One for me is Bon Jovi and Jennifer Nettles' "Who Says You Can't Go Home": "Like a blind dog without a bone / I was a gypsy lost in the Twilight Zone"
The hell does that mean?
It means, "I've been in this business for 20 years now with more and more success as the years go on. I don't even need to keep trying anymore—the public will buy any old crap me and my cowriters put out there!"
Insert witty and clever quip here. My page, as the database hates my handle.There's this Ray Charles song, "I Can Make It Thru The Days (But Oh Those Lonely Nights)". He sings about how much he misses his woman. It includes the line, 'And this picture of you just won't do.'
WELL NO OF COURSE A PICTURE WON'T DO FOR YOU MR. RAY CHARLES.
Mache dich, mein Herze, rein...
I noticed that a lot with blind singers. For instance, Ronnie Milsap sings "I can't find the love in her eyes anymore" in "Stranger in My House", and he's singing about freaking truck driving in "Prisoner of the Highway", which I'm pretty sure you can't do if you're blind.
They Might Be Giants specialize in A) childlike exuberance and B) offputting wrongness, but it's still extra-disturbing when they swerve from A to B midsong and almost instantly back again, leaving you with a stomach-churning case of Mood Whiplash and a "did that happen?" feeling:
[Jaunty male voices in unison]
We were waving our arms out the window
Of a fast-moving passenger train
Acting in an irresponsible fashion
Until the engineer, whose back had been turned
And who we thought would find us highly amusing
Quickly swiveled his head around
And his face, which was a paper-white mask of evil
Sang us this song
[CHORUS]
edited 9th Sep '13 7:26:09 AM by Jhimmibhob
Wow, that's... prosaic.
How does that even fit into any kind of meter?
Mache dich, mein Herze, rein...![]()
I dunno, that verse always makes me crack up, but maybe I have a sick sense of humor
They Might Be Giants doesn't really follow any rules of making music aside from their own. Their writing can be very awkward at times, but uniquely awkward at least.

Well, couple it with the next line, "Some nights I wish they'd just fall off," and you can interpret them like this:
Some nights I wish that I could just keep on talking and being social and stuff like that
Some nights I wish I could just learn to shut up.
I mean, that's what I get from it. Could be this,
though.
edited 25th Aug '13 5:34:53 PM by 0dd1
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