What lyric(s) from your favourite shows have always bugged or confused you for some reason?
I love every note, guitar riff and angst-filled word of HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH, but one lyric has always left me dumfounded: in "Wicked Little Town (Tommy's Version)," Tommy sings:
And there's no mystical design No cosmic lover, pre-assigned There's nothing you can find that cannot be found
What exactly does this mean? It sounds like a redundant statement; is he supposed to mean, "you can't find something that doesn't exist"? The double-negative makes it very confusing.
BlueWizard's blog: The Rambling Corner
HEDWIG: "The road is my home. In reflecting upon the people whom I have come upon in my travels, I cannot help but think of the people who have come upon me."
Sorry, I didn't necessarily mean bad lyrics. I actually meant lyrics that are obtuse in their meaning or paradoxical (such as the HEDWIG lyric I offered), lyrics you don't quite understand.
But if everyone wants to have a bad-lyrics discussion I certainly don't mind.
BlueWizard's blog: The Rambling Corner
HEDWIG: "The road is my home. In reflecting upon the people whom I have come upon in my travels, I cannot help but think of the people who have come upon me."
in response to BlueWizard, i think the lyricist may have been trying to pull a beatles lyric. if you've ever heard "all you need is love" john sings "There’s nothing you can do that can’t be done. Nothing you can sing that can’t be sung. Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game. It’s easy. Nothing you can make that can’t be made. No one you can save that can’t be saved. Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be you in time. It’s easy." basically meaning if you can do something (you fill in the blank) it's already been done or somebody already knows how to do it. Just a little info cause that lyric just struck a chord with me! and i freaking love the beatles
"I hear America singing...the checker, the trucker, the worker, the housewife..." WORKING
I love Wicked, but I actually don;t like a lot of the lines in "For Good". First they're talking about friendship and stuff, then all of a sudden they break into verses about comets and ships.
Nothing matters But knowing nothing matters It's just life So keep dancing through.
W. T. F. Dancing Through Life is honestly one of my FAVORITE songs on that recording, just because the melody seems brilliant to me. But lyrics?! (And not just in this song. SEVERAL others.) Defying Gravity too...I mean...reiterate the title of the song much?
When Fosca's cousin (in Passion) sings "that is the thorn in my side" during the flashback sequence. It sounded very cliche and un-Sondheim like to me. Then I read the novel on which the show is based and the colonel says something very similar so they it didn't really bug me as much...it's pretty much lifted from the source material.
"This ocean runs more dark and deep than you may think you know...I'll be the fear of the fire at sea."
-Marie Christine
"Nessa, uh Nessa I've got something to confess a reason why..."
"Chicago is it's own incredible theater town right there smack down in the middle of the heartland. What a great city! I can see why Oprah likes to live there!" - Dee Hoty :-D
See, I thought that was REALLY clever. Sort of like the whole "pal, a sister and advisor" even if it sounds like "paralysis visor". But I like those ryhmes that the later syllable sort of carries on to the next line.
Horrible sentence structure. It doesn't seem that bad in a song because the pitches are different, which doesn't make it as bad as it seems, but if you just read it on paper, you're sort of thinking to yourself, "Wait...bridge..cross...so..did I go over it? Or..not?"
juice about the line "there are bridges you crossed you didnt know you crossed until you crossed" i think what glinda is tyring to say is that she went over obsticles and didnt even notcied until she went back and looked...someone correct me if im wrong bye the way i love that line it seemes like glindas part of the song is bluding up to one point and once it gets to crossed (the second one) it hits the point and starts to fall in action from there. i just love it
"when i was little, i wanted to be Ethel Merman"
harvey firestein
I think the bridge's crossed line is ok as it is sung by Glinda, who has poor ways of pronouncing everything anyway. The fact that the sentance structure may be a little confusing just makes it all the more "Glida-ish" for me.