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Loaded
by Ricky Martin
category: incomprehensible
by Ricky Martin
category: incomprehensible
Yeah - i move like a thing all the time..
Walk like a loaded man (talk like a gazombadam)
Get the bump to the bump de bump de bump soul
(slip into the funk like a sweet cologne)
Move like a thing, swing line a thong
And do your jiggy mama til the break of dawn
Load the rocket, shock it and rock it til you drop
Do the bump to the bump and don't stop
Walk like a loaded man (talk like a gazombadam)
Get the bump to the bump de bump de bump soul
(slip into the funk like a sweet cologne)
Move like a thing, swing line a thong
And do your jiggy mama til the break of dawn
Load the rocket, shock it and rock it til you drop
Do the bump to the bump and don't stop
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Sometimes When We Touch
by Dan Hill
category: Makes me shiver
by Dan Hill
category: Makes me shiver
And sometimes when we touch
the honesty's too much and I have to close my eyes and hide
Do I need to comment
the honesty's too much and I have to close my eyes and hide
Do I need to comment
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Survival
by Yes
category: poor grammar, even allowing for artistic licence
by Yes
category: poor grammar, even allowing for artistic licence
Listening to Yes was something of a guilty pleasure in my student days, and when the Ultimate Yes compilation came out, I decided to relive my past. It's full of great melodic pop, you just have to find it amongst the masses of over-the-top instrumentation. Like a pig finding a truffle or something, work out your own metaphors.
I was surprised that I like it so much now - especially Heart of the Sunrise. Please don't tell anyone.
However the lyrics - where can I begin. Archaic grammar abounds, all in the name of poetic licence. One line from "Survival" stands out...
"Yesterday's endings will tomorrow life give you"
Quite tortuous really - surely "tomorrow will give you life". Or "will tomorrow give you life". I don't know.
It would be forgivable if they were trying to make an easier rhyme for themselves, so let's take a look at the lyric in its proper context:
Don't doubt the fact there's life within you
Yesterday's endings will tomorrow life give you
All that dies, dies for a reason
To put its strength into the Season
Hmm... they've rhymed "you" with... "you". Well that's well worth doing. It works for the theme tune to Jim'll Fix It, but less so here.
Anyway that's all part of Yes's charm. I think.
I was surprised that I like it so much now - especially Heart of the Sunrise. Please don't tell anyone.
However the lyrics - where can I begin. Archaic grammar abounds, all in the name of poetic licence. One line from "Survival" stands out...
"Yesterday's endings will tomorrow life give you"
Quite tortuous really - surely "tomorrow will give you life". Or "will tomorrow give you life". I don't know.
It would be forgivable if they were trying to make an easier rhyme for themselves, so let's take a look at the lyric in its proper context:
Don't doubt the fact there's life within you
Yesterday's endings will tomorrow life give you
All that dies, dies for a reason
To put its strength into the Season
Hmm... they've rhymed "you" with... "you". Well that's well worth doing. It works for the theme tune to Jim'll Fix It, but less so here.
Anyway that's all part of Yes's charm. I think.
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Dy-Na-Mi-Tee
by Ms Dynamite
category: simply crap
by Ms Dynamite
category: simply crap
Rest of "street" lyrics spoilt by this small section:
Remember Sunday School and after go to granmas for lunch
Macaroni, rice and peas, chicken and pineapple punch"
Remember Sunday School and after go to granmas for lunch
Macaroni, rice and peas, chicken and pineapple punch"
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To You I Belong
by B'Witched
category: twee
by B'Witched
category: twee
Beside the sea
When the waves broke
I drew a heart for you in the sand
In fields where streams
Turn to rivers
I ran to you, you were there
When the waves broke
I drew a heart for you in the sand
In fields where streams
Turn to rivers
I ran to you, you were there
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Animal Instinct
by The Cranberries
category: twee
by The Cranberries
category: twee
Suddenly something has happened to me
as I was having my cup of tea
as I was having my cup of tea
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Whenever, Wherever
by Shakira
category: cringe worthy
by Shakira
category: cringe worthy
It's an obvious one, but most be noted as I'm sure it makes us all cringe every time we hear it...
"lucky that my breasts are small and humble so you don't confuse them with mountains"
"lucky that my breasts are small and humble so you don't confuse them with mountains"
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Yellow
by Coldplay
category: baffling
by Coldplay
category: baffling
I swam across, I jumped across for you,
Oh what a thing to do.
Cos you were all "Yellow,"
I drew a line,
I drew a line for you,
Oh what a thing to do,
And it was all "Yellow."
Oh what a thing to do.
Cos you were all "Yellow,"
I drew a line,
I drew a line for you,
Oh what a thing to do,
And it was all "Yellow."
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Cold Heart of Stone
by Frank Black & The Catholics
category: makes you cringe
by Frank Black & The Catholics
category: makes you cringe
Now don't get me wrong. I'm a huge fan of Frank Black - I have all his albums, and I've seen him live which was fantastic. But this couplet just makes me cringe:
Your favourite perfume
Well I gave you a tub
Now you're stepping out
For your rubba dubba dub.
I, for one, have never seen perfume sold in tubs.
Your favourite perfume
Well I gave you a tub
Now you're stepping out
For your rubba dubba dub.
I, for one, have never seen perfume sold in tubs.
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Life
by Des'ree
category: just plain wrong
by Des'ree
category: just plain wrong
I don't wanna see a ghost
It's the sight that I fear most
I'd rather have a piece of toast
Watch the evening news
It's the sight that I fear most
I'd rather have a piece of toast
Watch the evening news
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Never Ever
by All Saints
category: inconsistent pronunciation
by All Saints
category: inconsistent pronunciation
Moving the goalposts of pronunciation:
Flexing vocabulary runs right through me
The alphabet runs right from A to Zee
and then...
Sometimes vocabulary runs through my head
The alphabet runs right from A to Zed
Flexing vocabulary runs right through me
The alphabet runs right from A to Zee
and then...
Sometimes vocabulary runs through my head
The alphabet runs right from A to Zed
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Africa
by Toto
category: bad rhyming
by Toto
category: bad rhyming
A tortuous rhyme:
The wild dogs cry out in the night
As they grow restless longing for some solitary company
I know that I must do what's right
As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti
The wild dogs cry out in the night
As they grow restless longing for some solitary company
I know that I must do what's right
As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti