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.

[DrawnOnAndDogEared]

I have a total soft spot for Macarthur Park and know all the lyrics

[SillyBeardyDaddyman]

Posh maybe she's a cyborg? Or a pre-op transexual?

[formerdiva]

Ooh ooh ooh - has to be Shana Twain. He's a rocket scientist? And actually happens to be Brad Pitt? And you're still not impressed? WTF is the matter with you, Shania?

[DrawnOnAndDogEared]

..and not forgetting "You're so vain ... you probably think this song is about you"

....erm

[EverybodysDoeEyed]

I thought it was

Is it that look in your eyes, or is it your dancing shoes, who cares baby, I think I want to marry you

I thought he must be a shoe fetishist.

[Yourefired]

And another thing, you did not build this city on rock and roll. I would hope it's built on bed rock, and an integrated utility system.

[SillyBeardyDaddyman]

REM everybody hurts. Unless they have a defective nervous system.

[thixotropic]

Didn't tim Finn say weather with you was about taking your mood, good or bad with you?
Or did I just imagine that bit?

[NoMoreNotNever]

My fault, not his, but all my life I have thought David Bowie's 'Let's Dance' included "tremble like, er, flour" - couldn't understand what he was on about, or why he was so inarticulate about it.

Heard it today and it was suddenly obvious .

[DeWe]

What about the Flanders and Swan song about the buses:

"If tickets cost a pound a-piece
why should you make a fuss..."

I had to explain to the dc that in those days £1 was a lot of money... it costs me more than 3x that to do a less than 10 minute journey round here-and even the dc are more than £2.

I think the lyrics that really make me wonder why are from the song "Let us with a gladsome mind"
One of the verses goes:
"Let us praise his name abroad
For of gods he is the God."

Now if they'd had "For of gods he is the Lord" it would rhyme like all the other verses. I always wonder if the writer just wrote it down wrong for the publishers or somehthing.

[Nobhead]

"Young girl get out of my mind, my love for you was way out of line, better run girl you're much too young girl." Gary Puckett your lyrics are VERY VERY wrong my friend.

[SassySpice]

Four am in the morning, carried away by a moonlight shadow

[solidgoldbrass]

The Stones Paint It Black
I see people turn their heads and quickly look away
Like a new-born baby it just happens every day


Presumably Mr Jagger has just pooed himself with anguih or possetted over Keith Richards.

[diddl]

"Hey little girl is your daddy home
Did he go away and leave you all alone
I got a bad desire
Im on fire

Tell me now baby is he good to you
Can he do to you the things that I do
I can take you higher
Im on fire"

Think Bruce Springsteen might be even more wrong!

[Somebloke]

"i blame you for the moolit sky and the sleeping satellite??? WTF"

Tasim Archer was complaining about the politicisation of the space race. And did so very nicely I thought...

[waltermittymissus]

Ladies and gentlemen I give you Shakira:

Lucky that my breasts are small and humble
So you don't confuse them with mountains

What? Just, just, what ??

[Nobhead]

Holy shit Fiddl yes we have aclear winner for wrong lyrics Bruce Springsteen wins the gold.

[Nobhead]

Diddl even-sorry

[RobinSparkles]

"I'm as serious as cancer
When I say rhythm is a dancer."

WTF?!?

[KittyBump]

I think in the Bruce Springsteen one 'Daddy' is referring to her husband not her father! Hope so anyway

The lyric that annoys me is in Happy Together by The Turtles when he sings 'the only one for me is you and you for me' - that's the same thing!

[DrawnOnAndDogEared]

you're right Kitty ... it is the same thing

[EverybodysDoeEyed]

What's the song with the lyric

I'm afraid of the dark
Especially when I'm in the park
I'd rather have a piece of toast and watch the evening news

The whole song is weird
I can think of a lot of things I would rather do than walk through a dark park but eating toast in front of the news isn't the first that springs to mind

Unless I've completely misheard the lyrics of course!!

[Gusthetheatrecat]

David Essex, A Winter's Tale.
'The nights are colder now
Maybe I should close the door.
And anyway the snow has covered all your footsteps....'

Er, yeah, David. Might be an idea to close the door. Given that it is actually SNOWING, you idiot.

(I know this is a terrible song to get irate about. But it's on a Christmas compilation we have, and I listen to it many times each December, and seem to get more wound up by it with each year)

[DrawnOnAndDogEared]

DoeEyed - Life by Des'ree .. you could do a whole thread on that one song!

Mmm, yeah yeah yeah
Oh yeah, yeah yeah
Oh life, oh life

I'm afraid of the dark
Especially when I'm in a park
And there's no one else around
Ooh, I get the shivers

I don't want to see a ghost
It's a sight that I fear most
I'd rather have a piece of toast
And watch the evening news

Life, oh life, oh life, oh life
Doo, doo doo doo
Life, oh life, oh life, oh life
Doo, doo doo doo

I'm a superstitious girl
I'm the worst in the world
Never walk under ladders
I keep a rabbit's tail

I'll take you up on a dare
Anytime, anywhere
Name the place, I'll be there
Bungee jumping, I don't care

Life, oh life, oh life, oh life
Doo, doo doo doo
Life, oh life, oh life, oh life
Doo, doo doo
Life, doo, doo doo
Doo, doo doo

So after all is said and done
I know I'm not the only one
Life indeed can be fun
If you really want to

Sometimes living out your dreams
Ain't as easy as it seems
You wanna fly around the world
In a beautiful balloon

Life, oh life, oh life, oh life
Doo, doo doo doo
Life, oh life, oh life, oh life
Doo, doo doo doo

Life, oh life, oh life, oh life
Doo, doo doo doo
Life, oh life, oh life, oh life
Doo, doo doo doo

Doo, doo doo doo
Doo, doo doo doo
Doo, doo doo doo
Doo, doo doo doo
Doo, doo doo doo
Oh life, oh life

Oh life, oh life, oh life, oh life
Oh life, oh life, oh life, oh life