Lyric mistakes — Page 2

Oh, hushpuppy, get off your condescending high horse. The definition of 'gout' has nothing to do with my point whatsoever. The song is essentially a list song. By breaking the pattern and speaking a line, "I can afford to see a Broadway show!", the character is already editorializing, which means, if anything, the following line should illustrate his editorial by naming a show, preferably something low-rent, as befitting the character, something like "CATS!". To follow it with a non-sequitur like "gout" is a poor punchline to the joke. No wonder that audiences are confused. Any joke that needs explanation doesn't work. Period.

Vivian Darkbloom
Ramsdale, New England

In phantom original recording.......i think of me.....I always thoght raul said "She's really not a bitch" but is really "she's really not a bit, the corkish girl..."


I was like......that is mean to say that!

^^actually wickedfreak the lyrics are
"She's really not a bit, the gawkish girl..."

woah, it's "gout" at the end? I always thought it was "doubt"

It does not at all, Hunter. There is no pattern. He shouts "A mink tracksuit!" "My own personal Zamboni!" "Lots of unnecessary surgery!" "I can finally afford to see a Broadway show!" (A joke in itself) "Gout!"

He's listing them. They are jokes in themselves. The Broadway show line is a joke about how expensive tickets are nowadays, and that he can finally afford to buy one. He then goes on to say that he'll also get gout. What's the problem?

except the several La Vie Boheme variations I sing...my sister and I always say: "excuse me if I'm on crack" instead of "excuse me if im off track" during Another Day :)