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Some lyrics make me cringe. “You’ve Changed” says You've forgotten the words, "I love you" Each memory that we've shared You ignore every star above you I can't realize you've ever cared Shouldn’t that be “RECOGNIZE you ever cared”? (Maybe it’s a regional thing). ***** Other songs whose lyrics make me scratch my head: “Anywhere the Heart Goes” (from THE THORN BIRDS) Love can hurt when you go Anywhere the heart goes Don’t you know it isn’t easy Being me I hold you inside where my love never dies And you will always live somewhere in me Somehow that line sounds so much like this lyric was written in a great big, honkin’ hurry. ******** “Dreamsville” (from PETER GUNN) We can see the rest of the world Below us from our pink cloud There's no boundary to this magic light As we go exploring hand in hand In dreamy dreamsville Far away and here we love Here we stay I like Livingston and Evans; once again those 2 things make it sound like they were in a hurry. ***** Do you have any?
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If you skip over to the Rozsa Forum, one of the real experts there who's written many articles on Miklos Rozsa, recently unearthed the lyrics Webster wrote for Rozsa's love theme for 'Ben-Hur'. Rozsa said in an interview that he'd originally intended the Esther character to sing a song, and that love theme was to be the melody. The song lyrics have been found, and it's called, 'Written in the Stars'. http://miklosrozsa.yuku.com/topic/1139/The-Lion-s-Voice-the-FSM-online-article The lyrics are .... so-so. Some good elements, and a bit erotic here and there.
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Or, sticking with the movies... "....and he strikes, like thunderball...."..... .....what?.... Don Black regularly stated in interviews that those words meant nothing, they just worked.
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I Love to Laugh from Mary Poppins It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World song. Those two make me chuckle and nutty in the eyes of DMD.
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I always thought the subject of the Thunderball song was . . . the villain. Surely, it's not Bond himself being referred to. Indeed. But it's the general syntax of, '...he strikes like Thunderball' that's dodgy. Black admitted that. It sounds like 'Thunderball' is a euphemism for something you pick up from dodgy vindaloos, like the 'Tripoli Trots' or 'Montezuma's Revenge'. 'OOO-ER .... excuse me, I think I have a touch of the Thunderballs...' 'I think you're going down with a dose of the Thunderball: you should never have eaten that sushi'. etc..
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Stevie Wonder - I just called to say I love you I just called to say how much I care I just called to say I love you And I mean it from the bottom of my heart Now, the melody of this is just SO banal that I find it insufferable. And then he comes up with a lyric that just cries out for some kind of rhyme, and he says "heart" instead of "hair". Hate it. Drives me nutty.
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