Of course it makes sense if you change it to make sense, but “by your side” is a place, not a time.
I’ve twisted my ears so it sounds like Sir Paul is singing “…the world in which we’re livin’…”
Okay, is it a Mary/merry/marry thing, or is “caulk” a homonym for “cock”?
Because if Suzy Q is wielding one of those, it would be a refreshing surprise indeeed!
The whole rap sequence from Blonide’s Rapture ruins a very good song. An example:
*Well now you see what you wanna be
Just have your party on TV
‘Cause the man from Mars won’t eat up bars when the TV’s on
And now he’s gone back up to space
Where he won’t have a hassle with the human race
And you hip-hop, and you don’t stop
Just blast off, sure shot
‘Cause the man from Mars stopped eatin’ cars and eatin’ bars
And now he only eats guitars, get up!
*
This, just on the TV downstairs - another lyric that definitely gives me bad pause:
*Rah-rah-ah-ah-ah-ah
Roma-roma-mamaa
Ga-ga-ooh-la-la! *
Plus, later in the same song:
You and me could write a bad romance
Oops, I missed cmkeller’s reference to the Lady.
When I hear, “I know it’s crazy, but it’s true…” in a song, I suspect that the writer was having a bad/lazy/hungover/minutes before deadline day.
I’m surprised that no one’s mentioned that this is from Hair and the lyrics are very meaningful in the context of the story.
Meaningless trivia: In the 1979 Milos Forman movie, they changed the singer of the song and who it was being sung to. Instead of Sheila (Beverly D’Angelo) singing it to Berger (Treat Williams), it was sung to Hud (aka Lafayette, Dorsey Wright) by his never-named fiancee (Cheryl Barnes). A lot of people didn’t like the movie (I did, I loved it) but I don’t know how anyone can hear Cheryl sing the song and not be moved by it. I just watched the whole scene and it made me cry. Again.
Who else did it besides Christopher Cross?
No, not really.
Have you not heard of feeling watched, or feeling someone’s eyes on you?
This song is almost entirely composed of metaphors, and this is about the most prosaic one among them.
You mean like Kid Rock’s
“We were trying different things
We were smoking funny things”
It’s not like the remainder of the words are very good either, but that’s especially bad.
I just mentioned this in another thread a few weeks ago.
“Anna” covered by the Beatles.
“Anna, you come and ask me, girl
to set you free, girl”
(it’s already a little wonky but the next line is what jars me)
"You say he loves you more than me, so I will set you free"
Huh? The Other Guy loves you more than he loves me??
.
Oh Susie Q,
Oh Susie Q,
Oh Susie Q, baby I love you, Susie Q.
I like the way you walk,
I like the way you talk,
I like the way you walk, I like the way you talk, Susie Q.
[[SHORTENED LYRICS]]
Lazy rhyming, sure, but it was as danceable as hell, right?
.
True perhaps, but the way I remember it was:
You better bet your life
Or love will cut you, cut you like a knife
Which sounds much better than what you seem to recall.
Jason Mraz is a recent offender with I’m Yours
Listen to the music of the moment,
People dance and sing
We’re just one big family
And it’s our godforsaken right to be love, love, love, love, loved.
Our “godforsaken right?” Doesn’t sound like one of the more appealing ones. I wonder if that kind got left out of the constitution because of not being cute enough…
I think we have to let Freddy off the hook: he’s singing “fastidious and precise.”
Waiting in line for a bus pass today I heard this gem:
*You don’t know what you got until you’re missing it a lot
I had to go throw it away
I was wrong from the start from the bottom of my heart I apologize
What I did to you was hurtful
What I’m going through is hurtful
What I’m going through is hurtful
It is hurtful
It’s hurtful
Oh what I did to you
(What I did to you)
What I did to you was hurtful
What I’m going through is hurtful
I was wrong from the start from the bottom of my heart I apologize
What I did to you was hurtful
And what I’m going through is hurtful*
It’s both. The “just” gets added in the end of the song, changing the rhythm of the line for emphasis, as palin said.
I’ve heard this song twice recently while I was out shopping, and it wasn’t until the second time that I realized the singer was saying “hurtful” and not “her fault”. The first time I was like “Wow, way to own up to your mistakes. You wrote a whole song repetitively blaming the ‘other woman’?”
Once I understood the correct lyrics I decided that while they weren’t as sleazy and jerkish as my misheard version, they were actually even stupider and less interesting.
I love that song. THAT’S what he was trying to say?
My first thought when reading the OP was The Knack’s “My Sharona”. When the song was popular when I was 9, I didn’t pay attention to the lyrics. Now I cringe when I hear the line “I crave the touch of the younger kind”.