Let's discuss song lyrics...

Ron

Ron

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Mentioned in the other thread and got me wondering...

There are a few songs out there that have lyrics that have always bothered me despite me otherwise liking the song.

Uneasy Rider by CDB is probably the greatest example of all time.

'These 5 big dudes came strolling in with 1 old drunk chick and some feller with green teeth'

then

'The last thing I was was to get in a fight [...] especially when there was 3 of them and only 1 of me.'

What happened to the other 2 big dudes?

Discuss
 
I always looked at like charlie was telling a story to his buddys and was exaggerating the events. You really believe he chased them all ust once around the parking lot? Just like that hot chick you met that was totally in to you...
 
Me thinks the old drunk chick and the feller with green teeth were never perceived as a threat to begin with, but we're in fact, a part of the original 5 big dudes....therefore, the uneasy rider, only had 3 big dudes on his radar as being hostile. He never intended to fight them all but desperately needed a smokescreen to help him flee. That's why he kicked ole green teeth right in the knee.

@Ron. Somehow, I always had you figured for one of the gentler hostiles in uneasy rider 2. Bwahaaha
 
ManglerYJ said:
Green Day wanted to be the political activists that Rise Against are... I don't always agree with their political slant, but their lyrics are pretty damn good.
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Exactly. Good music but hearing a bunch of rich kids complain about privilege, not so much.
 
Dylan W. said:
Me thinks the old drunk chick and the feller with green teeth were never perceived as a threat to begin with, but we're in fact, a part of the original 5 big dudes....therefore, the uneasy rider, only had 3 big dudes on his radar as being hostile. He never intended to fight them all but desperately needed a smokescreen to help him flee. That's why he kicked ole green teeth right in the knee.
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See this is where logic fails.
These 5 big dudes came strolling in WITH some old drunk chick and a feller with green teeth....
Drunk chick and green teeth cant be part of the fight.
 
And while we are at it....its over 100 miles from the state line to Jackson MS.

So .... "just as I crossed that MS line I heard that highway starting to whine and I knew that left rear tire was about to go"

He went as far as he could...in fact over 100 miles on a flat tire...
 
TARider said:
Exactly. Good music but hearing a bunch of rich kids complain about privilege, not so much.
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I'll take that any day over "Watch me whip.... watch me nay nay...." or whatever the hell crap my kids are listening to at Cheer practice. I'd rather jab an icepick in my ear drum than that crap.

One of my favorite Pandora stations includes Three Days Grace, Rise Against, Slipknot, Disturbd and Breaking Benjamin. I can listen to that for hours and get a lot done. Switch over to my Dave Matthews station and all the sudden I have no motivation at all.
 
Ron said:
See this is where logic fails.
These 5 big dudes came strolling in WITH some old drunk chick and a feller with green teeth....
Drunk chick and green teeth cant be part of the fight.
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When Charlie was drunk writing that song it could have gone like this...
These 5 big dudes came strolling in INCLUDING a drunk chick a green teeth dude.

But that sounds crappy, so he used the word "with".

Sounding more logical by the minute.
 
Ron said:
And while we are at it....its over 100 miles from the state line to Jackson MS.

So .... "just as I crossed that MS line I heard that highway starting to whine and I knew that left rear tire was about to go"

He went as far as he could...in fact over 100 miles on a flat tire...
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Naw man..you got it wrong.
He heard the highway= tire START to whine, much like I heard my front end on the xj "start" to let go in Spartanburg. ..yet it didn't completely fail until Auburn. And Auburn is alot further from Spartanburg than 100 miles.

Clearly the hippy was high and completely in tune with his car. He could tell it was gonna have a flat at some point. I bet he was as surprised as anyone that it made it as far as it did. Just a few miles from the Dew Drop inn bar in fact.

Just as surprised as I was, again in Auburn, to have made it nearly a complete lap on 3 tires.
 
Does it pain anyone else when people name off their favorite music and it's a bunch of top 40 whatever genre on fm radio? Whoa, that's a long sentence.
 
