We've had a lot of music threads recently, so let's have another , but involving lyrics. This is my fav ('Life On Mars?' by David Bowie:

It's a God-awful small affair
To the girl with the mousy hair
But her mummy is yelling "No"
And her daddy has told her to go
But her friend is nowhere to be seen
Now she walks through her sunken dream
To the seat with the clearest view
And she's hooked to the silver screen
But the film is a saddening bore
For she's lived it ten times or more
She could spit in the eyes of fools
As they ask her to focus on

Sailors fighting in the dance hall
Oh man! Look at those cavemen go
It's the freakiest show
Take a look at the Lawman
Beating up the wrong guy
Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know
He's in the best selling show
Is there life on Mars?

It's on America's tortured brow
That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow
An' now the workers have struck for fame
'Cos Lennon's on sale again
See the mice in their million hordes
From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads
Rule Britannia is out of bounds
To my Mother, my dog, and clowns
But the film is a saddening bore
'Cos I wrote it ten times or more
It's about to be writ again
As I ask you to focus on

Sailors fighting in the dance hall
Oh man! Look at those cavemen go
It's the freakiest show
Take a look at the Lawman
Beating up the wrong guy
Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know
He's in the best selling show
Is there life on Mars?
It's about a lonely girl who is forced to see a film ten times or more because she's got nothing else to do (1st chrous), and a writer of a film (2nd chorus after the verse) who's had to write the same script ten times or more for some bizarre reason. Apparently, 'the girl with the mousy hair' is David Bowie's anima, hence the similarity of the two choruses. The lyrics are deliberate bizarre to give an element of the surreal - my favourite lines are:
'Take a look at the Lawman
Beating up the wrong guy
Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know'
It's a good metaphor for the judicial system, unless it's meant to be taken seriously? :wink: