JumboXL 0 Report post Posted November 19, 2013 (edited) John Hiatt sang: "And when your back's against the wall Just turn around and you, you will see I will catch you, I will catch your fall." If your back is against a wall, and you turn around, you will see a wall. The Who sang: "The simple things you see are all complicated; I look pretty young, but I'm just backdated." If you want to pose younger than you are, you should be postdated, I'd say. Any other examples of non-logical lyrics? Edited November 19, 2013 by Guest Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Carl 22 Report post Posted November 20, 2013 I get metaphor and artistic license and all that, but this never made logical sense to me: Traveling twice the speed of sound It's easy to get burned "Just a Song Before I Go" by Crosby, Stills & Nash Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zabadak 0 Report post Posted November 22, 2013 Have a look at this discussion which covers similar ground... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Carl 22 Report post Posted November 22, 2013 That looks like an attack of the Grammar Police. Love the academic explanation of the errors in "Do They Know It's Christmas?" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zabadak 0 Report post Posted November 23, 2013 :frenchie: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JumboXL 0 Report post Posted February 27, 2014 "Close your eyes, close the door..." That's not easy to do, Bob (I'll be your baby tonight). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Uncle Joe 0 Report post Posted March 2, 2014 A pretty good songwriter in Neil Diamond..... "I am"... I said To no one there And no one heard at all Not even the chair Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zabadak 0 Report post Posted March 2, 2014 The Human League - The Sound Of The Crowd Put your hand in a party wave Pass around Make a shroud pulling combs through a backwash frame Find the copies in a carbon mount Pass around Stroke a pocket with a print of a laughing sound Nope, me neither! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
blind-fitter 0 Report post Posted March 3, 2014 I've always heard it as "Put your hair in a parting wave", i.e. encouraging somebody to style their hair in a particular way, which adds some sense to the next line, with its reference to back-combing and "shrouds" (not an unreasonable metaphor for the post-punk glam-pop crowd approach to coiffure; everybody back-combed at some time or another, without necessarily achieving a shroud.) As for the rest; no idea. Are they definitely the correct words? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zabadak 0 Report post Posted March 3, 2014 Oh yes and it gets worse!!! The shades from a pencil peer Pass around A fold in an eyelid brushed with fear The lines on a compact guide Pass around A hat with alignment worn insde Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Shawna 1 Report post Posted March 3, 2014 well... keeping with BF's idea, the pencil could be an eyeliner pencil, and the folds in the eyelid are when the eyeshadow creases, or just that the eyelid itself is folded (as they do sometimes when people age)... the lines on the compact guide could be a compact (mirror, which comes with makeup and women keep them in their purses, called "compacts"), so I'm thinking that part's about makeup. I have no idea about the hat thing, though. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
blind-fitter 0 Report post Posted March 4, 2014 I checked the lyric insert in the Dare gatefold sleeve. And they are the correct lyrics as quoted. I've just misheard them all this time. My favourite track on the album, too. It is definitely about hair and make-up, getting yourself ready to go out on the town looking "Wow!". i think they've used a lyrical device, whereby you write lyrics that make fairly banal sense, before twisting them round, substituting particular words for virtual homonyms, etc. to generate a more surreal outcome. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zabadak 0 Report post Posted March 4, 2014 Sounds about right! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Shackled77 0 Report post Posted April 30, 2014 'For seven years I dwelt in the palace of exile.. ..playing strange games with the girls of the Island. Brothers & sisters of the pale forest,children of the night.. ...who among you will run with the hunt.? Now...night arrives with her purple legion... ....retire to your tents & to your dreams...tomorrow we enter the town of my birth. I want to be ready.' Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Shackled77 0 Report post Posted May 2, 2014 you don't remember the *rock legend who wrote these lines.? *he usually wore handmade Indian leather moccasins on stage. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Carl 22 Report post Posted May 2, 2014 Donovan, perhaps? I was going to guess Dave Matthews, but he doesn't wear shoes. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Shackled77 0 Report post Posted May 3, 2014 Jim Morrison...sometimes poet...sometimes singer. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tonycrf 0 Report post Posted June 11, 2014 "I am an american Aquarium drinker" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
andy7 0 Report post Posted August 12, 2014 The shrieking of nothing is killing Just pictures of Jap girls in synthesis and I Ain't got no money and I ain't got no hair But I'm hoping to kick but the planet it's glowing - Ashes To Ashes - David Bowie --- 300th post Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zabadak 0 Report post Posted August 12, 2014 When the everywhere-eye asks you Who is the emperor of the sky Take the archangel's thunderbird Go to Edgar Allan in the tower of sleep He'll tell you a story which makes you to creep The echo of your cries is falling so deep Rent a destroyer and sail to Cape Cod There lives a lion, they call him God There is no elevator to Eden, but a hole in the sky In shock-corridors standing People with their eyes in their hands But they don't understand Don't get with your confessional Flare into the vaulting flight of stairs Baiting soldiers sleeping in melting house of wax Why is the audience not taking the insurrection-axe Thousands of windows burst open And alarm bells are broken Archangel's Thunderbird - Amon Duul II (OK, not their first language but still!) :haveabeer: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rayzor 1 Report post Posted August 12, 2014 Zabber, I see those lyrics as being symbolic, deep & many hidden meanings. I can see how their language skills make it difficult to paint the picture properly, but I still see the art behind the lyrics. Of course nonsense is not new to me: it's how I write my poetry! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zabadak 0 Report post Posted August 13, 2014 It's how I hear most things before Nurse Cratchett brings me my meds... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zabadak 0 Report post Posted August 14, 2014 The purple ones work fastest! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rayzor 1 Report post Posted August 15, 2014 (edited) These pills? Edited August 15, 2014 by Guest Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
