1 | [[folder:Actual lyrics]] |
2 | ->''Enemy lasagna'' |
3 | ->''Robust below wax'' |
4 | ->''Semiautomatic aqua'' |
5 | ->''Accompany slacks'' |
6 | -->--'''Music/LemonDemon''', ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRisDso99s0 Word Disassociation]]'' |
7 | |
8 | ->"In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey |
9 | ->Butane in my veins and I'm out to cut the junkie |
10 | ->With the plastic eyeballs and spraypaint the vegetables..." |
11 | -->--Music/{{Beck|Musician}}, "Loser" |
12 | |
13 | ->"Normalized the signal and you're banging on freon |
14 | ->Paleolithic eon |
15 | ->Put the fake goatee on" |
16 | -->--'''Music/SoulCoughing''', "Sugar Free Jazz" |
17 | |
18 | ->''Load up on guns, bring your friends'' |
19 | ->''It's fun to lose and to pretend'' |
20 | ->''She's over-bored and self-assured'' |
21 | ->''Oh no, I know a dirty word'' |
22 | |
23 | ->''Hello, hello, hello, how low?'' |
24 | ->''Hello, hello, hello, how low?'' |
25 | ->''Hello, hello, hello, how low?'' |
26 | ->''Hello, hello, hello...'' |
27 | |
28 | ->''With the lights out, it's less dangerous'' |
29 | ->''Here we are now, entertain us'' |
30 | ->''I feel stupid, and contagious'' |
31 | ->''Here we are now, entertain us'' |
32 | |
33 | ->''A mulatto, an albino'' |
34 | ->''A mosquito, my libido'' |
35 | ->''Yeah!'' |
36 | |
37 | ->''(hey)'' |
38 | -->--'''Music/{{Nirvana}}''', "Smells Like Teen Spirit" |
39 | |
40 | ->"Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come |
41 | ->Corporation t-shirts, stupid bloody Tuesday |
42 | ->Man, you've been a naughty boy, you let your face grow long |
43 | ->I am the eggman, they are the eggmen, I am the walrus, Goo goo ga joob" |
44 | -->--'''Music/TheBeatles''', "I Am the Walrus" |
45 | |
46 | ->''"Excalibur - It's not that far\ |
47 | What do ya make? - Give & take\ |
48 | Goin' home - Time Zone\ |
49 | Check out Egg - He's never alone\ |
50 | Leather 'n' lace - Getting in place\ |
51 | What do ya get? - Say, fast jet!\ |
52 | Doom Room - Cosmic zoom\ |
53 | Heads up, Jake - It's Sonic Boom!"'' |
54 | -->-- '''You Can Do Anything''', ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehogCD'' |
55 | |
56 | ->''"Brain wave, main wave, psycho got a high kick\ |
57 | Collect and select, show me your best set\ |
58 | Crystals, blisters, it's all over now\ |
59 | Psycho cane, you're so keen -- I need more candy canes\ |
60 | Cold cake, cold break, freak got a high kick\ |
61 | Mr. Twister, moist with roistering\ |
62 | Stick it up, take it up, step aside, and see the world\ |
63 | Effect has defects -- Take a bow to the moon!"'' |
64 | -->-- '''Twister''', ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'' |
65 | |
66 | ->"Chickity China the Chinese chicken |
67 | ->You have a drumstick and your brain stops tickin' |
68 | ->Watchin [[Series/TheXFiles X-Files]] with no lights on, we're dans la maison |
69 | ->I hope the Smoking Man's in this one |
70 | ->Like Creator/HarrisonFord I'm getting Film/{{Frantic}} |
71 | ->Like Sting I'm Tantric |
72 | ->Like Snickers, guaranteed to satisfy |
73 | ->Like [[Creator/AkiraKurosawa Kurosawa]] I make mad films |
74 | ->Okay I don't make films |
75 | ->But if I did they'd have a samurai |
76 | ->Gonna get a set of better clubs |
77 | ->Gonna find the kind with tiny nubs just so my |
78 | ->irons aren't always flying off the back-swing |
79 | ->Gotta get in tune with Manga/SailorMoon |
80 | ->Cause that cartoon has got the boom anime babes |
81 | ->that [[PerverseSexualLust make me think the wrong thing]]" |
