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Undramatizing music lyrics.

  • 15-12-2008 10:09pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭


    Pighead doesn't even care if undramatizing isn't a word. It is now and that's the end of it. Anyway have you ever sat down and listened to lyrics of a song that sound fairly deep and flowery yet turn out to be anything but? Mundane even? Pighead has.

    Tears For Fears- Mad World:
    All around me are familiar faces
    Worn out places, worn out faces
    Bright and early for their daily races
    Going nowhere, going nowhere
    And their tears are filling up their glasses
    No expression, no expression
    Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow
    No tomorrow, no tomorrow

    TRANSLATION: Went to work today. It was rubbish.


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Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,070 ✭✭✭✭pq0n1ct4ve8zf5


    More or less anything by the Arctic Monkeys, it works brilliantly though


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,608 ✭✭✭✭sceptre


    Ah, Pighead, you're a gem. I was going to do a few but then thought of something better.

    Do these ten like the one above will ya?

    http://www.xomba.com/our_ten_most_profound_songs


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,393 Mod ✭✭✭✭lordgoat


    Relax by Frankie for the inverse.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    Carly Simon: You're so vain

    Well, I hear you went up to Saratoga
    And your horse naturally won
    Then you flew your Lear jet up to Nova Scotia
    To see the total eclipse of the sun
    Well, you're where you should be all the time
    And when you're not, you're with
    Some underworld spy or the wife of a close friend
    Wife of a close friend, and


    You're so vain
    You probably think this song is about you
    You're so vain
    I'll bet you think this song is about you
    Don't you? Don't you?

    Translation: You're so far up your own arse, you're coming out your mouth.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,706 ✭✭✭Matt Holck


    I would like to take this moment to point the brilliant lyrics by Tim Rice
    chanted by the crowd when Jesus is arrested

    Now, we have him
    Now, we've got him
    Now, we have him
    Now, we've got him
    Now, we have him
    Now, we've got him
    Now, we have him now
    we have got him now


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    Matt Holck wrote: »
    I would like to take this moment to point the brilliant lyrics by Tim Rice
    chanted by the crowd when Jesus is arrested

    Now, we have him
    Now, we've got him
    Now, we have him
    Now, we've got him
    Now, we have him
    Now, we've got him
    Now, we have him now
    we have got him now
    Very dramatic lyrics there Holck. Could you undramatize them for Pighead please? What does it all mean?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,706 ✭✭✭Matt Holck


    that jesus was arrested and now belongs to the crowd


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,568 ✭✭✭DublinWriter


    Agadoo, by Black Lace:
    Ag-a-doo-doo-doo, push pineapple, shake the tree
    Aga-doo-doo-doo, push pineapple, grind coffee
    To the left, to the right, jump up and down and to the knees
    Come and dance every night, sing with a hula melody


    It's so obvious that the lyrics symbolise the Jungian Paradox between ego and self, the metaphor of pushing the pineapple illustrating the conflict within the self via the medium of tropical fruit.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Layla by Eric Clapton.

    I tried to give you consolation
    When your old man had let you down.
    Like a fool, I fell in love with you,
    Turned my whole world upside down.

    Layla, you've got me on my knees.
    Layla, I'm begging, darling please.
    Layla, darling won't you ease my worried mind.

    Translation: I want to shag my best mate's wife.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    Bittersweet Symphony by The Verve

    Well I never pray
    But tonight I'm on my knees yeah
    I need to hear some sounds that recognize the pain in me, yeah
    I let the melody shine, let it cleanse my mind, I feel free now
    But the airways are clean and there's nobody singing to me now

    Translation: I'm sick of listening to shite on the radio.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Gary Puckett and The Union Gap - Young Girl

    Young girl, get out of my mind
    My love for you is way out of line
    Better run, girl,
    You're much too young, girl

    So hurry home to your mama
    I'm sure she wonders where you are
    Get out of here
    Before I have the time
    To change my mind
    'Cause I'm afraid we'll go too far

    Young girl, get out of my mind
    My love for you is way out of line
    Better run, girl,
    You're much too young, girl

