“Drops Of Jupiter” and now “Calling All Angels”, as I mentioned, several pages back in this thread are my evidence that Train is trying to turn into Collective Soul. Earnest, sappy, overproduced adult contemporary radio fodder with more strings laid on than a 1960s Jim Reeves-style “Nashville Sound” country song.
“Like a dog without a bone
An actor out on loan”
from *Riders on the Storm * by The Doors. WTF? I like the song but you’ll never convince me Jim Morrison was a poet.
Just about any lyrics written by Steve Miller sound ridiculous to me but the line
“My situation goes round and round”
from Abracadabra is another WTF. So is Mr. Miller a dizzy situationist?
It’s “An actor out alone.” Not the deepest thing ever, but it makes sense. That sounds like something from one of those ‘misheard lyrics’ sites.
This one makes me nuts:
“It’s getting hot in here, so take off all your clothes/
It’s getting hot in here, so I’m gonna take my clothes off.”
Come ON, man! You’re making millions of dollars- would it kill you to rhyme just once? Or at least be less redundant?
Just listening to one of my all-time favourite albums, the Trash Can Sinatras’ Cake.
Their songwriting was amazingly clever, and there are so many little lyrical gems on this record, the following verse is all the more shocking:
“She’s a funny kind of girl
Set ship on a sail in a bottle
She’s a funny kind of girl
And do the Swiss fake it when they yodel?”
:eek:
ANYTHING would have been better than that, lads. ANYTHING.
Bob Seger, as someone has already said. It’s two lines:
You can think about the woman [pause]
Or the girl you knew the night before
“The Woman” you left behind at home, taking care of the kids. Your wife or significant other.
“The Girl” groupie that you took back to the hotel room for some cheap/easy comfort. Really, officer, they all swore they were 18. I had no idea!
You can think about one OR the other, but if you think about both you’ll be in trouble with yourself, 'cause you know you done her wrong.
And to support NDP (who may or may not want any support 
You durn kids don’t know what it was like to be a musician on the road in the '70s in Nebraska or Texas and to walk into some cheap joint for a bite on the way from here to there and hear the muttered and sometimes not-so-muttered remarks about your hair length. It was frightening on more than one occasion, trust me. I’m not defending the lyrics all that much, but the song sure grabs those of us it was meant for.
I’ll listen to the radio on the way home this evening and have a contribution that is in line with the OP tomorrow.
If that were true, wouldn’t it be
“your woman, or the girl you knew the night before”?
Julie
I can’t believe we made it this far without seeing this gem from Mick Jagger and the boys:
“She blew my nose and then she blew my mind”
Altogether now… “EEWWWWWWWWWWW”
Ah, now it makes sense
She didn’t really blow his nose. She just gave him a few lines of coke
Jon
“Ventura Highway” by AMERICA
'‘Cause the free wind is blowin’ through your hair
And the days surround your daylight there
Seasons crying no despair
Alligator lizards in the air, in the air"
Quite possibly the most ridiculous song ever written. (that was a hit)
Brought?
Songs she sangtumee,
Songs she BROT tumee,
Words that ranginme… You prefer words that clunked instead?
The word’s grammatical(ly correct); it’s the wrong declension, which sounds more right than the “right” declension. Kumonn, BRAWT would fall off and go thunk on the floor. It’s supposed to lead right into “warm the night.” What other word works in the context and contains –ang?
Here is one more from “Play Me” and two grammatically incorrect:
Rhyme that sprang from me warm the night,
Tell me what was right tuh kay meee…
Tell me, what was the word?
What if God was one of us?
Faaa guuuut!
But do you hate him? 'Cause he*'s pieces** of you.*
HIJACK
I dislike people’s use of there’s with a plural noun.
There’s no gun’s in your hand’s. There’s one’s in my hand’s.
Brought?
Songs she sangtumee,
Songs she BROT tumee,
Words that ranginme… You prefer words that clunked instead?
The word’s grammatical(ly correct); it’s the wrong declension, which sounds more right than the “right” declension. Kumonn, BRAWT would fall off and go thunk on the floor. It’s supposed to lead right into “warm the night.” What other word works in the context and contains –ang?
Here is one more from “Play Me” and two grammatically incorrect:
Rhyme that sprang from me warm the night,
Tell me what was right tuh kay meee…
Tell me, what was the word?
What if God was one of us?
Faaa guuuut!
But do you hate him? 'Cause he*'s pieces** of you.*
HIJACK
I dislike people’s use of there’s with a plural noun.
There’s no gun’s in your hand’s. There’s one’s in my hand’s.
Can I be vague? (“Hi, Vague!” “Shut up!”)
Anything written by Paul McCartney, post-Beatles. Live and Let Die is cool, Maybe I’m Amazed is perhaps a bit corny, but sweet. Other than that? Gah. I can almost hear Macca’s thought process when he writes - I think it goes something like this: “Ho hum, I’ve written another dozen excellent, flowing melodies, because I’m so gifted at that. Time to find a six-year-old child to write the words.”
He did that sort of stuff with the Beatles sometimes too, but somehow it didn’t seem so egregious. Ever seen the lyrics to Band on the Run? “The Jailer Man and Sailor Sam were searching everyone…” WTF?