Math Errors in Songs

I don't think it has been proven scientifically that it takes 30 seconds for unplugged toasters with wings and clock-faces to fly over the Winterland ballroom in San Francisco, especially when travelling at 3/5 Of A Mile In 10 Seconds

 

And I doubt that there is green desert sand on Aldebaran, but this thread is not about geology ...

 

How about math errors in group names:

Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons

That implies five members but most years there were only four

Ironically, December 1963 is credited only to the Four Seasons but there were five of them at that time.

 

From Louisiana, the Rogue Show-Make Me Over Again...."Nine times nine leaves ten"?? Great song, nevertheless!

 

Ian Hunter, "You're Never Alone With a Schizophrenic":

If you;'re with anyone else, you're not alone. It doesn't matter whether that person is schizophrenic or not. (Also, the title confuses schizophrenic with bipolar).

 

Another math error in a group name:
30 Seconds To Mars

 

Y.T. - 25 Hours A Day

 

I used to tell my students that Ireland run out of education dollars, and thus, could not afford complete language courses

 

I think Aldeberan looks quite a bit like the Sun did this morning what with all the smoke coming down to the Bay Area from the fires in Northern Califonia.

 

23 minutes and 15 seconds can last an eternity

 

It would have been so easy to change the lyric to "just about an hour from Texarkana," because that actually makes sense.

That's what I came into this thread looking for. Beat me to it.

 

So you can't say "Let's go somewhere and be alone"?

In Oscar Levant's memoirs he mentioned old time songwriters dissing the line "Here we are apart" since it was a "physical impossibility". And I once saw Alan Jay Lerner complaining about all the things hearts did in song lyrics: "My heart stood still" etc...

Actually it confuses schizophrenia with multiple personality. Bipolar is what used to be called manic depression,

 

My idea was "Just a country mile from Texarkana"

 

Secret Agent 23 Skidoo - 13 O'Clock

 

"Two divided by love
Can only be one
And one is a lonely number"

The Grass Roots

"One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do
Two can be as bad as one
It's the loneliest number since the number one"

Harry Nilsson

 

And like one and one don't make two
One and one make one

 

Yes, the introduction is "uno, dos, uno, dos, tres, cuatro".

 

Johnny Mathis - Twelfth Of Never

 

Jack Bruce Band: Madhouse (1977)

...Two and two make twenty-two...

...Four and nine make forty-nine...

...Three and three make thirty-three...

...Nine and one make ninety-one...



That makes five math errors.

No, hang on a minute...

 

Uno, dos, one, two, tres, quatro

 

1% of 1 is 1, Stephen Malkmus

 

"One is the Loneliest Number"

Sometimes, but not always.

 

"And in the end, the love you take = the love you make"

What a load of tosh & nonsense!

 

The Denison/Kimball Trio were a musical duo consisting of guitarist Duane Denison (Jesus Lizard) and drummer Jim Kimball (The Laughing Hyenas, Mule).