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as described in the artist page, this is actually a Genius Bonus refering to the losing and winning records of two college football teams
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* SteelyDan's "Deacon Blues"; in general, the lyrics are very dark and melancholy, until it gets to:
-->''They call Alabama the Crimson Tide''
-->''Call me Deacon Blues!''
-->''They call Alabama the Crimson Tide''
-->''Call me Deacon Blues!''
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** Also speaking of "Na"s, {{XKCD}} gives you [[http://xkcd.com/851_make_it_better/ this.]]
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No need to shoehorn in an unrelated trope, especially in the lead sentence.
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So you're listening to your latest [[DigitalPiracyIsEvil totally legally acquired]] song on your media player of choice. And you really like it! Not only is the melody awesome, but the lyrics seem really deep and poignant. [[{{Mondegreen}} But is he talking about shoes there?]] You're not sure, so you go to the Internet, pull up a lyrics site, and look up to the words to the song.
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So you're listening to your latest [[DigitalPiracyIsEvil totally legally acquired]] song on your media player of choice. And you a new song, and really like it! Not only is the melody awesome, but the lyrics seem really deep and poignant. [[{{Mondegreen}} But is he talking about shoes there?]] You're not sure, so you go to the Internet, pull up a lyrics site, and look up to the words to the song.
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* Neil Diamond: "Songs that she sang to me, songs that she ''brang'' to me". No, the verb "to bring" does ''not'' work that way...
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Yeah, I\'m old (and British) enough to remember the Sex Pistols...
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* The Sex Pistols' ''Anarchy in the UK'' opens with the following couplet, with the second line mispronounced to rhyme with the first (''anarkaist'')：
--> I am an antichrist
--> And I am an anarchist
--> I am an antichrist
--> And I am an anarchist
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**From the same song: "What I'd really like, Dad, is to borrow the car keys/ see you later, can I have them please?"
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* The larga majority of the lyrics of {{Yes}} are picked for sound over anything else.
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** Or much of TalkingHeads' output during his time as their producer. As a matter of fact, "I Zimbra" is based on an ''actual'' sound-poem, specifically one by {{Dadaist}} Hugo Ball.
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** Or much of TalkingHeads' output during his time as their producer. As a matter of fact, "I Zimbra" is based on an ''actual'' sound-poem, specifically one by {{Dadaist}} {{Dada}}ist Hugo Ball.
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** Or much of TalkingHeads' output during his time as their producer. As a matter of fact, "I Zimbra" is based on an ''actual'' sound-poem, specifically one by {{Dadaist}} Hugo Ball.
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* "That's Enough of That" by obscure country singer Mila Mason: "That's enough of this crying, enough of this whining, enough of this ''over-react''".
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* "Twenty years have came and went" from "Angry All the Time" by Tim [=McGraw=]. "Have come and gone" ''would'' have scanned, you know.
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* "Twenty years have came and went" from "Angry All the Time" by TimMcGraw. "Have come and gone" ''would'' have scanned, you know.
** From another one of Tim's songs, "My Old Friend": "They laugh and they cry me / And somehow sanctify me".
** From another one of Tim's songs, "My Old Friend": "They laugh and they cry me / And somehow sanctify me".
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** [[YourMileageMayVary YMMV]]; this troper doesn't find any of her songs particularly hard to sing along with.
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* Faith Hill's "The Way You Love Me" features a completely avoidable pronoun flub:
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* Faith Hill's FaithHill's "The Way You Love Me" features a completely avoidable pronoun flub:
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* The next lines are hardly any better:
-->''Ooh, I love watching you, ooh, baby''
-->''When you're drivin' me, ooh, [[PainfulRhyme crazy]]''
-->''Ooh, I love the way you, love the way you love me…''
-->''Ooh, I love watching you, ooh, baby''
-->''When you're drivin' me, ooh, [[PainfulRhyme crazy]]''
-->''Ooh, I love the way you, love the way you love me…''
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* Pretty much the second half of AlanJackson's "Where I Come From". The song's offenses: "Had to use my finger" is used to mean hitchhiking; {{Painful Rhyme}}s (Ventura/finger, dinner/soprano, Kentucky/thunder, Tulsa/salsa); and a fourth verse that hardly makes sense (something about meeting another trucker who asks if the narrator's met him; "if not, you might've seen me there / just dropped a load of salsa").
