Lyrics That Sound Nice, but make no sense — Page 2

Elaborate Lives makes sense to me, too, I don't see how it doesn't make sense...

and... blue wind?

I totally agree with you! What they hell was all the hype about? It was incomprehensible and pointless!

Interesting thought about the Evita lyrics. that is a hard song to make sense of. I have a friend who did a national tour of the show back in the 80s and he said they would stand there every night wondering what in god's name that song was talking about.

Well I guess it was based on a very abstract (and bleak) TS Eliot poem--I think why it always seems weird to me is the Cats poems are so clear and narrative and all that--very diff style of Eliot's and then you have these vague lines for Memory stuff like

"Every street lamp
Seems to beat
A fatalistic warning
Someone mutters
And a street lamp gutters
And soon it will be morning"

and "Burnt out ends of smoky days
The stale cold smell of morning"

as for Evita's line about the smoke clearing--I thought that was a British expression (which Rice loves to use) I swear i've heard it used--smoke sorta meaning that when the crowd, the noise, the mourning, all the bustle and everything clears the smoke will have cleared and we'll see the truth revealed--when the hype's gone.

What always bugged me about All i Ask of You is that the lyrics could be shuffled around with no real bearing on the song--I had a freind who said it was hard to memorise when she had to perform it cuz every line was so vague and generic.

Updated On: 11/26/08 at 01:18 AM

One of the many cringe-worthy lyrics in Wicked in my opinion. Glinda has some of the worst lyrics. Sorry, Mr. Schwartz. Working a bit too hard there.

~Steven

"There are bridges you crossed you didn't know you crossed until you crossed."

I mean - isn't that just like ... anything? Like, "there are sandwiches you ate you didn't know you ate until you ate them." Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems like an attempt to be deep that didn't quite achieve said goal.

---

IMO, The Light in the Piazza has a few.

" 'Twas a dawning day unfurling..." "From the HEART!"

Someone questioned "It's our funeral too." Why is that hard to understand? Funerals aren't just for those who died, they're for the mourners as well. Makes perfect sense.

The one that bothers me is from Carousel:

When you're working at your loom
And you stare absent-minded at the roof...

OK, so it rhymes with woof, but if she's inside working on her loom wouldn't she stare at the ceiling?

---

well... they mean the same thing lol
roof is the covering of a building, it has two sides... we call the inside part the ceiling but it is still part of the roof

ok, well, when i looked it up, this is the definition that I got

"the structure forming the upper covering of a building or vehicle; the top inner surface of a covered area or space; the ceiling"


so... it says ceiling and it makes sense

So maybe Carrie should sing:

When we work in the mill, weavin' at the loom
You gaze absent-minded at the ceiling
And half the time your shuttle gets twisted in the threads,
Till the yarn becomes very unappealing

That's the exact reason I don't write lyrics!!