…just the line or two that you couldn’t get no matter how many times you’ve heard them.
Mine - Springsteen’s “Badlands”
Well keep pushin’ till it’s understood
And these badlands start treating us good
I have been doing this lately for music I bought in the 90’s and didn’t have access to the lyrics. Recently, songs by The Stone Roses (Fool’s Gold, Beautiful Thing, Made of Stone). I can’t understand that singer to save my life. The hard part is, I have been singing it in my head all these years using the wrong lyrics and it’s hard to change to the right ones. And my memory is such that after looking up a few songs, I will actually only remember a couple of tidbits. Some songs lately by Artic Monkeys, a British band and the singer has a thick accent even when singing.
“But I believe that since my life began
The most I’ve had is just
A talent to amuse.”
Noel Coward, “If Love Were All.”
Anything from the first three albums by R.E.M.
Looking up the lyrics enabled me to sing along, but not understand, because “understand” was not the point of the group’s lyric-writing at that time. And I’m OK with this.
“…With a basin on my head
I’m missin’ all that I used to know, then
I get the kids to go, and I get
Up on with certain dread
And when I see the kissing down below…”
Sleeping Powder, by Gorillaz
"That’s as close as I’ll get to loving you.
Even though there is nothing else I’d rather do.
I can dream,
I can hope,
I can see,
But I still know,
That’s as close as I’ll get to loving you.
Aaron Tippen
I was humming the tune, I had no words, I don’t even know how I know the tune.
I was watching Scorpions music videos and I was surprised that all the songs that I really liked I didn’t really understand what they were about.
Oh, what have you got for dinner, Mrs. Bond?’
‘There’s beef in the larder, and ducks in the pond;
Dilly, dilly, dilly, dilly, come to be killed,
For you must be stuffed and my customers filled!’
From “Amos Moses” – “left arm gone clean up to the elbow”.
I kept hearing “left in concrete up to the elbow”, which made me wonder what concrete has to do with alligator bites.
- You people scare me
Please stay away from my home
If you don’t want to get beat down
Just leave the presents and then leave me alone*
Blink 182, “I Won’t Be Home For Christmas”