“Cotton Field,” by Creedence Clearwater Revival, has:
It was down in Louisiana,
Just about a mile from Texarkana,
In them old cotton fields back home.
Texarkana is a good 30 miles from the Louisiana state line.
I’ve always been bugged by The Killers “Somebody Told Me”.
Great intro, great verse.
Lovely gap, a couple of drum beats.
Launches into the chorus:
“Somebody told me, that you’ve got a boyfriend, that looks like a girlfriend, that I had in February of last year…”
Great stuff. Scans well, intrigues, draws you into the song. Where’s he going with this? This is where:
“It’s not confidential, I’ve got potential”.
Really? Really?? You get me all wound up wondering about this androgynous boyfriend who looks like a girlfriend? What happened in February last year? And then the denouement is “It’s not confidential, I’ve got potential”? It’s like they had a great idea, didn’t know where to go with it, and just gave up.
Admit it, you started reading this post about The Killers and assumed it was going to be about Human, didn’t you? Well, this thread is about “flawed” lyrics, as opposed to “flat out bonkers” lyrics.
I don’t know what it means, but here’s their site: http://www.wearemkto.com/
Live and Let Die:
For the longest time I thought it was “in which we’re livin’”. But if it’s the above, well… :smack:
According to wiki, MKTO are the two gents’ initials: Malcolm Kelley and Tony Oller
George Carlin: Unique needs no modifier. Very unique, quite unique, more unique, real unique, fairly unique, and extremely unique are wrong and they mark you as dumb, although certainly not unique.
Any song that reverses the order of subject and object in order to force a rhyme, Yoda-style:
“And when I’m with you I feel happy inside
It’s such a feeling that my love I can’t hide!”
That’s your problem with that song? not the fact that it’s an ode to the pinnacle of wisdom, Galileo, who, when push came to shove, fucking recanted, and wrote out a long confession of all the truths of the church, most especially the one where the sun revolves around the earth, which is the center of everything?
Anyway, one that always bugged me is this:9
“You and I travel to the beat of a different drum.”
No, no, no! That doesn’t mean what Linda Ronstadt (or whoever wrote it) wants it to mean. As written, it means that you and I, together, travel to the beat of a drum separate from that of some other (presumed majority) group. What she wants to say is that you and I march to the beats of two different drums.
There are a lot of reasons to hate that song that whines “I’m proud to be an American, where as least I know I’m free,” and the least of the is that “American” is an adjective, not a place. You are not free in “American.” Please, please rewrite this: either “I’m proud to be in America,” or “I’m proud to be an American, because at least, etc.”
Thanks, Superdude. I feel *extremely *validated. 
Tom Petty Into The Great Wide Open
Eddie waited til he finished high school
He went to Hollywood, got a tattoo
He met a girl out there with a tattoo too
The future was wide open
He met a girl with a tattoo too? :smack:
Life by Des’ree is an absolute horrorshow of a song lyrics-wise. Consider this deathless gem:
You…wrote a song about that? And recorded it? And people bought it?
Why?
Blame that one (at least partially) on Huddie Ledbetter, aka Lead Belly, who wrote and originally recorded it. Lead Belly’s version says “ten miles from Texarkana”–still wrong, but closer.
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That doesn’t mean what Linda Ronstadt (or whoever wrote it) wants it to mean.
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Mike Nesmith, of The Monkees.
Dang!
I mean, come on, the heat was HOT!
I know I’ve mentioned this one before, but in Johnny Cash’s “The Man Comes Around” he has the line:
“Then the father hen will call his chickens home.”
So… that would be a rooster, right? 
There can’t be degrees of unique. You can sometimes modify unique, and I once left a teacher speechless by saying “What about almost unique”? But it can’t take a modifies of degree. When people say “Really unique,” want the should say is "Unique in a startling or unintuitive way. All numbers are unique, for example, but 2 is unique beyond just being the only number with a value of 2: it’s the only even prime number, something that requires special explanation when teaching prime numbers to third graders.
Classic has more than one definition, including “belonging to the body of work produced by ancient Greece and Rome.” It may be possible to find some definition of “classic” that can be modified, but the one to OP was using cannot.
Maybe Raffi bought it.
I know! There were plants! And birds! And rocks! And…things! Unspecified desert things!
From Talking Heads’ “City of Dreams”: From Germany and Europe…
They could’ve plugged in “every part of” instead and not have it sound so weird.
Oh, say, Mr Weeknd, why’d you have to ruin a perfectly beautiful song such as Earned Itwith the use of “Ima”, as in the line “Ima care for you” ?
Sheryl Crowe’s “All I Wanna Do”
“Then he lights every match in an oversized pack
Letting each one burn down to his thick fingers
before blowing and cursing them out”
I think she meant “blowing them out and cursing” or “cursing and blowing them out…” I’m not sure whether it’s written this way, or she just sang it wrong, but I always have this mental image of the guy putting a curse on the match that causes it to go out…
Not quite the same thing, but in “I just Died in Your Arms Tonight” the verse is:
Her diary sits by the bedside table
The curtains are closed, the cat’s in the cradle
It’s not the rhyme that’s bad, it’s that he pronounces “diary” as “daria”.