38 Special - Second Chance
the smug "why can't we forget about the past" when it is significantly more work for the wronged party
"please forgive me, and forget it, I was wrong and I admit it" - wow, how big of you
"this heart needs a second chance" - most annoying chorus ever
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 2 July 2016 16:03 (seven years ago) link
red house painters, "cruiser", due to this verse:
Won't you whisper in my ear?You look so good against my mirrorAnd you're my baby full of joyYou're my erotic brown eyed toyYou're my exotic black haired toy
― akm, Sunday, 3 July 2016 02:32 (seven years ago) link
'Are you sure?' By The Allisons might be the earliest one here.
She wants to break up, he's very 'oh well never mind' and telling her she might want him back tomorrow. Its the non-committal lyric and delivery (and the 'funny' way of saying goodbye in various ways and languages) that add to the unintended dickishness
― Mark G, Sunday, 3 July 2016 07:55 (seven years ago) link
Strange that "You Were Always On My Mind" is mentioned upthread. Isn't the entire point of the song an admission of guilt?
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Sunday, 3 July 2016 08:10 (seven years ago) link
Yes.
― Mark G, Sunday, 3 July 2016 08:28 (seven years ago) link
"The Dangling Conversation," Simon & Garfunkel. Maybe more of a douche than a dick.
― Chris L, Sunday, 3 July 2016 16:05 (seven years ago) link
I would say "Take Good Care of My Baby" is pretty sweet until this o_O line:
"So, take good care of my babyBe just as kind as you can beAnd if you should discoverThat you don't really love herJust send my baby back home to me"
― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 26 April 2017 01:26 (seven years ago) link
Oh yeah, that's a good one.
― ✓ (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 26 April 2017 02:05 (seven years ago) link
prolly mentioned, but 10cc - i'm not in love
― Unchanging Window (Ross), Thursday, 29 June 2017 00:26 (six years ago) link
"Into The Night" by Benny Mardones comes to mind. "She's just sixteen years old, leave her alone, they say." I had to google him to see if he wound up in prison.
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Thursday, 29 June 2017 02:07 (six years ago) link
Christ, it gets even worse as the song progresses:
She's just sixteen years oldLeave her alone, they saySeparated by foolsWho don't know what love is yet
But I want you to knowIf I could flyI'd pick you upI'd take you into the nightAnd show you a loveLike you've never seen - ever seen.
It's like having a dreamWhere nobody has a heartIt's like having it allAnd watching it fall apartAnd I would wait till the end of time for youAnd do it again, it's trueI can't…
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Thursday, 29 June 2017 02:08 (six years ago) link
if you haven't seen this thread:
benny mardones - "into the night" 1980 version vs. 1989 version
― dynamicinterface, Thursday, 29 June 2017 02:51 (six years ago) link
haha that thread is classic
― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Thursday, 29 June 2017 03:25 (six years ago) link
Benny is now married to a former Miss Denmark:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8jYIvd6O1Y
― soref, Thursday, 29 June 2017 03:41 (six years ago) link
So weird, I was gonna revive this earlier today but saw that Lou Christie's 'Lightning Strikes' was already mentioned. 'Please wait for me, because you're totally the woman I want to settle down with. It's just that I have a loooot of other chicks to bone before that day comes. You understand.'
