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?

on another note can I recall how very very irked I was as an A level politics student to be constantly dogged by my Bros-ette, grolsch bottle top in DMs, red scarf round neck wearing little sister

"you're playing Karl Marx,
With your jogging in the park"

I mean PLEASE - where in Das Capital is there a SINGLE bloody exercise reference?

I love the candyfloss image- you should write a song, Trills!

I'm afraid it would be at the ghost/toast/most level...

what about ronan keeting with 'you say it best when you say nothing at all'

well cheers mate

I thought the 'chimney on her' referred to a neck brace that made 'her' look like a chimney.

I'm laughing so much that I'm crying!

Lisa Stansfield has always bugged me!!!

The other one that gets on my nerves is: "You say it best, when you say nothing at all" So shut the fuck up woman!!!! That annoys me so much

Sorry Blackout just seen your post - totally agree!

am absolutely lmao.
My biggest annoyance is the first lines of a song which I otherwise quite like (and 5yo dd's favourite, 'nuf said)
"do you ever feel like a plastic bag [well erm now you mention it, er, no]
drifting through the wind wanting to start again? (what does a plastic bag start?)
do you ever feel, feel so paper thin, like a house of cards
one blow from caving in" [aren't playing cards made of, um, card?]

percy/kimdeal (pedant alert): the Ethiopian Christian Orthodox church doesn't celebrate Christmas until January so the question "Do they know it's Christmas time?" is redundant.

With regard to Katie Perry's "did you ever feel like a plastic bag?", one shouldn't mock as this is a real and very dangerous disease. I was tested for it once - I am not suffering from the disease but I am, in fact A CARRIER!!

(and pmsl)

Saturday, did you write that book of awful jokes my 8yo ds is reading?

Oh yes, Mrs. Shrek, I have hundreds more where that came from

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Lip up fatty by the way

PMSL at April for being on the wrong thread, and at Saturday for her apPALLing joke in response to the Katy Perry song rant by mrs. Shrek!!

Ahh, much needed giggle after a fraughtish shopping trip with the family...

While I'm being unreasonably annoyed at ignorance of the laws of physics, in "saved the best for last" the Sun does go round the moon, but only from a lunar centric frame of reference. Using that frame of reference it would always do that, there is no possible frame of reference where the Sun sometimes goes round the moon.

Nottheblinkinggrufalo:
It's we live our life in different sizes
I love her body especially the lines

It's basically a song appreciating different body shapes and sizes.

PMPL @ April I totaly agree with over marking but Chelsee did also dance awfully compared to previous weeks!

Back to thread - disturbing lyrics; If I was your mother by Bon Jovi - ewwww...

WHO IS GOING TO STICK UP FOR THE SONGWRITERS?

LIVE AND LET DIE:
No one person on this thread has considered Paul McCartney's complete lyric; just concentrating on a single (mis-heard) phrase. Well of course you won't understand, then, will you?

"But IF this ever-changing world IN which we're LIVIN'
makes you give in and cry,
say 'Live and Let Die'."

Where's the fuckin' problem? Grammatical. Perfect Zero Conditional sentence. Makes sense.

Similarly, PUNK ROCKER:
ButterPopcorn and I seem to have grasped what the rest of you don't understand. She put it very well, up-thread:

'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!).'

Well done, ButterPopcorn The songwriter is clearly writing about two different periods of revolution, and conflating them to convey a general yearning for rebellion. Why is that so difficult to understand?

Well I hate that bloody awful Macarther Park song. Its supposed to be a classic but it just bugs the bloody hell out of me.

'someone left a cake out in the rain, and it took so long to bake it and I'll never have that reciepe agaaaaaaain'

Now that line is a filler if ever I heard one!

I love REM. They are fab.
But if you look at their lyrics most of their songs ethier dont make any sense or have really ordinary bland words. How do they make their songs sound so great?

I've been to Paradise but I've never been to me.
I've been undressed by kings and I've seen some things
That a woman ain't meant to see

What are those things? What are they? This has been bugging me for 30 years!

You ask me if I love you
And I choke on my reply

Yet you keep seamlessly singing!

Thank you BelfastRingingOutforXmasBloke - I'm afraid I was a bit of an Emperor's New Clothes Kid last night to explain to the rest of the crowd. Indeed, those lyrics are quite brilliant, as is the said line from the Sex Pistols. I also think whoever wrote "Call me Mr. Flinstone I can make your bed rock" deserves to be Poet Laureate.