Post song lyrics that don't make sense

[idgiehkt]

Maybe we can figure them out together

If anyone has a handle on Jamaican patois and wants to help me with this one, I'd appreciate it. It's probably my favorite ska song but I can't make heads or tails of it:

It Mek -- Desmond Dekker

You think I never see you when you jump over de wall
You think I never see you when you accidently fall
me said a it mek - mek you pop yu bitta gall
a it mek - while you accidently fall
a it mek - hear she crying fe ice water

aah -aah- aah
I check you out and you're cold, girl
I dig you out and you're cold, girl
rock it to me children

I told you once and I told you twice
Wha' sweet nanny goat a go run him belly good
me said a it mek - mek your pop yu bitta gall
a it mek - while you accidently fall
a it mek - hear she crying fe ice water

here's a small sample so you can git de riddim:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/music/clipserve/B0000032DB001012/0/ref=mu_sam_wma_001_012/002-

[GoddessOfGuinness]

1. In the Air Tonight

I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh lord
Ive been waiting for this moment, all my life, oh lord
Can you feel it coming in the air tonight, oh lord, oh lord

Well, if you told me you were drowning
I would not lend a hand
Ive seen your face before my friend
But I dont know if you know who I am
Well, I was there and I saw what you did
I saw it with my own two eyes
So you can wipe off the grin, I know where youve been
Its all been a pack of lies

And I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh lord
Ive been waiting for this moment for all my life, oh lord
I can feel it in the air tonight, oh lord, oh lord
And Ive been waiting for this moment all my life, oh lord, oh lord

Well I remember, I remember dont worry
How could I ever forget, its the first time, the last time we ever met
But I know the reason why you keep your silence up, no you dont fool me
The hurt doesnt show; but the pain still grows
Its no stranger to you or me

And I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh lord...

Does Phil have some sort of vendetta, or what? Against whom?

[last_texas_dem]

6. I think I remember reading that it's about

when he was cheated on by his wife. From the lyrics, I'd assume it would be addressed to the wife, but the "first time, the last time we ever met" part sounds more like it's being addressed to the guy she was cheating on him with, like if he had walked in on them. Of course, there's also some elaborate urban legend that grew out of this song that Eminem ended up talking about in one of his songs; "Stan" I think. The urban legend was that he had seen some guy watch another guy drown and not helped him, and then later he invited the guy to his concert and put the spotlight on him when he got to that line in this song. Pretty cool urban legend, but it's totally made-up. I like this song, though; I think Phil Collins would have a better reputation if he'd stuck with stuff like this and "I Don't Care Anymore" and not gotten as sappy as he did as the eighties went on.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

7. It's about his divorce.

I think.

His ex-wife. :D

[Deja Q]

2. "Two Heads"

You want two heads on you body
And you've got two mirrors in your hand.
Priests are made of brick with gold crosses on a stick
and your nose is too small for this land.
Inside your head is your town
inside your room your jail
inside your mouth the elephants trunk and booze,
the only key to your bail

Coda:
Want two heads on your body
and you've got two mirrors in your hand

Two heads can be put together.
And you can fill both your feet with sand.
Noone will know you've gutted your mind
but what will you do with your bloody hands?
Your lions are fighting with chairs,
your arms are incredibly fat;
Your women are tired of dying alive
if you've had any women at that.

Wearing your comb like an ax in your head
List'ning for signs of life;
Children are sucking on stone and lead
And chasing their hoops with a knife;
New breasts and jewels for the girl,
Keep them polished and shining;
Put a lock on her belly at night, sweet life,
For no child of mine. (Go to Coda)


:smnoke: :crazy:

[idgiehkt]

3. that's brilliant

I don't recognize it though, whose song is it?

[u4ic]

4. Well, it is partially in German...

aha
aha
aha

What you will and what you won't
What you do and what you don't
What you can and what you can't
This is what you need to know:
Loved you though it didn't show

Ich liebe dich nicht, du liebst mich nicht, aha
Ich liebe dich nicht, du liebst mich nicht, aha
Ich liebe dich nicht, du liebst mich nicht, aha
Ich liebe dich nicht, du liebst mich nicht, da da da

da da da
da da da
da da da

Da da da I don't love you you don't love me
Da da da I don't love you you don't love me
Da da da I don't love you you don't love me
Da da da I don't love you you don't love me

(whispered)
Ich liebe dich nicht, du liebst mich nicht, aha
Ich liebe dich nicht, du liebst mich nicht, aha
Ich liebe dich nicht, du liebst mich nicht, aha
Ich liebe dich nicht, du liebst mich nicht.

