Lyrical Logical Fallacies

"Today there is no day or night"

Don Covay:
I just got finished given the hotel
manager back the room key and paid my bill

I was outside in the car
In the shadows of the parkin' lot
Tellin' the woman I was with
how happy she made me
Kissin' and huggin'

An all of a sudden another car
pulled up on the parkin' lot
But I couldn't believe my eyes
'Cause the woman that was sitting
in the front seat beside another dude
Turned out to be my old lady

Sings:
Lord, I was checkin' out
And she was checkin' in
Yeah, yeah, yeah, (yeah)
(Oh yeah)
Oh, let me tell you people
I was checkin' out, um-hm
An my old lady was checkin' in
Oh Lord, have mercy!

I was with my other woman
And she, she was with her boyfriend
She waited outside ya'all, in the car
While he went in, yeah
To rent the room

I wanted to say something to her
But there was nothing I could say, yeah
'Cause the woman I was with
Yes, she was married too!

Lord, I was checkin' out
And she was checkin' in (checkin' in)
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Oh, yes she was
Ya'all, I saw another man took my old lady
(Oh took my baby)
Let me tell ya
In the Hideaway Motor Inn
(Motor Inn) yeah baby um-hm
Uum, I was with my other woman
(Oh, I was treated wrong, yeah)
And she was with her boyfriend

She was suppose to be at home
Mindin' the kids
The both of us had been untrue
(Been untrue)

Guess I'll have to go on
Bein' blind
I can't reveal her guilt
Without' showin' mine, Lord!

I was checkin' out
(Checkin out, sho' nuff was)
As she was checkin' in
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Hoo hey! umm, let me tell ya
What hurt me so bad, ya'all
(Hurt me, really hurt me so bad)
Really hurt me so bad
(It hurt me)
The man gave him the same room I had
Yes, he did, yeah-yeah
The same room I was in (yeah)

Umm!, what a terrible blow it was
(Such a terrible, terrible, terrible thing it was)

FADES-

What a terrible thing
To do to a man, yeah-yeah

She was smilin'
And she never smiles!

I think my debt has
Caught up with me ya'all

Lord, have mercy.

"Shinin the light in my face, and for what?"
[He's made because cops are hassling him without cause. Why are they bothering him? he wonders]

"Maybe it's because I kick so much butt"
[Well...

"I kick ass -- or maybe it's cause I blast on a stupid-assed nigga when I'm playin with the trigger of an Uzi or an AK"
[OK, now we're getting somewhere. The cops are shining a light in your face because you've been killing people. Maybe he's just thinking out loud here?]

"If you judge a book by the cover,
Then you judge the look by the lover"

No you bloody don't, Martin, you judge the lover by the look.

How to ruin what should be a classic song in one couplet.

Fuck you, Lionel.

Nice, that one always bugged me too.

Fuck you, Lionel.

-- Huk-L (handsomishbo...), May 4th, 2005.

hahahaha! maybe my first real laugh today.

*head asplodes*

"You're so vain, you probably think this song is about you."

"You're so vain, you probably think this song is about you."

-- o. nate (syne_wav...), May 4th, 2005.

i occasionally find myself talking back to this one. "it IS!"

"When it rain, niggas get wet; stay dry."

The line: "And that's one body that'll never be found / Y'see, little sister don't miss when she aims her gun."

The fallacy: What does her marksmanship have to do with her ability to hide a body?

Just wondering.

this is a truism.

How does that follow? Or, perhaps more accurately, how does the fact of the bagel actually increase the convenience of pizza?

I mean...*gets beaten up by everyone*

"He came from somewhere back in her long ago
The sentimental fool don’t see..."

I'd be creeped out if anyone claimed to come from somewhere back in my long ago. Where the fuck is my long ago anyway? Do I WANT to know where my long ago is?

Also, *gawd*, The sentimental fool DOESN'T see.. DOESN'T.. singular conjugation, Michael.

dude: colloquial english.

"Nothing worth finding is easily found
Try as one might "

Umm, try as one might?

Umm, that is the right way round. The cover = the lover

i.e. whether they look fanciable/sexy enough for you, rather than How they would love you.

No it isn't. It's about the singer of the song and how she was 'taken in' by the vain person.

Or "I cannot forget from where it is that I come from"?

Maybe those are more grammatical than logical problems, but still, I think about them more than is healthy.

I think it's actually, "In this ever-changing world in which we're living", which is slightly awkward but not wrong.

He's actually saying "IF this ever-changing world in which we're livin'/Makes you give in and cry/Say live and let die."

I still have no idea why I was put on earth, but I know for sure that I was put on ILX to correct this mistake (I think it's the third time).

Now, if you DID raise your kids on Mars, wouldn't YOU be there to raise them?

Billy Liar's got his hands in his pockets, staring over at the neighbors; knickers down. He's got his knickers down.

If I am correct, knickers means pants. So, if his pants are down, how are his hands in his pockets? Is he in some sort of awkward position where he is squatting so his pants can be around his ankles with his hands in his pockets?

Or, is Billy Liar's neighbor the one who has his knickers down? In that case, his neighbor, as inidicated by the pronoun "he," is male, as is Billy Liar. Is Billy Liar gay?

It seems that the solution to the problem is that the line must be interpretted as a series of sequential events, rather than seeing it as a description of one moment of frozen time.

FIRST, Billy Liar has his hands in his pockets as he stares at the neighbor. The neighbor has his or her knickers down. THEN, Billy Liar proceeds to pull down his own knickers.

That explanation explains the seemingly impossible lines, although I'm not sure if it is correct.

If you don't leave her, you'll be alone? GET REAL, MONKEES!

from Michael fucking McDonald?

Well, "J'ah 'mo beeeee there" is pretty "street".

(I thought the idea of this thread was to parody stand-up comedians anyway..)

The opening line of Arthur Conley's "Sweet Soul Music" has always bothered me:

Do you like good music?

Isn't the music that you think is good also the sort of music you like, by definition? So framing the question like this makes no sense, because it's not really a question. You can't really answer, "no, I only like bad music!", can you?

I think it's a p arrogant leading question, like if you say anything other than "Yeah I like soul music" or whatever he'll be all "I said GOOD music".

Arthur Conley otm

it's not a focus group. he's telling you. if you don't like good music then gtfo

he's gatekeeping before you're allowed into the song to have fun. If you reply to him with a bit of Mr Logic chat then he won't let you in to have fun.

Oh yeah, yeah yeah

Arthur was talking to Irwin Chusid.

Ingrid Michaelson needs to stop exposing her survivorship bias in my Walmart, viz.

All the broken hearts in the world still beat

some people's hearts have broken so badly that they fucking died! but those poor souls apparently fall outside Ingrid's bailiwick, as they're no longer "in the world" 💔😔