Favorite song that makes no sense whatsoever

[dolo amber]

I'm gonna have to go with Oasis' "Champagne Supernova"...(I figure it's ok to have a yearly dose of the brothers Gallagher on St. Paddy's. :D) Granted, Noel is no Lennon/McCartney with the lyrics, but Champagne Supernova kinda takes ye olde proverbial cake, no?

How many special people change
How many lives are living strange
Where were you when we were getting high?
Slowly walking down the hall
Faster than a cannon ball
Where were you while we were getting high?

Some day you will find me
Caught beneath the landslide
In a champagne supernova in the sky
Some day you will find me
Caught beneath the landslide
In a champagne supernova
A champagne supernova in the sky ...etc

Perhaps Noel is just far too deep for me to understand, but :wtf: is THAT all about?

Regardless, it's a lovely song, and much fun to sing along with. ;)

[Melodybe]

1. Oasis is pretty good at not making any damn sense

but Smells Like Teen Spirit has to be my favorite nonsense song.

[vi5]

8. But...but....Cobain was so profound....

He was the voice of a generation!!!! I mean how could the lyrics "A mulatto an albino a mosquito my libido" not ring out across the land as the mantra of a generation?




Sarcasm off.

[ProfessorGAC]

17. What Don't You Get, vi5?

It's obvious that those are brilliant (BRILLIANT, I TELLZ YA) lyrics. You just don't get it.

When Jas Osbrecht said, on national television, that if you couldn't see that Cobain was the voice of his generation at the same level of brilliance as John Lennon, i wanted to puke!
The Professor

[vi5]

21. I laughed at that and I don't even like John Lennon..

Not a Beatles or a Lennon fan but I could appreciate Lennon's lyrical brilliance. I never got how Cobain got pegged with a good lyricists tag.

[Bucky]

2. Xanadu by Olivia Newton John; Happy Jack by The Who;

.

Oh, and don't forget "Louie, Louie, oh-ooohhhhh, we gotta go now, yah yah yah yah, Uh-uh..."

.

[Earth_First]

3. Reba

phish

[deutsey]

4. I am the Walrus

I absolutely love this song (it's one of my favorite songs, Beatles or otherwise). But it makes no sense (and, with its allusions to Lewis Carroll and influences of LSD, isn't supposed to).

Goo Goo G'Joob!

[VelmaD]

5. "We Want a Rock" by They Might Be Gaints

aka the "prosthetic forehead song" :)

Where was I? I forgot
The point that I was making
I said if I was smart that I would
Save up for a piece of string
And a rock to wind the string around

Everybody wants a rock
To wind a piece of string around
Everybody wants a rock
To wind a piece of string around

Throw the crib door wide
Let the people crawl inside
Someone in this town
Is trying to burn the playhouse down
They want to stop the ones who want
A rock to wind a string around
But everybody wants a rock
To wind a piece of string around

Throw the crib door wide
Let the people crawl inside
Someone in this town
Is trying to burn the playhouse down
They want to stop the ones who want
A rock to wind a string around
But everybody wants a rock
To wind a piece of string around

If I were a carpenter I'd
Hammer on my piglet, I'd
Collect the seven dollars and I'd
Buy a big prosthetic forehead
And wear it on my real head

Everybody wants prosthetic
Foreheads on their real heads
Everybody wants prosthetic
Foreheads on their real heads

Throw the crib door wide
Let the people crawl inside
Someone in this town
Is trying to burn the playhouse down
They want to stop the ones who want
Prosthetic foreheads on their heads
But everybody wants prosthetic
Foreheads on their real heads

Throw the crib door wide
Let the people crawl inside
Someone in this town
Is trying to burn the foreheads down
They want to stop the ones who want
A rock to wind a string around
But everybody wants a rock
To wind a piece of string around

[trotsky]

6. Heck, nearly anything by TMBG!

I love those guys.

Well, OK, James K. Polk is about something.

[hippiechick]

7. Chop Suey - System of A Down

Wake up
Grab a brush and put a little (makeup)
Grab a brush and put a little
Hide the scars to fade away the (shakeup)
Hide the scars to fade away the
Why'd you leave the keys upon the table?
Here you go create another fable
You wanted to
Grab a brush and put a little makeup
You wanted to
Hide the scars to fade away the shakeup
You wanted to
Why'd you leave the keys upon the table?
You wanted to ....

