Lyrics that go "clunk"

[mitzo]

BATB: You, well you're something to see

Paper Doll: Whow we were off the wall

Rhiannon: She rules her life like a fine skylark

Rooms on Fire: and he hated to be separated from that picture, no

And hundreds more...:]

[WildHearted]

Rhiannon: She rules her life like a fine skylark


False, Rhiannon is perfect.

In my opinion, of course.

But I'll raise you:

Any time Stevie rhymes a word with the same word - ie, "love" in If Anyone Falls, "this" in Wide Sargasso Sea, "glass" in You Can't Fix This, "words" in ELY

"Oh yes he loved her but he was still an Englishman" - Wide Sargasso Sea (about half of this song, honestly..)

"She was so not that girl" - Everybody Loves You

[Machu]

And the days became worse,
For the ones she had lost
Children of the world,
The forgotten chimpanzee
In the eyes of the world,
You have done so much for me

[ejof17]

And she stares at the stairs. There are so many things to stare at these days.

[WildHearted]

"'Cause the whole thing's phony" - Bella Donna (as much as I love it..)

[drzubritsky]

I remember Rolling Stone's scathing review of The Wild Heart singled out this line from "Gate and Garden", "...do I love you, well I always did...", complaining that there was no dance of souls, nothing to lure us into caring. While I agree that GAG isn't a very good song, it's odd that RS would choose that rather innocuous line as a lyrical clunker.

For pure clunkers, some that come to mind are:
Touched by an Angel: "Everything was the same except everything was different"
WISYA: "...and she stares at the stairs, there are many things to stare at these days..." (very amateurish sounding alliteration)
Illume: "I am a cliff dweller from the old school"
Jane: "children of the world, the forgotten chimpanzee..." (probably the most obvious example and a line that unfortunately sinks an otherwise touching and pretty song)

Maybe not a clunker, but did the line "...in the middle of my room I did not hear from you" ever strike anyone else as being a very oddly worded statement?

[mitzo]

Goodbye Baby - yes I was outspoken

Kick It - I'm waited for in Egypt, just something I must do

Rose Garden - roses dangling down to the ground

GHW - lousy lovers

Sisters of the Moon - many black widow spiders make more sound than she

Sara - and a starling flew for days

Beautiful Child - when I was only ten

[WildHearted]

GHW - lousy lovers

Sisters of the Moon - many black widow spiders make more sound than she

Sara - and a starling flew for days

Beautiful Child - when I was only ten

I love all of these lines (not in and of themselves, but in the context of the song obviously). :distress:

[mitzo]

The verses of Trouble in Shangri la

I Miss You - the invisible girl, that was my name

[GypsySorcerer]

The verses of Trouble in Shangri la


:shocked: I think they're pretty great. However, I hate how she rhymes "sea" with "honey."


Not Make Believe - It hurts my self esteem, it hurts my everything; I am reeling... ooh, it hurts my feelings

One More Big Time... - Undercover music lover :rolleyes:

Paper Doll - She refused to wear her coat

Listen to the Rain - You're a frontliner. Phantom of the Opera. Basically, the whole song.

Love is Like a River - I haven't burned a candle in a real long time

Two Kinds of Love - I talked to my famous friend last night

[Lilyfan]

All of these seem so hilarious when taken out of context. God, I love my Stevie. :thumbsup:

[Machu]

Touched by an Angel: "Everything was the same except everything was different"

I always liked this line for some reason. I have NO idea but I'm assuming this song is about Stevie/Lindsey and the reformation of Fleetwood Mac around The Dance era (Please someone correct me if I'm wrong). I think it is a neat line because it's like they are together again so in that way it's the same and familiar and maybe great in the moment but in the end, there's really no way it will ever be the same.

[bluecalmsea]

Sometimes the real color of my skin
Is my eyes without any shadow

[WildHearted]

I always liked this line for some reason. I have NO idea but I'm assuming this song is about Stevie/Lindsey and the reformation of Fleetwood Mac around The Dance era (Please someone correct me if I'm wrong). I think it is a neat line because it's like they are together again so in that way it's the same and familiar and maybe great in the moment but in the end, there's really no way it will ever be the same.

