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To get, some might say, far too irate with song lyrics that Make. No. Logical. Sense *screams with rage*

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Tallalime · 14/08/2013 09:44

Just for example, and it annoys me every time I hear it,

Both Nirvana and Malcolm in the Middle were not big when you were little.

Nirvana was big in the late 80's/early 90's

MitM started in 2000.

Rage

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Wallison · 14/08/2013 22:01

Re Human by The Killers, it's quite correct to say 'Dancer' rather than 'Dancers' because it's about a sci-fi story where there is some kind of race (maybe a robot race, I can't remember) called the Dancer Race, so the word is being used in the same way as the world 'Human' is.

Anyway, the lovely lovely Brandon Flowers can do no wrong.

GlaikitFizzog · 14/08/2013 22:01

Thght it was

the handbags and the gladrags that your poor old grandad had to sweat to buy you?

Still not entirely correct grammatically, but makes a bit more sense.

(I realise I'm now just correcting misheard lyrics, sorry about that)

Wallison · 14/08/2013 22:01

I thought the granddad had to sweat by working to earn the money that she used to buy the handbags.

NoelHeadbands · 14/08/2013 22:12

"She's a Killer Queen, Gunpowder and Gelatine."

Gelatine? Like what you make jelly out of? I think they meant gelignite.

Howling Grin Why has this never occurred to me until just this minute?

Jubelteen · 14/08/2013 22:18

Elton John only wrote the tunes, Bernie Taupin was responsible for the lyrics.
My most hated lyrics ever - Angels, Robbie Williams. A pile of non-sensical tripe.

Balaboosta · 14/08/2013 22:32

And there won't be snow in Ah-fricah this christmas time...

Er no. So what? It's called climate and its different in different places.

superlambanana · 14/08/2013 22:50

David Gray - Babylon. Not only do the lyrics not make sense, he also slurs them horribly so you can't even make out half of them.

Chasing Pavements. Say what?

That Killers song about being human or dancer. I didn't think there was a choice...

MrsBW · 14/08/2013 22:51

Best. Thread. Ever.

BlackholesAndRevelations · 14/08/2013 22:54

Balaboosta- also, "tonight thank god it's them, instead of you." Really?

DoJo · 14/08/2013 22:59

Isn't it She's a killer queen, gunpowder and guillotine? If not then it should be as that's MUCH better than gelatine!

ViviPru · 14/08/2013 23:01

Balaboosta Wed 14-Aug-13 22:32:59
And there won't be snow in Ah-fricah this christmas time...

A colleague of mine once thought that the lyric went "The only gift they'll get this year is rice" True story.

EugenesAxe · 14/08/2013 23:02

Have not read whole thread, but as a keen baker I am always baffled by the 'climactic' moment of MacArthur Park:

Someone left a cake out in the rain, it'll never be the same
I don't think that I can take it, cos it took so long to make it
And I'll never have the recipe again - oh no!

It's just far too melodramatic. Maybe if the words were along the lines of 'my toddler just destroyed a cake I just baked for a special event and now I've got to make another fucking one and find time to go to the shops for more ingredients' then I could empathise more.

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Tallalime · 14/08/2013 23:02

Well being human and being a dancer are mutually exclusive, I think Louie Spence conclusively proves that.

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BlackStiltonBoots · 14/08/2013 23:07

One song that givesme the rage is that Katy Perry Fireworks one. The whole thing is terrible and probably took three minutes to write, but the worst bit is 'boom boom boom, even brighter than the moon moon moon' it doesn't even rhyme! Angry

I hate with a passion that blurred lines song, I have to turn it off it gives me a cold shudder when I hear it!

Winter123 · 14/08/2013 23:10

The Boyzone song 'Father and son' lyrics...

"You're still young, that's your fault"

Angry It makes no sense!! How can age being anyone's fault?! Unless, he means mentality but in context that doesn't even make too much sense either!

ThoseArentSpiritFingers · 14/08/2013 23:11

Not read the whole thread yet but needed to add 'light my fire'

Come on baby light my fire
Come on baby light my fire
Try to set the night on fire

So they've rhymed fire with itself 3 times?!?!
This always gets my goat when I hear it.

emdottyjackson · 14/08/2013 23:12

Will I Am hardest ever, I'm sure he refers to himself as an erection in the song Hmm

Winter123 · 14/08/2013 23:12

Blackboots - don't even get me started on that Blurred Lines song... Angry Angry Angry Angry

grendel · 14/08/2013 23:13

What about Snow Patrol and Chasing Pavements:
" If I lay here / If I just lay here / Would you lie with me / And just forget the world?"
Every time it comes on the radio I shout "If I lie here! lie here!" Grrr...

mlamle · 14/08/2013 23:19

Showing my age here... CC Peniston's Finally has a terrible rhyming couplet in "...that boy, with curly black hair / it's just the way he looks at me with that gentle loving stare"

Splendid thread BTW!

LauraChant · 14/08/2013 23:24

Winter, I always took that to mean "being young is the thing that is wrong with you, the thing that is stopping you being happy". Your fault like you might say "your fault is pride".

I don't know if that makes any more sense though.

ThreeTomatoes · 14/08/2013 23:25

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Tallalime · 14/08/2013 23:27

Speaking of showing your age can I give a special mention to Reet Petite in its entirety.

Confused
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UnitedZingDom · 14/08/2013 23:31

grendel that grammar is correct!

if I did this, would you do that

"lay" is the past tense of "to lie" so no error was made by the writer

LauraChant · 14/08/2013 23:37

How about Lay lady lay, lay across my big brass bed, United?