In the thread called Word(s) that only ever appeared in one (hit) song, ever, Doctor Casino wrote, "'Arizona' has several times made me want to start a thread about songs where the singer/protagonist comes off as a serious dick without meaning to."
Perhaps this could be that thread.
― Ye Mad Puffin, Friday, 27 March 2015 21:01 (nine years ago) link
As it happens, there was once an epic thread called "In Which Doctor Casino Listens to Classic Rock Classics for the First Time." Perhaps you're familiar with it.
In Which Doctor Casino Listens to Classic Rock Classics for the First Time
User intheblanks had written, "There's the contempt for women in songs like 'You Got Lucky' and 'Breakdown.'" Then, user campreverb wrote: "Contempt? I hear a lot of self-doubt in lines like this: Girl, if you can do better than me/Go, yea go, but remember Good love is hard to find."
My further thought involved a subset of this: a dude informing a woman that he, the singer/protagonist, is the solution to her romantic problems, and she should therefore be rilly rilly grateful that he exists. Because otherwise she would be a withered cronelike old maid.
"Let My Love Open the Door" ("you're so lucky I'm around")James Taylor, "I'm Your Handyman"Little Feat, "One Clear Moment"Don Henley, "Last Worthless Evening"
There should be, and probably is, a whole counter-genre of women answering, "No thanks, Tom/James/Don/Pete, I'll actually be fine."
"without meaning to" kinda hard to navigate imo
― Οὖτις, Friday, 27 March 2015 21:04 (nine years ago) link
anyway
The Beach Boys "Hey Little Tomboy"
― Οὖτις, Friday, 27 March 2015 21:10 (nine years ago) link
As for "without meaning to," there are plenty of songs in which someone is obviously trying to be, or is, really a dick. This is for the ones who appear to think they're being well-meaning sensitive new age guys.
"Wild World" probably gets extra credit in this category.
― Ye Mad Puffin, Friday, 27 March 2015 21:21 (nine years ago) link
"Rude"
― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Friday, 27 March 2015 21:25 (nine years ago) link
^^^
― Hugh G. Wreckjoke (snoball), Friday, 27 March 2015 21:28 (nine years ago) link
'My Sharona', The Knack
― Hugh G. Wreckjoke (snoball), Friday, 27 March 2015 21:29 (nine years ago) link
Glenn Frey's entire career to thread
― Master of Treacle, Friday, 27 March 2015 21:31 (nine years ago) link
the protagonist in 'there she goes again' by marshall crenshaw comes across as super passive aggressive, idk if it's intentional though
― soref, Friday, 27 March 2015 21:31 (nine years ago) link
Don Henley, yeah, is the master of this.
Daryl Hall too. Most of their classic singles are about a guy out for kicks who resents when the woman insists on more more more.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 27 March 2015 21:34 (nine years ago) link
Anyone who sings 'Always On My Mind'.
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Friday, 27 March 2015 21:34 (nine years ago) link
I think Neil Tennant pulls it off without sounding like a dick.
― Hugh G. Wreckjoke (snoball), Friday, 27 March 2015 21:41 (nine years ago) link
My mom and stepdad danced to "You Were Always on My Mind" at their wedding reception and when I asked why on earth they would do that, they said it was because they hadn't thought to pick a song before then and didn't think very hard about the lyrics beyond the chorus. They're still married 31 years later so no harm no foul.
― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Friday, 27 March 2015 21:48 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I guess the Pet Shop Boys' version is the "least dickish" version, but god, that song... "hey, maybe I was a dick to you, but if it's any consolation, you were always on my mind"... jesus.
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Friday, 27 March 2015 21:59 (nine years ago) link
The Monkees - "I Wanna Be Free". Davy Jones sounds like an insincere douche on a number of Monkees songs, but this one take the douchecake.
― Gimme Gimme Pop Secret (Old Lunch), Friday, 27 March 2015 22:20 (nine years ago) link
I get this vibe from Paul Weller's 'I Should Have Been There To Inspire You' for some reason.
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Friday, 27 March 2015 22:21 (nine years ago) link
Jack Jones - "Wives and Lovers" to thread.
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 27 March 2015 22:32 (nine years ago) link
city and colour - "girl"
part emotional blackmail, part justification for being less than an equal partner in a relationship
― head clowning instructor (art), Friday, 27 March 2015 23:01 (nine years ago) link
'Norwegian Wood', The Beatles. Narrator tries not to come off as a serious dick while describing a situation in which he was at least a moderate dick, still manages to come off as a serious dick.
― Hugh G. Wreckjoke (snoball), Friday, 27 March 2015 23:11 (nine years ago) link
'(It Looks Like) I'll Never Fall In Love Again', Tom Jones. Singer has split with someone after they cheated on him, but goes about recounting it in such a melodramatically self serving narcissistic way that the audience suspects that they're not hearing the whole story, and that the singer is, in fact, a serious dick.
― Hugh G. Wreckjoke (snoball), Friday, 27 March 2015 23:17 (nine years ago) link
'Sunny Afternoon', The Kinks. Rich shitbag asks you to feel sorry for him, thereby coming off as a serious dick.
― Hugh G. Wreckjoke (snoball), Friday, 27 March 2015 23:22 (nine years ago) link
Woman is the Nigger of the World.
― Adam J Duncan, Saturday, 28 March 2015 05:25 (nine years ago) link
lots of John Lennon songs fit the bill here tbh
― charlie h, Saturday, 28 March 2015 05:42 (nine years ago) link
I wonder if you can, Charlie.
― Adam J Duncan, Saturday, 28 March 2015 06:03 (nine years ago) link
haha yeah, that one is particularly sanctimonious.
Jealous Guy is an interesting one. he's acknowledging that he's been a serious dick, without realising that new levels of serious dickery are expressed within the framework of his apology/ justification.
― charlie h, Saturday, 28 March 2015 06:17 (nine years ago) link
Jealous Guy... Oh man couldn't the defeners pick a better video to comment in? I'd be wary of people who don't see the passive aggressiveness there... though I can't say I'm any better for loving Lightfoot's I'm not Sayin' because I emphasize with him 'fessing up to being a dick.
― Adam J Duncan, Saturday, 28 March 2015 07:02 (nine years ago) link
Oh how could I forget... The Mountain Goats - Going to Georgia. Though to give credit where it's due he's stopped playing it live despite being one of his most popular songs.
― Adam J Duncan, Saturday, 28 March 2015 07:16 (nine years ago) link
("The Stalker's Anthem")
― Adam J Duncan, Saturday, 28 March 2015 07:19 (nine years ago) link
Neil Young's Down By The River.Wherein Neil bewails being alone because he's killed his baby. Trying to think if its actually adressed to her too.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 28 March 2015 09:25 (nine years ago) link
the entire first big pink album, though maybe it was intentional i dunno
― don't ask me why i posted this (electricsound), Saturday, 28 March 2015 09:40 (nine years ago) link
Peter Sarstedt - Where Do You Go To My Lovely. The pathetic whine of someone who resents that the subject of the song made something of their life while he didn't. The attempt at caustic truth-telling comes across as nothing more than burning jealousy. I hate that fucking song.
― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Saturday, 28 March 2015 09:55 (nine years ago) link
for a laugh, ah ha-ha-ha
― Hugh G. Wreckjoke (snoball), Saturday, 28 March 2015 10:25 (nine years ago) link
"Every Breath You Take", if "dick" can also be used for a creepy stalker.
― Tuomas, Saturday, 28 March 2015 10:53 (nine years ago) link
'Rio', Duran Duran
― Hugh G. Wreckjoke (snoball), Saturday, 28 March 2015 11:26 (nine years ago) link
"Let My Love Open the Door" ("you're so lucky I'm around")
Although Townshend is a devotee to the religious guru Meher Baba, he claimed in the liner notes of his Anthology CD that "Jesus sings" on the track.[3]
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 28 March 2015 11:35 (nine years ago) link
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican),
The keys are the melodies and Tennant's voice. To me he does sound like he cares about the guy on the "Tellllll meeeeee/tell me that your sweet love hasn't died." otoh the "Maybe IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII didn't love you" as the song fades is cold!