82 | -->--'''Music/BarenakedLadies''', "One Week" |
83 | |
84 | ->''"Tape has brightening arm connect"''\ |
85 | ''[[LampshadeHanging "Wait, that didn't make sense"]]''\ |
86 | ''"Self paint lever itching does"''\ |
87 | ''"That made even less sense..."''\ |
88 | ''"Shaving copter anymore"''\ |
89 | ''"That's not even a sentence!"''\ |
90 | ''"Weld crat tonsil speep enact"''\ |
91 | ''[[PerfectlyCromulentWord "Some of those aren't words..."]]'' |
92 | -->-'''Music/TheyMightBeGiants''', "Thinking Machine" |
93 | |
94 | ->''I'm jumping in a pimento shower''\ |
95 | ''I wanted the music first''\ |
96 | ''In the tragic square of the Fresh Prince''\ |
97 | ''There went a perfect brown baby''\ |
98 | ''The guards can see we're all out of weapons, no machetes''\ |
99 | ''Lotion raw bruises''\ |
100 | ''Lotion raw bruises''\ |
101 | ''Drink''\ |
102 | ''or sip''\ |
103 | ''A wench''\ |
104 | ''At our hotel''\ |
105 | ''Wolf government anchovies-when they laugh at you, you'll drown''\ |
106 | ''Eye of the sparrow''\ |
107 | ''This girl slipped on my arrow'' |
108 | -->--'''Jim Lehrer''', ''Music/BadLipReading'', "Eye of the Sparrow" |
109 | |
110 | ->''Banana banana banana terracotta\ |
111 | Banana terracotta terracotta pie\ |
112 | Banana banana banana terracotta\ |
113 | Banana terracotta terracotta pie\ |
114 | Is there a perfect way of holding you, baby? (Liar)\ |
115 | Vicinity of obscenity in your eyes\ |
116 | [...]\ |
117 | Do we all learn defeat\ |
118 | From the whores with bad feet?\ |
119 | Beat the meat, treat the feet\ |
120 | To the sweet milky seat'' |
121 | -->--'''Music/SystemOfADown''', [[Music/MezmerizeHypnotize "Vicinity of Obscenity"]] |
122 | |
123 | ->''Ah, Satan sees Natasha, no devil lived on''\ |
124 | ''Lonely Tylenol, not a banana baton''\ |
125 | ''No "X" in "Nixon", O stone be not so''\ |
126 | ''O Geronimo, no minor ego!''\ |
127 | ''"Naomi", I moan, "a Toyota's a Toyota"''\ |
128 | ''A dog! A panic! In a pagoda!''\ |
129 | ''Oh no Don Ho! Nurse I spy gypsies-run!''\ |
130 | ''Senile felines, now I see bees I won'' |
131 | -->--'''Music/WeirdAlYankovic''', "Bob" |
132 | |
133 | ->''I was once a treehouse, I lived in a cake''\ |
134 | ''But I never saw the way the orange slayed the rake''\ |
135 | ''I was only three years dead, but it told a tale''\ |
136 | ''And now listen, little child, to the safety rail''\ |
137 | [...]\ |
138 | ''Is that how it's told now? Is it all so old?''\ |
139 | ''Is it made of lemon juice? Doorknob ankle cold''\ |
140 | ''Now my song is getting thin, I've run out of luck''\ |
141 | ''Time for me to retire now and become a duck.'' |
142 | -->--[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRozKfYGFVc The Llama Song]] |
143 | |
144 | ->''Well I'm a peanut bar and I'm here to say,''\ |
145 | ''Your cheques will arrive on another day.''\ |
146 | ''Another day, another dime, another rhyme, another dollar''\ |
147 | ''Another stuffed shirt with another white collar''\ |
148 | ''CRIMINALS! WALL STREET TAKING THE PIE!''\ |
149 | ''AND ALL THE BLACK MAN GETS IS A PLATE OF WHITE LIES!''\ |
150 | ''Prisons recruitin', and police be shootin'''\ |
151 | ''Then rap artists lootin' and the labels all dilutin' ''\ |
152 | ''And Barack Obama, BE SCAAAARRRED of me''\ |
153 | ''Cause I don't swallow knowledge and I spit it for free'' |
154 | -->--'''Dean Pelton''', ''Series/{{Community}}'', "VCR Maintenance and Educational Publishing" |
155 | |
156 | ->''Why am I so \ |
157 | sleepy now \ |