I think at one point Stevie said something about it having to do with AIDS?

[Machu]

That's a surprise. Although I have always wondered who the chorus was about. I'll stick with my interpretation though because it makes me happier. LOL

[HejiraNYC]

Would you change your mind
At the very last moment
Would you say "stop" for a second
I think you better think for a minute

[vivfox]

Sisters of the Moon - many black widow spiders make more sound than she


The correct lyrics: And a black widow spider makes more sound than she

Does the right words change the meaning for you?

[vivfox]

Long nets of white cloud my memory.

She dreamed of her wanton luxury.

[michelej1]

I actually like NMB "hurts my everything." I think the language matches the message and captures that feeling you get when someone can hurt you in ways you thought you'd outgrown. All the childish pain resurfaces. Old buttons get pushed that you no longer thought even worked any more. I'm mature. I'm successful. How is it you have the power to make me feel like I'm 12 and insecure again. Given the import of the song, it's fitting that it uses childish language to describe it.

I hate the famous ones: Silver Girl and Jane. Almost too common to mention.

Although I like Love Changes, in a way I think these lyrics are too literal. The car crash simile is too graphic, so I'm thinking more about seeing an actual car accident on the road than I am about the emotion of walking away from a relationship. I'm kind of torn. In a way, I do think the words work, but in a way I don't:

When love changes in the flash of an eye,
it leaves people burning by the side of the road.
You stand there you got nothing to hold

Michele

[TheWILDheart]

"What's deeper than a deep well? The love into which I fell"......URGH.

[RavenOfRhiannon]

Listen to the Rain - You're a frontliner. Phantom of the Opera. Basically, the whole song.



I used to refer to this song as the 'How Many Broadway Musicals Can Stevie Fit Into A Song?' Song because of that line and the 'There's no Beauty and the Beast here,' line.
A shame, really, because with more work it could have been a good song. I do have to admit that the 1991 version is a tad better.

[BrownEyedGirl26]

"What's deeper than a deep well? The love into which I fell"......URGH.

At least this makes sense and is very dramatic and romantic. :]

[TheWILDheart]

At least this makes sense and is very dramatic and romantic. :]

what's romantic about a well? Except maybe pushing the ex down one....:rolleyes:

Also, this line isn't poorly written, but it's so annoying...

"what I seem to touch these days has turned to gold. What I seem to want, well you know I find a way..."

[On Ice]

Her most unbelievable lyric she ever wrote: "I sing for the things money can't buy"...uhm, not quite Stevie.

Worst references in songs for me are those pesky doors and stares/stairs, (although I forgive her for sitting in her chair for months just staring), the many doors in hallways, staring at stairs, having someone drag her up the stairs, sets of doors being the colour of honey, downstairs where the big old house is hers. Yuck.

[TheWILDheart]

Worst references in songs for me are those pesky doors and stares/stairs, (although I forgive her for sitting in her chair for months just staring), the many doors in hallways, staring at stairs, having someone drag her up the stairs, sets of doors being the colour of honey, downstairs where the big old house is hers. Yuck.

Stairs and doors and floors and halls and walls and castles and corridors and towers and houses with long nets (curtains) of white :thumbsup:

[mitzo]

Nightbird: I wear boots all summer long

Bella Donna: the whole thing's phoney

all of Rooms on Fire

Street Angel: I fell down the stairs, a broken rag doll

Storms: my body tries to cry

New Orleans: I wanna brush by Ann Rice/I wanna wear beads

Love Is: she fell to the floor

Wide Sargassso Sea: you fell to the floor when you saw this

[GypsySorcerer]

Thousand Days - Such words to her over the phone.

Whole Lotta Trouble -
'Til the dream followed through
'Til the end of the dream
And the dream came true

Do we dare post lyrics from demos? :laugh:

[TheWILDheart]

'Til the dream followed through


Oh yeh, I forgot about this one. It always reminded me of "following through" :rolleyes:. Thanks for that, Stevie...

[Artemis]

And she stares at the stairs. There are so many things to stare at these days.

