Pimp ship. And what appears to be a pedophile’s pimp ship (it came up in Google images for the phrase).
I think he meant playing a guitar came easily to Johnny, as easy as ringing a bell.
Surely you’ve heard of Johnny One Note?
It’s a pronunciation guide – that upside-down “e” is a schwa. (Which was borrowed from the Persian – you’ve heard of the Schwa of Iran?) 
I was considering posting this a few months ago, but it seemed to insignificant for creating a thread. But I was listening to the radio when the following two songs struck me with the bizarre juxtaposition of lyrics:
All I could think about was that they should get together and swap pronouns.
Yes, of course. But the overly-literal interpretation amuses me more.
YOU think it’s embarassing…try googling my handle sometime.
It’s spelled that way to indicate that there are, at that point, backward masked messages in the song and other songs on the LP.
sigh
I even saw them on that tour. I saw the leg where they did it as a sort of ‘theater’ production where the music stopped and the performed the storyline.
Oy.
Should be “I am the maudlin man”! ::snort::
The pronoun problems persistently pester me.
:: squints suspiciously:: Oh, I know who you are, Mr. Tommy Shaw all fancied up.
I knew about the backward bit before Heavy Metal Poisoning, but are there messages hidden in the printed lyrics? I never thought to look for them.
And yeah, I pushed my turntable backwards to hear the message. Not good for the turntable belt.
The only time I feel alright is the time when I’m by your side. Shortened to fit the meter, but it makes perfect sense to me.
School/cool/fool is the lazy rhyme that makes me want to kill.
I did it all for the nookie
The nookie
So you can take that cookie
And stick it up your yeah!
Stick it up your yeah!
Stick it up your yeah!
That reminds me of the part in Killer Queen when Freddy sings, “Mesticulous and precise!” :smack:
I’m sure Elton John does this too, but I can’t think of an example at the moment.
When I was a kid, I used to really hate poems that used the same work to rhyme. I think I figured it was cheating. I can’t really think of an example that really stands out as bugging me. But if it was like this:
Roses are red violets are blue
The grass is green and the sky is blue
It made me nuts.
Easy to Be Hard is from the musical Hair.
I like the lyric. It think it underlines the over-intellectualism and hypocrisy of certain types of people who get caught up in social movements.
For bad rhymes what about “car” and “far”?
“Badge” by Cream
Thinkin’ ‘bout the times you drove in my car.
Thinkin’ that I might have drove you too far.
“Sweet Emotion” by Aerosmith
I pulled into town in a police car
Your daddy said I took you just a little too far
You come over unannounced
Dressed up like you’re someone else
Perhaps, but you have to admit the other available rhymes in this case — chalk, balk, gawk, hawk, caulk, auk — might take your song in directions you won’t want to go. I’m trying to imagine a “fixed” version of Suzie Q (by Creedence Clearwater Revival):
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I like the way that you walk
I like the way that you caulk
I like the way you walk
I like the way you caulk
Suz-ay Q
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Okay, sure, that’s probably a refreshing surprise for your audience. They weren’t expecting that. But will the young people take to it?
No way. Home repair is for squares, man.
My first thought was of the already-mentioned “Horse With No Name,” but for me, the line is “The heat was hot.”
Then there’s Paul McCartney’s “Live and Let Die,” with the ever-grammatical “In this ever-changing world in which we live in . . .”