Bad Lyrics

A heep (sic) of cheese, if you'll pardon the pun. But, in the same vein (so it must be Stilton or Danish Blue):

Let's all go to
The magician's birthday
It's in a forest
But not so far away
Much to do
And so much to say
While we listened to
The orchid orchestra play

Happy Birthay to you ...
Happy Birthday to magician
Happy Birthday to you ...

 

YES,FOLKS WE HAVE A WINNER

GOOD SOLO WORK FROM ONE OF THE GREAT VOICES OF ROCK N ROLL!

PROG4ME

TRY THIS ONE:

KAZAAM KAZUNGLE,YOU'RE THE KING OF THE JUNGLE 

YOU'RE THE CAT WITH THE CREAM

YOU'VE GOT IT ALL

DON'T YOU KNOW YOU'RE WALKING TALL

WA HOO WA HOO WA HOO

HINT:NOT FROM A PROG ARTIST(FROM ONE OF HIS SOLO ALBUMS)

I REALLY HAD A GOOD LAUGH WHEN FIRST HEARD THESE LYRICS  

emdiar wrote: "Confusion rains down on us all, From the blistering hights of reason. A shame we have no balls at all. On which to scratch our flees on! But don't you know 'Twas Romeo, The spunky holy spirit, Who pulls his foreskin to and fro', And shoots the giddy linnet." ......and that from one of my favourite lyricist, Roy Harper, "Kangeroo Blues".

Harper could be truly great, and yet he wrote some turkeys too...

Mind you, I never liked "Tom Tiddler's Ground" either, which is widely regarded as some of his finest (I understand...).

Certif1ed said: "Those seem OK to me!"

Certif1ied, did you by any chance miss the "awakens" vs "sleepless night"?

"Confusion rains down on us all,

From the blistering hights of reason.

A shame we have no balls at all.

On which to scratch our flees on!

But don't you know

'Twas Romeo,

The spunky holy spirit,

Who pulls his foreskin to and fro',

And shoots the giddy linnet."

......and that from one of my favourite lyricist, Roy Harper, "Kangeroo Blues".

Certif1ed wrote: These are lyrics that really set my teeth on edge; "Walking across the sitting room, I turn the television off. Sitting beside you, I look into your eyes"  Aaaargh!! NO-ONE turns the television off as they are walking across the sitting room - normally one either grabs the remote, or walks across to the other side of the sitting room, pauses by the television and THEN switches it off!!! Is it just me, or does that lyric suggest that the protagonist does a quick jaunty flick behind his back as he passes the television set on his perambulations? He's a bit quick getting back to the sofa to sit beside his beloved and look into her eyes as well - I find that scene jump somewhat jarring. and even worse are these; "Six saintly shrouded men move across the lawn slowly - a seventh walks in front, a cross held high in hand." No, no, no, no, no!!! SEVEN men are on the lawn - obviously. And it's the FIRST that is in front - NOT the seventh!!! The seventh is at the BACK!! I know I said this in my review, but I'm interested in what others think - I dunno why they annoy me so much - is it just me ???

Certif1ed, I don't know why the Supper's Ready lyrics bother you so much.

For a start, I've always understood "Walking across the sitting room, I turn the television off. Sitting beside you, I look into your eyes" to mean: 1) I walked across the sitting room and turned the TV off. 2) Then I sat down and looked into your eyes! I believe the correct grammatical term for this is 'dramatic present tense'.

"Six saintly shrouded men move across the lawn slowly - a seventh walks in front, a cross held high in hand." doesn't bother me either. Without debating the intended or probable meaning, lingustically "seventh" could be used simply to form a differentiation, e.g. to refer to a man without a shroud and/or not saintly. Could he be their page, for example?! Also, the use of "seventh" need not be referring to the order of procession, but to the fact that six of them are shrouded but a seventh is holding a cross. In other words, one could read it as: "Six saintly shrouded men move across the lawn slowly - a seventh man walks in front, a cross held high in hand." Anyway, it doesn't bother me, linguistically, or otherwise. Must be just you!

What about this:

"Maybe I'll just sing awhile
And then give you a call
Maybe I'll just say hello
And say maybe that's all"

I don't really know what to say, but I've always found this little extract very silly indeed. But anyway one of the greatest tunes ever. 

Yeah - and that Fish, when he sings "Sheathed within the walkman wear a halo of distortion, aural contraceptive aborting pregnant conversation"

...why doesn't he just say "I put my headphones on and turn it up so I can't hear your bullsht?"