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?!

Moody blues, in your Wildest dreams,,, " Our bodies felt the morning dew" really cringey but it's a good song.

Im pretty sure its- driving at 19...

and how can you be singing about this morning but referring to what happens in a year’s time.

Always annoyed by “I’m as serious as a cancer, when I say rhythm is a dancer”. Surely in the process of song writing you’d think sure, it rhymes but we we can’t use that!

"If you judge a book by the cover
Then you judge the look by the lover"
You what, Martin Fry?

Oh and Bardo - One Step Further, towards the end, “we could have tooken one step further”!

Is this not a reference to her English ex’ family? Having tea bitching about her? Also nice elongation of the ssssss on agrees to echo snakes etc.

misses point of thread

Although releasing a song called Ironic with lots of examples of Irony, all of which are just bad luck and not Irony is very Ironic! Maybe she intended that all along?

"From the subway to my home, endless ringing on my phone"

Well then why not answer it David?

That one has always really bugged me. So glad I'm not alone.
There are going to be loads if these...great thread!

"don't want clever conversation
Don't want to work that hard, no love
I just want some, someone to talk to
I want you just the way you are"

Fuck you Barry, I can do clever conversation!

This was analysed on r4 'More or Less' ! You're right obviously.

Ahh that would make more sense!!

It’s one of my favourite songs but that part has bugged me as like the PP I too live in the countryside and feel like it’s glamourising speeding through the lanes.

But also I’d say it’s almost impossible to drive at 90mph round the lanes and so that annoyed me even more!

But if it’s driving at 19 then that makes so much more sense!!

Another Craig David one:

"I gave you my jacket for you to hold, told you to wear it 'cos you felt cold"

Oh so it at first you were just using the poor girl as a coat rack, and then she happened to feel cold so you TOLD her to wear it?!

He might be OK on the A12 but I wouldn't want to attempt 90kph on the lanes (also 10 miles from the castle, give or take).

'The female of the species is more deadlier than the male'

'All your perfect imperfections'

@WhatapityWapiti Lady Godiva was also a character who drove a racing car in Whacky Races, so it could be "I'm a racing car like Lady Godiva"

Mike Oldfield - Moonlight Shadow.

"Four a.m. in the morning, carried away by a moonlight shadow".

4am in the morning? As opposed to what? 4am in afternoon?? 🤔

Taylor Swift needs to go back to elementary school- her lyrics are rife with errors like "sometimes I always.."

If I'm listening to the radio and the lyrics make no sense I know it's her and it is every time.

Lewis Capaldi bringing his mother water when she's thirsty makes me cringe myself inside out.

To dig a bit deeper, that song dates from a time when people married young, often under social pressure. He's still just a lad, realising that forever is very hard work.

And this too:

Baby these things you're doing, believe me
They hurt so bad
But it's worth all the misery
Don't you know that it's hurts so good
Hurts so good
Ooh boy please don't ever
Take the heat off me
Cos it would hurt even more
If you'd ever leave
Even though sometimes
It's hard to me to bear
I make myself hold on
Cos if it kills me I don't care
Cos baby I don't want you to ever quit
Ooh, it ain't no good 'til it
Hurts just a little bit

For god's sake Susan Cadogan - LTB

Still bloody love that song though, reminds me of my teens!

Shock shock horror horror shock shock horror 😁

I always think the same about "unfaithful" by Exit Eden

The whole thing is about how she's cheating on her partner, but the tone is how sorry we should feel for her because it's put her in such emotional turmoil!

Oh god, just thought of another song with very disturbing lyrics - Stooshe with “Black Heart”

I don't like it when you break me honey
Why'd you have to do that?
Tell me when you'll make these tears keep falling
Do you feel like a man?
Figure, figure there's no working you out whatsoever
Only one way I can sum you up altogether
You got a black heart
Daddy I've fallen for a monster
Somehow he's scaring me to death
He's big and bad
I love him like mad
Momma, he's the best I ever had
Daddy I've fallen for a monster
He got a black heart

Just no words.

"Every girl wants you to be her man
But I'll wait right here 'til it's my turn"

Girl, you need to work on your self esteem!