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to think that some song writers didnt think their lyrics through?!

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PyongyangKipperbang · 25/06/2021 23:37

Two songs I heard today....

Me and Mrs Jones

Me and Mrs. Jones
We got a thing, goin' on
We both know that it's wrong
But it's much too strong
To let it go now
We meet every day at the same cafe
Six-thirty and no one knows she'll be there
Holding hands, making all kinds of plans
While the juke box plays our favorite songs

So.....ignoring the kids, no sex and pretending that her old man has no clue what is going on...dont sound like much of an affair to me!

Do Wa Diddy

There she was just a-walkin' down the street, singin'
'Do wah diddy diddy dum diddy do'
Snappin' her fingers and shufflin' her feet, singin'
'Do wah diddy diddy dum diddy do'

I'm thinking more severe MH issues than an attractive hip young thing?!

Any more that I have missed?

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DontDrinkDontSmokeWhatDoIDo · 27/06/2021 07:10

@RikkiTikkiTavvi

Life by Des’ree has some of the most ridiculous lyrics I’ve heard.

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

🤣🤣

They are so awful, aren't they!

I always thought that song must have been the producers having a bet with each other and saying 'let's see what absolute shit the public will buy'.

CuriousaboutSamphire · 27/06/2021 08:29

@PyongyangKipperbang

Thought of another

Last Request by Paolo Nutini

"I know you are dumping me but shag me anyway....I know you dont want to but I'm going to keep going on at you until you do even though its coercion"

Same as "We've got tonight" same sentiment, different (but not much) lyrics

And don't forget him wanting a little sugar before he goes. Another stalking song...
CuriousaboutSamphire · 27/06/2021 08:29

Sorry that was Candy. Horrible song

OffRampHilton · 27/06/2021 08:34

@malificent7

Well in " fast car" we don't know why they had to " get outta here." Hence plot hole.
See, my old man's got a problem He live with the bottle, that's the way it is He says his body's too old for working His body's too young to look like his My mama went off and left him She wanted more from life than he could give I said somebody's got to take care of him So I quit school and that's what I did

I actually don’t know how it could be any clearer?

There’s no poetic license, she clearly explains that her mother left and she (the narrator/singer) left education to care for her unemployed, alcoholic father. She’s met a boyfriend who has a car and sees him as literally the way to get away from her shitty life and start a new chapter in the city.

As the song goes on, we learn that she has a job but the boyfriend isn’t working. They’re living in a shelter. He starts drinking and is a useless father to their children. She’s realises that she didn’t get the better life she wanted, so she tells him to take his car and leave.

LunaNorth · 27/06/2021 08:40

What about ‘Get Here’ by Oleta Adams?

You can reach me by railway
You can reach me by trailway

You can reach me in a big balloon

You can reach me by caravan
Cross the desert like an Arab man

It remind me of a Year 7 poem.

HarebrightCedarmoon · 27/06/2021 08:42

@maras2

'Flies are in your pea soup baby, they're waving at me' Hi Ho Silver Lining. WTAF? A bit too much cold medication, Mr. Beck. Wink
For ages I thought the lyrics were "Flattering your pea suit, baby, they're waving at me."

Thought perhaps a pea suit was an item of 1960s fashion, perhaps like a slinky cat suit. And her breasts were a bit perky and "waving at him". Love that I imagined so much more innuendo than was actually there Blush

lunasunshine · 27/06/2021 09:00

Ed Sheeran!

“And darling I will be loving you til we’re 70”

But at 71 I’m going to drop you like a hot potato Hmm

notsusan · 27/06/2021 09:03

I'm just here to defend fast car, and all other tracy chapman songs/lyrics. take that back! ;-)

notsusan · 27/06/2021 09:05

also, totally agree re des'ree, wtf, and do they know it's xmas ('and there won't be snow in aaafricaa this xmas'). wow

Branleuse · 27/06/2021 09:11

Please dont diss Paolo. Hes very respectful asking for a final shag

ThisCollie · 27/06/2021 09:19

@LunaNorth

What about ‘Get Here’ by Oleta Adams?

You can reach me by railway
You can reach me by trailway

You can reach me in a big balloon

You can reach me by caravan
Cross the desert like an Arab man

It remind me of a Year 7 poem.

Have you been watching the reruns of 1991 TOTP? This god-awful song has been on loads lately!
Spidey66 · 27/06/2021 09:29

Fast Car doesn't have plot holes. [Hmm]

My understanding of it is the protagonist ie Tracy Chapman has had a terrible childhood with her alcoholic father and dreams of a better life for herself, but ends up in exactly the same situation as an adult.

Poignant and sad. The whole album is a corker.

Spidey66 · 27/06/2021 09:36

I love both Justified and Ancient by the KLF and Rock Lobster by the B52s but both songs have the daftest lyrics ever!

