Lyrics of the Lost Peter Davis
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A series of unfair and wildly speculative investigations, critiques and interpretations - exposing the hidden meanings and agendas of overplayed smoooth radio pop songs. You may never hear them the same way again. Featured in "Top 10 Pop Podcasts on the Planet” at feedspot.com
Regular segments: Internet Theories, Misheard Lyrics, Listener Comments, and more. Visit https://speakpipe.com/lyrics to record us your own voicemail hot-take on your smooth pop song of suckiness and you could be on a future episode! (you can also email sound files or text to poidadavis@gmail.com if that's easier).
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Cliff Richard's WIRED FOR SOUND and for crime fighting in shopping malls, road safety and brain washing
Play along at home with the lyrics:
[Introduction]
I like small speakers
I like tall speakers
If they've music they're wired for sound
[Verse 1]
Walking about with a head full of music
Cassette in my pocket and I'm gonna use it
Stereo
Out on the street, you know
Ohohohohohohoho, oho
[Verse 2]
Into the car, go to work and I'm cruising
I never think that I'll blow all my fuses
Traffic flows
Into the breakfast show
Ohohohohohohoho, oho
Oh, oh, oh
[pre-Chorus]
Power from the needle to the plastic
AM, FM, I feel so ecstatic now
It's music I've found
And I'm wired for sound
I was small boy who don't like his toys
I could not wait to get wired for sound
[Verse 3]
I met a girl and she told me she loved me
I said: "You love me, then love means
You must like what I like
My music is dynamite"
Ohohohohohohoho, oho
She said: "I'm not a girl you can put on at a standby
I am a girl who demands that her love is amplified
Switching to overdrive"
Ohohohohohohoho, oho
Oh, oh, oh
[Chorus]
Power from the needle to the plastic
AM, FM, I feel so ecstatic now
It's music I've found
And I'm wired for sound
Power from the needle to the plastic
AM, FM, I feel so ecstatic now
It's music I've found
'Cause I'm wired for sound
I like small speakers (I like small speakers)
I like tall speakers (I like tall speakers)
If they've music, they're wired for sound
I like small speakers (I like small speakers)
I like tall speakers (I like tall speakers)
If they've music, they're wired for sound
I like small speakers (I like small speakers)
I like tall speakers (I like tall speakers)
If they've music, they're wired for sound
[spoken]
I like small speakers
I like tall speakers
Wall speakers
Most of all I like
Loud speakers
Jump to section:
(00:12) Very short introduction with relaxed vibes
(01:39) Song title, writers' details, background info from Rik of The Young Ones, lavatories, Take On Me, Mike and the Mechaincs
(03:26) To the lyrics - immediately misheard. Dune?
(05:17) Love and misunderstood audio technology.
(08:13) More mishearing. Inclusivity, and more misunderstood audio tech.
(12:12) Cliff knows the future of audio tech (but still unsure of the present). AM talk radio
(16:46) Religion or drugs?
(18:00) Cliff fights his past and the criminal underworld
(21:30) Crammed lyrics and grammar
(22:33) Cliff's cautionary road safety messages
(32:55) Infantile understanding of love
(37:30) Overdrive
(40:37) Sunglasses and mental health. The music video: Skating ability what does Avril Lavine tell us? Is it a crime-fighting TV pilot? or perhaps a post-apocalyptic cult?
(56:32) Other theories from the internet
(59:19) Misheard lyrics from the internet
(01:02:50) Saving lives
(01:05:02) Farewells
Would you like to appear (well, vocally) on the show? Do you have a pop song or ear-worm from the SMOOTH FM genre that’s infested your mind and needs to be investigated? Visit this page https://speakpipe.com/lyrics to record us your own voicemail hot-take on your specific smooth song of suckiness. You could be on a future episode! (you can always email sound files or text your thoughts to poidadavis@gmail.com if that's easier). Cheers!
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Hanson's MMMBOP, scooby-di-dooby-wop, bop doo-bap, wap-baba-doo
Play along at home with the lyrics:
[Intro]
Oh
Oh, ooh
Oh, ooh
Oh, yeah
[Verse 1]
You have so many relationships in this life
Only one or two will last
You go through all the pain and strife
Then you turn your back and they're gone so fast
Oh, yeah
And they're gone so fast, yeah
[Verse 2]
Oh, so hold on the ones who really care
In the end, they'll be the only ones there
When you get old, start losing your hair
Can you tell me who will still care?
