Math Errors in Songs

Good call. Dylan needs to bone up on his twins paradox.

 

"The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older"
Yeah right Roger. Makes absolutely no sense.

 

Even harder is the weight of feathers due to the incredible volume you must shlep

 

Is there a lyric grammar thread? I'll leave this here till I find out:

In live and let die, Paul sings " ...this ever changing world in which we live in". That's one too many "in"s!! It's always drove me insane.

PS- this thread is great thank you op.

 

Only time will tell if it stands the test of time.

 

I think the line is actually

If this every-changing world in which we're living
Makes you give in and cry...

 

If you add twenty thousand to twenty thousand to twenty thousand, it's bit closer to your target.

 

How does the title confuse schizophrenic (the popular name for multiple personality disorder) with bipolar disorder?

Would you be happier if he changed it to 'You're Never Alone With Schizophrenia'

 

Allow myself to introduce....myself
-Austin Powers

 

So, which is the loneliest number when one is not?

 

If only there were some Beatles experts around here we could figure it out

 

This thread is not three bad

 

Yes but you can be alone with someone. The word is funny that way. So in that sense he's not mistaken.

 

You got the math wrong here, Mike. Love Minus Zero (No Limit) means Love Minus Zero TIMES No Limit, whereas the actual title of the song is Love Minus Zero/No Limit which means Love Minus Zero DIVIDED BY No Limit.

 

Zero?

 

I think Ian Hunter is referring to the joke that people with schizophrenia never being alone.

 

How can zero be lonely? Its not even a countable thing but an absence of all countable things.

 

Haha I will vote for you for president dude!

 

For sure. I was just pointing out that it's not a grammar mistake to say folks are "alone together" so that Ian in fact had not make a syntax error.

 

Living colour

I tell you one and one makes three

 

That sounds lonely to me: Nothing.

 

Not all musicians are dumb,though

 

We don't need no education, technically a grammar issue, but using double negative is a math problem nonetheless :
One minus negative-one equals positive-two > 'We don't need no education actually says we need education'.

 

Yes - but if you were in it, then it would no longer be nothing, it would be one.