Here’s a
coincidence. For some time I have been collecting a second instalment of daft
and illogical song lyrics to add to the ones I posted on a earlier blog
post - the coincidence is that when I searched my blog archives to create a
link to the
earlier post I found I’d delivered that first one exactly one year ago.
There you go.
Hope you
enjoy this second instalment. Click on the tracks to listen to the songs via
Spotify.
I looked at the skies, running my
hands over my eyes,
and I fell out of bed, hurting my head from things that I'd said.
and I fell out of bed, hurting my head from things that I'd said.
(Where do I
start? Everything is wrong about this. More than one sky to look at; looking at
skies while running hands over eyes; and conflicting reasons given for a
hurting head - not bad for two lines.)
She ain’t no witch
And I love the way she twitch,
Ah-ha-ha.
(Just -
daft.)
Words are very unnecessary
(Things are
either unnecessary or they aren’t)
If Paradise was half as nice as heaven
that you take me to,
Who need Paradise, I’d rather have
you.
(Well, yes,
you would prefer her if Paradise was only half as nice – statement of the
obvious)
Tonight there’s gonna be a jailbreak
Somewhere in this town.
(I wonder
where exactly in town a jailbreak might take place)
She called him Speedoo, but his
Christian name was Mr Earl
(So what was
his surname, Paul?)
If you have
any examples you’d like to share, please use Comments to pass them on.
Ooh, these are so frustrating! I know there's at least five that bug me, but of course I can't remember them right now. The only one that really sticks in my head is the grammatical error in Aerosmith's line "my get up and go must have got up and went" - but I like the song!
ReplyDeleteGotta love forced rhymes.
ReplyDeleteI like the comic value of "got up and went".
ReplyDeleteListening again to Dylan's 'John Wesley Harding' album reminded me of how daft the lyrics of 'As I Went Out One Morning' are, not least the lines:
ReplyDelete'"Depart from me this moment,"
I told her with my voice.'
As apart from telling her with... what exactly?