Can you tell me who will still care?
[Pre-Chorus]
Oh, ooh, yeah, yeah
[Chorus]
Mmmbop, ba duba dop ba
Du bop, ba duba dop ba
Du bop, ba duba dop ba du
Yeah, yeah
Mmmbop, ba duba dop ba
Du bop, ba du dop ba
Du bop, ba du dop ba du
Yeah, yeah
[Post-Chorus]
Said oh, yeah
In an mmmbop, they're gone
Yeah, yeah
[Verse 3]
Plant a seed, plant a flower, plant a rose
You can plant any one of those
Keep planting to find out which one grows
It's a secret no one knows
It's a secret no one knows
Oh, no one knows
[Chorus repeat]
[Post-Chorus]
In an mmmbop, they're gone
In an mmmbop, they're not there
In an mmmbop, they're gone
In an mmmbop, they're not there
Until you lose your hair
Ooh, but you don't care
Yeah, yeah
[Chorus repeat]
[Bridge: Taylor, Isaac & All]
Can you tell me? Oh
No, you can't 'cause you don't know
Can you tell me? Oh, yeah
You say you can, but you don't know
Can you tell me? Oh
Which flower's going to grow?
No, you can't 'cause you don't know
Can you tell me?
If it's gonna be a daisy or a rose?
You say you can, but you don't know
Can you tell me? Oh
Which flower's going to grow?
No, you can't 'cause you don't know
Can you tell me?
You say you can, but you don't know
Said you can, but you don't know
You don't know, oh, don't know, oh
[Chorus repeats]
[Outro]
Can you tell me? Oh
No, you can't 'cause you don't know
Can you tell me? Oh, yeah
You say you can, but you don't know
Say you can, but you don't know, don't
Jump to section:
(00:11) Very short introduction
(00:49) Song title, writers' details, background
(02:31) Lyrics - there are some! Who knew?
(03:05) Bitter, world-weary children and pre-high school relationship trauma
(08:05) Significance of the title. Bops and boops.
(09:45) The Mmmbop unit of time and its equivalents
(11:27) Star Wars joke #1
(11:38) The Mmmbop unit of time, part 2
(12:54) Other bop meanings and spreading seed
(17:57) Moby's withdrawn confession?
(18:46) Losing friends through self-pleasure
(20:07) Early fears of hair-loss or a metaphor for a pop-career
(27:27) 'Gone' - a definition
(28:03) Gardening or Nazi uprising? via Pinterest
(31:33) Gardening knowledge and instructions
(34:40) How many relationships in your life? Science tells us
(38:45) Hanson exposed as "Plant Truthers"?
(44:16) Clues to the meaning and themes expanded in the music video
(55:00) Other theories from the internet
(50:34) Misheard lyrics
(102:38) Hanson Monopoly ... Hansonopoly?
(01:03:00) Farewells
Would you like to appear (well, vocally) on the show? Do you have a pop song or ear-worm from the SMOOTH FM genre that’s infested your mind and needs to be investigated? Visit this page https://speakpipe.com/lyrics to record us your own voicemail hot-take on your specific smooth song of suckiness. You could be on a future episode! (you can always email sound files or text your thoughts to poidadavis@gmail.com if that's easier). Cheers!
Find us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram etc @LyricsPodast ... and we're on all your favourite podcasting platforms.
Sound clips are included for educational reference, criticism, satire and parody in fair use. Clips remain the property of the respective rights holder and no endorsement is implied. All information and opinion is performed and expressed in-character and does not reflect reality or genuine commentary on any persons (living or dead), bands or other organisations, or their works, and is not recommende -
Mariah Carey's ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU and cracker jokes and inoffensive MC greetings and slavery or cannibalism and fertility and revenge and demon possession or necromancy and Maslow's needs
Play along at home with the lyrics:
[Intro]
I don't want a lot for Christmas
There is just one thing I need
I don't care about the presents
Underneath the Christmas tree
I just want you for my own
More than you could ever know
Make my wish come true
All I want for Christmas is you, yeah
[Verse 1]
I don't want a lot for Christmas
There is just one thing I need (And I)
Don't care about the presents
Underneath the Christmas tree
I don't need to hang my stocking
There upon the fireplace (Ah)
Santa Claus won't make me happy
With a toy on Christmas Day
[Chorus]
I just want you for my own (Ooh)
More than you could ever know (Ooh
Make my wish come true
All I want for Christmas is you
You, baby
[Verse 2]
Oh, I won't ask for much this Christmas
I won't even wish for snow (And I)
I'm just gonna keep on waiting
Underneath the mistletoe
I won't make a list and send it
To the North Pole for Saint Nick (Ah)
I won't even stay awake to
Hear those magic reindeer click
[Chorus repeat]
[Bridge]
Oh, all the lights are shining
So brightly everywhere (So brightly, baby)
And the sound of children's Laughter fills the air (Oh, oh yeah)
And everyone is singing (Oh yeah)
I hear those sleigh bells ringing (Oh)
Santa, won't you bring me the one I really need?