    Translation: let's not be hasty. I'm sure we can reach some sort of arrangement here.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    Ben by Michael Jackson

    Ben, the two of us need look no more
    We both found what we were looking for
    With a friend to call my own
    I'll never be alone
    And you, my friend, will see
    You've got a friend in me
    (you've got a friend in me)

    Translation: I think I've fallen in love with a rat.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,457 ✭✭✭Rigsby


    I think you guys are missing the point here. :) Yes, the lyrics listed here have a convoluted and fancy way of expressing something mundane. That's what song writing is about is it not ? Are you telling me that you'd rather here the mundane lyrics ( i.e. the "translations" listed here ) ? I certainly would not.

    Pighead : Can you show some lyrics that you like, and are not "under dramatised" in your opinion ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    Rigsby wrote: »
    I think you guys are missing the point here. :) Yes, the lyrics listed here have a convoluted and fancy way of expressing something mundane. That's what song writing is about is it not ? Are you telling me that you'd rather here the mundane lyrics ( i.e. the "translations" listed here ) ? I certainly would not.

    Pighead : Can you show some lyrics that you like, and are not "under dramatised" in your opinion.
    Morning Rigsby. Pighead actually enjoys listening to the overblown fancy lyrics and trying to figure out what the hell they're banging on about. Remember being a kid listening to Queen and not having a clue what the hell they were talking about and thinking that they were songs were about people from from a different planet. It sort of ruined it slightly later on when I found out that Killer Queen was just a song about a classy whore!

    That said, sometimes simplicity is great too. As mentioned above the Arctic Monkeys do this really well. Example from Mardy Bum:

    And yeah I'm sorry I was late
    well I missed the train
    And then the traffic was a state
    And I can't be arsed to carry on in this debate
    That reoccurs, oh when you say I don't care
    but of course I do, yeah I clearly do!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,457 ✭✭✭Rigsby


    Yeah, I know what you are saying with regards to "Queen". I used to have a great time (still do ) figuring out some of "Steely Dan's" lyrics. Having said that, the lyrics here are not that much different to the "under dramitised" ones IMO.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    ship_sink.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,716 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    John Cage - 4′33″













    Translation: Clever, eh?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,457 ✭✭✭Rigsby


    :D


    Not an "un dramatised " lyric to be heard .





    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUJagb7hL0E


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,332 ✭✭✭padraig_f




  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,758 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    Simon and Garfunkel:

    Coo, Coo Catchoo...
    And here's to you Mrs. Robinson
    Jesus loves you more than you will know
    Wo, Wo, Wo.
    God bless you please Mrs. Robinson
    Heaven holds a place for those who pray.
    Hey,Hey,Hey.

    Translation: Jayzuz YORE MA'S a fcuking ride!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,716 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    Nas - It Ain't Hard To Tell

    It ain't hard to tell, I excel, then prevail
    The mic is contacted, I attract clientele
    My mic check is life or death, breathin a sniper's breath
    I exhale the yellow smoke of buddha through righteous steps
    Deep like The Shinin', sparkle like a diamond
    Sneak a uzi on the island in my army jacket linin
    Hit the Earth like a comet, invasion
    Nas is like the Afrocentric Asian, half-man, half-amazin
    Cause in my physical, I can express through song
    Delete stress like Motrin, then extend strong
    I drank Moet with Medusa, give her shotguns in hell
    From the spliff that I lift and inhale, it ain't hard to tell

    Translation: Nas has no self-esteem issues.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,457 ✭✭✭Rigsby


    I still dont get the point of this thread :confused:

    TRANSLATION : WTF are you all getting at ? :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    All art is quite useless according to Oscar Wilde
    Turner 1775 to 1851
    Toulouse-Lautrec 1864 to 1901
    Andy Warhol 1928 to 1987 RIP
    Ernest Hemingway 1899 to 1961
    George Orwell, Jimi Hendrix, William Butler Yeats, Jack B. Yeats,
    Richard Redgrave 1804 to 1888
    Henry Moore 1896 to 1986
    Henry Miller, Sid Vicious only 21
    Brian Jones
    Otis Redding 1941 to 1967 RIP

