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From YKTTW Working Title: Indecipherable Lyrics
Alucard:I'm seeing some overlap with Singing Simlish here (suprised no caught it in ykttw), but they're both different tropes. I think it warrants a mention.
The reason "Some People Call Me a Space C Owboy" is indecipherable is that the Steve Miller Band guy (Steve Miller?) pretty much ripped the lyrics off of a weird old jazzman who had his own personal lexicon