You all make me wonder if Major Tom was actually sitting in a tin can or whether that was just more Fake News.
“Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer…”
Although that’s like shooting fish in a barrel.
So, for something nonmythological, I’ve always had strong doubts about “Norwegian Wood”.
Yeah I suspect it isn’t good.
I do recall now a case of “not listening to the words closely enough” involving “Cecelia.” I would have been (checks release date of single on Wikipedia) in the seventh grade when it came out. There was a girl in my class named Cecelia, and she and her circle of friends thought it was way cool that her favorite singer had written a song about Cecelia. He was in love with her, and she was breaking his heart!
So I file that one into the same category with “Born in the USA” and “The One I Love.”
Well, they wouldn’t send you to Folsom Prison for shooting a man in Reno, NV, and even if they did you would never hear a whistle from a Texan train.
It is highly unlikely that the lead singer of The Rainmakers ever floated down the Mississippi in a raft or boat with fellow passengers Mark Twain, Harry Truman and Chuck Berry.
Lotta Thermians posting in this thread, it seems. Mummmmmmmmmmm . . .
I saw a red door get painted black once, so I guess anything can happen.
At some point, a man has to embrace his kinks.
Nancy Sinatra is treated like shit by some dude who cheats, lies, gambles.
(You’ve been a’messin’ where you shouldn’t ‘ve been a’messin’, Now someone else is getting all your best, You keep lyin’, you keep losing when you oughta not bet, You keep playin’ where you shouldn’t be playin’)
But after taking all that, she is going to kick his ass?
(One of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you)
Or maybe she means leave him, walk away?
I don’t believe that Question Mark, with or without the Mysterians help, would be able to accurately count his ex’s tears.
I have no idea if in fact the bird is the word.
And surely, not everyone was Kung Fu fighting.
Are British werewolves actually impeccably groomed and tailored?
I know I wasn’t!
After all these years I still can’t identify a woman’s man by the way he uses his walk!
I’ve been in a whole bunch of windy situations, but I’ve never ever heard it cry Mary.
Do you think John the bartender really got the Piano Man free drinks? I actually do.
I have no problem with the factual events described in either of these songs.
A hotel that smells of weed and has resident who owns a Mercedes Benz and hangs out with a group of attractive young men. Seems plausible.
That the members of led Zeppelin know a girl who buys drugs frequently, sometimes late at night after the stores have closed. This does not require willing suspension of disbelief.
Well…
Rubin Hurricane Carter had a long song sung about how he was framed for murder. Almost every “fact” in that song is wrong. He was wrongfully convicted, legally, but I doubt he was innocent.
OTOH, Wolf Creek Pass is a long long way from Pagosa Springs, and even if you are driving a runaway 1949 Peterbilt, there’s miles of straight flat road to stop on before you hit the feed store in town.
Weird Al Yankovich probably wasn’t the sole survivor of an airliner crash on the way to Albuquerque.
OTOH, it’s entirely plausible that he hates sauerkraut. Which I would be fine with. More for me.