    All dead, yet still alive
    In endless time, endless art

    Masters of their arts
    Claude Monet 1840 to 1926
    Beethoven, Bach, Brahms,
    Elvis Presley 1935 to '77
    Man Ray, Johnny Ray
    John Donne 1573 to 1631
    Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809 to '92
    The generation art, Joan Miro, RIP
    Jackson Pollack 1912 to 1956
    John Lennon '40 to '80
    Henry Lamb, Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, William Shakespeare,
    Brendan Behan 1923 to 1964
    Tennessee Williams 1912 to 1983
    Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844 to 1889
    Pissaro, Picasso, Degas RIP

    All dead, yet still alive
    In endless time, endless art

    Joseph Conrad 1857 to 1924
    Jack Kerouac 1922 to 1969
    Keith Moon 1946 to 1978
    D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Mozart,
    Van Gogh 1853 to 1890
    Ian Curtis, Salvador Dali, Johann Strauss, Richard Strauss, Walt Disney's
    Mickey Mouse RIP

    All dead, yet still alive
    In endless time, endless art

    Translation: Celebrity zombies walk the earth!


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,758 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    stovelid wrote: »
    Gary Puckett and The Union Gap - Young Girl

    Young girl, get out of my mind
    My love for you is way out of line
    Better run, girl,
    You're much too young, girl

    So hurry home to your mama
    I'm sure she wonders where you are
    Get out of here
    Before I have the time
    To change my mind
    'Cause I'm afraid we'll go too far

    Young girl, get out of my mind
    My love for you is way out of line
    Better run, girl,
    You're much too young, girl

    Translation: I am not the bus driver you are looking for (I have some ethics!)
    Try the guy going to Waterford.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    I met her in a club down in old soho
    Where you drink champagne and it tastes just like cherry-cola
    C-o-l-a cola
    She walked up to me and she asked me to dance
    I asked her her name and in a dark brown voice she said lola
    L-o-l-a lola lo-lo-lo-lo lola

    Well Im not the worlds most physical guy
    But when she squeezed me tight she nearly broke my spine
    Oh my lola lo-lo-lo-lo lola
    Well Im not dumb but I cant understand
    Why she walked like a woman and talked like a man
    Oh my lola lo-lo-lo-lo lola lo-lo-lo-lo lola
    ......

    Translation: I like ladyboys.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Chris De Burgh - Lady In Red

    I have never seen that dress you're wearing
    Or the highlights in your head that catch your eyes
    I have been blind


    Translation: I haven't noticed because I've been knee-deep in the au pair for six months.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    I <3 this thread.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,457 ✭✭✭Rigsby


    Ok. So you can all decipher lyrics. :D

    What else is there ???


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    humberklog wrote: »
    Translation: I am not the bus driver you are looking for (I have some ethics!)

    Sounds like a jedi mind-wave. :)


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  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,758 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    stovelid wrote: »
    Sounds like a jedi mind-wave. :)
    That's what I was going for.
    Chris De Burgh one....Brilliant.
    Excellent thread (even if it is an moshpit of After Hours regulars).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,990 ✭✭✭longshanks


    Enter Sandman lyrics

    Say your prayers little one
    don't forget, my son
    to include everyone

    tuck you in, warm within
    keep you free from sin
    till the sandman he comes

    sleep with one eye open
    gripping your pillow tight

    exit light
    enter night
    take my hand
    off to never never land

    something's wrong, shut the light
    heavy thoughts tonight
    and they aren't of snow white

    dreams of war, dreams of liars
    dreams of dragon's fire

    and of things that will bite

    sleep with one eye open
    gripping your pillow tight

    exit light
    enter night
    take my hand
    off to never never land

    now I lay me down to sleep
    pray the lord my soul to keep
    if I die before I wake
    pray the lord my soul to take

    hush little baby, don't say a word
    and never mind that noise you heard
    it's just the beast under your bed,
    in your closet, in your head

    exit light
    enter night
    grain of sand

    exit light
    enter night
    take my hand
    we're off to never never land



    translation: night night, sleep tight


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 669 ✭✭✭Photi


    Don McLean - American Pie

    A long, long time ago...
    I can still remember
    How that music used to make me smile.
    And I knew if I had my chance
    That I could make those people dance
    And, maybe, theyd be happy for a while.

