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Most Bizarre Bond Lyrics

Perilagu_KhanPerilagu_Khan
edited September 2013 in Music Posts: 2,483
From Where Has Everybody Gone:

Because you're beautiful,
And you'll soon be long gone.
And the ashes of your memoirs will be strewn across the lawn.

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  • StirredNotShakenStirredNotShaken Toronto
    Posts: 2,402
    ALL of Moonraker.
  • SirHenryLeeChaChingSirHenryLeeChaChing
    edited September 2013 Posts: 3,494
    StirredNotShaken wrote:
    ALL of Moonraker.

    I disagree. The lyrics are about searching for your soul mate, the true love of your life.

    Where are you
    Why do you hide
    Where is that moonlight trail that leads to your side
    Just like the moonraker goes
    In search of his dream of gold
    I search for love
    For someone to have and hold
    I've seen your smile
    In a thousand dreams
    Felt your touch
    And it always seems
    You love me
    You love me

    Where are you
    When will we meet
    Take my unfinished life and make it complete
    Just like the moonraker knows
    His dream will come true someday
    I know that you
    Are only a kiss away
    I've seen your smile
    In a thousand dreams
    Felt your touch
    And it always seems
    You love me
    You love me


    It has nothing much to do with the movie save for the lines following "Moonraker" which references Drax's dreams, his "gold" and "dream" being his master plan. The rest is quite simple once you've read them.

    Several bizarre lyrics that come to mind are those from AVTAK and QOS.
  • Perilagu_KhanPerilagu_Khan
    Posts: 2,483
    Agreed, Henry. And now, having looked at the lyrics in full, they are quite poignant, even beautiful.
  • DiscoVolanteDiscoVolante Stockholm, Sweden
    Posts: 1,347
    Love is required whenever he's hired,
    It comes just before the kill.

    TMWTGG. Don't know if it's only me who interprets it in a dirty way O:-)
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    DiscoVolante wrote:
    Love is required whenever he's hired,
    It comes just before the kill.

    TMWTGG. Don't know if it's only me who interprets it in a dirty way O:-)

    Yes, didn't Scaramanga need to have sex before he went out on a hit? It's been a while since I saw that film.
  • Perilagu_KhanPerilagu_Khan
    edited September 2013 Posts: 2,483
    DiscoVolante wrote:
    Love is required whenever he's hired,
    It comes just before the kill.

    TMWTGG. Don't know if it's only me who interprets it in a dirty way O:-)

    If you're not interpreting that in a dirty way then you're not doing it right.
    ;)

    Bizarre lyrics, just because they're so incredibly tacky. Of course, nowadays they would raise nary an eyebrow.
  • WillyGaloreWillyGalore
    Posts: 6,396
    Diamonds Are Forever.

    The direction given to Shirley Bassey on how to approach the song? "Imagine you're singing about a penis!" :O
  • saunderssaunders Living in a world of avarice and deceit
    edited September 2013 Posts: 987
    WillyGalore wrote:
    Diamonds Are Forever.

    The direction given to Shirley Bassey on how to approach the song? "Imagine you're singing about a penis!" :O

    That reminds me of the story John Barry used to tell about how Shirley Bassey didn't understand the lyrics to GF and wanted direction so Barry turned to her and said "Shirley just go out there and sing your muff off".

    I don't really get the lyrics to either AVTAK or TLD, maybe I just don't get eighties pop!

  • Sammm04Sammm04
    Posts: 479
    It's just another
    Hey!
    It's just another
    You're nothing to me, die
    It's just another
    Shoot 'em, bang bang!
    It's just another
    It's just another
    It's just another way
    Shoot 'em up, bang bang
    Hey Hey
    It's just another
    Yeah Yeah

    It's just another
    It's just another
    It's just another
    It's just another day
    Bang bang bang bang

    Bizzare and Bad. Nothing needs explaining.

    OMG JACK WHITE AND ALICIA KEYS.

