Illogical Lyrics

[Sally]

Yes, and also..

I'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony

I have serious reservations. Does the world even have a voice?

I'd like to hold it in my arms and keep it company

Physically impossible.

Surely??

[Robert]

Physically impossible, but more fundamentally, logically impossible - since the singer and the singer's arms are part of the world, this would seem to be like trying to jump on to one's own shadow.

[Sally]

Physically impossible, but more fundamentally, logically impossible - since the singer and the singer's arms are part of the world, this would seem to be like trying to jump on to one's own shadow.

Which is certainly tricky - as anyone who has ever tried will tell you. I've never been able to manage it.

[Robert]

"Can't Buy Me Love."

In the first verse, the singer promises to "buy you a diamond ring" and to "get you anything." However, in the second verse he admits "I may not have a lot to give." Maybe in between the first and second verses she took him up on his offer and this led to the depleted finances of the second verse.

[Sally]

Yes..

I think you must be right, as the following line surely demonstrates a less than satisfactory financial situation:

'say you don't need no diamond ring, and I'll be satisfied'.

Clearly he had second thoughts about that diamond ring.

[Sally]

Sitting on a cornflake
Waiting for the van to come
Corporation T-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday
Man you've been a naughty boy
You let your face grow long

I am the eggman
They are the eggmen
I am the walrus
Goo goo g' joob

Makes perfect sense to me.... ?

[Robert]

And this didn't help to clear up the confusion :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7-YrHUecHQ

[Robert]

Ah, the walrus. Simple, direct sort of lyric.

[DVV]

"His hands were cold as that of a snake"
(not a song but from a cheap French novel, 19th c)

[Mayerling]

Hi all,

While coming home from work today, I was humming tunes from some Broadway shows, one of which was HELLO DOLLY. There is a tune (not in the movie version) which is a kind of march beat, "I stand for brotherhood, America, and a hot lunch for orphans..." The first stanza is sung by Dolly Levy, and she specifically points out a historic figure (Lincoln), "Can't you see him on the field at Gettysburg, 'neath that great, triumphal arch?" The second stanza is sung by her occasional rival Irene Molloy. Now Irene never is suggested to be other than American, although her name might be Irish. Yet when she starts picturing her hero it is either Napoleon or Wellington - more likely Napoleon because of the mention of an arch. "Can't you see him, by himself at Waterloo, 'neath that great, triumphal arch?" While Nappy was certainly a fascinating historical figure, why would Irene be enthralled by him? It can't be the French Invasion of Ireland in 1798(Napoleon had nothing to do with it). Wellington, as Arthur Wellesley, came from Northern Irish ancestry, but despite his great victory remains less compelling than Nappy does. And isn't it odd that like the tune fom GIGI it is a reference to Waterloo that throws the song lyric into some confusion.

[Dupplin Muir]

This probably sounds a bit pathetic, but one song, the lyrics of which have always annoyed me, is Summer the First Time by Bobby Goldsboro. The song begins reasonably enough:

Was a hot afternoon, the last day in June

Right... gotcha... it's after 12 noon... However, later in the song it says:

Sun closed her eyes as it climbed in the sky...

No, no...the sun should be going down, not climbing - it's the afternoon!

It must be the astronomer in me!

[Limehouse]

McArthur Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
Cos it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have the recipe again
Oh no......


Yep - I can identify with that..

[Sister Hyde]

McArthur Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
Cos it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have the recipe again
Oh no......


Yep - I can identify with that..

they've obviously got the same cake receipes as I do

[RonIpstone]

No, no...the sun should be going down, not climbing - it's the afternoon!

It must be the astronomer in me!

But if daylight saving time is in operation, astronomical noon will be probably around 1.00 p.m., that is about an hour after noon local time.

Even if there is no daylight saving, the singer could be on the western edge of the time zone and astronomical noon would be a few minutes after local time noon.

Either way the sun could be climbing after noon (local time), although strictly the sun doesn't climb.

[Sally]

Planet Where?

She came from Planet Claire
I knew she came from there
She drove a Plymouth Satellite
Faster than the speed of light

Planet Claire has pink air
All the trees are red
No one ever dies there
No one has a head

Ahhhahhhahhahh

Some say she's from Mars
Or one of the seven stars
That shine after 3:30 in the morning
WELL SHE ISN'T

She came from Planet Claire

So what I want to know is - if she didn't have a head, how come she could drive? Hmm....