The INANE LYRICS Thread

You know those lyrics. The ones that make you go....WTF?

Share your faves, or feel free to offer your interpretation of those posted by others. Here are a few that always leave me scratching my head:

"Boy, you've been a naughty girl, you let your knickers down." ~ I am the Walrus, The Beatles (Most of their lyrics from this period could be attributed to LSD, but still...)

"We can dance. We can dance. Everybody look at your hands." ~ The Safety Dance, Men Without Hats

Why must we look at our hands? Is this part of the dance?

And, one of my personal favorites:

"Let me take your hands, I'm shaking like milk." ~ Let's Go to Bed, The Cure

WTF——

Also, Mr. Roboto by Styx....the whole damn thing.

lol sea siren...i emphatically agree with your selections. oh, except for the beatles, who are infallible.

here's one that has always annoy me...omc's how bizarre...

"Ooh baby...ooh baby
it's makin me crazy (it's makin me crazy)
every time i look around (every time i look around)
it's in my FACE"

because i have no clue wtf they're talking about and that song makes me crazy

"oh, except for the beatles, who are infallible."

LOL I too love the Beatles, Wheelz, even when their lyrics are nonsensical to the non-tripping.

How about this one from Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds:

"Plasticine porters with looking glass ties" ——————?? 🙂

Methyl, Planet Telex is definitely a head-scratcher. How about "Fitter, Happier" from OK Computer? There's not even any music in that, so I don't know if it can be called a song. It's always been the only track I ever skip on that one.

How about some Doors, "Back Door Man"?

"You men eat your dinner, eat your pork and beans
I eat more chicken, than any man ever seen, yeah, yeah"

Mmmmkay. This song is obviously about rear entry, but I have never understood how this part fits. Is there something I'm missing here?

"The End" is one of my favorite songs and all of it is a bit of a trip, but this part in particular:

"The killer awoke before dawn, he put his boots on.
He took a face from the ancient gallery
And he walked on down the hall"

———— How about this part:

"The blue bus is callin us" WTF?

"The killer awoke before dawn, he put his boots on.
He took a face from the ancient gallery
And he walked on down the hall"

i'm actually pretty sure i understand this. hahahahah
never heard the song before, but i'm pretty sure that he has like masks on his wall so it's like a gallery, and he just takes one and keeps walkin'

"he has like masks on his wall so it's like a gallery, and he just takes one and keeps walkin'"

But why is the gallery "ancient"? Is he immortal? Or did he break into a museum to steal one... 🙂

idk, maybe he has tribal masks

THAT does make sense.

Okay...now what about the pork and beans and the chicken in the other song? lol ENLIGHTEN ME, WHEELZ!

lmao, i don't even wanna touch that one. so...yes, it is entirely inane and speaks of nothing more than dinners.

And my time is a piece of wax fallin' on a termite
that's chokin' on the splinters - Beck

"anything by radiodread(ful)"

i LOVE radiohead, Tom Yorke's a musical genius, but i have to agree, most of the time it's, hmmm, come again?? ..but wow, beautiful music just the same. i think radiohead is alot like ABSTRACT art, it is whatever "you" think it is..LOL =)

I love Radiohead, too, Mystic. They're one of my favorite bands. I can't get enough of "In Rainbows" and I've been listening to it a lot since it first came out.

They did take a turn to the abstract, but "Pablo Honey" and "The Bends" did include some pretty straight-forward lyics. And they still use that approach, occasionally.

avril lavigne - complicated

you fall and you crawl and you break
and you take what you get and you turn it into
honestly you promised me
i'm never gonna find you fake it
no no no

avril lavigne - happy ending

let's talk this over
it's not like we're dead

avril lavigne - sk8er boi

he was a boy
she was girl
cannot make it any more obvious
he was a punk
she did ballet
what more can i say?

i may have messed up the lyrics to complicated but i don't think it makes any difference to be perfectly honest

Alright..I'm gonna take a crack at Avril
"he was a boy
she was girl
cannot make it any more obvious
he was a punk
she did ballet
what more can i say?"

I think here she means to point out how mismatched they are. The girl is very fem and traditional, he's very masculine and rebellious.

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How about this one - More Beatles..."Happiness is a Warm Gun"

"The man in the crowd with the multicolored mirrors
On his hobnail boots
Lying with his eyes while his hands are busy
Working overtime
A soap impression of his wife which he ate
And donated to the National Trust"

Why does he have multicolored mirrors on his boots?
What is a hobnail?
And the last two lines...did he eat the soap or his wife and how did he donate it afterwards?

glad you like it, antibling.

a.) snaggleteeth aren't cute on people
b.) she makes me want to puncture my eardrums
c.) everything else about her is also obnoxious

and sea siren...i can honestly say i have no fucking clue what those lyrics mean. hahah...i'm sure it would seem clearer if we were on a gooooood LSD trip.

just for you bling...because you're such a sweetheart

"Mmmmkay. This song is obviously about rear entry, but I have never understood how this part fits. Is there something I'm missing here?"



Hm, a wtf sort of line is Manowar's "may your sword be wet, like a young girl in her prime". I feel like cringing when they get to that part.

Yum, are you insinuating that Jim Morrison was bi? I thought of this interpretation, too, but "the men don't know, but the little girls understand" line seems to contradict this theory.

"If there's a bustle in your hedgerow." —?? I have never understood this.

Led Zep, Stairway to Heaven

I mean why would a woman's 18th century undergarment be in your hedge?

Yeah, I'm reviving this ancient thread with...the Pixies

"you know when you grope for luna."

— No, I don't know. I've never groped for luna. How does one grope for the moon?

High school lesbian couple wanting to get out of their podunk town sung in Beach Boys parody form?