158 | I do not \ |
159 | want anything \ |
160 | Heart does not move \ |
161 | [[BodyHorror My brain turning green rapidly]] \ |
162 | Too much thinking \ |
163 | Aah'' |
164 | -->--'''SATOMI''', [[https://youtu.be/ycgjsTbZxBE "It's a pit world"]] by Shohei Tsuchiya, ''VideoGame/GrooveCoaster'' |
165 | |
166 | -> ''Baby blue buildings far above the crystal grove \ |
167 | Magenta plated terrace with a table and a stove \ |
168 | Guarded golden railing just to frame the pretty stars \ |
169 | Fix the old piano and the birds will fall apart'' |
170 | -->-- '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1K4EAXe2oo EEEAAAOOO]]''' |
171 | |
172 | ->''Oh, the time has come to stand up for tomorrow (oh oh oh!)\ |
173 | We're ghost busterz (oh oh oh!), breaking our way through the highs and lows\ |
174 | [[NonSequitur Oh, you'll be sorry... breaking your face!]]'' |
175 | -->-- '''ULTRA [=BRAiN=]''', "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYkDP5xDoO8 Ghost Busterz]]" |
176 | |
177 | ->''I'm the cat with the bass and drum\ |
178 | Going around like bom bom bom\ |
179 | What's grooving? I'm moving\ |
180 | I like your style of womping\ |
181 | How charming, just a rapper\ |
182 | Load him up and eat that snapper\ |
183 | I want sixteen pints of rrrrrrrrum and then I go bom bom\ |
184 | Growing up in the dark in the night\ |
185 | And so I go (monkey impression)\ |
186 | I've brought a pie in my pocket\ |
187 | A pie in my pocket? An eye in my socket\ |
188 | You got life, you got style\ |
189 | Me got nothing on my mind\ |
190 | But I'm so cool and I'm so groovy\ |
191 | When I go bom bom bom!'' |
192 | -->-- '''{{Music/Sam and the Womp}}''', "Bom Bom" |
193 | |
194 | ->''I wanna sing a song about nothing in particular\ |
195 | Nimi nami nomi nami noo\ |
196 | I wanna sing a song about it really doesn't matter\ |
197 | As long as I can sing with you\ |
198 | Nimi nami nomi nami, nimi nami nomi nami, nimi nami nomi na\ |
199 | I just wanna sing...\ |
200 | With you!'' |
201 | -->-- '''Big Bird''', "Nimi Nami Nomi" ''Series/SesameStreet'' |
202 | |
203 | ->''As for a list of exotic amusements,\ |
204 | We choice between the summer here.\ |
205 | Is here we look at baseball,\ |
206 | Like the fact that it does.\ |
207 | As some people the fact,\ |
208 | That volleyball is done and is enjoyed.\ |
209 | When it's hot, we spin in water,\ |
210 | Like the fact that it goes!'' |
211 | -->--''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', "J-Pop (Welcome to Tokyo)" |
212 | |
213 | ->''Gradually watermelon! Gradually watermelon! Gradually watermelon! Gradually watermelon!'' |
214 | -->--''WebVideo/TwistedTranslations'', covering "The Shape of You" |
215 | |
216 | ->''"Oh, you treat me like you get to know a llama!!\ |
217 | Rama llama bing bong kangaroo!\ |
218 | Llama coyote Africa banana!\ |
219 | We play a fancy instrument kazoo.''" |
220 | -->--'''Hairy Man''', ''WesternAnimation/MarthaSpeaks'', "Martha Sings" |
221 | |
222 | ->''Sad inner Sam, walla 'ot day.\ |
223 | After she on she, I must say missed day.\ |
224 | It's a your nana was sued by Inu.\ |
225 | After she o como Nazi no!'' |
226 | -->--''WebAnimation/TranslationsGoneWrong'', "[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Smile, Smile, Smile]]" |
227 | |
228 | ->''I've got two strong arms\ |
229 | Blessings of Babylon, time to carry on\ |
230 | And try with sins and false alarms\ |
231 | So to America the brave\ |
232 | Wise men save\ |
233 | Near a tree by a river, there's a hole in the ground\ |
