Or “rises like a leopress”. (female leopard? Is that even a word?)
“I think I know I mean a “Yes” but it’s all wrong”
or
“I think I know of thee, ah yes, but it’s all wrong.”
When I first saw your post, it rang a bell, and I actually repeated it about 20 times until I got the meter right, and then I knew what it was. But then I had to look it up to see if it was correct.
I’m still not sure.
“Supersonic” is even worse iirc
“He knows this girl called Elsa,
She’s into Alka-Seltzer,
She sniffs it through her brain
On a supersonic train”
Or something like that…
When we did a thread like this eons ago, someone posted a comment that I’ll never forget, because I crack up everytime I think about it (so I can’t take credit for the funny – sorry, can’t remember who it was):
Manfred Mann’s ‘Quinn the Eskimo’:
“…jumping queues and making haste just ain’t my cup of meat”
Cup of meat??
CUP OF MEAT??!!!??
Dylan wrote that…most will agree he gets a pass (well, he gets a few passes :rolleyes:)
I offer up this gem…
"Anyway you want it
That’s the way you need it
Anyway you want it
She loves to laugh
She loves to sing
She does everything
She loves to move
She loves to groove
She loves lovin’ things"
etc., etc.
Reading all the awful snippets of songs in this thread makes me wonder why people pick on Neil Peart, the man who wrote the lyrics to The Analog Kid and Different Strings and Middletown Dreams and Workin’ Them Angels and The Way The Wind Blows and Witch Hunt and Time Stand Still.
Come on folks. Turn up the music and smile, get carried away on the songs and stories of vanished times. Relax and have a nice cup of meat.
I’ll be darned. All this time I thought it was “She loves a lot of things”
Someone’s already nominated Nickelback, but I want to more specifically nominate Photograph..
Missed? Missed what? Her lips? Cheap rhyme. Hate it.
I LOVE Lady GaGa’s Bad Romance, but the lyrics are just dumb.
Whatever the hell that means.
How about the “what the hell is on Joey’s head?” line?
I admit, though, that I do like that song.
But where else is a jailbreak going to be, other than at the jail? That’s what makes that line so stupid.
Ha! You guys reminded me of the greatest video ever, which I’m now listening to: Alanis Morissette - My Humps. The whole thing is great, but 2:20 is the clear highlight. For the purposes of this thread the whole song works, but the best bit is probably:
Whatcha gonna do with all that breast
All that breast inside that shirt?
How so? It’s basically a repackaging of the idea that the only thing to fear is fear itself. A message we’d do well to heed right now, actually. Switch out the Russians with terrorists and the song is more relevant than ever. Growing sense of hysteria indeed.
Hm. Yeah. You have a point there. I don’t assume there is any city that have two or more jails?
Aren’t we talking Dublin, here? I imagine every block has a drunktank…
Just copied/pasted from the web. I think it probably is “loves a lot of things”, but there’s no way I’m listening to the song intentionally to check. Not that I can tell which would be worse…
First, you imagine wrong. Second, it’s pretty clear from the rest of the song that he isn’t talking about busting out of a drunktank.
To the best of my knowledge, there were only two prisons in Dublin at the time that song was written, so if there was going to be a jailbreak it would pretty easy to narrow its location down.
I will second (or third) the nominations for Train. Pretty much any song they write is utter garbage.
These are all songs I find cringe-worthy:
*I know now’s the time that I went to find something new
You know it’s your crime that I’m out to find someone too *
Josh Kelley - Everybody Wants You
Did you lose your place?
Did you lose your grace?
Just so everyone could see your singing face
when I feel like a reject from a freakshow
picking up the white trash from the sidewalk
wishing on the deathstars in the night sky
turning on my TV watching drive-bys
But I hate all of those, this last one to me falls into the “so bad it’s good” category.
*Don’t you know in the quiet of the night
Is when the snake is in the crawlin’
And the moon starts to glow then disappear
When the time is really right
Is when the centipede is crawlin’
You’ll be crying in the night so many tears
And you’re crawlin’ like a centipede *
…what?
:rolleyes:
Yeah, we had nothing at all to fear from the USSR, despite the fact that they grabbed half of Europe after WWII, violently putting down any protest, eg Czeckoslovakia, murdered more people than the Nazis, supported violent revolutions across the world, supplied arms and support to terrorist groups around the world…naw, they were just sweethearts.
:rolleyes:
Yes, Black Eyes Peas - My Humps (thanks Ellis Dee for that link) is resoundingly awful. “My lovely lady lumps” Shudder
My other pet peeve, which might be controversial, is anything by Joni Mitchell, especially The Circle Game.
I’m sorry, did you actually lead with the 50s land grab as a reason to fear the Russians in the 80s? Wow, so timely.
By your logic, did Americans have anything to fear from Saddam Hussein in the early 2000s?
How about this from Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the U.S.A.”:
I’m proud to be an American where at least I know I’m free
And I won’t forget the men who died who gave that right to me
Let’s see, where to start? First, “an American” is not a location, so “where” is the wrong preposition. Then there’s “…who died who gave that right…”, which is ungrammatical (although to be fair, at least one site gives the wording as “who died and gave that right”). Finally, which right is that again? I guess it’s the right to I’m free.
OK, that’s all proofreading. Still, it’s a rather impressive set of errors in such a small space… it just comes off sounding high school. Sorry, Lee, but that kind of sloppy writing is not among the things that make me proud to be an American. (Then there’s the little matter of “men who died”… yeah, I know it was mostly men, but still, can’t we remember the women too?)
Yes, we did.