WILD FIRE Or, the perils of instore radio.

[Flangepart]

Got a question....
....Anyone here hate the song "Wild Fire" as much as me?
....I was in a 7/11 the other day, and the background music was a local easy listening station. They played the song "Wild fire".by  Michael Murphy, or Michael Montgomery, or some name like that. That song...has always creeped me out.
....Is this suposed to be ,oh...a love song? A romantic Ballad?? The lyrics are weird! Lets see....the guy is singinging about A/ "The Killing snow" of a blizzard in, i guess, the north west of the old west......B/ The stupid horse , in the Middle of a blizzard mind you!, breaks out of his stall and runs away....and...get this...C/ the guy's wife runs off after the horse!
....And the guy ends the song , telling you he expects his wife to come back...on the horse...after they have frozen to death! I'm sure he intimated that last part....
....Am I the only one who would be calling for the nearest priest, and saying "How fast can you do an exorcisisem, Padre?"
.... are there songs that creep you out...and you know that was not the singer/writers intention?
....Beside the ghost haunt of the thing, it pains me to wonder why the wife wanted the horse so badly....what, the old man not cutting it in ...um...well....
....It just ain't right, i tells ya!
....Is it just me, or do songwriters some times seem myopic to the resaulting product?

[Chadzilla]

Flangepart wrote:
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> it pains me to wonder why the wife wanted the horse so badly.

Dudley Do Right?

"More Than Words" is a song that I think is just wrong...I mean it's some guy begging his girl to make the beast with two backs with him to prove her love to him, just saying 'I Love You' isn't enough.  Got to use 'more than words', gotta slicken up the old one eyed wonder worm.  Pay attention to the lyrics, I'm a guy and I know what he's saying.

And people insist its some kind of romantic ballad.  Makes me shudder.

[John]

>"Wild fire".by Michael Murphy, or Michael Montgomery, or some name like that.

Michael Martin Murphy

 Personally, I've always liked that song.

[raj]

I'm blanking on the title, oh wait, "Every Breathe You Take" by Sting, it ain't no love song folks, the viewpoint is from a stalker.  So many people I know think it's a nice little love song.  Oy.

[D]

How about "Delia's Gone" (sp?) by Johhny Cash. I can only recall one lyric
First time I shot her, i shot her in the side
The rest of the song tells of him shooting her again with a 'sub-machine' and I think it ends with him burying her in a shallow grave. And people wonder why i dislike country music. Or how about all those dead teenagers in cars that were so popular back in the 50's? How the hell did that subject matter get to be so popular?
Give me the Ramones any day of the week
D

[Vermin Boy]

I remember one time I went into a Pizza Hut in (I think) Virginia. The entire waiting staff was completely zombified-- mumbling, no eye contact, our order took forever-- and we couldn't figure out what was wrong with them. Until we realized... The jukebox was stuck playing "Tell Laura I Love Her" (the slow, yodeling 50s teenage death song) over... and over... and over...

[Flangepart]

Oh...my ...God. I'm suprised those poor schlubs haden't slit their wrists en mass!
....One listen to the song, okey. Anymore, and the average human being gets suicidal. I once saw the cover of a vinal album of those "Dead teenager" songs. Had a chick in the forground thinking, "Oh, where can jonny be"or some such, and in the background, through a window, a walking corpse was about to ring her door bell , with a bunch of flowers in his hand.
....Dead teen songs. Attempted profundity by the sophomore set.

[Lee]

What's that song..."If I could fly, I'd lift you up" or something like that. At the beginning I'm pretty sure he say's "She's 16 years old". Hello this guy is alot older than 16. That just doesn't sit real well with me.

[frannie]

"I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him bleed"

The man in black had some pretty dark music.

[Drezzy]

s**t...there was this incredibly scary song I used to listen to all the time at night...

I have it on one of my KaZaA playlists...I'll edit it in tomorrow...