See, I thought that for ages, until I read someone on here suggest it could be "she stares at the stares" linking it to her being in rehab. Totally flipped the whole song for me :laugh:

[ejof17]

See, I thought that for ages, until I read someone on here suggest it could be "she stares at the stares" linking it to her being in rehab. Totally flipped the whole song for me :laugh:

I had never considered that....would make it forgivable then LOL! But "she stares at their glares" would be better then.

[bombaysaffires]

Whole Lotta Trouble -
'Til the dream followed through
'Til the end of the dream
And the dream came true



Thank you, GypsySorcerer :thumbsup:

This goes along with When I See You Again:

And the dream says I want you
And the dream is gone
So she stays up nights on end
Well at least there is a dream left....

[WatchChain]

----"Children of the world, the forgotten chimpanzee"

I know she didn't write this one, but something about -----"go down to the laundromat, maybe your sister is there"................

I'm sorry, but I cannot imagine Stevie Nicks sitting in a landromat.....or even doing her own laundry for that matter........

[PenguinHead]

Long nets of white cloud my memory.

She dreamed of her wanton luxury.

Oddly,I consider those as some of her best poetic lines!

[PenguinHead]

Maybe not a clunker, but did the line "...in the middle of my room I did not hear from you" ever strike anyone else as being a very oddly worded statement?

I find that sometimes the confusion in Stevie's lyrics come from how she sometimes phrases her lyrics. See if this makes more sense:

Stand back in the middle of my room -
I did not hear from you!


Another lyric along those lines:

Come in, out of the darkness you are in love with
And I'm ready to sail

I love the song Sable On Blonde, but find the line "Just how deep do you hold that dream in your hands in each night" rather weak, odd or even slightly pornographic.

[holidayroad]

Well you're a front liner
You put it all on the line

Ooh, you're consistent
Hey, and that's good
And you're persistent
Well I am overcome

[DashingDan]

Two Clunks of Love
"You say I hate this"
*CLUNK*

"..Well I talked to my famous friend last night
My third day up well, his second night-er
He says I don't know how you do what you do
how do you let the world in
Well I say well there's no way out
Then I just play out the game
Well the two of us Widow and a Dove"
*MEGA CLUNK*

[DashingDan]

Love is Dangerous
(I can only assume she wrote the following...)
"Standing at the crossroads
Ooh yeah, this is wild"
*CLUNK*

[vivfox]

I love the song Sable On Blonde, but find the line "Just how deep do you hold that dream in your hands each night" rather weak, odd or even slightly pornographic.


I always saw this as someone who is praying every night before going to bed, in the way that one holds their hands together in reverence of God.

[michelej1]

I find that sometimes the confusion in Stevie's lyrics come from how she sometimes phrases her lyrics. See if this makes more sense:

Stand back in the middle of my room -
I did not hear from you!




Ok. This doesn't bother me. In fact, I kind of like the oddity of it. But as long as you're talking about rooms and hearing, I think If Anyone Falls is funny.

I hear a voice in the room next to mine
Feels good sounds good
Closes the door from behind
And another voice comes thru the door

I feel like she's hearing something going on in the hotel room next to her. But how does she know the unseen person closes the door from behind? Well, I guess it's behind (or more distant) than the first voice she heard. Also, if the guy she was hearing in the hotel room was alone, until the other voice came along, why could she hear him. Who was he talking to when he was by himself?

Anyway, the screwy words create illicit images in my head, involving eavesdropping on another couple and wanting to be involved in what's going on next door. Those images don't hurt though. They enhance it. Gives it an air of mystery and a sense of the forbidden.

Michele

[CADreaming]

"Until she, herself..."

I love it, but I still just laugh every time.

And, then there's the immortal:

" Well, I went today
Maybe I will go again tomorrow
Yeah, yeah, well, the music there
Well, it was hauntingly familiar"

"Well, I see you doing
What I try to do for me"

It is awesome in its clunkiness, as most of her songs are. Two more:

"Nobody knows, knows nothing 'bout it"

"No explanations and I tell you no
You say nothing"

[bombaysaffires]

I find that sometimes the confusion in Stevie's lyrics come from how she sometimes phrases her lyrics. See if this makes more sense:

Stand back in the middle of my room -
I did not hear from you!


