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It's been so long since I've heard "Shine" that I'd completely forgotten about that...that's lame.
Identity Theft
by Nellie Mc Kay has some weird lyrics as it is. But even so, the phrase "watching horny manatee" stands out as particularly strange. There's also "funny like a Nazi camp" - as I said, it's an odd song. It gets a little stream-of-consciousness at times.
The end of War of the thrones by Blind Guardian is REALLY weird
"Leave a fee for the tillerman. Leave the river behind"
"I thought Djent was just a band" -Physical StaminaIn the Kenny Rogers song "Coward of the County", I always crack up at this line:
There's someone for everyone, and Tommy's love was Becky
In her arms, he didn't have to prove he was a man
If that isn't a thinly veiled reference to erectile dysfunction, I don't know what is.
Mache dich, mein Herze, rein...
The one that got me in that song was:
One day while he was workin' the Gatlin boys came callin'. / They took turns at Becky.... n' there was three of them!
Number one, the "Gatlin Boys" line is apparently a Take That! to Larry Gatlin and the Gatlin Brothers, with whom the writer had a beef. The reference went over Kenny's head, and he later apologized to Larry for the unintentional dig.
Number two, the second line is about a gang rape. I didn't even notice until a friend said, "if you feel you need to put a gang rape in your song, you better scrap it and start over."
@Physical Stamina: It's Ween. Such curveballs are to be expected.
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I didn't know that (the Gatlin Brothers jab)...interesting. As far as that line being out of place, in the song's circumstances I think it works well...it's a hideous act but you'd be hard-pressed to find a better catalyst for someone to break a deeply-ingrained attitude of pacificity than to have a loved one brutalized like that, aside from them killing her.
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Yeah, I found the gang rape thing unusually dark for that kind of song, too. But there are more weird things about that song. For example, when Tommy comes back and finds Becky crying on the floor with her dress torn up, he picks up his dad's picture and stares at it while having some internal monologue. And then he storms off to beat up the guys who did it. He doesn't bother to comfort Becky, it seems.
The whole thing comes off as if he's more interested in protecting his girlfriend for the sake of his own honour than for the sake of her well-being.
Mache dich, mein Herze, rein...
Probably not much up to that point. I remember Chocolate and Cheese was my first Ween album, so after "Spinal Meningitis (Got Me Down)," I learned to expect just about anything. In fact, I remember "Joppa Road" throwing me for a loop by not having a stream of random obscenities or anything like that.
It kind of reminds me when I was getting into Beck and I heard "Pay No Mind" for the first time. I knew from "Loser" and his music videos that he could be silly, but there's really nothing you can do to expect a line like, "The sales climb high through the garbage pail sky / Like a giant dildo crushing the sun."
edited 5th Aug '13 4:36:09 AM by FingerPuppet
For U2's "Tryin' To Throw Your Arms Around The World", I do a double-take when I hear the line "And a woman needs a man/ Like a fish needs a bicycle". Is he saying that a woman doesn't need a man? Why? Then again, the song seems to be about being really drunk in the early morning, so maybe that's why it doesn't make sense.
I dunno how it fits into the context of the song, which I haven't heard, but that's an often-used "feminist" slogan that originated with Irina Dunn
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edited 6th Aug '13 4:45:23 PM by MikeK
I don't know the song, but the line seems to basically be subverting the traditional view that women are nothing without men and similar lines of reasoning that are used to keep women in powerless positions.
Insert witty and clever quip here. My page, as the database hates my handle.A couple of my friends have a beef with a lyric in "Little Bit of Everything" by Keith Urban:
"I want a cool chick that'll cook for me / But'll dance on the bar in her bare feet / And do what I want when I want, and she'll do it with me"
They think the lyric is incredibly sexist. I say no. Why?
A.) "And she'll do it with me" suggests that what he wants and what she wants are the same thing.
B.) Urban's a nice guy who would never in a billion years go into "make me a sammich, bitch" mode. Especially considering he's married to Nicole Kidman.
C.) I really like Keith Urban's music and will defend any of his songs except "You're My Better Half"note or "Without You"note .
Another Beck one from Mellow Gold I just remembered, although I think it's more of a case of "Lyrical Fridge Brilliance" than an outright double take.
In "Soul Suckin' Jerk," there's the line, "I didn't have no teeth so I stole his gun." I didn't see what his alleged lack of teeth had to do with anything. Then after a while, I realized he's actually referencing the previous line when the cop tells him to "bite the bullet,"and lacking teeth tends to make biting things difficult.
"Some nights I wish that my lips could build a castle..."
"Some Nights" is one of my favorite songs, but what the hell does that mean?
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