Led Zepplin: the line “And he saw a lion standin with a tadpole in a jar” :dubious:
Don’tcha think?
Yep. Speaking of which, it’s hard to top Lennon when it comes to a certain kind of WTF lyric (see, e.g., “I Am the Walrus,” “Come Together,” “Happiness Is a Warm Gun”).
I admit to having a soft spot for Kelly Clarkson (her songs are catchy, okay?) but “Since You’ve Been Gone” left me downright frigid–you broke up with me, so I’m going to smash up your stuff and act like a spoiled brat because ‘I get what I want’?
:rolleyes:
Well, if that’s the price I pay for getting to bang Kelly Clarkson…yeah, I’d let her get what she wants. 
I that happened to me, I would get to brag that I had literally banged Kelly Clarkson’s brains out. 
Well, that makes a hell of a lot more sense than my honest first theory, which is that somebody had a operation. The thing is, I really love that song.
Are you sure it’s innocent?
Speaking of Kelly Clarkson, what about “Because of You”?
I get the theme: you’ve hurt me so now I find it hard to trust and thus play it safe, not only with relationships but with life in general.
Okay, but the best example of this is not straying too far from the sidewalk? That means you’re still on the street, right - just not too far from the sidewalk.
The sentiment would be just as well expressed by “Because of you I don’t run with scissors half as much as I used to”
In terms of just flat-out not making sense, I’d have to nominate Swan Swan Hummingbird by REM. Partial lyrics:
*Swan, swan, hummingbird
Hurrah, we are all free now
What noisy cats are we
Girl and dog he bore his cross
Swan, swan, hummingbird
Hurrah, we are all free now
A long, low time ago, people talk to me
Johnny Reb, what’s the price of fans
Forty a piece or three for one dollar?
Hey captain, don’t you want to buy
Some bone chains and toothpicks?*
Huh?
My all-time WTF song is Blinded By The Light, the better-known version being Manfred Mann’s Earth Band, though it was originally done by Bruce Springsteen. I’m not just talking about the “revved up like a deuce” part that everyone thinks is about feminine hygiene products. The entire song is full of phrases that make absolutely no sense at all. Anyone who wishes to dissect and deconstruct the song, have at it! I haven’t a clue.
Wikipedia makes a pretty good attempt.
I was listening to Merril Bainbridge today. The second song on The Garden album includes the following chorus:
I could be your lover
Chained under the water
Under the water
I could be standing on a ladder
To make it easier
To make it easier
…kinky
Errr no, but I don’t see anything in those lyrics that really explicitly says something nasty is going on there. I don’t care. I love this song.
Leaving aside songs that are just strings of non-sequiters, I’m nominating The Weight by the Band as one of the most incomprehensible songs in pop hisotry.
This song doesn’t make me say “WTF”, it makes me say “Pull up your socks and quit whinging, you pathetic puddle of perpetual victimhood.”
Without checking Wiki, I’ll say I thought it was about masturbation; that kind of thing can make you blather incoherently.
Checked Wiki. I guess it was more high-minded than I thought.
The Master commented on the “deuce” debate but not the overall meaning.
“Daddy was a cop
On the East Side of Chicago”
…which on my map is Lake Michigan.
That whole song is essentially BS. When they attempted to share their song with the current mayor of Chicago, he told them they were nuts.