GONOVRIT said:
Does it pain anyone else when people name off their favorite music and it's a bunch of top 40 whatever genre on fm radio? Whoa, that's a long sentence.
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My son is a freshman in highschool. He has a teacher that was a classmate of mine.
They had a writing assignment the other day where they had to write a paragraph about each of their 10 favorite muscial artists. The teacher sent an email to us laughing at me "corrupting" my son. Among his Top 10 (reminder this is a 14 year old):

Johnny Cash
Lynyrd Skynyd
Waylon Jennings
Jamey Johnson
G-N-R
The Doors
Jason Isbell
Kenny Chesney (sorry I failed the boy here....)
and 2 folks Id never heard of...

The funny thing?
I've never tried to influence him towards any music...
 
One of my all time favorite songs, before the devil knows we're dead-turnpike troubadours. I relate to this in many ways.

He was pushing eighty
but he acted twenty two
he could laugh and drink
just like his grandchildren could do
There was square hay on the meadow
second cutting of the year
well his summer work was over
when they got the pasture clear
they were drinking on the big bluff
cross the river from the field
well he walked up the edge
threw a stone and he kneeled
And he looked down at the water
said boys im going in
they were cheering when he jumped
but he did not come up again


chorus:
Well raise another round boys
and have another glass
be thankful for today
knowing it will never last
and lets leave the world laughing
when our eulogies are read
may we all get to heaven
before the devil knows were dead
may we all get to heaven
before the devil knows were dead.

verse 2:

Well it was twenty after midnight.
And they were going eighty five
she was barely out of highschool
wantin bad to feel alive.
just a two lane piece of blacktop
a snakey stretch of road.
well the wind blew through the wing vents
it was clear and fresh and cold.
well the driver killed the headlights
and he put the throttle down.
when they hit the railroad crossin
they were five feet off the ground
just a screamin through the midnight
till they came down again
when the front tire hit the bar-ditch
they went end over end

chorus:
Well raise another round boys
and have another glass
be thankful for today
knowing it will never last
and lets leave the world laughing
when our eulogies are read
may we all get to heaven
before the devil knows were dead
may we all get to heaven
before the devil knows were dead.

(Guitar Solo)

verse 3:

(BOOM) (BOOM) (BOOM) ....

Well Im twenty eight years old now
I was born in eighty four
and Ive been as free as I can be
and I wont ask for anymore

So let the fiddle play hoooooe down
after I draw my last breath
well tell everyone I know
that I loved them all to death

Well raise another round boys
and have another glass
be thankful for today
knowing it will never last
and lets leave the world laughing
when our eulogies are read
may we all get to heaven
before the devil knows were dead
may we all get to heaven
before the devil knows were dead.
may we all get to heaven
before the devil knows were dead.
may we all get to heaven
before the devil knows were dead.
 
Dylan W. said:
Here's a real question for ya @Ron . Why the hell did Fancy just shiver, when she watched a roach crawl across the toe of her high heel shoe?

Why didn't she just stomp that sumbitch and squish it?
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Dammit, I get that that song stuck in my head enough as it is without you bringing it up, too.
 
GONOVRIT said:
Does it pain anyone else when people name off their favorite music and it's a bunch of top 40 whatever genre on fm radio? Whoa, that's a long sentence.
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Don't deal with those type of folks long enough to get into that type of discussion.


Now maybe they were two separate groups that just happened to arrive at the same time and the two "unaccounted" for "big dudes" are swillin suds and enjoying the fracas.
 
rockcity said:
For some reason, Ive always thought about Beck's lyrics when he said "my time is a piece of wax, falling on a termite, choking on the splinters..."
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Mine has always Smashing Pumpkins "despite all his rage, he is still just a rat in a cage".
 
"It's just another manic monday ooooo I wish it was Sunday oooo"

I don't get it!? Why not wish it was tuesday, that way you have the rest of the week!

Sorry to the people that now have that stuck in their head!! :flipoff2:
 
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