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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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WhatapityWapiti · 28/09/2023 19:00

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 hear that line like your ex too!

I was about to complain about this one:

“I'm a racing car passing by like Lady Godiva”
because I always wondered WTF has Lady Godiva on a very slow horse got to do with a racing car?

but then I noticed that the next line is:

“I'm gonna go, go, go, there's no stopping me”

so I think it is just missing a bit of punctuation and should be:

”I’m a racing car passing by. Like Lady Godiva, I’m gonna go, go, go, there’s no stopping me”

and is a tribute to LG’s tenacious persistence.

countrygirl99 · 28/09/2023 19:01

Year 3000 Busted - not much has changed but they live under water. Pretty fundamental change if you ask me.

NooNakedJacuzziness · 28/09/2023 19:04

Moonlight Shadow - "3am in the morning". It would've been so easy to make that "3 o'clock in the morning" instead. Irritates me every time I hear it.

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Cocoandcleo · 28/09/2023 19:04

countrygirl99 · 28/09/2023 19:01

Year 3000 Busted - not much has changed but they live under water. Pretty fundamental change if you ask me.

What bugs me more about that song is 'great, great, great grandaughter is pretty fine'...wouldn't there be a lot more greats that far in the future? I get that wouldn't fit but STILL

Thingsthatgo · 28/09/2023 19:07

C1N1C · 28/09/2023 17:46

The Tamperer ft. Maya

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

I have an odd memory of this song from my clubbing days... I don't know if it was a remix or DJ mixing up for fun, but in my head it is combined with the lyrics 'wanna drop a house on that bitch' and somehow linked to the Wizard of Oz witch. (I think maybe I was drinking too much!)

Enko · 28/09/2023 19:09

Ellie Goulding

How long will I love you?
As long as stars are above you
And longer if I can
How long will I need you?
As long as the seasons need to
Follow their plan
How long will I be with you?
As long as the sea is bound to
Wash upon the sand
How long will I want you?
As long as you want me to
And longer by far

It's not rhyming it's repeating.

you
to
Gah I loathe that song.

CaveMum · 28/09/2023 19:13

I was told “a chimney” was slang for a black eye.

The lyric that always bugs me is “if I was in your blood then you wouldn’t be so ugly” from Annie I’m Not Your Daddy. I mean, FFS mate, have a bit of compassion!

BodegaSushi · 28/09/2023 19:30

The entire song of 'Take on Me'. I sing along to it, but have no idea what they're trying to say.

'So needless to say
I'm odds and ends
But I'll be stumblin' away
Slowly learnin' that life is okay
Say after me
It's no better to be safe than sorry'

🤯

SlightlygrumpyBettyswaitress · 28/09/2023 19:31

"Take a look at my girlfriend, not much of a girlfriend"

Oh do fuck the fuck off .

BodegaSushi · 28/09/2023 19:31

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

And that's the word he uses.

'Some words they can't be spoken, only sung'

It's obvious just listening to the song

Sunshinenrain · 28/09/2023 19:32

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

This was going to be my one too.

I absolutely hate this song and all of the lyrics and have to turn off the radio whilst it’s playing.

The worlds barely make sense!

BodegaSushi · 28/09/2023 19:33

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

MmmBop is one of the greatest songs of all time Grin

Hanson is incredibly underrated, like they were big, but never at the level or for the length of time as the other boy bands of the era.

risefromyourgrave · 28/09/2023 19:34

I sing it as great, great, great, great, great-granddaughter. If you sing it fast enough it fits. (Still wouldn’t be enough greats, but it makes me happier!)

Sunshinenrain · 28/09/2023 19:36

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

It is time isn’t it?

Unless I’ve been singing it wrong lol.

BodegaSushi · 28/09/2023 19:36

These ones, because they're meant to be romantic?

JLS, Beat Again: 'If I died, would you come to my funeral, would you cry?'

And Kanye in Four Five Seconds: 'if I go to jail tonight, promise you'll pay my bail'

😂😂

IamMummyhearmeROAR · 28/09/2023 19:37

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

But that's what he does sing!

ohsoso · 28/09/2023 19:38

That one that goes ‘shut up and dance with me’
I just think how bloody rude, no thanks 😂

countrygirl99 · 28/09/2023 19:40

Cocoandcleo · 28/09/2023 19:04

What bugs me more about that song is 'great, great, great grandaughter is pretty fine'...wouldn't there be a lot more greats that far in the future? I get that wouldn't fit but STILL

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I hate that song so much that I switch off in the first couple of bars. It just one irritation after another.

Cazzovuoi · 28/09/2023 19:40

I’ve been know to screech like a fish wife at Rihanna that diamonds don’t shine because they have no independent light source. THEY REFLECT.

DH swiftly changes the song or station. I can’t help myself.

Blossomandbee · 28/09/2023 19:42

Most of Ed Sheerans lyrics grate me for some reason. All the twee nonsense in Castle on the Hill, and his overuse of 'follow my lead' in more than one song.

Also Scrubs by TLC. 'A scrub is a guy who can't get no love from me'
That phrase really didn't catch on.

BlueKaftan · 28/09/2023 19:42

Any lyrics by Duran Duran who I adore.

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 28/09/2023 19:44

I've been to the year 3000. Not much has changed but they live under water and your Great Great Great Granddaughter is pretty fine. If its only a Great Great Great Granddaughter in 1000 (give or take years).
They must be going to have their kids really really late, like say 300+ years old. 😂

focusonthenumbers · 28/09/2023 19:46

BodegaSushi · 28/09/2023 19:33

MmmBop is one of the greatest songs of all time Grin

Hanson is incredibly underrated, like they were big, but never at the level or for the length of time as the other boy bands of the era.

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Yes I agree it just I find it almost unnerving the ages they were when they wrote it , to be so young yet so mature ?

Bemyclementine · 28/09/2023 19:47

Another one from Ed - push and pull like a magnet do.

Couchto5ktowine · 28/09/2023 19:50

“I look like Kiss but without the make-up
And that's a good line to take it to the bridge“

the last line is the laziest fucking lyric known to man from Robbie Williams (Strong). It makes me angry every time I hear it!!

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