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Title: Song Lyrics - Truth and Lies.
Post by: mongers on February 18, 2015, 08:23:33 PM
What song lyrics do You find particularly true and for that matter dishonest or wrong?

Just listening to an ok Yes album, Big Generator and one of the songs has this as the main lyrics:

"Love Will Find a Way, If You Want It To."

Sorry, but that's just wrong, I think anyone who's reach 15, say 18 at the outside, will know that's patently soppy and doesn't work in the real world.*




* Just my opinion, who knows perhaps it has worked for someone?  :D
Title: Re: Song Lyrics - Truth and Lies.
Post by: Caliga on February 18, 2015, 08:24:50 PM
I love that song (then again, I love most every Yes song). :)
Title: Re: Song Lyrics - Truth and Lies.
Post by: Caliga on February 18, 2015, 08:27:51 PM
Quote from: mongers on February 18, 2015, 08:23:33 PM
"Love Will Find a Way, If You Want It To."
Oh and I personally have found this to be true. :ph34r:
Title: Re: Song Lyrics - Truth and Lies.
Post by: mongers on February 18, 2015, 08:29:40 PM
Quote from: Caliga on February 18, 2015, 08:24:50 PM
I love that song (then again, I love most every Yes song). :)

Yeah, its a relatively under-rated album and the songs are good, just much of the lyrics don't bear scrutiny, it's manly love songs isn't it?

Actually thinking about it, a girl,the best friend of a female friend, have me that album years ago; I wonder if she was trying to communicate something?  :hmm:
Title: Re: Song Lyrics - Truth and Lies.
Post by: Caliga on February 18, 2015, 08:29:53 PM
Keeping in the same basic genre, I will put forth 'The Logical Song' by Supertramp as having especially true lyrics, at least to me.
Title: Re: Song Lyrics - Truth and Lies.
Post by: Caliga on February 18, 2015, 08:31:15 PM
Quote from: mongers on February 18, 2015, 08:29:40 PM
Actually thinking about it, a girl,the best friend of a female friend, have me that album years ago; I wonder if she was trying to communicate something?  :hmm:
I'm still trying to figure out how women communicate, man.
Title: Re: Song Lyrics - Truth and Lies.
Post by: 11B4V on February 18, 2015, 09:02:14 PM
Quote from: mongers on February 18, 2015, 08:23:33 PM
What song lyrics do You find particularly true and for that matter dishonest or wrong?

Just listening to an ok Yes album, Big Generator and one of the songs has this as the main lyrics:

"Love Will Find a Way, If You Want It To."

Sorry, but that's just wrong, I think anyone who's reach 15, say 18 at the outside, will know that's patently soppy and doesn't work in the real world.*




* Just my opinion, who knows perhaps it has worked for someone?  :D
I don't think there is anything your with what the song is saying. Other than you pulling the chorus
out of context.
Title: Re: Song Lyrics - Truth and Lies.
Post by: Eddie Teach on February 18, 2015, 09:13:43 PM
I have found these lyrics to be true. "Istanbul was Constantinople. Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople."
Title: Re: Song Lyrics - Truth and Lies.
Post by: dps on February 19, 2015, 12:23:51 AM
True:  "Life is useless like Ecclesiastes says".

Title: Re: Song Lyrics - Truth and Lies.
Post by: The Brain on February 19, 2015, 12:28:56 AM
"This is how Canadian administrative law works:"

The hell it is.
Title: Re: Song Lyrics - Truth and Lies.
Post by: LaCroix on February 19, 2015, 06:34:03 AM
i can't pay attention to song lyrics. :( i can listen to a song three hundred times and have no idea what it says.
Title: Re: Song Lyrics - Truth and Lies.
Post by: Norgy on February 19, 2015, 08:47:27 AM
I am unsure of the veracity of the line "There's no business like show business".
Title: Re: Song Lyrics - Truth and Lies.
Post by: Valmy on February 19, 2015, 09:01:07 AM
Quote from: mongers on February 18, 2015, 08:23:33 PM
"Love Will Find a Way, If You Want It To."

Sorry, but that's just wrong, I think anyone who's reach 15, say 18 at the outside, will know that's patently soppy and doesn't work in the real world.*

Well I guess it depends on what love is supposed to find its way to :hmm:

"In the jungle, the mighty jungle
The lion sleeps tonight"

I mean WTF?  Lions don't live in the jungle they live in the savannah.
Title: Re: Song Lyrics - Truth and Lies.
Post by: Malthus on February 19, 2015, 09:40:51 AM
Quote from: Caliga on February 18, 2015, 08:27:51 PM
Quote from: mongers on February 18, 2015, 08:23:33 PM
"Love Will Find a Way, If You Want It To."
Oh and I personally have found this to be true. :ph34r:

I don't think the lyrics are referring to the use of Rohypnol.  :hmm:
Title: Re: Song Lyrics - Truth and Lies.
Post by: frunk on February 19, 2015, 10:49:46 AM
None of the Sheenas I know are punk rockers.
Title: Re: Song Lyrics - Truth and Lies.
Post by: Tonitrus on February 19, 2015, 11:14:52 AM
It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
Title: Re: Song Lyrics - Truth and Lies.
Post by: Josephus on February 19, 2015, 12:49:45 PM
Yes arent especially known for their lyrics. I mean they had a hit song with the lyrics "mountains come out of sky and they stand there"

:D

Don't get me wrong. I love the band.