234 | Where an old man of Aran goes around and around\ |
235 | And his mind is a beacon in the veil of the night\ |
236 | For a strange kind of fashion, there's a wrong and a right\ |
237 | But he'll never, never fight over you'' |
238 | -->-- '''Music/NikKershaw''', "The Riddle" |
239 | |
240 | ->''Take off your band-aid 'cause I don't believe in touchdowns.'' |
241 | -->--''Music/{{Wilco}}'', "Break Your Heart" |
242 | |
243 | ->''Welcome to the land of the permanent sun\ |
244 | Where the flowers are melted and the future is fun\ |
245 | The freeway lizards are not feeling so good\ |
246 | I'm on one-way trip back in west Hollywood\ |
247 | Let's go'' |
248 | -->-- '''Music/{{Gorillaz}}''', "Valley of the Pagans" |
249 | |
250 | ->''Orange slide, the sky that it reflects\ |
251 | Sponge's pride, being dangled\ |
252 | Spider\ |
253 | The apprehension that was caught alive\ |
254 | It's okay even if I don't hide it\ |
255 | I want to have colored dreams\ |
256 | Ride on shooting star\ |
257 | With the voice of my heart, like a shotgun\ |
258 | I kept on singing\ |
259 | Grunge hamster, be grown up\ |
260 | Lobster of revenge, bring it along'' |
261 | -->-- '''Music/ThePillows''', "Ride On Shooting Star" (English translation) |
262 | |
263 | ->''The Easter Bunny told me that Christmas isn't real\ |
264 | But Santa Claus is still Jesus'' |
265 | -->-- '''WebVideo/BillWurtz''', "Christmas Isn't Real" |
266 | |
267 | ->''Climb inside my belly button…\ |
268 | Climb inside my belly button…\ |
269 | Rainbow cinnamon gumdrop\ |
270 | Lemon and purple people are a plastic mystery\ |
271 | Day-glow bubblegum pork chop\ |
272 | Lilac lady will go down in history\ |
273 | Climb inside my world!\ |
274 | Climb inside my belly button beanbag plastic world!\ |
275 | Bean cheese bell bottom mind game\ |
276 | Pig pen Henry drinks his prune juice every day\ |
277 | Tie dye businessman snowflake\ |
278 | Rubber man bouncing down a mushroom gravy highway\ |
279 | Climb inside my world!\ |
280 | Climb inside my belly button beanbag plastic world!\ |
281 | Saffron tea bag pierogi\ |
282 | Parsley panda has a pepperoni pocket comb\ |
283 | Flight bag dripped with lasanga\ |
284 | Meatloaf monkey drives a moonbeam motor home\ |
285 | Climb inside my world!\ |
286 | Climb inside my belly button beanbag plastic world!'' |
287 | -->-- "Climb Inside", ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'', "Jerry the Bellybutton Elf" |
288 | |
289 | ->''The little critters of nature\ |
290 | They don't know that they're ugly\ |
291 | That's really funny\ |
292 | A fly marrying a bumblebee\ |
293 | I TOLD YOU I'D SHOOT, BUT YOU DIDN'T BELIEVE ME\ |
294 | '''WHY''' DIDN'T YOU BELIEVE ME?!'' |
295 | -->-- "Happy Happy Joy Joy'', ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' |
296 | |
297 | ->''But he cocked his noggin, through his stoma sang, "For auld lang syne"\ |
298 | "Happy birthday to the succulents, I'll die your hydroponics"\ |
299 | His rib cage was a hornet’s nest, palpitations set the beat\ |
300 | His vagus nerve a Turk’s head knot, an axle hitch, a Carrick bend\ |
301 | He wondered if Christ-Consciousness would charge a cancellation fee\ |
302 | Auf wiedersehen, au revoir, he gripped his wits right by their ends'' |
303 | -->--Music/WillWood, "[=BlackBoxWarrior=] - OKULTRA" |
304 | [[/folder]] |
305 | |
306 | [[folder:Quotes about nonsensical lyrics]] |
307 | ->''"Let's see the fuckers figure'' that ''one out!"'' |
