Song lyrics one liners that anyone under 30 won’t understand

[Beebo]

I’ll start with Squeeze-

The Sweeney's doing ninety 'cause they've got the word to go.

From Cool For Cats.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I’ll start with Squeeze-

The Sweeney's doing ninety 'cause they've got the word to go.

From Cool For Cats.

Wow
are they the words??

I always thought it said

The Sweeney's doing ninety 'cause they've got no where to go.

which makes less sense - always thought it was funny!

 

[Jotheboat]

(hopefully) ... knowledge comes with death's release (Bowie, Quicksand)

 

[All uphill]

"I'm in the phone booth, it's the one across the hall"

Blonde " Hanging on the telephone"

 

[iandg]

Maybe these?

"I get my kicks up in the attic from a Kodak Instamatic" Dirty Pictures - Die Toten Hosen

"Had a love affair with Nina in the back of my Cortina" Billericay Dickie - Ian Dury

"Mama don’t take my Kodachrome away" Kodachrome - Paul Simon

 

[Dave7]

I’ll start with Squeeze-

The Sweeney's doing ninety 'cause they've got the word to go.

From Cool For Cats.

"I give the dog a bone"......I did have to explain that to my wife

 

[EltonFrog]

“…I'm turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese I really think so…”

The Vapours.

“…We used to nick motors for a joy ride
Till we rammed a Black Mariah in this XJ 6
To give my brother time to get clear
I had to punch a few policemen before I was nicked…

Martin. TRB.

 

[Yellow Fang]

With my little stick of Blackpool rock
Along the promenade I stroll
It may be sticky but I never complain
It's nice to have a nibble at it now and again

 

[Beebo]

With my little stick of Blackpool rock
Along the promenade I stroll
It may be sticky but I never complain
It's nice to have a nibble at it now and again

I think any 30 year old can work that one out.

 

[matticus]

I’ll start with Squeeze-

The Sweeney's doing ninety 'cause they've got the word to go.

From Cool For Cats.

Well; I've learnt something today! All these years and I've been hearing (IMO) the funnier version (like @ebikeerwidnes ) :

"... doing ninety cos they've got NOWHERE to go ... " !!

http://www.amiright.com/misheard/song/coolforcats.shtml
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Sorry, need a diversion here:
Squeeze may have written THE best lyrics in the 80s. I still get tears listening to Up The Junction

Spoiler: Up The Junction

This morning at 4:50
I took her rather nifty
Down to an incubator
Where thirty minutes later
She gave birth to a daughter
Within a year a walker
She looked just like her mother
If there could be another

It's that last line that hits, especially when you know the rest of the story.

 

[ColinJ]

I’ll start with Squeeze-

The Sweeney's doing ninety 'cause they've got the word to go.

From Cool For Cats.

That reminds me of an embarrassing exchange on one of my forum rides...

I have been caught out a couple of times, bursting into song out on the lonely tops only to discover a silent drafter on my wheel!

I embarrassed myself on my Yorkshire Dales forum ride from Settle. I was riding along with a CycleChat member who I had met for the first time that morning. We had just entered a little village and I saw that it was called Clapham. I turned to face the other rider, smiled, and burst into song ...

ColinJ: "I never thought it could happen, with me and a girl from Clapham, out on the windy common, that night I aint forgotten."

Other Rider, looking startled: "Sorry?"

CJ, cheerfully: "Squeeze!"

OR: "Huh?"

CJ, faltering: "Up the Junction?"

OR, now looking worried about riding with me: "Eh?"

CJ, going red, feeling foolish: "Never mind, you are probably too young to remember 70s chart hits!"

 

[Toshiba Boy]

Is this the M.P.L.A. or
Or is this the U.D.A. or
Or is this the I.R.A.?


The Sex Pistols, Anarchy in the U.K.

 

[Rezillo]

Telephone Line.

ELO

[I have also got Squeeze's Sweeney lyric wrong for years]

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Led Zeppelin - Black Dog:

"Hey, hey, mama, said the way you move
Gonna make you sweat, gonna make you groove

Ah, ah, child, way you shake that thing
Gonna make you burn, gonna make you sting

Hey, hey, baby, when you walk that way
Watch y' honey drip, can't keep away"

View: https://youtu.be/6tlSx0jkuLM?si=K8WDVYMNj_T_aKLT

 

[richardfm]

Wish I had a grey Cortina
Whiplash aerial, racing trim
Cortina owner - no one meaner
Wish that I could be like him

TRB