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[Misc] Songs With Lines That Just Don't Make Sense
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OzMike
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Like a pidgeon from hell, a line from a Pretenders song.
OzMike
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Another of their songs says something about usung a side step.
"I'm as serious as cancer when I say rhythm is a dancer"
T soprano
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You beat me to it, was just posting same reply
AmexRuislip
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Now there's a word that I don't understand
I hear it every day from my old man
It may be Cockney rhyming slang
It ain't in no school book
He says it every time that he gets mad
A regular caution is my old dad
Rub the old man up the wrong way, bet your life you'll hear him say
Gertcha, cowson, gertcha
Gertcha!
When the kids are swinging on the gate
Gertcha!
When the paperboy's half an hour late
Gertcha!
When the pigeons are pecking at his seed
Gertcha!
When the barber starts digging up his bean
Gertcha!
Gertcha, cowson, gertcha
Bar stool preaching
That's the old man's game!
I hear it every day from my old man
It may be Cockney rhyming slang
It ain't in no school book
He says it every time that he gets mad
A regular caution is my old dad
Rub the old man up the wrong way, bet your life you'll hear him say
Gertcha, cowson, gertcha
Gertcha!
When the kids are swinging on the gate
Gertcha!
When the paperboy's half an hour late
Gertcha!
When the pigeons are pecking at his seed
Gertcha!
When the barber starts digging up his bean
Gertcha!
Gertcha, cowson, gertcha
Bar stool preaching
That's the old man's game!
“Oooh, dyslexics on fire” - Kings of Leon ‘my sex is on fire’
“I remove umbilicals’ - Hot Chocolate, ‘I believe in miracles’
‘My poo hole aches’ - Police, ‘Every breath you take’
“I remove umbilicals’ - Hot Chocolate, ‘I believe in miracles’
‘My poo hole aches’ - Police, ‘Every breath you take’
Icy Gull
Back on the rollercoaster
- Jul 5, 2003
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Crimson flames tied through my ears, rollin' high and mighty traps
Pounced with fire on flaming roads using ideas as my maps
"We'll meet on edges, soon, " said I, proud 'neath heated brow
Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now
Pounced with fire on flaming roads using ideas as my maps
"We'll meet on edges, soon, " said I, proud 'neath heated brow
Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now
This from Life On Mars is a favourite of mine
It's on America's tortured brow
That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow
It's on America's tortured brow
That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow
And a thinly veiled homage to Sue Lawley.
Norman Potting
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Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak
Somewhere in this town
Sorry Phil but only Manchester police would fail to conclude................the jail
Assuming that the genius that was Phil Lynott was referring to his home city of Dublin i understand that there are 3 jails and a young offenders institute within its boundary. The lyrics are therefore valid.
Cadiz Seagull
Grey bearded old man
Never understood this one by Albert Hammond?
Seems it never rains in southern California
Seems I've often heard that kind of talk before
It never rains in California
But girl, don't they warn ya?
Menopause
Seems it never rains in southern California
Seems I've often heard that kind of talk before
It never rains in California
But girl, don't they warn ya?
Menopause
Mr Bridger
Sound of the suburbs
There she was just a-walkin' down the street, singin' "Do wah diddy diddy dum diddy do"
Snappin' her fingers and shufflin' her feet, singin' "Do wah diddy diddy dum diddy do"
She looked good (looked good), she looked fine (looked fine)
She looked good, she looked fine and I nearly lost my mind
If saw a woman walking down the street doing this, I hazard a guess she was on spice. Good looking or not.
Certainly wouldn’t make me loose my mind ffs, unless it was my mum.
Snappin' her fingers and shufflin' her feet, singin' "Do wah diddy diddy dum diddy do"
She looked good (looked good), she looked fine (looked fine)
She looked good, she looked fine and I nearly lost my mind
If saw a woman walking down the street doing this, I hazard a guess she was on spice. Good looking or not.
Certainly wouldn’t make me loose my mind ffs, unless it was my mum.
bluenitsuj
Listen to me!!!
The Dale Stephens song never made sense, he was always giving the ball away
jakarta
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We do, most are under the tree but there is always one from both of us to each other on the Tree for New Year, it's like You don't know the Rules...
Tonight there’s gonna be a jail break.
At one of the 3 jails or young offenders institutions in this city.
Doesn’t quite work
Official Old Man
Uckfield Seagull
Macarthur Park. Where do you start. Classic song about a cake.
METALMICKY
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- Jan 30, 2004
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Tonight there’s gonna be a jail break.
At one of the 3 jails or young offenders institutions in this city.
Doesn’t quite work
Indeed. Always thought Phil's best line was the Live and Dangerous introduction for Emerald.
"Is there anyone here with a little Irish in them ?" Crowd screams yeh. "Any of the girls want a little more in Irish in them?
I love The Clash, and saw them 11 times, but this has always been one of their songs that I've always disliked. Musically and lyrically a throwaway song, in spite of later being their biggest hit due to its use in a Levi's ad in the early 1990s