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Lyrics
Posted: August 23rd, 2023, 8:17 pm
by Imbiber
Cooking dinner tonight (sweet potato with red lentil dhal) listening to favorites on Spotify. The Byrds. You ain't going no where. Lyrics are. Strap yourself to a tree with roots.
So does it mean strap yourself to a tree that has roots with some form of straps. Or does it mean strap yourself to a tree using roots.
Please help me to solve this conundrum.
I have been in imbibing, I'll get me coat.
Thanks
Re: Lyrics
Posted: August 23rd, 2023, 9:00 pm
by Itsallaguess
Imbiber wrote:
Cooking dinner tonight (sweet potato with red lentil dhal) listening to favorites on Spotify.
The Byrds. You ain't going no where. Lyrics are. Strap yourself to a tree with roots.
So does it mean strap yourself to a tree that has roots with some form of straps. Or does it mean strap yourself to a tree using roots.
Please help me to solve this conundrum.
There's a similar conundrum in the epic
Half Man Half Biscuit song,
Time Flies By (When You're a Driver of a Train)...
When they sing -
Time flies by when you're a driver of a train
Speeding out of Trumpton with a cargo of cocaineRegarding that second line, do you think they're talking about a heavily laden goods wagon, or a driver that's perhaps taken too much Columbian marching powder on this particular journey?
Let it happen, bass player...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSNMTa7Yd3ECheers,
Itsallaguess
p.s - I'm going for 'Strap yourself to a tree that 'has' roots'....
Re: Lyrics
Posted: August 23rd, 2023, 9:12 pm
by ReformedCharacter
Imbiber wrote:Cooking dinner tonight (sweet potato with red lentil dhal) listening to favorites on Spotify. The Byrds. You ain't going no where. Lyrics are. Strap yourself to a tree with roots.
So does it mean strap yourself to a tree that has roots with some form of straps. Or does it mean strap yourself to a tree using roots.
Please help me to solve this conundrum.
I have been in imbibing, I'll get me coat.
Thanks
I think you're mistaking 'roots' with 'Roots' as in Levi Roots, the musician and purveyor of something called 'Reggae Reggae sauce'. That would make a lot more sense. Sometimes the simplest explanation is the right one.
HTH
RC
Re: Lyrics
Posted: August 23rd, 2023, 10:42 pm
by UncleEbenezer
Many (most?) lyrics are best when misheard.
c.f. Lady Mondegreen.
Re: Lyrics
Posted: August 23rd, 2023, 10:49 pm
by Mike4
UncleEbenezer wrote:Many (most?) lyrics are best when misheard.
c.f. Lady Mondegreen.
The best mis-hear is this one:
"Excuse me, while I kiss this guy"~ Hendrix ~
Re: Lyrics
Posted: August 24th, 2023, 11:49 am
by bungeejumper
Who could forget Hot Chocolate's "
I remove umbilicals"?
Or Robert Palmer's “
Might as well face it, you’re a dick with a glove”?
A personal blast from the past, though. Going back about sixty years now (oh god), I remember some woman writing in a magazine about how she'd heard her daughter wandering around the house singing "
Mummy is the root of all evil".
BJ
Re: Lyrics
Posted: August 28th, 2023, 11:20 am
by redsturgeon
I always wondered what the knights in white sat in.
Re: Lyrics
Posted: August 29th, 2023, 12:42 pm
by GoSeigen
bungeejumper wrote:Who could forget Hot Chocolate's "I remove umbilicals"?
Not anyone who heard Madonna "
chop the goolie"...
GS
Re: Lyrics
Posted: September 10th, 2023, 4:25 pm
by garfsuncle
John Travolta told Olivia Newton-John, "You're a wobble-eye wog!" Not nice!
Re: Lyrics
Posted: September 12th, 2023, 3:38 pm
by gnawsome
bungeejumper wrote:Who could forget Hot Chocolate's "[i]I remove umbilicals"?
Or Robert Palmer's “
Might as well face it, you’re a dick with a glove”?
A personal blast from the past, though. Going back about sixty years now (oh god), I remember some woman writing in a magazine about how she'd heard her daughter wandering around the house singing "
Mummy is the root of all evil".
BJ
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Anyone else remembering Terry Wogan deciphering the lyrics of "You don't have to say you love me ........." c.early seventies
Re: Lyrics
Posted: September 12th, 2023, 5:19 pm
by Mike4
And then there's Candi Staton in "You've Got The Love", sometimes seems to be singing
"Sometimes I feel like throwing my pants up in the air".
Re: Lyrics
Posted: September 12th, 2023, 6:26 pm
by GrahamPlatt
Re: Lyrics
Posted: September 13th, 2023, 11:17 am
by marronier
Many years ago a little girl asks her mother, "Mummy, what's ubay? "
Perplexed, her mother asks where she heard it.
"
A man on the radio sang " I've got ubay" .
Re: Lyrics
Posted: September 20th, 2023, 11:09 am
by MyNameIsUrl
GrahamPlatt wrote:https://youtu.be/7my5baoCVv8?si=UpckHv5tbHvKWQ1P
Peter Kay on the same subject.
Just let me staple the vicar