Regarding Norman Greenbaum’s “Spirit in the Sky” and the lyrics
“I’ve never been a sinner, I’ve never sinned
I’ve got a friend in Jesus”
No one has mentioned the fact that Norman Greenbaum is (or was, for all I know) JEWISH. I read an interview once in which he said that that line was added pretty much because it sounded good and seemed to fit.
You read my mind!
I think Shania Twain’s new single, “I’m Gonna Getcha”, falls into this category, too…
“Sutter’s Mill”, by John Denver, is wrong.
Not only was gold not discovered at the sawmill until January 1848, but it was James Marshall, not Sutter, who discovered it.
How about the oldis “Johnny get Angry”? Yeah, I’ll act like a little bitch so you can get mad and yell at me to prove your love…
:rolleyes:
It’s called “White Flag,” by the way. I just felt the need to say that. The video tends to bring home the stalker point a bit though. She’s basically following David Boreanaz (representing the ex) around the whole time.
Yeah, but in the end we see that’s he more obsessed with her, which implies he’s following her around. She’s got two pictures and he’s covered the wall with her likeness.
Personally, if I were to stalk Mr. Boreanaz, I’d have a lot more than two pictures on my wall…
Anywho, back on topic.
Gary Puckett skeeves me. But I never got skeeved from Diamond’s Girl, You’ll Be a Woman Soon. To me, the song sounds like he’s saying that if she’s going to be an adult, she has to start acting like one and stand up to her family about the choices she makes.
*They never get tired of puttin’ me down
And I never know when I come around
What I’m gonna find
Don’t let them make up your mind
Don’t you know
snip
I’ve been misunderstood for all of my life
But what they’re sayin’, girl, just cuts like a knife
The boy’s no good*
Sounds like he’s on the wrong side of the tracks.
In the song Cotton Fields there is a line:
“It was down in Louisiana,
Just about a mile from Texarkana,
In them old cotton fields back home.”
Even if the singer was standing on the Louisana/Arkansas border, he’d still not be a “mile from Texarkana.”
Texarkana is about 33 miles from Louisiana.
Christine sixteen by KISS…
There was an Earth Day song about 12 years ago by a band called (I think) Dramarama. The opening lyric is:
It’s April twenty-first
And Everybody knows today is Earth Day
Merry Christmas Happy Birthday to who’s ever being born
Earth Day is April 22.
Yep. And Santa Catalina isn’t 26 miles from L.A. either.
But the song that’s really been bugging me lately is Vindicated by Dashboard Confessional:
“Hope, dangles on a string, like slow-spinning redemption…”
Apart from P. Diddy’s “Vote or Die” slogan, I think this is the most stupid thing I’ve heard all year.
No errors there that I know of, just a really bad lyric sung in a really irritating manner. OG SMASH!
All Shania Twain songs are wrong. She puts the “cunt” back into “country”.
Going with the creepywrong tangent.
One of my favourite performers (A New York Goth singer named Voltaire) has an assload of songs that are just completely wrong in that ‘deliberately creepy’ way that’s so brilliant.
A few of my favourites:
Ex-Lover’s Lover
The Man Upstairs
Dead Girls
Conversely he also has a number that are completely without the creepy.
I disagree. The last line of the song goes, “And when we’re through with you, we’ll get me one, too.” Neither of these guys has a girlfriend because, as the songwriter makes quite clear, they’re both losers.
That’s not wrong. That’s indisputably right.
I like that song. 
“it don’t rain in Indianopolis in the summer time”
Cite?
“All the gold in California is in a bank in the middle of Beverly Hills under somebody else’s name”
No it’s not. It all belongs to Bill Gates.
Lay lady, lay
I’m kind of a bum, but I love you. Go to bed with me because your not going to get a better offer. Great pick up line guy. :rolleyes:
“Blinded by the Light” (I can’t remember the group)
Eewwww.
Well, yeah, that would be gross, if that were the way the lyircs went. But the lyrics are “Dressed up like a deuce” (A Duece coup)
That was Manfred Mann’s Earth Band covering a Bruce Springsteen tune. The line is actually:
“Revved up like a duece
another runner in the night”
Duece possibly referring to a hot rod (as in “Little Duece Coupe”).