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#26

re: dumbest song lyrics

Posted: 1/6/07 at 7:08pm

ANNIE GET YOUR GUN: "Her nails will be polished and in her hair, she'll wear a gardenia and I'll be there." (He'll be in her hair?)

GYPSY: "You'll be swell. Wait and see. There's the bell. Follow me" (Sondheim couldn't come up with anything better?)

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#27

re: dumbest song lyrics

Posted: 1/6/07 at 7:41pm

What's wrong with the blah blah section?

I think it makes perfect sense. They're blah blahing the adults who are Totally F*CK-ing them.

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#28

re: dumbest song lyrics

Posted: 1/6/07 at 8:07pm

the blah blah also makes me laugh. it's dumb, but i love it, because it IS how the kids hear the adults. they do repeat it just a few too many times though. (i love spring awakening wholeheartedly as well.)

but my junk... i actually really like that lyrical choice. it seems strange at first, but it's good at describing something sort of indescribable. i actually described a recent ex-boyfriend as "my junk" -- something you carry around with you (perhaps involuntarily), that is ridiculous and just takes up space and weighs you down, but you just can't get rid of it -- and you're not sure you want to.

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#29

re: dumbest song lyrics

Posted: 1/6/07 at 8:20pm

I really enjoy the song "And Then There Were None" in SA, but I hate this lyric:

"And I mean please...That's all I need
Ger real Jose, by now you know the
score"

*shudder*

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#30

re: dumbest song lyrics

Posted: 1/6/07 at 8:27pm

in LES MIS, there were plenty, but especially during "Bring Him Home"

Bring him peace
Bring him joy
He is young
He is only a boy


grrr, i wanted to shoot Valjean...

#31

re: dumbest song lyrics

Posted: 1/6/07 at 8:29pm

What's wrong with the blah blah section?

I think it makes perfect sense. They're blah blahing the adults who are Totally F*CK-ing them.

which is why, in context, I think that song is BRILLIANT the second I SAW it I was like oooooh wow, how perfect is that!

its just, take it out of context and its like "blah blah"???

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#32

re: dumbest song lyrics

Posted: 1/6/07 at 8:31pm

The first set of blah blah blah's in Totally F*cked in SA makes me want to laugh. The second set works better.


A lot of the lyrics in "My Junk" in SA make me cringe.

#33

re: dumbest song lyrics

Posted: 1/6/07 at 11:08pm

Okay, this will sound weird, but in the Finale of Into The Woods...

"Careful the path they take
Wishes come true, not free"

It doesn't really make sense, and I always think they're saying "two, not three"...haha I'm a strange person

#34

re: dumbest song lyrics

Posted: 1/6/07 at 11:14pm

I think if I had to pick one song in "Spring Awakening" that just wasn't good, it would be "My Junk." Does it work better on stage?

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#35

re: dumbest song lyrics

Posted: 1/6/07 at 11:19pm

Galindagirl2, why doesn't that lyric make sense to you? It's saying that wishes come with a price.

#36

re: dumbest song lyrics

Posted: 1/6/07 at 11:41pm

galindagirl2 is obviously too unsophisticated to comprehend the genius of Sondheim.

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Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia

Updated On: 1/6/07 at 11:41 PM

#37

re: dumbest song lyrics

Posted: 1/7/07 at 12:36am

Careful the path they take...(in other words) have your children take the right paths in life. The witch is saying that the parents/guardians have to be careful of what path they take.

Wishes come true, not free...(in other words) If you work hard enough your dreams and wishes will come true, but they don't come without a cost.

I don't mind that you didn't understand it, galindagirl2, it's just that this was an easier lyric selection. He has harder and more complicated phrases. I think that's why StageManager2 was being a little rude (cough cough).

#38

re: dumbest song lyrics

Posted: 1/7/07 at 12:43am

Hey, I calls 'em as I sees 'em.

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Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia

#39

re: dumbest song lyrics

Posted: 1/7/07 at 1:19am

Thank you very much, Ruprecht. I've always understood the lyric's meaning. I guess it just felt awkward in my head for some reason. (Probably because of the two/three thing). You're right though. It does sound silly that I'm questioning the interpretation of this particular lyric, when many of Sondheim's lyrics are much more complicated. Sorry

And no offense taken, Stage Manager. Fortunately, I'm sophisticated enough not to be easily flustered by cheap jabs at my level of intelligence and ability to appreciate art.

#40

re: dumbest song lyrics

Posted: 1/7/07 at 1:29am

How about JUST ABOUT ANY SONG from Nunsense 2, 3, 4, 5,6.....?
Wow are they awful.

#41

re: dumbest song lyrics

Posted: 1/7/07 at 1:44am

YES, 'my junk' is great onstage.

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#42

re: dumbest song lyrics

Posted: 1/7/07 at 2:27am

My all-time favourite WTF? lyric was from a "midnight musical" at La Mama, one based on the Trilby legend (for those not familiar, the Trilby story is where we got the stereotype of the Svengali -- now do a Google). After the mostly harmless overture, the curtain rises on the cast, dressed in vague (very vague) approxmations of Victorian London attire. To the audience, they sing:

What are we doing? We're making meat loaf!

And it got worse from there. But all these years later, I still remember it.

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#43

re: dumbest song lyrics

Posted: 1/7/07 at 3:32am

Sunset Boulevard, "The Lady's Paying:" rhyming "kosher" with "brochure." I laughed so loud the night I saw the show in London my friend who was sitting in the second balcony heard it and knew it was me.

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#44

re: dumbest song lyrics

Posted: 1/7/07 at 8:41am

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#45

re: dumbest song lyrics

Posted: 1/7/07 at 8:42am

"Whistle Down the Wind" has about a million of them for me.

Updated On: 1/7/07 at 08:42 AM

#46

re: dumbest song lyrics

Posted: 1/7/07 at 8:43am

For me it is from "Zanna Don't"

You over there
Don't be shy, come over here

Maybe I am missing something, but that doesn't even rhyme!

Also I must have her to wife from "Agony" really is just obnoxiously bad for me. As much as I love the rest of ITW, I guess Sondhiem was having an off moment with that line.

#47

re: dumbest song lyrics

Posted: 1/7/07 at 8:47am

I think MARY POPPINS has some "winners" in it:

"Jelly isn't jelly till you set it - Anything can happen if you let it"

"I recognise fully that you are a bully!"

Ouch.

#48

re: dumbest song lyrics

Posted: 1/7/07 at 9:08am

alright, now TARZAN lyrics- some of the worst I've heard
here's for starters...

KERCHAK
"What do you mean?
I do it all the time"

KALA
"You don’t"

KERCHAK
"I do"

KALA
"You don’t"

KERCHAK
"I don’t"

KALA
"No, you don’t, you know
You’re my husband
My friend, our leader
You’re the one that I love completely"

or

JANE
"Every moment I’m with him
I feel so complete
I cannot deny what I’m feeling"

those are only a few examples...

#49

re: dumbest song lyrics

Posted: 1/7/07 at 10:04am

I think Avenue Q gets away with some because it's making fun of kid shows.

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#50

re: dumbest song lyrics

Posted: 1/7/07 at 12:11pm

how does neddyfrank always manage 2 start a fight?

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Updated On: 1/7/07 at 12:11 PM