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

[TheDoctor]

"Didn't we have a lovely time, the day we went to Bangor?"

"No" would be my guess.And there's no Ferris wheel either.
Fiddlers Dram got everything wrong in that song!

 

[Accy cyclist]

Snap Rhythm is a dancer......".I'm as serious as cancer when i say rhythm is a dancer"!
Robbie Williams Supreme...."Is there a tumour in your humour"

Bad taste and naff to boot!!

 

[Gravity Aided]

"Didn't we have a lovely time, the day we went to Bangor?"

"No" would be my guess.And there's no Ferris wheel either.
Fiddlers Dram got everything wrong in that song!

http://bangor.wcsh6.com/news/events/526223-first-ferris-wheel-bangor-waterfront

 

[TheDoctor]

"Didn't we have a lovely time, the day we went to Bangor?"

"No" would be my guess.And there's no Ferris wheel either.
Fiddlers Dram got everything wrong in that song!

http://bangor.wcsh6.com/news/events/526223-first-ferris-wheel-bangor-waterfront

Yebbut, I doubt you'd go to Bangor, Maine for the day, and have lunch on the way, and all for under a pound, you know.

 

[MikeG]

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

Jack Bruce lives just around the corner from me. His house is up for sale ATM.

 

[Over The Hill]

• She wrote my name on a red telephone box
  When I got there she'd already rubbed it off

?????

Alanis Morissette's "Ironic" just makes no sense at all as it is just full of examples of coincidence rather than irony.

It can work the other way with some song lyrics just not being picked up by those who are in charge of our moral guidance.
Back in 1979 you could not be very rude in song lyrics played on the radio, but Squeeze got away with -

I kiss her for the first time
And then I take her home
I'm invited in for coffee
And I give the dog a bone

I just love that it is rude and insulting to the girl. The whole song is a gem.

 

[SteCenturion]

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.

Opinion.

Class.

 

[w00hoo_kent]

[QUOTE 3162253, member: 45"]I've been to the year three thousand
Not much has changed but they lived under water,
And your great great great grand daughter,
Is pretty fine (is pretty fine)

No, the fact that we're all now marine animals, not much of a change there.

And your great great great grand daughter is pretty fine? Maybe if you're into bodies that have been decomposing for 800 years.[/QUOTE]

I call supposition there. They could live in domes underwater and get around with submersibles. Five generations should be sufficient to achieve significantly longer lifespans for rich people through artificial organs or transplants.

 

[SteCenturion]

Has anyone here ever tried to compose a song I wonder.

As an admittedly fairly poor guitarist, when I have tried I have often failed.

Most songs are composed music first, lyrics then added to fit.

I do/did the opposite as the story & words/language has always been important to me (when I write/wrote), I rarely play guitar now due to home/life/work balance but remember that it is just not that easy.

Doing it the opposite way, lyrics first, seems much more difficult.

When listening to a track I enjoy, the fact that some lyrics are berserk doesn't matter that much if the feeling or general meaning of the song is not lost.

 

[w00hoo_kent]

We have a gigging guitarist in the house and they are regularly composing stuff on their own or with band mates. The lyrics often come first because the singer thinks stuff up and then passes it out to the musicians to make it sound good. They then shuffle things around between them. Although there are also tunes sitting around that then get mated to lyrics that work, or get pulled in when time is tight.

As an artistic skill it does seem to sit between something you can just do, or something you can fake with a vague formula.

 

[swee'pea99]

I heard once that Ian Dury used to keep a box full of slips of paper, each bearing a rhyming couplet he'd come up with - Bolshoi Ballet/Ally Pally, Ribena, Hyena - and when he wanted to write a song, he'd start out by pulling them all out and starting to arrange them into some kind of order...

 

[SteCenturion]

We have a gigging guitarist in the house and they are regularly composing stuff on their own or with band mates. The lyrics often come first because the singer thinks stuff up and then passes it out to the musicians to make it sound good. They then shuffle things around between them. Although there are also tunes sitting around that then get mated to lyrics that work, or get pulled in when time is tight.

As an artistic skill it does seem to sit between something you can just do, or something you can fake with a vague formula.

Agreed.

I am more a struggler, a self enforced musician for want of better decription, not a natural at all.

Good song writing is something to savour.

 

[MontyVeda]

David Bowie used to write out a lyric sheet, then cut it up and re-arrange all the lines... this way he could turn cr@p lyrics inti utter sh!te... but none of the fans noticed so it was all OK in the end. Dunno what Bob Dylan's formula is/was... just write any old tosh I guess and some sucker will buy it... then they'll tell their friends to boy it too, and not wanting to appear uncool, they do... even that sh!te Xmas album!!!

 

[Glow worm]

CBA to look up who sang it but the one that went 'and I miss you like the deserts miss rain' used to really anoy me. As we all know the desert is a perfectly adapted arid environmnet and does not miss the rain at all. In fact, too much rain would spoil it. It would have made more sense to sing 'and I miss you like the rainforests miss the rain'. Yep- definately prefer that version.

Also, I love the Pogues track 'Boat train' that goes
First we had some whisky
Then we had some gin
Then we had tequila
Thats what did me in

Chapeau to Shane - the whisky alone would have been quite enough for me.

 

[slowwww]

Whiter Shade of Pale, Procol Harem

"..And so it was that later
As the miller told his tale
That her face, at first just ghostly,
Turned a whiter shade of pale
She said, 'There is no reason
And the truth is plain to see.'
But I wandered through my playing cards
And would not let her be
One of sixteen vestal virgins
Who were leaving for the coast
And although my eyes were open
They might have just as well've been closed"

Errm I'm not sure that this qualifies for this post, as i think the fact that the words were gibberish must have been apparent from the very first listen!