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?!

@BillStickersWillBeProsocuted I've just seen your reply! That will now be etched in my mind evermore too! Just like "hello Douglas my old friend, I've come to talk with you and Jen" from a misheard lyrics site ages ago (Sound of Silence)

Now I feel like a fig roll
And a piece of artic roll
All of the time I'm never sure why I'm naked
Is there any Jam?

That’s such an improvement on the actual words 😄

Despite it being in what I think is one of the best songs ever written:

"And all the science I don't understand
It's just a my job 5 days a week"

You're an astronaut, understanding the science is a very important part of your job!

I read somewhere that the song was inspired by a Ray Bradbury novel in which being an astronaut meant having a really commonplace job that lots of people did without knowing that much about it. So I guess it kind of works in that sense?

Apparently Bernie Taupin said the line “in fact, it’s cold as hell” was the one line he wrote that he didn’t like. (I don’t know whether he objected to the line itself or the fact that it seems like it’s meant to rhyme with “and there’s no-one there to raise them if you did” though - I always find that kind of jarring.)

In that case I’ve been completely misinterpreting this whole time!

I thought it was all about the duality of this amazing job that makes everyone so proud, but at the same time it takes you so far away from everyone you love.

I think maybe I was relying on William Shatners version too much 😂

Reviving this thread because I heard "that's what makes you beautiful" on the radio this morning and it's a toofer! Hopefully it doesn't count as a zombie thread!

Firstly: "
To prove I'm right, I put it in a song"
I can write all sorts of stuff in a song if I want - doesn't prove it’s right or true in the slightest!

Also:
You don't know you're beautiful,
That's what makes you beautiful

So it's the fact that she doesn't know she's beautiful that makes her beautiful? And you're trying to convince her she's beautiful. So if she believes you and starts to know she's beautiful will she then cease to be beautiful?!

Biffy Clyro - Biblical

Let's make immeasurable moves to the left
Or the right but not central

Central really just doesn't work. And how can you make an immeasurable move? Surely there must be a way of measuring

Now we’re on to misheard, misheard lyrics! I thought the HIGNFY version was “we keep toothpicks in containers, here we are now, entertain us” which I kind of thought was especially funny with the idea that Nirvana could be so fastidious once offstage!! Loved that show.

Dammit! Buzzcocks, not HIGNFY.