Songs with interesting or unusual lyrics, (Mavericks tracks to start with here)

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grahamg

Old codger
Location
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Still looking for the track that really grabbed my attention and intrigued me about, "If you find a broken heart leave it alone, it'll mend itself some day", (or words to that effect), but while I'm looking this song has good enough lyrics I'm sure you'll agree, (if not "unusual" ones for a country song! :whistle::rolleyes::giggle: ):

 

Again not the one I was looking for, and again not unusual song lyrics for a country record, but another good un:


All you ever do is bring me down

"I can't sleep a wink anymore
Ever since you first walked out the door
Then I just started drinking to forget
But I don't think the worst has happened yet

All you ever do is bring me down
Making me a fool all over town
They all wonder why I wear a frown
That's cause honey all you ever do is bring me down

It's funny how my whole world fell apart
I think I saw it coming from the start
I tried to tell myself that you'd be true
But I expected way too much of you

All you ever do is bring me down
Making me a fool all over town
They all wonder why I wear a frown
That's cause honey all you ever do is bring me down

All you ever do is bring me down
Making me a fool all over town
They all wonder why I wear a frown
That's cause honey all you ever do is bring me down"
 
Here we go, "A better way" was the track I was looking for all that time, and I hope you agree the lyrics are interesting and striking/unusual enough!

(Sounds not great on this recording unfortunately):

"We spent the night in a hobo town
Like a pair of runaways
We lit a fire and sang the songs
We learned from yesterday
Settled down and built a house
With our own sweatin' hands
What happened next I'll never know
Or never understand

Finished with my working day
And headed straight for home
I looked inside the bedroom door
And you were not alone

Well I hope you find a better way
To get through my front door
The roads you take don't let you see
I don't love you anymore
And if you find a broken heart
Somewhere along the way
Don't you dare pick it up
It'll mend itself someday

You thought my life was over now
Well honey you thought wrong
I found myself someone to love
Who'll love me all night long
All the things you left behind
I threw them all away
You never cared enough about
The things I had to say

Well I hope you find a better way
To get through my front door
The roads you take don't let you see
I don't love you anymore
And if you find a broken heart
Somewhere along the way
Don't you dare pick it up
It'll mend itself someday
Well I hope you find a better way
To get through my front door
The roads you take don't let you see
I don't love you anymore
And if you find a broken heart
Somewhere along the way
Don't you dare pick it up
It'll mend itself someday"
 

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Come on, "sound lyrics" that strike you in some way, either unusual, interesting, funny or whatever, (surely I can't be the only one listening to the lyrics sometimes, and remembering a few!)!!!! :)
 
dseag2 said:
From the 80's, anything by The Smiths had unusual lyrics. The songs sounded very upbeat, but the lyrics were very dark.

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Good man, (you've got he ball rolling)!

Here are those very dark lyrics, from the "Girlfriend in a Coma" track:

Lyrics
"Girlfriend in a coma, I know
I know, it's serious
Girlfriend in a coma, I know
I know, it's really serious

There were times when I could
Have murdered her
But you know, I would hate
Anything to happen to her

No, I don't want to see her

Do you really think
She'll pull through
Do you really think
She'll pull through
Do ooh ooh ooh

Girlfriend in a coma, I know
I know, it's serious
My, my, my, my, my, my baby, goodbye

There were times when I could
Have strangled her
But you know, I would hate
Anything to happen to her
Would you please
Let me see her

Do you really think
She'll pull through
Do you really think
She'll pull through
Do ooh ooh ooh
Let me whisper my last goodbyes
I know, it's serious"
 
Here is an unusual song for you Graham, the lyrics below
might need an interpreter.

Mike.