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* Pretty much the second half of AlanJackson's "Where I Come From". The song's offenses: "Had to use my finger" is used to mean hitchhiking; Besides having {{Painful Rhyme}}s out the wazoo (Ventura/finger, dinner/soprano, Kentucky/thunder, Tulsa/salsa); Tulsa/salsa), it tries to pass off "use my finger" as a synonym for hitchhiking and a the fourth verse that hardly barely makes sense (something about meeting another trucker who asks if the narrator's met him; "if not, sense:
-->Well, I was headed home on 65
-->Somewhere around Kentucky
-->The CB rang for a bobtail rig
-->That's rollin' on like thunder
-->Well, I answered him and he asked me
-->Aren't you from out in Tulsa?
-->No, but you might've seen methere / just there
-->Just dropped a load ofsalsa").salsa
* John Conlee's "Old School" has a rather shoehorned word: "We both made it to our graduation / You chose a college, I chose a ''vocation'' / Driving 18 wheels."
-->Well, I was headed home on 65
-->Somewhere around Kentucky
-->The CB rang for a bobtail rig
-->That's rollin' on like thunder
-->Well, I answered him and he asked me
-->Aren't you from out in Tulsa?
-->No, but you might've seen me
-->Just dropped a load of
* John Conlee's "Old School" has a rather shoehorned word: "We both made it to our graduation / You chose a college, I chose a ''vocation'' / Driving 18 wheels."
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* Faith Hill's "The Way You Love Me":
-->''Ooh, I love watching you, ooh, baby''
-->''When you're drivin' me, ooh, [[PainfulRhyme crazy]]''
-->''Ooh, I love the way you, love the way you love me?''
-->''Ooh, I love watching you, ooh, baby''
-->''When you're drivin' me, ooh, [[PainfulRhyme crazy]]''
-->''Ooh, I love the way you, love the way you love me?''
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-->''Ooh, I love watching you, ooh, baby''
-->''When you're drivin' me, ooh, [[PainfulRhyme crazy]]''
-->''Ooh, I love the way you, love the way you love me?''
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* The next lines are hardly any better:
-->''Ooh, I love watching you, ooh, baby''
-->''When you're drivin' me, ooh, [[PainfulRhyme crazy]]''
-->''Ooh, I love the way you, love the way you love me…''
-->''Ooh, I love watching you, ooh, baby''
-->''When you're drivin' me, ooh, [[PainfulRhyme crazy]]''
-->''Ooh, I love the way you, love the way you love me…''
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* Pretty much the second half of AlanJackson's "Where I Come From". The song's offenses: "Had to use my finger" is used to mean hitchhiking; {{Painful Rhyme}}s (Ventura/finger, dinner/soprano, Kentucky/thunder, Tulsa/salsa); and a fourth verse that hardly makes sense (something about meeting another trucker who asks if the narrator's met him; "if not, you might've seen me there / just dropped a load of salsa").
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** Might have been a play on the word "law," if not for its appearance in the SugarBowl clashing with its predecessors. Irritating!
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** "If it works, why not?" is perhaps the closest Bob has to a philosophy. Consider--in these stanzas from "Motorpsycho Nitemare"--the elegant division of lines:
-->Rita mumbled something
-->'Bout her mother on the hill
-->As his fist hit the icebox
-->He said he's going to ''kill''
-->'''Me''' if I don't get out of the door
-->In two seconds flat
-->"You unpatriotic
-->[[ItMakesSenseInContext Rotten doctor commie rat]]"
-->Rita mumbled something
-->'Bout her mother on the hill
-->As his fist hit the icebox
-->He said he's going to ''kill''
-->'''Me''' if I don't get out of the door
-->In two seconds flat
-->"You unpatriotic
-->[[ItMakesSenseInContext Rotten doctor commie rat]]"
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* BobDylan does this a lot. A couple early examples: "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" (rhyming "knowed" with "road"); "Tomorrow Is a Long Time" ("there's beauty in the sunrise in the sky"--where else would the sunrise be?)
