Lyric Of Song
Re: AGYG Cactus? revisited (Re: JULIE ANDREWS: original song)
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 21:05:01 GMTNewsgroups: rec.arts.theatre.musicals
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robert armstrong wrote: > The "candle in the wind" song(s) remind(s) me of the thread about > anomalies in song of a few weeks back. > > I can think of examples that are not musical-comedy related: > > The above-mentioned Taupin/Dame Elton song says that Marilyn is like a > candle because she doesn't cling to people when it's raining and the > wind is blowing. According to this logic she is also like a hat, an > automobile, a bowl of cornflakes... > > A song by Bob Dylan says that Reuben "Huricane" Carter was convicted by > an all-white jury, implying that it happened __because__ there was an > all-white jury, but later in the same song he says that "all" the black > people in America thought he was guilty anyway. > > Rod Stewart's Mandolin Wind says "Coldest winter in almost fifteen > years": winters occur at one year intervals. If the last coldest winter > was fourteen and three-quarter years ago it wouldn't be winter, it would > be the following spring. > > I know, they're good songs anyway. Others? > A tune that's not so good is "Endless Love," which I call The Redundant Song because of its recurring lyric "You'll *always* be my *endless* love." I suppose it could be worse. Lionel Richie (or whoever) could've worked in "forever" and "eternally". (Just heard it at a wedding, which also used another common tune that I find puzzling as a wedding song, "Unchained Melody". That was written for a film about a guy in prison -- with the prominent line "Are you still mine?" -- then became popular again in "Ghost," in which Patrick Swayze was *dead*. I guess couples who adopt it as their song don't pay any attention to the lyrics.)
