to get disproportionately angry when songs do not make sense

[WTAF]

In the car today, radio on, and they start playing All Around The World by Lisa Stansfield. Instantly I felt the rage creeping up.

'Been around the world and I, I
I can't find my baby,
I don't know why, why he's gone away '

YES YOU FUCKING DO, LISA! Allow me to refer you to your own words, not 30 seconds ago, when you said (and I quote):

'We had a quarrel, and I let myself go
I said so many things, things he didn't know
And I was oh, oh so bad'

And then, and then, LISA, you go on to say

'I did too much lying, wasted too much time'

So you do know, you know exactly why he's gone away, so you should just STFU and concentrate on finding him to apologise. Not singing that bullshit trying to make us feel sorry for you, when clearly it is all YOUR FAULT.

I feel better for that. Anyone else?

Ha! Haven't the time to read the entire thread but I CANNOT listen to that fecking song by Lisa Stansfield AT ALL - it's instant channel change if it comes on!

My most annoying song lyric is in "Always The Last To Know" by Del Amitri - it's all about a break up, him being the last to find out and THEN he sticks these fucking annoyingly nonsensical lines in:
"And you said these are such perfect days
That if the bomb drops baby
I wanna be the last to know"

WTAF has a bomb drop got to do with the rest of the song, except that it includes the phrase "last to know" again?? Drives me nuts every time I hear it ARRRGGHHHHH!!!

Agree with Live and Let Die - too many 'in's in that sentence - also very annoying.

Sade, I can't remember the song title but the lyric has bugged me for years:

Coast to coast, LA to Chicago

Look, love, I've been to Chicago and seen Lake Michigan. It's big, I grant you that, but it's not the coast. A quick look in an atlas should sort that one out for you. The lyric should be, 'Quite a long way into America.'

'Adele's someone like you, surely the relationship ended for a reason, also maybe half his fault, why find someone like him?????'

No he left her, she does want someone just like him, that's why it's so fecking heartbreaking

Isn't "chasing pavements" a slang term for actively pursuing the art of dogging? I'm sure I was told that's what Adele meant by it.

To raise the tone a little I nominate Sisqo:

^She had dumps like a truck truck truck
Thighs like what what what^

She had WHATS like a WHAT? Some part of her resembled a truck? Yum. And thighs like WHAT? Tell us Sisqo. If you don't know, we sure as hell don't. Complete your simile or just shut up.

Thumbinnapuddingwitch - I always understood it as "if anything is to destroy these perfect days, I really don't want to know about it for as long as possible". So not neccessarily literally a bomb.

Basement Kiss, always wondered what that was about...

Widow - ok, I assumed they were wittering about an atomic bomb dropping and the 4 minute warning. Either way, stupid pissing lyric, IMO, and always makes me shudder like nails down a blackboard does whenever I hear it.

I always liked that Katie Melua song - I want to pat her on the head and go "yes dear, and when you grow up you'll realise that 22 and 17 are not that different at all".

Driving home last week four out of the six radio stations I tried to listen to were playing Do They Know It's Christmas.

Simultaneously.

I hate that song.

Argh.

Bruno Mars, as other people have mentioned, is also a repeat offender.

I don't know what's worse:

Today I don't feel like doing anything - well, that's nice for you. You go play with your Snuggie. Also, why do you keep making references to sticking your hand down your trousers? 'Nobody's gonna tell me I can't'? NO, THEY'LL JUST ARREST YOU. Unless you're on your own in your house, in which case NOBODY IS AVAILABLE TO COMMENT.

Also, from I Think I Wanna Marry You: dancing juice? Dancing. Juice. What kind of stupid name for (what I presume is) alcoholic drinks is that? Also, are you in Las Vegas? Or Scotland? Because if you're in, say, England, or I don't know, Minnesota, I don't think you can just up and get married in the middle of the night without a license. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Are you allowed to get married when you're drunk?

And you MUST be in Vegas, because I know of nowhere else with chapels and choirboys singing as you wed IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BLOOMING NIGHT.

Don't even get me started on Grenade.

sigh

That was massively therapeutic. Thank you, thread starter!

'in which case NOBODY IS AVAILABLE TO COMMENT.'

Quote of the day.

Thumbinnapuddingwitch - I'm pretty sure that a nuclear attack is what the metaphor is based on - Del Amitri are 80ies people after all.

I just have a soft spot for the song, my husband plays it a lot on the guitar, and it's weirdly sweet to hear my not even 3 year old singing along

'Waterloo, finally facing I wanted you.'

What is this? A sudden urge for a London mainline railway station? A recently-admitted craving for a flushing toilet? It makes no sense

So it is. I've just been wrong all this time.

Widow - I love the song too - it's just that line grates every single time, it's a pain. I'll be singing along to it quite merrily but I will not sing that line!
How sweet that your 3yo sings it - DH has just taught my just-4yo "Who let the dogs out" - you can just imagine how unimpressed I am with that, hey.

Has anyone mentioned Bob Dylan yet? Don't Think Twice'

'it aint know use in turning on your light babe
The light I never knowed'

It makes me want to throw my iPod out the window

Thumbinnapuddingwitch

I had to have stern words with him to cease playing as a lullaby before she was old enough to pick up the words.

Lordy! I thought Justin Bieber's Baby Baby and Beyoncé's Single Ladies were inappropriate enough - that one's really though!!

Trills - I LOVE Tim Minchin

I'm sorry to have to do this but... a defence of the much hated lyric "I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair":

I think song is about the times when her parents were teenagers- one was a teen in 1969 and one in 1977 (there's a lyric that says "in '77 and '69 revolution was in the air" and one that says "my mum and dad were in their teens..."). So she puts things from '69 together with things from '77- i.e. a punk rocker (77) with hippy flowers in hair (69).

Another of the lyrics in the song is "when God saved the Queen she turned a Whiter Shade of Pale"- again a reference to the two eras (punk rock's Sex Pistols and hippy Procol Harum- although come to think of it, the lyrics to Whiter Shade of Pale are pretty damn ridiculous!).

Love this thread though- one that irritates me is Owl City "Fireflies", with the lyric "I'm weird coz I hate goodbyes"- erm, no that's not weird, most people don't like saying goodbye to their loved ones!!!

Hate Do they know it's Christmas for this line:

Tonight thank God it's them instead of you

Seems a bit warped.

"You don't have to say you love me
Just be close at hand
You don't have to stay forever
I will understand."

Excuse me, Dusty? If he doesn't have to stay forever, why do you "have to follow him and beg him to come home"? And how exactly can you justify asking him to stay close at hand in the same sentence?

Doesn't seem very understanding to me.

Let him go. He's just not that into you, pet.

Has annoyed me for YEARS.

It's not fair to include Bob Dylan. All his lyrics are nonsense, but it's poetickal, innit

Now, Steve Miller:

Some people call me the space cowboy yeah
Some call me the gangster of love
Some people call me Maurice
Cause' I speak of the pompetous of love

WTF is the pompetous of love?????