[Verse 1]
Oh, you'll all know my wee brother
And his name is Jock McGraw
And he’s lately joined a football club
For he’s mad aboot football
And he’s got two black eyes already
And teeth knocked frae 'is gob
Since oor Jock became a member o'
That terrible football club

[Chorus]
Oh, he’s football crazy!
He's football mad!
And the football, it has robbed him o'
The wee bit o' sense he had
And it would tak a dozen skillies
His claes to wash and scrub
Since our Jock became a member o'
That terrible football club

[Verse 2]
Oh, the first match he took part in
I was there me-sеl', and saw
He had two half bricks for the goal posts
And a tin can for the ball
And thе Provost o' Glasgow, he was there
With lords and ladies fair...
And oor Jock ran out and kicked the football
Two miles in the air!

In the middle o' the field at Hampden Park
The captain says "McGraw!
Would ye kindly take this penalty kick
Or we’ll never win at all!"
So he took fifty paces backwards
Shot off for the mark
And the ball went sailing o'er the stand
And it landed in New York

[Chorus]
Oh, he’s football crazy!
He’s football mad!
And the football, it has robbed him o'
The wee bit o' sense he had
And it would tak a dozen skillies
His claes to wash and scrub
Since oor Jock became a member o'
That terrible football club

[Verse 3]
Oh, his wife she says she'll leave him
If he disnae keep
Away from football kickin'
At nighttime, in his sleep
For he calls her Charlie Tully
And other names so droll
Last night he kicked her out of the bed
And shouted "It's a goal!"

[Chorus]
Oh, he’s football crazy!
He’s football mad!
And the football, it has robbed him o'
The wee bit o' sense he had
And it would take a dozen skillies
His claes to wash and scrub
Since our Jock became a member o'
That terrible football club
 
Shake, Rattle & Roll.
The song, in its original incarnation, is highly sexual. Perhaps its most salacious lyric, is "I've been holdin' it in, way down underneath: You make me roll my eyes, baby, make me grit my teeth". On the recording, Turner slurred the lyric "holdin' it in," since this line may have been considered too risqué for publication. The chorus uses "shake, rattle and roll" to refer to boisterous intercourse, in the same way that the words "rock and roll" were first used by numerous rhythm and blues singers, starting with Trixie Smith's "My Man Rocks Me (With One Steady Roll,") in 1922 and continuing on prominently through the 1940's and 1950's. Stone stated that the line about "a one-eyed cat peepin' in a seafood store" was suggested to him by Atlantic session drummer Sam "Baby" Lovett; also a sly sexual reference.

Nothing sly about it, anymore than the line: "I believe to my soul you're the devil in nylon hose." What is really surprising is how, in ultra conservative 1950's America, the song got past the censors. Billy Haley, didn't actually cleaned it up, but he did tidy it a little. Haley's version was released in August, 21 and reached #7 on the Billboard pop chart, spending a total of twenty-seven weeks in the Top 40.

The song gained even greater credence when Elvis Presley recorded it in 1956. It was used as the theme song for the Springfield Indians of the American Hockey League for many years, and is now used as the victory song for the current franchise in Springfield, MA, the Springfield Falcons.
Who would have thought?
 
Almost anything by Frank Zappa, is out there..."Suzy Cream Cheese", "The Muffin Man", etc.... Also the Beatles had some pretty weird lyrics - "Yellow Submarine", "St. Peppers", "There's a fog upon L.A."....
 
grahamg said:
Here we go, "A better way" was the track I was looking for all that time, and I hope you agree the lyrics are interesting and striking/unusual enough!

(Sounds not great on this recording unfortunately):

"We spent the night in a hobo town
Like a pair of runaways
We lit a fire and sang the songs
We learned from yesterday
Settled down and built a house
With our own sweatin' hands
What happened next I'll never know
Or never understand

Finished with my working day
And headed straight for home
I looked inside the bedroom door
And you were not alone

Well I hope you find a better way
To get through my front door
The roads you take don't let you see
I don't love you anymore
And if you find a broken heart
Somewhere along the way
Don't you dare pick it up
It'll mend itself someday

You thought my life was over now
Well honey you thought wrong
I found myself someone to love
Who'll love me all night long
All the things you left behind
I threw them all away
You never cared enough about
The things I had to say

Well I hope you find a better way
To get through my front door
The roads you take don't let you see
I don't love you anymore
And if you find a broken heart
Somewhere along the way
Don't you dare pick it up
It'll mend itself someday
Well I hope you find a better way
To get through my front door
The roads you take don't let you see
I don't love you anymore
And if you find a broken heart
Somewhere along the way
Don't you dare pick it up
It'll mend itself someday"
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That is an Early Mavericks album ..... @ that time IMO .... they had more of a stronger country sound. Later they [for lack of my musical knowlege] added ? a bit of pop ? / blues ? sound within their music.