A seasoned witch could call you from the depths of your disgrace, And rearrange your liver to the solid mental grace
Title: Re: Song Lyrics - Truth and Lies.
Post by: Eddie Teach on February 19, 2015, 01:02:32 PM
Quote from: Josephus on February 19, 2015, 12:49:45 PM
Don't get me wrong. I love the band.

The Band is great. Especially "The Weight" and "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down".
Title: Re: Song Lyrics - Truth and Lies.
Post by: Caliga on February 19, 2015, 01:05:22 PM
Quote from: Josephus on February 19, 2015, 12:49:45 PM
Yes arent especially known for their lyrics. I mean they had a hit song with the lyrics "mountains come out of sky and they stand there"

:D

Don't get me wrong. I love the band.
I actually sang that line over and over again to the point that my wife yelled at me once.  I couldn't get it out of my head. :(
Title: Re: Song Lyrics - Truth and Lies.
Post by: Caliga on February 19, 2015, 01:06:27 PM
Another thing I sometimes sing to Princesca when I'm leaving to come home from a business trip is "Mama, I'm Coming Home" by Ozzy.  So I guess those lyrics are true also. :)
Title: Re: Song Lyrics - Truth and Lies.
Post by: mongers on February 19, 2015, 01:46:35 PM
Quote from: Josephus on February 19, 2015, 12:49:45 PM
Yes arent especially known for their lyrics. I mean they had a hit song with the lyrics "mountains come out of sky and they stand there"

:D

Don't get me wrong. I love the band.


A seasoned witch could call you from the depths of your disgrace, And rearrange your liver to the solid mental grace

Oh yeah, Jon Anderson 'wrote the book' on obtuse song lyrics.

Oddly Big Generator, probably has some of their most intelligible songs on it.
Title: Re: Song Lyrics - Truth and Lies.
Post by: Martinus on February 19, 2015, 03:44:22 PM
Quote from: Valmy on February 19, 2015, 09:01:07 AM
Quote from: mongers on February 18, 2015, 08:23:33 PM
"Love Will Find a Way, If You Want It To."

Sorry, but that's just wrong, I think anyone who's reach 15, say 18 at the outside, will know that's patently soppy and doesn't work in the real world.*

Well I guess it depends on what love is supposed to find its way to :hmm:

"In the jungle, the mighty jungle
The lion sleeps tonight"

I mean WTF?  Lions don't live in the jungle they live in the savannah.

Wimoweh wimoweh wimoweh wimoweh is fine then?   :glare:
Title: Re: Song Lyrics - Truth and Lies.
Post by: Admiral Yi on February 19, 2015, 03:47:32 PM
I always pronounce that "a-wimowek."
Title: save e-
Post by: mongers on February 19, 2015, 03:51:34 PM
That song was shite when it first came out, I can't begin to imagine how bad a Marty-Yi duet would be.  :D
Title: Re: save e-
Post by: Malthus on February 19, 2015, 03:52:59 PM
Quote from: mongers on February 19, 2015, 03:51:34 PM
That song was shite when it first came out, I can't begin to imagine how bad a Marty-Yi duet would be.  :D

That sounds like a Drunken Karaoke Challenge.  ;)
Title: Re: Song Lyrics - Truth and Lies.
Post by: Norgy on February 19, 2015, 04:43:57 PM
There'd be horsemen, four in all, coming when "play" was pressed.
Title: Re: Song Lyrics - Truth and Lies.
Post by: Caliga on February 19, 2015, 04:46:05 PM
I heard it as "oh-wimoweh, oh-wimoweh"
Title: Re: Song Lyrics - Truth and Lies.
Post by: Admiral Yi on February 19, 2015, 04:51:53 PM
I sing backup on that song every couple weeks with an autistic kid who's a regular at my hang.
Title: Re: Song Lyrics - Truth and Lies.
Post by: Caliga on February 19, 2015, 04:53:38 PM
so "yeah oh-wimoweh, definitely oh-wimoweh"?  :hmm:
Title: Re: Song Lyrics - Truth and Lies.
Post by: Josephus on February 19, 2015, 09:37:58 PM
Quote from: mongers on February 19, 2015, 01:46:35 PM
Quote from: Josephus on February 19, 2015, 12:49:45 PM
Yes arent especially known for their lyrics. I mean they had a hit song with the lyrics "mountains come out of sky and they stand there"

:D

Don't get me wrong. I love the band.


A seasoned witch could call you from the depths of your disgrace, And rearrange your liver to the solid mental grace

Oh yeah, Jon Anderson 'wrote the book' on obtuse song lyrics.

Oddly Big Generator, probably has some of their most intelligible songs on it.

Cause Trevor Rabin wrote them?
Title: Re: Song Lyrics - Truth and Lies.
Post by: 11B4V on February 19, 2015, 10:27:14 PM
QuoteWhile they're standing in the welfare lines
Crying at the doorsteps of those armies of salvation
Wasting time in the unemployment lines
Sitting around waiting for a promotion

Poor people gonna rise up
And get their share
Poor people gonna rise up
And take what's theirs
Title: Re: Song Lyrics - Truth and Lies.
Post by: PDH on February 19, 2015, 10:52:11 PM
I've always thought that Bad Brains "Pay to Cum" was one that described the truth.