308 | -->--'''John Lennon''' to Paul [=McCartney=] after writing "I Am The Walrus" |
309 | |
310 | ->''Does it hurt when 'glossolalia coats your skin?' Where can I find a nice new pair of 'unkempt nourishment plows?' What are 'castrating kisses stalactite stems?' I certainly don't know, and neither do the members of [[Music/TheMarsVolta Mars Volta]] who wrote these lyrics.'' |
311 | -->-- '''Website/{{Cracked}}'s Dustin Glick''', ''The Five Most Unintentionally Funny Albums of 2006'' |
312 | |
313 | ->"I must have played this song like 3000 times in concert. And after all this time, I still have no idea what the fuck it's about." |
314 | -->-'''[[Music/{{REM}} Peter Buck]]''' talking about the song "Orange Crush" |
315 | |
316 | ->''Bernie Taupin has the ability to use allegory and irony in his lyrics to express profound truths about the human condition ... He also has the ability to write lyrics that make no fucking sense at all...'' |
317 | -->'''[[Website/{{Cracked}} cracked.com]]''' on '''[[http://www.cracked.com/funny-529-elton-john/ Elton John]]''' |
318 | |
319 | ->''"We pretty much write these songs and let other people figure them out."'' |
320 | -->-'''[[Music/TheyMightBeGiants John Linnell]]''' |
321 | |
322 | ->''"Now they're trying to come up with meanings for [[Music/TheBeatles Beatles]] songs. I never understood what any of them were about, myself...''" |
323 | -->-'''Music/RingoStarr''' |
324 | |
325 | ->''"No-one else can make me feel the colors that you bring." What the fuck is that even supposed to mean?'' |
326 | -->-'''WebVideo/BennettTheSage''', on '''Minnie Riperton''''s "Loving You" |
327 | |
328 | ->''OK, see, according to every Internet site I consulted (believe me, I consulted a lot of them), what [[Music/KanyeWest Kanye's]] saying is "bathe my ape in your Milky Way". (plays line with subtitles) That can't possibly be the case, and if it is: Kanye, there's an art to sexual innuendo. You've gotta have some kind of sense. You can't just take a vaguely sexual sentence and throw random words into it!'' |
329 | -->--'''WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows''', on '''Music/KanyeWest''''s first [[AWildRapperAppears rap verse]] on [[Music/KatyPerry E.T.]] |
330 | |
331 | ->''A great track, but the lyrics are fucking gibberish. You look at them and go, "Stop watching documentaries, you knob". Who knows what I was going on about? [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs I was fucking stoned]].'' |
332 | -->--'''Music/RobbieWilliams''', on ''Bodies'' |
333 | |
334 | ->''"You know how many critics have ragged on Music/{{Train}}, telling them to go back and rewrite some of their songs? This makes them look competent, because every single line here is just there to rhyme with the previous one with no time for sense or logic!"'' |
335 | -->-- '''The Social Tune''', on "Summer Girls" by LFO |
336 | |
337 | ->"It is now time to make it unclear\ |
338 | To write off lines that don't make sense" |
339 | -->--'''Music/{{Nirvana}}''', "On a Plain" |
340 | |
341 | ->''The lyrics are nonsensical, but not in a good "Music/TheAquabats type of nonsensical" way. Rather, they convey the feeling of someone who knows very little English trying to be cool by just rambling off some meaningless English phrases mixed with a bunch of swear words.'' |
342 | -->-- '''[=BrokenBassDrum=]''', [[https://brokenbassdrum.wordpress.com/2015/10/27/terrible-tuesday-im-an-albatraoz-aronchupa/ on]] "I'm an Albatraoz" by {{Music/AronChupa}} |
343 | |
