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    This reminds me of cringing at the line in "Saving My Heart" by Yes when native English speaker Trevor Rabin sings "till the blood in my veins run dry".

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    Quote Originally Posted by Garden Dreamer View Post
    That ad parody is called "Ghetto Delta", here's the full version:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU7VTJA0dNo
    Yep! Couldn't remember the name of it, but I'd seen that before.

    Pretty funny.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Garden Dreamer View Post
    That ad parody is called "Ghetto Delta", here's the full version:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU7VTJA0dNo
    I'm even more confused as to what its doing on a TFK album.

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    Quote Originally Posted by arabicadabra View Post
    This reminds me of cringing at the line in "Saving My Heart" by Yes when native English speaker Trevor Rabin sings "till the blood in my veins run dry".
    Ugh. Yeah. Yes had a few of those in the YesWest years. The ones that always annoyed me were:

    "One difference between you and I" -- Changes
    "It's up to you and I" -- The More We Live - Let Go

    Even Neil Peart was guilty of that mistake, on "Entre Nous":

    "The spaces in between
    Leave room for you and I to grow."

    Object pronouns are your friends, people!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Adrian View Post
    The Neal Morse lyric that always gets me is from "Stranger in Your Soul":

    There, walking into walls
    Piercing through the pain ...

    "Walking into walls." He could have just as easily written "Walking through the walls," but instead he made it sound like someone smacked face-first into a wall.
    My gosh, how nitpicky! A lyric like that would never bother me in the slightest.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Adrian View Post
    Ugh. Yeah. Yes had a few of those in the YesWest years. The ones that always annoyed me were:

    "One difference between you and I" -- Changes
    "It's up to you and I" -- The More We Live - Let Go

    Even Neil Peart was guilty of that mistake, on "Entre Nous":

    "The spaces in between
    Leave room for you and I to grow."

    Object pronouns are your friends, people!
    You sound like an English teacher. I hated nearly all my English teachers, I'm convinced their job in life was to make me miserable. I prefer lyrics to be written how people actually talk, as long as it sounds good. Propper grammer or englsih rules be damned. "You and I to Grow" just sounds good, I couldn't give a crap if it's incorrect.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 3LockBox View Post
    I'm even more confused as to what its doing on a TFK album.
    Probably the same thing that the "I've fallen and I can't get up" commercial is doing (I can't recall which song they stuck that in)!
    You say Mega Ultra Deluxe Special Limited Edition Extended Autographed 5-LP, 3-CD, 4-DVD, 2-BlueRay, 4-Cassette, five 8-Track, MP4 Download plus Demos, Outtakes, Booklet, T-Shirt and Guitar Pick Gold-Leafed Box Set Version like it's a bad thing...

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    Quote Originally Posted by 3LockBox View Post
    I'm even more confused as to what its doing on a TFK album.
    Oh Lord. The only real negative bit for me on "Space Revolver" is that stupid pizza commercial they added to the end of "Underdog." People can hate on "You Don't Know What You've Got" all they want but for me it's a relief after the trainwreck of sound collages tossed on to the previous song.
    "Arf." -- Frank Zappa, "Beauty Knows No Pain" (live version)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Garden Dreamer View Post
    Probably the same thing that the "I've fallen and I can't get up" commercial is doing (I can't recall which song they stuck that in)!
    I'd almost forgotten about that! That was on "Silent Inferno."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Adrian View Post
    I'd almost forgotten about that! That was on "Silent Inferno."
    I'm more amused by it than anything, it doesn't bother me. There is one FK line that does make me cringe, where Hasse sings "The Universe is my kind of place". Why, oh why? Painful line to hear. Still doesn't ruin the music for me.

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    I dug up a great thread! Here's an idea. Roine Stolt lyric drinking game. Take a shot each time you hear:
    "brimstone"
    "cosmic"
    "forgiver" usually rhyming with "river"
    "spinning the wheel"
    "blinders"
    "Judas"
    "children"
    "run the fields"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Czyszy View Post
    I dug up a great thread! Here's an idea. Roine Stolt lyric drinking game. Take a shot each time you hear:
    I'd add "fall into" this or that... He seems to like that phrase.

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    I like "the queen behind the veal is mindless".
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