Song lyrics that suddenly make you think...do wot?

[swee'pea99]

A rant on the 'annoys' thread reminded me of when I was walking down the pub t'other day with me headphones on and suddenly found myself actually hearing lyrics I'd heard a hundred times before, without ever really 'hearing' them, if you know what I mean, and suddenly thinking...eh?

Just googled 'em, and...

I told you not to wander 'round in the dark.
I told you 'bout the swans, that they live in the park.
Then I told you 'bout our kid: now he's married to Mabel.

"I told you 'bout the swans, that they live in the park."? What kind of a lyric is that? I mean really, I know it was the '70s, and a lot of drugs were being consumed, but what was going on when Eric Clapton & George Harrison wrote that, then presumably left it for a day or two, came back to it and though...yes.That's what I wanted to say.

I suppose at that time Cream could get away with pretty much anything.

Those swans, yer know...they live in the park.

 

[KEEF]

Made perfect sense to me at the time but my mind may have been altered

 

[Accy cyclist]

If you listen to most song lyrics you'll find them to be stupid and there to rhyme and fill in gaps,not to make you think wow so profound!

 

[theclaud]

My old flame
My new lovers all seem so tame
For I haven't met a gent
So magnificent or elegant
As my old flame

I've met so many who
Had fascinating ways
A fascinating gaze in their eyes
Some who sent me up to the skies
But their attempts at love
Were only imitations of
My old flame

I can't even think of his name
But I'll never be the same
Until I discover what became
Of my old flame


WTF? How good can it have been?

 

[Accy cyclist]

Some crazy words here!


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D-LmRNdQiQ&feature=kp

 

[Accy cyclist]

Eeek!!


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb3kZCak10I

 

[Accy cyclist]

Missing the point of the thread I think.

Yeah i know but i couldn't resist!

 

[winjim]

"I don't want to see a ghost, it's the sight that I fear most, I'd rather have a piece of toast"

Mind you, that was always a terrible song.

 

[MontyVeda]

Lyrics are best taken as nothing more than a series of noises... otherwise I start wondering if Gene Vincent really did have a 'baby' (American for 'girlfriend') called Be-bop-a-lula, and what on earth possessed the poor girl's parent to give her such an unusual name.

 

[MontyVeda]

I rest my case.

 

[w00hoo_kent]

Lyrics are best taken as nothing more than a series of noises... otherwise I start wondering if Gene Vincent really did have a 'baby' (American for 'girlfriend') called Be-bop-a-lula, and what on earth possessed the poor girl's parent to give her such an unusual name.

The school my wife just stopped working at had a Talulah Barbie (can't remember the surname, it was double barreled though.) attending it. It's best not to consider what they are thinking.

Is there a love in your life
Cause I wanna be your wife
It's a bird it's a plane
It's a bicycle up in the sky
You didn't say you could fly
Now I know where I stand and I'm
Tired of life on the ground
Loose my soul when I'm down up your ramp I am Found
(BMX Bandits - Wheatus)

 

[MontyVeda]

you gotta roll with it,
you gotta take your time,
you gotta say what you say don't let anybody get in your way oh it's all too much for me to take


yup, fecking dreadful.

 

[Fnaar]

Wilf Turnbull and Derek Philpott are two pensioners who take pop artistes to task over their lyrics... and get some replies too. Some better than others, and obv it helps if you know the songs, but there are some hilarious letter exchanges here: http://www.wilfturnbull.co.uk/
The recent Billy Bragg one is great.

 

[Spinney]

I suppose Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds doesn't count because it was supposed to be wierd?

 

[accountantpete]

Wilf Turnbull and Derek Philpott are two pensioners who take pop artistes to task over their lyrics... and get some replies too. Some better than others, and obv it helps if you know the songs, but there are some hilarious letter exchanges here: http://www.wilfturnbull.co.uk/
The recent Billy Bragg one is great.

Inspired no doubt by the late and great Henry Root letters