And a ra ra is also a short skirt, for what it’s worth.
“Fly robin fly…up into the sky!”
How do those lyrics not make sense?
I’m not sure this counts since it’s meant to be nonsensical.
From Dig A Pony:
“I load a lorry
Well you can syndicate any boat you row
Yeah you can syndicate any boat you row
I told you so”
In 1999 the original manuscript was sold for 80’000 British pounds :rolleyes:
FUCK! Post eaten. Take 2.
Careless Whisper, by George Michael. It’s about a man who cheated on his girlfriend. Now he’s feeling guilty, and it keeps him from being able to close dance because he’s too distracted by his guilt to concentrate on what his feet should be doing. And given the careless whisper, she knows, thus the part about hurting each other with the things they want to say. And the dancing is also a metaphor for their relationship and the closeness, the cheating has come between them and ruined it. It’s really a poetic line and not particularly confusing or strange.
As a euphamism, I’d rather not have my popsicle melted, i.e. limp and soggy. YMMV.
The May Queen of the Fairies that lives in your hedgerow outside your window. Doesn’t really make sense in the context of the song, but is part of their interest in mysticism and mythology. That album has references to The Lord of the Rings.
Eyes on the Rabbit -by Melvin Van Peebles
You know, when it’s right between you and her
It sort of seems like all of eternity was a pyramid.
Just leading up to that moment.
Like people moved out of tents and into huts,
From huts into houses, just so someone could build a room for you and her to lay in.
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Wait! What?..
Am I alone in thinking “I Am the Walrus” is not that strange? I mean, it’s certainly out there, but it’s consistently so for the whole song. It’s thematic.
A reminder: please don’t quote more than one verse of any song under copyright.
Eagles.
“I’m running down the road tryin’ to loosen my load…”
Ewww…
Well, he does have 7 women on his mind.
The pyramid is a visual metaphor about the feeling of everything building up to one specific result, all the swath of human history to create the moment they move in together.
Not particularly confusing. She was a kindergarden teacher, and so they would spend time working crafts for her class together. Then they split up, and now he’s missing her, and feeling mopey, he pulled out craft paper and started doing a kindergarden project like they used to do together. So he cuts out paper rabbits, and can’t decide what to do, so he thinks about making different colored paper eyes and such on the paper rabbits, but in the end they’re only paper rabbits, not her.
I thought the same thing about quoting Dig a Pony. Obviously syndicate every boat you row isn’t just a poorly conceived lyric.
Some of those lyrics were meant to knot the knickers of the people who interpreted every lyric as being sooooo deeeeeppppp.
If we’re dredging up oldies, Blue Oyster Cult has some great nonsense:
One threat and mundane here at last,
Expect to cross one more,
Lecherous invisible,
Beware the limping cat.
Whose black teeth grip, between loose jaws,
Still ripe and fully bloomed,
A rose and not from anywhere,
That you would know or I would care.
Or how about the most WTF song title: “She’s as Beautiful as a Foot”.
A mulatto
An albino
A mosquito
my libido.
Yeah!
Okay, I can sort of map the last two as if he’s comparing his sex drive to a very tiny object, but I can’t figure out how that relates to a mixed race black person and a person with a pigment disorder.
He’s just saying things. He’s not trying to make sense.
They may say that, but the “Bridge of Sighs” and “Dreaming Spires” are both specific references to Oxford. Not only that but there’s a nice green park just round the corner from the Bridge of Sighs (where I also got hiiiiiiiigh when I was a teenager). I’m sure there’s some poetic conflation with Ilford too but those phrases so close together make it unlikely to be a coincidence.
ETA: aha, I’m not wrong - the Wikipedia article says: