They also hated each other so much that they divorced twice, and as this song shows, he apparently fantasised about killing her. Marshall Mathers and Kimberley Scott liked each other so much they married twice. A pretty face may last a year or two / But pretty soon they'll see what you can do / The sound you make is Muzak to my ears / You must have learned something in all those years / Ah, how do you sleep at night?' 'The only thing you done was yesterday / And since you're gone you're just another day. Lennon hit back with the better known (surely to McCartney's fury) 'How Do You Sleep?'. Paul, apparently, started it, on his 1971 album Ram. Their creative partnership was one of the most productive in the history of music, but the Beatles' break-up tracks are not among their best work. 'Well I hope I don't die too soon / I pray the Lord my soul to save / Oh I'll be a good boy, I'm trying so hard to behave / Because there's one thing I know, I'd like to live / long enough to savour / That's when they finally put you in the ground / I'll stand on your grave and tramp the dirt down.' Lady T is yet to pen her chart-topping response. 'Tramp the Dirt Down' echoed the thoughts of many of his generation. Sometimes one doesn't have to have been to bed with a person in order to end up hating them, as Elvis Costello showed on his 1989 album Spike. 'I have not, shall we say, done him the honour of listening to it,' he said, 'but I've been told that it ends with the sound of a gunshot.'Д®lvis Costello 'Tramp the Dirt Down' (1989) You think he brother with the KKK?' The chorus 'Dom Sheldon is a cold man' gave Sneddon reason to think the song was about him. On his HIStory album, the song 'DS' invents an imaginary character who will 'stop at nothing just to get his political say.

Dylan's post-break-up songs are a little on the bitter side: 'You see me on the street / You always act surprised / You say, 'How are you?' 'Good luck' / But you don't mean it / When you know as well as me / You'd rather see me paralysed.' Ten years later, Baez was presumably feeling more philosophical when she wrote 'Diamonds and Rust': 'Well you burst on the scene / Already a legend / The unwashed phenomenon / the original vagabond.'Дistrict attorney Thomas Sneddon thought that he was angry when he failed to convict Michael Jackson of child sex offences in 2005. When two major lyricists end a creatively fruitful love affair, things can turn rancid. Lohan's opener dreams of 'another you / The one who would never never leave me alone to pick up the pieces / A daddy to hold me, that's what I needed / So why'd you have to go?' His rejoinder, written in prison, says: 'Woke up this morning, heard the words to your song / Never meant to hurt you, but know where I went wrong.' As one comes out of jail, another goes into rehab. The troubled relationship between Lohan's parents seems to have influenced their daughter. Lindsay Lohan 'Confessions of a Broken Heart' (2005) In 2007 Beatty said, 'Let's be honest: that song was about me.' How vain. The chorus вЂ“ 'You're so vain/ You probably think this song is about you' вЂ“ is thought to refer to Warren Beatty, Mick Jagger, Kris Kristofferson, James Taylor or a number of others. 'You had me several years ago, when I was still quite naive,' she sings. The definitive song of the score-settling genre introduces a Catch-22 into the revenge ditty: any man self-effacing enough to admit that he might have 'one eye in the mirror as you watched yourself gavotte' must at the same time reveal that he is vain. Maybe I'm just overreacting maybe you're the one for me

Then I remember all the nice things that you ever said to me

I look into your eyes I want to get to know youДЄnd then you make this noise and it's apparent it's all over There's just one thing that's getting in the way You know I've never met a man who's made me feel quite so secure And he would surely recognise himself in a song lyric вЂ“ not that she would feel compelled to write one about him. He appreciates a woman with a sense of humour. He would fit in with her escalating age profile. Perhaps Allen should go out with Mick Jagger. Allen seems to have the opposite problem to Carly Simon, whose lovers were so vain that they would probably think her song was about them.

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