    But february made me shiver
    With every paper Id deliver.
    Bad news on the doorstep;
    I couldnt take one more step.

    I cant remember if I cried
    When I read about his widowed bride,
    But something touched me deep inside
    The day the music died.

    So bye-bye, miss american pie.
    Drove my chevy to the levee,
    But the levee was dry.
    And them good old boys were drinkin whiskey and rye
    Singin, thisll be the day that I die.
    Thisll be the day that I die.

    Did you write the book of love,
    And do you have faith in God above,
    If the Bible tells you so?
    Do you believe in rock n roll,
    Can music save your mortal soul,
    And can you teach me how to dance real slow?

    Well, I know that youre in love with him
    `cause I saw you dancin in the gym.
    You both kicked off your shoes.
    Man, I dig those rhythm and blues.

    I was a lonely teenage broncin buck
    With a pink carnation and a pickup truck,
    But I knew I was out of luck
    The day the music died.

    I started singin,
    Bye-bye, miss american pie.
    Drove my chevy to the levee,
    But the levee was dry.
    Them good old boys were drinkin whiskey and rye
    And singin, thisll be the day that I die.
    Thisll be the day that I die.

    Now for ten years weve been on our own
    And moss grows fat on a rollin stone,
    But thats not how it used to be.
    When the jester sang for the king and queen,
    In a coat he borrowed from james dean
    And a voice that came from you and me,

    Oh, and while the king was looking down,
    The jester stole his thorny crown.
    The courtroom was adjourned;
    No verdict was returned.
    And while lennon read a book of marx,
    The quartet practiced in the park,
    And we sang dirges in the dark
    The day the music died.

    We were singing,
    Bye-bye, miss american pie.
    Drove my chevy to the levee,
    But the levee was dry.
    Them good old boys were drinkin whiskey and rye
    And singin, thisll be the day that I die.
    Thisll be the day that I die.

    Helter skelter in a summer swelter.
    The birds flew off with a fallout shelter,
    Eight miles high and falling fast.
    It landed foul on the grass.
    The players tried for a forward pass,
    With the jester on the sidelines in a cast.

    Now the half-time air was sweet perfume
    While the sergeants played a marching tune.
    We all got up to dance,
    Oh, but we never got the chance!
    `cause the players tried to take the field;
    The marching band refused to yield.
    Do you recall what was revealed
    The day the music died?

    We started singing,
    Bye-bye, miss american pie.
    Drove my chevy to the levee,
    But the levee was dry.
    Them good old boys were drinkin whiskey and rye
    And singin, thisll be the day that I die.
    Thisll be the day that I die.

    Oh, and there we were all in one place,
    A generation lost in space
    With no time left to start again.
    So come on: jack be nimble, jack be quick!
    Jack flash sat on a candlestick
    Cause fire is the devils only friend.

    Oh, and as I watched him on the stage
    My hands were clenched in fists of rage.
    No angel born in hell
    Could break that satans spell.
    And as the flames climbed high into the night
    To light the sacrificial rite,
    I saw satan laughing with delight
    The day the music died

    He was singing,
    Bye-bye, miss american pie.
    Drove my chevy to the levee,
    But the levee was dry.
    Them good old boys were drinkin whiskey and rye
    And singin, thisll be the day that I die.
    Thisll be the day that I die.

    I met a girl who sang the blues
    And I asked her for some happy news,
    But she just smiled and turned away.
    I went down to the sacred store
    Where Id heard the music years before,
    But the man there said the music wouldnt play.

    And in the streets: the children screamed,
    The lovers cried, and the poets dreamed.
    But not a word was spoken;
    The church bells all were broken.
    And the three men I admire most:
    The father, son, and the holy ghost,
    They caught the last train for the coast
    The day the music died.

