Lyrics that strike you as odd or disgust you
Lyrics that strike you as odd or disgust you
PennybankBill
Stand-by Joined: 11/1/10
#1Lyrics that strike you as odd or disgust you
Posted: 6/20/11 at 7:25pm
For me, it's from Look what Happened to Mabel from MACK AND MABEL:
From now on, this pile of flesh'll be considered something pretty special...
It just puts this image in my mind of a pile of mush voiced by Bernadette Peters. What lyrics form musicals disgust you, confuse you, or just strike you as odd?
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#2Lyrics that strike you as odd or disgust you
Posted: 6/20/11 at 7:30pm"With condos on the top, whose rent keeps open our shop"
#2Lyrics that strike you as odd or disgust you
Posted: 6/20/11 at 7:37pm
"If you want my gravy, pepper my Ragu." - Chicago
Damn line gives me monkey nerves, every time!
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion.
#3Lyrics that strike you as odd or disgust you
Posted: 6/20/11 at 8:04pm
artscallion-- I lOVE that line.
For a true Jerry Herman disaster there's the ENTIRE lyric of Dear World's title song.
(I was only gonna use a fragment but I couldn't choose the WORST lines, so--)
Please take your medicine, dear world,
Please keep your pressure down, dear world.
Promise to thrive on each word your doctor speaks,
He'll bring the roses back to your cheeks.
For you've been a pallid and blah world,
Stick out your tongue and say "Ahh," world.
We'll give you plasma and tonic, by the spoon,
So be a dear world,
Take your medicine, dear world,
Keep your pressure down, dear world,
And get well soon!
Please keep your fever down, dear world,
Please keep your courage up, dear world.
Your vim and vigor is very sorely missed,
He'll bring the roses back to your cheeks.
Help us declare you "Patient dismissed."
And stand on your crutches with pride, world.
You've got to save your own hide, world.
We'll bring you lilacs until you're back in tune
So be a dear world,
Keep your fever down, dear world,
Keep your courage up, dear world.
And get well soon!
Someone has wounded you, dear world,
Someone has poisoned you, dear world.
And those who love you defiantly insist
That you get off that critical list.
So make your recovery quick, world,
We're sick of having a sick world.
We want you dancing tomorrow afternoon,
So be a dear world,
Take the stitches out, dear world,
Rip the bandage off, dear world.
And get well soon!
#5Lyrics that strike you as odd or disgust you
Posted: 6/20/11 at 8:25pmIn Anything Goes-- "if you're the bottom, I'm the top". Do we really need to hear about their sexual preferences?
#6Lyrics that strike you as odd or disgust you
Posted: 6/20/11 at 8:28pmNo doubt Cole knew EXACTLY what he was writing.
#7Lyrics that strike you as odd or disgust you
Posted: 6/20/11 at 8:32pmYeah...I'm actually gonna say that wasn't his original intention there.
#8Lyrics that strike you as odd or disgust you
Posted: 6/20/11 at 8:39pm
For Good- "I ask forgiveness for the things I've done you blame me for"
It's always felt like such a backhanded apology. Like those people who say "I'm sorry you were offended" without admitting what they said was offensive.
Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never knowing how
Wanting life but never knowing how
#9Lyrics that strike you as odd or disgust you
Posted: 6/20/11 at 8:40pm
I've never thought of that before but you're absolutely right!
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#10Lyrics that strike you as odd or disgust you
Posted: 6/20/11 at 8:45pmFor the record, a friend of mine who was in the original cast of DEAR WORLD and he tells me that the cast hated that song. They mocked it backstage by singing "Please take a laxative, dear world..."
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
#11Lyrics that strike you as odd or disgust you
Posted: 6/20/11 at 9:21pm
"I'd sooner buy defying gravity"
What the hell does that even mean?
"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "
#12Lyrics that strike you as odd or disgust you
Posted: 6/20/11 at 9:25pm
^I know i'm gonna catch flack for it but...
