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.

[somedayma]

this needs to go in classics, it's fucking hilarious! great thread

[greenearrings]

Gold coast slave ship bound for cotton fields,
Sold in a market down in new orleans.
Scarred old slaver know he's doin alright.
Hear him whip the women just around midnight.
Ah brown sugar how come you taste so good
(a-ha) brown sugar, just like a young girl should
A-huh.

That's lovely,Mick Jagger

[EverybodysDoeEyed]

I think Bruno thinks that offerin to marry a woman will make her want to shag you

No bruno, it makes you come across as a nutter

[ErrorError]

Mike Posner - Cooler Than Me

If I could write you a song
And make you fall in love,
I would already have you up under my arm.

I get this freaky image of him trying to tuck a girl into his armpit!

[TraineeBabyCatcher]

I dont register songs on a high enough level to hear the words, if that makes sense. I hear the song, but not the lyrics, and sometimes i just make up the words that fit with it and make sense, and then someone will say xyz are the words not that, and im like wtf, really? Thats just bullshit song writing.

[AmandinePoulain]

Tiggy I can explain "Are we human? Or are we dancer?" - I heard a discussion on the radio about it. It's in reference to an activist in America years ago who argued that people shouldn't just go along with the crowd ie. dance along like "good citizens", we're people not sheep, something along those lines anyway!

[waltermittymissus]

YY to the sex is on fire lyric.

I'm assuming he's wailing about having an STI. I don't know if "oh oh I have the clap" would have made it into the song.

[NotGeoffVader]

Urgh - anything by Scouting for Girls. Ever. Even if they haven't written it yet.

[thepeoplesprincess]

"You say it best.... when you say nothing at all."


I'm sure many a long married man has thought this about his wife, but I'm not sure it's the touchingly romantic sentiment Ronan was going for.

[NotGeoffVader]

Oh and anything by the Killers. I can't stand that bloke's voice. Makes me want to take my ears off with a rusty spoon. And eat them.

[ipswichwitch]

Supertramp "take a look at my girlfriend"
She's the only one I got
Not much of a girlfriend
I can't seem to get a lot

Well I wouldn't shag you either if you wrote a song saying I'm a crap girlfriend and you're gonna hop over to America to check out girls in California you twunt.
That song makes me all irrational every time I hear it

[BlueSuedeStiletto]

"I can't get no satisfaction"

Any. Just... Fucking.... ANY!!!

[ErrorError]

All thing by Sean Paul because I don't understand what the hell he's saying. One of his lyrics sounds like "Need a lot of cheese up in my head". Just googled it and it's actually TREES. Equally as confusing!

[ErrorError]

all things

[CalamityKate]

How about Lisa Stansfield lamenting that she don't know when and don't know why, why he's gone away and then proving via the rest of the lyrics that she knows EXACTLY why he's gone away? We had a quarrel. I said a lot of nasty things. I did too much lying, wasted too much time etc. See, when you think about it you know why he buggered off. And you don't think he's coming back. Stop crying and start being all woman.

[ErrorError]

Ohh that bugged me too. Been around the world and I I I, I can't find my baby! I was about 4 when that song came out and thought there were far too many I's in it, and she must have been pretty careless to lose her baby around the world!

[PeskyRat]

BlueSuedeStiletto that Sean Paul song - TREES = slang for weed.

Explains a lot

[PeskyRat]

whoops...no, not BlueSuedeStilettos, ErrorError erm

[ErrorError]

And another... The Piña colada Song! I actually really like the song in general, and it has a catchy tune. However, the whole concept is rather worrying.

1. Man is dissatisfied with wife and places a personal ad in paper to have an affair.
   
2. Finds his ideal woman and they exchange communication about their shared interests.
   
3. Meet up in a bar and man realises the stranger IS his ACTUAL WIFE.
   
4. Both laugh nervously at the coincidence and all is well, they have re-kindled their love...
   
   What is most annoying about this song is that neither addresses the fact that they were both looking to cheat on each other by placing ads in the personals, so they need to deal with those issues first before suddenly acting lovey dovey again, just because they never realised before that they had the same things in common. Furthermore, if they didn't know they had the same things in common when they got married... what DID they have in common for them to fall in love and get married in the first place!!! Argh!

[ErrorError]

I never knew trees was slang for weed! Big for me too!

[WorraLiberty]

Mike Oldfield - Moonlight Shadow

4am in the morning...carried away by a moonlight shadow.

What? As opposed to 4am in the fucking afternoon??

[sashh]

Isn't it ironic, er no actually all your examples are not ironic.

babybythesea

I always thought it was jigajiga but they had to change so as not to offend get played on the radio

[fluffyraggies]

I've got you under my skin
Where the rain can't get in

And if the sweat pours out
Just shout
I'll try to swim and pull you out

The The. Uncertain smile I love this song but those lines always make me think Yeeeuk!

[RobinSparkles]

I think most song writers are high when they sit down to write (or at least pissed).

[MakeHayNotStraw]

Has anyone mentioned "every breath you take" yet? Stalker...

There's also a Eurythmics song, the lyrics to which are - I am convinced - "I want you suffering circumcision".