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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\
47What do ya make? - Give & take\
48Goin' home - Time Zone\
49Check out Egg - He's never alone\
50Leather 'n' lace - Getting in place\
51What do ya get? - Say, fast jet!\
52Doom Room - Cosmic zoom\
53Heads up, Jake - It's Sonic Boom!"''
54-->-- '''You Can Do Anything''', ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehogCD''
55
56->''"Brain wave, main wave, psycho got a high kick\
57Collect and select, show me your best set\
58Crystals, blisters, it's all over now\
59Psycho cane, you're so keen -- I need more candy canes\
60Cold cake, cold break, freak got a high kick\
61Mr. Twister, moist with roistering\
62Stick it up, take it up, step aside, and see the world\
63Effect 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\
111Banana terracotta terracotta pie\
112Banana banana banana terracotta\
113Banana terracotta terracotta pie\
114Is there a perfect way of holding you, baby? (Liar)\
115Vicinity of obscenity in your eyes\
116[...]\
117Do we all learn defeat\
118From the whores with bad feet?\
119Beat the meat, treat the feet\
120To 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 \
157sleepy now \
158I do not \
159want anything \
160Heart does not move \
161[[BodyHorror My brain turning green rapidly]] \
162Too much thinking \
163Aah''
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 \
167Magenta plated terrace with a table and a stove \
168Guarded golden railing just to frame the pretty stars \
169Fix 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!)\
173We'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\
178Going around like bom bom bom\
179What's grooving? I'm moving\
180I like your style of womping\
181How charming, just a rapper\
182Load him up and eat that snapper\
183I want sixteen pints of rrrrrrrrum and then I go bom bom\
184Growing up in the dark in the night\
185And so I go (monkey impression)\
186I've brought a pie in my pocket\
187A pie in my pocket? An eye in my socket\
188You got life, you got style\
189Me got nothing on my mind\
190But I'm so cool and I'm so groovy\
191When I go bom bom bom!''
192-->-- '''{{Music/Sam and the Womp}}''', "Bom Bom"
193
194->''I wanna sing a song about nothing in particular\
195Nimi nami nomi nami noo\
196I wanna sing a song about it really doesn't matter\
197As long as I can sing with you\
198Nimi nami nomi nami, nimi nami nomi nami, nimi nami nomi na\
199I just wanna sing...\
200With you!''
201-->-- '''Big Bird''', "Nimi Nami Nomi" ''Series/SesameStreet''
202
203->''As for a list of exotic amusements,\
204We choice between the summer here.\
205Is here we look at baseball,\
206Like the fact that it does.\
207As some people the fact,\
208That volleyball is done and is enjoyed.\
209When it's hot, we spin in water,\
210Like 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!!\
217Rama llama bing bong kangaroo!\
218Llama coyote Africa banana!\
219We play a fancy instrument kazoo.''"
220-->--'''Hairy Man''', ''WesternAnimation/MarthaSpeaks'', "Martha Sings"
221
222->''Sad inner Sam, walla 'ot day.\
223After she on she, I must say missed day.\
224It's a your nana was sued by Inu.\
225After she o como Nazi no!''
226-->--''WebAnimation/TranslationsGoneWrong'', "[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Smile, Smile, Smile]]"
227
228->''I've got two strong arms\
229Blessings of Babylon, time to carry on\
230And try with sins and false alarms\
231So to America the brave\
232Wise men save\
233Near a tree by a river, there's a hole in the ground\
234Where an old man of Aran goes around and around\
235And his mind is a beacon in the veil of the night\
236For a strange kind of fashion, there's a wrong and a right\
237But 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\
244Where the flowers are melted and the future is fun\
245The freeway lizards are not feeling so good\
246I'm on one-way trip back in west Hollywood\
247Let's go''
248-->-- '''Music/{{Gorillaz}}''', "Valley of the Pagans"
249
250->''Orange slide, the sky that it reflects\
251Sponge's pride, being dangled\
252Spider\
253The apprehension that was caught alive\
254It's okay even if I don't hide it\
255I want to have colored dreams\
256Ride on shooting star\
257With the voice of my heart, like a shotgun\
258I kept on singing\
259Grunge hamster, be grown up\
260Lobster 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\
264But Santa Claus is still Jesus''
265-->-- '''WebVideo/BillWurtz''', "Christmas Isn't Real"
266
267->''Climb inside my belly button…\
268Climb inside my belly button…\
269Rainbow cinnamon gumdrop\
270Lemon and purple people are a plastic mystery\
271Day-glow bubblegum pork chop\
272Lilac lady will go down in history\
273Climb inside my world!\
274Climb inside my belly button beanbag plastic world!\
275Bean cheese bell bottom mind game\
276Pig pen Henry drinks his prune juice every day\
277Tie dye businessman snowflake\
278Rubber man bouncing down a mushroom gravy highway\
279Climb inside my world!\
280Climb inside my belly button beanbag plastic world!\
281Saffron tea bag pierogi\
282Parsley panda has a pepperoni pocket comb\
283Flight bag dripped with lasanga\
284Meatloaf monkey drives a moonbeam motor home\
285Climb inside my world!\
286Climb inside my belly button beanbag plastic world!''
287-->-- "Climb Inside", ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'', "Jerry the Bellybutton Elf"
288
289->''The little critters of nature\
290They don't know that they're ugly\
291That's really funny\
292A fly marrying a bumblebee\
293I 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"\
299His rib cage was a hornet’s nest, palpitations set the beat\
300His vagus nerve a Turk’s head knot, an axle hitch, a Carrick bend\
301He wondered if Christ-Consciousness would charge a cancellation fee\
302Auf 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\
338To 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.\
345My 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.\
346About 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.\
347I 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.\
348It 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.\
349In short, "The Riddle" is nonsense, rubbish, bollocks, the confused ramblings of an 80's popstar.\
350Please 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\
360And I just stubbed my toe!\
361Stumblin' through the pages of a Webster's earns me wages\
362There'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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