Don’t get me wrong, I really like Sly and the Family Stone’s Dance to the Music, and you have to make the lyrics fit the melody.
But every time I hear the bass player sing, “I’m gonna add some bottom, so there’s a dancer that just won’t hide,” I cringe a little. I’m sure you mean you don’t want anybody to hide from dancing. But the way you’re saying it, only one dancer isn’t hiding.
From the same song:
I was standing
You were there
Wow, that paints quite a picture.
Dealing with death of a close one can take on many different forms of healing and therapy.
But Yoko: starting off this wierdness with gun shots and then screaming is probably goofy as all fucking fuck.
warning: weird shit to ruin your evening
Another Tom Paxton one:
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.
/come on, Tom! The better line would have been " We had barely started walking before money started talking."
CSNY, you goddamned hippy fascists!!!
“A new day, a new way.”
(later)
“Rejoice, rejoice, you have no choice.”
Right then - hup hup hup hup come on everybody let’s go! No lagging! Flowers in our hair? Got enough patchouli on? Right amount of insouciant whimsy going on? Ok! Let’s go! hup hup hup hup!
The levee was a bar. That had given up or lost it’s liquor licence.
And the good old boys were singing Buddy Holly’s song – That’ll be the day – because it was “the day the music died”: Feb 2, 1959
You just got to be a bit more literal…
From George Harrison’s “Got My Mind Set On You”:
But it’s gonna take money
A whole lot of spending money
It’s gonna take plenty of money
To do it right, child
He seems to make quite a fuss about this (the refrain’s repeated three times).
Not sure if he’s going after a golddigger or what, but it does sound kinda…solicit-y, or something.
Is everybody really Kung Fu fighting?
If so, how fast were the kicks? Like, did they even break the sound barrier?
(WAR! Huh! Yeah! WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR? Various things. Granted, sometimes it’s a bad idea; but, strictly speaking, it sure seems to have its uses.)
While it is more about pronunciation, The Pixies - Allison Allison is pronounced al·li·son and I keep expecting al·li·sion, which is a nautical term for running into a stationary object or boat vs a collision which is reserved for when two boats are moving.
Allision
al·li·sion | \ əˈlizhən, aˈ-
: the running of one ship upon another ship that is stationary —distinguished from collision
Funny enough all of the lyrics make sense if you do swap out the “son” for “sion”
“For there ain’t no one for to give you no pain” is probably the worst gramatical line in any song. And then it goes on:
After nine days I let the horse run free
'Cause the desert had turned to sea
There were plants and birds and rocks and things
There was sand and hills and rings
Things and rings in a sea? What the hell does that mean?
“I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was younger”, pains me also.
I hear this as “…so that the dancers just won’t hide,” and lyrics sites seem to agree. He puts a little “uh” before “just” which you’re interpreting as another word.
I still like the song though. I pay attention to lyrics, always have, but sometimes it just doesn’t matter. The early Beatles lyrics were pretty fluffy, but man do I like their melodies.
Why does Billy Joel’s Piano Man have internal rhymes in some verses and not in others. I consider that a major flaw in an otherwise perfect song.
“It’s better to burn out,
than to fade away.”
Sorry, Niel - not really seeing a whole metric ton of degrees of separation between the two concepts.
Really? Maybe you’re too young to understand how much worse fading away is than burning out. Trust me, it’s not the same thing at all.
Can you elaborate?
Not as out there as:
So please believe in me
When I say I’m spinning round, round, round, round
Smoke glass stain’d bright colors
Image going down, down, down, down
Soapsud green like bubbles
Rock music lyrics frequently are just put there because they sound like they fit.
heh - quite missed edit window
I would gather burning out would be the same as being strung out, and basically spent from the whole experience, in a deleterious way, as opposed to fading away, which, sure, is a loss in popularity, but simply the end of a chapter that at least doesn’t involve being strung out, per se. That’s about the best I can glean from this, so I’m curious what your (KayT) take is.