Lyrics That Sound Nice, but make no sense
Lyrics That Sound Nice, but make no sense
AndAllThatJazz22
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/8/08
#1Lyrics That Sound Nice, but make no sense
Posted: 11/25/08 at 8:39pmElaborate lives, if you actually listen to it, it makes no sense.
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
#2re: Lyrics That Sound Nice, but make no sense
Posted: 11/25/08 at 8:42pm"Gossip's worth its weight in gold" - Phantom
--http://www.benjaminadgate.com/
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#2re: Lyrics That Sound Nice, but make no sense
Posted: 11/25/08 at 8:45pmGossip has no weight and therefore it is worth nothing. (sorry..makes perfect sense to me...and I highly dislike Phantom)
#3re: Lyrics That Sound Nice, but make no sense
Posted: 11/25/08 at 8:48pmBut they're making money off of the gossip...so...
--http://www.benjaminadgate.com/
#4re: Lyrics That Sound Nice, but make no sense
Posted: 11/25/08 at 8:48pmA good 75% of Spring Awakening.
AndAllThatJazz22
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/8/08
#5re: Lyrics That Sound Nice, but make no sense
Posted: 11/25/08 at 8:59pm
Agreed Scarywarhol
Some of it is quite beautiful, but the rest of either comes out to be stupid in an attempt to be poetic, or it just sounds like I am being sexually harassed. Pretty Music Thought :)
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
sleepyguy1717
Broadway Star Joined: 8/1/07
#6re: Lyrics That Sound Nice, but make no sense
Posted: 11/25/08 at 9:26pmAndallthatjazz, I actually laughed at loud at that.
#7re: Lyrics That Sound Nice, but make no sense
Posted: 11/25/08 at 9:30pm
Totally agree with both posts. Anything from Aida or Spring Awakening. Problem with Aida is, you don't even know WHAT they're saying. Then, when you finally figure it out, you're like, W - T - F ?!?!
But don't get me wrong. I love both of these shows.
But maybe not as much as I love "purple summers." :)
#8re: Lyrics That Sound Nice, but make no sense
Posted: 11/25/08 at 9:35pm
"Don't cry for me Argentina"
Why would we? You don't die until the finale!
#9re: Lyrics That Sound Nice, but make no sense
Posted: 11/25/08 at 9:35pm
I feel like Steven Sater was water coloring as he wrote the lyrics to SA...
Purple Summer
Blue Wind
Mirror-Blue Night
any more?
#10re: Lyrics That Sound Nice, but make no sense
Posted: 11/25/08 at 9:41pm
I thought "don't cry for me, Argentina" didn't mean cry as in tears, but as in cry out her name. she comes onto the balcony after the crowd has begun crying out her name, and she's telling them there's no need to, because she's always there for her country.
at least, that's what I thought.
#11re: Lyrics That Sound Nice, but make no sense
Posted: 11/25/08 at 9:54pmNope. The side of Eva's cript includes plaques with quotes from her. One of them begins, "Don't cry for me..." Updated On: 11/25/08 at 09:54 PM
#12re: Lyrics That Sound Nice, but make no sense
Posted: 11/25/08 at 10:23pm
"Buenos Aires", though, really doesn't mean anything.
Also, a lot of the songs from "Guys and Dolls" have some random throwaway lines. My favourite being in "More I Cannot Wish You:"
Standin' there
Gazing at you
Full of the bloom of youth.
Standin' there
Gazing at you
With the sheep's eyes
And the licorice tooth.
#13re: Lyrics That Sound Nice, but make no sense
Posted: 11/25/08 at 10:31pmI agree with Spring Awakening's lyrics. I saw the title of this thread and it was the first thing I thought of.
#14re: Lyrics That Sound Nice, but make no sense
Posted: 11/25/08 at 10:34pmi dont get how "Elaborate Lives" makes no sense... i think it does
#15re: Lyrics That Sound Nice, but make no sense
Posted: 11/25/08 at 10:57pm
But they're making money off of the gossip...so...
the gossip is being printed in all the papers.
#16re: Lyrics That Sound Nice, but make no sense
Posted: 11/25/08 at 11:19pm
I'd like to know what silent music is.
"Silent music starts to play / One tear in my eye / makes the whole world cry"
With One Look, Sunset Boulevard.
#17re: Lyrics That Sound Nice, but make no sense
Posted: 11/25/08 at 11:20pmi think the point is that nothing happened... and that it contradicts itself
#18re: Lyrics That Sound Nice, but make no sense
Posted: 11/25/08 at 11:34pmI think silent music literally means silent music. It's a silent film, so there is no music, but you get so swept up that you hear everything you need to hear.
sparrman
Broadway Star Joined: 2/21/07
#19re: Lyrics That Sound Nice, but make no sense
Posted: 11/25/08 at 11:47pm
"It's our funeral too."
Evita is full of lines that sound "clever" and "cutting" and "pertinent", but on closer examination they don't actually mean very much.
#20re: Lyrics That Sound Nice, but make no sense
Posted: 11/25/08 at 11:49pm
Continuing with Evita...
Also during Oh, What a Circus
"As soon as the smoke from the funeral clears". Why is there smoke at a funeral?
#22re: Lyrics That Sound Nice, but make no sense
Posted: 11/25/08 at 11:54pmIn that EVITA lyric, I don't think Che means smoke literally. Rather, I think he is saying smoke to mean that since everyone is weeping over Eva's death, it's acting as smoke that is covering up all she did wrong for her country.
#23re: Lyrics That Sound Nice, but make no sense
Posted: 11/25/08 at 11:56pmor that everything she achieved was done with smoke and mirrors?
#24re: Lyrics That Sound Nice, but make no sense
Posted: 11/25/08 at 11:59pmor, when something causes commotion, dust goes up in the air and has to settle before you can see... something like that
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