Corrected grammar in song lyrics

[dougjwray]

It's a world of war, famine and tribal hatred. But nothing bothers me more than incorrect grammar in song lyrics.
To feel better, I like to imagine corrected versions. Like...
"I cannot get any... satisfaction..."
"You are nothing but a hound dog... you have never caught a rabbit and you are not a friend of mine..."
"You will not see anything like the mighty Quinn..."
"Dig if you will the picture of you and *ME* engaged in a kiss..."
And, of course...
"Nothing is real... and there is nothing about which to get hung..."

 

[ImTheOnlyOne]

There Is Not Presently, And Never Will Be, A Mountain High Enough

 

[gln1955]

In this ever-changing world in which we live. (Period!)

 

[Ggaa]

Whom Do You Love.

 

[Zooberwerx]

Total disregard for predicate nominatives and objects....e.g. "you and I" vs "you and me". I catch myself sometimes but my mother's spirit frequently arises and smacks me upside the head. She was an editor and proof-reader.

Riis

 

[JRA]

proving once again: "there is no sunshine."

 

[dougjwray]

There Is Not Presently, And Never Will Be, A Mountain High Enough

Nice!

 

[dougjwray]

In this ever-changing world in which we live. (Period!)

There's a hypothesis that what he actually sang was "In this ever-changing world in which we're livin'"'-- but I don't buy it!

 

[JTNuney]

“I wish I *WERE* in Tijuana, eating barbecued iguana…”

 

[Kevnn4]

There Is Not Presently, And Never Will Be, A Mountain High Enough

Wait.... I thought there was not presently, and never will be, a valley low enough. Ahhhgggg!

 

[FullumMusic]

Amazingly pedantic, obscure grammar rule, maybe even more a style rule than grammar rule, but...
"It seemed that i was busy doing something close to nothing, but different than the day before."
should be...
"It seemed that i was busy doing something close to nothing, but different from the day before."

I sing it that way whenever i listen to Raspberry Beret.

It's supposed to be "different from" because a difference is how far removed from another thing the likeness is. But "different than" is a perfectly logical, understandable phrasing, and is generally accepted as correct grammar, even if it's not "proper formal British english." Language is alive. Language is mutable. Language evolves. But i still correct the song while i sing it just to be ornery and make unfunny jokes to myself that nobody notices.

 

[Deep Note]

 

[Guitalia]

In this ever-changing world in which we live. (Period!)

I'd like to have been in a position to point out to McCartney that he could have insisted that he'd sung "But in this ever-changing world in which we're livin' . . . "

 

[PennyroyalWe]

Boo.

 

[Guitalia]

Amazingly pedantic, obscure grammar rule, maybe even more a style rule than grammar rule, but...
"It seemed that i was busy doing something close to nothing, but different than the day before."
should be...
"It seemed that i was busy doing something close to nothing, but different from the day before."

I sing it that way whenever i listen to Raspberry Beret.

It's supposed to be "different from" because a difference is how far removed from another thing the likeness is. But "different than" is a perfectly logical, understandable phrasing, and is generally accepted as correct grammar, even if it's not "proper formal British english." Language is alive. Language is mutable. Language evolves. But i still correct the song while i sing it just to be ornery and make unfunny jokes to myself that nobody notices.

In the USA, maybe. Proper formal British English (not "British english," by the way) is "different to . . . "

 

[FilterFunk]

I'd like to have been in a position to point out to McCartney that he could have insisted that he'd sung "But in this ever-changing world in which we're livin' . . . "

"...living..."

 

[turf3]

"...till the stars fall from the sky
For you and I..."

EEEEEEEEEEEE!

The other one that gets me isn't grammar but pronunciation. Procul Harum:

"Conkwistador..."

REALLY?

Y'all are LIVING a few hundred miles from Spain and you can't be arsed to ask someone "how the hell do you pronounce this word?" Pretty G.D. lazy if you ask me.

 

[KidAmnesia]

Wait.... I thought there was not presently, and never will be, a valley low enough. Ahhhgggg!

*Deep.

 

[covermego]

I'm just a soiled Caucasian male --a soiled Caucasian male!!
a soiled Caucasian male --a soiled Caucasian male!!
SOILED CAUCASIAN MALE ................ AFFIRMATIVE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Winton]

Few songs from my set list for this weekend’s gig.

“There is nobody
that loves me better than you.”

“Isn’t she lovely?”
(It’s always missing a question mark!)

“I would like to dance with somebody”

“Uptown will funk you up”