'til the stars fall on the bus
for both of us!
If her daddy’s rich, taker her out for a meal
If her daddy’s poor, just do what you feel
'Cause if her daddy’s poor, she’s a ho!
But will our love lose its power
in a meteor shower?
Till the stars stay where they were
For me and her!
Yeah. Still not needing him around, anyhow.
Ethiopia - the country that song was written for - is a very strongly Christian country. The answer to “Do they know it’s Christmas” is yes, yes they do, and their ancestors were probably Christian long before yours were. The titular line is so mind-blowingly ignorant it puts the snow line to shame.
That song is probably the most disgustingly patronising piece of shite ever committed to vinyl.
That said, there is a large Muslim minority in Ethiopia, and the continent as a whole is roughly evenly split between Muslims and Christians, with slightly more Muslims.
Wiki article if you want to read more about it, as this isn’t really the thread to go into great detail!
Blech! Christmas Shoes…I’m a sucker for stuff that makes you cry, and even I thought it was lame! It was like it was calculated to be as sappy and tearjerking as possible, and they overdid it so much that it missed the mark and moved completely into Narm territory.
Truth hurts?
D&R
(Ouch, ouch, ouch…)
I read this entirely differently.
“Well tonight thank God it’s them, instead of you”.
– Count your blessings. By luck you are living a rather comfortable and comparatively luxurious life. Remember that.
“And there won’t be snow in Africa this Christmas”
– Here in the west we talk about the dreams of a white christmas and don’t ever really have to think about fresh, clean drinking water or other basic necessities. It is different there. No dreams of a white christmas.
“Do they know it’s Christmas”
– Around here we know it is Christmas because it is a special time. Cookies, treats, family, days of work, etc. There? Not so much. Just another day of trying to survive. Even for the Christians, who clearly know it is Christmas, it isn’t as if hunger and thirst and a desire for basic necessities takes a holiday.
Meatloaf with, I would do anything for love, but I won’t do that.
The video for this song just makes it worse by giving no clue as to exactly what Meatloaf won’t do for love. He’ll do anything for love, except that one unnamed thing.
Give her his Dr Pepper.
He’ll never lie to her and that’s a fact
He mentions it earlier in the lyrics
In addition to that, he’ll also never:
- forget the way you feel right now, oh no, no way
- forgive himself if you don’t go all the way tonight
- do it better than he does it with you
- forget everything
- see that it’s time to move on
or - screw around
Jeez, people, it’s not that hard.
[QUOTE=The Steve Miller Band]
Billie Mack is a detective down in Texas
You know he knows just exactly what the facts is
He ain’t gonna let those two escape justice
He makes his living off of the people’s taxes
[/QUOTE]
I’m not going to say this verse ticks me off because it’s the most painfully forced rhyme in the history of English-language songwriting. That would be cliche.
No, what bothers me is that this verse is entirely irrelevant to the story of the song. After we use an entire verse to set up Billie Mack, the very next line is “Billie Joe, oh he slipped away”. So what was the point of even introducing Billie Mack if he does NOTHING? You could omit the entire verse and it wouldn’t hurt the song at all.
Billy Joel has committed this particular crime countless times, but “We Didn’t Start The Fire” is by far the worst instance.
This thread is well-timed. Per the advice of half of everyone I know, I recently started watching Community. Its theme song, “At Least it was Here” by The 88, contains the following lyric that spurs my brain into conniptions every time I hear it:
Actually, it’s really only the second line. It’s clear that the singer’s goal is to run out of steam. But, does he want to be given the specific hope to do it — that is, does he want to hope to run out of steam, but does not currently hope to do so, and wants to be given said hope — or does he instead require a gift of some generic hope that he will use in order to run out of steam?
Furthermore, why is this guy so dead set on running out of steam anyway? Does he mean the phrase in the literal sense? (I’m picturing a guy who’s been locked in a sauna for three hours, and is like, “dude, FUCK steam.”) Because if he means it figuratively, as in he wants to lose the energy to continue to do whatever it is he’s doing, then isn’t his final goal to simply stop doing it, in which case he ought to just knock it off anyway?
I don’t know why this particular lyric messes with my head so much, but it does. Maybe I should ask the writers to have Abed analyze it next season.
From “Calendar Girl”: “You’re the Easter Bunny when you smile.” Does that mean she’s got buck teeth? And if it does, does he think telling her so is going to improve his chances of marching her down the aisle (as he says he wants to do in the previous line)?
“Cause there ain’t no-one for to give you no pain”
Afternoon Delight. Yay for YOU! Yeah, I see your boner, just STFU and go hump your friend. :mad:
Because he’s 68, uglier than hitting your da with a sweaty sock, and still getting the chicks. The Mick moves he’d really, really like to have are the ones in the horizontal mambo and the whole song amounts to a “what does that dude have that I don’t, uh? (Oh yeah, money and fame. I’m on my way to them, damnit, I just hope I get there before I turn 68)”