    And they were singing,
    Bye-bye, miss american pie.
    Drove my chevy to the levee,
    But the levee was dry.
    And them good old boys were drinkin whiskey and rye
    Singin, thisll be the day that I die.
    Thisll be the day that I die.

    They were singing,
    Bye-bye, miss american pie.
    Drove my chevy to the levee,
    But the levee was dry.
    Them good old boys were drinkin whiskey and rye
    Singin, thisll be the day that I die.

    Translation: We did mid twentieth century popular music in music class today. Turns out Buddy Holly is dead.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,716 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    Pearl Jam - Bugs

    I got bugs:
    I got bugs in my room,
    Bugs in my bed,
    Bugs in my ears,
    Their eggs in my head.
    Bugs in my pockets,
    Bugs in my shoes,
    Bugs in the way...I feel about you,
    Bugs on my window,
    Trying to get in.
    They don't go nowhere;
    Waiting, waiting...
    Bugs on my ceiling,
    Crowded the floor,
    Standing, sitting, kneeling...
    A few block the door.

    Translation: I really need to find a new place to live.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    Roxanne
    You don't have to put on the red light
    Those days are over
    You don't have to sell your body to the night

    Roxanne
    You don't have to wear that dress tonight
    Walk the streets for money
    You don't care if it's wrong or if it's right

    Roxanne
    You don't have to put on the red light

    I loved you since I knew you
    I wouldn't talk down to you
    I have to tell you just how I feel
    I won't share you with another boy
    I know my mind is made up
    So put away your make up
    Told you once I won't tell you again
    It's a bad way

    Roxanne
    You don't have to put on the red light
    Roxanne
    You don't have to put on the red light

    Translation: Don't be a whore.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    :) Good man Earthhorse. That's given Pighead his first laugh today!

    Suzanne Vega Toms Diner

    I am sitting
    In the morning
    At the diner
    On the corner

    I am waiting
    At the counter
    For the man
    To pour the coffee

    And he fills it
    Only halfway
    And before
    I even argue

    He is looking
    Out the window
    At somebody
    Coming in

    "It is always
    Nice to see you"
    Says the man
    Behind the counter

    To the woman
    Who has come in
    She is shaking
    Her umbrella

    And I look
    The other way
    As they are kissing
    Their hellos

    I'm pretending
    Not to see them
    And Instead
    I pour the milk

    I open
    Up the paper
    There's a story
    Of an actor

    Who had died
    While he was drinking
    He was no one
    I had heard of

    And I'm turning
    To the horoscope
    And looking
    For the funnies

    When I'm feeling
    Someone watching me
    And so
    I raise my head

    There's a woman
    On the outside
    Looking inside
    Does she see me?

    No she does not
    Really see me
    Cause she sees
    Her own reflection

    And I'm trying
    Not to notice
    That she's hitching
    Up her skirt

    And while she's
    Straightening her stockings
    Her hair
    Is getting wet

    Oh, this rain
    It will continue
    Through the morning
    As I'm listening

    To the bells
    Of the cathedral
    I am thinking
    Of your voice...

    And of the midnight picnic
    Once upon a time
    Before the rain began...

    I finish up my coffee
    It's time to catch the train

    Translation: I grabbed a cup of coffee before I got my train.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    First I was afraid
    I was petrified
    Kept thinking I could never live
    without you by my side
    But I spent so many nights
    thinking how you did me wrong
    I grew strong
    I learned how to carry on
    and so you're back
    from outer space
    I just walked in to find you here
    with that sad look upon your face
    I should have changed my stupid lock
    I should have made you leave your key
    If I had known for just one second
    you'd be back to bother me

    Go on now go walk out the door
    just turn around now
    'cause you're not welcome anymore
    weren't you the one who tried to hurt me with goodbye
    you think I'd crumble
    you think I'd lay down and die
    Oh no, not I
    I will survive
    as long as i know how to love
    I know I will stay alive
    I've got all my life to live
    I've got all my love to give
    and I'll survive
    I will survive

