A qn to keep you all going

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I asked this to worldofagwu as part of a MEME but felt it had wider potential (tho his answer was of course excellent):

Have the lyrics of a song ever changed your mind about a non-musical matter?

(WOA expanded the meaning to include "provided you with useful practical information" too which suits me!)

Comments

a sub-editor writes

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

"a knife a fork a bottle and a cork -- that's the way to spell new york"

[koganbot]

I don't think this is the sort of answer you're looking for, but when I was 12 and finally figured out that "She Loves You" and "You Can't Do That" and some other Beatles songs had smart lyrics, I also realized that teenyboppers weren't necessarily idiots.

[worldofagwu.livejournal.com]

- this was my answer ( long-winded as ever ), just in case anyone's interested:

" well, i'm sure it must've happened but for the life of me i can't think of any specific examples

probly the first time i noticed lyrics = the jam or ( god help me ) toyah - i used to write 'em down in notebooks, exercise books etc - i loved "the stories" weller used to tell - but the politics were prob a bit beyond me

a bit later billy bragg's first two albs made a big impression - & that goincided w/starting to go to gigs regularly ( mostly benefits for striking miners or other anti thatcher things ) - but that was as much due to the influence of my friends as pop stars - & a reaction against the horrible govt of the time

i have learned a few bits of useful info from lyrics - i still can remember the lyrics to advice on arrest by the desperate bicycles ( i've never yet needed 'em - but just in case ) - also i've got a horrible feeling feeling that quite a lot of my info abt girls & human biology came from studying the lyrics to kate bush's first album ( - this was last thursday, obv )

unfortunately the lyrics to meat is murder failed to gonvince me - sorry moz...! "

The Specials "Too Much Too Young"

[mackromackro.livejournal.com]

"Too much too young
Your done too much much too young
Your married with a kid when you could be having fun with me"

Grabbed from the first Specials lyrics site on Google, so "your done" is obviously not the correct phrase, obviously, but it's the MESSAGE that counts!

This especially, although it was really the entire first album, is what got me out of my stupid stupid notion that my life would be a gaping miserable hole if I didn't try to have a family by a certain age.