# Songs with incorrect basic premises **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 26, 2015, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-incorrect-basic-premises/741371 "2015-12-26T04:35:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [December 26, 2015, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-incorrect-basic-premises/741371/1 "2015-12-26T04:35:17Z")
For instance, Aretha sings, “Your love is like a seesaw, moving up, down and all around …” Sorry, Aretha, I don’t know what love is like, maybe a rollercoaster (?), but if it moves all around it ain’t a seesaw. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2015, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-incorrect-basic-premises/741371/2 "2015-12-26T04:56:49Z")
Dierks Bentley – “Sweet & Wild” _Taste of your love Sweet and wild as berries From a summer vine_ Berries don’t grow on vines. They grow on canes and runners. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2015, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-incorrect-basic-premises/741371/3 "2015-12-26T05:40:22Z")
There’s a Sammy Hagar song where he makes a reference to “cherries on a vine”. Oops again. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2015, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-incorrect-basic-premises/741371/4 "2015-12-26T05:47:50Z")
Is love a rose, a razor, a river, a hunger, a power, something there’s too little of, just a song we sing, or all we need? ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2015, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-incorrect-basic-premises/741371/5 "2015-12-26T06:20:15Z")
“Don’t Stop Believin’” by Journey. _Just a city boy Born and raised in South Detroit_ So, um, Windsor, Ontario then? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2015, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-incorrect-basic-premises/741371/6 "2015-12-26T06:23:05Z")
\*“Fly me to the moon And let me play among the stars; Let me see what spring is like On Jupiter and Mars.” \* I don’t even know what “play among the stars” is supposed to mean. And Jupiter’s axial tilt is a mere 3 degrees, so there isn’t any spring to speak of. And if you were on Jupiter or Mars, you’d have more immediately life-threatening concerns than seeing “what spring is like.” ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2015, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-incorrect-basic-premises/741371/7 "2015-12-26T06:33:02Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > “Don’t Stop Believin’” by Journey. > > _Just a city boy > Born and raised in South Detroit_ > > So, um, Windsor, Ontario then? No. The Southern part of Detroit. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2015, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-incorrect-basic-premises/741371/8 "2015-12-26T07:09:37Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > Dierks Bentley – “Sweet & Wild” > > _Taste of your love > Sweet and wild as berries > From a summer vine_ > > Berries don’t grow on vines. They grow on canes and runners. [Grapes.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berry_(botany))😃 ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2015, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-incorrect-basic-premises/741371/9 "2015-12-26T07:18:21Z")
Gerry Rafferty: _“You’re as constant as the Northern Star, the brightest light that shines.”_ Polaris is only the 50th brighest star in the sky. U2: _“Early morning, April 4th, shot rings out in the Memphis sky.”_ Refers to Martin Luther King’s assassination. Except MLK was shot in late afternoon, not early morning. ---
**Author:** ![Uniqueorn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uniqueorn/32/2807_2.png) [@Uniqueorn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uniqueorn)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2015, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-incorrect-basic-premises/741371/10 "2015-12-26T08:47:53Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#): > > U2: _“Early morning, April 4th, shot rings out in the Memphis sky.”_ > Refers to Martin Luther King’s assassination. Except MLK was shot in late afternoon, not early morning. Aha! But it would have been morning in Ireland! 😃 Charlene: “Oh I’ve been to Nice and the isle of Greece” Greece is a peninsula. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2015, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-incorrect-basic-premises/741371/11 "2015-12-26T09:22:49Z")
Vanessa Williams’ “Save the Best for Last” has this: “Sometimes the snow comes down in June Sometimes the sun goes 'round the moon.” ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2015, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-incorrect-basic-premises/741371/12 "2015-12-26T09:42:22Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > “Don’t Stop Believin’” by Journey. > > _Just a city boy > Born and raised in South Detroit_ > > So, um, Windsor, Ontario then? “The Night Chicago Died” by Paper Lace. _Daddy was a cop On the east side of Chicago_ So, um, in the lake, then? ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2015, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-incorrect-basic-premises/741371/13 "2015-12-26T11:23:57Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > “Don’t Stop Believin’” by Journey. > > _Just a city boy > Born and raised in South Detroit_ > > So, um, Windsor, Ontario then? Downriver. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2015, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-incorrect-basic-premises/741371/14 "2015-12-26T13:01:28Z")
[QUOTE=It’s Not Rocket Surgery!] “Don’t Stop Believin’” by Journey. Just a city boy Born and raised in South Detroit So, um, Windsor, Ontario then? [/QUOTE] > [@hajario](#): > > No. The Southern part of Detroit. There’s a couple of posts defending this line. Really? As a lyric, it just _clanks_. As for songs with incorrect premises, gotta go with **Steve Miller** - the man doesn’t know his _pompatus_ from a hole in the ground ;). ---
**Author:** ![botsgotme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@botsgotme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/botsgotme)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2015, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-incorrect-basic-premises/741371/15 "2015-12-26T13:40:04Z")
“Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry”…um, aren’t levees supposed to be dry? and what is “American Pie”? I have had cherry pie, apple pie, pecan pie…but never American Pie. ---
**Author:** ![Shakester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shakester/32/437_2.png) [@Shakester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shakester)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2015, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-incorrect-basic-premises/741371/16 "2015-12-26T14:08:31Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Sometimes the snow comes down in June This planet has an entire southern hemisphere, and in that hemisphere, June is midwinter. I am, in fact, posting from the southern hemisphere, and it is currently summer here. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2015, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-incorrect-basic-premises/741371/17 "2015-12-26T14:18:07Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > There’s a couple of posts defending this line. Really? As a lyric, it just _clanks_. Maybe it’s a shitty lyric but the premise is fine. I’m from West L.A. (Also in a song). That’s what we called it. No one ever said “lol you mean the Pacific Ocean.” ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2015, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-incorrect-basic-premises/741371/18 "2015-12-26T14:20:04Z")
> [@Shakester](#): > > This planet has an entire southern hemisphere, and in that hemisphere, June is midwinter No. Winter starts on June 21st there. June is late Fall/early Winter. ---
**Author:** ![botsgotme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@botsgotme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/botsgotme)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2015, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-incorrect-basic-premises/741371/19 "2015-12-26T14:26:35Z")
“Shake Your Love” by Debby Gibson…how do you “shake” your love? Is it like shaking your bootie? ---
**Author:** ![Ignotus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecc23a/32.png) [@Ignotus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignotus)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2015, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-incorrect-basic-premises/741371/20 "2015-12-26T14:38:34Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > No. Winter starts on June 21st there. June is late Fall/early Winter. Well, not according to [all definitions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter#Astronomical_and_other_calendar-based_reckoning)… > [@](#): > > In many countries in the Southern Hemisphere, including Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, winter begins on 1 June and ends on 31 August. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-incorrect-basic-premises/741371.md?page=2)