Pedants and incorrect song lyrics

[UnquietDad]

Does anyone else hear Gloria Gaynor on "I Will Survive" singing "you think I'd lay down and die" and want to scream at the radio "it's LIE down, you stupid woman!!" ?

Also Paul Weller on the Jam's "English Rose": "For nothing can ever tempt me from she." EH??

And Morrissey on "Sweet and Tender Hooligan" - his fans think he's erudite, but anyone who says "eck-setera" should be shot...

isnt it 'this ever changing world in which we live in'
maybe i just made that up though

It has to be "live in" to rhyme with "give in"

"But if this ever-changing world in which we live in/ Makes you give in and cry "

Anyway, those are the lyrics according to songfacts.com.

This thread never really got off the ground, did it?

Anyway, I've thought of another one:

'Fool's Gold' - Stone Roses:

'The pack on my back is aching/The straps seem to cut me like a knife.'

Ian, love, I think you'll find it's your back that's aching, not your rucksack.

To compound the crime, where's the apostrophe?

And is it the only song ever written that includes the word 'straps'?

The one that makes my teeth curl is "the female of the species is more deadlier than the male" by Space....
although this morning I have found a lyric site that posted it as 'more deadly' which threw me a bit, because I then thought that I had been hating this song unnecessarily for a number of years. Thankfully my initial assessment was proved correct!!!!

...assessment proved correct

durr.....

That is a very, VERY annoying song though, incorrect lyrics or not.

I always thought it was more deadly. That will irritate me every time I hear it now.

Midge Ure's 'If I was' always gets me.

Me ears are alight

The one that gets me every time is the Killers:
Well somebody told me You had a boyfriend Who looks like a girlfriend That I had in February last year
except that they sing FebEWary - ARGH!

Funny, I thought this thread was going to be different and much more appropriate to my own pedantry - my poor DH does love to sing his way around the house but knows very few lyrics to songs - i.e the occasional correct line followed by a load of incorrect stuff/made-up shite. Drive me NUTS!

Kathyis6incheshigh said:
"There's a Corrs song (I think it's 'Everybody's searching for intimacy') where she sings 'Now baby it's just you and I'."

I can't see what's wrong with that - would someone enlighten me please? I'm guessing the quibble is with 'I' instead of 'me', but the verb 'to be' is intransitive isn't it?

I always used to re-do the sentence without the other person to see whether it should be "me" or "I" - in this case, 'Now baby it's just you and I' - and it doesn't sound right, so it should be 'me'.

But I could be wrong, of course, and I'm sure someone will enlighten me soon enough.

Unquiet Dad. I know what you mean but when it's such a cracking song does it really annoy you? Guess you don't like the song? What about poetic license?

Will read whole thread later. There are loads of other songs where the lyrics grate me. I have to dislike the song quite a bit first though!!!

thumbwitch, that's how I do it too.

I'm always very forgiving of song lyrics and can't really work up the energy to be bothered about them.
I make an exception for that awful Fergie song mentioned with the "like a child misses their blankie" (yes I do think it's blankie, so I'm already cringeing from the 'their' and then have to cringe more)

Kaiser Chiefs: Oh My God.
"Drifting apart like a plate tectonic."

It takes two tectonic plates to drift apart. And they're tectonic plates, not plates tectonic. Idiots.

"...more deadlier than the male" Yes! every time I hear it I want to smash and kill.

But not as much as I want to smash and kill when I hear, "Stand by yud man."

What does "yud" mean FFS?

Gaaaaahhhh!

There is a Nils Lofgren song ( I think) which has the line 'Shine silently' which drives me insane

Shines invisibly, crazy as it is, is at least consistent