I’m sure as hell not going to get into the “deeper” of Led Zepplin songs but this line seems pretty comprehensable to me: If you hear rustling in the bushes it’s just the fairies tidying up.
Spend all your money for fun.
No, it’s all right, I didn’t need an explanation for those lyrics…I was just commenting that I liked them. 
And the point of those lyrics is that he drinks nutritional supplements for breakfast and sips syrup (but can’t eat pancakes) because his jaw is wired shut! Eep.
Interesting! I like it.
Here’s one that’s been bugging me for a couple of years now: Is Tweet’s “Oops, Oh My” about masturbation or not? The lyrics themselves leave that a definite possibility but Fabolous’ rap interlude throws me everytime.
This song! For the love of Og, if anyone can tell me what it means, I will be forever grateful.
My brother and I have sat around for hours trying to figure out what it means, but we are lost.
[hijacks own thread]
Hey there, RandMcnally! I’m assuming that’s as in “The Dream Life of…”? I’ve always wondered but didn’t want to ask for fear of sounding weird…
So are you excited for the new album? Ye gods, could the boy have thought up a better title? :rolleyes:
If he has a backless chair, he’d have to have a spine
That’s exactly where I got the name of.
Anywho, I am excited about the new album. I have been a fan for years, although I do have to say I vastly prefer his older stuff.
This new stuff that he’s putting out is too, produced, I guess is the right word. I have some of his first cds where it’s nothing but him, Toca, Ian. Just a guitar, a bass, and a bongo set. Without all that background “noise” you can hear his true vocal talents.
If you can’t tell, I’m a huge Jason Mraz fan. If you want to talk more, shoot me an e-mail.
Chances are that the lyrics are just Ginsberg style cut-up poetry. I wouldn’t worry too much about it.
I have a question now that’s a bit off topic, so I’ll make it brief:
Does anyone know if the New Order song Perfect Kiss reference Patti Smith’s song Frederick?
Frederick has a part that goes like this:
“hi hi hey hey
maybe I will come back some day now
but tonight on the wings of a dove
up above to the land of love”
While Perfect Kiss has a part that goes like this:
“I know, you know
We believe in the land of love”
and it has a sort of similar melody.
Here’s another that’s always bothered me:
In Ben Folds’ One Down, the song starts like this:
“Well, I got up and I drove to work
On the wrong side of the road
And what the hell would I do?
I must admit, I didn’t know
Andrew came along, y’all
To add a couple of lines or so
I’ve got one I finished yesterday,
And I’ve got three-point-six to go”
Bolding mine.
3.6 WHAT to go? Songs? Is there something saying that he should write 4.6 songs a day/week/whatever?
Yellow Ledbetter by Pearl Jam… the song with no official lyrics.
I’ve been a little puzzled about The Killers’ “Somebody Told Me”
Somebody told me
you had a boyfriend
who looked like a girlfriend
I had in February of last year
Which seems to be an issue upsetting the singer greatly: “I never thought I’d let a rumor ruin my moonlight” - so is she a transsexual? A lesbian? Is he having a Crying Game moment? Sloppy seconds? What the hell is going on in their relationship?
I have never heard the song before in my life. However, looking over the lyrics, it appears that the author is saying the following:
I love hanging out on the porch with my friends. We talk about a lot of things. This groups includes the women I love.
I think he explains this on the Ben Folds Live CD version of this (though I don’t have it here to check). It’s a contract thing, that he has to release so many songs a year, and he doesn’t want to.
I have the live CD (which is the only place I’ve heard this song, FTR), and he makes no mention of this. I suppose it could be dialogue cut from in-between songs, but it’s always puzzled me.
What the heck is the White Stripes’ song, Blue Orchid about? Or what about that song by System of a Down, B.Y.O.B? What does B.Y.O.B. stand for?!
Bring Your Own Beer?
Yes…although I’ve usually heard it as Bring Your Own Bottle (of whatever alcohol you plan on drinking).
Yes, but what does the song mean?? And the video for Blue Orchid scares me. I thought it had a biblical twinge to it with that lady eating the apple (and perhaps the black juice coming out of it signifies sin?) and Jack White’s cane turning into a snake that slithers over to the lady. What does it all mean???
Fiery Furnaces, anyone?
Birdie Brain:
“I’ve been told the Bronx River stream on moonlit nights is meant
To seem like the Rhone in a glacier icy dream but then in a poof t’s sulfur steam.
I hate the aeroplane that nearly misses my birdie brain,
That terrifies my terrier insane.
And I’ll stop riding side saddle if they don’t stop the clickity clattle,
I’ll jump in the undertow penguin paddle and drown in my wedding gown.
I was drinking by the Des Plaines River when the naught of night
Served for making me shiver and me the squirrels would hold hands”
Inca Rag/Name Game:
"Over to Majorca for few audience fit
Juan Carlos, his throne he go sit
Throw the mummy in the dungeon bottomless pit
Appealing in the Hague say
Mummy mummy mummy
I was listening to a classic VH when I pulled an H. Singh
Drank myself into a stupor, ears started to ring
And I’ll go finally Al’s and type my brain away
With Pebbles and Ives we’ll meet Madonna, Ladonna, Shadonna
And my brother with the very best name of all
And we’ll go to finally Al’s and type our brains away
Let’s play bacci and horseshoes and croquet
But no, not cricket, 'cause I can’t say their names
And I’ll go to finally Al’s and type my brains away
Penguin, Moe, Sal, Chris"
Both border on coherence and then just sort of dance around the idea all together.
And, I can’t help but mention the infamous Magnum:
“Two headed boy she is all you could need
She will feed you tomatoes and radio wires
And retire to sheets safe and clean
But don’t hate her when she gets up to leave”