“Throwaway” Lines in Songs That Make You Say WTF?

Hard to get much more WTF than this right here.

In the desert, you can remember your name
'Cause there ain’t no one for to give you no pain

Idiotic line from an idiotic song.

Procrustes knew what to do in a case like that.

You didn’t know about “Westerrn Union”?

What about, “I Love You Period”?

Slowly walking down the hall
Faster than a cannonball

Two more idiotic lines from that song:

There were plants and birds and rocks and things

The heat was hot and the ground was dry

I look at the floor and I see it needs sweeping.

Boy. It’s as if some of you have never been really, really high before :wink:

…And all the colored girls sing…

Steve Miller’s version is not the original of that song. I forget who did it first and I don’t feel like looking it up. Some doo-wop type group I think.

So are you telling me that Steve Miller got whooshed by a nonsensical line too?

Tripler
I recognize the woosh, and double-down on how much I hate that song.

Oh I hate it too. Everyone hates it. Steve Miller is not what you would call a “major talent.”

Led Zeppelin’s Dancing Days has the baffling:

“You told your mamma I’d get you home
But you didn’t say I had no car
I saw a lion he was standing alone
With a tadpole in a jar”

Michael Jackson’s Startin Something has some extremely odd lines:

You’re a vegetable, you’re a vegetable
Still they hate you, you’re a vegetable
You’re just a buffet, you’re a vegetable
They eat off of you, you’re a vegetable

I’ve been to Reno, Chicago, Fargo, Minnesota
Buffalo, Toronto, Winslow, Sarasota
Wichita, Tulsa, Ottawa, Oklahoma
Tampa, Panama, Mattawa, La Paloma
Bangor, Baltimore, Salvador, Amarillo
Tocopilla, Barranquilla, and Padilla, I’m a killer

I’m a killer?

Cause the free wind is blowin’ through
Your hair
And the days surround you daylight
There
Seasons crying no despair
Alligator lizards in the air

Flying lizards?

Beyond the basement
There lives a girl there
She’s got a face and a lot of hair

Does improv count?

The End from The Doors Live at Hollywood Bowl

“Have you seen the accident outside.
Seven people took a ride.
Six bachelors and their bride.
Seven people took a ride.”

youtube.com/watch?v=syrUn37oLsM&list=PLCc1CdM5OcYzzvIoGfjsQzQNaH4-vM51V&index=20

I’m OK with this one. If the object of the narrator’s affections is devoted to Jessie, then whether the narrator loves her or not, it won’t matter. The point is indeed moot.

Ventura Highway: “Seasons crying no despair/Alligator lizards in the air.”

Sandman:
Cause I understand you’ve been running from the man
That goes by the name of the Sandman
He flies the sky like an eagle in the eye
Of a hurricane that’s abandoned

What?