It all adds up
Yesterday's post on worst lyric seemed a minor hit, so let's try best math lyric.
Here's my nomination: "But I would walk 500 miles And I would walk 500 more Just to be the man who walks a thousand miles to fall down at your door." (Bet anonymous is wishing I were reprising Springsteen about now.)
posted by ColumbusGuy @ 3:00 AM
14 Comments:
Well that's as much about math as "Don't know much trigonometry"
I think yours might win. "Don't know what a slide rule is for" has to count for something.
My favorite mathematical statement in music explains the identity principle pretty well:
"The man who shot Liberty Valance/
He shot Liberty Valance"
For redundant lyrics, here's one from one of LAGuy's favorite bands:
"There is a moon
It's in the sky
It's called 'the moon'."
For math? Hmm... does numerology count?
"In the meeting place, I sit beside betwixt the points of heaven;
I befell a friendly atmosphere revolving around SEVEN.
Oh, that number mystified my soul and captured within feelings,
Those of doubt and understanding. Hand in hand they set me reeling."
- Jon Anderson, "Song of Seven"
"There's A Moon In The Sky Called The Moon" isn't exactly redundant. After all, the other moons in our solar system have names.
A, B, C,
Easy as 1, 2, 3
One is the loneliest number.
Bono doesn't care much fpr math principles
We're one
But we're not the same
"Wind Chill Factor (Minus Zero)".
Is that considered cold in Ireland?
I liked that song but what did minus zero mean? It bugs me like saying 12 p.m. or 12 a.m.
I guess it is a way of saying under zero?
Makes more sense than 25 or 6 to 4.
I don't exactly know what it means, but:
"Waiting for the break of day
Searching for something to say
Flashing lights against the sky
Giving up I close my eyes
Sitting cross legged on the floor
Twenty-five or six to four"
6pm to 4am would be 10 hours waiting for the dawn, but I don't know how Chicago got 25 as an option.
I always thought they meant it was either 3:34 or 3:35 a.m.
Oh, I hope that's the case. Beautiful. What time is it? It's 25 or six to four. Oh, that's so ridiculous I can't stand it. Don't know whether to slap their English or their math, but I think we might have a winner regardless.
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