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Just in case anyone was beginning to think they could spot a pattern in the lyrics going on this site, I’ll prove it’s all random with I, Trog, an obscurity hidden away towards the end of Some Call It Godcore. Another song about misfits. Thanks to Jon F, gNick and Martin

See lyrics to I, Trog

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  1. s.g.d.,a Shropshire lad

    owdo mon,

    I think that it is “mad sideys” as in sideburns.

    s.g.d.,a Shropshire lad.

  2. I like that – in fact it’s what I thought myself. But all three people who sent in the lyrics for this one went independently for “my tidies” so I accepted the majority verdict, good citizen that I am, even though I didn’t really get it. So the debate opens!

  3. Carstairs

    It is definitely mad sideys.
    Take it from me I’m a trog

  4. Neil G

    I’m in the Mad Sidies camp. There is a grammatical clue in the second verse where the subject of the sentence is the second person (i.e. you). “When you’re a trog and you’ve got… ” surely would be followed by ‘your tidies’ if it were tidies. Quite apart from that, I don’t know what tidies are, sidies makes sense and it sounds like sidies to me. And that’s all I want to say about that.

  5. OK, I suppose all we need to agree on is the spelling. :-)

  6. Mad sidies for me as well, or sideys if you prefer; although I admit I heard it as “my tidies” for a number of baffled years before finally working it out.

  7. Steve Malkmoose

    Given that the a lone sideburn would be a “sidey”- as opposed to a “sidie” (which just doesnt look right!); the plural must be “sideys” rather than “sidies” unless of course I’m a rank buffoon.

  8. Yes, it’s more akin to “monkey/monkeys” than “tidy/tidies”, I guess. And indeed, a lone sideburn wouldn’t look right.

  9. Dave F.

    The lyric book has it as sideys. Capitalized for some reason.

  10. Ben

    Sounds like “and in my dreams….I’ve taken you to Falkirk!” which I think is an even better lyric *blows on fingers*

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