# Post the Last Song Lyrics You Had to Look Up... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 11, 2018, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-last-song-lyrics-you-had-to-look-up/806414 "2018-01-11T18:56:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mixolydian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Mixolydian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mixolydian)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2018, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-last-song-lyrics-you-had-to-look-up/806414/1 "2018-01-11T18:56:28Z")
…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_ ---
**Author:** ![Mrs\_Fairway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/47e85d/32.png) [@Mrs\_Fairway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs_Fairway)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2018, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-last-song-lyrics-you-had-to-look-up/806414/2 "2018-01-11T20:16:07Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2018, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-last-song-lyrics-you-had-to-look-up/806414/3 "2018-01-11T20:36:32Z")
“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.” ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2018, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-last-song-lyrics-you-had-to-look-up/806414/4 "2018-01-11T20:46:24Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Annoying\_Buzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Annoying\_Buzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annoying_Buzz)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2018, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-last-song-lyrics-you-had-to-look-up/806414/5 "2018-01-12T05:13:34Z")
“…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 ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2018, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-last-song-lyrics-you-had-to-look-up/806414/6 "2018-01-12T05:30:41Z")
"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. ---
**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2018, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-last-song-lyrics-you-had-to-look-up/806414/7 "2018-01-12T10:37:47Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![eburacum45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eburacum45/32/8690_2.png) [@eburacum45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eburacum45)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2018, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-last-song-lyrics-you-had-to-look-up/806414/8 "2018-01-12T11:31:00Z")
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!’ ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2018, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-last-song-lyrics-you-had-to-look-up/806414/9 "2018-01-12T12:10:53Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![plankter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ba0ec/32.png) [@plankter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plankter)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2018, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-last-song-lyrics-you-had-to-look-up/806414/10 "2018-01-12T14:38:25Z")
- 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”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPXPQ-s0SlQ)