    Translation: GTFO!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,206 ✭✭✭gustavo


    The Smiths - How Soon is now


    I am the son
    And the heir
    Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar
    I am the son and heir
    Of nothing in particular

    You shut your mouth
    How can you say
    I go about things the wrong way ?
    I am human and i need to be loved
    Just like everybody else does


    I am the son
    And the heir
    Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar
    I am the son and heir
    Oh, of nothing in particular


    You shut your mouth
    How can you say
    I go about things the wrong way ?
    I am human and i need to be loved
    Just like everybody else does


    Oh ...
    Oh ...


    There's a club, if you'd like to go
    You could meet somebody who really loves you
    So you go, and you stand on your own
    And you leave on your own
    And you go home, and you cry
    And you want to die


    When you say it's gonna happen "now"
    Well, when exactly do you mean ?
    See, i've already waited too long
    And all my hope is gone


    Oh ...
    Oh ...


    You shut your mouth
    How can you say
    I go about things the wrong way ?
    I am human and i need to be loved
    Just like everybody else does


    Ok ?

    Translation : I'm shy and feeling sorry for myself


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Wham/George Micheal: Last Christmas

    Last Christmas
    I gave you my heart
    But the very next day you gave it away
    This year
    To save me from tears
    I'll give it to someone special

    Once bitten and twice shy
    I keep my distance
    But you still catch my eye
    Tell me baby
    Do you recognize me?
    Well
    it's been a year
    It doesn't surprise me
    "Merry Christmas"
    I wrapped it up and sent it
    With a note saying "I love you"
    I meant it
    Now I know what a fool I've been
    But if you kissed me now
    I know you'd fool me again

    Last Christmas
    I gave you my heart
    But the very next day you gave it away
    This year
    To save me from tears
    I'll give it to someone special


    A crowded room
    Friends with tired eyes
    I'm hiding from you
    And your soul of ice
    My god I thought you were
    Someone to rely on
    Me?
    I guess I was a shoulder to cry on




    Translation: your girlfriend rode another man at a ski-resort last Christmas.

    Transaltion 2: as you've probably guessed from subsequent media reports, he didn't really care that much.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,417 ✭✭✭Miguel_Sanchez


    Right Said Fred: I'm Too Sexy

    I'm too sexy for my love too sexy for my love
    Love's going to leave me

    I'm too sexy for my shirt too sexy for my shirt
    So sexy it hurts
    And I'm too sexy for Milan too sexy for Milan
    New York and Japan

    And I'm too sexy for your party
    Too sexy for your party
    No way I'm disco dancing

    I'm a model you know what I mean
    And I do my little turn on the catwalk
    Yeah on the catwalk on the catwalk yeah
    I do my little turn on the catwalk

    I'm too sexy for my car too sexy for my car
    Too sexy by far
    And I'm too sexy for my hat
    Too sexy for my hat what do you think about that

    I'm a model you know what I mean
    And I do my little turn on the catwalk
    Yeah on the catwalk on the catwalk yeah
    I shake my little touche on the catwalk

    I'm too sexy for my too sexy for my too sexy for my

    'Cos I'm a model you know what I mean
    And I do my little turn on the catwalk
    Yeah on the catwalk on the catwalk yeah
    I shake my little touche on the catwalk

    I'm too sexy for my cat too sexy for my cat
    Poor pussy poor pussy cat
    I'm too sexy for my love too sexy for my love
    Love's going to leave me

    And I'm too sexy for this song

    Translation: None needed. He's just too sexy.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Elvis Presley: In the Ghetto.

