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What are some of your favorite songs with titles that are modified versions of famous adages, expressions or sayings?

 

 

One example:

“Better Love Next Time” by Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show, 1979.  The expression is ‘better luck next time’.





LYRICS:

I'm your friend, you can talk to me

I read your face, I see misery

So the one you love has left you dry

Don't start believing that you're gonna die

Just pick your heart up off the floor

And try, try again

You'll find better love next time, baby

Don't give up and I know you're gonna find

Better love next time, baby

Someone will be waiting down the line

With better love, better love, better love, better love next time

Sometimes it's better to let it all go

I've been there and I think I should know

So have a good cry, wash out your heart

If you keep it inside it'll tear you apart

Sometimes you lose but you're gonna win

If you just, if you just keep hanging in

You'll find better love next time, baby

Don't give up and I know you're gonna find

Better love next time, baby

Someone will be waiting down the line

With better love, better love, better love, better love next time

You'll find better love next time, baby

Don't give up and I know you're gonna find

Better love next time, baby

Someone will be waiting down the line

With better love, better love, better love, better love next time

Better love next time, baby

Don't give up

 

 

~

Posted - August 13, 2020

Responses


  • As opposed to "Rest in Peace"

      August 13, 2020 10:38 AM MDT
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      August 13, 2020 3:51 PM MDT
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      Huh?

    :|

      August 13, 2020 4:18 PM MDT
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      March 15, 2025 2:21 AM MDT
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      May 10, 2025 1:54 AM MDT
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      October 25, 2025 2:08 AM MDT
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      November 1, 2025 2:13 AM MDT
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      November 8, 2025 3:22 AM MST
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      January 31, 2026 1:25 AM MST
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      April 4, 2026 1:20 AM MDT
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      August 1, 2026 1:13 AM MDT
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      August 22, 2026 1:04 AM MDT
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  • 586
    Everyone knows that it's "you've got another think coming" . . . which is what would make sense in context. I can imagine the scene in the recording studio in 1982: "I've been saying it that way all my life . . . and if you think I'm going to change now, you've got another thing/k coming!"



      September 3, 2026 12:24 PM MDT
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      Everyone knows that every time you say everyone knows, you’re starting off on the wrong foot and are absolutely incorrect. Grrrrrrr. 



    (LoL)
     ~

      September 3, 2026 2:11 PM MDT
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