# Lyrics that you feel "just don't fit"

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** music\
**Created:** [November 19, 2022, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-you-feel-just-dont-fit/975221 "2022-11-19T22:10:57Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 19, 2022, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-you-feel-just-dont-fit/975221/1 "2022-11-19T22:10:57Z")

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Some songs have lines in them that just don’t seem to mesh with the rest of the song.  
Take Zep’s “Whole Lotta Love” for instance. A song about the declaration of utmost mojo (“woman, you _need_ me”), Plant asserts his alpha maledom, which, I feel, is quite undercut by the nerdy line “I’m back to schoolin’”. 🤓 (uh, say what?)  
Any songs you can think of where the message seemed to change, or just get briefly altered at some point?

Heh, this could be a very short thread.

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**Post date:** [November 19, 2022, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-you-feel-just-dont-fit/975221/2 "2022-11-19T23:41:31Z")

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I thought the line was “I’m gonna send you back to schoolin”. Which meant he was going to teach her a thing or two. Very alpha male.

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**Post date:** [November 20, 2022, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-you-feel-just-dont-fit/975221/3 "2022-11-20T00:10:43Z")

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Ah thanks - never paid attention to the previous line, which, indeed, makes Tom Selleck sense.

Jeff Lynne’s place-keeper lyric “Droos!” in ELO’s “Don’t Bring Me Down” always made me cock an eye, infamous rhyme notwithstanding.

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**Post date:** [November 20, 2022, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-you-feel-just-dont-fit/975221/4 "2022-11-20T01:02:24Z")

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I’ve heard that so many people asked him who _“Bruce!”_ was, that he now sings it that way on tour.

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**Post date:** [November 20, 2022, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-you-feel-just-dont-fit/975221/5 "2022-11-20T01:15:58Z")

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The lyric sheet said “Groooos” or something similar. I think it was simply a nonsense syllable that fit into the song’s rhythm.

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**Post date:** [December 8, 2022, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-you-feel-just-dont-fit/975221/6 "2022-12-08T01:27:38Z")

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In Zep’s “Baby I’m Gonna Leave You”, Plant goes on and on about how “it’s over”, but near the end, he sings “We’re gonna go, walking through the park every day.”