Rocket Man, by Elton John.
“Mars ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids.
In fact, it’s cold as hell.
And there’s no one there to raise them,
If you did.”
If you did what? Raise them? “There’s no one there to raise them if you raise them.”
If I raise them, then there is someone there. If not, then I am not raising them.
Regards,
Shodan
No. It was about a fan who came through his bathroom window, and an NYC cabbie that happened to be an ex-cop. I still think that it sounds dumb… the trick with Paul’s lyrics is not to examine them too closely.
Dennis Miller points this out.
“Jimmy crack corn. But I don’t care.”
What the hell kind of attitude is that? If you don’t care, why are you bringing it up?
Regards,
Shodan
I apologize for another Train oddity, but damned if I can find any reference to what these cryptic lines in “Calling All Angels” mean, so I’m taking full advantage of this thread to ask:
And football teams are kissing Queens
and losing sight of having dreams
Nice song, but I just gnash my teeth over that part.
YES!! Where in the HELL did that come from??
That’s the only Train song I can stand and I absolutely agree that these lines are infuriating. What do they mean?! One of life’s great mysteries.
Huh? Please 'splain. I don’t understand how the title has anything to do with what color the characters in the song were, nor do I remember anything in the song about what color they were period. I’m from about as far away from the south as a 'merkin can get though, so if this is a southern thing, please let us yankees know?
I’ve mentioned my loathing for this song more than once, in the past.
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“You’re so vain,
You probably think this song is about you.”
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Of course I do. Who else do you mean, when you say “you”?
The writers of this song are from Texas; the singer’s presumably Nebraskan.
“She” didn’t love him enough. The song’s about someone anxious about falling in love with a new girl because his heart was broken by another girl (who he’s obviously not over yet).
Not that it changes your point much, but it’s “forty days”.
Perhaps the degree is a D.D, and she has privilegium clericale.
You see? That attitude? That vanity? That’s why the song’s not about you. 
I imagine will.i.am is saying “I’m a bee!” Since I have no idea what any of the other lyrics are, that song to me is about the thug life of bees.
From Ron Wood:
Well you should have been buried alive
'cause you’re far to pretty to die.
Always thought that was kind of creepy.
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Told y’all they at least had a sense of humour about their work. 
Paper Lace’s The Night Chicago Died used to bother my mother:
Daddy was a cop
on the East side of Chicago
…
And the sound of the battle rang
Through the streets of the old east side
“There’s no East Side of Chicago! Where are they from?”
ETA: Apparently there is an East Side.
“If you love somebody, set them free.”
Sting, you know better than that!
I prefer Pinky’s response:
“I think so, Brain–but if Jimmy cracks corn and no one cares, why does he keep doing it?”
He’s just singing a variation of “If you love something set it free if it comes back its yours if not it never was”.
No, I know that. It’s the grammar – “somebody” is singular and “them” is plural. Somebody as bookish as Sting is would know that.
Are we really about to get into the whole beaten-to-death argument about the singular they? It’s happening! STOP STANDING IN THE WAY OF PROGRESS!
