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?

Sample lyric from 'The Revealing Science of God (Dance of the Dawn)' by Yes:

Dawn of thought transferred through moments of days undersearching earth
Revealing corridors of time provoking memories
Disjointed but with purpose
Craving penetrations offer links with the self instructor sharp and tender love as we took to the air a picture of distance.

Craving penetrations?!

I very much doubt that Mariah Carey would be perfectly happy with no actual presents.

Agree about that All Saints one; "a few questions that I need to know"

creepy Christmas song lyrics

"Have yourself a merry little christmas. It may be your last"

A star
Lit up like a cigar
Strung out like a guitar
Maybe you can educate my mind

Explain all these controls
Can't sing but I've got soul
The goal is elevation

A mole
Digging in a hole
Digging up my soul now
Going down, excavation

I and I in the sky
You make me feel like I can fly
So high
Elevation

Elevation by U2.

Laziest Lyrics Ever. Rhyming mole with hole, sky with fly. Wow, Bono, you da man.

God I hate U2.

That Bonio is an arse.

What was the one that went:

"Sometimes the snow comes down in June" ... yeah well maybe on a mountain in New Zealand

"Sometimes the sun goes round the moon" ... not in this solar system mate. And I suspect not in any.

I used to think this line was deeply flawed and annoying but then thought "Hold on - maybe they're singing '... if this ever changing world in which we're livin'' - surely they wouldn't get away with such a bad grammatical error?"

I wish someone would ask P. McCartney and clear it up once and for all.

Stealing Cake to eat the Moon........What the fuck is that all about then ...i think everyone was stoned in the 80's :)

The way the drama and desperation conjured up in Snow Patrol's Run
gets trivialised towards the end with "Even if it's just for a few days".

And as for "All I want is to find an easier way/To get out of our little heads" ... Eh? It always leaves me with the impression that Gary was in a hurry to get to the pub "Hang on, just got to finish off these lyrics - yeah, that'll do. Coming, lads!"

It beats me how people can ruin a masterpiece in this way.
www.songlyrics.com/snow-patrol/run-lyrics/

ridiculously funny cartoon about Des'ree

Haven't read it all so apologies it's been mentioned, but... Eurythmics "Missionary Man" ? Really?

My mother told me good, my mother told me strong
She said be true to yourself and you can't go wrong
But there's just one thing you must understand
You can fool with your brother
But don't mess with a missionary man."

So incest is fine, but don't shag a priest??!

What was that song that went something like
I would rather go blind
Than lose your love.

BLIND ??? REALLY ???
Grrr

Now if songs deliberately don't make sense, that's fine... (see Nirvana/Pixies/ Smashing Pumpkins/Ride/Bob Dylan) I quite like "You might think he loves you for your money, but I know what he really loves you for - it's your brand new leopard-skin pillbox hat"

However, some songs are just odd. 50 Cent's "Come give me a hug/ You'll end up getting drunk" a) doesn't actually rhyme, and b) how, exactly? Giving someone a hug and becoming intoxicated aren't usually linked.

This thread is priceless...

*And another thing

Beyonce, love. It probably doesn't suck to be him right now. He's probably really happy and getting on with his life, in fact he is probably well rid of the psycho/stalker who goes on and on and fucking on about how over him she is. She's so over him, she writes a song about it and screeches it to the world.*

YY!!

It's slightly worrying how much that song annoys me...

"I wannid you bad, but I'm so troo wit dat..."

Well clearly you're FAR from over him. You're devoting a large portion of your wedding day to singing about him. Does your husband-to-be realise just how obsessed you still are with your ex? Hmm?

Re Bowie's impenetrable lyrics, I used to idolise him and think I didn't understand it all because I just wasn't sophisticated enough. Then I saw an interview where he explained that he was into William Burroughs' cut-up technique, so he would write words down, then cut them up and rearrange them in random order.

Aha.

Sounds pretentious I know, but he's still bloody brilliant.

What's she gonna look like with a chimney on her?

eh?

I love the cockney rhyming in Supergrass:
Lost controwl, hit a wawl...

And one of my favourite worst lyrics is in a Chris de Burgh song about WW1 which starts
That cold North wind they call La Bize
Is swirling round about my knees

Now what I want to know is, yes you Mr Pitbull, who is Keith?

(as in On the Floor)

Charlene Soraya (sp) and her speech impediment are irritating me at the moment....

"... whewevver you will go..."

What's with people who delibewately sing as if they can't pwonounce their "R"s?

"paper woses, paper woses"
Think Marie Osmond might have had a teeny speech imped, though

BalloonSlayer It was Save the Best for Last

Sometimes the snow comes down in June
Sometimes the sun goes 'round the moon
I see the passion in your eyes
Sometimes it's all a big surprise
'Cause there was a time when all I did was wish
You'd tell me this was love
It's not the way I hoped or how I planned
But somehow it's enough here

"If you want to be my lover, you've got to get with my friends..."

All four of them? I'm not a machine darling!

Surely ANYTHING by REM should be on here?

I think the cannonball one is supposed to be read in a similar way to 'lead balloon'.

Ever listened to Sak Noel's Loca People song (and I use the term loosely)? If you're one of the aforementioned angry people (like me) you'll have a pulmonary embolism.

'When I came to Spain and I saw people partying
I thought to myself: What the fck!?
All day, all night
All day, all night
Viva la fiesta, viva la noche
Viva los DJ's
I couldn't believe what I was living
So I called my friend Johnny
And I said to him: Johnny,
La gente esta muy loca!
What the fck!?'

IT MAKES ME SO ANGRY rips brick out of wall Ah, now I feel better. house collapses Now I don't, but it was worth it...

Koriana x

Shakira - humble breasts - mountains conundrum was discussed by friends of mine many years ago. It went like this:

"what would the problem actually be if somebody confused breasts with mountains"

"Er. If they were Geologists. Or Rock climbers."

"eeew yes. Hammers. Crampons."

Second, regarding "In this ever changing world in which we're living / we live in", not to get too Wittgenstein on yo' ass but if it's 'ever changing', we are probably not experiencing the same world as each other, given our different experiential perspectives and the minute but tangible temporal shift between the point you sang it and when I heard it. Boom.

slightly caner friends, they were.