This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
The following is a true story
Only the names have been changed
To protect the guilty
Well I left my job in my home town
And I headed for the smoke
Got a rock 'n' roll band and a fast right hand
Gonna get to the top
Nothing's gonna stop us, no nothing
So if you've got the money, we've got the sound
You put it up and we'll put it down
If you've got the dollar, we got the song
Just want to boogie woogie all night long
Yeah boogie
I got holes in my shoes
I got holes in my teeth
I got holes in my socks
I can't get no sleep
I'm trying to make a million
And I got patches on the patches
On my old blue jeans
Well they used to be blue
When they used to be new
When they used to be clean
But I've got a Momma whose a hummer
Whose keeping me alive
While I'm in the band doing drinking with the boys
She's working 9 to 5
She knows her place that woman
Just you wait,
One of these days see me driving round town
In my rockin' Rolls Royce with the sun roof down
My bottle of booze
No summer time blues
Shouting out, look at me
In my rock 'n' roll voice
Ain't no fun waiting 'round to be a millionaire
Ooo it ain't no fun, waiting 'round to be a millionaire
Do you believe me, it ain't no fun, waitin' 'round to be a millionaire
It ain't no fun, I don't care what they say
Hangin' 'round to be a millionaire
Drive a Rolls Royce car
No it ain't no fun, waiting 'round to be a millionaire
No no no no no no no no
No ain't no fun, hangin' 'round to be a millionaire
Said it ain't no fun
Ain't no fun, oh no
No it ain't no fun
Ain't no fun, that's what I said
Yeah it ain't no fun
Ain't no fun, and you ain't even rich
No it ain't no fun
Ain't no fun, its no fun doin' this bitch
Ain't no fun waitin' 'round to be a millionaire
You better believe it
Ain't no fun waitin' 'round to be a millionaire
Ain't no fun waitin' 'round to be a millionaire
No it ain't no fun waitin' 'round to be a millionaire
No it ain't no fun
Ain't no fun
No it ain't no fun
Ain't no fun
It ain't nothing no fun
Ain't no fun
No it ain't no fun
Ain't no fun
Ain't no fun waitin' 'round to be a millionaire
No no
Ain't no fun waitin' 'round to be a millionaire
Yeh it ain't no fun waitin' 'round to be a millionaire
No it ain't no fun waitin' 'round to be a millionaire
Hey, hello Howard, how you doin'babe, next door neighbor?
Oh yea,
Get your fuckin' jumbo jet out of my airport
It ain't no fun
It ain't no fun
It ain't no fun
No it ain't no fun
No ain't no fun, hangin' 'round to be a millionaire
Ain't no fun waiting 'round to be a millionaire
No it ain't no fun waiting 'round to be a millionaire
Ain't no fun
No no no no no no
Only the names have been changed
To protect the guilty
Well I left my job in my home town
And I headed for the smoke
Got a rock 'n' roll band and a fast right hand
Gonna get to the top
Nothing's gonna stop us, no nothing
So if you've got the money, we've got the sound
You put it up and we'll put it down
If you've got the dollar, we got the song
Just want to boogie woogie all night long
Yeah boogie
I got holes in my shoes
I got holes in my teeth
I got holes in my socks
I can't get no sleep
I'm trying to make a million
And I got patches on the patches
On my old blue jeans
Well they used to be blue
When they used to be new
When they used to be clean
But I've got a Momma whose a hummer
Whose keeping me alive
While I'm in the band doing drinking with the boys
She's working 9 to 5
She knows her place that woman
Just you wait,
One of these days see me driving round town
In my rockin' Rolls Royce with the sun roof down
My bottle of booze
No summer time blues
Shouting out, look at me
In my rock 'n' roll voice
Ain't no fun waiting 'round to be a millionaire
Ooo it ain't no fun, waiting 'round to be a millionaire
Do you believe me, it ain't no fun, waitin' 'round to be a millionaire
It ain't no fun, I don't care what they say
Hangin' 'round to be a millionaire
Drive a Rolls Royce car
No it ain't no fun, waiting 'round to be a millionaire
No no no no no no no no
No ain't no fun, hangin' 'round to be a millionaire
Said it ain't no fun
Ain't no fun, oh no
No it ain't no fun
Ain't no fun, that's what I said
Yeah it ain't no fun
Ain't no fun, and you ain't even rich
No it ain't no fun
Ain't no fun, its no fun doin' this bitch
Ain't no fun waitin' 'round to be a millionaire
You better believe it
Ain't no fun waitin' 'round to be a millionaire
Ain't no fun waitin' 'round to be a millionaire
No it ain't no fun waitin' 'round to be a millionaire
No it ain't no fun
Ain't no fun
No it ain't no fun
Ain't no fun
It ain't nothing no fun
Ain't no fun
No it ain't no fun
Ain't no fun
Ain't no fun waitin' 'round to be a millionaire
No no
Ain't no fun waitin' 'round to be a millionaire
Yeh it ain't no fun waitin' 'round to be a millionaire
No it ain't no fun waitin' 'round to be a millionaire
Hey, hello Howard, how you doin'babe, next door neighbor?
Oh yea,
Get your fuckin' jumbo jet out of my airport
It ain't no fun
It ain't no fun
It ain't no fun
No it ain't no fun
No ain't no fun, hangin' 'round to be a millionaire
Ain't no fun waiting 'round to be a millionaire
No it ain't no fun waiting 'round to be a millionaire
Ain't no fun
No no no no no no
Lyrics submitted by Demau Senae
Ain't No Fun (Waiting Round to Be a Millionaire) Lyrics as written by Malcolm Mitchell Young Angus Mckinnon Young
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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The song is obviously about Angus and the boys lamenting about the hard road they'd had on the road up to the point he album made.
They were poor ("I got holes in my shoes, I got holes in my teeth, I got holes in my socks, I can't get no sleep") amd they just wanted to make it big.
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Looks like they finally made it, too!
usually, AC/DC avoid working blue, prefering to use innuendo and be a bit clever. But Bon decided "fucking" was just what he needed. Mmm...
The songs full name is Ain't no fun waiting around to be a millionare
I love the beginning of this song, and I love the song period. They were always writing songs about being on the road and being famous and being rich...it's great. I love the "I got holes in my shoes, I got holes in my teeth, I got holes in my socks." Some of their lyrics were just hilarious. They always wrote about how great they were gonna be, and how great they were, but their overly pompous attitude towards theirselves always showed that they weren't taking themselves that seriously, which was and is a refreshing change for a band.
My favorite part of the song: "Hello, Howard, how you doin', my next door neighbour? Oh, yeah...Get your fuckin' jumbo jet offa my airport!"
This is one really underated song. this song is about basically the bad part of the rock n roll dream sorta like it's a long way to the top great song
This is one really underated song. this song is about basically the bad part of the rock n roll dream sorta like it's a long way to the top great song
Rock 'N' Rolls Royce - don't get much better
Actually, the "hello Howard" line is a reference to billionaire Howard Hughes and his jumbo jets.
The reference to "summer time blues" is actually to "Summertime Blues" (1958) is a 12-bar blues standard song by Eddie Cochran and Jerry Capehart about the trials and tribulations of teenage life in America. (Wikipedia.com)