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#51

re: Lyrics that have always bugged you

Posted: 8/11/05 at 12:07am

i don't know if any one has mentioned it (I'm sure someone has, but i haven't really read that much of the thread). From jekyll&Hyde in Murder, Murder the "to kill outside st. paul's requires a lot of balls" is just so , well words don't really work in this case.
when ducks grow thumbs then maybe my opinion will change.
#52

re: Lyrics that have always bugged you

Posted: 8/11/05 at 12:37am

in nine, during only with you guido sings the clumsiest lyric in an otherwise good song "send me your love/ that will mend me with love" it makes me crazy since whenever i sing that part i always try to fix it in my head and it makes it even clumsier
"Grease," the fourth revival of the season, is the worst show in the history of theater and represents an unparalleled assault on Western civilization and its values. - Michael Reidel
#53

re: Lyrics that have always bugged you

Posted: 8/11/05 at 12:45am

From Sondheim's Saturday Night, the title track:

"If it's a Saturday Night and you are single
You sit with a paper and fight the urge to mingle."

AND

"Here's a revival of Ben Hur, goes up at nine-fifteen at the Kushman."
"So when I got my mind on sex, who gives a damn for Francis X. Bushman?"

Anybody wanna take a stab at either of these two? The latter one would make more sense if they were going with girls, but it's already established at this point that they'd be going alone. Unless they're all gay, but I guess I missed that subtle plot nuance.
#54

re: Lyrics that have always bugged you

Posted: 8/11/05 at 12:58am

One of the more obscure Sondheim musicals(at least where I live). Anyway I guess the first one has to do with talking to the girls on the phone and staying at home. I really don't know. That was one of the things that just confused me. Good musical just weird things in there.
"The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most; we that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long"-Edgar in King Lear
#55

re: Lyrics that have always bugged you

Posted: 8/11/05 at 4:15pm

Just thought of a really good one. Surprised Mattress got mentioned and this little bit didn't, from "In A Little While":

'In a little while, just a little while
You and I will be 1, 2, 3, 4..."

No clue what it meant. Did a production, asked everyone involved, they were like "just go with it."
#57

re: Lyrics that have always bugged you

Posted: 8/11/05 at 5:18pm

One lyric I've always disliked:

From "Kiss Me Kate":

Where is the life that late I led?
Where is it now
Totally dead
Where is the fun I used to find?
Where has it gone?
Gone with the WIND

(I HATE THAT FALSE RHYME WITH FIND AND WIND)

Behind the fake tinsel of Broadway is real tinsel.
#59

re: Lyrics that have always bugged you

Posted: 8/11/05 at 5:33pm

I just listened to Seasons of Love after I read this thread, and the numbers DO change! There's 525,000 journey's to plan, but 525,600 minutes?
somebody hold me too close...
#60

re: Lyrics that have always bugged you

Posted: 8/11/05 at 5:37pm

'There are bridges you crossed you didnt know you crossed until you crossed...'

Don't get me wrong i loved this song from Wicked but to use the word 'cross' three times in one sentence pisses me off.
#61

re: Lyrics that have always bugged you

Posted: 8/11/05 at 5:45pm

There are probably many lyrics that bug me, but I can't really think of them now. I'm not crazy about the very many times Mimi says "goodbye love" in, obviously, Goodbye Love. I don't know, I just find myself fast forwarding a little bit during that song. Also, the song Thank Goodness isn't my favorite, but I really have nothing against that line, "there are bridges you crossed you didn't know you've crossed until you've crossed". I think it's rather moving, and has a lot of meaning. But heck, if I think Goodbye Love is too repeatitive (sp?), then I can see why some people think Thank Goodness is.


Updated On: 8/11/05 at 05:45 PM

#62

re: Lyrics that have always bugged you

Posted: 8/11/05 at 6:01pm

'Insolent boy/ this slave of fashion/basking in your glory'~'Angel of Music from Phantom of the Opera.

That always made me twitch.

