# Song Lyrics That Always Bugged You **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 2, 2011, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-always-bugged-you/569944 "2011-02-02T21:50:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-always-bugged-you/569944/21 "2011-02-03T02:03:55Z")
> [@kapri](#): > > “I want a lover that won’t drive me crazy” > > My English teacher/editor brain **always** corrects that to “who.” I just can’t enjoy that song because of the “that.” Mine is the Doors “If I was to say to you girl we couldn’t get much higher”, and I always think “were” to myself. Not that I hate the song, but I don’t like listening to that line. It wouldn’t be so bad if he didn’t really emphasize the “was”. ---
**Author:** ![pope\_hentai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@pope\_hentai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pope_hentai)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-always-bugged-you/569944/22 "2011-02-03T02:06:59Z")
“Now, the dudes are lining up cause they hear we got swagger But we kick em to the curb unless they look like Mick Jagger” seriously? your looking for dudes that look like your crusty old grandfather, who only swaggers because of that time he broke his hip? ---
**Author:** ![brocks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7feea3/32.png) [@brocks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brocks)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-always-bugged-you/569944/23 "2011-02-03T02:13:08Z")
You young punks probably never heard of it, but there was a #1 song in the 70’s called “The Night The Lights Went Out in Georgia.” It is beyond stupid. It’s narrated by a woman who is lamenting that her brother was hung for a crime he didn’t commit, namely killing his wife and her lover. But if you can force yourself to listen to the lyrics, you see that the woman herself killed them, so her brother is dead because of her. But it’s the title that really gets me — I guess her brother was white, so the title implies that this miscarriage of justice has besmirched the formerly perfect record of southern justice with regard to hanging people without a proper trial. Really kind of disgusting. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-always-bugged-you/569944/24 "2011-02-03T03:27:30Z")
But if this ever-changing world in which we live in. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-always-bugged-you/569944/25 "2011-02-03T03:39:28Z")
From _Wildfire_: “Oh they say she died one winter, when there came a killing frost.” So what was she, a tomato plant? A killing frost is not the same thing as a blizzard you California dipshit. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-always-bugged-you/569944/26 "2011-02-03T03:47:02Z")
_Eye of the Tiger_ appears to be about humans killing other humans. The line, “The last known survivor stalks his prey in the night” always bugs me because if he’s the last known survivor, there is no more prey to stalk! His opponents are dead. > [@Uncle\_Jocko](#): > > While I’m not a botanist, my brain does know cherries do not grow on trees, and it bugs me. Cherries most certainly _do_ grow on trees. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-always-bugged-you/569944/27 "2011-02-03T03:49:22Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > FWIW, the line is actually “[pataphysical](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/'Pataphysics) science.” Huh. Mondegrened again, but the part about test tubes is truer than before. ---
**Author:** ![Buckler\_of\_Swashing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Buckler\_of\_Swashing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buckler_of_Swashing)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-always-bugged-you/569944/28 "2011-02-03T04:09:48Z")
I’m not sure there’s such a thing as a “Roman cavalry choir”, Chris Martin. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-always-bugged-you/569944/29 "2011-02-03T04:23:18Z")
I had just posted it in another thread (for laziest song lyrics), but it certainly could go here too: From “Superstar” by the Carpenters: "Don’t you remember you told me you loved me baby? You said you’d be coming back this way again baby? Baby baby baby baby oh baby… AAAAAAUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-always-bugged-you/569944/30 "2011-02-03T05:11:18Z")
Opening line of Lee Michael’s “If You Know What I Mean”: “Been fourteen days since I don’t know when…” If you know how many days it’s been, I’m pretty sure you could noodle out the since when part. ---