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* BobDylan does this a lot. A couple lot, most famously adding the word "babe" at the end of lines. Other examples from his early examples: work: "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" (rhyming "knowed" with "road"); "Tomorrow Is a Long Time" ("there's beauty in the sunrise in the sky"--where else would the sunrise be?)
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* BobDylan does this a lot. A couple early examples: "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" (rhyming "knowed" with "road"); "Tomorrow Is a Long Time" ("there's beauty in the sunrise in the sky"--where else would the sunrise be?)
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* The {{Gorillaz}} song ''Rock It'' consists mostly of the word "blah." People have variously interpreted this as [[YourMileageMayVary incredibly deep or incredibly lazy]].
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* The {{Gorillaz}} song ''Rock It'' consists mostly of the word "blah." People have variously interpreted this as [[YourMileageMayVary incredibly deep or incredibly lazy]]. It might be Word of God, or just a commonly accepted interpretation that it's about rock stars who pump out a few good albums and then start cranking out lazy shit (hence: "I'm walking to the something, blah blah blah blah blah", among other lines).
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** [[YourMileageMayVary YMMV]]; this troper doesn't find any of her songs particularly hard to sing along with.
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**On the plus side, though, it does sound very "''doom''," so it works in that regard.
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** He and [[AlvinAndTheChipmunks Simon]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQskyb727oE argue about the grammatically incorrect lyrics]] in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cdzt_8DbQg "There Ain't Nothin' Wrong with the Radio"]].
-->"She isn't a Cadillac, and she isn't a Rolls, but there isn't anything wrong with the radio."
-->"It's well, it's soundin' uh, real good, but replacing "ain't" with "isn't" ain't cuttin' it for me, pal.
-->"She isn't a Cadillac, and she isn't a Rolls, but there isn't anything wrong with the radio."
-->"It's well, it's soundin' uh, real good, but replacing "ain't" with "isn't" ain't cuttin' it for me, pal.
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*** Then again, they credit the line-as-written to HunterSThompson, so make of that what you will.
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->''Number 3 on the list are songs that try to pass off "na nas," "la las," and "doot doos" as legit lyrics.''
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* Does VanHalen's "Why Can't This Be Love?" count? "Only time will tell if we [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment stand the test of time]]".
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* Andy Partridge admitted he was forced to butcher the line "Please don't pull me out/I'm relax in the undertow" in {{XTC}}'s "Summer's Cauldron" simply because that extra syllable from the correct grammar would screw up the meter.
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[[SoYeah Uhh.]]
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* Bono's infamous [[GratuitousSpanish Spanish counting]] at the beginning of {{U2}}'s "Vertigo:" "Uno! Dos! Tres! Catorce!" That's "One! Two! Three! Fourteen!" for the non-fluent among you.
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* Bono's infamous [[GratuitousSpanish Spanish counting]] at the beginning of {{U2}}'s "Vertigo:" "Uno! "Unos! Dos! Tres! Catorce!" That's "One! "Some! Two! Three! Fourteen!" for the non-fluent among you.
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*RascalFlatts's "Feels Like Today" has "The last sacred blessing and, hey / Feels like today." Really? That was the best rhyme the writers could come up with?
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* Faith Hill's "The Way You Love Me" features a completely avoidable pronoun flub:
-->''If I could grant you one wish''
-->''I wish you could see the way you kiss.''
* Faith Hill's "The Way You Love Me" features a completely avoidable pronoun flub:
-->''If I could grant you one wish''
-->''I wish you could see the way you kiss.''
