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re: analysing the lyrics....

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besty 05:11 pm UTC 08/26/10
In reply to: re: analysing the lyrics.... - Vin 02:48 am UTC 08/26/10

In my opinion "Man of Steel" is fairly shit. However "Priscilla" and "Special Girl" easily out-shits it.

> They are pretty bad, but no worse than a lot of the trite,
> cliched Diane Warren-type lyrics Meat has recorde in the
> past (along with countless other artists.) The thing
> about bad lyrics is, if they're sung well, and to good
> music, they don't seem so bad as when you just read them
> on the page. IMO, "Man of Steel" is a decent song. I'd
> give it a C+.
>
> As an occasional lyric writer, whenever I find myself
> leaning toward the easy line, the cheesy rhyme, or the
> obvious choice, I just try to scrap it and go in a
> different direction and throw in something that I think I
> haven't heard before.
>
> > Completely overlooked your question actually...
> >
> > I guess he is on about these lyrics:
> > "I built this prison that I thought was a home
> > And we both lived here
> > Guess you were living alone
> > I'd tear it down if you would only have asked
> > And I would build you a bridge
> > So you could come back"
> >
> > They are quite cheesy lyrics I guess.
> >
> > the "both lived here / guess you were living alone"
> > perhaps doesn't make much sense. However It could be
> > interpreted as a type of unrequited love, in saying the
> > guy physically lived there but was never there for the
> > girl to love her properly? Something like that.
> > The next three lines seem to be saying "well you should
> > have complained at the time bitch and now it's too late
> > because I am too weak"
> > I wouldn't say these are the worst lines Meat has sung.
> > Something from the 80s would seem to fit that bill better
> > I would have thought.
> >
> > > Anyone here who has knowledge of songwriting, what is
> > > wrong with the offending verse? Is it any worse than some
> > > of the lyrics on HCTB.


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