Drama Kings and Queens
I spent a significant portion of Friday evening listening to a Dar Williams live album. This is time that I will not get back. One song, titled February, struck me as being particularly awful, it being possessed of the following progressively overwrought middle eight:
"And February was so long that it lasted into March
And found us walking a path alone together.
You stopped and pointed and you said, "That's a Crocus,"
And I said, "What's a Crocus?" and you said, "It's a flower,"
And I tried to remember, but I said, "What's a flower?"
And you said, "I STILLLLL LOOOOVVVVE YOOOUUUUU!""
I have given this lyric careful deliberation and now believe it to be the most appalling thing I have ever heard, snatching what I thought was an unbeatable first place from I Just Shot John Lennon by The Cranberries. It is also a good example of an artist throwing caution to the wind in a bid to create drama and instead falling flat on their face and descending into self-parody. For these reasons I suspect that I will end up quite liking February. Just thinking about it brings a smile to my face.
Does anyone have any other examples of unintentionally hilarious high drama in music? - Songs, or moments in songs, that were meant to be serious and profound but somehow ended up being the complete opposite.
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Bit hard to respond
when I was laughing like an idiot at "And February was so long that it lasted into March". Well, what else was it going to do?
I know there are a number of Yes fans on this site, but a personal favourites in the serious yet awful lyric department:
Here is my heart
Waiting for you
Here is my song
I eat at chez nous
Nice plug for the local eatery there...
Top of the crass
In the very same song as pop's all-time most desperate rhyme, "keyboard"/"oh, Lord!", we get this:
We all know
That people are the same where ever we go;
There is good and bad
In everyone;
We learn to live,
We learn to give
Each other what we need to survive
Together alive.
- Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder: "Ebony and Ivory"
maybe
two great musical gods were having an off day...little too much tea ?
Let us not forget
Even if we want to, the Cranberries touching description of a troubled relationship in Animal Instinct:
Suddenly something has happened to me
As I was having my cup of tea
Suddenly I was feeling depressed
I was utterly and totally stressed
Do you know you made me cry
Do you know you made me die
Classic
This lyric from Adrian Gurvitz always makes me smile:-
Got to write a classic
Got to write it in the attic
Babe, I'm an addict now
Why does he have to write it in the attic?
The Cranberries
That one where they sing "Don't Do It"
How can we forget "War is stupid,People are Stupid"