The Beatles Bible - Topic: Favorite quirky or off-the-wall lines from songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/favorite-quirky-or-off-the-wall-lines-from-songs/ Simple:Press Version 5.2.6 unknown on Favorite quirky or off-the-wall lines from songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/favorite-quirky-or-off-the-wall-lines-from-songs/page-2/#p60467 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/favorite-quirky-or-off-the-wall-lines-from-songs/page-2/#p60467 "I know I was a crazy fool for treating you the way I did, but something took a hold of me and I acted like a dustbin lid."
That's from The Other Me, off Paul's album Pipes of Peace. At first I liked it because it was so bad I thought it was funny, but just recently I found out that dustbin lid is slang for kid. That made me like it even more because it actually makes sense, he's not just rhyming random words to fit the song.

I Am The Walrus
"I am he as you are he as ...]]> Sat, 24 Nov 2012 04:55:32 +0000 Funny Paper on Favorite quirky or off-the-wall lines from songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/favorite-quirky-or-off-the-wall-lines-from-songs/#p60465 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/favorite-quirky-or-off-the-wall-lines-from-songs/#p60465

meanmistermustard said
Heading into the solo works from Awaiting For You All

"while the pope owns 51% of general motors and the stock exchange is the only thing hes qualified to quote us"

Such a great line and says everything about where George was and what he believed.

Did the Pope own 51% of General Motors?  I'd like to see a credible link substantiating that.

]]> Sat, 24 Nov 2012 03:26:43 +0000 meanmistermustard on Favorite quirky or off-the-wall lines from songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/favorite-quirky-or-off-the-wall-lines-from-songs/#p60456 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/favorite-quirky-or-off-the-wall-lines-from-songs/#p60456 Heading into the solo works from Awaiting For You All

"while the pope owns 51% of general motors and the stock exchange is the only thing hes qualified to quote us"

Such a great line and says everything about where George was and what he believed.

]]> Fri, 23 Nov 2012 18:24:04 +0000 sinco on Favorite quirky or off-the-wall lines from songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/favorite-quirky-or-off-the-wall-lines-from-songs/#p60450 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/favorite-quirky-or-off-the-wall-lines-from-songs/#p60450 Was listening to "1985" by Paul and I love the line: "Well I just can't get enough of that sweet stuff" which in turn reminded me of "We're Sgt. Pepper's One and only Lonely Hearts Club Band". I love these catchy internal rhymes!

]]> Fri, 23 Nov 2012 13:34:41 +0000 Funny Paper on Favorite quirky or off-the-wall lines from songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/favorite-quirky-or-off-the-wall-lines-from-songs/#p60429 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/favorite-quirky-or-off-the-wall-lines-from-songs/#p60429 How could I forget?

 

John's wickedly cheeky riposte to Paul's Pollyannish "Got to admit, it's getting better, it's getting better, all the time" --

 

"It couldn't get no worse!"

]]> Thu, 22 Nov 2012 02:13:06 +0000 thewordislove94 on Favorite quirky or off-the-wall lines from songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/favorite-quirky-or-off-the-wall-lines-from-songs/#p60413 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/favorite-quirky-or-off-the-wall-lines-from-songs/#p60413 "I'm So Tired"

"and curse Sir Walter Raleigh, he was such a stupid get!"

that line is so John!a-hard-days-night-john-6

]]> Wed, 21 Nov 2012 20:52:42 +0000 frankdialogue on Favorite quirky or off-the-wall lines from songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/favorite-quirky-or-off-the-wall-lines-from-songs/#p60200 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/favorite-quirky-or-off-the-wall-lines-from-songs/#p60200 'Think For Yourself'


'I know your mind's opaque,

Try thinking more,

If just for your own sake.'

 

]]> Wed, 14 Nov 2012 06:10:10 +0000 Zig on Favorite quirky or off-the-wall lines from songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/favorite-quirky-or-off-the-wall-lines-from-songs/#p60055 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/favorite-quirky-or-off-the-wall-lines-from-songs/#p60055 "Birthday" - Yes we're going to a party party

]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 20:15:56 +0000 Funny Paper on Favorite quirky or off-the-wall lines from songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/favorite-quirky-or-off-the-wall-lines-from-songs/#p59888 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/favorite-quirky-or-off-the-wall-lines-from-songs/#p59888 Thanks bikelock and Kedame for your interesting posts.

