“Take the Skinheads Bowling” by Camper Van Beethoven:
“There’s not a line that goes here that rhymes with anything.”
Well you’re probably wonderin’, 'bout now
Just what this here song’s about
What’s probably got you you baffled more
Is just what this thing here is for
[Plays chords C-D, C-D]
It’s nothing!
It’s something I learned over in England!
Bob Dylan, “I Shall Be Free No. 10”
<clears throat>
“This is the song that never ends…”
**Styx **- *Put Me On *- “Put me on, I’m your brand new record album…”, the first track on Crystal Ball
I was sure there was an R.E.M. one too but I can’t think of it right now …
Captain Amazing: 
Tenacious D’s Tribute:
"This is not The Greatest Song in the World, no.
This is just a tribute.
Couldn’t remember The Greatest Song in the World, no, no.
This is a tribute, oh, to The Greatest Song in the World,
All right! It was The Greatest Song in the World,
All right! It was the best muthafuckin’ song the greatest song in the world.
gee, ooh de flliga goo gee ooga fligoo giggoo ooh fligoo giggoo ge gee oogah
goo gee oogah geegoogegegee, fligoo giggoo,oh flig, oh mama Lucifer
And the peculiar thing is this my friends:
the song we sang on that fateful night it didn’t actually sound
anything like this song.
This is just a tribute! You gotta believe me!
And I wish you were there! Just a matter of opinion.
Ah, fuck! Good God, God lovin’,
So surprised to find you can’t stop it. "
Billy Joel dueting with Ray Charles on “Baby Grand.”
The Who’s “New Song” kinda works by inference. As does “Guitar and Pen.”
Baby Grand!
:smack:
This is a song about a superhero named Tony, it’s called Tony’s Theme!
Chris De Burgh, This Song For You.
The most extreme example of this I know is from the Mighty Mighty Bosstones in Someday I suppose, which has the effect of writing itself as it goes along:
The terrific song A Rainy Night In Soho. This song is nearly over, you may never find out what it means…
Weird Al’s This Song’s Just Six Words Long.
Bart Simpson’s rocker fantasy:
Bart: I’d loik to play me latest chaht-toppah. It’s called Me Fans Are Stupid Pigs.
“Our love became our love by name when I wrote it to you in a song
Our love goes on and on”
-Rhett Miller “Our Love”
**I know a song that’ll get on your nerves,
**Get on your nerves,
**[SIZE=5]Get on your nerves!
Billy Joel’s “Lullaby: Good Night My Angel”:
Goodnight my angel, now it’s time to dream,
and dream how wonderful your life will be.
Someday your child may cry,
and if you sing this Lullaby,
then in your heart
there will always be a part of me.
And I think there are several children’s songs like that, but the only one I can think of is:
I sing nothing, nothing, nothing.
I sing nothing all day long.
I sing absolutely nothing –
How do you like my nothing song?
(Second verse, same as the first, a little bit louder and a little bit worse!)
and so on ad finitum.
Steely Dan - Deacon Blue - ‘I cried when I wrote this song, sue me if I play too long’
Randy Newman - Rednecks - ‘So I went to the park and took some paper along and thats where I made this song’ Always liked the word ‘made’ there.
Paul Simon - Song for the Asking
Arlo Guthrie - Alice’s Restaurant - all of it but esp. ‘this is a song called Alice’s Restaurant, it’s the name of the song not the restaurant’ and ‘got to sing loud if you want to end war’
XTC - No Language in our Lungs - ‘I thought I had the whole world in my mouth, I thought I could say what I wanted to say,
for a second that thought became a sword in my hand, I could slay any problem that would stand in my way.
I felt just like a crusader, a Lionheart the Holy Land invader
But nobody can say what they really mean to say and
the impotency of speech came up and hit me that day and
I WOULD HAVE MADE THIS INSTRUMENTAL BUT THE WORDS GOT IN THE WAY’
are some of my faves.
Skyhooks legendary Aussie band of the 70s.
Smartarse Songwriters (G.Macainsh)
There’s a lotta smartarse songwriters
Who think they’re got the answers
I wish they’d all just shut their mouths
And get down with the dancers
All those fancy words and major thirds
Don’t mean much to me
Million Dollar Riff (G.Macainsh)
It might take three notes it might take four - Oh yeah
Or somethin’ that sounds like a squeaky door - Oh yeah
And you could be ridin’ in a limousine - Oh yeah
And have your face in every magazine
Million dollar riff Million dollar riff Million dollar riff
Going round and round
Million dollar riff Million dollar riff Million dollar riff
We gotta get that sound
Meanwhile I was still searchin’
and although I was beaten to Beautiful South’s
Song for Whoever my favourite lyric is:
Deep so deep, the number one I hope to reap
Depends upon the tears you weep, so cry, lovey cry, cry, cry, cry
I’m having difficulty finding a reference to it, but doesn’t James Brown say “take it to the bridge” in Sex Machine?
This is parodied in Led Zeppelin’s The Crunge - “Where is that confounded bridge?”