.

Early in the writing process Stand Back was actually called "Stranded" which kind of makes the lyric make more sense, to me anyway:

Stranded in the middle of my room
I did not hear from you

Why the word was changed is anyone's guess but I always figured that if you pronounced the word 'stranded" with that same break it would fall between the syllables and it would sound like "stran-ded" with the emphasis on the second syllable so the "-ded" would stick out and sound like she was saying "dead"..... if you make it "stand-back" it doesn't have the same jarring effect of the "dead" syllable. :shrug:

I should add that one thing I've always found most curious about this song is she wrote it on her honeymoon.. She has said she and Kim were driving to Big Sur for their honeymoon and she heard Prince on the radio and was all "I HAVE to get this song" and they went driving around to find somewhere to get a copy of the song and a tape recorder and then she stayed up all night writing the song. Omen for the rest of the marriage.....

[mitzo]

Funny also how some words become goofy themes in some albums -

In TISL we have the word "strain" inserted clumsily in POTU and I Miss You

In IYD we hear "righteous" in a number of songs.

[bombaysaffires]

In IYD we hear "righteous" in a number of songs.

And her heart is broken in nearly every song (only a slight exaggeration...)

[Lilyfan]

Thank you, GypsySorcerer :thumbsup:

This goes along with When I See You Again:

And the dream says I want you
And the dream is gone
So she stays up nights on end
Well at least there is a dream left....

It makes sense if "dream" is a code word for a person.

[Lilyfan]

Ok. This doesn't bother me. In fact, I kind of like the oddity of it. But as long as you're talking about rooms and hearing, I think If Anyone Falls is funny.

I hear a voice in the room next to mine
Feels good sounds good
Closes the door from behind
And another voice comes thru the door

I feel like she's hearing something going on in the hotel room next to her. But how does she know the unseen person closes the door from behind? Well, I guess it's behind (or more distant) than the first voice she heard. Also, if the guy she was hearing in the hotel room was alone, until the other voice came along, why could she hear him. Who was he talking to when he was by himself?

Anyway, the screwy words create illicit images in my head, involving eavesdropping on another couple and wanting to be involved in what's going on next door. Those images don't hurt though. They enhance it. Gives it an air of mystery and a sense of the forbidden.

Michele

She would hear him if he was singing or playing guitar while he was alone. ;)

[Lilyfan]

BATB: You, well you're something to see

Paper Doll: Whow we were off the wall

Rhiannon: She rules her life like a fine skylark

Rooms on Fire: and he hated to be separated from that picture, no

And hundreds more...:]

My opinion of Stevie's lyrics might be a little different than some. It is this: Stevie studies Kabbalah and it is heavily cloaked in "codes". I believe Stevie uses code words often in her writing. That is why they don't make sense in plain language.

[CADreaming]

My opinion of Stevie's lyrics might be a little different than some. It is this: Stevie studies Kabbalah and it is heavily cloaked in "codes". I believe Stevie uses code words often in her writing. That is why they don't make sense in plain language.

I believe she writes in code - her own. I don't think it's necessarily tied to the study of Kabbalah or any specific religion or philosophy.

[goldustsongbird]

Oddly,I consider those as some of her best poetic lines!

They're Oscar Wilde's best poetic lines. :o Bluewhitefire.com (RIP) had a section of lyric allusions, and the majority of Rooms came from The Picture of Dorian Gray. I've been livetweeting my found lyrics from it. https://twitter.com/itsjusttheradio

"Until she, herself..."

I love it, but I still just laugh every time.

And, then there's the immortal:

" Well, I went today
Maybe I will go again tomorrow
Yeah, yeah, well, the music there
Well, it was hauntingly familiar"

"Well, I see you doing
What I try to do for me"


When I think of Stevie's lyrics, I try to imagine looking at them on the page on the page she wrote them on. Edge is one of those songs where it barely looks good on paper. "Ooh baby ooh said ooh"? That's your chorus?

Her most unbelievable lyric she ever wrote: "I sing for the things money can't buy"...uhm, not quite Stevie.


I love the line that comes before that, "I'm living on dreams and chains."


