The Crap Lyric Thread

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101Walterton wrote:
07 Aug 2018, 3:18pm
This one jars with me:
“when the sun comes up over Santa Monica Boulevard”.
Too many syllables or something!
It's actually one more syllable.... until the sun comes up over Santa Monica Boulevard
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Okay 101 please explain how this one works?

Think of seven letters
Begin and end in 'C'
Like a big American car
But misspelt with a 'D'.
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"Baby, I'm-a want you, baby, I'm-a need you" has always annoyed me. I don't get the "I'm-a" thing.
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WestwayKid wrote:
08 Aug 2018, 1:49pm
"Baby, I'm-a want you, baby, I'm-a need you" has always annoyed me. I don't get the "I'm-a" thing.
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Duran Duran's "You're about as easy as a nuclear war" was pretty crass in an era of heightened cold war tension.
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Marky Dread wrote:
08 Aug 2018, 1:36pm
Okay 101 please explain how this one works?

Think of seven letters
Begin and end in 'C'
Like a big American car
But misspelt with a 'D'.
That was crazy, cadillac is a few letters off cardiac.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board

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Heston wrote:
08 Aug 2018, 2:13pm
Duran Duran's "You're about as easy as a nuclear war" was pretty crass in an era of heightened cold war tension.
I love DD - but they had some massively crap lyrics.
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The DD one reminds me of "I'm as serious as cancer when I say rhythm is a dancer"
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oliver wrote:
08 Aug 2018, 3:16pm
The DD one reminds me of "I'm as serious as cancer when I say rhythm is a dancer"
That was strange. To say that in the middle of a jaunty dance song just seemed wrong on every level.
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Heston wrote:
08 Aug 2018, 2:15pm
Marky Dread wrote:
08 Aug 2018, 1:36pm
Okay 101 please explain how this one works?

Think of seven letters
Begin and end in 'C'
Like a big American car
But misspelt with a 'D'.
That was crazy, cadillac is a few letters off cardiac.
The guy is having a heart stack and you want to criticise his spelling?

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I'd like to nominate every line of LFO's "Summer Girls" as it is truly, truly awful.
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101Walterton wrote:
08 Aug 2018, 4:00pm
Heston wrote:
08 Aug 2018, 2:15pm
Marky Dread wrote:
08 Aug 2018, 1:36pm
Okay 101 please explain how this one works?

Think of seven letters
Begin and end in 'C'
Like a big American car
But misspelt with a 'D'.
That was crazy, cadillac is a few letters off cardiac.
The guy is having a heart stack and you want to criticise his spelling?
Stack is a few letters off attack. ;)
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board

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Heston wrote:
08 Aug 2018, 5:15pm
101Walterton wrote:
08 Aug 2018, 4:00pm
Heston wrote:
08 Aug 2018, 2:15pm
Marky Dread wrote:
08 Aug 2018, 1:36pm
Okay 101 please explain how this one works?

Think of seven letters
Begin and end in 'C'
Like a big American car
But misspelt with a 'D'.
That was crazy, cadillac is a few letters off cardiac.
The guy is having a heart stack and you want to criticise his spelling?
Stack is a few letters off attack. ;)
Never had you down as grammar 👮‍♀️

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101Walterton wrote:
08 Aug 2018, 4:00pm
Heston wrote:
08 Aug 2018, 2:15pm
Marky Dread wrote:
08 Aug 2018, 1:36pm
Okay 101 please explain how this one works?

Think of seven letters
Begin and end in 'C'
Like a big American car
But misspelt with a 'D'.
That was crazy, cadillac is a few letters off cardiac.
The guy is having a heart stack and you want to criticise his spelling?
Oh dear.
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Forces have been looting
My humanity
Curfews have been curbing
The end of liberty


We're the flowers in the dustbin...
No fuchsias for you.

"Without the common people you're nothing"

Nos Sumus Una Familia

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101Walterton wrote:
08 Aug 2018, 5:36pm
Heston wrote:
08 Aug 2018, 5:15pm
101Walterton wrote:
08 Aug 2018, 4:00pm
Heston wrote:
08 Aug 2018, 2:15pm
Marky Dread wrote:
08 Aug 2018, 1:36pm
Okay 101 please explain how this one works?

Think of seven letters
Begin and end in 'C'
Like a big American car
But misspelt with a 'D'.
That was crazy, cadillac is a few letters off cardiac.
The guy is having a heart stack and you want to criticise his spelling?
Stack is a few letters off attack. ;)
Never had you down as grammar 👮‍♀️
You walked into that one. :mrgreen:
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board

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