Yeah, that one bugs me in the REO Speedwagon song, too.
They’ve heard Come Together?
That’s a Lennon song.
Those lyrics are just too ridiculous for me to hate 
Growing up listening to a lot of oldies, I was always taken aback a little when I heard lyrics that were…of another time, let’s say. A good example is in the Marvin Gaye song “I’ll be Doggone” where he sings:
Now every woman should try to be
Whatever her man wants her to be
Or in the song “Ain’t No Woman Like the One I’ve Got”, which has the line:
I would kiss the ground she walks on,
'Cause it’s my word, my word she’ll obey, now
Stuff like that always bugged me, but reminded me that I was listening in on something from the past. I doubt lyrics like that would fly these days.
In the '50s, the Kinston Trio had a song Charlie and the MTA about a bloke who didn’t know that the fare had been raised so couldn’t get off the train at his designated station, since he didn’t have enough money. His wife would go down to the station every lunch time and throw him a sandwich through the open window. I could never work out why she didn’t just throw him the 10 cents he needed.
I like the song, though.
All this time, and no one’s mentioned He Hit Me (It Felt Like a Kiss)?
:eek:
Wait, back then you paid your fare when you got off the train?
Sounds like the way they have toll roads, which strikes me as a bit of a racket.
Irrespective of what the lyrics are, “Who knows” can be determined to rhyme with “show,” in the world of poetry, and lyrics.
Best wishes,
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Right, but… that’s not what he’s saying. It’s “But then again, no”, with 100% certainty. The narrator is trying to come up with ways of impressing this woman (presumably a woman, since Bernie is straight). The previous verse includes the line “I don’t have much money, but boy if I did…”, so in this verse he’s trying to come up with ways of making money. Kind of like, “I could be a sculptor… no, that’s no good. How about a man who makes potions in a traveling show?” And then he finally realizes none of that is going to work. So even though “It’s not much, but it’s the best I can do”, all he can offer her is his song.
Yeah, that one bugged me as a kid too. My dad told me I think too much.
In Elvis Costello’s Oliver’s Army there is a line that really bugs me (more than the obvious line)
There was a checkpoint Charlie/ He didn’t crack a smile
But it’s no laughing party/ When you’ve been on the murder mile
Laughing party? What the hell is that?
I’ve always been a little bugged by Peggy Lee’s “Is That All There Is.”
Okay, I can accept that she was bored by Fire, The Circus, Love, and Life Itself. No problem. What bugs me is that she doesn’t extend the ennui list to include booze and dancing.
Nope, “Let’s keep dancing, let’s break out the booze and have a ball.”
As far as world weariness goes, she comes off as a dabbler.
I think this
http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvary_Chapel#Musicians
is what he meant. Or he really could be referring to singing gladiators on horseback.
“Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose”? Ugh. Nobody who lived under a repressive government or survived a concentration camp would ever say something so fatuous.
This statement seems to reflect an attitude of ownership over the word “freedom” and its possible meanings. Actually, ithe line could represent some pretty sophisticated thinking on what “freedom” really means in a philosophical sense. I believe the Buddhist concept of eliminating ties to the physical world would mesh quite well with this idea. Philosophically speaking, there’s nothing fatuous about the idea that one could be “free” in some important sense of the word even under a repressive government or in a concentration camp.
Context is everything.
“Freedom is another word for nothing left to lose” means you are free to do anything, because you don’t care about the outcome. If you care about the outcome, you are constrained to make choices to get the outcome you desire, or the best outcome you can achieve based upon the constraints forced upon you.
In context, “freedom” is freedom from the relationship.
These don’t bug me; in fact, I enjoy them
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“Her name was Magill, but she called herself Lil, although everyone knew her as Nancy.”
~ Ballad of Rocky Raccoon, Beatles
“You’ll be dead and in hell before I’m born.” ~ Shaman’s Blues, Doors
And then there was a 1969 song from Easy Rider (The Weight) that a cell phone company was using in their ad. “Pulled into Nazareth, was feeling 'bout half-assed dead!”
And I thought, wow, TV has gotten more lenient. And after all these years, my wife corrected me, it’s “…half PAST dead…”