hehehe fishbicycle [btw: I like your handle]
I wonder what’s up with all the cake-baking in songs. 
Odd. I’ve always heard that as “mallards come out of the sky,” so the song has always left me with a rather charming mental picture of a bunch of ducks standing around looking somewhat vague. I think I prefer it that way, frankly; you can keep your mountains.
Here’s another Tori song, Mr. Zebra–
http://www.lyricstime.com/lyrics/13783.html
If anybody can figure out what she’s saying, let me know!
I think we could find plenty of examples by her. Huh, and they call her inaccessible!!
FTR, I luv Tori!
I get the impression that Mr. Zebra, like most of her songs, is symbolic of something that she and maybe just the people close to her would get. Maybe. I don’t know what Mr. Zebra’s about but because it’s so short and has such a bouncy rhythm and mentions animals, I play it for my stepkids.
It’s about drugs. So is Horse With No Name in case you’ve been wondering.
I’ve often looked up an old favorite song (now that they have the internet on computers, it works a lot easier) to figure out lyrics that I’ve never understood…
and they still make no sense!
Can’t think of an example, but I know it often happens with Van Morrison or REM.
I did think of an example – we argued for weeks at work about what REM’s “Sidewinder sleeps tonight” really meant.
Finally found the lyrics (had to wait for the internet on computers), and they didn’t help at all:
The cat in the hat came back, wrecked a lot of havoc on the way,
Always had a smile and a reason to pretend
But their world has flat backgrounds and little need to sleep but to dream
The sidewinder sleeps on his back.
Call me when you try to wake her up, call me when you try to wake her...
... We've got to moogie, moogie, move on this one
I can’t find a cite but I remember reading a news story several years ago where one of the band members came out with a statement along the lines of, “Stop trying to figure them out, they don’t mean anything. We often just used nonsense lyrics when we couldn’t come up with a rhyme.”
As a child of the 60’s and 70’s, much as I can remember anyway some parts are a little hazy, I gotta cast a vote for Lez Zepplen’s “Trampled Underfoot.” Part of which follows:
The full lyrics can be found here
If you’re not familiar with it, give it a listen. It’s early 70’s music at it’s something-or-another.
How did no one mention Come Together by the Beatles yet? Or is there some explaination that everyone knows but me?
From Toy Matinee’s Turn it On Salvador
(of course, it’s a song about Salvador Dali so surrealism is expected)
Holy rotting donkey carcass butterfly eeeee…
Even tied, eggs you fried, out of luck
What the (some 15th century German word)
(Some 15th century German word)
Books are guns, biking nuns
Ants, sirs, they crawl from the wounds
Chorus
Da da da da da da…