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.

....and it's a rabbit's foot that is lucky surely?

Labrinth - Earthquake

Why the heck would you throw bombs at an earthquake?

Westlife : How am I supposed to leave now, with you looking like that?

Translation : Ah well, 30 seconds ago I was gonna up and leave your sorry arse. But you have put on some lippy. So I will stay... for now.

Oh yes, the ghost bit. It's like she just found a book o rhyming words and was incapable of putting them together!

'I just died in your arms tonight - it must have been something you said'

Sorry, what? Can you imagine actually having that conversation?
'Oh, DH, I just absolutely died in your arms tonight'
'Really tyranno? That's an extreme reaction. What on earth caused it?'
'Dunno , must have been something you said'

December 1963 (Oh What A Night) - Frankie Valli and the 4 Seasons

'half the time she spent harassing me
She was everything I dreamed she'd be'

That's very strange

Neil Diamond:
"Sweet Caroline,
Good times never seemed so good."

Well, yes. You said they were good. They were good times. Couldn't you think of another adjective - you know, for emphasis?

Abra abra cadabra I wanna reach out and grab ya. Fuck off Steve and your shite lyrics.

Paolo nutini

Grant my last request,
And just let me hold you.
Don't shrug your shoulders,
Lay down beside me.
Sure I can accept that we're going nowhere,
But one last time just go there,
Lay down beside me

Really creeps me out - look dude I don't want to be with you anymore so why would I want to lay next to you - I call it the stalker song

December 1963

It's actually

Hypnotizing, mesmerizing me
She was everything I dreamed she'd be

Jordin sparks

'If I die before I wake'

Well love you won't be waking up if your dead

And jls

I'm not sure a fully qualified doctor would tell you that you will die if you don't get back together. Talk about trying to pull a massive guilt trip

Neil Diamond:

I am, I said
To no-one there
And no one heard at all
Not even a chair

Robot - well I'll have to listen very hard indeed to make it sound like that - lol - like squinting with my ears!

like squinting with my ears

Cool description! I get exactly what you mean hahahaha

And if Adele went on the Relationships board with 'Someone Like You' there'd be fur flying as in 'Fuck off you sad stalker'

John Lennon - Imagine no religion too.

Nonononono - no religion either. Wrong.

And exactly how can ones love be in league with the freeway?

Is it Christina Parry who sings that bollocks song with the lyric "I'm gonna catch a cold from the ice inside your soul?"

Er.. no you're not. A cold is a virus. You're not likely to catch it from someone's icy soul now, are you?

I can't believe that nobody's mentioned Alanis Morrisette's 'Isn't it ironic' yet. Virtually nothing in those lyrics meets the proper definition of irony; someone once commented that a better chorus for that song would be 'Isn't it a bummer?'

"When the clouds arrive we'll live on Ocean Drive"

That's a bloody efficient conveyancing process.

Bruno Mars really bugs me for all reasons listed above. He can't have put much thought into marriage if they're both drunk and he's not that bothered if she leaves him the next day anyway! I bet he also wouldn't really catch a grenade or throw himself in front of a train for a girl either, when she wouldn't "do the same" for him. Get a clue and move on Bruno. Ridiculous lyrics! (I posted in another thread about "Marry You" being used at lots of weddings lately, and I wondered if the couples actually listened to the lyrics.

I'm surprised "Ironic" by Alanis Morissette hasn't come up yet. Comedian Ed Byrne did a whole sketch about how un-ironic the entire song was!

Oops, Melpomene, pipped me to the post re: Alanis!

Seven little girls sittin' in the back seat
Huggin and a'kissin with Fred
I said, why don't one of you come up and sit beside me
And this is what the seven girls said
(All together now, one, two, three)
(Keep you mind on your drivin')
(Keep you hands on the wheel)
(Keep your snoopy eyes on the road ahead)
(We're havin' fun sittin' in the back seat)
(Kissin' and a'huggin with Fred)

oh and the backstreet boys came up with: "Sadness is beautiful, loneliness is tragical"

Oh, and there's a song on the radio playlists at the moment with a line that goes "Touch my skin with your body", which always makes me grit my teeth when I hear it.

Alanis Morrisette is just so wrong, she can never be right in Isn't it ironic? It's one of those things that make you want aural brain bleach.

And the first few comments on that link are even more depressing.