Do we dare post lyrics from demos? :laugh:

:lol: If this were before we knew the real lyrics to Secret Love, I would've said "my secret love secretly dies."

"I hear you got yourself a rich old lady / Rich old ladies don't last long." Can you not just see her swaggering up to Lindsey at a bar and propping her leg up on the stool next to him? Spittin' tobacco.

"Have you been experienced? Well if so, she says, experience it again." Well.

"Do you know what this is? No, I don't." :laugh: Thanks for your help.

The whole dropping to the forest floor in Moonlight.

[Lilyfan]

I believe she writes in code - her own. I don't think it's necessarily tied to the study of Kabbalah or any specific religion or philosophy.

Oh I agree - it's her own code. But I think her study of Kabbalah is what encouraged the habit.

[GoldDustBoy]

They're Oscar Wilde's best poetic lines. :o Bluewhitefire.com (RIP) had a section of lyric allusions, and the majority of Rooms came from The Picture of Dorian Gray. I've been livetweeting my found lyrics from it. https://twitter.com/itsjusttheradio



When I think of Stevie's lyrics, I try to imagine looking at them on the page on the page she wrote them on. Edge is one of those songs where it barely looks good on paper. "Ooh baby ooh said ooh"? That's your chorus?



I love the line that comes before that, "I'm living on dreams and chains."



:lol: If this were before we knew the real lyrics to Secret Love, I would've said "my secret love secretly dies."

"I hear you got yourself a rich old lady / Rich old ladies don't last long." Can you not just see her swaggering up to Lindsey at a bar and propping her leg up on the stool next to him? Spittin' tobacco.

"Have you been experienced? Well if so, she says, experience it again." Well.

"Do you know what this is? No, I don't." :laugh: Thanks for your help.

The whole dropping to the forest floor in Moonlight.


And being the opening line, it ruins the song for me.

[CADreaming]

Oh I agree - it's her own code. But I think her study of Kabbalah is what encouraged the habit.

Why Kabbalah, specifically? It's pretty recent that its been in been in vogue.

[Lilyfan]

Why Kabbalah, specifically? It's pretty recent that its been in been in vogue.

Actually the information is recent to me as well. I actually read it here but I don't know exactly where. It was an interview in which the writer discusses the books on the shelves behind her. I'm not specifically meaning the type of Kabbalah that is currently popular. Hermetic Qabbalah has been popular in the music industry for more than 40 yrs. Plus, she had significant exposure to a large number of Jews within the music industry as a whole. In fact, she lived with one for years. I do not see it as an oddity that she would study either Qabbalah or Kabbalah.

I study Kabbalah myself. I enjoy it very much. :shrug:

[Lilyfan]

Here is the link to the original article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3667803/Stevie-Nicks-a-survivors-story.html

"Stevie Nicks lives in a large, extremely beautiful house built in the 1930s in the American colonial style, situated in the hills behind Santa Monica. She is in a meeting when I arrive, and I am shown into the library - a wood-panelled room, the walls hung with pre-Raphaelite miniatures and tapestries. On the bookshelves are volumes about the Kabbalah, Madame Blavatsky and Arthurian legend; a copy of The Johns Hopkins Consumer Guide to Drugs sits beside Luxury Hotels of the World"

[mezzoforte]

I'm surprised how many of the lyrics mentioned are ones I like or find totally innocuous. Different strokes...

Two that always land with a thud for me:

"Oh, mirror in the sky, what is love?"

"Oh, it's so romantic! It's so soulful!"

The latter kind of kills "Italian Summer" for me. Show us, Stevie! Don't tell us.

[WildHearted]

"Oh, it's so romantic! It's so soulful!"[/I]

The latter kind of kills "Italian Summer" for me. Show us, Stevie! Don't tell us.

I concur. :cool:

[bombaysaffires]

"Do you know what this is? No, I don't." :laugh: Thanks for your help.
.

I hear this whole song as a dialogue: (the him/her could be reversed, who knows!)

Him: Do you know what this is?

Her: No I don't. But whatever it is, it's very powerful.

Him: Have you felt this way before?

Her: Ohh, I thought I knew.

HIm: Do you know that I love you now?

Her: Oh yes I do.