(Yeah, oh, oh)
Won't you please bring my baby to me?
[Verse 3]
Oh, I don't want a lot for Christmas
This is all I'm asking for (Ah)
I just wanna see my baby
Standing right outside my door
[Chorus repeat]
[Outro]
You, baby All I want for Christmas is you, baby (You)
All I want for Christmas is you, baby (Ah, oh, ah, oh)
All I want for Christmas is you, baby (You)
All I want for Christmas is you, baby (All I really want, baby, ooh)
All I want for Christmas is you, baby (All I want, all I really want is you)
Jump to section:
(00:11) Pretty short introduction
(00:30) Christmas cracker/bon-bon jokes
(07:45) Mariah Carey = Merry Christmas
(09:43) The price of wanting you for Christmas
(13:01) Wasted presents under the tree
(15:35) Rental terms or ownership?
(16:22) Wish-slacktivism
(16:58) Purpose, hunger, skins
(17:54) The music videos and spin-offs
(22:57) Fertility struggles
(25:30) Sad scenes, bargaining, deals, Bee Gees
(27:54) TAKEN VII: the Revenge
(30:06) Get straight with Santa
(22:29) Flirting with evil
(36:01) Deep dive on Saint Nicholas, Necromancer
(39:01) Murder and/or manslaughter
(43:43) Reindeer click (singular?)
(45:29) Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
(47:42) Other theories from the internet
(50:34) Misheard lyrics
(51:30) Notable trivia and legal wrangles
(56:26) Surprise AI song #178
(01:00:04) Farewells
Would you like to appear (well, vocally) on the show? Do you have a pop song or ear-worm from the SMOOTH FM genre that’s infested your mind and needs to be investigated? Visit this page https://speakpipe.com/lyrics to record us your own voicemail hot-take on your specific smooth song of suckiness. You could be on a future episode! (you can always email sound files or text your thoughts to poidadavis@gmail.com if that's easier). Cheers!
Find us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram etc @LyricsPodast ... and we're on all your favourite podcasting platforms.
Sound clips are included for educational reference, criticism, satire and parody in fair use. Clips remain the property of the respective rights holder and no endorsement is implied. All information and opinion is performed and expressed in-character and does not reflect reality or genuine commentary on any persons (living or dead), bands or other organisations, or their works, and is not recommended listening for anyone, anywhere. -
Foreigner's I WANT TO KNOW WHAT LOVE IS in case I need it when I'm older, plus hiking tips, randy monks and cowboys and the tin man from Oz but the real answer is from Artificial Intelligence in song
Play along at home with the lyrics:
[Verse 1]
I've gotta take a little time
A little time to think things over
I better read between the lines
In case I need it when I'm older
[Verse 2]
Now, this mountain, I must climb
Feels like a world upon my shoulders
Through the clouds, I see love shine
It keeps me warm as life grows colder
[Pre-Chorus]
In my life, there's been heartache and pain
I don't know if I can face it again
Can't stop now, I've travelled so far
To change this lonely life
[Chorus]
I wanna know what love is
I want you to show me
I wanna feel what love is
I know you can show me
Oh
[Verse 3]
I'm gonna take a little time
A little time to look around me
I've got nowhere left to hide
It looks like love has finally found me
[Pre-Chorus]
In my life, there's been heartache and pain
I don't know if I can face it again
Can't stop now, I've travelled so far
To change this lonely life
[Chorus]
I wanna know what love is
I want you to show me
I wanna feel what love is
I know you can show me
I wanna know what love is
I want you to show me
[Outro]
(And I wanna feel) I wanna feel what love is
(And I know) I know you can show me
Let's talk about love
(I wanna know what love is) The love that you feel inside
(I want you to show me) And I'm feelin' so much love
(I wanna feel what love is) No, you just cannot hide
(I know you can show me) Yeah
I wanna know what love is (Let's talk about love)
I want you to show me, I wanna feel
(I wanna feel what love is) And I know, and I know
I know you can show me (Yeah)
(I wanna know what love is) (I wanna know)
(I want you to show me) I wanna know, I wanna know, wanna know
(I wanna feel what love is) (I wanna feel)
(I know you can show me)
Jump to section
(00:11) Pretty brief celebrity introduction
(01:02) Listener Brendan's request, song details, writer/lyricist, key dates
(01:28) Foreigner without a foreign name
(02:09) Love Song Dedications without Richard Mercer
(02:55) Listener, Brendan, gives his thoughts on us
(05:24) But enough about us, Brendan, what about the song?
