There’s a song by Electric Six called “Be My Dark Angel” and it is great, altho haters of novelty music and pop culture references therein should give the band a wide berth.
There’s a website called lyricsgenius where contributors can wiki-style post the words of songs they know. Not every musical act elects to include a lyrics sheet in their albums, and of those who do, not all are accurate or well-known enough to inform what ends up there. The bridge of this song, per the website:
I am havin’ a whirl
Of Canadian go-go girls
Japanese karate girls
Black girls
White girls
China girls
Australi-asian
European
Pan-American girls
OK. This is a person who does not know the words “inhabit” or “australasian.” As basic as those words may seem to you and I, they are not vocabulary possessed by any Electric Six fan with the gumption to edit lyricsgenius dotcom. Should I do it, succumbing to siwoti?
No. If I started into that site, I’d cave to the temptation to make the entries worse. Like in Steve Miller Band’s “Fly Like an Eagle,” I’d make that one line into “How’s the people livin’ in the street?” and that other part to “Shoos the children with no shoes on their feet.” Then I’d make a footnote on it (you can make notes on lyrics on the site) to say, “How do you think they’re livin’ Steeeeve?” and “Don’t shoo them; it hurts to walk. Pay attention!”
There. That’ll keep me in the sidebar a lil longer.
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