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 28 March 2015 12:19 (nine years ago) link
Townshend uses pop song romantic love as a proxy for spiritual love a lot, but this just made me realize that a lot of songs about "spiritual love" make the singer sound like a serious dick.
― juggulo for the complete klvtz (bendy), Saturday, 28 March 2015 12:31 (nine years ago) link
Might be why gospel is best delivered in harmony
― juggulo for the complete klvtz (bendy), Saturday, 28 March 2015 12:32 (nine years ago) link
xp see Prince's 'I Would Die 4 U'
― Hugh G. Wreckjoke (snoball), Saturday, 28 March 2015 12:34 (nine years ago) link
a lot of songs about "spiritual love" make the singer sound like a serious dick.
many songs about spiritual love are about the singer's dick.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 28 March 2015 12:34 (nine years ago) link
I always heard "Always on My Mind" as expressing regret for being a dick.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Saturday, 28 March 2015 12:46 (nine years ago) link
which version? Willie Nelson's def.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 28 March 2015 12:48 (nine years ago) link
I don't think "Every Breath You Take" counts, Tuomas.
The lyrics are the words of a sinister, controlling character, who is watching "every breath you take; every move you make". Essentially, it is a song about stalking.I woke up in the middle of the night with that line in my head, sat down at the piano and had written it in half an hour. The tune itself is generic, an aggregate of hundreds of others, but the words are interesting. It sounds like a comforting love song. I didn't realize at the time how sinister it is. I think I was thinking of Big Brother, surveillance and control.—Sting[7]Sting later said he was disconcerted by how many people think the song is more positive than it is. He insists it's about the obsession with a lost lover, and the jealousy and surveillance that follow. "One couple told me 'Oh we love that song; it was the main song played at our wedding!' I thought, 'Well, good luck.'"[8] When asked why he appears angry in the music video Sting told BBC Radio 2, "I think the song is very, very sinister and ugly and people have actually misinterpreted it as being a gentle little love song, when it's quite the opposite."[9]
I woke up in the middle of the night with that line in my head, sat down at the piano and had written it in half an hour. The tune itself is generic, an aggregate of hundreds of others, but the words are interesting. It sounds like a comforting love song. I didn't realize at the time how sinister it is. I think I was thinking of Big Brother, surveillance and control.
—Sting[7]
Sting later said he was disconcerted by how many people think the song is more positive than it is. He insists it's about the obsession with a lost lover, and the jealousy and surveillance that follow. "One couple told me 'Oh we love that song; it was the main song played at our wedding!' I thought, 'Well, good luck.'"[8] When asked why he appears angry in the music video Sting told BBC Radio 2, "I think the song is very, very sinister and ugly and people have actually misinterpreted it as being a gentle little love song, when it's quite the opposite."[9]
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 28 March 2015 14:16 (nine years ago) link
Don't think Neil Young's "Down By The River" counts either.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 28 March 2015 14:19 (nine years ago) link
How about God Only Knows?
― Frederik B, Saturday, 28 March 2015 14:25 (nine years ago) link
totally. see also the spoken-word part in "Confessions Part II":
This by far is the hardest thing I think I've ever had to doTo tell you, the woman I loveThat I'm having a baby by a woman that I barely even knowI hope you can accept the fact that I'm man enough to tell you thisAnd hopefully you'll give me another chance
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 28 March 2015 14:26 (nine years ago) link
^^ sheesh, that's awful.
re: God Only Knows: never found the speaker all that off-putting personally. naive, yes. melodramatic, check. selfish even, if i'm stretched. but mostly i just find it to be inspirited with the elation of young love.
― charlie h, Saturday, 28 March 2015 14:48 (nine years ago) link
Not Tuomas but I'm not totally clear on what the thread is asking for. In this case, the songwriter intended for the song to be from the perspective of a serious dick; I'm not sure that the protagonist himself realizes this, though.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Saturday, 28 March 2015 14:52 (nine years ago) link
I disagree with "God Only Knows" but surely "Caroline No" fits. Especially when hearing about the reaction his girlfriend had to it.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 28 March 2015 14:55 (nine years ago) link
peace man, I honestly don’t think Chilli was talking about dudes like you, you don’t seem like a scrub
― brimstead, Wednesday, 28 June 2023 23:53 (nine months ago) link
One can read "no scrubs" as punching up. Like, you think you are hot shit and you have a lot to offer, but you live in your mom's basement and you need your friend to drive you places because you are actually broke and going nowhere.
One can also read "No Scrubs" as a blanket dismissal of dudes who have aspirations, but have a ways to go.
Even in this slightly more charitable reading, the dude in question still needs to up his game before he approaches someone of TLC caliber. It's not just money; it's independence and competence.
― pomplamoose and circumstance (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 29 June 2023 00:02 (nine months ago) link
So Scrubs is like the opposite of Let’s Hear for The Boy
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Thursday, 29 June 2023 00:10 (nine months ago) link
Maybe! I would rather be with the guy described in "Let's Hear it for the Boy" than the guy described in "No Scrubs."
― pomplamoose and circumstance (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 29 June 2023 00:17 (nine months ago) link
Cf. Erykah Badu, "Tyrone."
― pomplamoose and circumstance (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 29 June 2023 00:18 (nine months ago) link
In 2020, Chilli revealed the song was inspired by seeing Full House stars Dave Coulier and John Stamos driving by: One day we’re out walking, and (Coulier) and Stamos come driving by, and you know, Coulier leans out and tries to holler at us from the passenger side of the car. To be honest, I didn’t know who he was at first — I just saw a bunch of hair and a bright, patterned shirt, but then it clicked and I was like, ‘Is that that corny motherfucker, Uncle Joey?’ So I started jotting down some lines, and the rest is history. He was talking like Popeye for some reason, and had this beaver puppet… that part didn’t make it in the song.
One day we’re out walking, and (Coulier) and Stamos come driving by, and you know, Coulier leans out and tries to holler at us from the passenger side of the car. To be honest, I didn’t know who he was at first — I just saw a bunch of hair and a bright, patterned shirt, but then it clicked and I was like, ‘Is that that corny motherfucker, Uncle Joey?’ So I started jotting down some lines, and the rest is history. He was talking like Popeye for some reason, and had this beaver puppet… that part didn’t make it in the song.
― Bittern Storm Over My Hammy (morrisp), Thursday, 29 June 2023 00:20 (nine months ago) link
Dave Coulier is quite the muse
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Thursday, 29 June 2023 00:22 (nine months ago) link
I was gonna say – if he truly inspired both "No Scrubs" and (as rumored) "You Oughta Know," that's like the antimatter version of some king sh!t right there.
― Bittern Storm Over My Hammy (morrisp), Thursday, 29 June 2023 00:22 (nine months ago) link
Big Prick Energy
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Thursday, 29 June 2023 00:23 (nine months ago) link
Alanis didn't mention the beaver puppet either!
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 29 June 2023 00:23 (nine months ago) link
A Scrub is a guy who thinks he’s fly/Often carries a beaver
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Thursday, 29 June 2023 00:26 (nine months ago) link
He was talking like Popeye for some reason, and had this beaver puppet…
― brimstead, Thursday, 29 June 2023 00:29 (nine months ago) link
I guess the Olsen Twins must have been making all the money
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Thursday, 29 June 2023 00:33 (nine months ago) link
True of most John Mayer songs, but “you’re going to live forever in me” is a capstone song in this theme
― hrep (H.P), Thursday, 29 June 2023 00:56 (nine months ago) link
https://thehardtimes.net/culture/tlc-confirms-that-no-scrubs-was-also-written-about-dave-coulier/
― very sneaky cis (symsymsym), Thursday, 29 June 2023 01:44 (nine months ago) link
this appears to have been picked up by some AI articles, and will thus now be true forever
Dave Coulier has an album called “Songs in the Key of Beaver”
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Thursday, 29 June 2023 01:49 (nine months ago) link
I mean look, that's why I mentioned it. I don't *think* TLC meant to come off as condescending of poor people but it kind of comes off that way
― frogbs, Thursday, 29 June 2023 02:31 (nine months ago) link
technically speaking TLC didn't write the song either, it was written largely by two members of Xscape for them to record and then they gave it to TLC instead
― sad Mings of dynasty (Neanderthal), Thursday, 29 June 2023 02:35 (nine months ago) link
^^ see bringing that up is a scrub move
― frogbs, Thursday, 29 June 2023 02:51 (nine months ago) link
I could have written the song, I have amazing songwriting talent, but was too busy working on three even better songs, you're gonna love em when they come out.
― sad Mings of dynasty (Neanderthal), Thursday, 29 June 2023 02:56 (nine months ago) link
In the front of the club I see this girl like, "Yo love"Thought she said thug but she called me a scrub
This ain't my Benz there, it's my man's, yeahBut this ain't my car like that ain't your hair
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Thursday, 29 June 2023 03:10 (nine months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tt5DE4hbYY
― Renaissance of the Celtic Trumpet (Tom D.), Saturday, 1 July 2023 13:39 (eight months ago) link
Talking of Roy Orbison. I know we're supposed to feel sympathy for Roy in this song but what a whiny deluded sap he is. She's obviously not that into you, Roy, develop a backbone why don't you?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtgnsOXoAVM
― Foot Heads Arms Body (Tom D.), Monday, 3 July 2023 11:36 (eight months ago) link
Lehrer notes that there was (even then) a trope of women singing about guys who they loved even though they were repulsive and unsanitary.
Is “My Funny Valentine” the origin of this trope?
First example that jumps to mind is The Crystals “He’s Sure The Boy I Love” (“He doesn't hang diamonds 'round my neck/And all he's got is an unemployment check”).
What’s great about “Give Him A Great Big Kiss” is that the Shangri-Las are clearly turned on by his “dirty fingernails”, no qualifiers needed.
Of course the male versions of this trope are the ones that are truly nasty e.g. “You Got What It Takes”:
You don't live in a beautiful place, noYou don't dress in the best of tasteAnd nature didn't give you such a beautiful faceBut baby, you got what it takes.
Who could resist such buttering up?
Also, as mentioned upthread, the Temptations “Beauty’s Only Skin Deep” (yeah, yeah, yeah):
Now, good looks, I've learned to do without'Cause now I know it's love that really counts
and
A pretty face you may not possessBut what I like about you is your tenderness.
― gjoon1, Monday, 3 July 2023 12:38 (eight months ago) link
You ain't a beauty, but hey you're alrightAnd that's alright with me
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Monday, 3 July 2023 13:44 (eight months ago) link
…And here’s why
― Crabber B. Munson (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 3 July 2023 13:49 (eight months ago) link
(You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care(…kind of the flip of Great Big Kiss, where she loves that the guy is cool)
― Bittern Storm Over My Hammy (morrisp), Monday, 3 July 2023 15:00 (eight months ago) link
reminds me of the thing you can find in some old r&b tunes where the male lead singer loves his girl because she's either too fat or too skinny, thus reducing the chances that somebody will try to steal her
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 5 July 2023 15:49 (eight months ago) link
"If You Wanna Be Happy" by Jimmy Soul took that concept to #1 in 1963. Kinda funny that the song was written by a married couple, together with a third writer.
― Josefa, Wednesday, 5 July 2023 16:51 (eight months ago) link
lol god that song
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 5 July 2023 17:04 (eight months ago) link
I still hear it at public joints, it is so cringe. It's not even a good song.
― Confessions of an Oatmeal Eater (I M Losted), Thursday, 6 July 2023 23:02 (eight months ago) link
Bono
― BrianB, Saturday, 12 August 2023 02:24 (seven months ago) link
Which one
― earosmith (Neanderthal), Saturday, 12 August 2023 02:30 (seven months ago) link
Daddy's gonna pay for your crashed car (at the moment, but I guess you could argue the "without meaning to" clause in that era, so more generally, just Bono.