(07:35) The Name of the Rose
(11:38) Monks or Jedis
(15:18) Love is fluid, or actually several fluids
(17:09) Monks, Jedis or cowboys
(21:13) Forrest Gump
(22:25) Playing possum to get the chicks
(24:36) What does the music video tell us?
(27:11) Pets
(28:23) Whose "heartbreak and pain"?
(29:39) Other pop artists that are just as clueless despite their scientific approach
(33:37) Some pop artists that get closer to the truth
(37:42) A warning to your future selves
(38:43) Important information "in case I need it when I'm older"
(41:14) Hypocritical hiking.
(42:24) Walking on a mountain of the world which is also on your shoulders
(43:05) Patronising a professional choir
(43:56) Is it about the tin man from Oz?
(46:30) Other theories from randoms on the internet
(53:43) Misheard lyrics in this song
(57:29) Dave commissions ChatGPT to write a song explaining love and it's perfect
(01:04:02) Farewells
Would you like to appear (well, vocally) on the show? Do you have a pop song or ear-worm from the SMOOTH FM genre that’s infested your mind and needs to be investigated? Visit this page https://speakpipe.com/lyrics to record us your own voicemail hot-take on your specific smooth song of suckiness. You could be on a future episode! (you can always email sound files or text your thoughts to poidadavis@gmail.com if that's easier). Cheers!
Find us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram etc @LyricsPodast ... and we're on all your favourite podcasting platforms.
Sound clips are included for educational reference, criticism, satire and parody in fair use. Clips remain the property of the respective rights holder and no endorsement is implied. All information and opinion is performed and expressed in-character and does not reflect reality or genuine commentary on any persons (living or dead), bands or other organisations, or th -
Seal's KISS FROM A ROSE on the grey or gray or the grave or the greying tower which is probably a lighthouse because it's on the sea and it snows there at sea level which means it's near the arctic
Play along at home with the lyrics:
[Intro]
Ba-ya-ya, ba-da-da-da-da-da, ba-ya-ya
Ba-ya-ya, ba-da-da-da-da-da, ba-ya-ya
Ba-ya-ya, ba-da-da-da-da-da, ba-ya-ya
Ba-ya-ya, ba-da-da-da-da-da, ba-ya-ya
[Verse1]
There used to be a greying tower alone on the sea
And you became the light on the dark side of me
Love remained a drug that's the high and not the pill
[Pre-Chorus]
But did you know that when it snows
My eyes become large and
The light that you shine can't be seen?
[Chorus]
Baby, I compare you to a kiss from a rose on the grey
Ooh, the more I get of you, stranger it feels, yeah
And now that your rose is in bloom
A light hits the gloom on the grey
[Post-Chorus]
Ba-ya-ya, ba-da-da-da-da-da, ba-ya-ya
[Verse 2]
There is so much a man can tell you
So much he can say
You remain my power, my pleasure, my pain, baby
To me, you're like a growing addiction that I can't deny
Won't you tell me, is that healthy, baby?
[Pre-Chorus repeats]
[Chorus repeats]
[Bridge]
I've been kissed by a rose on the grey
I, I've been kissed by a rose on the grey
I've (And if I should fall, will it all go away?) been kissed by a rose on the grey
I, I've been kissed by a rose on the grey
[Verse 2 repeats]
[Pre-Chorus repeats]
[Chorus repeats]
[Post-Chorus]
Ba-ya-ya, ba-da-da-da-da-da, ba-ya-ya
[Outro]
Now that your rose is in bloom
A light hits the gloom on the grey
Jump to section
(00:48) Briefest ever celebrity introduction
(00:55) Song details, writer/lyricist, key dates
(01:55) Embarrassed. Lost down the back of the couch?