(and because I can't resist):
Him: You know that I cannot stay
Her: Yes, I know
Him: It has nothing to do with you or with love
Her: Oh, yes it does
Him: Do not call or come around here, do not tell
Her: You know that I loved you then, Oh well...

[windbecame]

you've left me ... Now pass the seasoning salt??? ..... what???
do you always trust your first initial feeling... aren't first and initial the SAME thing?

since it's lyrics that go clunk, i'm assuming it's also including how they're presented... so.....
(screaming thru a plugged nose) To the corner of her (BIIIIG FAAAAT) mouth
operation panty shield BA-GAAAAAWWWWK


at least Jane isn't sung through a plugged nose at the top of her lungs like (biiiig faaat) mouth Love Is... i will take the chimpanzee ANYDAY over Love Is :nod: :sorry:

[CADreaming]

do you always trust your first initial feeling... aren't first and initial the SAME thing?



First, initial.

[SpyNote]

They're Oscar Wilde's best poetic lines. :o Bluewhitefire.com (RIP) had a section of lyric allusions, and the majority of Rooms came from The Picture of Dorian Gray. I've been livetweeting my found lyrics from it. https://twitter.com/itsjusttheradio

I miss Tiffany's site, too. The lyric allusions were the best part of it. I believe most of the content for that section came from Lisa's (Dark Angel) research.

"Kick It," which mitzo mentioned, is my favorite song from Street Angel. As some have mentioned, many of those words are from Wilde's short story "The Happy Prince."

Daniel

[windbecame]

First, initial.

because throwing a , in there makes "first" NOT the same meaning as "initial"??? :sorry: but it's still the same thing " ," or NO " , " :sorry: :xoxo:
oh wait, i always trust my SECOND initial feeling??? so therefore "first" and "initial" are NOT redudant.. my bad , sorry

[CADreaming]

because throwing a , in there makes "first" NOT the same meaning as "initial"??? :sorry: but it's still the same thing " ," or NO " , " :sorry: :xoxo:
oh wait, i always trust my SECOND initial feeling??? so therefore "first" and "initial" are NOT redudant.. my bad , sorry

I bet you wouldn't say that to Robert Burns! ;)

It's like saying red, red rose. We know it's red the first time it's described, but when it's repeated then we know it's really, really red. Putting a comma separates the adjectives.


Your first, initial feeling.

I've heard the phrase before. I think it's fairly common. So, I can't even fault Stevie for the usage.

[michelej1]

I thought this reader's attempt to diagram Stevie's lyrics like in English class was pretty amusing.

http://www.ledge.fleetwoodmac.net/showthread.php?t=51380&highlight=lyrics

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[Dark Angel]

Yes, that was me. :wavey: I started the research in 2001 after TISL came out. All of the allusions can be found at my Stevie site: www.inspiredangel.com

I miss Tiffany's site, too. The lyric allusions were the best part of it. I believe most of the content for that section came from Lisa's (Dark Angel) research.

"Kick It," which mitzo mentioned, is my favorite song from Street Angel. As some have mentioned, many of those words are from Wilde's short story "The Happy Prince."

Daniel

[cliffdweller]

:shocked: I think they're pretty great. However, I hate how she rhymes "sea" with "honey."


Not Make Believe - It hurts my self esteem, it hurts my everything; I am reeling... ooh, it hurts my feelings

One More Big Time... - Undercover music lover :rolleyes:

Paper Doll - She refused to wear her coat

Listen to the Rain - You're a frontliner. Phantom of the Opera. Basically, the whole song.

Love is Like a River - I haven't burned a candle in a real long time

Two Kinds of Love - I talked to my famous friend last night

Ha-ha! These made me laugh especially "she refused to wear her coat." So mundane yet so priceless.

I still think all of "Silver Girl" is absolute banality. I've also always thought that the line "don't hide behind your hair that way baby" was pretty hilarious, especially taken out of context!

[wheart]

this may have been mentioned before but the one I thought of first was from Alice - "some carry a stiletto in their garter...along with everything else...that they carry". Awful!!

