# Lyrics that sound like gibberish **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 7, 2011, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sound-like-gibberish/602144 "2011-11-07T05:49:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sound-like-gibberish/602144/41 "2011-11-08T06:24:01Z")
> [@BaneSidhe](#): > > How about “It’s The End Of The World As We Know It [And I Feel Fine]”? That’s an excellent example. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sound-like-gibberish/602144/42 "2011-11-08T06:39:23Z")
> [@BaneSidhe](#): > > How about “It’s The End Of The World As We Know It [And I Feel Fine]”? Good one. _What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?_ is another REM example. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sound-like-gibberish/602144/43 "2011-11-08T07:46:03Z")
> [@BaneSidhe](#): > > How about “It’s The End Of The World As We Know It [And I Feel Fine]”? _**[LEO! NARD!](http://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2007/05/27) [BERN! STEIN!](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SomethingSomethingLeonardBernstein)**_ Maybe it’s [time I had some time alone.](http://www.lyricsfreak.com/r/rem/its+the+end+of+the+world+as+we+know+it_10240320.html) ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sound-like-gibberish/602144/44 "2011-11-08T07:49:45Z")
[_Killer Queen_ by Queen](http://www.queenwords.com/lyrics/songs/sng11_03.shtml), for the win. I just found this lyrics page, and what I always thought was “Morgatron” (whatever the fuck that is) seems to be “Wanna Try?”. It was a HUGE hit and nobody understood half of it. ---
**Author:** ![Pixiesnix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Pixiesnix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixiesnix)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sound-like-gibberish/602144/45 "2011-11-08T08:18:51Z")
It’s for songs like those that [videos](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePjESN9pRdg) [like](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LucfKdukf10) [these](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMiV5Ls_LVU)were made. \*second link is possible NSFW ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sound-like-gibberish/602144/46 "2011-11-08T08:45:32Z")
“Song 2” by the aptly named Blur. I got my head shaved By a jamochey (?) It wasn’t easy But nothing is And I always thought “Well, I don’t think I’ve ever had a jamochey shave my head so I guess I can’t call him on this.” But I suspecting I might have the lyrics wrong, I looked them up: I got my head checked By a jumbo jet It wasn’t easy But nothing is Really? Because that doesn’t make much more sense than what I thought I was hearing. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sound-like-gibberish/602144/47 "2011-11-08T08:54:40Z")
Another one would be “Everything Zen” by Bush. I always though the chorus was “I don’t believe in Hell since Daniel”. It’s actually “I don’t believe Elvis is dead, yeah”. But in a song whose actual lyrics include the lines “Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow/Dave’s on sale again” and “Raindogs howl for the century/A million dollars a steak” I think my lyrics make just as much sense as Gavin Rossdale’s. ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sound-like-gibberish/602144/48 "2011-11-08T09:49:29Z")
This thread is hilarious! I nominate [Safety Dance.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7movKfyTBII&ob=av2e) After the first couple of lines, I can only make out the last word of each sentence. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sound-like-gibberish/602144/49 "2011-11-08T10:11:09Z")
Then there’s Captain Beefheart. The man who wrote the following lyrics in various songs: Men let your wallets flop out, and women open your purses, Cause a man or a woman without a big eyed bean from Venus Is suffering with the worstest of curses Well I used to go to school With a little red box And I used to have my pig go with me We walked for blocks I don’t wanna kill my china pig His tail curled five times in a circle round It’s glazed I feel like a glass shrimp in a pink panty With a saccharine chaperone Make invalids out of supermen Call in a shrink And pick you up in a girdle I wanna find me a woman who’ll hold my big toe till I have to go I wanna find a blue swirl plastic ocarina About five miles long And play with them sweet potatoes all night long Making love to a vampire with a monkey on my knee The pond shined dry like a lady’s compact Lilies leaped like flat green hearts with white hearts Squirting yellow pollen cocks A jack rabbit raised his folded ears A beautiful sagebrush jack rabbit And an oriole sang like an orange His breast full of worms And his tail clawed the evening like a hammer His wings took to air like a bomber And my rain can caught me a cup of water Well my cigarette died when I washed my face Dropped some drops in an ashtray hit a wrong place Woman at my blinds to see spiders spinning lines It’s as safe as milk it’s as safe as milk Now she’s the Sheriff of Hong Kong gone I bite the end of her sash And she’s off in a flash And we’re long gone gone To Hong Kong Kong Momma still knew she was the one She was the one who stole the pie from old Momma Eye Window bare rocking chair groaning like a grizzly bear And the ice cream man searching high and low For his a la modes for his a la modes Maybe not gibberish. But you get the feeling that Don Van Vliet was hearing things the rest of us weren’t. ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine_and_Smiles)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sound-like-gibberish/602144/50 "2011-11-08T15:31:14Z")
How to Dress Well - [You Won’t Need Me Where I’m Goin’](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFndNLPfLUo). He kind of does a lo-fi take on R&B, so by the time he really gets going in this song you’ve got no idea what he’s saying. Crystal Castles - [Alice Practice](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2FOnrFlEJY). Video game sounds and the distorted, shouty vocals of Alice Glass. Sounds like gibberish. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sound-like-gibberish/602144/51 "2011-11-08T15:37:22Z")
Showing my age here: “Witch Doctor” David Seville _Ooo eee, ooo ah ah ting tang Walla walla, bing bang Ooo eee, ooo ah ah ting tang Walla walla, bing bang… Ooo eee, ooo ah ah ting tang Walla walla, bing bang Ooo eee, ooo ah ah ting tang Walla walla, bing bang_ ---
**Author:** ![joew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@joew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joew)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sound-like-gibberish/602144/52 "2011-11-08T15:37:37Z")
> [@Cubsfan](#): > > Pretty much all Deftones and White Zombie songs. Thunderkiss 65 is unintelligible. I have no problem with either of them. However My Bloody Valentine is a mess ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sound-like-gibberish/602144/53 "2011-11-08T15:40:56Z")
_Chuck Es In Love_ – Ricki Lee Jones ---
**Author:** ![Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellis_Aponte_Jr)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sound-like-gibberish/602144/54 "2011-11-08T16:24:59Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Another one would be “Everything Zen” by Bush. > > I always though the chorus was “I don’t believe in Hell since Daniel”. It’s actually “I don’t believe Elvis is dead, yeah”. > > But in a song whose actual lyrics include the lines “ **Mickey Mouse has grown up a** **cow/Dave’s on sale again** ” and “Raindogs howl for the century/A million dollars a steak” I think my lyrics make just as much sense as Gavin Rossdale’s. These lyrics are borrowed from David Bowie, from his song “Life on Mars,” except it’s “Lennon” instead of “Dave” ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sound-like-gibberish/602144/55 "2011-11-08T18:33:47Z")
And then there’s Elton John’s immortal [Solar Prestige a Gammon](http://www.eltonography.com/songs/solar_prestige_a_gammon.html): _Solar prestige a gammon Kool kar kyrie kay salmon Hair ring molassis abounding Common lap kitch sardin a poor floundin_ Uh, yeah. ---
**Author:** ![Roadfood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc348/32.png) [@Roadfood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadfood)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sound-like-gibberish/602144/56 "2011-11-08T19:51:13Z")
> [@Lilacs](#): > > Yes to the first[“Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress”]. I still have no clue what is being sung. And I love the Hollies. Saturday night I was downtown, Workin’ for the FBI. Sittin’ in a nest of bad men, Whiskey bottles pilin’ high. Bootleggin’ boozer on the west side, Full of people who are doin’ wrong. Just about to call up the DA man, When I heard a woman singin’ a song. A pair of 45s made me open my eyes, My temperature started to rise. She was a long cool woman in a black dress, Just a five-nine [5’ 9"] beautiful tall. With just one look I was a bad mess, 'Cause that long cool woman had it all. Let me know if you want the rest. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sound-like-gibberish/602144/57 "2011-11-08T20:09:05Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > _Kool kar kyrie kay salmon_ This line reminded me that I thought [the Mr. Mister hit “Kyrie”](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyrie_%28song%29) was full of gibberish because I knew nothing of the liturgical references it built upon. Of course, on second thought, > [@](#): > > Kýrie, eléison, down the road that I must travel > Kýrie, eléison, through the darkness of the night doesn’t actually make any sense at all, now that I know what “kyrie eleison” means. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sound-like-gibberish/602144.md?page=2)