344 | ->''It amazes me that people are still asking me this question. I spilled the beans a few years ago now so this isn't exactly news.\ |
345 | My producer (Peter Collins) came over to my house just before we commenced recording on the second album to hear how I was getting on with the writing. He went away saying he thought it sounded great but didn't think I had the first single. Incensed by this, I went straight up to the spare room and got the chords and melody together for the Riddle. This must've taken all of twenty minutes. Knowing time was short before we started recording I jotted down some jibberish with the intention of writing the real lyric as we were recording it.\ |
346 | About a week later we started recording and I threw a rough guide vocal down using the jibberish lyrics. As the album progressed, I tried various different lyric ideas but nothing seemed to fit as well as the guide lyric. So we decided to stick with what we had. "Let's call it the Riddle", I thought. Then people would think it was actually about something.\ |
347 | I had completely underestimated the fuss this would cause and, to make matters worse, the marketing and promotions people at MCA decided to make a competition out of it (without telling me). The response was unbelievable. We got sack loads of mail with elaborate and detailed analysis of the song. Line by line, word by word. Some were the size of small novels. Some even made sense!! People stopped me in the street to give me their thoughts and theories. On one occasion I arrived to do a live Radio 1 interview with a certain DJ only to find he'd told the great British public that I would be "revealing all" on his show. He was most put out when I wouldn't (couldn't) co-operate.\ |
348 | It all got a bit out of hand and, very quickly, passed the point at which I could come clean without pissing off a lot of people.\ |
349 | In short, "The Riddle" is nonsense, rubbish, bollocks, the confused ramblings of an 80's popstar.\ |
350 | Please forgive me. I knew not what I did.'' |
351 | -->-- '''Music/NikKershaw''' |
352 | |
353 | ->''"A more apt title for the song might've been 'Dance Into the Fire', though, given the repetition of the phrase that line throughout. But then, the lyrics themselves border on nonsensical; most Bond songs are about a villain or Bond himself or about being in love or something like that. This is just, well… I dunno! I mean, 'Earth's crystal tears?' 'Lover's rosy stain?' 'A sacred why?' I have no idea what any of that means, but I kinda dig it anyway just because it sounds cool; as just an arrangement of words, it's very satisfying."'' |
354 | -->-- '''Calvin Dyson''', [[https://youtu.be/CBsJ1m6V5xM discussing]] Music/DuranDuran's TitleThemeTune for ''Film/AViewToAKill'' |
355 | |
356 | ->''"'New Daoboys is too disjointed' this 'the lyrics don’t make any sense' that. Listen, we just do whatever sells records."'' |
357 | -->-- Whoever had the keys to [[https://twitter.com/callousdaoboys/status/1569001793979310080 The Callous Daoboys' Twitter account]] in 2022 |
358 | |
359 | ->''Jelly beans and nicotine are streamin' through my grandma's spleen\ |
360 | And I just stubbed my toe!\ |
361 | Stumblin' through the pages of a Webster's earns me wages\ |
362 | There's so many words to go'' |
363 | -->-- '''There I Ruined It''', ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE5JMEu5hZA What Red Hot Chili Peppers sound like to people who don't like Red Hot Chili Peppers]]'' |
364 | |
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