# lyrics of songs you have loved for years but just learned **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 17, 2019, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-of-songs-you-have-loved-for-years-but-just-learned/843565 "2019-11-17T04:21:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mike\_Mabes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mike_mabes/32/1782_2.png) [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2019, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-of-songs-you-have-loved-for-years-but-just-learned/843565/1 "2019-11-17T04:21:48Z")
Cheap Trick. I Want You to Want Me. Loved if for years, and most of the lyrics are obvious. But I just looked up a couple- I’ll shine up the old brown shoes, Put on a brand-new shirt I’ll get home early from work If you say that you love me Never knew those lyrics. Am listening now to Crazy on You by Heart, realize I don’t know some of the lyrics other than the chorus. ---
**Author:** ![LLCoolL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llcooll/32/3596_2.png) [@LLCoolL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LLCoolL)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2019, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-of-songs-you-have-loved-for-years-but-just-learned/843565/2 "2019-11-17T08:33:19Z")
Sometimes it’s better not to learn the lyrics. I really liked the song “Human” by Human League for many years. Thought I might want to try it at karaoke, so I checked out the words, and … ugh, I was totally disgusted. Really ruined the song for me for a while. Although I can now listen to it again, up until the spoken word part by the female vocalist. “Brown Sugar” by the Stones falls into a similar category. Although I can somehow forgive that one more easily. Sorry, I’m not trying to highjack this thread… ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2019, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-of-songs-you-have-loved-for-years-but-just-learned/843565/3 "2019-11-17T12:16:12Z")
i just learned the lyrics of “pumped up kicks” a couple of years ago… yeah not a song to sing in public… ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2019, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-of-songs-you-have-loved-for-years-but-just-learned/843565/4 "2019-11-17T13:54:49Z")
> [@Mike\_Mabes](#): > > Am listening now to Crazy on You by Heart, realize I don’t know some of the lyrics other than the chorus. The word ‘porpoise’ appears twice in _Barracuda_, which I found kind of surprising. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2019, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-of-songs-you-have-loved-for-years-but-just-learned/843565/5 "2019-11-17T17:51:11Z")
There’s a song “Darkness” by the Police where he sings _I wish I never woke up this morning Life was easy when it was pouring_ With thundery sounding drums in the background. And it made sense… LIfe is easier if it’s raining outside, you just stay in bed, you don’t have to go anywhere or do anything… Then recently after all these years I discovered that it’s not “pouring”, it’s “boring”. Which also kind of makes sense, but dammit I like my version better! ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2019, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-of-songs-you-have-loved-for-years-but-just-learned/843565/6 "2019-11-17T19:16:34Z")
I’ve been on a Fats Domino kick lately. There’s a line from [Blueberry Hill](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQQCPrwKzdo) that I never was quite sure about. It _sounded_ like “So we’re apart, you bought a new still” or “… you butter me still” but I never really thought either of those were right. I finally got around to looking it up a few days ago. “Though we’re apart, you’re part of me still.” That makes so much more sense. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2019, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-of-songs-you-have-loved-for-years-but-just-learned/843565/7 "2019-11-17T20:59:01Z")
> [@LLCoolL](#): > > Sometimes it’s better not to learn the lyrics. I really liked the song “Human” by Human League for many years. Thought I might want to try it at karaoke, so I checked out the words, and … ugh, I was totally disgusted. Really ruined the song for me for a while. Although I can now listen to it again, up until the spoken word part by the female vocalist. > > “Brown Sugar” by the Stones falls into a similar category. Although I can somehow forgive that one more easily. > > Sorry, I’m not trying to highjack this thread… Also [Lovefool](https://genius.com/The-cardigans-lovefool-lyrics) by the Cardigans. ---
**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:** [November 18, 2019, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-of-songs-you-have-loved-for-years-but-just-learned/843565/8 "2019-11-18T01:38:33Z")
I’m listening to the the Band’s 50 years anniversary deluxe edition of “The Band”, _King Harvest Has Surely Come_. I have heard this song a hundred times, but the passage: _Dry summer, then comes fall Which I depend on most of all Hey, rainmaker, can’t you hear the call? Please let these crops grow tall_ I have always heard til today as … _Please let these crops grow at all_ I find my interpretation even better in the context of the song… Btw., this reissue is fantastic! I’ve just finished the part with the regular album tracks and I’m just starting to hear the bonus tracks, but the remastering is so obviously better than the first generation CD copy I have that I’m totally stunned. The instruments are suddenly so clearly separated and not the muddle of noise I knew that it sounds like a completely different album. I suspect that it’s not only remastered, but heavily remixed too. It’s a revelation. ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Mabes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mike_mabes/32/1782_2.png) [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2019, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-of-songs-you-have-loved-for-years-but-just-learned/843565/9 "2019-11-18T03:38:18Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Also [Lovefool](https://genius.com/The-cardigans-lovefool-lyrics) by the Cardigans. Yeah all those lyrics about the slave ships coming over and women being whipped just around midnight. Jeez, can I un-hear those lyrics? ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2019, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-of-songs-you-have-loved-for-years-but-just-learned/843565/10 "2019-11-18T03:47:56Z")
i thought “dont stand close to me” by the police was about a girl chasing someone who was antisocial and didnt want her …until i read the lyrics on youtube… and theres the wham song where i thought he was telling her he didn’t want her just for her body … but no he was saying he didn’t want an open relationship but she did … ---
**Author:** ![Rough\_Draft](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/76d3ee/32.png) [@Rough\_Draft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rough_Draft)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2019, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-of-songs-you-have-loved-for-years-but-just-learned/843565/11 "2019-11-19T17:28:50Z")
I always liked the song _Walk Away Renee_ by the Left Banke, but some of the lyrics were never quite clear to me. 50 years later it occurred to me to look them up: Just walk away, Renée You won’t see me follow you back home The empty sidewalks on my block are not the same You’re not to blame From deep inside the tears I’m forced to cry From deep inside the pain That I chose to hide Just walk away, Renée You won’t see me follow you back home Now as the rain burns down upon my weary eyes For me it cries Not exactly Dylan, but knowing all the lyrics makes the song more pleasurable to listen to. ---
**Author:** ![A\_Dodgy\_Dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a87d85/32.png) [@A\_Dodgy\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_Dodgy_Dude)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2019, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-of-songs-you-have-loved-for-years-but-just-learned/843565/12 "2019-11-19T18:00:04Z")
From King Creole When the King starts to do it it’s as good as done He holds his guitar like a tommy gun **He starts to growl from way down his throat** He bends a string and that’s all she wrote and He plays something evil then he plays something sweet No matter how he plays you got to get up on your feet **And when he gets the rockin’ fever baby, heaven sakes** He don’t stop playin’ 'til his guitar breaks It wasn’t until I heard the alternate takes of the song that I could hear Elvis clearly.