Broadway Lyrics that Make No Earthly Sense- Page 2

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 6/23/10 at 6:13pm

Wicked's infamous "bridge" lyrics make sense, they're just laughable.

[jv92]

Posted: 6/23/10 at 10:37pm

Okay, here's the question I've been dying to ask for years...

What the hell does "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" mean?

[madlibrarian]

Posted: 6/23/10 at 10:42pm

"Oh, the actress?" meaning Desiree Armfeldt. "No, the ghoul!" meaning Madame Armfeldt, the senior.

[byebyebaby12]

Posted: 6/23/10 at 10:43pm

That song is mostly Eva BSing about how she had a **** life.

[Edna Turnblad]

Posted: 6/23/10 at 10:52pm

I don't think I had ever registered the hoi polloi line! I just thought I wasn't understanding it.

Also, "the ghoul" is referring to Desiree. She is being called ugly or something like that.

I also never liked the lyric from Everything's Coming Up Roses, "That lucky start I talk about is due." If you look through that misheard lyrics thread I actually thought it was "you" and not "due" and I just couldn't understand it properly. Love Stephen, but it just bothers me. It may make sense, but I never liked it. I prefer my lyric.

Also, I feel sacrilegious saying I prefer my lyric over the God's.

[rjm516]

Posted: 6/23/10 at 11:31pm

I've always loved the bridges line from Wicked!

A lot of lyrics don't make sense, as you're all saying, but the one thing that has bothered me MOST throughout the years is:

"...the hunger that a child feels for everything they're shown..." (Spring Awakening)

REALLY??? YOU COULDN'T MAKE IT GRAMMATICALLY CORRECT??? Melchior is a smart boy in an insanely strict, high-level-seeming school. He would know that if it was ONE child, it would be "everything HE'S shown." SINGULAR.

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 6/23/10 at 11:39pm

Edna:

I believe the actual lyric is "That lucky STAR I talk about is due," although I could have been wrong for years.

And I think "You" at the end would work well for the line, but then Stephen would have been rhyming "you" with "you."

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 6/23/10 at 11:42pm

That said, it's needed to make the rhyme with "fool"

Well, no, it's not like his contract said he had to rhyme something with fool. He choose the word and he chose its rhyme.

It may make sense
It does make sense. That lucky star I talk about is due (to arrive). That's what's being implied there.

And yes, even if you don't like the junk line, it still makes sense. It's called a metaphor, actually.

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 6/23/10 at 11:49pm

From "Say it Somehow":

"Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah."

Keep trying.

[Andante]

Posted: 6/23/10 at 11:50pm

Anything from CATS.
When I listened to it (mind you, this was before I had read the T.S. Eliot work and saw the show), I ws thoroughly and utterly confused, as I'm sure many are still today.

[backwoodsbarbie]

Posted: 6/24/10 at 12:04am

"Its not up to me, just let me be Legally Blonde" How exactly can one be Legally Blonde? The premise of the song makes no sense, especially for the "emotional climax" of the show.

[byebyebaby12]

Posted: 6/24/10 at 12:08am

Isn't that what the professor calls her in the show?

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 6/24/10 at 12:12am

All this talk about SPRING AWAKENING makes me want to put in the dvd, I....I mean CD.

[backwoodsbarbie]

Posted: 6/24/10 at 12:16am

Shipoopi

[iLoveBroadway4]

Posted: 6/24/10 at 12:19am

"they've managed to get rid of me return me to the grave, ECT, electric chair, we shock who we can't save . They cleaned you of my memory, and many more as well, you may have wanted some of them but who can ever tell ?"

I thought Diana's memory got cleared, not Gabe's though Gabe implies her memory Had gone but so did his . . Neh .

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 6/24/10 at 12:19am

And how would they live in a house if Mama were married? Does she get a new house with a husband? Those girls were so f'in stupid.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 6/24/10 at 12:25am

Hahaha!!

Well, I'm certain you're kiding, but if Mama were married the husband would finally allow them all to settle down in a house that HE paid for. No more schlepping from city to city, flea bag hotel to flea bag hotel, awful apartment to awful apartment.

[iLoveBroadway4]

Posted: 6/24/10 at 12:27am

Yeah and why does she say "just momma, 3 ducks, 5 canaries, a mouse . 2 monkeys, 1 father, 6 turtles and me" does she forget her sister is right there ?

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 6/24/10 at 12:28am

Oh yeah? Well why does Mama Rose say she's a stranger herself there? She's been there before. She's so f'in stupid.

[peerrjb]

Posted: 6/24/10 at 12:35am

Just for the actual record, all the stuff about the "ghoul"....
Anne is telling Petra that the invitation is NOT from the actress but from the old woman. Because the invite isn't from Desiree, it's from her mother.

[iLoveBroadway4]

Posted: 6/24/10 at 12:35am

Next to Normal again . .

"it was raining it was Portland, you eloped . I mean, Portland ."
what does Natalie mean by "i mean, Portland ."

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 6/24/10 at 12:40am

I think that lyric is important because it tells us that Natalie is batsh*t crazy, just like her Mom.

[iLoveBroadway4]

Posted: 6/24/10 at 12:43am

Lmfao aah, I see .

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 6/24/10 at 12:44am

That's why it's vaguely referenced a few songs later that she flings her poop at strangers.

[iLoveBroadway4]

Posted: 6/24/10 at 12:47am

LMFAOOOO . Are you speaking of Hey #3/Perfect for You ?