Set Fire To The Rain and Other Impossible Songs

[darkandrew]

Having been suitably inspired by the Adele song, I ventured out into the rain on Friday night and attempted to set fire to it. My only achievement was a soggy box of matches and a nasty sniffle. My only conclusion is that despite what Adele is advocating in her song, it is actually impossible to set fire to the rain and I am left feeling somewhat cheated - a feeling I hadn't experienced since I found out that the Beatles didn't actually all live in a yellow submarine. Has anybody else had a similar experience discovering that a song's lyrics are clearly impossible?

Edited July 22, 2012 by darkandrew

[KiOgon]

Wrong sort of rain then

[thehillscorporation]

hmmm, well kissing the sky ain't so easy!! (unless he really did sing 'kiss this guy', in which case; easier but by far less pleasant!!)

[Hobbayne]

Well, I have to agree with Lonnie Donegan, My chewing gum definitely [u][b]DID [/b][/u]lose its flavour on the bedpost overnight!!

[phil.i.stein]

'let's lynch the landlord' by the Dead Kennedy's didn't bode well for me.

HMP. Stocken.

Edited July 22, 2012 by phil.i.stein

[steve-bbb]

[quote name='darkandrew' timestamp='1342990169' post='1743608']
Having been suitably inspired by the Adele song, I ventured out into the rain on Friday night and attempted to set fire to it. My only achievement was a soggy box of matches and a nasty sniffle. My only conclusion is that despite what Adele is advocating in her song, it is actually impossible to set fire to the rain and I am left feeling somewhat cheated - a feeling I hadn't experienced since I found out that the Beatles didn't actually all live in a yellow submarine. Has anybody else had a similar experience discovering that a song's lyrics are clearly impossible?
[/quote]

Adele stuff is easy

1 take one large pan of boiling water
2 one cute fluffy bunny
3

[phil.i.stein]

actually, 'I kissed a girl' by Katy Perry didn't help either.

HMP. Stocken.

[chrismuzz]

[quote name='thehillscorporation' timestamp='1342990801' post='1743618']
hmmm, well kissing the sky ain't so easy!! (unless he really did sing 'kiss this guy', in which case; easier but by far less pleasant!!)
[/quote]

Heard a live version while he quite clearly sings "scuse me while I kiss that guy", so he might've!

[KingBollock]

My mate and I once set fire to a brook using Turps.

[phil.i.stein]

[quote name='KingBollock' timestamp='1342992807' post='1743659']
My mate and I once set fire to a brook using Turps.
[/quote]

who sang that one ?

[KingBollock]

[quote name='phil.i.stein' timestamp='1342993400' post='1743677']
who sang that one ?
[/quote]
Sorry dude, my only link to this thread is that the brook was once rain...

[RussFM]

Oh.... I thought it was "Set fire to Loraine". She wasn't happy.

[Roland Rock]

It took me four relationships to realise that Nick Lowe was talking bollocks when he said you need to be Cruel to be Kind.

Air is [b]not[/b] solid. Try breathing wood.

War is definitely not Civil

[RandomBass]

I asked Lorraine to go, but I still couldn't see clearly..

[the_skezz]

[quote name='phil.i.stein' timestamp='1342990930' post='1743623']
'let's lynch the landlord' by the Dead Kennedy's didn't bode well for me.

HMP. Stocken.
[/quote]

Neither did trying to kill children, inducing chemical warfare or drugging myself for me...

Come to think of it, most songs off that album wouldn't work out too well

[gapiro]

[quote name='KiOgon' timestamp='1342990631' post='1743615']
Wrong sort of rain then
[/quote]

You need purple rain.

[gapiro]

I've also never found the muscle museum

[gapiro]

And no matter how hard I tried, I was unable to stop the sun going down on me

[ead]

[quote name='phil.i.stein' timestamp='1342990930' post='1743623']
'let's lynch the landlord' by the Dead Kennedy's didn't bode well for me.

HMP. Stocken.
[/quote]

But they were spot on with "Too Drunk to F*$k"

Edited July 23, 2012 by ead

[ead]

[quote name='gapiro' timestamp='1343027162' post='1743818']
And no matter how hard I tried, I was unable to stop the sun going down on me
[/quote]


...and you can get a nasty burn from that sort of thing

[SpaceChick]

Well for me, when the moon hit my eye like a big pizza pie, there was no amore... I was pretty much squashed and f*cked!!

[KiOgon]

[quote name='gapiro' timestamp='1343000983' post='1743771']
You need purple rain.
[/quote]
Methylated spirits rain - that would work

[cloudburst]

We thought Nick Lowe would find it therapeutic when we set to his greenhouse with small hammers. However, he was absolutely fuming! Honestly, some of these rock stars don't seem to know their own minds.

CB

[gapiro]

Anyone managed to get the moon to go round the sun ? ( Vanessa Williams)

[Dave Vader]

[quote name='cloudburst' timestamp='1343029188' post='1743850']
We thought Nick Lowe would find it therapeutic when we set to his greenhouse with small hammers. However, he was absolutely fuming! Honestly, some of these rock stars don't seem to know their own minds.

CB
[/quote]

You very nearly lost me my job then for a very loud snorty laugh....