― BrianB, Saturday, 12 August 2023 02:34 (seven months ago) link
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― BrianB, Saturday, 12 August 2023 02:35 (seven months ago) link
Great song though
― Chevy Chase drumming mystery (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 12 August 2023 02:38 (seven months ago) link
Dang now I have an image in my head of Bono and Cher
― Bonobo Vox (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 12 August 2023 02:46 (seven months ago) link
Songs where the singer/protagonist comes off as a serious dick
The lyrics to The Jets - "Rocket 2 U" are really funny, every verse is just a list of all of the things the protagonist cannot do, doesn't understand how to do, or will not do
And the chorus is basically "I am an idiot and kind of useless but I can fuck all night, it is actually the only thing I can do" lol
― Florin Cuchares, Saturday, 12 August 2023 03:45 (seven months ago) link
Climax Blues Band - “I Love You”
Classic woman-as-savior-of-the-lost-soul-male-genius song, not a single line about what she’s really like, only about how she fulfilled her duty in talking this piece of shit off the ledge.
― henry s, Saturday, 12 August 2023 04:03 (seven months ago) link
The Turtles, "Let Me Be".
"Don't try to plan me or understand me / I can't stand to be understood"
Good, because there's nothing to understand, you're a pompous whiny dick, end of story.
― I Left My Harp In Sam Frank's Disco (Tom D.), Sunday, 24 September 2023 12:24 (six months ago) link
Ha, attempt to rewrite It Ain’t Me Babe
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Sunday, 24 September 2023 14:05 (six months ago) link
See I think "It Ain't Me Babe" almost doesn't fit the category because he clearly intends dickitude.
Compare "Rambling Man" or "Free Bird" or "Goodbye Stranger" for basically the same message.
― Hereward the Woke (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 24 September 2023 15:27 (six months ago) link
I just mean that it was the Turtles follow up single to their cover of It Ain’t Me Babe. Sounds like dumbed down Dylan lyrics.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Sunday, 24 September 2023 17:06 (six months ago) link
PF Sloan I think?
― I Left My Harp In Sam Frank's Disco (Tom D.), Sunday, 24 September 2023 17:09 (six months ago) link
Adding to the Beach Boys coverage itt, "Girl Don't Tell Me" is quite the little bundle of grievance. Like, okay, I get it, she didn't write you after your fling last summer, and you're bummed. But maybe take it as a life lesson and don't go on a creepy tangent about her short shorts and all the going-out she must have done during the school year. Gross.
― not the one who's tryin' to dub your anime (Doctor Casino), Friday, 29 September 2023 17:21 (six months ago) link
Dr. Hook's "More Like the Movies" is one long extended "apology" where every "sorry" strikes me as deeply insincere and manipulative:
I guess the dance is over nowSo you just courtsey and I'll bowAnd ask the band to play us Auld Lang SyneThen I'll just take what's left of meRight back to where it used to beAnd you'll go sail your magic carpet, far across the skyI wish I could have made itMore like the movies for youSome pretty Technicolor way it's never beenI'm sorry when I kissed youYou only heard me whisperYou never got to hear those violinsDid you girl?No, you never got to hear those violins, noThe castles that you built so highWere just too steep for me to climbAnd I guess these dirty streets of mineWere just too rough for youI wish I could've helped you seeJust one of your sweet childhood dreamsBut though I tried, I could not make not one of them come trueAnd I wish I could have made itMore like the movies for youSome pretty Technicolor way it's never beenI'm sorry when I kissed youYou only heard me whisperYou never got to hear those violins
I wish I could have made itMore like the movies for youSome pretty Technicolor way it's never beenI'm sorry when I kissed youYou only heard me whisperYou never got to hear those violinsDid you girl?No, you never got to hear those violins, no
The castles that you built so highWere just too steep for me to climbAnd I guess these dirty streets of mineWere just too rough for youI wish I could've helped you seeJust one of your sweet childhood dreamsBut though I tried, I could not make not one of them come true
And I wish I could have made itMore like the movies for youSome pretty Technicolor way it's never beenI'm sorry when I kissed youYou only heard me whisperYou never got to hear those violins
― not the one who's tryin' to dub your anime (Doctor Casino), Monday, 25 March 2024 20:00 (four days ago) link
Add Dr. Hook's "When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman" to thread also
― Rich E. (Eric H.), Monday, 25 March 2024 20:32 (four days ago) link
I never got to hear those violins, no
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 25 March 2024 20:34 (four days ago) link