I know why you ran away, aha
Understand you couldn't stay, aha
Wonder where you are today, aha
After all was said and done
It was right for you to run!

Ich liebe dich nicht, du liebst mich nicht, aha
Ich liebe dich nicht, du liebst mich nicht, aha
Ich liebe dich nicht, du liebst mich nicht, aha
Ich liebe dich nicht, du liebst mich nicht, da da da

da da da
da da da
da da da

Da da da I don't love you you don't love me
Da da da I don't love you you don't love me
Da da da I don't love you you don't love me
Da da da I don't love you you don't love me

[idgiehkt]

5. I love babelfish

:smoke:


I have to post a BIT song...this one I understand only vaguely,

Bluebell

Flys through the air with the greatest disease
Takes little pills and calls them trapeze
I know you're right
Everything you do is right
Everything I do is true
Bluebell to hell
Lo and behold a girl with a goal
Looks so old she's made out of gold
I know you're right
Everything you do is right
Everything I do is true
Bluebell to hell
I want to live in the smallest corner
In the densest mind in the f*ckmost room
and sing "The stars they swing from their chandelier strings"
I know real love
You know who you are
You're deadmeat motherf*cker
You don't try to rape a goddess
Flys through the air with the greatest disease
Takes little pills and calls them trapeze
I know you're right
Everything you do is right
Everything I do is true
Bluebell to hell
You are so obvious

[smtpgirl]

8. Beatles I am the Walrus

"I Am the Walrus"

I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.
See how they run like pigs from a gun, see how they fly.
I'm crying.

Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come.
Corporation tee-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday.
Man, you been a naughty boy, you let your face grow long.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob.

Mister City Policeman sitting
Pretty little policemen in a row.
See how they fly like Lucy in the Sky, see how they run.
I'm crying, I'm crying.
I'm crying, I'm crying.

Yellow matter custard, dripping from a dead dog's eye.
Crabalocker fishwife, pornographic priestess,
Boy, you been a naughty girl you let your knickers down.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob.

Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun.
If the sun don't come, you get a tan
From standing in the English rain.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob g'goo goo g'joob.

Expert textpert choking smokers,
Don't you thing the joker laughs at you?
See how they smile like pigs in a sty,
See how they snied.
I'm crying.

Semolina pilchard, climbing up the Eiffel Tower.
Elementary penguin singing Hari Krishna.
Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Alan Poe.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob g'goo goo g'joob.
Goo goo g'joob g'goo goo g'joob g'goo.

[idgiehkt]

13. isn't this the one that was purposely obcure

according to legend anyway.

[Floogeldy]

9. "Pay Per Bach, Rider."

:shrug:

:puffpiece:

;)

[idgiehkt]

10. lol

you silly man.

[otherlander]

12. ...

:spray:

[otherlander]

11. Have you ever seen the televised

St. Vitus subcommittee prize
investigation dance?
Those ants-in-pants glances,
you gotta look behind the eyes
it's a hallowed, hollowed anesthetized
save-my-own-ass, screw-these-guys,
smoke and mirrors
lock-down...

[Nicole]

14. MacArthur Park

MacArthur Park


Written by: Jimmy Webb
Sung by: Richard Harris

Spring was never waiting for us, girl
It ran one step ahead
As we followed in the dance
Between the parted pages and were pressed
In love's hot, fevered iron
Like a striped pair of pants

MacArthur Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!

I recall the yellow cotton dress
Foaming like a wave
On the ground around your knees
The birds, like tender babies in your hands
And the old men playing checkers by the trees

MacArthur Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!



There will be another song for me
For I will sing it
There will be another dream for me
Someone will bring it
I will drink the wine while it is warm
And never let you catch me looking at the sun
And after all the loves of my life
After all the loves of my life
You'll still be the one

I will take my life into my hands and I will use it
I will win the worship in their eyes and I will lose it
I will have the things that I desire
And my passion flow like rivers through the sky
And after all the loves of my life
After all the loves of my life
I'll be thinking of you
And wondering why



MacArthur Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!
Oh, no
No, no
Oh no!!