I don't think you trust
In, my, self righteous suicide
I, cry, when angels deserve to die, DIE

Wake up
Grab a brush and put a little (makeup)
Grab a brush and put a little
Hide the scars to fade away the (shakeup)
Hide the scars to fade away the
Why'd you leave the keys upon the table?
Here you go create another fable
You wanted to
Grab a brush and put a little makeup
You wanted to
Hide the scars to fade away the shakeup
You wanted to
Why'd you leave the keys upon the table?
You wanted to

I don't think you trust
In, my, self righteous suicide
I, cry, when angels deserve to die
In, my, self righteous suicide
I, cry, when angels deserve to die

Father, father, father, father
Father into your hands, I commend my spirit
Father into your hands
why have you forsaken me
In your eyes forsaken me
In your thoughts forsaken me
In your heart forsaken, me oh
Trust in my self righteous suicide
I, cry, when angels deserve to die
In my self righteous suicide
I, cry, when angels deserve to die"

:hippie:

[Screaming Lord Byron]

9. Slowly walking down the hall faster than a cannonball.

Uh-huh. Right.

[dolo amber]

10. So...

I guess it's too deep for you too, eh? :P

:D

[Screaming Lord Byron]

Not as deep as Herman Loves Pauline by the Super Furries

Hermann Loves Pauline, and Pauline loves Hermann
They made love and gave birth, to a little German
They called him MC squared, cos he raps like no other
An astma sufferer, like a Ernesto Guevara
Too much MonteChristo number four
Pass the ventalin I need some more
We have ways of making you think! etc
(Background) Her and I believe there's much more to do
Than to just be a 2.4 family
Sanity, Personality ahaha.
(Chorus)
They never noticed him in school
They told me, He kept himself to himself
He used to sit and stare up at the ceiling
Hermann loves Pauline
They never noticed him at school
They told me, He kept himself to himself
He used to vacantly stare out the window
Feeling ener(gy)
Why do you do
What they tell you?
Marie Curie was Polish born and French bred
Hah! FRENCH BREAD!!!!
Or course she ended up dead from radiation
Slow, invisible, suffocation
At the 24 hour garage, or any service station
And as I lead my life as a quest for information
Surrounded by pies and books
Middle aged drivers and teenage cooks ahaha
They never noticed her at school etc

-actually, that's one of the best lyrics ever.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

11. Look! A Cocteau Twins Lyric Site!

Here's Iceblink Luck

I'm seemin' to be glad a lot
I'm happy again, come, come in time
This mustn't hurt or harm yourself
Well, me, I give in to your arms

You're the match of Jerico
That will burn this old madhouse down
And I'll throw open like a walnut (blown up?) safe
More like a love that's a bottle of exquisite stuff, yes

You, yourself, and your father
Don't know him, so part in your own ways
You've really both bone setters
Thank you for mending me babies

You're the match of Jerico
That will burn this old madhouse down
And I'll throw open like a walnut safe
You will seem that being throughout
That same bottle of exquisite stuff
Yes, you are that match of Jerico
That will burn this old madhouse down
And I'll throw open like the walnut safe

You, yourself, and your father
Don't know him, so part in your own ways
You're really both bone setters
Thank you for mending me babies

-Perhaps not, eh?

[skypilot]

32. That's so funny

I have Heaven or Las Vegas in my CD player right now.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

34. Whoever tried to translate them failed spectacularly.

[skypilot]

41. Don't be coy.

It was you, wasn't it.:)

[arwalden]

12. Losing My Religion

[arwalden]

13. MacArthur Park

[terrya]

16. When you have lyrics that talk about leaving cakes out in the rain..

You're just not making a whole lot of sense.

"MacArthur Park" sounds, at first listen, seems profound. But it's just gibberish.