  • LudovicoLudovico
    Posts: 15,117
    'm gonna wake up, yes and no
    I'm gonna kiss some part of
    I'm gonna keep this secret
    I'm gonna close my body now

    I guess, die another day
    I guess, die another day
    I guess, die another day
    I guess, die another day

    I guess I'll die another day
    (Another day)
    I guess I'll die another day
    (Another day)
    I guess I'll die another day
    (Another day)
    I guess I'll die another day

    Sigmund Freud
    Analyze this
    Analyze this
    Analyze this

    I'm gonna break the cycle
    I'm gonna shake up the system
    I'm gonna destroy my ego
    I'm gonna close my body now

    Uh, uh

    I think I'll find another way
    There's so much more to know
    I guess I'll die another day
    It's not my time to go

    For every sin, I'll have to pay
    I've come to work, I've come to play
    I think I'll find another way
    It's not my time to go

    I'm gonna avoid the cliche
    I'm gonna suspend my senses
    I'm gonna delay my pleasure
    I'm gonna close my body now

    I guess, die another day
    I guess I'll die another day
    I guess, die another day
    I guess I'll die another day

    I think I'll find another way
    There's so much more to know
    I guess I'll die another day
    It's not my time to go

    Uh, uh

    [Laugh]

    I guess, die another day
    I guess I'll die another day
    I guess, die another day
    I guess I'll die another day

    The whole song is beyond bizarre, the clip is worse, but the lyrics about Sigmund Freud... Why?
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    "Another Way to Die" might not have the greatest vocal performance at times, and the lyrics have moments of stupidity, but the main sections of the lyrics are quite well put together and present an image of paranoia and danger, much akin to the spy world Bond finds himself in.
  • Perilagu_KhanPerilagu_Khan
    Posts: 2,483
    WillyGalore wrote:
    Diamonds Are Forever.

    The direction given to Shirley Bassey on how to approach the song? "Imagine you're singing about a penis!" :O

    Barry was class in a glass.

  • Perilagu_KhanPerilagu_Khan
    Posts: 2,483
    Sammm04 wrote:
    It's just another
    Hey!
    It's just another
    You're nothing to me, die
    It's just another
    Shoot 'em, bang bang!
    It's just another
    It's just another
    It's just another way
    Shoot 'em up, bang bang
    Hey Hey
    It's just another
    Yeah Yeah

    It's just another
    It's just another
    It's just another
    It's just another day
    Bang bang bang bang

    Bizzare and Bad. Nothing needs explaining.

    OMG JACK WHITE AND ALICIA KEYS.

    LOL. How did that shit ever get recorded?

  • RogueAgentRogueAgent
    Posts: 12,526
    Without doubt I think I will go with DAD on this one! %-(
  • echoecho 007 in New York
    edited September 2013 Posts: 6,298
    SirHenryLeeChaChing wrote:
    Several bizarre lyrics that come to mind are those from AVTAK and QOS.

    Yes!

    Nightfall covers me, but you know the plans I'm making
    Still over sea, could it be the whole world opening wide
    A sacred why, a mystery gaping inside
    The weekend's why
  • Perilagu_KhanPerilagu_Khan
    Posts: 2,483
    echo wrote:
    SirHenryLeeChaChing wrote:
    Several bizarre lyrics that come to mind are those from AVTAK and QOS.

    Yes!

    Nightfall covers me, but you know the plans I'm making
    Still over sea, could it be the whole world opening wide
    A sacred why, a mystery gaping inside
    The weekend's why

    Heh. I suppose that must have made sense to LeBon at some time.

  • SirHenryLeeChaChingSirHenryLeeChaChing
    Posts: 3,494
    Perilagu_Khan wrote:
    echo wrote:
    SirHenryLeeChaChing wrote:
    Several bizarre lyrics that come to mind are those from AVTAK and QOS.

    Yes!

    Nightfall covers me, but you know the plans I'm making
    Still over sea, could it be the whole world opening wide
    A sacred why, a mystery gaping inside
    The weekend's why

    Heh. I suppose that must have made sense to LeBon at some time.

    I would guess that some sort of psychedelic was in play, because these are a pretty trippy kind of mess.

