# Lazy song writing **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [December 13, 2021, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lazy-song-writing/955957 "2021-12-13T01:50:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2021, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lazy-song-writing/955957/21 "2021-12-13T15:25:54Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > _In this ever-changing world in which we live in_ > > ETA: I still maintain that he sings _in which we’re living_, but no one else seems to agree with me.- The live versions make it pretty clear that he’s saying “which we live in.” ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2021, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lazy-song-writing/955957/22 "2021-12-13T15:34:21Z")
> Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, wipe out. And then there’s; > Tequila! > Tequila! > Tequila! ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2021, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lazy-song-writing/955957/23 "2021-12-13T15:35:26Z")
What’s wrong with that rhyme? It can work pretty well. _This is how we used to make the party start We to mix Hen with Bacardi Dark And when it kicks in you can hardly talk And by the sixth gin you’re gonna prob’ly crawl_ ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2021, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lazy-song-writing/955957/24 "2021-12-13T15:36:15Z")
Arguably better than _Barbara Streisand_. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2021, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lazy-song-writing/955957/25 "2021-12-13T15:40:52Z")
More lazy production than writing, but in **A Quick One** The Who chant “cello, cello, cello” repeatedly as a placeholder for strings. The strings were never added and the word “cello” appears 24 times in the official lyrics. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2021, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lazy-song-writing/955957/26 "2021-12-13T17:02:48Z")
And only time will tell If we stand the test of time Van Halen, _Why Can’t This Be Love_ ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2021, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lazy-song-writing/955957/27 "2021-12-13T19:28:27Z")
> [@Nars\_Glinley](#): > > “There were plants and birds and rocks and _things_ ”, followed by the profound line “The heat was hot” My contribution: one of Cat Stevens lesser known songs called “Later” “I want to feel your body close From your head down to your toes Maybe help you fold your clothes” it’s corny, but at least toes rhymes with close (well, almost) But “clothes” don’t rhyme with nuttin’, and it’s just plain stoopid. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2021, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lazy-song-writing/955957/28 "2021-12-13T19:32:06Z")
> [@Nars\_Glinley](#): > > If you’ve seen The Beatles “Let It Be” on Disney+ (highly recommended BTW), when they come up with songs on the fly, which they do a lot, these types of lyrics are used constantly. They just don’t make it into the final versions. In an interview once John said he sang nonsense words because he wanted the right words to sound fresher on the final take. ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2021, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lazy-song-writing/955957/29 "2021-12-13T19:41:53Z")
“_Say what you wiiii-iiilll…and you will!_” 80s hair-metal band ‘Fastway’ song ‘say What You Will’. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2021, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lazy-song-writing/955957/30 "2021-12-13T19:44:31Z")
How did we get this far and _not_ **speak of the pomotus of love**? ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2021, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lazy-song-writing/955957/31 "2021-12-13T20:07:18Z")
Wasn’t it a _pompatus_? ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2021, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lazy-song-writing/955957/32 "2021-12-13T20:15:18Z")
> [@Si\_Amigo](#): > > How did we get this far and _not_ **speak of the pomotus of love**? - The ability to speak of the pomotus (sic) of love is reserved for the select few. ---
**Author:** ![veryfrank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/87869e/32.png) [@veryfrank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/veryfrank)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2021, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lazy-song-writing/955957/33 "2021-12-13T20:55:02Z")
“…and the rest.” ---
**Author:** ![Author\_Balk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2021, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lazy-song-writing/955957/34 "2021-12-13T22:45:04Z")
Carole King is one of my favorites, but in Home Again she has: Snow is cold, rain is wet That is too easy. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2021, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lazy-song-writing/955957/35 "2021-12-13T22:51:31Z")
And Dylan wrote: _That big fat moon is gonna shine like a spoon_ So let the greats like King and Dylan have one day off in their career when they once wrote a lazy line. Or a lazy song. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2021, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lazy-song-writing/955957/36 "2021-12-13T23:02:46Z")
I’ll see your, “Build my world around you,” and raise you, “Take my breath away.” Really sick of that phrase. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2021, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lazy-song-writing/955957/37 "2021-12-13T23:05:17Z")
John Lennon: “Hey, does anyone have an idea how to end Hey Jude?” George: Nah Paul: Nah Ringo: Nah ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2021, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lazy-song-writing/955957/38 "2021-12-13T23:07:49Z")
It’s important not to mistake down-and-dirty minimalism for laziness. You’d be in error to suppose that Dale Hawkins’s lyrics for “Susie Q” were uninspired. You can have your Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen. It’s the Trashmen for me. _A well a everybody’s heard about the bird_ _B-b-b bird, bird, bird, b-bird’s the word_ _A well a bird, bird, bird, the bird is the word_ _A well a bird, bird, bird, well the bird is the word_ _A well a bird, bird, bird, b-bird’s the word_ _A well a bird, bird, bird, well the bird is the word_ _A well a bird, bird, b-bird’s the word_ _A well a bird, bird, bird, b-bird’s the word_ _A well a bird, bird, bird, well the bird is the word_ _A well a bird, bird, b-bird’s the word_ Don’t you know about the bird? Sheer genius. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2021, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lazy-song-writing/955957/39 "2021-12-13T23:11:31Z")
When we were kids, the rumor was that the sound tech walked out to use the facilities and they couldn’t stop playing for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2021, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lazy-song-writing/955957/40 "2021-12-13T23:23:31Z")
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