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Lyrical Shoehorn
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So you're listening to a new song, and really like it! Not only is the melody awesome, but the lyrics seem really deep and poignant. But is the singer talking about shoes there? You're not sure, so you go to the Internet, pull up a lyrics site, and look up to the words to the song. And they end up looking something like this: Uhhhhh... While song lyrics are a form of poetry, there's one simple fact about songs that sets them apart from poems: They're meant to be sung. So lines that make no sense on paper—such as run-on or fragmented sentences, strange contrivances of grammar, and outright nonsense—are not only accepted in songs, but they can actually make them better, since it flows better with the music. Whether the words are written to fit the music, or the music written after the words are down, a song and its lyrics have to fit together—and if the words have to be "squeezed" a little to make them fit, well, that might just happen. See also Word Salad Lyrics, when the words don't even attempt to make sense (or occasionally, even be grammatical), and Singing Simlish, for songs that are just gibberish. Lyrical Tic is for particular shoehorns that become a certain artist's catchphrase. See also Scatting. |
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Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog has wacky phrasing and rhyme scheme to fit the tempo of the song. Witness "Slipping", where the verse ends in the middle of a sentence and the continuing sentence starts the next verse. Same is true for Captain Hammer's intro, "A Man's Gotta Do": |
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The chorus of "Good Morning Starshine" from Hair: | |
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The children's praise song "The Wa Wa Song" (from Kids Praise) has a particularly glaring one: | |
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Neil Diamond: "Songs that she sang to me, songs that she brang to me". Usually one would say "brought" instead. | |
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Ricky Martin's "Livin' La Vida Loca" had a dilemma in its chorus: the only workable English word to rhyme with "loca" is "mocha". But a reference to coffee in a song about a Femme Fatale would seem weird. But the solution they came up with was equally odd and tortured. | |
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Diamond Rio has a few: "How Your Love Makes Me Feel": "Walkin' Away", with the line "These occasional moments of weakness only makes our love more strong". Subect/verb disagreement, anyone? And "Unbelievable" has "She's so beautiful, it's undisputable / It's undeniable, she's gottahaveable". Writer Jeffrey Steele supposedly disliked this line. |
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Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People fits the words "unless you're a lady, then you're cordially invited to have a giant slice of my style" into a space of five seconds. | |
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"FRIENDS" by Marshmello and Anne-Marie is a Spelling Song, but the proper spelling of the word "friends" has one syllable too many to fit the chorus melody, so most of the time the lyrics seem to spell it "F-r-i-n-d-s". According to the official lyric video, it's "f-r-i-en-d-s", with "en" presumably meant to be pronounced like the letter "n". | |
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Ed Sheeran's "The A-Team" (a song about a woman addicted to drugs) has some seriously Painful Rhymes because of this: | |
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The Cranberries do this sometimes, for instance: | |
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The song "Knights of the Round Table" from Monty Python and the Holy Grail is composed entirely of this trope, to the point that it includes the Lampshade: | |
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"Na Na Na Na Naa" is the name of a song by Kaiser Chiefs, as well as a great deal of the lyric. It verges on being the band's Lyrical Tic. | |
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Brendon Small's songs in Home Movies and Metalocalypse have "doodley-doo" in the lyrics, a lot. | |
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The main theme song for Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening, "Devils Never Cry", has these lines which mention "of a" consecutively: | |
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"Mack the Knife," as it appears in the Marc Blitzstein translation of The Threepenny Opera, has about every other line ending with a gratuitous "dear". It should be observed that some of the most famous covers of the song use Blitzstein's English version of the lyrics but with that word changed. | |
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The theme song for Murder Most Horrid has a line at the end which goes "and you wake in the night, wipe the sweat from your forehead (pronounced as forrid)/ Murder Most Horrid", and each episode has a different word substituted that rhymes with "horrid", such as torrid and borrowed (pronounced "borrid"). They seem to run out of words at one point, and the line becomes "and you wake in the night... la la la la la lorid". The fact that it's Played for Laughs eases the pain. | |
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xkcd gives you this. | |