:-)

Terry

[arwalden]

35. Bernice Has Left Her Cake Out In The Rain

[terrya]

36. Thank you!

That brought a smile to my face (NOT a great day for me)

:hug:

Terry

[AspenRose]

14. "De do do do, De da da da"

by THE POLICE

[felonious thunk]

15. Can't Hardly Wait by the Replacements

I'll write you a letter tomorrow
Tonight I can't hold a pen
Someone's got a stamp that I can borrow
I promise not to blow the address again

Lights that flash in the evening,
Through a crack in the drapes

Jesus rides beside me
He never buys any smokes
Hurry up, hurry up, ain't you had enough of this stuff
Ashtray floors, dirty clothes, and filthy jokes

See you're high and lonesome
Try and try and try

Lights that flash in the evening,
Through a hole in the drapes
I'll be home when I'm sleeping
I can't hardly wait

I can't wait. Hardly wait.

[FunBobbyMucha]

43. I always thought the intent of this song was pretty clear.

It's about being on the road night after night when he'd rather be home. Lights that flash in the evening thru a hole in the drapes is either the house lights in the club they're about to go onstage at, or the carlights passing the hotel window he's staying in, and when he dreams, he dreams of being home with his loved one.

Now, "Mr. Whirly," there's a song that made no sense.

[histohoney]

18. OK, I don't know who wrote it

But it's on an OLD cartoon
The Woods are Full of Coo-coos

The woods are full of Coo-coos
Coo-coos
Coo-coos
The woods are full of Coo-coos
and I am one of them.:crazy:

[Screaming Lord Byron]

19. Quicksand by David Bowie

I'm closer to the Golden Dawn
Immersed in Crowley's uniform
Of imagery
I'm living in a silent film
Portraying
Himmler's sacred realm
Of dream reality
I'm frightened by the total goal
Drawing to the ragged hole
And I ain't got the power anymore
No I ain't got the power anymore

I'm the twisted name
on Garbo's eyes
Living proof of
Churchill's lies
I'm destiny
I'm torn between the light and dark
Where others see their targets
Divine symmetry
Should I kiss the viper's fang
Or herald loud
the death of Man
I'm sinking in the quicksand
of my thought
And I ain't got the power anymore

::Chorus::LyricsCafe.com::
Don't believe in yourself
Don't deceive with belief
Knowledge comes
with death's release

I'm not a prophet
or a stone age man
Just a mortal
with the potential of a superman
I'm living on
I'm tethered to the logic
of Homo Sapien
Can't take my eyes
from the great salvation
Of bullshit faith
If I don't explain what you ought to know
You can tell me all about it
On, the next Bardo
I'm sinking in the quicksand
of my thought
And I ain't got the power anymore

[pagerbear]

20. Mairzy doats and dozy doats

...and little lambsied ivy.
A-kiddle-dee-divy-doo, wouldn't you?

[GOPisEvil]

22. OK...now I know that mares eat oats...

..but does? They eat oats, too?

Of course everyone knows that lambs eat ivy. But baby goats? Wow.

[pagerbear]

42. If the words sound queer, and funny to your ear...

...a little bit jumbled and jivy,
Say "Mares eat oats, and does eat oats,
And little lambs eat ivy!"

[CO Liberal]

23. "Gimme Dat Ding" by The Pipkins

http://www.lyricsxp.com/lyrics/g/gimme_dat_ding_the_pipkins.html

Gimme Dat Ding
The Pipkins

That's right, That's right
I'm sad and blue
'Cause I can't do the Boogaloo
I'm lost, I'm lost
Can't do my thing
That's why I sing
Gimme, Gimme Dat Ding Ah..

Gimme Dat, Gimme Dat
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme Dat
Gimme Dat Ding, Gimme Dat
Gimme, Gimme Dat, Gimme Dat Ding
Gimme Dat, Gimme, Gimme Dat,
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, Dat Ding (Oh Sing it one more time Momma)
Oh,Gimme Dat, Gimme Dat
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme Dat
Gimme Dat Ding, Gimme Dat
Gimme, Gimme Dat, Gimme Dat Ding
Gimme Dat, Gimme, Gimme Dat,
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, Dat Ding (Ah, you ain't doin' that late at night)

Ah, what good's a metronome
Without a boatbell ringing?
How fast can anybody ever tell he swings?
How can you tell the rhythm written on a bar?
How can you ever hope to know just where you are?

Gimme Dat, (Gimme Dat) Ah Gimme Dat (Gimme Dat)
Ah Gimme Dat, (Gimme Dat) Gimme Dat, Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, Gimme,
(Ah Gotcha!)

