Crystal Lyrics and other clever things... — Forum Archive

11 Jun 2007, 12:32

I know this was a topic ages and ages ago, but I intended to post about this at the time, and being me, totally forgot :rolleyes:

So, sorry if anyone has explained this before, but it might be worth re-saying:

'Here comes love, it's like honey You can't buy it with money'

What Barney is saying is that love is like honey (sweet and good for you) BUT you can't buy LOVE with money. I always thought it was one of the more clever NO lyrics, but so many people said 'but you CAN buy honey with money'.

Just an observation. Anyone got some more NO lyrics that they think are particularly clever or amusing that they haven't posted on their profile?

Cheers all :beer:

11 Jun 2007, 13:08

Hmm, can I confess that it's only since I started looking at the song browser part of this site, that I realised that for certain songs, I've been singing the wrong lyrics at key parts, eg Bizarre Love Triangle in the 2nd verse where Mr Sumner sings "I'm not sure what this could mean, I don't think you're what you seem", for years I thought he was singing "I'm not sure what this could mean, I don't picture what you've seen" :\ohwell: & when I first heard Crystal for the first few months instead of singing "I don't know what to say, you don't care anyway, I'm a man in a rage, with a girl I betrayed", at concerts I was belting out "I don't know what to say, you don't care anyway, I'm a man in a ditch, with a girl I betrayed" :embarassed:

11 Jun 2007, 13:11

Everyone does that with songs Matt LOL. Thanks for that. The song browser here has been known to contain errors though - there's a correction thread somewhere, along the lines of the discography and live ones. The funniest thread on this subject was about what people thought Barney sang on Blue Monday :laugh:

11 Jun 2007, 13:25

Chris Nash wrote: The funniest thread on this subject was about what people thought Barney sang on Blue Monday

The old, shallow bay/ shall obey debate, who gives a toss!, just try to get some footage of the auto cue.

**perhaps we're a little too late for that!**

11 Jun 2007, 13:32

Jed Stephens wrote:

Chris Nash wrote: The funniest thread on this subject was about what people thought Barney sang on Blue Monday

The old, shallow bay/ shall obey debate, who gives a toss!, just try to get some footage of the auto cue.

**perhaps we're a little too late for that!**

Barney hadn't got a clue what he was singing anyway - even with the autocue! :lol:

11 Jun 2007, 13:32

Definitely 'I can and shall obey'. The discussions of the 'ship in the harbour' were funny Jed :evil4:

11 Jun 2007, 13:34

Sam the Stokie wrote:

Jed Stephens wrote:

Chris Nash wrote: The funniest thread on this subject was about what people thought Barney sang on Blue Monday

The old, shallow bay/ shall obey debate, who gives a toss!, just try to get some footage of the auto cue.

**perhaps we're a little too late for that!**

Barney hadn't got a clue what he was singing anyway - even with the autocue!

He did once upon a time Sam. When you were 13 and not allowed out, I was being told I wasn't allowed out because someone's scooter had blocked the fire exit... :laugh:

11 Jun 2007, 17:31

i have a question if someone were to throw something at barney while he was singing on stage,it is unlikely that he would chase after them, but it is for certain that he would start yelling right?

11 Jun 2007, 19:47

If it didn't hit him, he'd just carry on, then maybe say something. If it hit him and he couldn't see Otto, he'd stop. He'd never chase anyone. In the old days if someone threw anything that 'hit' then the rest of the band would carry on playing while Hooky and Rob 'sorted it out'. Nowadays, if something hit Barney - who knows. Maybe Hooky would bop him with it again...

But play fair, funny notion, but not lyrically orientated!

:beer:

12 Jun 2007, 07:17

Chris Nash wrote: What Barney is saying is that love is like honey (sweet and good for you) BUT you can't buy LOVE with money.

He's right, you can't buy love with money, but blow jobs are relatively cheap and just as good!

12 Jun 2007, 08:08

The REAL reason why you cant buy love with money is due to the fact that after shelling out for council tax, mortgage, water rates, food, petrol, train tickets, car loan, insurance, minimal credit card repayments,etc, etc............. theres bugger all left in the kitty!!!

12 Jun 2007, 08:26

What the hell do you feed your kitty??? :eek:

12 Jun 2007, 11:39

I nearly hit him with an inflatable penguin at Brixton Academy on the Big World Cafe show and he didn't stop playing nor did Hooky kick the shit out of me. Although I do recall him getting very aggressive with some poor sod down the front.

Waiting for Burt Reynolds to reply and moan about me hitting him on the head with it earlier.... reckon it will take less than an hour.

Tick tock, tick tock...

12 Jun 2007, 18:52

Looks like you knocked Burt clean out mate :blackeye:

12 Jun 2007, 23:19

Simon Simpson wrote: I nearly hit him with an inflatable penguin at Brixton Academy on the Big World Cafe show and he didn't stop playing nor did Hooky kick the shit out of me. Tick tock, tick tock...

