the lyric "and i don't mean maybe": C/D?

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usually meant to rhyme with "baby"... i guess cuz "maybe" is the only word that actually does, and it has a sort of negative connotation, so you have to clarify that you don't actually mean maybe.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 5 August 2006 22:16 (twenty years ago)

You're gonna be the one that saves me.

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Saturday, 5 August 2006 22:28 (twenty years ago)

put it back on the shelf, it belongs by itself

― bendy (bendy), Sunday, 6 August 2006 00:13 (twenty years ago)

Sky, high, fly, sigh

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Sunday, 6 August 2006 00:16 (twenty years ago)

Is there a more general thread for these kinds of lyrical cop-outs? The "shelf" one really, really bothers me, as does any song lyric that begins "Here we are" or "Here I am."

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Sunday, 6 August 2006 00:19 (twenty years ago)

"Life"/"Cuts like a knife" still makes my teeth hurt, but I'm sure this has been done.

― Son of Spam (noodle vague), Sunday, 6 August 2006 00:21 (twenty years ago)

"Hey, oh, here I am,
and here we go"

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Sunday, 6 August 2006 00:23 (twenty years ago)

Search for "rhyme" in the subject and you get all kinds of fun threads devoted to Fire/Desire, Life/Wife, etc...

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 6 August 2006 00:59 (twenty years ago)

JMcC, you forgot the exception "unless it goes on to say 'rock you like a hurricane'"

― davelus (davelus), Sunday, 6 August 2006 05:22 (twenty years ago)

the "girlfriend/world end" in rap tracks was epidemic at one point. uch.

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Sunday, 6 August 2006 22:07 (twenty years ago)

"[...] [...] [...], my friend!"

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Monday, 7 August 2006 00:33 (twenty years ago)

It's dragging me down (Feeder etc)

Nothing's gonna stop me/us now (NIN etc)

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Monday, 7 August 2006 00:38 (twenty years ago)

http://www.sundazed.com/artists/artistpage_gfx/artist_pics/genevincent-2.jpg

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 7 August 2006 02:28 (twenty years ago)

"Speeding back to my baby
and I don't mean maybe"

- Ace Frehley, lyrical genius

― Kent Burt (lingereffect), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 01:18 (twenty years ago)

The name's barney rubble and i'm here to say
i love fruity pebbles in a major way

― Sir Dr. Rev. PappaWheelie Jr. II of The Third Kind (PappaWheelie 2), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 01:33 (twenty years ago)

Musical Notes "Yes, Sir, That's My Baby"
Lyrics by Gus Kahn, Music by Walter Donaldson, 1925

This memorable tune from the Charleston era was inspired by a pig! The composers, Donaldson & Kahn, were visiting their friend, entertainer Eddie Cantor, when Cantor's daughter Marjorie brought out one of her favorite toys, a walking mechanical pig. She wound it up and it started walking in rhythm while two notes kept coming from the little creature. Kahn was inspired and started working lyrics to these notes in rhythm with the pig, producing the title and opening line of the chorus in short order. The pair immediately turned it into a song, and Cantor made it a lasting hit.

― xhuxk (xheddy), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 01:38 (twenty years ago)

You never know just when or how inspiration will land smack in your lap. I like that story.

― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 01:48 (twenty years ago)

Actually, there really is NO NEED AT ALL for the phrase "maybe not" to even EXIST at all. "Maybe" = "Maybe not", after all.

― Monty Von Byonga (Monty Von Byonga), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 02:47 (twenty years ago)

The pig later filed a successful copyright suit.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 04:08 (twenty years ago)

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