Lyrics That Are Wrong. AIBU?

[TiggyD]

Big Yellow Taxi - Joni Mitchel
"They took all the trees and put them in a tree museum.
And they charged all the people
A dollar and a half just to see 'em."

Is it just me, or does that sound like really good value for money? They have all the trees! A complete monopoly and they only charge a dollar and a half. Maybe they make the money back on the gift shop and food and drink but even if they charge National Trust prices I still think it'll be a bargain day out.

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

a chimney?

babybythesea they really really want to say that if you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends..

Actually I thought that was one-a the more straightforward songs

JustSpiro For ages everyone thought it was about Warren Beatty but apparently no it was David Geffen, she was pissed he paid more attention to Joni Mitchell

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

Slang for a black eye iirc.

I was being literal

Lovecat, in Frank Sinatra's defence 'Wives and Lovers' was a Burt Bacherach song - it sounds even more horrible when Dusty Springfield sings it.

50 Cent's In The Club: "so come give me a hug, you'll end up getting drunk.." Everything aside, 'hug', 'club' and 'drunk' don't rhyme.

I thought the 50 cent one was "so come give me a hug if you into gettin rubbed." That's miles worse, ugh!!

Earth, Wind and Fire:

"would you mind if I made love to you 'til I'm satisfied?"

Surely should be 'til you're satisfied?

Been wanting to get that off my chest for YEARS!

Jolene, Jolene, Joleeeeene!

Please take the fucker and keep him for yourself, because I've got clearly more self-esteem than that.

Argh, I actually love the song, it's just so wrong.

Another one which really annoys me every time I hear it on the radio is "Let you go" by Chase and Status. You hardly can get any creepier.

Love it WW!

Arf at wuthering heights lyrics.
Am I the only one with a mental picture of Ro-land off grange hill face down in some cheese???

Ah, that Wuthering Heights rewrite is not original to anyone's DH unless the DH is actually Phil Jupitus. As that was an extended routine on Never Mind The Buzzcocks a few years back.

The utter fucker! No, he is not Phil Jupitus. But he must owe him some royalties

I should learn. All of his hilarious lines during our courting stage turned out to be nabbed from Men Behaving Badly

This is a mis-heard rather than a wong lyric, but for years I thought ub40 WERE singing:

"Wise men say
Only fools run in chains"

Which made sense although perhaps didn't require "wise man" status to realise.

DH tops me though.........the club classisc "I.........can't get enough, no, no, no, no, Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii can't get enough"?

He heard (and bounced round many a night club smiling and singing)

"Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii........can't get it up........no, no, no, no,"

ll31, the whole of Lloyd Cole's Rattlesnakes album is genius imho :)

"She's got cheekbones like geometry and eyes like sin
And she's sexually enlightened by Cosmopolitan"

"Her heart, her heart's like crazy paving
Upside down and back to front
She says ooh, it's so hard to love
when love was your great disappointment..."

"Sweetness, sweetness, I was only joking when I said I'd like to smash every tooth in your head.
Sweetness, sweetness, I was only joking when I said by rights you should be
bludgeoned in your bed"

"I grabbed you by the guilded beams
Uh, that's what tradition means
And I doused another venture
With a gesture
That was ... absolutely vile"

Lovecat,you're so right-amazing lyrics! !

Always thought his lyrics r so honest. ... so admitting that we all try and hope but deep down we know what reality is. ..

"Yeah I was walking my bag through a 20-storey non-stop snowstorm.
Pirelli Calendar girls wrestling in body lotion"

But I do lurve Lloyd Cole...

Mind you, I've just heard a horror - Stooshe's 'Hoochie Mama'. Really spectacularly nasty song peddling all the most woman-hating myths about single mothers, and performed by a girl group whose selling point is that they are 'tough' and 'feisty'...

SGB I hated their other song. Not sure what its called but "He's big and he's bad, I love him like mad, Momma he's the best I ever had, he's got a black heart"

Meaning, he beats the crap out of me but I love him so it's ok :(