Single worst line of lyrics....

[Chester P Squier]

I wanna tell her that I love her but the point is probably moot
Who uses “moot” in a song, what the..

Rhymes with "cute."

I looked over all the posts in this thread to see if any had mentioned
"My love don't give me presents.
I know that she's no peasant."

And found that there a LOT worse lyrics than the ones in "She's a Woman" by the Beatles.

 

[hepular]

If you compare a thing with a similar sort of thing it's not a simile. Saying a mountain looks like another mountain ain't simile. Sorry.

And symbolism? I don't think so

Who awarded YOUR doctorate in Literature?

 

[notmyusualuserid]

Who awarded YOUR doctorate in Literature?

Durham University, and it's not literature. It's English language, and it was a PhD not a doctorate.

 

[hepular]

Durham University

then . . . if you can't (or won't) follow the symbolic comparison from Olympus to Kilimanjaro you're either hopelessly obtuse, culturally ignorant, or massively dismissive towards people who write pop songs . . . or all of them together.


One could argue that it's kind of a lazy simile because of the mountain-enlightenment-gods trope (cf. Hemingway, Ernest) but it's still a simile trying to evoke a notion of deific inspiration from monumental landscape features

like say:

"Hoping to find some old forgotten words or ancient melodies"

indeed, there's some lurking modernism haunting the song:

"I seek to cure what's deep inside, frightened of this thing that I've become"

 

[Frontier9]

I like big butts and I cannot lie...

Yeah, but...
Truthfully...
I, uh...

 

[notmyusualuserid]

then . . . if you can't (or won't) follow the symbolic comparison from Olympus to Kilimanjaro you're either hopelessly obtuse, culturally ignorant, or massively dismissive towards people who write pop songs . . . or all of them together.


One could argue that it's kind of a lazy simile because of the mountain-enlightenment-gods trope (cf. Hemingway, Ernest) but it's still a simile trying to evoke a notion of deific inspiration from monumental landscape features

like say:

"Hoping to find some old forgotten words or ancient melodies"

indeed, there's some lurking modernism haunting the song:

"I seek to cure what's deep inside, frightened of this thing that I've become"

This is a thread about crap lyrics, not a thesis.

Lighten up. I have no intention of deconstructing the lyrics of an 80s AOR song for your amusement.

 

[control voltage]

"Every day, a little sadder, a little madder -- someone get me a ladder!"

 

[scottser]

then . . . if you can't (or won't) follow the symbolic comparison from Olympus to Kilimanjaro you're either hopelessly obtuse, culturally ignorant, or massively dismissive towards people who write pop songs . . . or all of them together.


One could argue that it's kind of a lazy simile because of the mountain-enlightenment-gods trope (cf. Hemingway, Ernest) but it's still a simile trying to evoke a notion of deific inspiration from monumental landscape features

like say:

"Hoping to find some old forgotten words or ancient melodies"

indeed, there's some lurking modernism haunting the song:

"I seek to cure what's deep inside, frightened of this thing that I've become"

If you're going to try and capture the majesty and imperiousness of a mountain, you wouldn't compare it to another, smaller mountain.
It's a clumsy, pretentious, ill conceived and poorly executed line.
If I brought something like that to my band I would be shot with balls of my own cack.

 

[omahaaudio]

True those lyrics are ridiculous, but that tone is killer ! I think I’m gonna download that on Spotify now…

I cannot begin to tell you how bad I have always thought that "tone" is...

 

[omahaaudio]

I wanna tell her that I love her but the point is probably moot
Who uses “moot” in a song, what the..

Anyone that is clever/erudite enough to use the word "moot" in a popular song is a freakin' GENIUS.

 

[GGardner]

Great song but this line always makes me wince: "And I knew without asking she was into the blues." Makes no sense and sounds like lazy throwaway line from guy who is a professional lyricist.

 

[omahaaudio]

I like Supertramp. I think they are bloody good.

That's sad.

 

[omahaaudio]

As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti.

1. They're both mountains. It's not a simile.

One is a European mountain, one is an African mountain.
Simile...

 

[Wooly Fox]

From Biff Byford (once caption as lyricist for Saxon on a talking heads BBC music documentary, I kid you not!)

"She's got wheeeeeeeeels, wheels of steel"

"Strangers in the night, going down with no landing lights"

 

[Happy Enchilada]

"Dirty deeds and the Dunderchief."
My next band will be ... DUNDERCHIEF.

 

[ndcaster]

"not to mention fishing poles"

 

[Old Verle Miller]

"He got toe jam football
He got monkey finger"

 

[notmyusualuserid]

One is a European mountain, one is an African mountain.
Simile...

Another that doesn't understand that simile isn't comparing like with like.

 

[Killerclam]

the chair is not my son

 

[Wheelhouse]

I'm just laughing at all the criticism this thread is generating for one of the most popular songs of the past 50 years. That song alone has probably generated more royalties than most of the thread posters combined.

Although I'm still not sure I hear "I bless the rains" or "I guess the rains."