**Author:** ![Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellis_Aponte_Jr)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-always-bugged-you/569944/31 "2011-02-03T05:19:38Z")
> [@brocks](#): > > You young punks probably never heard of it, but there was a #1 song in the 70’s called “The Night The Lights Went Out in Georgia.” It is beyond stupid. > > It’s narrated by a woman who is lamenting that her brother was hung for a crime he didn’t commit, namely killing his wife and her lover. But if you can force yourself to listen to the lyrics, you see that the woman herself killed them, so her brother is dead because of her. > > But it’s the title that really gets me — I guess her brother was white, so the title implies that this miscarriage of justice has besmirched the formerly perfect record of southern justice with regard to hanging people without a proper trial. Plus, it should be “hanged,” not “hung.” ---
**Author:** ![jasonh300](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/46a35a/32.png) [@jasonh300](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasonh300)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-always-bugged-you/569944/32 "2011-02-03T05:29:35Z")
> [@Buckler\_of\_Swashing](#): > > I’m not sure there’s such a thing as a “Roman cavalry choir”, Chris Martin. I thought he was saying “Roman Cath-o-lic choirs” until I looked up the lyrics. My version makes more sense. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-always-bugged-you/569944/33 "2011-02-03T05:39:03Z")
Well, You’ve got to start from the start because only time will tell if we stand the test of time and in the desert you can’t remember your name 'cause there ain’t no one for to give you no pain. Word, Bitches! ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_A.Robrin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sam_a.robrin/32/14497_2.png) [@Sam\_A.Robrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_A.Robrin)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-always-bugged-you/569944/34 "2011-02-03T05:46:45Z")
> [@Don\_Draper](#): > > I had just posted it in another thread (for laziest song lyrics), but it certainly could go here too: > > From “Superstar” by the Carpenters: > > "Don’t you remember you told me you loved me baby? > You said you’d be coming back this way again baby? > Baby baby baby baby oh baby… > > AAAAAAUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! Unaccustomed as I am to defending the music of the Carpenters, it’s actually (or so I’d always heard it) “You said you’d be coming back this way again _maybe_.” You know how you’ve told girls “maybe”–often fully intending to follow through on the possibility–and then defaulted? Well, that’s what’s happened to the song’s narrator. ---
**Author:** ![DooWahDiddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@DooWahDiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooWahDiddy)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-always-bugged-you/569944/35 "2011-02-03T05:47:43Z")
> [@74westy](#): > > But if this ever-changing world in which we live in. I’m not sure if you’re joking, but this is an oft-repeated misquote… Paul actually says, “But if this ever-changing world in which we’re livin’…”, which makes perfect sense. I’m fairly certain there have been previous threads about this one. Even Elton John has said he doesn’t know what the hell Bernie Taupin is talking about in “Take Me to the Pilot”: If you feel that it’s real I’m on trial And I’m here in your prison Like a coin in your mint I am dented and I’m spent with high treason ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-always-bugged-you/569944/36 "2011-02-03T06:08:54Z")
If I give my heart to you I must be sure From the very start That you would love me more than her. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-always-bugged-you/569944/37 "2011-02-03T06:45:27Z")
> [@shantih](#): > > And from the very first words of ‘Hey Soul Sister’ – “Your lipstick stains on the front lobe of my left side brains …” > > WTF? I mean to say … WTF? I think it would save time if we just said “anything by Train”. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-always-bugged-you/569944/38 "2011-02-03T07:47:37Z")
Nothing about this song yet? America - “A Horse With No Name” “On the first part of the journey I was looking at all the life There were plants and birds and rocks and things” …and things??? Did you just need a word to rhyme with “rings”? ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-always-bugged-you/569944/39 "2011-02-03T07:49:31Z")
And what does “rings” mean anyway? Sand and hills and rings? What are the rings? Where in a desert are there rings? ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-always-bugged-you/569944/40 "2011-02-03T08:10:25Z")
As much as I love Counting Crows, and think that Adam Duritz is a very good lyricist, the song **Le Ballet D’or** bugs the bejesus out of me. In particular, the following line: “But I would be lying if I didn’t tell you the truth” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-always-bugged-you/569944.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-always-bugged-you/569944.md?page=3)