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From early in Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds: "The chances of anything coming from Mars Are a million to one," he said. (In the original novel, it's "The chances against anything...") | |
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"Hey Man Nice Shot" by Filter gives us the immortal line "AAAA MAN/HAS GUN". | |
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"She got it goin' on like Donkey Kong" from Trace Adkins' "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk" (see also Stuffy Old Songs About the Buttocks). | |
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Played for laughs in "Voice of Harold", which consists of Michael Stipe singing out the liner notes to a gospel album to the tune of "7 Chinese Bros." Many parts of the writing inevitably don't fit the meter of the song, resulting in him frequently having to either drag out, rush through, or add pauses in the middle of some of the words. | |
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He and Simon argue about the grammatically incorrect lyrics in "There Ain't Nothin' Wrong with the Radio". | |
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In The Black Eyed Peas' song "Imma Be", in between repeating its title over and over again, had Will.i.am deliver the immortal line: "Imma be a brother, but my name ain't Lehmann; Imma be a bank, I be loaning out semen." No-one is quite sure why. | |
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Don't listen too closely to "World Without Logos" (the opening theme of Hellsing TV). The lyrics are so full of this and Gratuitous English that it's practically scat-singing. | |
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Do you know where you're going to? | |
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In the Stephen Sondheim musical Merrily We Roll Along, the main character is demoing one of his songs to a producer, and expresses his dissatisfaction with the line, "They're always popping their cork." | |
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"Do Re Mi" from The Sound of Music has the irritatingly shoehorned line, "La: a note to follow so." It's probably because there just isn't a good pun on "la." The line is the subject of a Douglas Adams essay, as he uses it as an example of "Unfinished Business of the 20th Century", things that really should be sorted out before the digits change. He even tries to repair it himself before conceding that perhaps it's not as easy a problem as it first appears. |
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Andy Williams' "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" with its mentions of "marshmallows for toasting" and "scary ghost stories," which are about as far from Christmas imagery as you can get (you could count A Christmas Carol but that's a stretch). There's also a mention of "gay happy meetings", which is of course a bit redundant. Possibly an example of something becoming this over time. There are traditions of telling ghost stories at Christmas, as seen here for example. |
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The chorus of "Leaving New York" has the grammatically odd line "leaving was never my proud" (probably meaning "pride", but that wouldn't slant-rhyme with "around" and "down"). Like the Carrie Underwood example, it can be read as being in LOLCat speak. | |
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Furthermore, "We're in This Together" and "The Great Below" feature "down the path we have chose" and "the destiny I've chose". In both cases, "chosen" would be semantically correct, but also wouldn't scan. | |
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Akon's "Dangerous" has the first line "I can't notice but to notice you, noticing me." | |
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In the Eegah! song "Valerie", Arch Hall Jr. very clumsily tosses in the words "gallery", "calorie" and "salary" just so they can rhyme with the title. | |
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Randy Rainbow: The chorus of "Desperate Cheeto" features words like "bleep-o" and "creep-o" to make them all sort of rhyme with "cheeto" and fit the meter of the song. There's also a verse containing the line "stop smoking marijuania" to make it rhyme with "Melania" and "ya". "A Very Stable Genius" has "penius", "vaginias" and "subpoenias". |
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Also by Train, "50 Ways to Say Goodbye" has the baffling line "how could you leave on Yom Kippur?" It's there to rhyme with "yours", but it makes one wonder on which holiday the speaker would have preferred to have his girlfriend break up with him. | |
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Einstürzende Neubauten "Was Ist, Ist". Half of the lyrics are nonsensical revolutionary political claims, half adlibbed each time it is sung, and half fillers a la "dididi und didi di." | |
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The Dixie Chicks' "Not Ready to Make Nice" somehow manages to use "mad as hell" twice in the chorus just because they couldn't think of another line. | |
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Collin Raye's "On the Verge" uses the phrase "slow down me" to rhyme with "around me." | |
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Nickelback songs should only be listened to and never analyzed on paper for this very reason. The lyrics come off as a bit sing-songy and childish when they're just read through. | |
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"Bop bop she bop" appears in Rammstein's Adios | |
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