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Lyrics that don't make a lick of sense!
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22-06-2009 10:41pm#1Thanks to a never ending advert for a 70's compilation album, I recently looked up Gilbert O'Sullivan's hit Get Down and can't figure out what the hell it means! As far as I can make out it's either about a flashback to a Vietnam war skirmish or about poor Gilbert getting raped by a dog and liking it?!?!?
Got me thinking about other songs that don't make sense. Des'Ree's Life comes to mind....notable for a masterful example of rhyming the word "Ghost" with "Toast" - Genius!
What song lyrics confuse the hell out of you and what's your interpretation?
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InkSlinger67 wrote: »Thanks to a never ending advert for a 70's compilation album, I recently looked up Gilbert O'Sullivan's hit Get Down and can't figure out what the hell it means! As far as I can make out it's either about a flashback to a Vietnam war skirmish or about poor Gilbert getting raped by a dog and liking it?!?!?
Got me thinking about other songs that don't make sense. Des'Ree's Life comes to mind....notable for a masterful example of rhyming the word "Ghost" with "Toast" - Genius!
What song lyrics confuse the hell out of you and what's your interpretation?
This is Gilberts answer to your question."I didn't know what 'get down' means in America, nor 'dog' for that matter, until Gordon came back from the States and told me. My lyrics are very British, and to me the girl in 'Get Down' is behaving like a dog - she's jumping up on him, so 'get down!' That's all.
And as a side note, the song Clair was written by him as a tribute to his managers daughter, to whom he is Godfather.:)0 -
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Alanis immediately springs to mind...
Disclaimer: I don't like Ed Byrne but this routine shows up the horrific lyrics well imo...0 -
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Dizzee Rascal's new turdsong 'Bonkers'. What a load of sh1te. What an over-rated talentless yoke he is.
Some people think I’m bonkers
But I just think I’m free
Man I’m just living my life
There nothing crazy about me
Some people pay for thrills
but I get mine for free
Man I’m just living my life
There nothing crazy about me
(Bonkers)
Yes but to be fair the lyrics make sense.
Now pretty much anything by the doors will either have you enthused by the poetic inclination or bristling at what appears to be nonsense.
My favourite doors lyrics right now are:
your fingers weave quick minarets
Speak in secret alphabets
I light another cigarette
Learn to forget
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dr.bollocko wrote: »Yes but to be fair the lyrics make sense.
Now pretty much anything by the doors will either have you enthused by the poetic inclination or bristling at what appears to be nonsense.
My favourite doors lyrics right now are:
your fingers weave quick minarets
Speak in secret alphabets
I light another cigarette
Learn to forget
Anything by the Doors is a winner in my book.
Similar to the Beatles, in that there may well have been drugs involved.0 -
Another one I'm wondering if anyone can shed any light on?
My favourite song at the moment is Raglan Road - Patrick Kavanagh
On Raglan Road of an Autumn day
I saw her first and knew,
That her dark hair would weave a snare
That I might someday rue.
I saw the danger and I passed
Along the enchanted way.
And I said,"Let grief be a fallen leaf
At the dawning of the day."
On Grafton Street in November, we
Tripped lightly along the ledge
Of a deep ravine where can be seen
The worth of passion play.
The Queen of Hearts still making tarts
And I not making hay;
Oh, I loved too much and by such and such
Is happiness thrown away.
I gave her gifts of the mind,
I gave her the secret signs,
That's known to the artists who have known
The true gods of sound and stone.
And her words and tint without stint
I gave her poems to say
With her own name there and her own dark hair
Like clouds over fields of May.
On a quiet street where old ghosts meet
I see her walking now,
And away from me so hurriedly
My reason must allow.
That I had loved, not as I should
A creature made of clay,
When the angel woos the clay, he'll lose
His wings at the dawn of day.
Beautiful words, but what the fcuk do they mean? I understand he see's a woman, knows she might break his heart but still falls in love.
Whats the creature of clay all about? 0 -
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Another one I'm wondering if anyone can shed any light on?
My favourite song at the moment is Raglan Road - Patrick Kavanagh
On Raglan Road of an Autumn day
I saw her first and knew,
That her dark hair would weave a snare
That I might someday rue.
I saw the danger and I passed
Along the enchanted way.
And I said,"Let grief be a fallen leaf
At the dawning of the day."
On Grafton Street in November, we
Tripped lightly along the ledge
Of a deep ravine where can be seen
The worth of passion play.
The Queen of Hearts still making tarts
And I not making hay;
Oh, I loved too much and by such and such
Is happiness thrown away.
I gave her gifts of the mind,
I gave her the secret signs,
That's known to the artists who have known
The true gods of sound and stone.
And her words and tint without stint
I gave her poems to say
With her own name there and her own dark hair
Like clouds over fields of May.
On a quiet street where old ghosts meet
I see her walking now,
And away from me so hurriedly
My reason must allow.
That I had loved, not as I should
A creature made of clay,
When the angel woos the clay, he'll lose
His wings at the dawn of day.
Beautiful words, but what the fcuk do they mean? I understand he see's a woman, knows she might break his heart but still falls in love.
Whats the creature of clay all about?
My take on that one is he idolised her, perhaps a bit too much, but in the end he realised that she wasn't worth all the thinking time he devoted to her, and she was just, like we all are, a creature made of clay.
It's a great song anyway. You're listening to the Luke Kelly version I presume?0 -
InkSlinger67 wrote: »I thought I seen Richie Kavanagh there for a sec.....now there's a man who uses lyrics with a neck like a jockey's b***ocks!!
That made my ears bleed0 -
Michael Collins wrote: »My take on that one is he idolised her, perhaps a bit too much, but in the end he realised that she wasn't worth all the thinking time he devoted to her, and she was just, like we all are, a creature made of clay.
It's a great song anyway. You're listening to the Luke Kelly version I presume?
Oh that makes sense.. a universal feeling then.
It is a great song - of course Luke's version, is there any other?
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At a guess, maybe it's a put down, saying she was not capable of loving or something like that...Another one I'm wondering if anyone can shed any light on?
My favourite song at the moment is Raglan Road - Patrick Kavanagh
On Raglan Road of an Autumn day
I saw her first and knew,
That her dark hair would weave a snare
That I might someday rue.
I saw the danger and I passed
Along the enchanted way.
And I said,"Let grief be a fallen leaf
At the dawning of the day."
On Grafton Street in November, we
Tripped lightly along the ledge
Of a deep ravine where can be seen
The worth of passion play.
The Queen of Hearts still making tarts
And I not making hay;
Oh, I loved too much and by such and such
Is happiness thrown away.
I gave her gifts of the mind,
I gave her the secret signs,
That's known to the artists who have known
The true gods of sound and stone.
And her words and tint without stint
I gave her poems to say
With her own name there and her own dark hair
Like clouds over fields of May.
On a quiet street where old ghosts meet
I see her walking now,
And away from me so hurriedly
My reason must allow.
That I had loved, not as I should
A creature made of clay,
When the angel woos the clay, he'll lose
His wings at the dawn of day.
Beautiful words, but what the fcuk do they mean? I understand he see's a woman, knows she might break his heart but still falls in love.
Whats the creature of clay all about?
Another one I just thought of, what is Lady Gaga spouting on about here...
"Cause I'm bluffin' with my muffin
I'm not lying I'm just stunnin' with my love-glue-gunning"0 -
InkSlinger67 wrote: »What song lyrics confuse the hell out of you and what's your interpretation?
Forget Hendrix, Bowie, Lennon etc.... For sheer gibberish,
you just can't beat the Bothy Band.
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