(Musically, though, this section is clever, and moving: the clunky line uses the same chords as the opening song, “Prepare ye the Way of the Lord,” which then re-commences – the circle of life and all that.)
I always sing the chorus to The Glory of Love like this:
I am the one who will fight for your honor.
I’ll be the hero that you’re dreaming of.
We’ll live together knowing forever that
We did it all for glory of love
People do not live forever, but they do live together. I’m willing to believe you might maybe know something forever, in a figurative sense.
I could do without the gigajillion repetitions of
Na na na na na na na na na na, Hey Jude
I interpret it as “If I had known you when I was young, I would have had more time with you.” Or it could be “it’s a shame I’m only meeting you now, when I’m older and not as energetic/healthy/adventurous as I used to be.”
Cat Stevens, “Moonshadow”
If I ever lose my mouth
or my teeth, north and south
I just think the following line in “Closer” by the Chainsmokers/Halsey sounds so forced, for wont of a better term:
“So baby pull me closer in the backseat of your Rover
That I know you can’t afford
Bite that tattoo on your shoulder
Pull the sheets right off the corner
Of the mattress that you stole
From your roommate back in Boulder
We ain’t ever getting older.”
That’s a lot of imagery and history packed in there, too much so imho.
Most 17 year olds, including myself years ago, are often chubby, awkward, or have acne. The exquisite ones men drool over are rare as unicorns. My opinion and I’m sticking to it. Also, even back then, it was thought 17 year olds were firm, undiseased, pliant bags of flesh for the using, unlike some old, worn out hardened groupies. Those young giggling dummies were invited back to ‘party’ with the band because of their sparkling conversation.
In “Robbery, Assault and Battery” by Genesis:
“God always fights on the side of the bad man”
WTF? 
Tony Banks is a consummate keyboardist and music composer, but he sucks at writing lyrics. A Trick of the Tail is one of their best albums musically, but lyrically suffered in spots without Peter Gabriel’s contribution.
It’s ‘all’ my teeth, north and south. Top and bottom. That’s an actual expression. Or, I should say, I’ve heard it used as an expression. Specifically, I remember former baseball player Lenny Dykstra saying that he lost his teeth, ‘north and south’, because of chewing tobacco. But which came first? Perhaps Cat Stevens coined it.
Sort of like…
“It rained all day the night I left
The weather was so dry
The sun so hot I froze myself…”
?
Danny O’Keefe’s song “On Discovering a Missing Person” is a favorite song of mine.
But it’s clear that in the last verse he just didn’t know what to say:
“Take me to that river
I’m ready for the plunge
There ain’t been much water lately
In my sponge”
Every time I hear the song, I cringe at the last line. And you can’t even think of it as a throwaway as it’s the LAST LINE IN THE SONG.
From Bette Davis Eyes,which overall is a great song, I have always thought that:
She’s precocious
And she knows just what it takes
To make a pro blush
is a terrible, forced rhyme. (There is another verse that uses “ferocious” instead of “precocious” - just as bad.)
To Paxtn’s I’m Changing My Name To Chrysler" is excellent. The line: I will tell some power broker/What he did for Iacocca" is pure Dylan-level rhyme genius. HOWEVER…
Since the first amphibian crawled out of the slime
We’ve been struggling in an unrelenting climb
We were hardly up and walking before money started talking
And it said that failure is an awful crime
should be
We had barely started walking before money started talking.
"Moonlight Shadow": “Four a.m. in the morning.”
**Of course **it’s four a.m. in the morning! That’s what “a.m.” means! DUH! :smack:
No matter how hard I try, I cannot unhear those words. Couldn’t they have used “Four o’clock in the morning” instead? :dubious: :mad:
Leonard Cohen’s “Night Comes On” has the lines…
There was this terrible sound
And my father went down
With a terrible wound in his side
The double use of “terrible” there has always annoyed me. I’ve no idea if it was deliberate but it sounds to my ear like Cohen couldn’t think of another synonym for “very bad” that worked.
“chewin’” would have worked.
Every word of the Stones’ “Brown Sugar” and “Under my Thumb.”
Not “Stupid Girl?”
From the Soft Cell song Bedsitter “poverty-stricken apartment dweller” makes sense.
TBH, I didn’t even know that song. I did look up the lyrics but it seemed to me that they’re about a type of girl who’s very vain.
Did I get that wrong?