"And if you find a broken heart
Somewhere along the way
Don't you dare pick it up
It'll mend itself someday"

I think he means his heart .......... in other words, leave me alone ..... been there done that don't want to do it again ....... so-to-speak.

I like just about everything they ever did. And have [on disc] most of their albums.
 

Gold Coast slave ship bound for cotton fields
Sold in the market down in New Orleans
Skydog slaver know he's doin' all right
Hear him whip the women, just around midnight

Brown Sugar, how come you taste so good?
Brown Sugar, just like a young girl should, oh no

Drums beatin' cold, English blood runs hot
Lady of the house wonderin' when it's gonna stop
House boy knows that he's doin' all right
You should have heard him, just around midnight

Brown Sugar, how come you taste so good?
Brown Sugar, just like a young girl should, yeah

Brown Sugar, how come you dance so good?
Oh, got me quittin'
Brown Sugar, just like a black girl should, yeah

Now, I bet your mama was a tent show queen
And all her boyfriends were sweet 16
I'm no school boy but I know what I like
You should have heard them, just around midnight

Brown Sugar, how come you taste so good? Oh, no no
Brown Sugar, just like a young girl should
I said, yeah, yeah, yeah, woo
How come you, how come you dance so good?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, woo
Just like a, just like a black girl should
Yeah, yeah, yeah, woo
 
Tom Waits

Just about everything he's ever wrote is different.
Reminds me of cruising on the California Interstates, late night.
( Remember when your car had that little window called a 'wing'...? )


Diamonds On My Windshield

Well, these diamonds on my windshield
And these tears from heaven
Well, I'm pulling into town on the Interstate
I got a steel train in the rain
And the wind bites my cheek through the wing
And it's these late nights and this freeway flying
It always makes me sing

There's a Duster trying to change my tune
He's pulling up fast on the right
Rolling restlessly by a twenty-four hour moon
And a Wisconsin hiker with a cue-ball head
He's wishing he was home in a Wisconsin bed
But there's fifteen feet of snow in the east
Colder than a welldigger's ass
And it's colder than a welldigger's ass

Oceanside, it ends the ride with San Clemente coming up
Those Sunday desperados slip by and cruise with a dry back

And the orange drive-in, the neon billing
And the theatre's filling to the brim
With slave girls and a hot spurn bucket full of sin
Metropolitan area with interchange and connections
Fly-by-nights from Riverside
And out of state plates running a little late

But the sailors jockey for the fast lane
So 101 don't miss it
There's rolling hills and concrete fields
And the broken line's on your mind
The eights go east and the fives go north
And the merging nexus back and forth
You see your sign, cross the line, signaling with a blink
And the radio's gone off the air
Gives you time to think
And you hear the rumble
As you fumble for a cigarette
And blazing through this midnight jungle
Remember someone that you met
And one more block, the engine talks
Whispers 'home at last'
It whispers 'home at last'
Whispers 'home at last'
Whispers 'home at last'
Whispers 'home at last'

And the diamonds on my windshield
And these tears from heaven
Well I'm pulling into town on the Interstate
I got me a steel train in the rain
And the wind bites my cheek through the wing
Late nights and freeway flying
Always makes me sing
It always makes me sing

Hey, look here, Jack
Okay
 
If I tell you you have a beautiful body. will you hold it against me?
Longest song title. Bellamy bros.

My baby used to hold me. Now he puts me on hold. In a novel only

She got the goldmine and I got the shaft
 

I've always liked these guys, but mostly preferred their oldest music...
While the lyrics in this song aren't entirely unusual, to this day I can't figure out what 'sunny down snuff' is... :oops:
 

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