Songs plagued by bad grammar

That DOES sound annoying, and I don't really give a shit about grammar.

"And I ran, I ran so far away" is followed immediately by "couldn't get away," which implies that he didn't actually run away. If anything, the song should be present tense (I run so far away) until it bangs into the startling realization: "I can not get away!"

Especially since the song title is RUN, not ran! It really emphasizes the fact that the douche thought he was speaking correctly.

There's a difference between running far away and "getting away". Running far away means running a long distance, while "getting away" is more idiomatic and means "escape".

"IfwhiteAmericatoldthetruthforonedayit'sworldwouldfallapart".

>_< >_< >_< AAAAAARRRRGHHH KILLKILLKILL HULK SMASH-

..... I *hate* that particular mistake.

"I'm gonna love you
Till the stars fall from the sky for you and I"

-the venerable morrison

Something that always cracks me up is how the singer is talking about "her" then talking to "her":

"She was a fast machine she kept her motor clean
She was the best damn woman that I ever seen"
- changes to -
"you shook me all night long"

Also, Lord Sotosyn, I heard that one this morning and had to giggle at that part.

Precisely, but away from something, which is actually what he could not get. So he ran a long distance, but he never got away.

I have often marvelled over that one, too, but the first of the three "in's" you listed is actually an "if":

"If this ever changing world in which we live in...makes you give in and cry...'

isn't it?

that would be gramatically correct, i guess. and that would be a much worse line than "...in which we live in." and paul has a good enough ear to know that!

"Err, well actually according to research
Government funding for further education pales in insignificance
When compared to how much they spend on repairing
Leery drunk people at the weekend
In casualty wards all over the land."

Especially ironic because Mike Skinner is trying to sound intelligent

YES THIS IS THE WORST ARGH

Isn't that what I originally said? Not to turn this into a non-funny version of Who's On First, but basically the premise of the chorus is that the protagonist ran in the opposite direction (aka away) of something, and ran far, far away, but in the end didn't run far enough away for whatever reason and was eventually overtaken. I don't really see anything gramatically unsound about it.

If we're nominating album titles, how about Taller In More Ways by the Sugababes? Or If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears by "The Mama's and the Papa's">, the one that apparently got away from the apostrophe police.

If anything, the song should be present tense (I run so far away) until it bangs into the startling realization: "I can not get away!"

-- Butt Dickass (butt.dickas...) (webmail), September 29th, 2006 2:40 AM. (Dick Butkus) (later) (link)

i thought it was intentional to emphasize how situation defies logical? standard efforts. it implies he didn't get away =really escape, even though he succeeded in distancing himself from it/person/place literally/geographically?/consciously but in some way just superficially.

..... I *hate* that particular mistake.
seriously, thanks for reissuing that yet KEEPING THE APOSTROPHE IN THE REISSUE and having the crappy grammar referenced in the liner notes. AAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGHHHH indeed

"When you gonna make up your mind?
When you gonna love you as much as I do?"

...which just makes no sense at all to begin with.

(search YouTube for choice videos of teenagers lipsynching along)

To LIVE inside the MAJ-or not the MIN-or chord,
And FOR-get how we MADE love in a '57 Ford

That should be "for-GET", not "FOR-get"! Totally unnatural sounding. Man, that irritates me! That could easily have been improved in a half-dozen ways, if she took a half-minute to think about it.

(Still a great song, tho.)

Though it's not a grammar issue, per se, the various upthread mentions of narrator perspective will always make me think of the lyrics of 'Freelove Freeway' from 'The Office,' where Gervais ends the story of the guy who had a thousand women through his life crying because 'none of them was you'; and then he clarifies that the video would explain that the narrator is pointing to a photograph.

Please note that I am well aware that I managed to just suck the comedy completely and totally out of that great joke.

line one: "Contempt in your eyes as I turn to kiss his lips"

later: "You and me together, fighting for our love"

Did he turn the first guy?

I thought he was trying to sound like a student!

"More frailer than the flowers, these precious hours"

Lie Lady Lie

Etc.

Bonus points to John Melonwhatever for "I cannot forget from where it is that I come from."

Chorus:

"But I never felt so much life
than tonight, huddled in the trenches"

???

"Nobody gonna love me better,
Ima stickwitu forever"

Ima? Uma? Oprah?

Should be ten feet. And that's the only thing wrong with that.

I don't know if it is improper grammar as its just improper.

One that makes me want to beat the shit out of people: that Get-Up Kids song where they sing something to the effect of "x VERSE y" rather than "x VERSUS y."

One that is, in fact, grammatically correct, but irritates me b/c it doesn't really seem to make sense: that Dispatch song where they describe "the General" as a "seasoned veteran in his own time." Seriously, what the fuck? I can't even begin to describe how little sense that sentence makes.