Gimme Dat, Gimme Dat
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme Dat
Gimme Dat Ding, Gimme Dat
Gimme, Gimme Dat, Gimme Dat Ding
Gimme Dat, Gimme, Gimme Dat,
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, Dat Ding

(Honky Tonk Piano)

Oh,
Gimme Dat, Gimme Dat
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme Dat
Gimme Dat Ding, Gimme Dat
Gimme, Gimme Dat, Gimme Dat Ding
Gimme Dat, Gimme, Gimme Dat,
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, Dat Ding

Ah, what good's a metronome Without a boatbell ringing?
How fast can anybody ever tell he swings?
How can you tell the rhythm written on the bar?
How can you ever hope to know just where you are?

Gimme Dat, Ah Gimme Dat
Ah Gimme Dat, Gimme Dat, Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, Gimme,

Gimme Dat, Gimme Dat
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme Dat
Gimme Dat Ding, Gimme Dat
Gimme, Gimme Dat, Gimme Dat Ding
Gimme Dat, Gimme, Gimme Dat,
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, Dat Ding

******************************
These lyrics were copied from a 45 and I'm not positive about "boatbell"

Transcribed by Mark Smeby
[e-mail]

http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/2993"http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/2993/A

[Salviati]

24. No Tori yet? How about Space Dog?

Way to go Mr Microphone
Show us all what you don't know
Centuries secret societies
He's out commander still
Space Dog

So sure we were on something
Your feet are finally on the ground he said
So sure we were on something
Your feet are just on the ground girl


Rain and snow
Our engines have been receiving your eager call
There's Colonel Dirtyfishydishcloth
He'll distract her good
Don't worry so


And to the one you thought was on your side
She can't understand
She truly believes the lies


Lemon Pie
He's coming through
Our commander still Space Dog
Lines secure Space Dog


Deck the halls
I'm young again
I'm you again
Racing turtles
The grapefruit is winning
Seems i keep getting this story twisted
So where's Neil when you need him
Deck the halls
It's you again
It's you again
Somewhere someone must know the ending
Is she still pissing in the river now
Heard she's gone
Moved into a trailer park


So sure we were on something

Your feet finally on the ground he said

So sure we were on something

You feet just on the ground girl

So sure we were on something

Your feet finally on the ground he said

So sure we were on something

Your feet are just on the ground

[dolo amber]

26. Prostitute laundry??

:D

I may be a pimp, but I ain't washin' my ho's
(ahh... prostitutes)
Prostitute Laundry!
I may be a pimp, but I ain't washin' my ho's
(ahh... prostitutes)
Prostitute Laundry!

I'm tired of their garter belts and their panty hose
I might be their pimp but I ain't washin' my ho's
I've been to the laundrymat enough times to know
Prostitutes sure got some dirty clothes!

I'm their Sugar Daddy not their laundry man!
(ahh... prostitutes)
Prostitute Laundry!
I think I found some stains that I can't understand!
(ahh... prostitutes)
Prostitute Laundry!

[Salviati]

39. Whatever!

Whatever

I went down to the beach and saw Kiki,
She was all like, eehhhh,
And I'm like, WHATEVAH!

And then this chick comes up to me,
and she's all like, hey, aren't you that dude,
And I'm like, yeah, WHATEVAH!

So later, I'm at the poolhall
And this girl comes up and she's all like, awww,
And I'm like, yeah, WHATEVAH!

Cuz this is my United States of Whatever
And this is my United States of Whatever
And this is my United States of Whatever

And then it's 3 AM, I'm on the corner wearin my leather,
This dude comes up to me and says, Hey Punk!
And I'm like, yeah, WHATEVAH!

Then I'm throwin' dice in the alley
Officer Leroy comes up and he's like, hey I thought I told you..
And I'm like, WHATEVAH!

And up comes Zafo, and I'm like Yo! Zafo, whassup?
And he's like, Nuthin.
And I'm like, that's cool.....

Cuz this is my United States of Whatever
And this is my United States of Whatever

[grannylib]

25. The Moonbeam Song...Harry Nilsson

[RandomKoolzip]

27. "Indian Fables" by GbV....