 

One clever gimmick in "Back in the U.S.S.R." is how McCartney ingeniously turned the standard musical trope of the partial repetition into a political pun --

 

Back in the U.S. --

Back in the U.S. --

Back in the U.S.S.R.!

 

]]> Sun, 04 Nov 2012 10:11:20 +0000 kedame on Favorite quirky or off-the-wall lines from songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/favorite-quirky-or-off-the-wall-lines-from-songs/#p59887 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/favorite-quirky-or-off-the-wall-lines-from-songs/#p59887

bikelock28 said
"It's been a hard day's night/ And I've been working like a dog/ It's been a hard day's night/ I should be sleeping like a log,"- before I was really aware of the Beatles, or even aware that this was a Beatle song, I used to love those lines.

 

"I've got a chip on my shoulder that's bigger than my feet,"-

 

"I'm gonna love her till the cows come home,"- pfft, he said cows!

 

"I told her I didn't and crawled off to sleep in the bath,"- pfft, he said bath!

 

"It's a dirty story of a dirty man/ And his clinging wife doesn't ...]]> Sun, 04 Nov 2012 09:42:18 +0000 bikelock28 on Favorite quirky or off-the-wall lines from songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/favorite-quirky-or-off-the-wall-lines-from-songs/#p59886 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/favorite-quirky-or-off-the-wall-lines-from-songs/#p59886 "It's been a hard day's night/ And I've been working like a dog/ It's been a hard day's night/ I should be sleeping like a log,"- before I was really aware of the Beatles, or even aware that this was a Beatle song, I used to love those lines.

 

"I've got a chip on my shoulder that's bigger than my feet,"

 

"I'm gonna love her till the cows come home,"- pfft, he said cows!

 

"I told her I didn't and crawled off to sleep in the bath,"- pfft, he said bath!

 

"It's a dirty story of a dirty man/ And his clinging wife doesn't understand,"

 

All of Penny ...]]> Sun, 04 Nov 2012 07:39:00 +0000 kedame on Favorite quirky or off-the-wall lines from songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/favorite-quirky-or-off-the-wall-lines-from-songs/#p59882 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/favorite-quirky-or-off-the-wall-lines-from-songs/#p59882 I know it's fairly straightforward, but I always liked the sound of, "And it doesn't really matter if I'm wrong/I'm right/where I belong/I'm right where I belong." It's weird and doesn't make sense and also makes a lot of sense. Does that make sense? a-hard-days-night-paul-10

 

I also find, "No one I think is in my tree," to be an awesome line because I'm just enough of an egotist to slyly identify with it. I just get that line.a-hard-days-night-john-1

]]> Sun, 04 Nov 2012 06:33:40 +0000 meanmistermustard on Favorite quirky or off-the-wall lines from songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/favorite-quirky-or-off-the-wall-lines-from-songs/#p59829 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/favorite-quirky-or-off-the-wall-lines-from-songs/#p59829 Thats the people who i was talking about.

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meanmistermustard said
Most of I Am The Walrus - "Sitting on a cornflake waiting for the van to come" & "Elementary penguin singing Hari Krishna" are another 2.
Still gets me that people dislike the song because the lyrics make no sense. Erm, that was the point of the song.

I like the lines of Dig A Pony "pick a moon dog etc" plus "Why don't we do it in the road" is out there. Certainly not something folk would expect nice clean Paul to sing or write.

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BluemeanAl said
Of the lines in "Walrus," for some reason

Man you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe

grabs me every time, in a song full of wacky lyrics.

 

Similarly,

A soap impression of his wife which he ate and donated to the National Trust

 

There's lots of them, yes?

Both excellent examples.  I think John had much greater talent than Paul for quirky turns of phrase (after all, his little novel, A Spaniard in the Works is just chock-full of them).  Many here may already know that Paul's lyric in Hey Jude -- "the movement you need is on your shoulder" -- ...]]> Fri, 02 Nov 2012 20:13:06 +0000