<p>*Silver Springs<a href=“which%20was%20named%20after%20Silver%20Spring,%20Maryland”>/i</a> by Stevie Nicks</p>
<p>Time casts a spell on you, but you wont forget me
I know I could have loved you, but you would not let me
Ill follow you down til the sound of my voice will haunt you
Youll never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you
(3x)</p>
<p>Re Silver Springs</p>
<p>It is Stevie Nicks’ vocal delivery that makes this song unforgettable, along with the back story of what was going on in Flletwood Mac at the time.</p>
<p>Nightchef, your logic, being the same as mine, is impeccable (re driving west, docks, etc.)</p>
<p>I just recently stumbled over a Girlyman lyric where I heard “like a girl in linen underwear.” Didn’t make sense, so I Googled. “like a gale, mad and unaware.” </p>
<p>Whew. I was ready to start taking a survey of women, asking them the fabric of their underwear and correlating with my assessment of their moods but such an enterprise seemed fraught with peril, giving me a sense of foreboding, so I was happy to get the correct lyrics and set that enterprise aside, search for truth and meaning notwithstanding.</p>
<p>^^funny! how 'bout:</p>
<p>“My name is Sue! How do you do? I want to kill you!”</p>
<p>LOL for Johnny Cash. </p>
<p>For those who know the song (“A Boy Named Sue”), to read this line is to scream it. </p>
<p>For those less familiar, a deadbeat dad gets his come-uppance for naming his son “Sue” which he did to toughen him up for a world without his Dad to guide him.</p>
<p>First 10 lines (and most of the rest of the song):</p>
<p>My baby does the Hanky Panky,
My baby does the Hanky Panky,
My baby does the Hanky Panky,
My baby does the Hanky Panky,
My baby does the Hanky Panky!</p>
<p>My baby does the Hanky Panky,
My baby does the Hanky Panky,
My baby does the Hanky Panky,
My baby does the Hanky Panky,
My baby does the Hanky Panky!</p>
<p>-Tommy James And The Shondells </p>
<p>This came on once when I was driving around with DS and when it ended I said, “They sure don’t write lyrics like they used to!” We couldn’t get it out of our heads for an hour - like “Small World”.</p>
<p>Jeremiah was a bullfrog
was a good friend of mine
never understood a single word he said
but i helped him drink his wine
he always had some mighty fine wine</p>
<p>I can’t believe we’ve had eight pages and “Boom Boom Pow” hasn’t come up. Despite being an incredibly fun song to dance to, it is very stupid:</p>
<p>I like that boom boom pow
them chickens jockin’ my style
they try to cover my swagger
I’m on that next **** now</p>
<p>???</p>
<p>Possibly The Black Eyed Peas make up for it in “Where is the Love?” and “Gone Going,” and the fact that their songs are ridiculously catchy and great for dancing (“Boom Boom Pow” has so much beat that even I can dance to it, and that’s saying something!).</p>
<p>I LOVE this thread!</p>
<p>However…I have to say you have knocked a couple of songs I LIKE!!</p>
<p>My own dumbest lyric nominee-and I’d love to hear I misunderstand the lyrics–is from the song “Give Me that Rock N Roll Music.” It says --assuming I heard it right, that the singer likes “modern jazz” “except when they play it too damn fast. Then is sounds just like a symphony…” </p>
<p>Umm… modern jazz played fast sounds like classical music?</p>
<p>I can’t believe no one’s mentioned this - the worst lyrics ever …</p>
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<p>Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio </p>
<p>Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe</p>
<p>Rosenbergs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, “The King and I”, and “The Catcher in the Rye”</p>
<p>Eisenhower, vaccine, England’s got a new queen
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye</p>
<p>CHORUS
We didn’t start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world’s been turning
We didn’t start the fire
No we didn’t light it
But we tried to fight it</p>
<p>Josef Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc</p>
<p>Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, dacron
Dien Bien Phu and “Rock Around the Clock” </p>
<p>Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn’s got a winning team
Davy Crockett, “Peter Pan”, Elvis Presley, Disneyland</p>
<p>Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev
Princess Grace, “Peyton Place”, trouble in the Suez </p>
<p>CHORUS</p>
<p>Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, “Bridge on the River Kwai”</p>
<p>Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
Starkweather, homicide, children of thalidomide</p>
<p>Buddy Holly, “Ben-Hur”, space monkey, Mafia
hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no go</p>
<p>U2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, “Psycho”, Belgians in the Congo </p>
<p>CHORUS</p>
<p>Hemingway, Eichmann, “Stranger in a Strange Land”
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs Invasion </p>
<p>“Lawrence of Arabia”, British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson</p>
<p>Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex
JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say</p>
<p>CHORUS</p>
<p>Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon, back again
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline
Ayatollolah’s in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan</p>
<p>“Wheel of Fortune” , Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide
Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shore, China’s under martial law
Rock and Roll and Cola Wars, I can’t take it anymore</p>
<p>CHORUS</p>
<p>We didn’t start the fire
But when we are gone
Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on…</p>
<p>Oh–please! Nothing can sink lower than this. It is a known fact that most heavy drug use in the mid and later 1960s was to try to blot out this “song.”</p>
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<p>Re: post #110–there is one song that is worse.</p>
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<p>
And I have always been such a geek - these lyrics drive me crazy because a light year is a measure of distance, dammit.
:o</p>
<p>MM2K, if it makes you feel better, you can consider that lyric as being a measure of how much one has traveled since they had last heard that voice, not distance.</p>
<p>Consider also the anomaly in the original Star Wars movie: Fast? I have made the Kessel run in less than five parsecs. (Or whatever the number was.)</p>
<p>Louie, Louie…makes no sense</p>
<p>Louie Louie, oh no
Me gotta go
Aye-yi-yi-yi, I said
Louie Louie, oh baby
Me gotta go</p>
<p>Fine little girl waits for me
Catch a ship across the sea
Sail that ship about, all alone
Never know if I make it home</p>
<p>CHORUS</p>
<p>Three nights and days I sail the sea
Think of girl, constantly
On that ship, I dream she’s there
I smell the rose in her hair.</p>
<p>CHORUS</p>
<p>Okay, let’s give it to 'em, right now!</p>
<p>GUITAR SOLO</p>
<p>See Jamaica, the moon above
It won’t be long, me see me love
Take her in my arms again
Tell her I’ll never leave again</p>
<p>CHORUS</p>
<p>Let’s take it on outa here now</p>
<p>Stupidest & creepiest song ever–by the Beatles: Run for your life</p>
<pre><code>I’d rather see you dead, little girl,
</code></pre>
<p>Than to be with another man.
You’d better keep your head, little girl,
Or I won’t know where I am.
You’d better run for your life if you can, little girl,
Hide your head in the sand, little girl.
Catch you with another man,
That’s the end - ah, little girl.
Well you know that I’m a wicked guy
And I was born with a jealous mind,
And I can’t spend my whole life tryin’,
Just to make you toe the line.
You’d better run for your life if you can, little girl,
Hide your head in the sand, little girl.
Catch you with another man,
That’s the end - ah, little girl.
Let this be a sermon,
I mean everything I said,
Baby, I’m determined,
And I’d rather see you dead.
You’d better run for your life if you can, little girl,
Hide your head in the sand, little girl.
Catch you with another man,
That’s the end - ah, little girl.
I’d rather see you dead, little girl,
Than to be with another man.
You’d better keep your head, little girl,
Or you won’t know where I am.
You’d better run for your life if you can, little girl,
Hide your head in the sand, little girl.
Catch you with another man,
That’s the end - ah, little girl.</p>
<p>Regarding Louie Louie every rock band in the northwest, including mine, used to cover that song. And yeah, we couldn’t figure out what the hell the lyrics were so we just made 'em up…</p>
<p>atamom, that IS creepy!</p>
<p>Maybe it inspired OJ?</p>
<p>John Lennon allegedly did slap his first wife, Cynthia, around. For a man of peace and all.</p>
<p>Now that you guys mention it, there were quite a few “stalker” type songs. This one on a Randy Travis album (1987) always gave me the heebie-jeebies:</p>
<p>All you wanted was a one-night stand
The fire of the wine and the touch of a man
But I fell in love and ruined all of your plans
What’Il you do about me
Imagine the faces on your high-class friends
When I beat on the door and I beg to come in
Screamin’ “Corne on love me again”
What’Il you do about me </p>
<p>You can change your number, you can change your name
You can ride like hell on a midnight train
Thats alright mama, thats O.K.
But what’Il you do about me</p>
<p>Picture your neighbors when you try to explain
That good ol’ boy standin’ out in the rain
With his nose on the vvindow pane
Lady, what’Il you do about me
What in the world are you plannin to do
When a man comes over just to visit with you
And Im on the porch with a 2’ x 2’
Tell me what’Il you do about me
You can call your lawyer, you can call the fuzz
You can sound the alarm, wake the neighbors up
Ain’t no way to stop a man in love
What’Il you do about me</p>
<p>All you wanted was a one-night stand
The fire of the wine and the touch of a man
But I fell in love and baby here I am
What’Il you do about me</p>
<p>You can change your number, you can change your name
You can ride like hell on a midnight train
Thats alright mama, thats O.K.
But what’Il you do about me</p>