Doesn’t matter if it’s longer or shorter than the original lyrics, so don’t worry about matching your syllable to the original syllable.
Just as long as you keep some vague idea of one line, as suited to that particular song.
If your line rambles on a bit too long, I guess on a case by case basis one could determine if it’s gone completely off the rails.
Billy Joel seems to be pretty good fodder -
“I don’t give, a flying fuck, about what you say, anymore, it’s, my, fucking, life.”
“Blame it all on yourself cause she’s always, a major pain in the aaa-ass, to meeeee…”
“YOU HAD TO BE A MUTHAFUCKIN, DIPSHITTIN, COKE-SNORTIN BIG SHOT, DIDN’T YA?”
or everyone’s probably no. 1 favourite - Bryan Adams - “It cuts like a knife…and it feels soooooooo like this’ll be a silent killer…YEAH!”
For some odd reason, there’ve been two songs, every time I here them, I want to shake some sense into the singer and fix that word.
Bruce Springsteen in Glory Days: “He could throw that speed ball by you …” It’s a FAST ball, Bruce!
Billy Joel, Light as the Breeze: “… And you turn in disgust, from your hatred and from your love” Why isn’t this LUST? You *might *be disgusted by your own lust, but not by your own love IMO. And lust would not only be more appropriate, it would actually rhyme!
One I’ve mentioned before, and hadn’t even noticed was “gray” for quite a long while: that song by Seal should “compare you to a kiss from a rose on the grave.”
Every day a little sadder
A little madder
Someone get me a **ladder.
**Arrgghh. I like ELP in a nostalgic way for the times in which I heard it for the first time. And I like this song. But, hoo boy, when that line comes up I cringe. There are a whole number of words to complete the rhyme but M. Lake just went with the first bad non-sequitur to come to mind. Oh, well.
This is going to be a Billy Joel type thread. He is really a car wreck.
I just heard Captain Jack on the radio yesterday. A good start would be to take out the line that ends in “masturbate” but you could do more. I just don’t want to go back and verify.
Eddie Cochran’s song Twenty Flight Rock is the song Paul McCartney played “backstage” at the then-Quarrymen’s gig at the church social (well, after the show, off to the side) for John Lennon to show that he (Paul) could play. At the time, John was probably more impressed that Paul could tune the guitar
[QUOTE=Eddie Cochran]
Well, they sent to Chicago for repairs
Till it’s a-fixed I’m a-usin’ the stairs
Hope they hurry up before it’s too late
Want my baby too much to wait
All this climbin’ is a-gettin’ me down
They’ll find my corpse draped over a rail
[/QUOTE]
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“a-getting me down”?!
Early on after figuring out the song, I changed the lyric to:
All this climbin’ - bound to fail
They’ll find my corpse draped over a rail
'cause hey, I know better than a rockabilly genius who died too young and The Beatles.
I am absolutely in love with Chance the Rapper’s song “Favorite Song” and it’s a super fun tune that makes me shake my butt with abandon…
But the first phrase is
“Chance, acid rapper, soccer, hacky sacker
Cocky khaki jacket jacker Slap-happy faggot slapper”
I am fairly sure that Chance is not homophobic and doesn’t say stuff like this in any of his other songs, but it’s quite jarring to me. And I desperately want to share the song with my friends on Facebook but I can’t, I gotta keep it to myself.
Bad move, Chance
I dunno what I would change it to. ANYTHING but “faggot” (and probably also not “cop” or “girlfriend”)
