Somebody get me a ladder!
I’ve always been bugged by Zep’s lazy and probably drug fueled borrowing from Tolkien
'T was in the darkest depths of Mordor
I met a girl so fair
But Gollum, and the evil one
Crept up and slipped away with her
And the song that probably ended the career of April Wine, the very childish “If You See Kay”. Incredibly juevenile way to say fuck.
They can, if you take the photo from high up enough. 
What bugs me about that song is that Bob sings “Mine’s a tale that can’t be told.” And then what does he do? Yes, that’s right: HE TELLS THE DAMN TALE!
That’s always bugged me too. I used to have that album.
Brown Sugar by the Stones is another song with, er, ‘interesting’ lyrics. Bangin tune though.
I’ll insist that overall, it’s a great album. But no, that’s far from the high point.
The Greg Lake ballads never anywhere close to the high point.
I am a Van Morrison fan as well, and I think overall his lyrics are not too bad.
But I’ve always wondered about this line from ‘Caravan’:
And the caravan is painted red and white
That means everybody’s staying overnight
So they paint their entire caravan just to advertise their residency preferences? So, if they plan on leaving before nightfall, do they break out the exterior latex, brushes and rollers, and maybe paint the caravan green and purple, or something? Wouldn’t, I dunno, a sign do the job just as well?
Nobody has yet mentioned The Who and Baba O’Reilly .
The most famous and powerful guitar chords in all of rock music, but with illogical and incomprehensible lyrics.
The lyrics were supposed to be the overture to a strange, mystical (and very long) science-fiction rock opera , which Pete Townshend thought would be his magnum opus, but never finished.
Result: repeat over and over “teenage wasteland”.
It was called Lifehouse. The concept was brought somewhat more into focus recently with the Special Deluxe Edition package of Who’s Next. Besides the original album it included several discs worth of demos, the experimental live performances at the Young Vic, a 100 page book and a graphic novel.
That presents a very evocative image in my mind. Staring at the floor, knowing things need to be done, but he is unable to do much of anything, except notice the dust on the floor. Paralyzed in love, or regret. Still, the guitar gently weeps.
It fits there very well.
Still, they turn me on.
Fair interpretation.
Eh, c’est la vie.
I wonder if Greg wrote those lyrics around the same time as Lucky Man.…when he was 12.
My go-to answer in topics like this is from Uriah Heep’s Circle of Hands: “And today is only yesterday’s tomorrow”.
Suzie Q’s lyrics are…limited.
Oh Susie Q
Oh Susie Q
Oh Susie Q, how I love you
Susie Q
I like the way you walk
I like the way you talk
That’s pretty much it except for “say that you’ll be mine”.
Still one of the great rock n’roll songs.
The band America has some:
Awful.
Things, I tell you! Things beyond the ken of mortal men!
I mean, they ran out of items that constitute “life” after two items. And then they ran out of nouns altogether.
I guess one can at least ride a horse into Mordor.
I Always plfound the play with words concerning “it Stunned me“ quite smart
Harry Nilsson’s awesome awesome song Jump Into the Fire has just four pretty banal lines repeated over and over. But it’s a hell of a rocker.
“Jelly roll” is old jazz slang for marijuana, so it makes sense in a song called “And It Stoned Me”.