Okay, ALL of GbV's lyrics make no sense, but SOUND perfect. Anyways, check out how this 20-second song sounds like it might be leading up to a story about going different places in the world or something, but then R. Pollard remembers he's drunk:

I leave toward the South, yeah
In an attempt to burn my bridges
Way down to the equator
And back up north with the wind
I'm traveling
And the last I heard
Twelve sad stories from disciples of the sun
And we rang the bell and fired the gun
To wash up the perfect and sometimes cruel
Impartiality of the sun

Check out that "sun - sun" rhyme, too.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

28. How 'bout the Manic Street Preachers trying way too hard.

Mr. lenin - awaken the boy
Mr. stalin - bisexual epoch
Kruschev - self love in his mirrors
Brezhnev - married into group sex
Gorbachev - celibate self importance
Yeltsin - failure is his own impotence
Revol - revol
Revol - revol
Lebensraum - kulturkampf - raus - raus - fila - fila
Napoleon - childhood sweethearts
Chamberlain - you see God in you
Trotsky - honeymoon, serenade the naked
Che guevara - you’re all target now
Pol pot - withdrawn traces, bye bye
Farrakhan - alimony alimony
Revol - revol
Revol - revol
Lebensraum - kulturkampf - raus - raus - fila - fila
Revol - revol
Revol - revol
Lebensraum - kulturkampf - raus - raus - fila - fila
Revol.

[RandomKoolzip]

33. As Chuck Eddy once said....

"The reason why muffled and indistinct lyrics communicate less than clear and plainspoken lyrics is because they're muffled and indistinct."

This is why the Manics will never be the Clash they so dearly want to be: Compare this to "Death or Glory" or "Safe European Home" and tell me which song communicates more to the listener. Strummer was brilliant at summing up a situation using actual speech patterrns and singing at you like he was talking to you. Too many lyricists have been negatively influenced by Michael Stipe's college-boy etheriality these days and refuse to just say what the fuck they oughta say. Too many of them settle for "seeming" enigmatic and deep (GbV included, I'll admit, although Pollard is a genius at the Lennon-Hitchcock literate absurdist school of lyric writing) when really they're just not very good lyricists.

And I know I'll get flamed for this, but check out Art Alexakis's lyrics for Everclear. That guy can say what he needs to say with blunt honesty and a minimum of obfuscation. "I Will Buy You A New Life" is a brilliant example of lyrical economy. Yes, I know he's not hip, but he's great.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

37. The Manics often sound like someone ramming a Pol-Sci textbook

into the battered cardboard sleeve of London Calling.

[a_random_joel]

29. Imagine by John Lennon

Just what the hell is he trying to say, anyway?

:crazy:

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

46. Delete

Sarcasm detector had a temporary malfunction. :spank:

[skypilot]

30. ANYTHING by the Cocteau Twins.

*

[Screaming Lord Byron]

31. man, check out that lyrics site I posted above.

[Blue-Jay]

38. Short skirt / Long jacket - Cake

Dumb lyrics, wonderful groove:

I want a girl with a mind like a diamond
I want a girl who knows what's best
I want a girl with shoes that cut
And eyes that burn like cigarettes

I want a girl with the right allocations
Who's fast and thorough
And sharp as a tack
She is playing with her jewelry
She is putting up her hair
She is touring the facility
And picking up slack

I want a girl with a short skirt and a lonnnng jacket......

I want a girl who gets up early
I want a girl who stays up late
I want a girl with uninterrupted prosperity
Who used a machete to cut through red tape
With fingernails that shine like justice
And a voice that is dark like tinted glass

She is fast, thorough
And sharp as a tack
She is touring the facility
And picking up slack

I want a girl with a short skirt and a lonnnnng.... lonnng jacket

I want a girl with a smooth liquidation
I want a girl with good dividends
And at the city bank we will meet accidentally
We'll start to talk when she borrows my pen

She wants a car with a cup-holder arm rest
She wants a car that will get her there
She's changing her name from Kitty to Karen
She's trading her MG for a white Chrysler Le Barron

I want a girl with a short skirt and a lonnnnggggggggg jacket

[WoodrowFan]

40. Blinded by the Light (NT)

[BringEmOn]

44. Louie Louie

The F.B.I. Investigation of the song "Louie Louie"

http://www.louielouie.net/11-fbi.htm

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

45. De Do Do Do De Da Da Da by the Police (nt)