― Duane Quarterdump (Old Lunch), Thursday, 29 June 2017 03:51 (six years ago) link
Ctrl+F 'Weezer'.. 0 results?! If we're talking dickish as in being completely misogynist and objectifying, Cuomo takes the cake:
I know that you're thinking I'm trying to scoreBut deep in your heart you know that I'm moreThan a cad or a scoundrel, now that I've found youI don't want to lose you, how can I prove to youThat I am sincere, you don't need to fearI'm not like the others, I'll be like a brotherI will protect you, never disrespect youBut if you need love then I'll be here to sex you
And
I'm so glad I got a girl to think of even though she isn't mineI think about her all the day and all the night it's enough to know that she's aliveShe says I give her sweaty palms she almost had a heart attackThe truth is that I’m just as scared I don’t know how to actI wish that I could get to know her betterBut meeting up in real life would cause the illusion to shatterI carved her name into all the treesSang a song down on one kneeLooking at the underwear page of the Sears catalog like when I was 14I’m levitating like a magnet turned the wrong way aroundI’m like an Indian Fakir tryna’ meditate on a bed of nails with my pants pulled down
All of 'Accross the Sea' etc etc etc
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 29 June 2017 10:49 (six years ago) link
The Stone Poneys - If I Were You
If I were youI'd be happy just knowing thatSomebody loved meIf I were youI'd be sad that somebody wasLonely without meIf I were youI know just what I would doI'd fall in love too
If I were youI'd have been in love all alongAnd for a song I'd just up and leaveEverything that I had behindI wouldn't mind itIf I were youI know just what I would doI'd fall in love too
I believeA love like mineJust can't be taken lightlyAnd in time it will win you overYou will seeThat my love won't wither like the othersYou're never going to get a better offer
If I were youThen I wouldn't cry all the timeI'd open my eyes and I would seeThere is someone so in love with meThat's all that I needIf I were youI know just what I would doI'd fall in love too
― yellow is the color of some raisins (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 14:39 (six years ago) link
Richard Marx, Hazard
Oh he done it alright
― passé aggresif (darraghmac), Thursday, 31 August 2017 01:05 (six years ago) link
if i were you - the anthem of Nice Guys
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 31 August 2017 01:18 (six years ago) link
kevin ayres, may i
I just came in off the streetLooking for somewhere to eatI find a small cafeI see a girl and then I say
May I sit and stare at you for a while?I'd like the company of your smile
You don't have to say a thingYou're the song without the singThe sunlight in your hairYou look so good just sitting there
piss off you creep
― angelo irishagreementi (ledge), Thursday, 31 August 2017 12:56 (six years ago) link
wow ewww
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 31 August 2017 12:58 (six years ago) link
Something tells me that his formal request is rhetorical.
― Glengarry Glen Marshall (Old Lunch), Thursday, 31 August 2017 13:07 (six years ago) link
no u may not
― cajunsunday, Thursday, 31 August 2017 13:10 (six years ago) link
I'd like the company of your terrified rictus
― badg, Thursday, 31 August 2017 15:31 (six years ago) link
Haha, I love that song but "piss off you creep" is totally the correct answer.
― emil.y, Thursday, 31 August 2017 15:35 (six years ago) link
creepy but also a little sad imo
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Thursday, 31 August 2017 16:52 (six years ago) link
Any song from the second Weezer album.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Thursday, 31 August 2017 16:54 (six years ago) link
And a couple from the first.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Thursday, 31 August 2017 16:55 (six years ago) link
And some from the albums after, too.
Surely 'No One Else' is self-aware, OTT dickishness. The fact it's followed up by it's own answer song is revealing
'Butterfly', on the other hand though
― PaulTMA, Thursday, 31 August 2017 17:08 (six years ago) link
Any John Mayer song probably fits this thread. Daughters, Body is a Wonderland, No Such Thing (Because I Am An Affluent White Guy) etc.
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Thursday, 31 August 2017 17:15 (six years ago) link
WAiting on the world to change would fit even more if it just came out now
"activism just happens, maaaaaan"
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 31 August 2017 17:18 (six years ago) link
bohemian rhapsody
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Thursday, 31 August 2017 18:21 (six years ago) link
"Session Man" by the Kinks
"He's not paid to think just play"
i get that it's "satire" but that line especially makes Ray Davies seem like a rockist jerk.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 2 October 2017 11:18 (six years ago) link
he's taking the side of the session man while calling him a brainless tool
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 2 October 2017 11:20 (six years ago) link
plenty of session guys happily agree that they are paid to play and not think. Could probably include Nicky Hopkins in there as well, I would guess, given that he plays on the track and it's about him.
