Songs you used to like before you started listening to the lyrics

[WOOKINPANUB]

@dotchan

My moment is not as serious as the rest of you guys.

I had thought that “No Air” was one of those typical bad breakup/love of my life is dead songs…

Until I found out that the woman in the song is just upset because her boyfriend is moving out of the apartment they shared because he wants to pursue his dream as a singer.
Now, to be fair, he may have moved like cross country or something and she doesn’t think she can handle a long-distance relationship, but I felt so cheated after I found out about it.

I also WTF-ed at the techno cover of “What Hurts the Most”. Some songs just don’t work in techno, and that song is one of them.

Whaaaaa? Did you read this somewhere, because it’s certainly not stated in the lyrics. I think you were correct with your first interpretation.

[Guinastasia]

@Argent Towers

It’s a Cadillac Escalade, not “Esplanade.”

Ah, I see.

[Don_t_fight_the_hypothetical]

@Scumpup

Perhaps our values differ too much to reach an accord on this. From my POV, it’s better to give hooligans a sound flogging for lesser transgressions and women not to be raped at all.

Our values are not different, I agree with you 100%. I was speculating from the songs point of view.

[Scumpup]

@Don't fight the hypothetical

Our values are not different, I agree with you 100%. I was speculating from the songs point of view.

Well, I think the point of the song was that he had misinterpreted what his dead father wanted from him. Dear ol’ dirt nappin’ daddy just didn’t want his son to be a hooligan himself.

[iturntoyou]

I have to disagree with Love The One You’re With, look at the lyrics,

“‘cause your baby is so far away”

I guess you could make a case for her being unobtainable, but the next group of lyrics

“don’t sit cryin’ over good times you’ve had. There’s a girl right next to you”

This implies the girl WAS obtainable and she dumped the guy. So what’s the result, just look to the next available person.

I can understand it from a historical hippie kind of 60s thing, (I wasn’t alive then but from what I’ve read and my folks told me)

Anyway that’s off topic, and I realize that songwriters often try to use words in a different way or change the terms to get a rhyme but a good song needs to stand alone on it’s own content. That doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy a song, there are plenty of bad, but catchy tunes, such as Sheena Easton’s Sugar Walls which is blatant but really after you listen to it comes across as silly. I mean you could make a case for Sugar Walls meaning her heart and the song would still fit.

[dotchan]

Re: “No Air”

@WOOKINPANUB

Whaaaaa? Did you read this somewhere, because it’s certainly not stated in the lyrics. I think you were correct with your first interpretation.

Okay, now I’m going to ask my roommate if she was smoking something, because I just watched the official music video and all I can see is either bad breakup or she can’t handle a long-distance relationship.

[Vihaga]

@Scumpup

Well, I think the point of the song was that he had misinterpreted what his dead father wanted from him. Dear ol’ dirt nappin’ daddy just didn’t want his son to be a hooligan himself.

I agree with this. Also, it would take one mother of a crystal ball to know that your girl’s going to be raped because it’s known that you don’t fight; I don’t think that happens to most pacificists’ girlfriends.

[psychonaut]

@DKW

The instant I saw this thread, I immediately thought of Moonlight Shadow. (Mike Oldfield, Missing Heart, anyone, doesn’t matter.)

An absolutely beautiful, tuneful, melodic, harmonious folk song…about A MURDER. :eek:

If you like the tune but not the words, then listen to “Man in the Rain” from Tubular Bells III instead. Oldfield basically plagiarised his own tune for that one. It’s got a better solo, too.