From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!cbosgd!mark
Newsgroups: net.misc,net.music
Title: unintelligible lyrics to songs
Article-I.D.: cbosgd.3454
Posted: Sat Apr 23 19:46:27 1983
Received: Mon Apr 25 02:24:34 1983

I'm getting tired of songs that I like the rhythm to, but that
I can't understand any of the lyrics.  I spent forever figuring
out that Billy Jean is about a girl claiming the singer is the
father of her baby, but I still haven't decided if the most
repeated phrase in the song is "The child is not my son" or
"The kid is not my son".  For a while I thought the word was
"jealous".  Anybody think they know for sure?

Now my pet peeve is "Come on Eileen".  Those are the only
consecutive words in the whole song I can understand, except
for "Too ra loo ra", and this is NO Irish lullaby!  Can someone
tell me what this song is about?  Anyone know the words?

I remember way back, there was a song called "Killing me softly"
which has become almost a classic.  (I still hear it every once
in a while.)  Nobody could decide what he was strumming
- "Strumming my ______ with his fingers; singing my life with
his words" - her "pain", her "fate", I heard people claim it
was her "face", even her "bed" (that's a bit hard to see).
I finally settled on "fate" but was never 100% sure.

There ought to be a law requiring the written words to be
available somewhere, preferably with the record when you buy it.