    TLD also bizarro and Madonna's lyrics suck donkey d...AWTD's lyrics agreed are better than these 4 examples, I agree with @obrady in his assessment of those.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
    Posts: 28,694
    I thought I was the only one who was head-scratching at some of these lyrics. Some not only have no connection to the film they precede, but furthermore others appear nonsensical entirely. AVTAK is a great song, but only for the mood or feeling it elicits, and doesn't hold up well once you analyze the lyrics.
  • KanangaKananga
    Posts: 367
    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote:
    I thought I was the only one who was head-scratching at some of these lyrics. Some not only have no connection to the film they precede, but furthermore others appear nonsensical entirely. AVTAK is a great song, but only for the mood or feeling it elicits, and doesn't hold up well once you analyze the lyrics.

    The song sounds much better if you listen to the Live Aid performance, all those 'bum notes' is just class. (so much it killed them)
  • M_BaljeM_Balje Amsterdam, Netherlands
    edited September 2013 Posts: 4,516
    If you look what we get now with DC era, DAD song perfect fit and not CR but DAD the first maintitle song predict future Bond movie(s).
  • ForcelandForceland
    Posts: 42
    The Sigmund Freud Analyze this-bit from DAD is by far the worst and most bizarre lyics as of yet. Hopefully nothing worse will ever be sung in a Bond tune.
  • retrokittyretrokitty The Couv
    Posts: 380
    When I want to drive my husband mental, I sing the melody to Goldfinger but replace it with Moonraker lyrics. Not the real ones though.

    More like:

    Moonraker
    It's the ship, the ship with the lunar touch
    A spacey touch
    Such a moon seeker
    Beckons you to boldly go where no man has gone before
    Beware of the trap floor

    The lyrics change all the time. I know they are not going to the moon but it's really quite awesome.
  • LudovicoLudovico
    Posts: 15,117
    Forceland wrote:
    The Sigmund Freud Analyze this-bit from DAD is by far the worst and most bizarre lyics as of yet. Hopefully nothing worse will ever be sung in a Bond tune.

    Agreed. I mean AWTD, however awful it was, kind of, sort of made sense, in a primitive, rough treatment, not even remotely baked, written at the corner of a table beginning of a project of song. DAD's lyrics were arrogant, and the Sigmund Freud Analyze this was just... abysmal trying to be edgy and smart.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
    edited September 2013 Posts: 28,694
    Forceland wrote:
    The Sigmund Freud Analyze this-bit from DAD is by far the worst and most bizarre lyics as of yet. Hopefully nothing worse will ever be sung in a Bond tune.

    Though, I am sure Freud would appreciate Bond's own phallic might to bed the ladies and the various innuendos pointing to his little soldier that have sprout up in the series and on the posters of the films since 1962.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
    Posts: 45,489
    I agree with the above-DAD.
    Analyze that!
  • Baltimore_007Baltimore_007
    Posts: 5,634
    I don't know what the lyrics are to Die Another Day - or Quantum of Solace - as I invariably turn off audio rather than listen to anything from those two awful garbage intros, but have seen it read that QOS actually has some decent lyrics if you take away the awful Keys singing that accompanies it

    Bassey's Moonraker as stated, is a bit of a mystery, as is A-HAs The Living Daylights. Duran Duran's A View to a Kill is also worth a mention

  • 00Ed00Ed
    Posts: 140
    AVTAK really takes the cake. Though it's one of my favorites, I have to admit that the lyrics make no sense whatsoever, just a bunch of words strung together.

    One can't help but wonder what they were on.
  • karl007karl007
    Posts: 151
    Hundred thousand people, I'm the one they blame.
    Never really got this one, still one of my favorite bond tunes though.
  • NapoleonPluralNapoleonPlural
    Posts: 512
    It's about Bond's nightmare vision of a nuclear bomb going off and him unable to stop it despite his much vaunted reputation.

    Probably.
  • karl007karl007
    Posts: 151
    NapoleonPlural wrote:
    It's about Bond's nightmare vision of a nuclear bomb going off and him unable to stop it despite his much vaunted reputation.

    Probably.
    Thank you.. That sounds plausible now whenever I hear it it will give new meaning to the song

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