The Lemon Fool

Cooking dinner tonight (sweet potato with red lentil dhal) listening to favorites on Spotify. The Byrds. You ain't going no where. Lyrics are. Strap yourself to a tree with roots.
So does it mean strap yourself to a tree that has roots with some form of straps. Or does it mean strap yourself to a tree using roots.
Please help me to solve this conundrum.

I have been in imbibing, I'll get me coat.

Thanks

Imbiber wrote:
Cooking dinner tonight (sweet potato with red lentil dhal) listening to favorites on Spotify.

The Byrds. You ain't going no where. Lyrics are. Strap yourself to a tree with roots.

So does it mean strap yourself to a tree that has roots with some form of straps. Or does it mean strap yourself to a tree using roots.

Please help me to solve this conundrum.

There's a similar conundrum in the epic Half Man Half Biscuit song, Time Flies By (When You're a Driver of a Train)...

When they sing -

Time flies by when you're a driver of a train
Speeding out of Trumpton with a cargo of cocaine

Regarding that second line, do you think they're talking about a heavily laden goods wagon, or a driver that's perhaps taken too much Columbian marching powder on this particular journey?

Let it happen, bass player...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSNMTa7Yd3E

Cheers,

Itsallaguess

p.s - I'm going for 'Strap yourself to a tree that 'has' roots'....

Imbiber wrote:Cooking dinner tonight (sweet potato with red lentil dhal) listening to favorites on Spotify. The Byrds. You ain't going no where. Lyrics are. Strap yourself to a tree with roots.
So does it mean strap yourself to a tree that has roots with some form of straps. Or does it mean strap yourself to a tree using roots.
Please help me to solve this conundrum.

I have been in imbibing, I'll get me coat.

Thanks

I think you're mistaking 'roots' with 'Roots' as in Levi Roots, the musician and purveyor of something called 'Reggae Reggae sauce'. That would make a lot more sense. Sometimes the simplest explanation is the right one.

HTH

RC

Many (most?) lyrics are best when misheard.

c.f. Lady Mondegreen.

UncleEbenezer wrote:Many (most?) lyrics are best when misheard.

c.f. Lady Mondegreen.

The best mis-hear is this one:

"Excuse me, while I kiss this guy"

~ Hendrix ~

Who could forget Hot Chocolate's "I remove umbilicals"?

Or Robert Palmer's “Might as well face it, you’re a dick with a glove”?

A personal blast from the past, though. Going back about sixty years now (oh god), I remember some woman writing in a magazine about how she'd heard her daughter wandering around the house singing "Mummy is the root of all evil".

BJ

I always wondered what the knights in white sat in.

bungeejumper wrote:Who could forget Hot Chocolate's "I remove umbilicals"?

Not anyone who heard Madonna "chop the goolie"...

GS

John Travolta told Olivia Newton-John, "You're a wobble-eye wog!" Not nice!

And then there's Candi Staton in "You've Got The Love", sometimes seems to be singing

"Sometimes I feel like throwing my pants up in the air".

https://youtu.be/7my5baoCVv8?si=UpckHv5tbHvKWQ1P

Peter Kay on the same subject.

Many years ago a little girl asks her mother, "Mummy, what's ubay? "

Perplexed, her mother asks where she heard it.

"
A man on the radio sang " I've got ubay" .

GrahamPlatt wrote:https://youtu.be/7my5baoCVv8?si=UpckHv5tbHvKWQ1P

Peter Kay on the same subject.

Just let me staple the vicar