Bah, you stole mine!
“Well tonight thank God it’s them instead of you!”
great message there, be thankful somebody else got screwed over at least it wasn’t you.
“And there won’t be snow in Africa this Christmas”
Well no shit, has it ever snowed in Africa? There won’t be snow in Miami either. Ha ha, those poor sorry sons-a-bitches ain’t gettin any snow. And you can’t have Christmas without snow, it’s in the rules.
Hey, you’re out in the desert, out of the rain, you’ve got nothing better to do, give the damn horse a name!
No shit I won’t do the same! But I’ll tell you what I will do - I’ll have a restraining order taken out on you. You are one seriously f-ed up nut-job if you think all this violent imagery is somehow romantic. You come across as a borderline dangerous stalker who is a hairtrigger away from doing a Columbine number. Seriously, dude, get help!
Steve Miller’s Take The Money And Run
Shifting tenses, rhymes that aren’t, and a nonsense storyline. Ugh.
Every line of John Mayer’s “Daughters” makes me ballistic. Yes, by all means, stop messing up young girls because it’s a big hassle for him when he tries to date them and they’re all crazy bitches. Won’t anyone think of John Mayer?
Oh, it’s Billie Holiday! Hey, Billie, while you’re here: You know that final verse that Sam Lewis tacked on to Gloomy Sunday, for no good reason, that fits about as well as tits on a boar? You really, really should have left that one out in your version. Just skipped it. Because that verse is seriously uncalled for.
Can I be pissed at an entire song? While I like the melody of James Blunt’s “You’re Beautiful”, do you really expect some random girl you saw on the subway’s going to drop her entire life for you, especially when you were “fucking high” (original lyrics)? Then you kill yourself in the music video? Yeah, go ahead, the world needs less emo fuckers like you
Theory of a Deadman says “I’ve got an '82 Fiero with a car seat in the middle” - Fieros weren’t built until 1984.
Jackson Brown- “they look at life with such disregard”- if they’re looking at it, they’re regarding it.
Sad part is…he’s 100% right. The last few women I’ve date all said that their parents NEVER said they were beautiful. These were striking women. Dads especially, please, go home tonight and tell your daughter she’s beautiful. For the love of God, tell them they’re beautiful.
'til the stars fall from the sky
For you and I!
Yeah, ok, it rhymes, but come on Jim.
Especially if they are not.
It’s a Heinlein quote, “Always tell her she is beautiful, especially if she is not.”
Just wanted to make sure someone didn’t think I was being an asshole.
And it would have been easy to fix:
'til the stars fall in the sea
For you and me!
If whole songs are being allowed, I’ll go ahead and vent a bit of my utter and complete hatred of The Christmas Shoes. As I said a few weeks ago when the song was mentioned in another thread, I’m seriously not capable of generating as much loathing as this song deserves.
We’re supposed to have our little hearts warmed by the fact that this kid’s mother is dying and, instead of spending time with her in what may be her last hours on earth (after all, the kid at least thinks it’s likely that she’ll meet Jesus tonight), he’s out buying her stupid shoes so she can be beautiful for Jesus. (Has this kid, who’s old enough to go shopping by himself, somehow never heard the saying “You can’t take it with you”?) Sure, kid, once your mother dies, you’ll be so glad you wasted precious time you could have spent with your mother by going out shopping for worthless material crap, because really, that’s what Christmas is all about and because Jesus cares so very much about the kind of shoes a person was wearing when she died.
Robbie, not Jim.
Robby, you mean.
ETA: Simulpost, I swear. See, I even spelled it wrong!
Plenty of offenses to gripe about in the just-passed holiday season, but for some reason this one bothered me the most this past Christmas. Maybe because Brian Wilson really oughta know better.
“Christmas comes this time each year”
-Beach Boys, “Little Saint Nick”
Yes. Yes it does. Every single year. Same time. Most of the song’s audience is well-familiar with the concept.
Once would be bad enough, but it’s repeated throughout the outro!
(But at least they wished Santa a Merry Christmas. Finally! Some reciprocation for the present-deliverin’ dude!)
Actually, you spelled it correctly. And whoever wrote it, we always blame the singers, don’t we? Well, I do.
D’oh! I just realized it’s the Four Tops’ “Ain’t No Woman Like The One I’ve Got” that says that. Tom Jones just says, “and she always knows her place”- slightly less controlling, still somewhat irky.