    As the snow flies
    On a cold and gray chicago mornin
    A poor little baby child is born
    In the ghetto
    And his mama cries
    cause if theres one thing that she dont need
    Its another hungry mouth to feed
    In the ghetto

    People, dont you understand
    The child needs a helping hand
    Or hell grow to be an angry young man some day
    Take a look at you and me,
    Are we too blind to see,
    Do we simply turn our heads
    And look the other way

    Well the world turns
    And a hungry little boy with a runny nose
    Plays in the street as the cold wind blows
    In the ghetto

    And his hunger burns
    So he starts to roam the streets at night
    And he learns how to steal
    And he learns how to fight
    In the ghetto

    Then one night in desperation
    A young man breaks away
    He buys a gun, steals a car,
    Tries to run, but he dont get far
    And his mama cries

    As a crowd gathers round an angry young man
    Face down on the street with a gun in his hand
    In the ghetto

    As her young man dies,
    On a cold and gray chicago mornin,
    Another little baby child is born
    In the ghetto

    Translation:
    hungry little boy with a runny nose = x;
    
    while (x != 0)
    
    {
       shot++;
    }
    
    


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,542 ✭✭✭Captain Darling


    Everybody's going out
    And having fun
    I'm a fool for staying home
    And having none
    I can't get over how she set me free,
    Oh lonesome me

    There must be some way
    That I can lose these lonesome blues
    Forget about my past and
    Find someone new
    I've thought of everything from A to Z
    Oh lonesome me

    I'll bet she's not like me
    She's out and fancy free
    Flirting with the boys with all her charms
    But I still love her so, and brother
    Don't you know it, I'd welcome her
    Right back her in my arms

    Translation:I'm a sad bastard and I'm dying for a ride.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,716 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    Queen - Radio Ga Ga

    All we hear is (handclap)
    Radio ga ga!
    Radio goo goo!
    Radio ga ga!
    All we hear is (handclap)
    Radio ga ga!
    Radio blah blah!

    Translation: Who's been messing with the dials? I can't find me stations!
    Pighead wrote: »
    :) Good man Earthhorse. That's given Pighead his first laugh today!

    Heh. A couple hundred more of them and we'll be even!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Black: Wonderful Life.

    I need a friend
    oh, I need friend
    to make me happy
    not so alone.......
    Look at me here
    here on my own again
    up straight in the sunshine

    No need to run and hide
    it's a wonderful, wonderful life
    No need to laugh and cry
    it's a wonderful, wonderful life

    No need to run and hide
    it's a wonderful, wonderful life
    No need to run and hide
    it's a wonderful, wonderful life
    it's a wonderful, wonderful life

    Translation: is it fuck.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,529 ✭✭✭✭cson


    Guru Josh Project: Infinity 2008

    Here's my key philosophy
    A freak like me
    Just needs infinity


    Translation: I'm so yoked outta my head I think I'm immortal. Deadly buzz

    Not profound as such unless someone is of a skobe-ular disposition. I'll stick the i-pod on shuffle for an hour and see if it throws up any ideas for me for a 'profund song' that actually means sfa.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 420 ✭✭KrazeeEyezKilla


    The Smiths - This Charming Man

    Punctured bicycle
    On a hillside desolate
    Will nature make a man of me yet ?

    When in this charming car
    This charming man


    Why pamper life's complexity
    When the leather runs smooth
    On the passenger seat ?


    I would go out tonight
    But I haven't got a stitch to wear
    This man said "it's gruesome
    That someone so handsome should care"


    Ah ! A jumped-up pantry boy
    Who never knew his place
    He said "return the ring"
    He knows so much about these things
    He knows so much about these things


    I would go out tonight
    But I haven't got a stitch to wear
    This man said "it's gruesome
    That someone so handsome should care"
    La, la-la, la-la, la-la, this charming man ...
    Oh, la-la, la-la, la-la, this charming man ...


    Ah ! A jumped-up pantry boy
    Who never knew his place
    He said "return the ring"
    He knows so much about these things
    He knows so much about these things
    He knows so much about these things

    Translation: That older man is going to f**k me.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    The Smiths - This Charming Man

    .

    Brilliant.