In that verse before hand Elphaba sings
"Too long I've been afraid of, losing love I guess I've lost! well if that's love it comes at much too high a cost" then sings said line. S
She is basically saying that the love she is seeking is gonna cost her far too much (morals, beliefs) and she will have to kind of trade in her soul to recieve the love she wanted. So rather then that she is basically gonna buy defying gravity, which is a weird way of saying she is gonna buy her freedom and not take any more crap.
"Life in theater is give and take...but you need to be ready to give more then you take..."
michellek45
Leading Actor Joined: 5/20/11
#13Lyrics that strike you as odd or disgust you
Posted: 6/20/11 at 9:35pmA lot of "Touch Me" from Spring Awakening, but especially: "Now lower down, where the figs lie." Like...I don't understand how that's romantic. I just picture statues with the fig leafs on them. It's just...sketchy.
#14Lyrics that strike you as odd or disgust you
Posted: 6/20/11 at 9:44pm
Hasa Diga Eebowai. I love the show but this one lyrics just reallllly bothers me for some reason
"When God f**ks you in the butt, Hasa Diga Eebowai, f**k God right back in his c**t"
I just really don't like it.
#15Lyrics that strike you as odd or disgust you
Posted: 6/20/11 at 9:47pm
I find a lot of For Good is weird.
For example. Like a comet pulled from orbit as it passes a sun. I just don't understand it. Anyone who does care to explain? :P
Updated On: 6/20/11 at 09:47 PM
chewy5000
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/1/09
#16Lyrics that strike you as odd or disgust you
Posted: 6/20/11 at 9:48pmSeeing as pretty much the whole of Wicked is a given, let's keep this thread moving, shall we?
Jake01
Chorus Member Joined: 11/9/10
#17Lyrics that strike you as odd or disgust you
Posted: 6/20/11 at 9:49pm
Around the World from Grey Gardens:
No one else "took care" of her,
Only me!
She was taken care of -
Not "sex-u-ally"!
And if you infer
They were using her,
I will shove you under the goddamn bed!
Okay, what does "taken care of - not sex-u-ally" mean? She's reffering to her mother, after all, so why would there be any such implication?
And who exactly are the "you's", both the "you" she's speaking to, and the "you" the other "you" infers were using her? Who are these "you's"?!
It's an amazing song, but that part makes me cringe/scratch my head. I haven't read the libretto. Does that clear anything up?
#18Lyrics that strike you as odd or disgust you
Posted: 6/20/11 at 9:50pmI love Wicked's score and love For Good just I don't undersatnd that lyric.
#19Lyrics that strike you as odd or disgust you
Posted: 6/20/11 at 9:58pmAh, the "Dear World" song. Such a brilliant piece of writing.
raker
Stand-by Joined: 12/27/08
#20Lyrics that strike you as odd or disgust you
Posted: 6/20/11 at 10:02pmThose lines from Grey Gardens were spoken, nearly verbatim, by Little Edie in the Grey Gardens documentary on which the musical was based.
#21Lyrics that strike you as odd or disgust you
Posted: 6/20/11 at 10:04pm
from Catch Me If You Can:
"So if lemons clog your sink up
Don't just stand around and scream
Spike some lemonade and drink up"
...what
#22Lyrics that strike you as odd or disgust you
Posted: 6/20/11 at 10:05pmIt's not a specific lyric, but I find it incredibly amusing that the same guys that wrote "You've Got to Be Carefully Taught" also wrote "Western People Funny."
#23Lyrics that strike you as odd or disgust you
Posted: 6/20/11 at 10:26pm
To answer you Cheno
(what? I'm a Wicked fan hahha)
I think that line means that since Elphaba came into Glinda's life, she helped her find a new path (as in "Like a comet pulled from orbit as it passes a sun)
And the same goes for the second verse.
"Life in theater is give and take...but you need to be ready to give more then you take..."
#24Lyrics that strike you as odd or disgust you
Posted: 6/20/11 at 10:53pmOh, that makes sense. It's such a pretty song. I love Wicked.
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