# Annoying non-sequiturs in song lyrics **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 6, 2007, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoying-non-sequiturs-in-song-lyrics/386908 "2007-01-06T04:09:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![buns3000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c89c15/32.png) [@buns3000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buns3000)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoying-non-sequiturs-in-song-lyrics/386908/1 "2007-01-06T04:09:46Z")
In A-Ha’s song “Hunting High & Low”, the premise from pretty much the start of the song is that she’s gone and he’s hunting high and low for her. The song goes in that way until quite late in the piece where we hear the line “And now she’s telling me she’s got to go away”. What doesn’t sit right is that surely he already knows that she’s gone away or else he wouldn’t be hunting high and low. How can she just be telling him “now”? It always grates to hear this. Then having been told “now” that she’s got to go away, the lyrics have him resuming the hunting high and low. I guess it’s possible she was able to get the message to him that she’s got to go away without giving him any contact details. However, it seems far more likely that, in the course of comunicating that message to him, she would have given him the means of contacting her in which case surely he would have no need to continue hunting high and low for her. Discuss your nominations for the award. ---
**Author:** ![minlokwat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minlokwat/32/2844_2.png) [@minlokwat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minlokwat)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoying-non-sequiturs-in-song-lyrics/386908/2 "2007-01-06T13:10:55Z")
Well without the thorough analysis put forth by the OP, **Steve Miller** ’s _Go on Take the Money and Run_ which seems to appear in a lot of these type threads, offers: _Billy Joe is a detective in Texas, He makes his living off other people’s taxes._ Bad enough to rhyme “Texas” and “taxes” but how crucial is it to listener to know the source of the guy’s income? ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoying-non-sequiturs-in-song-lyrics/386908/3 "2007-01-06T14:40:30Z")
Why does: Time keeps on slippin’, slippin’, slippin’ into the future? I only see it slip into the past. ---
**Author:** ![LANmom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c89c15/32.png) [@LANmom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LANmom)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoying-non-sequiturs-in-song-lyrics/386908/4 "2007-01-06T14:54:41Z")
Song lyrics are supposed to make sense? Thats a novel idea. Your list would be shorter if it included those which totally do. Many times the tune, beat and vocalization is more important than the poetry of the lyrics.