[mitzo]

Goodbye Baby: yes I was outspoken

[mitzo]

Highwayman: a dream begun in wine

Ghosts: she depends on her music like a husband

[ejof17]

What about:

"She's a c'mon lady, she's a tarnished pearl"? I love the song but really.

[ejof17]

I think you're uptight lady, uptight lady, outta sight outta sight lady.

[bombaysaffires]

Highwayman: a dream begun in wine

Ghosts: she depends on her music like a husband

oh I think this is one of her best, most confessional bits ever.

"To fill the empty spaces she's feeling
She depends on her music like a husband
And she knows it's no good
To fall in love again"

[michelej1]

^ Yes, I think that's a superb way of illustrating with a lyric what Stevie has said in so many interviews.

Michele

[mitzo]

Soldier's Angel: they make me remember my first loves and going out to dances

[diane_k]

^ If you took any random lyric out of context like you're doing it would sound wierd. Too bad the Rosetta stone doesn't have an option to learn how to speak metaphorically ;)

[DashingDan]

"sometimes it was heavenly, sometimes it was too heavy"

It's the use of "heavy" at which I take umbradge. Such a 70's use of the word.

[mitzo]

^ If you took any random lyric out of context like you're doing it would sound wierd. Too bad the Rosetta stone doesn't have an option to learn how to speak metaphorically ;)

LOL.

There sure isn't anything metaphorical about that line. Nor about "I walk though the halls of the hospitals I am a soldier's nurse."

[WildHearted]

LOL.

There sure isn't anything metaphorical about that line. Nor about "I walk though the halls of the hospitals I am a soldier's nurse."

Of course that's metaphorical. She's not ACTUALLY a nurse in a hospital. :shrug:

If I said, "I bag up all my feelings, I'm the grocer of my pain" that would be a terrible, terrible line, yes.. but it would still be metaphorical.

[mitzo]

Of course that's metaphorical. She's not ACTUALLY a nurse in a hospital. :shrug:

If I said, "I bag up all my feelings, I'm the grocer of my pain" that would be a terrible, terrible line, yes.. but it would still be metaphorical.

The only metaphorical all part is the nurse bit, and it is both a clunky metaphor and a terrible line. Meanwhile, she certainly was not playing with metaphor when she claimed, in the same song, that she remembered "going out to dances."

[michelej1]

"sometimes it was heavenly, sometimes it was too heavy"

It's the use of "heavy" at which I take umbradge. Such a 70's use of the word.

I agree. I will defend "it hurts my everything," but "too heavy" makes me cringe.

Michele

[windbecame]

"In the Meantime" :thumbsup: someone said something about professor UMBRIDGE... :shrug: to them I say "CRUCIO!!" .....AND... "AVADA KEDAVRA" :] .... sorry:sorry: ...off track , but just had to do it!! :angel:

[whitewingdove]

I don't really have a favourite lyric or "CLUNK" so to speak but here are a few of my favourites:

Thunder only happens when it's raining

When the rain washes you clean you'll know, you'll know

I'm doing the best that I can, and I'm trying hard to change. I'm doing it the best that I can

And the summer became the fall, I was not ready for the winter. It makes no difference at all, 'cause I wear boots all summer long

Lightning strikes, maybe once, maybe twice

So you run towards what you know is wrong. There are too many flowers to cut down

The dream was never over, the dream has just begun
The dream was never over, no. The dream was only lost

This could be a whole lotta trouble for you

My destiny says that I'm destined to fall

Learn to be a stranger

I hear theres trouble in Shangri-La

Sometimes it's a bitch, sometimes it's a breeze. Sometimes loves blind, sometimes it sees. Sometimes it's roses, sometimes it's weeds. Somtimes its a bitch, sometimes it's a breeze

[skuncles]

I used to refer to this song as the 'How Many Broadway Musicals Can Stevie Fit Into A Song?' Song because of that line and the 'There's no Beauty and the Beast here,' line.
A shame, really, because with more work it could have been a good song. I do have to admit that the 1991 version is a tad better.

She's actually listing of her three favorites movies/shows, Beauty And The Beast, Phantom Of The Opera, and Dark Shadows.

Speaking of BATB, I always liked how she uses all three forms of the word "to" in one line, "Two children too blind to see".

