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In a world full of intricate metaphors and carefully crafted similes, occasional a songwriter ignores the convention on poetry and just states the damn obvious.
Whilst working today the song In A Room by Dodgy came on the radio. It feature the lyric -
"In a room there's only so much space." - Well that's what makes it a room. A vast expanse of open space and it wouldn't be a room.
I can recall picking up on many of these lazy lyrics over the years but can't recall many.
Is there's a lyric you hear and think 'well bloody obviously'? Or simply makes you cringe.
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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
You could have pulled any lyric from Fly Away. An old band's singer suggested covering it live when it was being used on the Peugeot ad - we play it a few time in rehearsal and the rest of us were 'No'. Dire lyrics that song.
My wife says the one that get her most irate is the success of the Des'ree song Life where she sings -
I don't want to see a ghost
It's a sight that I fear the most
I'd rather have a piece of toast
watch the evening news
"I Woke Up This Mornin'" Da Da Da Da Dah!
Well of course you did or you'd be dead!
@Bellycaster - good point.
Really? Have you never slept past noon? Obviously you were never a student!
Of course I've slept past Noon, but I've never heard the Lyrics. "I Woke Up This Art'noon"
"2000 miles, its very far..."
Like "jailbreak" by thin lizzy
"Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak, somewhere in this town"
Erm at the jail maybe?
I can't listen now without smiling.
Johnny Cash - Hit the road and go Slightly OT but my fave lyric is "you came windsurfing into my life".
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Surely that lyric would be worse if they found the sea even more arousing.
To my mind, the concept of an "obvious lyric" is a peril of judging, slavishness to intellectualism and complacency to be avoided.
So much of life is obvious we can't call it to mind all the time.
There's the look, the sounds, the touch, the smell, the taste, the feelings...
Sometimes the tautologies we create have a profoundness that some people get.
...and who's to decide what is obvious?
It's obvious, we all do it... it's good to remember we do it... it's even better to remember we all do it.
Some people won't get that lyric, other people will - it resonates with their life experiences, to some people it'll be obvious - a song writer cannot wring his hands expecting acceptance of all his lyrics - he'd be repeatedly crushed by those people saying "I could have written that" and ignoring the fact that they didn't.
"I woke up this morning" I got up and shook the living shit out of it until it was awake.
If you don't like it, better it.
Without the tongue in cheek phrases that Phil Lynott placed almost randomly in a lot on Thin Lizzy's songs then I think they could have faced a lot more objection to some his lyrical content. I think that approach of never quite knowing if he is being entirely serious was a very clever tact.