(02:45) Artist's comments
(03:50) Grey vs Grave
(04:45) Liam Neeson and the Terminator and Batman music videos
(09:14) Buildings and geography
(10:25) Darth Vader's holiday home
(22:59) Seal as old lighthouse, sea captain, or a seal
(17:09) sigh ... "love is like a drug" again
(21:34) Snow as just snow
(24:22) Exact location and mixed metaphors
(26:28) Shanty or Shakespeare?
(28:47) Mechanics of kissing a rose
(30:48) Youthemisms
(41:46) Statement of indemnity
(42:32) Other theories from randoms on the internet
(52:42) Misheard lyrics in this song
(57:57) More Statements of indemnity
(59:09) Farewell
Would you like to appear (well, vocally) on the show? Do you have a pop song or ear-worm from the SMOOTH FM genre that’s infested your mind and needs to be investigated? Visit this page https://speakpipe.com/lyrics to record us your own voicemail hot-take on your specific smooth song of suckiness. You could be on a future episode! (you can always email sound files or text your thoughts to poidadavis@gmail.com if that's easier). Cheers!
Find us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram etc @LyricsPodast ... and we're on all your favourite podcasting platforms.
Check out our merchandise shop just for a laugh!
Sound clips are included for educational reference, criticism, satire and parody in fair use. Clips remain the property of the respective rights holder and no endorsement is implied. All information and opinion is performed and expressed in-character and does not reflect reality or genuine commentary on any persons (living or dead), bands or other organisations, or their works, and is not recommended listening for anyone, anywhere. -
Daft Punk's GET LUCKY with Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers - We've come too far to give up talking pop lyrics but let's not raise the bar, just lower your expectations. We raise our cups to you!
It's 2013. A pope resigns for the first time ever (he hated robes that hid his buff figure), the Boston Marathon is bombed by a couple of crazy kids, Grand Theft Auto 5 is published, Chrissy Amphlett dies, as does the last surviving member of The Andrews Sisters, Annette Funicello, and Lou Reed, ... and the robo-boys of Daft Punk release this groovy thang.
What are the meanings, the messages, the attitudes, the life and times of this song? Our wide-ranging investigation includes:
(00:00) Briefest ever introduction
(00:41) Song details, writers and lyricist(s?)
(02:09) How many time is "up all night to get lucky" repeated
(02:30) Robot sounds, robot looks, robot news
(05:40) Song meaning - "cycles"
(06:21) Mixing legends/myths and science
(11:34) Pheonix - myth? legend? Japanese cartoon? 80s video game?
(19:20) Theories of the universe
(22:59) Nihilism, limitations or infinite richness
(24:36) Are we letting the universe down? Be Best?
(28:02) Cups full or empty?
(30:20) "Happy" songs
(31:01) Human courtship and toxic men
(33:20) Gambling addiction?
(33:56) The odds of life in the universe
(34:30) More toxic men
(35:45) More cosmic gifts
(37:10) A reminder of what girls do for fun
(38:44) Vampires again?
(41:15) Theories from randoms on the internet
(47:18) A shock to new English speakers
(50.07) Misheard lyrics in this song
(52:03) Notable Trivia
(56:55) The deceitful music video?
(58:15) In conclusion
Would you like to appear (well, vocally) on the show? Do you have a pop song or ear-worm from the SMOOTH FM genre that’s infested your mind and needs to be investigated? Visit this page https://speakpipe.com/lyrics to record us your own voicemail hot-take on your specific smooth song of suckiness. You could be on a future episode! (you can always email sound files or text your thoughts to poidadavis@gmail.com if that's easier). Cheers!
Find us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram etc @LyricsPodast ... and we're on all your favourite podcasting platforms.
Check out our merchandise shop just for a laugh!
Sound clips are included for educational reference, criticism, satire and parody in fair use. Clips remain the property of the respective rights holder and no endorsement is implied. All information and opinion is performed and expressed in-character and does not reflect reality or genuine commentary on any persons (living or dead), bands or other organisations, or their works, and is not recommended listening for anyone, anywhere.
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