Lyrics that have always bugged you- Page 2

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 8/10/05 at 11:30am

"Put these here and put those over there"
Beauty and the Beast
huh?
Updated On: 8/11/05 at 11:30 AM

[peach]

Posted: 8/10/05 at 12:04pm

Most of the lyrics form Carousel are just ridiculous...

"This was a real nice clambake
We're mighty glad we came
The vittels we 'et
were good, you bet..."

The part I had to sing when I did this show several years ago...I had to try so hard to keep a straight face...

"Throw in ribbons of salted pork
An old New England trick
And lap it all up with a clamshell
Tied on to a Bayberry stick..."

Oy.

[Love4Cheno]

Posted: 8/10/05 at 12:08pm

Anything and everything about "Tire Tracks and Broken Hearts" makes me want to vomit.

[Myron]

Posted: 8/10/05 at 12:12pm

This is a great question. For over 30 years, I couldn't understand many of the lyrics from the "Hello Dolly" hit, "Put On Your Sunday Clothes". I even tried looking at the sheet music but it only contained lyrics from the first part. Finally, thanks to the Internet, I got the lyrics. Those lyrics definitely drove me crazy.

[whatyouown223]

Posted: 8/10/05 at 12:13pm

I get the Nothing matters, but knowing nothing matters line. He's talking about nothing matters but knowing that you have no worries, you're carefree and you should just have fun.

[MagicToDo82]

Posted: 8/10/05 at 12:15pm

My all-time lease favorite lyric is from Brooklyn.

"You can't bury truth in silence, like a tree its gonna rise."

Not sure why, but it makes me want to throw things.

[lamentingenvelope]

Posted: 8/10/05 at 12:21pm

"...how the end doesn't mean that it's over, how surrender is not the end..."

I'm sorry, I love Assassins, but this line always confuses me. I'm assuming Booth's talking about the end of the Civil War, since this was about the time the South surrendered (which is why the original plot to capture Lincoln fell through... because there was essentially no point...)

So what I get from this line is basically: "Surrender isn't the end, but if it WERE the end, it wouldn't be over." Which seems kind of redundant and confusing. Why bring up the end of the war if this isn't it?

However I suppose it doesn't really matter because most of the lyrics to that song fly over my head because Michael Cerveris is so awesome.

[GypsyRoseLee]

Posted: 8/10/05 at 12:21pm

On the Big River OBC, during the "Waitin' For the Light to Shine-Reprise" everyone is singing about how they're waiting for different things, and this one voice chimes in and says, "Everyone here is waitin'" That always cracks me up. I always turn it up really loud when that line comes up just because it infuriates me so much. I'm somewhat of a masochist.

[WonderBoy]

Posted: 8/10/05 at 12:53pm

Why does that solo make you mad GyspyRoseLee? That was one of my favorite numbers in the show to do.

[baddadnpa]

Posted: 8/10/05 at 3:13pm

I've always hated Benny singing "think twice before you poo poo it" from You'll See in Rent.

[JohnPopa]

Posted: 8/10/05 at 3:19pm

There's a part in 'Children of Eden' where Adam says 'oh Eve what would you give, if this day you could relive, would you let the apple go uneaten?'

I know what he WANTS to say, but that's the worst possible way to say it.

[leon1489]

Posted: 8/10/05 at 3:51pm

"The Bridges You Crossed" line is amusingly enough my favorite lyric in the show. What it means is that there's sacrifices she made that she didn't realize she'd made until after she'd made them. I realize I've recited the line, except I used 'sacrifice' instead of 'bridges.' I think what she's trying to say in this line is that she was so involved with herself that she didn't realize she lost Fiyero and Elphaba until after it had happened. Kind of like that saying that you don't miss something until it's gone.

EDIT: So basically I said what everyone else said. Oh well.

As for the Clambakes... THANK YOU!
That is the most poorly written song on Broadway. It was supposed to be "This Was a Real Nice Hayride" and it was going to be used in Oklahoma! They cut it and shoved it into Carousel. Stupidest Act II opening ever. I seriously broke character after I started listening to myself and the ridiculous things I was saying. On the night that my family was there to see the show.
Updated On: 8/10/05 at 03:51 PM

[luvliza89]

Posted: 8/10/05 at 3:59pm

Ok, Funny Girl, famous song, People:

People who need people are the luckiest people in the world.