― Οὖτις, Monday, 2 October 2017 16:03 (six years ago) link
I think it was just cos he hated Jimmy Page
― PaulTMA, Monday, 2 October 2017 19:00 (six years ago) link
Maybe I'm Amazed -- it starts out fine but I get a very bad vibe from "Maybe I'm a man, maybe I'm a lonely man who's in the middle of something/that he doesn't really understand."
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Monday, 2 October 2017 19:03 (six years ago) link
When it comes to Kinks songs that make Ray Davies seem like a jerk, 'Session Man' isn't even on the list, IMO.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Monday, 2 October 2017 19:07 (six years ago) link
I don’t know if Lennon qualifies as he always came off as a dick and it seems like he was conscious of it half of the time.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 2 October 2017 19:27 (six years ago) link
lol, never noticed the bolded line, my suspicion was correct, speaker is a total dick:
Maybe I'm amazed at the way you love me all the timeMaybe I'm afraid of the way I love youMaybe I'm amazed at the the way you pulled me out of timeAnd hung me on a lineMaybe I'm amazed at the way I really need youMaybe I'm a man and maybe I'm a lonely manWho's in the middle of somethingThat he doesn't really understandMaybe I'm a man and maybe you're the only womanWho could ever help meBaby won't you help me understandMaybe I'm a man and maybe I'm a lonely manWho's in the middle of somethingThat he doesn't really understandMaybe I'm a man and maybe you're the only womanWho could ever help meBaby won't you help me understandMaybe I'm amazed at the way you're with me all the timeMaybe I'm afraid of the way I leave youMaybe I'm amazed at the way you help me sing my songRight me when I'm wrongMaybe I'm amazed at the way I really need you
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Monday, 2 October 2017 22:35 (six years ago) link
I mean it seems to me like the whole song is an elaborate rationalization/apology for using someone and being ambiguous and non-committal when you know they want commitment.
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Monday, 2 October 2017 22:49 (six years ago) link
"All Things Must Pass" maybe? I mean, it's beautiful and sounds universal, but it's also, "I dumped you out of the blue, but don't worry, you'll get over it."
― JoeStork, Saturday, 7 October 2017 04:53 (six years ago) link
Joe OTM
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Saturday, 7 October 2017 05:17 (six years ago) link
Isn't this really most Wedding Present songs? Or the whinier Field Mice stuff.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 7 October 2017 14:17 (six years ago) link
working class hero - lennon
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Saturday, 7 October 2017 23:14 (six years ago) link
Paul Williams - To Put Up With You
Don't think I'm not impressed with your looks'Cause I think that you look just fineAnd don't think that I haven't considered you, girlOr the fact that you could be mineYes I'd like to hang aroundBut I'll have to let you downI just haven't got what it takesTo put up with you
― henry s, Monday, 9 October 2017 15:50 (six years ago) link
Any of the songs like 'Let's Hear It For the Boy' or 'You've Got What It Takes' (I know there are others) wherein the singer celebrates their love by frontloading the song with all of their lover's faults. Thank you for telling the world that I'm an impotent dogface with no sense of rhythm. I love you, too.
― I believe I will have another helping of your scrumptious casserole (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 16:30 (six years ago) link
Backstreet Boys - As Long As You Love Me
He doesn't care who you are, where you're from, what you did, as long as you love him.
In summary: 'Blah blah blah cool story about that time you went travelling round Australia, now let's screw'
― Hire Planes (dog latin), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 11:48 (five years ago) link
I always heard it as "hey, look, the past is the past. So you've been arrested for stalking a few times. So you went out of your way that one time to hit that cat with your car. I don't hold that against you, baby. Just don't forget my birthday and shit, and we're good."
― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, 23 May 2018 11:59 (five years ago) link