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?

When I was young I thought "china in your hand" was about politics. In my defence, my English wasn't that good back then.

Can I just say
Uptown Top Ranking
We saw you on TOTP, singing it like you knew what it meant, with your cool afros. But what the what?

this gun's for hire even if we're just dancing in the dark

WHAAAAAT?

Oh no, you can't mock Sbruce.

I think he means something on the lines of 'I'm yours tonight even if we're just dancing in the dark not shagging '.

Now, I LOVE Blondie, but One Way or Another- rat food's not going to do anyone much harm really is it?

I love Always by Erasure, but seriously, the first line:

Open your eyes
I see your eyes are open

Makes me cringe

scentednappyhag - wouldn't that just be her meaning rat poison only poison didn't fit cos it's two syllables?

Yy with little drummer boy

'Oi, you little shit! Your bleeding parupapumpum-ing has woken the bleeding baby!!! I only just got him dahn!

In Ding Dong merrily, isn't thre a line with "steeple bells be swungen" rhymed with "by priest and people sungen"? Swungen?? Sungen???

'Alice, Alice, who the fuck is Alice?'

Mate, you're the best one to answer that. You lived next to her for 24 years.

That version is a parody of the original song though.

Just thought of another song that really bugs me - Man who can't be Moved by Script. It's about a man who decides to camp out on a street corner following a relationship break-out, like some weirdly static stalker:

"'Cause if one day you wake up and find that you're missing me,
And your heart starts to wonder where on this earth I can be,
Thinking maybe you'll come back here to the place that we'd meet,
And you'd see me waiting for you on the corner of the street."

Yes, if your ex decided to contact you of course she'd have to come back to the place you met; it would never occur to her to phone or email you.

What's more, as he keeps yammering about how he won't be moved from the street corner in case his ex comes back, I start wondering about whether he's even leaving to use the toilet. Presumably he's not washing or showering. And he says he's willing to stand there for a year. That's really going to win her back, isn't it?

LOL I cant believe R.E.M.'s 'Imitation Of Life' isn't on here! :

This sugarcane
This lemonade
This hurricane, I'm not afraid.
C'mon, c'mon no one can see you cry

What the f'in f?

I do like REM though [busmile]