Lyrical Laziness

madprofessorus wrote: I am not British so I don't get 100% the lyrics, but I do know some English and I can say that except some Rogers songs and quite few from queen, they never meant to write any deep sense lyrics, which is not bad of course,99% of rock bands write very lightly and some time foolish lyrics. Even pink Floyd before 1973 were totally psychedelic on their lyrics. But to stick with the subject,i can't live with you has some crap lyrics like rat race? No meaning at all

It is actually a common English phrase: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_race

Now, what about "now you've got soup in the laundry bag"? What's that all about? How/why the hell did Bri conjure that one up?

"Now, what about "now you've got soup in the laundry bag"? What's that all about? How/why the hell did Bri conjure that one up? "

...hmmm. Very strange indeed. Could it mean that you have got everything messed up very badly? So he created a very akward image of something supposed to be kept very clean "soup" in something that is typically dirty "laundry bag". Still , its ruther ...off-putting.

Stelios wrote:

"Now, what about "now you've got soup in the laundry bag"? What's that all about? How/why the hell did Bri conjure that one up? "

...hmmm. Very strange indeed. Could it mean that you have got everything messed up very badly? So he created a very akward image of something supposed to be kept very clean "soup" in something that is typically dirty "laundry bag". Still , its ruther ...off-putting.

I always thought of that as a sexual innuendo.

LOL.............well...........Headlong makes NO sense lyrically anyway,,,,,,,,,,,,at the very least, soup in a laundry bag is thoroughly messy................and "now you got strings youre gonna lose your rag"? Uh, what???? Seems like Brian threw a bunch of random words together.................anyway, it still rocks, though! I actually kinda like the line about "get me out of this cheap b movie" tho...........

Yeah............I never did think Queen was the best lyrically anyway..................personally I think the band that had the best lyrics (in that I generally agree with everything they said!) is my 2nd favorite band................Rush

Since this topic surfaced today i have to say The Show Must Go On is not lazy at all to me.(its been mentioned that it is, in this thread)
Its a very sparkling portration of the "sad clown" concept together with some existential themes.
I think is one brave effort from Brian.