Inaccurate or stupid song lyrics

[The_Lizards_Jumpers]

For example in Down in the Tube Station at Midnight by The Jam:-

And I said, "I've a little money and a takeaway curry
I'm on my way home to my wife
She'll be lining up the cutlery, you know she's expecting me
Polishing the glasses and pulling out the cork"

The wine will be flat and the curry's gone cold
I'm down in the tube station at midnight, oh

So she's polishing glasses for a takeaway curry at midnight and you're having sparkling wine with it ?

They smelt of pubs, and wormwood scrubs
And too many right wing meetings

That suggests that there's just the right amount of right wing meetings then ??

 

[The_Lizards_Jumpers]

Jailbreak by Thin Lizzy

Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak
Somewhere in this town

I'll take a wild guess it'll be at the jail.

 

[The_Lizards_Jumpers]

1952 Vincent Black Lightning by RIchard Thompson

Well he reached for her hand and he slipped her the keys.
He said, "I've got no further use...for these.

1952 Vincent Black LIghtning's didn't actually have a set of keys...

Anymore ???

 

[Capybara]

Yes. 'Up the Junction' by Squeeze is all over the flippin' place.

 

[rkangel]

"It's a rainy night in Paris, and the harbour lights are low." Chris De Burgh.
Paris is on a river bleeding miles from the sea.

 

[grumpyoldgit]

1952 Vincent Black Lightning by RIchard Thompson

Well he reached for her hand and he slipped her the keys.
He said, "I've got no further use...for these.

1952 Vincent Black LIghtning's didn't actually have a set of keys...

Anymore ???

LJ are you a biker? I'm a big RT fan and this never occurred to me.

 

[grumpyoldgit]

Dreams. According to Fleetwood Mac "thunder only happens when its raining"
Is that correct from a meteorological point of view?

 

[Lemmy_kilmister]

I Want Your Love - Chic
"On your ladder I'll be a peg
I want your lovin', please don't make me beg"

A peg? It's a blöody rung.
Nile, I love you man, I love everything you've done, but that line makes me wince.

 

[Rofesleg]

Pretty much all of Alanis Morissette's examples of irony.

 

[goalscrounger]

Depeche Mode - New Life

"I stand still stepping on the shady streets
And I watched that man to a stranger"

What now?

 

[The_Lizards_Jumpers]

Durham Town by Roger Whittaker, and ode to growing up in Durham and subsequently having to leave the place.

When I was a boy, I spent my time
Sitting on the banks of the river Tyne

One presumes he got a bus up to Newcastle to sit on the banks of the Tyne, rather than sitting on the banks of the Wear on which Durham sits ?

 

[The_Lizards_Jumpers]

LJ are you a biker? I'm a big RT fan and this never occurred to me.

Not a motor biker no, a cyclist though. I got this one from another discussion group I was on years ago.

Having said that I have been looking at old cafe racers, but fear my ineptitude with mechanics may put pay to me ever actually owning one.

 

[The_Lizards_Jumpers]

perhaps it a reference to RT handing over his CAR keys, as he now had a bike (and not just any bike) ?

Not if you look at the rest of the lyrics. He's in hospital with a "shotgun blast" following an armed robbery, and the last line

And he gave her one last kiss and died
And he gave her his Vincent to ride

So they're certainly talking about his bike, and these mysterious sets of keys. He could of course be talking about the keys to the garage / lock up in which he kept the bike ?

 

[SmallTown]

Not the worst thing about his music but I always thought that James Blunts "You're beautiful " had quite a turn in it.

last one of the first verse he says "I have a plan"
Then not 5 lines later he's saying "I don't know what to do"

That plan failed quickly

 

[bear66]

Not the worst thing about his music but I always thought that James Blunts "You're beautiful " had quite a turn in it.

last one of the first verse he says "I have a plan"
Then not 5 lines later he's saying "I don't know what to do"

That plan failed quickly

A song for our times.

 

[SmallTown]

Zooligically speaking, I think Bowie get it wrong "Mickey mouse has grown up a cow"
two points:
1. I don't think Mice can grow up into entirely different species
2. Wouldn't Minnie mouse grow up a cow if that was the case? Mickey would be a bull

Although to point 2: Murine sequential hermaphroditism is more likely than murine spontaneous bovination.

 

[ThatFragranceGuy]

 

[1finny]

Zooligically speaking, I think Bowie get it wrong "Mickey mouse has grown up a cow"
two points:
1. I don't think Mice can grow up into entirely different species
2. Wouldn't Minnie mouse grow up a cow if that was the case? Mickey would be a bull

Although to point 2: Murine sequential hermaphroditism is more likely than murine spontaneous bovination.

In fairness you could dissect most of that song and go ‘wtf was he on about’
More likely ‘what was he on’?

 

[TheBoroBuzzard]

Toto - Africa “I know that I must do what’s right, as sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti” ..maybe a geography lesson required, or they have good eye sight

 

[TheBoroBuzzard]

..and Loser by Beck - “With the plastic eyeballs, Spray-paint the vegetables, Dog food stalls with the beefcake pantyhose”...WTF