# Songs that can't do grammar no more **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 7, 2013, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-cant-do-grammar-no-more/649536 "2013-02-07T01:58:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![coolbyrne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bc79bd/32.png) [@coolbyrne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coolbyrne)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-cant-do-grammar-no-more/649536/1 "2013-02-07T01:58:30Z")
I heard a Maroon 5 song on the radio today (“One More Night”)and this particular line caught my eye (my ear?): _You and I get sick, yeah I know that we can’t do this no more_ It got me thinking about other songs and their poor grammar. Most involve variations of “can’t [something] no more”. _I can’t get no satisfaction_, etc. What other songs have glaring errors? ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-cant-do-grammar-no-more/649536/2 "2013-02-07T03:19:15Z")
Paula Cole’s “I Don’t Wanna Wait”: “So open up your morning light And say a little prayer for I” Just a fucking horrible song. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-cant-do-grammar-no-more/649536/3 "2013-02-07T03:38:08Z")
> [@Ponch8](#): > > Paula Cole’s “I Don’t Wanna Wait”: > > “So open up your morning light > And say a little prayer for I” > > Just a fucking horrible song. I believed for years that people were being too hard on Paula Cole for this one, because (I thought) “I” was the end of that line but not the end of the sentence. I understood the full sentence to be “So open up your morning light and say a little prayer, for I / know that if we are to stay alive [unintelligible].” Then when this came up in another stupid lyrics thread I actually looked it up, and discovered that not only was I wrong, but that the line is basically gibberish. “So open up your morning light and say a little prayer for I. You know that if we are to stay alive, and see the peace in every eye.” ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-cant-do-grammar-no-more/649536/4 "2013-02-07T03:47:51Z")
“You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet” by Bachman-Turner Overdrive. Not only is it ungrammatical, but Randy Bachman sang it with a stutter as a joke on his brother Gary, who actually stuttered. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-cant-do-grammar-no-more/649536/5 "2013-02-07T03:57:58Z")
Meat Loaf’s “Not A Dry Eye In The House” contains the line “Act 4, you don’t love me no more!” ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-cant-do-grammar-no-more/649536/6 "2013-02-07T04:04:25Z")
Meat Loaf’s “Not A Dry Eye In The House” contains the line “Act 4, you don’t love me no more!” ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-cant-do-grammar-no-more/649536/7 "2013-02-07T04:10:50Z")
“Touch Me” by the Doors > [@](#): > > 'til the stars fall from the sky / for you and I Especially since it could have just as easily been “'til the stars fall in the sea / for you and me” ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-cant-do-grammar-no-more/649536/8 "2013-02-07T04:10:51Z")
Much too easy if you count the song that don’t even try (“Since U Been Gone”, anyone?) My nominee is Gaga for “You and I”. Seriously, it’s just as easy to rhyme me and it is to rhyme I. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-cant-do-grammar-no-more/649536/9 "2013-02-07T04:18:39Z")
Note that a double-negative is not necessarily a grammar error. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-cant-do-grammar-no-more/649536/10 "2013-02-07T04:36:53Z")
_A Horse with No Name_ has the following: > [@](#): > > Cause there ain’t no one for to give you no pain Bwah? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Downtown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Mr\_Downtown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Downtown)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-cant-do-grammar-no-more/649536/11 "2013-02-07T04:55:49Z")
\*In this ever-changing world in which we live in . . . \* “Live and Let Die” ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-cant-do-grammar-no-more/649536/12 "2013-02-07T04:58:04Z")
I’ve mondegreened that to: _In this ever-changing world in which we’re livin’_ Doesn’t make my inner grammarian all explodey. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![thirdwarning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecccb3/32.png) [@thirdwarning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdwarning)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-cant-do-grammar-no-more/649536/13 "2013-02-07T05:08:32Z")
Aaron Tippin _There Ain’t Nothin’ Wrong With the Radio_ ---
**Author:** ![Nunzio\_Tavulari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Nunzio\_Tavulari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nunzio_Tavulari)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-cant-do-grammar-no-more/649536/14 "2013-02-07T05:19:26Z")
I ain’t got nobody that I can depend on - Santana I can’t get no satisfaction Ain’t got no, I got life - Nina Simone ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-cant-do-grammar-no-more/649536/15 "2013-02-07T05:26:52Z")
Old Man River, that Old Man River He must know somethin’, but he don’t say nothin’ … He don’t plant taters, he don’t plant cotton And them that plants them are soon forgotten ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-cant-do-grammar-no-more/649536/16 "2013-02-07T06:28:27Z")
R.E.M.'s “Leaving New York” included the inscrutable line “leaving was never my proud.” Of course, the band didn’t seem to be trying very hard on any part of the rather terrible _Around The Sun_, so I guess it fits right in with the rest of the dreck. Oh, and there was also that song by The Killers with the “are we dancer” part in it. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-cant-do-grammar-no-more/649536/17 "2013-02-07T06:46:51Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > _A Horse with No Name_ has the following: > > Bwah? 😕 More from the world’s worst lyricists: “But Oz never did give nothing to the Tin Man that he didn’t, didn’t already have. And Cause never was the reason for the evening Or the tropic of Sir Galahad” “But it doesn’t mean you ain’t been on my mind” "He flies the sky like an eagle in the eye, Of a hurricane that’s abandoned " “Sometimes late when things are real And people share the gift of gab between themselves” ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-cant-do-grammar-no-more/649536/18 "2013-02-07T07:21:43Z")
**Anna (Go To Him)** Arthur Alexander; Beatles \*“You say he loves you more than me so I will set you free” \* Bzzzzzzt. “You say he loves you more than he loves me, so I will set you free” makes no sense. ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-cant-do-grammar-no-more/649536/19 "2013-02-07T07:33:19Z")
Has anyone bothered checking to see if these artists have a valid and current poetic license? If they do, then I’m afraid there aint nothin we can’t do. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-cant-do-grammar-no-more/649536/20 "2013-02-07T07:40:27Z")
Bryan Adams: She says her love for me could never die But that’d change if she ever found out about you and I [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-cant-do-grammar-no-more/649536.md?page=2)