Kim Carnes "Bette Davis Eyes" (1981)

James Blunt "You're Beautiful"

My life is brilliant
My love is pure
I saw an angel
Of that I'm sure
She smiled at me on the subway
She was with another man
But I won't lose no sleep on that
'Cause I've got a plan


um... what "plan"???

EmmaMcG said:

"She was just 17, you know what I mean". The Beatles had some awful lyrics in their time but this is one of the worst offenders.

Yeah when I was in High School I had no problem with singing that song. But now that I'm older, not so much.

Speaking of -

Sweet Caroline
Good times never seemed so good------

OK I always heard this song was about young Caroline Kennedy

OK I never believed that this song was really about Caroline Kennedy so I did a little research

kpowers said:

What does "pro blush" mean...exactly?

The term "making a pro blush" refers to being better at one's own game. For example if you are a comedian and you are making fun of someone in your audience and then all of a sudden the audience member says something that makes you shut up and move on, then that person has made a pro blush.

My first thought was that - given that this is just a young girl in no particular situation other than being terribly alluring - she was so naturally good at being a flirt without even trying, that she could put the best of hookers (a professional) to shame; even they would blush at the lengths this girl goes to win over the boys.

If the crow line is an old colloquialism, then that's probably what it was meant to be.

As far as weird lines, "The One U Wanna C" has a weird and old reference:

Any spell the blind fishermen could cast
That's why I come like thunder 2 tell U.

and

Every nickel in this club lookin' 4 a dime
Nothing less, nothing more

A friend asked me about both back in the day. I think the first is pretty obvious, and the second is just a play on words. The song is full of them. Weird, but not undecipherable .

Genesis - Harold The Barrel
Harold the barrel cut off his toes and he served them all for tea

The Monkees - Tapioca Tundra
Reasoned verse, some prose or rhyme
Lose themselves in other times
And waiting hopes cast silent spells
That speak in clouded clues.
It cannot be a part of me,
For now it's part of you.

Beastie Boys - Time To Get Ill
I got rhymes galime, I got rhymes galilla
And I got more rhymes than Phyllis Diller

Duran Duran - Wild Boys

"Your telephone is ringing, while your dancing in the rain"

.

R- Kelly U remind me

"U remind me of my jeep"

.

Prince - Glam Slam

"Soda Fizzin on the lawn"

Purplegarden said:

Duran Duran - Wild Boys

"Your telephone is ringing, while your dancing in the rain"

.

R- Kelly U remind me

"U remind me of my jeep"

.

Prince - Glam Slam

"Soda Fizzin on the lawn"

Exotic STORM - "I'll save you from the world"

"Bombs be dropping everywhere, they better not harm your silky hair"

.

Black eyed peas - My humps

"My humps, my humps my lovely lady lumps"

Ol' Dirty Bastard Featuring Kelis "Got Your Money"

"I don't have no trouble with you fucking me
But I have a little problem wit you not fucking me"

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If I was a sculptor, buth then again no (Elton John "Your Song")

and...?

TrivialPursuit said:

kpowers said:

What does "pro blush" mean...exactly?

The term "making a pro blush" refers to being better at one's own game. For example if you are a comedian and you are making fun of someone in your audience and then all of a sudden the audience member says something that makes you shut up and move on, then that person has made a pro blush.

My first thought was that - given that this is just a young girl in no particular situation other than being terribly alluring - she was so naturally good at being a flirt without even trying, that she could put the best of hookers (a professional) to shame; even they would blush at the lengths this girl goes to win over the boys.

If the crow line is an old colloquialism, then that's probably what it was meant to be.

As far as weird lines, "The One U Wanna C" has a weird and old reference:

Any spell the blind fishermen could cast
That's why I come like thunder 2 tell U.

and

Every nickel in this club lookin' 4 a dime
Nothing less, nothing more

A friend asked me about both back in the day. I think the first is pretty obvious, and the second is just a play on words. The song is full of them. Weird, but not undecipherable .

I liked "if you wanna get creamy" line

XxAxX said:

James Blunt "You're Beautiful"

My life is brilliant

My life is brilliant
My love is pure
I saw an angel
Of that I'm sure
She smiled at me on the subway
She was with another man
But I won't lose no sleep on that
'Cause I've got a plan


um... what "plan"???

I've always thought the same thing about that verse! He says he has a plan and then the rest of the song is about how he doesn't have a plan!

He does have an awesome Twitter account though.

Purplegarden said:

Duran Duran - Wild Boys

"Your telephone is ringing, while your dancing in the rain"

.

R- Kelly U remind me

"U remind me of my jeep"

.

Prince - Glam Slam

"Soda Fizzin on the lawn"

I'm pretty sure that's a reference to something that was popular in the 50's - that Coca-Cola would kill sperm. It was thought to be a birth-control device. Use your imagination.

kpowers said:

TrivialPursuit said:

My first thought was that - given that this is just a young girl in no particular situation other than being terribly alluring - she was so naturally good at being a flirt without even trying, that she could put the best of hookers (a professional) to shame; even they would blush at the lengths this girl goes to win over the boys.

If the crow line is an old colloquialism, then that's probably what it was meant to be.

As far as weird lines, "The One U Wanna C" has a weird and old reference:

Any spell the blind fishermen could cast
That's why I come like thunder 2 tell U.

and

Every nickel in this club lookin' 4 a dime
Nothing less, nothing more

A friend asked me about both back in the day. I think the first is pretty obvious, and the second is just a play on words. The song is full of them. Weird, but not undecipherable .

I liked "if you wanna get creamy" line

I LOVE that line! My wife HATES it. She won't let me play it in concert, LOL. (But I do if she's not there. Don't tell her!)

Boogiemonsters - Recognized Thresholds of Negative Stress
Verbal vomit, strings the atomic
Some electrospectroscopic storm, rising from the quorum
It's like what? All up in your grill as we be strokin to the doom

Ylvis - The Fox
Joff-tchoff-tchoffo-tchoffo-tchoff
Tchoff-tchoff-tchoffo-tchoffo-tchoff
Joff-tchoff-tchoffo-tchoffo-tchoff
What does the fox say?

i thought pro blush means a professional (prostitute) blush (verb)

Indiscreet Sweet by ConFunkShun

Indiscreet Sweet young thang

All she want to do is drive my chine

Indiscreet Sweet young thang

the law's gonna get me because she's only 15

And we thought Rick James was edgy with 17

She means Steelers fans. Because most are so unhinged.

"...like a Brontosaurus..."

"I'm a workin at my jobba"

I just had a flashback to Star Wars right there haha

Purplegarden said:

"I'm a workin at my jobba"

luvsexy4all said:

i thought pro blush means a professional (prostitute) blush (verb)

That's what I thought!

I recently found out I was mishearing these lyrics--Africa by Toto

-

It's gonna take a lot to take me away from you
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
I bless the rains down in Africa
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had

-

It's gonna take a lot to take me away from you
There's nothing that a hundred men on Mars could ever do
I guess the rain's down in Africa
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had

PurpleJedi said:

"...like a Brontosaurus..."

I like that line too

LadyLayla said:

"My father had to go to work,

I used to think he was a jerk"

-Mother and Father by Madonna

I still love that album to death though

I win. Godley & Creme are an interesting duo and i am a fan of their music, but WTF? Seriously, WTF???

This song is a complete anxiety producer...

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