthenumbers · 28/09/2023 18:43

That mmmbop song. Sounds like utter nonsense at first then you listen and it’s actually quite a sad theme throughout ‘’you have so many relationships in this life , only one or two will last. You go through all the pain and strife then you turn your back and they’re gone so fast’ and ‘so hold on to the ones who really care in the end theyll be the only ones there ‘

And it was written by actual children 🤦‍♀️ I just find it so odd to have that childish nonsense thing the first time you listen then suddenly you really listen and think how did these kids have this wisdom

WhatapityWapiti · 28/09/2023 18:45

Vitriolinsanity · 28/09/2023 18:35

How precisely does one chase a pavement?

Oh I think I read Adele talking about this one, she was running full pelt down a street to get away from someone or something and it’s the idea that you just keep your eyes fixed on the pavement and run until it runs out.

She also said that “set fire to the rain” was about lighting a fag outside on a wet day.

Any songs that say “you and I” when it should be “you and me” get my goat. I’ll think of one in a minute..

TheHellionKittyBaxter · 28/09/2023 18:49

Henrietta by The Fratellis. "We know you love us and you probably do" MAKES NO SENSE. Why not "you say you love us" or "we heard you love us"?!

Another Ed Sheeran - "then she handed me a bottle of water filled with tequila" then it's not a bottle of water Ed, it's a bottle of tequila.

My ex used to get angry at Live and Let Die by Paul McCartney until I pointed out he was getting the lyrics wrong himself. He heard it as "in this ever changing world in which we live in" which obviously isn't right, but it's actually "in which we're living" which is fine.

Mysterian · 28/09/2023 18:50

Vitriolinsanity · 28/09/2023 18:35

How precisely does one chase a pavement?

Well if you can go chasin' waterfalls...(Though the advice is not to).

Vitriolinsanity · 28/09/2023 18:51

Or photograph someone In lidocaine (which I know is light again but that's not what my ears hear)

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BillStickersWillBeProsocuted · 28/09/2023 18:55

TheHellionKittyBaxter · 28/09/2023 18:49

Henrietta by The Fratellis. "We know you love us and you probably do" MAKES NO SENSE. Why not "you say you love us" or "we heard you love us"?!

Another Ed Sheeran - "then she handed me a bottle of water filled with tequila" then it's not a bottle of water Ed, it's a bottle of tequila.

My ex used to get angry at Live and Let Die by Paul McCartney until I pointed out he was getting the lyrics wrong himself. He heard it as "in this ever changing world in which we live in" which obviously isn't right, but it's actually "in which we're living" which is fine.

I used to think that about live and let die too!!

See also "We didn't start the fire, though we did ignite it, but we tried to fight it" Which I was mishearing and is actually "No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it"

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Tynm · 28/09/2023 18:56

Time may change me, but I can't chase time.

Surely CHANGE time makes more sense and fits better

Alstroemeria123 · 28/09/2023 18:57

In The Summertime - Mungo Jerry is basically a checklist of pretty much antisocial / illegal behaviour yet everyone thinks it’s such a happy song!

Have a drink, have a drive
Go out and see what you can find
If her daddy's rich, take her out for a meal
If her daddy's poor, just do what you feel
Speed along the lane, do a ton or a ton and twenty-five
When the sun goes down
You can make it, make it good in a lay-by

Greebosmum · 28/09/2023 18:58

This morning at 4.50
I took her rather nifty
Down to an incubator
Where 30 minutes later
She gave birth to a daughter
Within a year a walker.

Squeeze, Up the Junction.

Do you know what an incubator is?