He played hit song "Daughters" on an Apple webcast I watched in the summer (yeah, okay, I do follow Apple conventions, and I do have Quicktime installed, oh have I ever sinned - I was bored and in a foreign country, okay?). Anyways, I almost puked when I heard it. Add insult to injury, it wasn't long before this stupid song made it on to the continuous loop of the local radio station.
Kill me now.
I'm a bit of a lunatic, which means I take time to listen to what someone is trying to tell me. I tend to listen to lyrics more closely than any human ever should. Most pop music makes me incredibly mad as it is the most poorly written music in existence.
But John Mayer has topped them all. He even showed teenie booper angry Linkin Park how to write a dumb song. (by the way, where is Linkin Park anyways? Their music expects me to think they've all since jumped off bridges)
So without further interruption, here is his popular song, and the translation.
John Mayer - Daughters
| The Song | The Translation |
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I know a girl She puts the color inside of my world and she's just like a maze Where all of the walls all continually change |
I hook up with this chick She does some amazing shit with her tongue But man she makes no fucking sense A real moody bitch |
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And I've done all I can To stand on the steps with my heart in my hand Now I'm starting to see Maybe it's got nothing to do with me |
I tried spiking her rum and coke with a prozac I'm going to chill out and touch my nipples And blame her dad for my problems |
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Fathers be good to your daughters Daughters will love like you do Girls become lovers who turn into mothers So mothers be good to your daughters, too |
Yeah, if you didnt fuck her up so much My sex life would be better It's really interrupting the humping I just hope I didn't knock her up |
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Ooh, you see that skin It's the same she's been standing in Since the day she saw him walking away Now she's left cleaning up the mess he made |
She's fucking hot But I'm sick of her shit I'm going to play hero for a while And then dump her |
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So fathers be good to your daughters Daughters will love like you do Girls become lovers who turn into mothers So mothers be good to your daughters, too |
Maybe if you weren't such an asshole Then she wouldn't be so needy Then I would get some regular sex Cause I'm a selfless kinda dude. |
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Boys you can break You find out how much they can take Boys will be strong and boys soldier on But boys would be gone without warmth from a woman's good, good heart |
If I don't get laid soon I'm seriously going to go nuts |
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On behalf of every man, looking out for every girl You are the god and the weight of her world |
Imagine how many women That would just randomly get naked If all those issues didn't exist |
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So fathers be good to your daughters Daughters will love like you do Girls become lovers who turn into mothers So mothers be good to your daughters, too So mothers be good to your daughters, too So mothers be good to your daughters, too |
So yes, I hate your nutbar daughter She makes my life a living hell But she has all the equipment I don't All the parts line up And I'm a retard |
Sure, the translation may be offensive, but it's honest - quality more people should value.
The funny thing about it, everyone's daughter seems to inexplicably want to throw money at him and play with his package afterwards.
"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung." - Voltaire
