Now from the song ironic when nothing in it is actually ironic except that maybe it appears the singer doesn't know what it means.
I would be interested in your opinions on the song "perfect" by Eddie Reader particularly the chorus. We have been arguing for years over this with mates so I would be interested in thoughts on here:
(It's got to be perfect
It's got to be worth it, yea
Too many people take second best,
But I won't take anything less,
It's got to be perfect.)
Person A says: "Too many people take second best" she then replies to that in next line saying "but I wont take anything less" as an answer therefore she would take 2nd best. She then says its got to be perfect without making any differential between perfect and 2nd best.
Person B says: Nothing wrong with any of it.
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05-10-2019 12:23 PM #1
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Mistakes in song lyrics
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05-10-2019 12:56 PM #2
‘Too many people take second best
Well I won’t take anything less’
No sure if that helps your argument but just had a wee listen and it’s definitely the word ‘well’ as opposed to ‘but’.
And now it’s in ma heid... thanks awfully! 😁
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05-10-2019 05:28 PM #3
It's poor grammar, and it's irritated me for years, but she means she won't take anything less than perfect.
In fact she goes on to say so again.
Artistic license, I think it's called.
And it's "But" not "Well".
https://www.google.com/search?safe=o...A1.jnYbRrCCsIcLast edited by Hibbyradge; 05-10-2019 at 05:31 PM.
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05-10-2019 09:49 PM #6This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I've just played it on Spotify and used Shazam and then SoundHound, to identify it. As well as telling you the song title and artist, they both give you the lyrics too and both list it as "but".
You'd be lucky if you could find a single lyrics site which would have it listed as "well".
Anyway, it doesn't matter. It still makes enough sense.
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06-10-2019 05:26 AM #7This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Not all words refer to the thing immediately preceding them!
Picture yourself on a boat on a river, with tangerine trees and marmalade skies. Is Person A jumping up and down because rivers don't have skies? No, because it's the picture that has the marmalade skies, not the river.Last edited by lapsedhibee; 06-10-2019 at 05:46 AM.
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06-10-2019 10:58 AM #9
The song, Perfect, is by Fairground Attraction, Eddi Reader never released it herself. #pedantic
There is no such thing as too much yarn, just not enough time.
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07-10-2019 12:57 AM #10This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteFollow the Hibs podcast, Longbangers, on Twitter (@longbangers)
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07-10-2019 07:03 PM #11
I’ll out myself as a sad pedant aswell. One that seems like a mistake to me is on Oasis’s “Hey Now”. The verse goes....
The first thing I saw
As I walked through the door
Was a sign on the wall that read
It said you might never know
That I want you to know
What is written inside of your head
This suggests that the sign on the wall reads “It said you might never know...”
The “It said” just duplicates “that read”! Not sure how Noel signed off on this, although granted the lyrics are kinda nonsense anyway. Glad I got that off my chest!
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08-10-2019 10:20 AM #12
Just to join in with the pedantry, there are a few valid examples of irony in the song "Ironic".
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08-10-2019 10:13 PM #13
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08-10-2019 11:29 PM #14This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteThere's only one thing better than a Hibs calendar and that's two Hibs calendars
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Which, I assume, is what F17 was alluding to.
i.e. It's ironic that there are so few examples of irony in the song "Ironic".
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09-10-2019 10:17 AM #17
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That’s ironic eh?
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I should have quoted the OP in my initial post as they said, as I've seen said a few times by various folk over the years, that the lyrics of "Ironic" don't describe any ironic situations. The pedant in me disagrees.
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09-10-2019 02:44 PM #19
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In 'If I can't' by 50 cent, he says
"you'll get hit, and homicide will be asking what happened".
However, given that homicide deal with murder, if someone was to hit and homicide were to be involved, the individual in question would presumably be dead and therefore not worth asking what happened.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT1TVSTkAXgLast edited by Wilson; 10-10-2019 at 10:21 AM. Reason: Added link
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I do hope she's just having a jolly jape.
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