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hunting the horny back toad: lyrics that you suddenly realize are fucked up

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I never noticed how odd these words are until I saw somebody sing it at kareoke the other night and actually read the words as they scrolled across the screen:

When are you gonna come down
When are you going to land
I should have stayed on the farm
I should have listened to my old man

You know you can't hold me forever
I didn't sign up with you
I'm not a present for your friends to open
This boy's too young to be singing the blues

So goodbye yellow brick road
Where the dogs of society howl
You can't plant me in your penthouse
I'm going back to my plough

Back to the howling old owl in the woods
Hunting the horny back toad
Oh I've finally decided my future lies
Beyond the yellow brick road

What do you think you'll do then
I bet that'll shoot down your plane
It'll take you a couple of vodka and tonics
To set you on your feet again

Maybe you'll get a replacement
There's plenty like me to be found
Mongrels who ain't got a penny
Sniffing for tidbits like you on the ground


― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 19 December 2002 18:05 (twenty-three years ago)

"tidbits like you on the ground"?

what?

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 19 December 2002 18:07 (twenty-three years ago)

tidbits = small scraps, often little treats for the finder. So, I've always assumed there should be commas either side of "like you".

Even so, it always struck me as bizarre too that Taupin would describe a person as a "tidbit". But then his lyrics were often overly abstract in those days.

― Jeff W (Jeff W), Thursday, 19 December 2002 18:13 (twenty-three years ago)

my mom used to play Soft Cell's "Erotic Cabaret" album all the time when i was maybe 6. I grew up, borrowed her tape, realized i knew all the words, and was freaked out. Mom had me listening to dirty stuff

― JasonD (JasonD), Thursday, 19 December 2002 18:16 (twenty-three years ago)

*astonished* !!
i was going to post a thread about exactly this subject after
i heard it coming over the speakers on a coach last week.
totally ace song though, but man those verses !
then there's 'saturday night's alright for fighting'
when he talks about how his best friend
'floats at the bottom of a glass'.

― piscesboy, Thursday, 19 December 2002 18:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Those are nothing. "Levon"! Egads! Jesus! He wants to go to Venus!

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Friday, 20 December 2002 01:12 (twenty-three years ago)

How about that pronunciation? It's not even "toad" it's "tawd".

― Sean (Sean), Friday, 20 December 2002 02:37 (twenty-three years ago)


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