Branleuse · 27/06/2021 09:38

I dont think the beatles gave a realistic representation of what an octopuses garden would actually be like

Spidey66 · 27/06/2021 09:40

A snippet from Justified and Ancient:

Verse 3: Ricardo DaForce]
Justified and Ancient, Ancient and a-justified
Rocking to the rhythm in their ice cream van
With the plan and the key to
Enter into Mu Mu
Vibes from the tribes of the Jams
I know where the beat is at
'Cause I know what time it is
Three on the dot
Make mine a "99"
New style, meanwhile, always on a mission while
Fishing in the rivers of life
Fishing in the rivers of life (hey)
Fishing in the rivers of life (hey)
Fishing in the rivers
Fishing in the rivers
Fishing in the rivers of life (hey)

MintyCedric · 27/06/2021 09:44

@Spidey66

I love both Justified and Ancient by the KLF and Rock Lobster by the B52s but both songs have the daftest lyrics ever!
I see yours and raise you Come Together by the Beatles...Grin

Here come old flat top
He come grooving up slowly
He got joo joo eyeball
He one holy roller
He got hair down to his knee
Got to be a joker he just do what he please
He wear no shoe shine
He got toe jam football
He got monkey finger
He shoot Coca-Cola
He say I know you, you know me
One thing I can tell you is you got to be free
Come together, right now, over me
He bag production
He got walrus gumboot
He got Ono sideboard
He one spinal cracker
He got feet down below his knee
Hold you in his armchair you can feel his disease
Come together, right now, over me
He roller coaster
He got early warning
He got muddy water
He one mojo filter
He say, "one and one and one is three"
Got to be good looking 'cause he's so hard to see
Come together, right now, over me
Oh
Come together, yeah
Come together, yeah
Come together, yeah
Come together, yeah

Spidey66 · 27/06/2021 09:44

I don't know what the B52s were on when they wrote Rock Lobster, but I want some

We were at a party
His earlobe fell in the deep
Someone reached in and grabbed it
It was a rock lobster
Rock lobster
Rock lobster
We were at the beach
Everybody had matching towels
Somebody went under a dock
And there they saw a rock
It wasn't a rock
It was a rock lobster
Rock lobster
Rock lobster
Rock lobster
Rock lobster
Motion in the ocean
His air hose broke
Lots of trouble
Lots of bubble
He was in a jam
S'in a giant clam
Rock rock
Rock lobster
Down, down
Lobster rock
Lobster rock
Let's rock!
Boy's in bikinis
Girls in surfboards
Everybody's rockin'
Everybody's fruggin'
Twistin' 'round the fire
Havin' fun
Bakin' potatoes
Bakin' in the sun
Put on your noseguard
Put on the Lifeguard
Pass the tanning butter
Here comes a stingray
There goes a manta-ray
In walked a jelly fish
There goes a dog-fish
Chased by a cat-fish
In flew a sea robin
Watch out for that piranha
There goes a narwhal
Here comes a bikini whale!
Rock lobster
Rock lobster
Rock lobster
Rock lobster

Bbq1 · 27/06/2021 10:06

@lunasunshine

Ed Sheeran!

“And darling I will be loving you til we’re 70”

But at 71 I’m going to drop you like a hot potato Hmm

Oh yeah Ed Sherran "Im in love with the shape of your body". Yuk. Never mind, "I love you" , no, it's just your body . Ed Sheeran is seriously overrated.
80smercedes · 27/06/2021 10:32

I drove all night, and crept in your room.
Woke you from your dreams,
To make love to you.
Is that alright?
Is that alright?

No it's bloody well not alright, you absolute weirdo!

AngelDelightUk · 27/06/2021 10:33

Shaggy - It Wasn’t Me
I know it’s been mentioned but the line “how could I forget that I had given her an extra key”
You FORGOT you gave your girlfriend a key!!!

DrSbaitso · 27/06/2021 10:46

Nik Kershaw: "The Riddle is nonsense, rubbish, bollocks, the confused ramblings of an 80s pop star."

Imissmoominmama · 27/06/2021 10:46

Bruno Mars- I’d catch a grenade for you.

What would be the point of that then, Bruno?

HarebrightCedarmoon · 27/06/2021 11:06

Oh yeah Ed Sherran "Im in love with the shape of your body". Yuk. Never mind, "I love you" , no, it's just your body . Ed Sheeran is seriously overrated

Give over. Are singers not allowed to write songs about lust? Nothing wrong with that at all.

LunaNorth · 27/06/2021 11:42

Yup!

honeylulu · 27/06/2021 11:51

Missing by Everything But The Girl:
"I miss you, like the deserts miss the rain"

But it barely rains in the desert, sometimes not for years. If it rained regularly then ots more stuff would grow and it would be a different ecosystem altogether and cease to be a desert.

So, quite literally the lyric is saying "I don't miss you at all and I hope you stay away".

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