!LOL and other Clever things.. They Have written some good lyrics. We live always Underground. It's going to be so quiet in here Tonight. ..A 1000 Isl. in the Sea It's a shame.
And a 100 yrs. ago a Sailor Trod this ground I Stood Upon EDIT. FCUK. Get this Right..Sunrise. '85.

13 Jun 2007, 06:07

Jed Stephens wrote:

Chris Nash wrote: The funniest thread on this subject was about what people thought Barney sang on Blue Monday

The old, shallow bay/ shall obey debate, who gives a toss!, just try to get some footage of the auto cue.

**perhaps we're a little too late for that!**

i have some pics of the autocue, but not that bit i'm afraid - only allowed down the front for the first three songs...

13 Jun 2007, 08:38

14 K wrote:

Simon Simpson wrote: I nearly hit him with an inflatable penguin at Brixton Academy on the Big World Cafe show and he didn't stop playing nor did Hooky kick the shit out of me. Tick tock, tick tock...

!LOL and other Clever things.. They Have written some good lyrics. We live always Underground. It's going to be so quiet in here Tonight. ..A 1000 Isl. in the Sea It's a shame.
And a 100 yrs. ago a Sailor Trod this ground I Stood Upon EDIT. FCUK. Get this Right..Sunrise. '85.

Just fixed your link Crowd may have been quiet - but thats a BLOODY GREAT version of a BLOODY GREAT track :bow:

13 Jun 2007, 10:29

Thanks for the reminder. Always loved that performance. You really get the feel of what a great and innovative drummer Steve is. Barney's jeans, Hooky's Trackie bottoms, Steve's short haircut and Gillian, well... :love: SO eighties. I remember what I was wearing at that time. Black. Yup, some things never change :laugh:

13 Jun 2007, 13:32

CuanaD - D-plus wrote:

14 K wrote: Sunrise. '85.

Just fixed your link Crowd may have been quiet - but thats a BLOODY GREAT version of a BLOODY GREAT track

Hero C. You're right, great Tune, as is PFof D- TTime :nod: of N '85 from the same night. Those nights out.. The Haçienda you- Tubed recordings don't look too bad either.

14 Jun 2007, 13:41

in Ceremony,

for the 'world will travel' bit

once upon a time I used to sing TIME travel

now that would have been clever lyrics ahead of their time :\ohwell:

17 Jun 2007, 02:05

Waiting for the chicken’s call, for Rocket Mick

I want desert now My stomach really hurts now I need to get some takeaway

I’ve grown really wide …..

That’s all I have. Sorry been burning and transferring stuff from vinyl to digital with GFA all afternoon.

17 Jun 2007, 05:49

"Hey Joe, What ya doing?" seems a bit too much like the song after it =]

17 Jun 2007, 11:11

NOOLigan wrote: Waiting for the chicken’s call, for Rocket Mick

I want desert now My stomach really hurts now I need to get some takeaway

I’ve grown really wide

:abovelol:

17 Jun 2007, 11:32

It's not big and it's not clever.

What did Mick ever do to deser...

Fair play... :ignore:

17 Jun 2007, 12:05

NOOLigan wrote: Waiting for the chicken’s call, for Rocket Mick

I want desert now My stomach really hurts now I need to get some takeaway

I’ve grown really wide …..

That’s all I have. Sorry been burning and transferring stuff from vinyl to digital with GFA all afternoon.

OI :laugh:

17 Jun 2007, 12:54

Ha! Get Digi Mike to dig out the Shed Songs lyrics - they reveal the true hidden genius of Barney's lyrics... :nod: If you dig deep enough you can find meaning in most things - at times NO lyrics can seem the most insightful things ever (usually when drunk... :lol: ), mostly they just (almost) rhyme...

Snorri xxx

17 Jun 2007, 13:06

Snorrimon wrote: Ha! Get Digi Mike to dig out the Shed Songs lyrics - they reveal the true hidden genius of Barney's lyrics... If you dig deep enough you can find meaning in most things - at times NO lyrics can seem the most insightful things ever (usually when drunk... ), mostly they just (almost) rhyme...

Snorri xxx

You got me. We did have a beer or six.

6 Jul 2007, 11:58

Spooky lyrics - really clever and my favorite /everything in this song sounds so scientific/ :nod:

6 Jul 2007, 15:05

Still talking about the first message of the thread, I always found kind of strange how Bernard several times uses this "BUY/LOVE" image. Check it out:

Vanishing Point: "He buys love to sell tomorrow"

World (The Price of Love) Well this is the most obviuos, it's even in the song title "that's the price of love (...) if we could buy it now (...)"

GIAUE "I need your love, I just wanna buy it"

'Vanishing' was written in circa 88, so this is really an old thing that didn't disappeared with time.

Maybe his yatch's name is "L.O.V.E"

7 Jul 2007, 01:54

Maybe he just likes hookers :ignore: :rofl: