F*** the police [4x]
While they did bluntly indict the police – particularly the LAPD – for its brutality and treatment of African Americans and other ethnicities, their profane chant felt rather ironic when photos of Eazy-E posing for a selfie with a police officer emerged years later. In fact, Eazy was criticised by his rap peers when he defended one of those who were implicated in the Rodney King incident.
Submitted by: Maryellen Larkin
Started out as a reserve,
Soon promoted well deserved,
And the legend has begun...
(later)
Oh, we remember,
We remember, we remember!
Shout Lauri Törni’s name,
A soldier of 3 armies knows the game,
Deeds that echo from the past.
Rise! from beyond your grave,
Son of Finland and a green beret.
May you rest in peace at last,
Lauri Allan Törni.
They say they don't take sides and only tell stories. However, lyrics like "rise beyond your grave" and calling him a "legend" sounds like their opinions. I still love them, though.
Submitted by: Katy
It's nothing personal, you're an embarrassment
How is it "nothing personal" to call someone an embarrassment?
Submitted by: Nat
Rise from beyond your grave...
(a couple lines later) May you rest in peace at last...
What do they want him to do?
Submitted by: Katy
Inmate in hell or a hero imprisoned?
Soldier in Auschwitz, we know his name!
They never say his name in the song.
Submitted by: Katy
I'll take you where you really need to be, whoa oh
The lyrical line refers to living at group homes, staying at mental hospitals, going to grade schools, staying in prisons, staying in jails, living in residential schools, moving to different homes that's 1000 miles away from parents' homes, and any place where anyone is being held-captive by kidnappers
Submitted by: Mike Hack
Baby Keem's, "MOSHPIT (2010s)"
I am 50 Cent, I am 50 Cent, I am 50 Cent, bro
No, you are not.
Submitted by: Burger King Corporation
Kizukanai FURI wo shite itsu made mo
Dakishimerarete iyou kana
Considering how those lyrics could be interpreted by some people as glorifying chokeholds, this song may sound insincere.
Submitted by: Ant Ko
Lies are gonna get ya,
But the truth is gonna set you free.
Apparently, the band didn't worry about the lie in its own name! Incidentally, the whopping big cliche that "the truth will set you free" started with a saying of Jesus in the gospel of John. In the context, Jesus was addressing what he presented as a very specific truth, the truth of where salvation comes from, according to his teachings. He was not talking about truth in general. But those who have turned his saying into a runaway cliche present it out of context, as if it applied to truth in general. Ironically, among the prominent perpetrators of this runaway cliche are folks who couldn't hate Christianity more.
Submitted by: Beverly Stiles
Only happy endings
That's our recipe
Greta Garbo's character in "Camille" died, not to mention that the line contradicts with "And Greta Garbo is probably crying/While Robert Taylor is locked in her dying embrace". Grace Farrell wouldn't be sobbing in that theatre scene for nothing.
Submitted by: Maryellen Larkin