"The cynicism you refer to, I acquired the day I discovered I was different from little boys!~All About Eve
#63

re: Lyrics that have always bugged you

Posted: 8/11/05 at 6:19pm

mmmm Someone mentioned Wild Party... A great show, but the number "A Dozen women" by Black that is not on the soundtrack but is painfully in the show the entire song is P for Poor.
Black: " Gimme a mmmm mmmmm"
Queenie: "MMM MMM"
Black: "thats how you say it.."
I could go on, but clearly there is a reason that it is not on the CD.

Also in Wicked:
Elphaba: "and if thats love, it comes at much to high a cost...
Id sooner buy defying gravity"
Bleh, Steven is genius but has some problems sometimes with the lyrics
#65

re: Lyrics that have always bugged you

Posted: 8/11/05 at 9:38pm

"Footloose" (of course)

"I'm...becoming a mime." ?????

"Eh, eh, eh, no, no, don't do that!" ?????????????!!!!!!!
I ask in all honesty/What would life be?/Without a song and a dance, what are we?/So I say "Thank you for the music/For giving it to me."
#66

re: Lyrics that have always bugged you

Posted: 8/11/05 at 9:40pm

"Ragtime" is a brilliant show, but several pedestrian lyrics:

"Mama she was frightened, crazy from the fright." Redundant phrase. I know she's an ignorant girl, but surely there was a better rhyme for "light."

"Masturbates for a vaudeville tart/What a waste of a fiery heart." Ugh.
I ask in all honesty/What would life be?/Without a song and a dance, what are we?/So I say "Thank you for the music/For giving it to me."
#67

re: Lyrics that have always bugged you

Posted: 8/11/05 at 9:53pm

OMg the masturbates to a vaudville tart seems so out of place in that show. It is such a crass lyric in an otherwise eloquent show
when ducks grow thumbs then maybe my opinion will change.
#68

re: Lyrics that have always bugged you

Posted: 8/11/05 at 10:26pm

Cinderella's full of them. I already mentioned the "Do I love you because you're beautiful? Or are you beautiful because I love you" on another thread.

But the one that always makes me laugh is "The Prince is Having a Ball." Especially:

I wish I hadn't married Sam
Pull in your little diaphragm.

I always thought it would be funnier if a woman came out with a baby and said, "I wish I'd worn a diaphragm."
#69

re: Lyrics that have always bugged you

Posted: 8/11/05 at 11:41pm

...yeah Footloose had some bad lyrics but i love Jeremy's voice, so the lyrics didn't matter to me.
#70

re: Lyrics that have always bugged you

Posted: 8/11/05 at 11:59pm

I have a question about a lyric in DRS

In nothing is to wonderful to be true Freddie says

"They held up the midget with crazy glue"

What does that mean?
#71

re: Lyrics that have always bugged you

Posted: 8/12/05 at 12:31am

that "midget" line
is my Fav
there was a commercial on TV Late nite where a guy was geabbing his constructing hat that was glued to the ceiling
he wasn't a midget but he was short
that's a great line
#72

re: Lyrics that have always bugged you

Posted: 8/12/05 at 12:58am

I don't understand why Schwartz couldn't have made the line "Nessa, uh, Nessa, I've got something to confess - the reason why..." 'The' rhymes, and it makes more sense. Anyway.

Lots of the lyrics in Amour bug me.
#73

re: Lyrics that have always bugged you

Posted: 8/12/05 at 10:02am

"Underrate us
With our chronic congestion
Or debate us
That’s a stupid suggestion!"

Ugh. That just makes me cringe. Will Finn has some issues with lyrics; he likes to use big words the wrong way. I'm sure I'll think of more examples as the day goes on.

It also bothers me that they all sing "we love spelling" and then a few of them sing "I like spelling, too." We know. You just told us. Wait, what? You like spelling AND spelling?! No way!

theatre.
#74

re: Lyrics that have always bugged you

Posted: 8/12/05 at 11:25am

How about this one from JCS:
"A jaded mandarin,
A jaded mandarin,
Like a jaded, faded, faded, jaded, jaded mandarin"
I mean...WTF?
#75

re: Lyrics that have always bugged you

Posted: 8/12/05 at 12:18pm

Speaking of JCS, how about:
"See my tongue, I can hardly talk."

Oh really? You seemed to say that last sentence just fine. I think in the recent revivals, they changed it to "See his tongue, he can hardly talk."

And I have no idea what the jaded, faded mandarin thing means.

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