Song lyrics

Meet me on the corner, by Lindisfarne...about drug dealing.

Every Breath You Take by the Police...about a man's obsession with a woman.

greenlady102

why is Jonah Lewie's song "Stop the Cavalry" played as a christmas song?

I took it to be a reference to the time in WWI when British and German troops stopped the war for a short time on Christmas Day and played football

greenlady102

why is Jonah Lewie's song "Stop the Cavalry" played as a christmas song?

Because it has the word 'Christmas' in the lyrics! Ridiculous really. ?

Mr Tambourine Man by Bob Dylan - about drugs and dealers, and Golden Brown by The Stranglers -about Heroin.

Because there is one line that says 'wish I was at home for christmas' ?

Stop the cavalry is about the First World War and he says wish i coukd be home for Christmas hence why it's played at Christmas.

Have to say i have never ever and will never dance to The Macarina.
In fact that is my main dread of going in a care home if for entertainment we have sing alongs to 'wedding type' disco music no Abba no Take That please.
My poor Grandma who was 90 when she died loved The Beatles and Billy Fury , Rod Stewart Adam and the Ants but they kept playing Vera Lynn and hymn music. I do love Vera Lynn but on occasions nit hourly!

I hate the song In The Summertime for it's meaning.

Scarborough Fair - In the middle ages, parsley, sage rosemary and thyme were used for abortion. If you mix the herbs together in a concoction and drink it, the baby will die.

"Alone Again, Naturally" by Gilbert O'Sullivan. I'd happily sing along to the catchy chorus, vaguely realising it was about someone lonely. I didn't realise that it begins with an intention to commit suicide after being jilted at the altar!
And lesser known, but a very firm favourite of mine was "Promised Land", a Chuck Berry song that was a hit for Johnny Allen. It's all about a lad going west to the "promised land" and ends with him making a reverse-charge phone call saying "Tell the folks back home this is the promised land calling, and the poor boy is on the line!" It always choked me up to think he'd finally made it after such an arduous journey. It was only when we got the internet and I was able to check the lyrics that I found out that the "poor boy" had flown there - not crawled there on his hands and knees! - and, what's more, he'd tucked into a steak on the plane. What?! I still love the song though.

why is Jonah Lewie's song "Stop the Cavalry" played as a christmas song?

Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah - I also thought it was a hymn or Christmas song, as it seemed to be played a lot at Christmas.

The green green grass of home. It seems a happy song about his girlfriend Mary running to greet him as he steps down from the train. But if you listen to it carefully near the end you get that he is in prison, and has been dreaming. He has got the death sentence, and will be executed and laid under the green green grass.... Its very sad actually.

Not shocked but often surprised when I actually listen properly to the lyrics.
Can’t think of any in particular but all rap/ hip hop are usually mysogenistic and violent and should be banned in my old fashioned opinion.

When I lived in the Caribbean I was told that all calypsos have a double meaning. Nonsense I said and quoted the current “.....all salt fish sweet” calypso which was all about a local food.
Except that it wasn’t. It was about oral sex!

Hallelujah by Katherine Jenkins. I thought it was a hymn

Why do we never have an answer...justi Heywood, it's about Viet Nam

That song that goes zina zina zina zina. Apparently zina means sex out of wedlock. Shan't be singing that out loud again!