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?!

*where, not were

Regardless the whole song makes me angry everytime:

One friend left to sell clothes, one works down by the coast
One had two kids but lives alone, one's brother overdosed
One's already on his second wife, one's just barely getting by
But these people raised me and I can't wait to go home

Basically saying his friends are total deadbeats for the above reasons, even though none of the reasons given make them bad people in the slightest......
But don't worry good old Ed is sooo gracious and not judgemental (??!) that he'll lower himself to spend time with them regardless

I actually don't mind some of Ed's other songs but every time I hear this I think "oh fuck off, who do you think you are?"

I don't see it that way. I think a lot of people move away from.their childhood home and friends. While they are away some people do t change much or see life beyond their town. However when the old crowd meet up its like no one has been away and everyone falls back into their role in the friendship groups. I've expierenced this my self and now I'm older I've noticed it with my adults sons and also the relationships with their girlfriends and their friendship circle. Everywhere in life some people will do OK some tick over and some.e slide backwards and don't do so well.
Therefore I think the sonf is a pretty accurate reflection on life

I've always thought that too. Like, bloody hell, at least pretend to put some effort into it.

Nope, Ed confirmed it was 90 but basically said “it’s just a song, chill out, anyway could be Kmph”. Then put up drive safe signs, ha ha.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-suffolk-39128940.amp

I don’t know what the song is and the rest of the lyrics may explain it but
”you’re so vain - you probably think this song is about you”
you’re literally singing about him

All the lyrics to Shaggy - It wasn't me. It's not funny.

This version is

Ed Sheeran - Perfect “you between my arms” always annoys me.

You and your hand by Pink

"I'm not here for your entertainment". If she's singing that to an audience then she is there for entertainment

Also call me maybe by Carly Rae Jepsen

"All the other boys try to chase me".
Argh get over yourself! Especially as there's no other women in that video. The smug look gets wiped from her face when she realises the guy she fancies is gay

This girl is on fire by Alicia keys.
Some poor woman is burning Infront of her and all she does is sing about it.

I thought it was change in the second line

Thunderbolts and lightening, very very frightening me

It doesn't make sense when things makes more sense

Sexual Healing by Marvin Gaye. Just a rapists charter!

I’m a big Squeeze fan too- some of their lyrics are my favourites ever.
That being said, the meaning behind “pulling mussels from the shell” gives me the boak. Not to mention William Tell and Maid Marion are not from the same thing 😡

Sorry, I’ve kind of butchered that quote thread there.

I agree the lyrics about the bath are lovely.

I’m with you @cardibach - it doesn’t work and is infuriating. Sometimes the snow comes down in June … sure, that’s a thing that very rarely happens but can and does happen. But the sun cannot go round the moon. It’s not a good way to illustrate the unlikelihood of something occurring which actually has happened - and in any case obviously can happen (someone fancying someone they previously saw as a friend). It’s a crap lyric. Think of something else unlikely but possible to make your point!

Ok, this is a step too far. Describing someone as on fire is a fairly common way to suggest they are massively succeeding. We can’t get rid of all idiom from music!

She's singing to a man/men in general who try to chat her up in bars. It's a great song, she's saying she just wants to dance and have a good time without men coming on to her.

How did I miss that reference? 😳

I total the that, it's the use of the word "but" towards the end. It comes across as "despite all of this" I still can't wait to see them

Not a song as such!
anyone been watching series 2 90 day fiancé?
🤣🤣
Jose…….. I love you chicken 🐔 🎵🎵🎶
lol for the first few times of hearing it I couldn’t stop singing it

If six of y'all went out, ah
Then four of you were really cheap, yeah
'Cause only two of you had dinner
I found your credit card receipt

Why would she expect him to pay for everyone? And does everyone NOT showing on his credit card receipt mean they're cheap?!

I love Squeeze but always mis heard the lyrics to Up the Junction as:

This morning at 4:50
I took her rather nifty
Down to a NAKED WAITER
Then 30 minutes later.

For years I wondered what a naked waiter was doing wondering around a hospital!

That One Direction song where they sing "the way you flip your hair" surely hair gets flicked??

I came on to say that! So grammatically incorrect

I guess that's why we call it windowpane

Huge Eminem fan but that makes me eye-roll every time!

That little mix one "you make rain but I make it I make it I make it shower." What?????

And then they sing later on "motorbike, motorbike, bike bike bike etc"