I just don't understand how they are the luckiest people. Wouldn't it be people who DON'T need people are the luckiest people? Isn't being independent and not worrying about finding a partner and concentrating on your own life more lucky, like not caring what anyone else thinks? Am I just thick headed? lol

[Logainne]

Posted: 8/10/05 at 4:24pm

I love the Spelling Bee lyrics because I think they're purposely simple to demonstrate the simplicity of the children. Like I know the "very nice, very very nice very very nice..." and so on, bother my friends. But I like that because its supposed to be children singing...but the one thing that does bother me is in the "My Favorite Moment of the Bee 3/Second" when Dan Fogler says

"you will not outrank me
I will wave my hankee"

It just sounds silly when he says it.

[Aigoo]

Posted: 8/10/05 at 4:29pm

one thing i just noticed was that in Seasons of Love, it starts out as 525,600 minutes...then goes it goes into 525,000's of everything else...so does that mean that there are 600 less journeys to plan for each minute?

[leon1489]

Posted: 8/10/05 at 4:32pm

YES! I love it, Aigoo... I definitely noticed that. I was slightly befuddled by the math.

[Marguerite Chauvelin]

Posted: 8/10/05 at 4:45pm

"People" has always been cryptic to me.

And to Lamentingenvelope: "How the end doesn't mean that it's over, how surrender is not the end", I think was referring to the delusion in Booth's mind that even though the South surrendered, they could still gain victory if they killed the heads of the country.

[MrBungee7]

Posted: 8/10/05 at 6:24pm

Completely agree with the "Nessa, oh Nessa..." lyric. It might be clever, but not in the way that good lyrics are supposed to be clever. Completely takes you out of the moment and the character. Schwartz is just showing off.


And in "Sunday Clothes"-- "Strut down the street and have your picture took." Whaa?

[Taryn]

Posted: 8/10/05 at 7:16pm

I think the "People" lyrics make sense. I actually recall Barbra Streisand talking about it and actually talking about the same things luvliza talks about. But, really, would you want to go through life never needing anyone? If you don't allow yourself attachments, you'll never find the joy and happiness from letting someone in and falling in love. I think that's what the song is talking about. To me, it's sort've a reply to the cynicism the world has about affection and love and letting people in.

[another sloe eyed vamp]

Posted: 8/10/05 at 8:11pm

I know this is nitpicky, but in Who Will Buy from Oliver, they sing "it's cheap at half the price" which doesn't make much sense in the context. It should be "at twice the price".

[zoran912]

Posted: 8/10/05 at 10:11pm

I'm bugged by a lot of the libretto for "Side Show." The music is all superb, but the lyrics tend to be very cheesy. Feel free to disagree.

[lux02]

Posted: 8/10/05 at 10:46pm

Rent:
You'll See Boys: 'think twice before you poo poo it."
Goodbye Love: "goodbye love....hello disease" just sounds too corny

and in Once Upon A Matress: A Man to Man Talk ....all of it.

[LostLeander]

Posted: 8/10/05 at 11:46pm

"When I first met Bursy, it was grand.
Understand....
Maybe tomororw, he'll come crashing down.
Maybe next week I'll find another clown."

Totally takes away ALL the sentimentality of the song, and I always end up laughing, and not feeling sorry for Queenie.
I love Lippa's music, but his characters bore me a bit.
I heavily prefer, as a piece of art, LaChiusa's in depth, 3D characters.
Not to mention his complex, period jazz-age music.

Also... I LOVE this lyric, cause it's just so darn bad.

"Get to the point, begin the beguine.
Haven't you noticed, we're a protagonists' pair?
In this idyllic, well-produced scene."

Oh, Chess.
Or Cheese, as I like to call it.
Really tasty, but not always the best quality.. aka these awkwardly overblown sentence lyrics.

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 8/11/05 at 12:04am

The "bridges crossed" line always bothered me, the meaning is simple, u don't know somethiing till u learn it, and this is one of my fav WICKED songs and the Melody there is quite beautiful.
I personally don't think Mr. Schwartz was intentionally trying to make Glinda sound befuddled there, i think he was playing around with the term crossand and he played one or two times too many.
Cause Glinda contridicts her own theory, if she has crossed the bridge than she knows she has crossed it, hasn't she?

[Sporti2005]

Posted: 8/11/05 at 12:06am

for some reason i've always liked "goodbye love, hello disease"

what i've always been confused about in rent is that the ATM will "provide an honorarium to anyone with the code" then the code is "A-N-G-E-L".

how do you put letters in on an ATM? are there letters underneath the numbers (like on telephones) that i've never seen??? otherwise HOW DO YOU TYPE ANGEL!?!?