[Nickingham]

She's actually listing of her three favorites movies/shows, Beauty And The Beast, Phantom Of The Opera, and Dark Shadows.

Speaking of BATB, I always liked how she uses all three forms of the word "to" in one line, "Two children too blind to see".
Nice catch! I never noticed that before.

The Highwayman - Almost the whole song; TOO MANY "he's", "she's" and, "and's".It's exhausting!

"And if I was a child
And the child was enough
Enough for me to love"
This one has always bugged me. Is she talking about self-acceptance? Sounds like it.

"Sometimes the real colour of my skin
My eyes without any shadow"
This one bugs me too.Is she stating an obvious fact or, is she saying that she has dark circles under her eyes from exhaustion? Because she basicly already said that in the previous line "Some circles around my eyes".*scratches head*
Also; I think there should be an "are" in there before "my".

I'm going to agree with Soldiers Angel, also.She inserts Camelot in there and it throws the whole song out of whack for me.

"All of the trauma
The smell of Nag Champra"
First; It's Champa. No 'R' (as far as I know). Second; I know she has said that she likes to burn that particular incense, so it makes sense that she put that in the lyrics.She's remembering what was going on with her at that particular time.It's understandable. But the word... Nag Champra... it doesn't flow with the rest of the lyrics.

[bombaysaffires]

well we can't blame her for the lyrics to Sometimes It's A Bitch; that'll be all Jon BonJovi's fault.

I always thought the "same circles around my eyes" referred back to her eye makeup.. She talked about how she does her eyes, and how she discovered that her favorite old-school actresses like Dietrich and Garbo and such did their make up the same way, a big dark sweeping circle from around the top of the eye to under the eye. ( You can see this effect really well on a number of recent photos)....

"Eye make up dark, and it's careless
Same circles around my eyes..."

:shrug:

The part that bugs me is the part that comes next:
"Sometimes the real color of my skeeeyun
My eyes without any shadow"

uh, well, if there's no (eye) shadow on your eyes, then yeah, that would reveal the real color of your skeeyun...
but who knows what she's really talking about.

[WildHearted]

"And another voice.... COMES THROUGH THE DOOR" - If Anyone Falls

[APerfectLie]

well we can't blame her for the lyrics to Sometimes It's A Bitch; that'll be all Jon BonJovi's fault.

I always thought the "same circles around my eyes" referred back to her eye makeup.. She talked about how she does her eyes, and how she discovered that her favorite old-school actresses like Dietrich and Garbo and such did their make up the same way, a big dark sweeping circle from around the top of the eye to under the eye. ( You can see this effect really well on a number of recent photos)....

"Eye make up dark, and it's careless
Same circles around my eyes..."

:shrug:

The part that bugs me is the part that comes next:
"Sometimes the real color of my skeeeyun
My eyes without any shadow"

uh, well, if there's no (eye) shadow on your eyes, then yeah, that would reveal the real color of your skeeyun...
but who knows what she's really talking about.

I've always felt this part was meant to be symbolic and go along with "I wear boots all summer long" and "pulls back the net and it's hard to see her face" in the idea that Stevie is always putting on a mask and hiding who she really is/how she really feels. Whether it is always wearing make up, or always wearing boots, or making it seem like everything was okay when Robin died, only a few people are allowed to see behind her curtain.

[skuncles]

At the risk of sounding like an obsessed fan, I have to say there are very few lines of Stevie's that I dislike. What I always liked about her lyrics is the imagery they create. She was once asked what the line "wild in the darkest places of your mind" meant, what was she referring to. She started to answer and then said "my fans know exactly what I'm talking about". She couldn't be more right. Sometimes the line taken out of context seems odd, but within the structure of the song it usually paints the bigger picture.

[bombaysaffires]

I've always felt this part was meant to be symbolic and go along with "I wear boots all summer long" and "pulls back the net and it's hard to see her face" in the idea that Stevie is always putting on a mask and hiding who she really is/how she really feels. Whether it is always wearing make up, or always wearing boots, or making it seem like everything was okay when Robin died, only a few people are allowed to see behind her curtain.

Sometimes she's an actress, but you'll never really know...;)