Somebody mentioned Rod Stewart. That reminds me of this awful phrase:
Ladies and Gentlemen, Dr. “Stompin’” Tom Connors.
- “Well, the girls are gone to bingo
And the boys are getting stinko
And we’ll think no more of Inco
On a Sudbury Saturday night”.*
Or
*“He’s Bud the Spud from the bright red mud
Rollin’ down the highway smilin’.
Them spuds is big on the back of Bud’s rig
And they’re from Prince Edward Island”. *
I think I have to go put on some Stan Rogers now to clear my brain out.
I present my favorite bit from Emerson, Lake and Palmer’s Karn Evil #9:
“Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends
We’re so glad you could attend
Come inside! Come inside!
There behind a glass is a real blade of grass
be careful as you pass
Move along! Move along!”
I don’t know what it is about this song. But is just Pisses. Me. Off.
I don’t see what’s so bad about that particular verse. The song is supposed to depict a futuristic, mechanized/computer-dominated world. In that context, the idea that a blade of grass is a curiosity to be found in a museum or sideshow makes sense.
Oooh! I can’t believe I forgot to mention the one lyric that makes me want to smash things everytime I hear it. Not that I listen to Creed that often but sometimes the song pops on the radio and I’m too lazy to change it.
I don’t know the name of the song but the line goes something like,
“Hold me now,
I’m six feet from the edge and I’m thinking,
Maybe six feet ain’t so far down”
Whaaa? If he is six feet from the edge, why is he saying six feet ain’t so far down? And why would he need someone to hold him if he’s only going to fall six feet? :smack:
Um, mebbe he’s really really afraid of heights?
Julie
The “six feet down” suggests a grave; i.e., he’s thinking suicide doesn’t sound so bad, and “the edge” is the point at which it happens. Dunno why “six feet from the edge” is particularly significant, though.
Precicely, ‘maybe 6 feet ain’t so far down’ == I’m thinking it wouldn’t be so bad to die.
Being 6 feet from the edge just makes the edge line echo that one.
Wait wait wait a second. I perform this song when I sing at karaoke shows. It’s cause I’m ** THE ** winner not A winner. The chorous is staying it takes two people (Rob Base and Ez Rock) to make the party go right. They make the party Out Of Sight. They are saying they aren’t known world wide yet but the rock shows, and if you are sick (contagious) to stay away from them, because they don’t want to get sick and have to take time off. The women who go to their shows and never saw them before become groupines because of the way they can rock the mic, with lyrics that are outta sight. See it makes sense. Any other verses you need translated?
“He’s a Pinball Wizard, there has to be a twist
A Pinball Wizard’s got such a supple wrist…”
Maybe it’s just because I have a dirty mind, but that just sounds wrong.
And everyone to dis “Meet Virginia” has forgotten this gem:
“When she wants to be the queen
and she thinks about her scene
throws her head back and she screams
‘I don’t really want to be the queen.’”
Run out of rhymes much?
“Imagine there’s no countries,
It isnt hard to do,
Nothing to kill or die for,
And No religion too”
I love the Beatles, John Lennon, and I actually like this song but…
NO RELIGION TOO? NO RELIGION TOO? Maybe young Sean helped him with that line and so he kept it in the song.
It should have been:
“Imagine there are no countries,
We could all take a breather,
Nothing to kill or die for,
And no religion EEEEEEEEEEither…”
Hahaha. Grammar Nazi much, djf? I thought it was written as an added thought, since it’s not really related to countries. 
So, Rod, how YOU doin’?
Sorry. Couldn’t resist. (MineFujiko <- Asian IRL)
Can’t believe I’m still defending a Train song, but here it goes.
Between the chorus (which doesn’t bug me that much), Virginia’s odd and contradictory behavior, and lines like “Her confidence is tragic, but her intuition’s magic” I get the impression Virginia is supposed to be manic-depressive or bipolar.
Maybe I’m just reading too much into the song.
Well, at least you’re trying to defend “Meet Virginia.” There’s absolutely no defending the insipid “Drops of Jupiter” (except by saying, “weeeeell, it has nice production!”).
How about that (Bad Company?) song that goes:
“Well I take whatever I want
And baby, I want you”
Wouldn’t that be any woman’s cue to run off screaming?
Actually, a lot of that song irritates me. The part that always makes me roll my eyes is the line that goes…
Sometimes you can’t hear 'em talk,
Other times you can,
All the same old cliches:
“Is that a woman or a man?”
Not so much for grammatical reasons or creepiness as that it’s just stupid. Oh, and “The sweat rolls off your body like the music that you play” is icky, too.
Not to necessarily defend the song but you have to consider that the song was written in the early 1970’s when “long hair” was still viewed with suspicion and/or ridicule by people in some of the more conservative parts of the U.S.
And speaking of my beloved Beatles:
“I’d rather see you dead little girl…
than to see you with another man…”
“catch you with another man…that’s the end-uh…little girl”
WOW…
That doesn’t bother me - people actually talk like that, even though it isn’t gramatically correct, it is idiomatic english. But the same song has a line that doens’t make sense:
… and that she will cry if she learns we are two.
What does “we are two” mean? Isn’t any pair of people “two”?