    Although, you've ruined my illusions. I always thought it was about Johnny Marr.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,716 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    Naughty by Nature - Everything's Gonna Be Alright

    A ghetto bastard, born next to the projects,
    Livin' in the slums with bums, I said now why Treach
    Do I have to be like this? Momma said I'm priceless,
    So I am, I'm worthless, starving is just what bein' nice gets.
    Sometimes I wish I could afford a pistol then, though,
    To stop the hell I woulda ended things a while ago.
    I ain't have jack but a black hat and napsack
    Four squad stolen in cars in the blackjack.
    Drop that, and now you want me to rap and give?
    Say somethin' positive? Well positive ain't where I lived.
    I lived right around a corner from West Hell,
    Two blocks from South Shit, and once in a jail cell.
    The sun ain't never shone on my side of the street, see?
    And only once or twice a week I would speak.
    I walked alone, my state of mind was home sweet home,
    I couldn't keep a girl, they wanted kids for cause of chrome.
    Some life, if you ain't wear gold your style was old
    And you got more juice than dope for every bottle sold.
    Hell no, I say there's gotta be a better way,
    But hey, never gamble in a game that you can't play.
    I'm slowin' and flowin' and goin' in on and knowin' not now
    How will I do it, how will I make it? I won't, that's how.

    Translation: The song title is ironic.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 950 ✭✭✭EamonnKeane


    Why don't we do it in the road?
    No-one will be watching us. (x724)

    McCartney's lyrics explore a complex metaphysical question: if no-one sees the unknown "us" doing an unknown "it" on an unknown road, has the "it" been done by us? Is the second line a refutation or an affirmation: is it purposeless or permissible to do "it" in the road if it remains unseen? The repetition ad nauseam implies that this struggle will continue eternally without resolution.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,568 ✭✭✭DublinWriter


    Wonderful Tonight

    Its late in the evening
    Shes wondering what clothes to wear
    She puts on her make up
    And brushes her long blonde hair
    And then she asks me
    Do I look alright
    And I say yes, you look wonderful tonight

    We go a party
    And everyone turns to see
    This beautiful lady
    Thats walking around with me
    And then she asks me
    Do you feel alright
    And I say yes, I feel wonderful tonight

    I feel wonderful
    Because I see the love light in your eyes
    And the wonder of it all
    Is that you just dont realize
    How much I love you

    Its time to go home now
    And Ive got an aching head
    So I give her the car keys
    She helps me to bed
    And then I tell her
    As I turn out the light
    I say my darling, you were wonderful tonight
    Oh my darling, you were wonderful tonight

    Translation: I'm pissed, you drive


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,206 ✭✭✭gustavo


    The Beatles - I am the Walrus
    I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.
    See how they run like pigs from a gun, see how they fly.
    I'm crying.

    Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come.
    Corporation t-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday.
    Man, you been a naughty boy, you let your face grow long.
    I am the eggman (woo), they are the eggmen (woo), I am the walrus,
    goo goo gajoob.

    Mister City P'liceman sitting
    Pretty little policemen in a row.
    See how they fly like Lucy in the Sky, see how they run.
    I'm crying.
    I'm cry, I'm crying, I'm cry.

    Yellow matter custard, dripping from a dead dog's eye.
    Crabalocker fishwife, pornographic priestess,
    Boy, you been a naughty girl and you let your knickers down.
    I am the eggman (woo), they are the eggmen (woo), I am the walrus,
    goo goo gajoob.

    Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun.
    If the sun don't come, you get a tan from
    Standing in the English rain.
    I am the eggman, they are the eggmen, I am the walrus,
    goo goo gajoob ga goo goo gajoob.

    Expert texpert choking smokers,
    Don't you think the joker laughs at you? (ho ho ho, he he he, ha ha ha)
    See how they smile like pigs in a sty, see how they snide.
    I'm crying.

    Semolina Pilchard, climbing up the Eiffel Tower.
    Elementary penguin singing Hare Krishna.
    Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.
    I am the eggman, they are the eggmen, I am the walrus,
    goo goo gajoob ga goo goo gajoob
    (rhythmical speaking along with juba's).
    Juba juba juba, juba, juba, juba, juba, juba, juba juba. Juba juba.....
    (speaking)

    Translation : So I've been trying this new drug called "LSD"


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