Song lyrics that bug you!

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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?!

@nancypowers1983 I listened to Suede a lot at university and a friend who was also studying chemistry told me that The Chemistry Between Us was about class A and class B metals in the periodic table. Imagine my disappointment when I found out it was about drugs 😆

I love Suede too - I’ve been listening to Coming Up all morning 😀

😂😂😂 sorry but that is hilarious! Your wee innocent younger self, bless!

Kind of amazing humans have been living there for as long as there have been humans under the circumstances!

"Red and yellow and pink and green
Purple and orange and blue
I can sing a rainbow"

That's nothing like a rainbow!

Thanks to this song, when I teach the colours of the rainbow half the class tell me I’ve got it wrong…

Roy G Biv was they way we vwere taught to learn the rainbow when I was at school

We were told: Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain!

Same - it’s one of the few things I actually remember!

I know this isn’t the point of this thread, but I have only just discover that Paul Weller sings ‘There’s a row going on down near Slough.’ In Eton Rifles. I have always sung it as ‘There’s a row going on down this al.’ Thinking al stood for alleyway.
Probably because as a child I had never heard of Slough.
My mind is blown.

As you were.

I've got one that turns out I was wrong about!

"Let's dance to Joy Division
And celebrate the irony
Everything is going wrong
But we're so happy"

I assumed it was down to Joy Divisions name containing "Joy" but not all their music being joyful. I thought, if you were going to write that in a song would you not google how Joy Division named themselves and make sure there's not some dark reason behind it first?!

Luckily I didn't fall into the same trap and googled what the Wombats were actually singing about before posting! Turns out it's about his girlfriend dancing happily to "Love Will Tear us Apart"

(If you're now wondering how Joy Division named themselves. The "Joy Division" was a section of Nazi conentration camps that had only women prisoners...)

@BillStickersWillBeProsocuted - saw New Order a few weeks ago. They do a few Joy Division numbers and finish the show with Love Will Tear Us Apart

This is a reference to the wizard of oz

I remember a song from one of those Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat imitations which did them the other way round:

’Oh what a wonderful scene,
The rainbow overhead,
Violet, indigo, blue and green,
Yellow, orange and red.’

Isn’t indigo in the rainbow a bit of a myth? I’ve never seen dark blue in the spectrum of light.

No grammatical errors but may I submit on the grounds of general shiteness, the lyrics for Jessie J's 'Stand Up'.

We're singing it at choir at the moment and if I get past the bucket of 'live laugh love' cliche that's the chorus, then the verses are WTF?

If you surround yourself with negative people
You'll never feel settled in or become an equal, nooo
They'll suppress you of your spirit and rinse you dry of smiles
So reach deep and release your inner child
Yeah Yeah!
So Stand Up! For the Love, Love, Love
So Stand Up! For the Love, Love, Love
So Stand Up! Yeah
'Cause you're as old as you feel you are
And if you don't reach for the moon you can't fall on the stars
So I live my life like every day is the last, last, last
'Cause you're as old as you feel you are
And if you don't reach for the moon you can't fall on the stars
So I live my life like every day is the last, last, last
Listen!
If you let a frown become your normality, yes
You don't set an example for the youth of our humanity
If you spend every day wishing for the next to come
Aged and lifeless is what (Yes!) you'll become
Yeah Yeah!

Missing the point entirely here but wasn't that from Noah Noah Noah not Joseph? There was a Technicolor coat in Joseph and a rainbow in Noah.

Also -

More Than Words by Extreme on the grounds of:

Saying "I love you"
Is not the words I want to hear from you
It's not that I want you
Not to say but if you only knew

1. 'I love you' are not the words, not 'is'
2. How many negatives in the second half of that bit?
3. The whole song is a detestable load of manipulative pressure being put on someone to have sex - oh if you really loved me, you'd touch me.

GET IN THE BIN, EXTREME

Spice Girls - 'throwing far too much emotions at me'. Just take the 's' off!

Ok I agree on the grammar and the double negatives, but how is it about pressuring someone to have sex?
It's about how just saying the words doesn't mean much without actions (kindness, affection, spending time together etc) It's about meaning the words and not just saying them for the hell of it.
At least that's always been my understanding.
Bit of an Extreme reaction on your part (see what I did there?)

Missing the point entirely here but wasn't that from Noah Noah Noah not Joseph? There was a Technicolor coat in Joseph and a rainbow in Noah.

Yep, from Captain Noah and His Floating Zoo.

Joseph's technicolor(tm) coat had all kinds of exotic colours in it, like ochre, fawn, russet and azure - not just your standard seven

I love that musical - not least because of Linzi Hateley's matchless voice and performance as the original narrator.

😀😁😂😃

I am the Walrus

I generally liked Lennon's stuff but he must have been off his tits on acid when he wrote that. The whole song is gibberish

@Alstroemeria123 yes I hate that MungoJerrie song. Basically a poor girl is only worth a shag, no wining or dining. Horrible misogynistic crap.

There's a very troubling lyric in Time of The Season by The Zombies:

what's your name ?
who's your daddy
is he rich like me
does he teach you all you need to live?

now maybe I have a filthy mind. But this song is essentially about the sexual revolution and I'm wondering what he thinks her daddy should have taught her? ?

I think that whole song was one big LSD trip. Nonsense lyrics but kind of beautiful and poetic in their own way.

Strawberry Fields was written about the same time. One of my favourite Beatles tracks

@ManAboutTown I love Strawberry Fields. Very profound lyrics "living is easy with eyes closed/misunderstanding all you see"