Lyrics that don't make a lick of sense!

InkSlinger67 · 22-06-2009 11:41PM #1

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?

drunkmonkey · 22-06-2009 11:47PM

what she going to do with a chimney on her....

could never get it, something about a black eye I think...

Latchy · 22-06-2009 11:54PM

Dont worry baby

A classic beach boys song in everything but lyiric ,well at least one verse which goes

'' she told me baby when you race today just take along my love with you ''

which is about the guy going to race cars with some other dude .Other than that sillyness, the rest of the song and Lyrics are fine :rolleyes:

AnonoBoy · 22-06-2009 11:54PM

Some people call me the space cowboy, yeah
Some call me the gangster of love
Some people call me Maurice
Cause I speak of the pompitous of love

The pompitous of love? Eh..... okay then, whatever you say Steve Miller Band (if that is your real name)

Four-Percent · 22-06-2009 11:55PM

"Scuse me, while i kiss this guy"

Havermeyer · 22-06-2009 11:57PM

Yellow matter custard,
Dripping from a dead dog's eye.
Crabalocker fishwife, pornographic priestess,
Boy, you been a naughty girl, you let your knickers down.

The Beatles - I Am The Walrus.

My interpretation? Drugs. Lot's of drugs.

Steoob · 23-06-2009 12:00AM

InkSlinger67 · 23-06-2009 12:01AM

nummnutts wrote: »

Yellow matter custard,
Dripping from a dead dog's eye.
Crabalocker fishwife, pornographic priestess,
Boy, you been a naughty girl, you let your knickers down.

The Beatles - I Am The Walrus.

Ahh yes, good example. But at least you can understand where they are coming from with that. John was a reclusive acid monkey during that particular period

kraggy · 23-06-2009 12:02AM

Four-Percent wrote: »

"Scuse me, while i kiss this guy"

It's "kiss the sky".

Sharpshooter · 23-06-2009 12:04AM

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.:)

Havermeyer · 23-06-2009 12:05AM

InkSlinger67 wrote: »

Ahh yes, good example. But at least you can understand where they are coming from with that. John was a reclusive acid monkey during that particular period

Those were the days. And while we know where they're coming from, we've absolutely no idea what they mean.

dylano_k · 23-06-2009 12:06AM

Ever notice these are the songs that make millions ??

Gimme a pad, im gonna go mad
i am sad because im glad...see no sense but This could be a number 1 :pac:

Latchy · 23-06-2009 12:06AM

kraggy wrote: »

It's "kiss the sky".

Hendrix was also fond of the aul acid to

razorblunt · 23-06-2009 12:07AM

The whole of Drops of Jupiter! Cray ass song!

Latchy · 23-06-2009 12:10AM

dylano_k wrote: »

Ever notice these are the songs that make millions ??

Gimme a pad, im gonna go mad
i am sad because im glad...see no sense but This could be a number 1 :pac:

Indeed ,there are hundreds if not thousends of songs with naff /crappy lyrics that made no 1 in the charts .The 70s galm rock / glitter period springs to mind

A Neurotic · 23-06-2009 12:11AM

Could never make sense of this one at all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7oGx2dImE8

Michael Collins · 23-06-2009 12:12AM

drunkmonkey wrote: »

what she going to do with a chimney on her....

could never get it, something about a black eye I think...

Wasn't that "What's she gonna look like with a chimney on her..."?

Which I thought was werid, cus presumably she'd look a little like a house, but not too much.

InkSlinger67 · 23-06-2009 12:14AM

Sharpshooter wrote: »

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.

No, I think I'll stick with Gilbert going to his happy place; remembering "once upon a time I drank a little wine was as happy as can be", trying to block out the fact he's getting polled by a german sheperd! :eek:

civildefence · 23-06-2009 12:14AM

Most of David Bowie's lyrics are crazy shyt. "Life on Mars" is one example.

civildefence · 23-06-2009 12:15AM

InkSlinger67 wrote: »

No, I think I'll stick with Gilbert going to his happy place; remembering "once upon a time I drank a little wine was as happy as can be", trying to block out the fact he's getting polled by a german sheperd! :eek:

Ah leave oul Gilbo alone, he was deadly in Cork last Saturday.

Tar.Aldarion · 23-06-2009 12:18AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNLDLyeepVs

Latchy · 23-06-2009 12:21AM

civildefence wrote: »

Most of David Bowie's lyrics are crazy shyt. "Life on Mars" is one example.

Ya know the piano on that song is being played by Rick Wakemen ? I was on the liverpool - Isle of mann ferry once and he was a passenger ( he lives in IOM ) and I remember thinking to myself ' wow I'm standing next to the guy who plays that piano link on Bowies life on Mars ' :cool:

yerayeah · 23-06-2009 12:22AM

Alanis immediately springs to mind...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT1TVSTkAXg

Disclaimer: I don't like Ed Byrne but this routine shows up the horrific lyrics well imo...

Mixedup · 23-06-2009 12:23AM

I am the egg man (wooooo!)

Four-Percent · 23-06-2009 12:25AM

kraggy wrote: »

It's "kiss the sky".

Yeah, that was the point :pac:

Dazd_N_Confusd · 23-06-2009 07:06PM

I'd say this qualifies!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQt-h753jHI

dr.bollocko · 23-06-2009 07:08PM

Chimney means black eye right?
I'm also pretty sure I know what milkshake means.

Captain Slow IRL · 23-06-2009 07:18PM

dr.bollocko wrote: »

I'm also pretty sure I know what milkshake means.

Does half of it involve a female hand?!

Counting Crows are more offenders - some f*cked up lyrics on some of their songs.

sweatingbullets · 23-06-2009 07:32PM

Four-Percent wrote: »

"Scuse me, while i kiss this guy"

A common misheard lyric in the song is "'scuse me while I kiss this guy". The actual line is "'scuse me while I kiss the sky". In fact, it has even been documented that Jimi Hendrix himself perpetrated this mondegreen by actually using it as a joke while singing Purple Haze live in concert,particularly at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967.just to let ya know.

My name is URL · 23-06-2009 07:36PM

" "I got soul but I'm not a soldier". I mean, you may as well be saying "I got ham but I'm not a hamster" "

Bill Bailey

Gummy Panda · 23-06-2009 07:40PM

Benny lava..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA1NoOOoaNw

Lyrics that don't make a lick of sense!

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