What lyrics make you go "WTF?!"

[tuvor]

The one that tops my list is this bizarre simile from Bob Seger:

Like a rock
Charging from the gate

That he turned this bit of inanity into royalty moolah makes it all the more perplexing to me.

So, what lyrics make you scratch your head?

[vanamonde]

1. Neil Diamond's "I Am I Said"

"I am," I said
To no one there
An no one heard at all
Not even the chair

[Pool Hall Ace]

2. Fleetwood Mac's "Gold Dust Woman"

Rulers make bad lovers
You better put your kingdom up for sale

[LostinVA]

12. OMG! I was gonna write the same thing!

[WritingIsMyReligion]

19. YES! Just going to put that!

It drives me bonkers!

[6000eliot]

40. Makes perfect sense to me.

It's a royal kissoff.

[XNASA]

3. "And in this ever changing world in which we live in.."

:wtf:

[kmla]

5. I think Paul lifted that lyric from the Department of Redundancy Dept...

It's in their Employee Handbook for Employees.

Page 7.

[RubyDuby in GA]

11. I used to refer to it as the Kiss School of Lyrics

I wanna rock and roll all night and party everyday! Repeat for 3 minutes. Instant song.

But then I determined that it went back much further - The Beatles
Why don't we do it in the road? Repeat for 3 minutes. Instant song.

[Left Is Write]

49. Don't forget Love Me Do and Please Please Me.

[Richardo]

10. HA!

That one always got to my inner grammar-nazi, too...


"McCart-NEEEEEEY!"

[underpants]

17. Jet

If anyone could explain any part of that I would greatly appreciate it.

[XNASA]

18. I think it's another one of those Paul songs about his dog.

[redacted]

39. It's about a horse. Not that that helps much.

Jet, Jet,
Jet, I can almost remember their funny faces
That time you told them that you were going to be marrying soon
And jet I thought the only lonely place was on the moon

Jet Jet Jet
Jet was your father as bold as the sergeant major
How come he told you that you were hardly old enough yet
And jet I thought the major was a lady suffragette

Jet Jet Jet
Ah Mater want Jet to always love me
Ah Mater want Jet to always love me
Ah Mater... much later

Jet
And Jet I thought the major was a lady suffragette
Jet Jet
Ah Mater want Jet to always love me
Ah Mater want Jet to always love me
Ah Mater... much later
Jet with the wind in your hair
Of a thousand laces
Climb on the back and we'll go for a ride in the sky
And Jet I thought that the major was a little lady suffragette

Jet-Jet-Jet
And Jet you know I thought you was a little lady suffragette
Jet
A little lady
My little lady... yes

[ET Awful]

4. Yellow matter custard, dripping from a dead dogs eye . . .

:wtf:

[peekaloo]

6. Any Peter Frampton song.

[anarch]

7. ...

You hobo humpin' slobo babe
Get it off, get off, get off of me!
You hobo humpin' slobo babe
Get it off, get off, get off of me!

Whaaaat?

[Elidor]

37. Oh, man! I love that song! Who was that?

I've forgotten all about them.

[peekaloo]

43. Whale. nt

[Loonman]

8. Peter Murphy "Indigo Eyes"

Fire burning in a hill
The lines are rocky rough
Red angles wait to pick remains
The cindered shoulder
Of confused men
Separate from their awe
With grey desire
He looks out mad
His soft grey indigo eyes
Indigo eyes ...
Asking

His heaven is uncovered not
A black tree blocks his way
His way is skating round a dome
(His way is in dismay)
The playmate sings
Like Orphee in some thunder world
Asking to be bathed in light
To be exemplified

With grey desire he looks out mad
His soft grey indigo eyes

Saw his past
He had dug for trust
With blind infected hands
And wondered as the hurt bit hard
Why the sacred weren't at hand
Only when his ears were deaf
To the angels light burst waves
Only when his ears were deaf
Did life turn from fog to fog
But not evil but estranged
But not evil but estranged

Indigo eyes....

[Left Is Write]

9. Though I love him, I can't help shaking my head at John Mellencamp...

for this one from Pink Houses:

"There's a woman in the kitchen
Cleanin' up the evening slop
And he looks at her and says, hey darlin'
I can remember when you could stop a clock..."


My impression of the song is that the man is remembering when his wife was once beautiful, but the expression "a face that could stop a clock" is a euphemism for someone who is less than pleasing to look at.


Also John Mellencamp, from Small Town: "No, I cannot forget from where it is that I come from..."

[ismnotwasm]

48. Oh god

All these years I thought he was saying "start the plow". I never listened to it too much though. Another one for my personal misheard lyrics list, which is quite extensive.

[Innoma]

13. Just about anything by Yes...

Jon Anderson's lyrics seem like a bad case of mysticism filtered thru LSD with a dash of saccharine thrown in on top.

Not that I hate Yes or anything, but for me the only way I can listen is to just forget the lyrics and treat his singing as just another instrument; when I ponder the words themselves, I get a headache.

[LaurenG]

14. You know the one by nine inch nails

you know it... "I want to.....from the inside" that one.

[LaraMN]

16. Lol! As opposed to ".... ... from the outside," I guess.

:rofl:

[Initech]

23. Another weird NIN one is in "The Only Time"

It goes something like this - "The devil wants to fuck me from the back of his car."

[LaurenG]

24. lol, I am NOT surprised

animals, devils, those guys are off the hook. :rofl:

[tjdee]

31. That song makes so much sense....honest.

So he wants to **** the person in an animalistic way...i.e., wildly, very rowdy and rambunctiously. Not the sweet roses sort of way. :blush:

I want to feel you from the inside...um, pretty obvious again. If you hug someone, that's feeling from the outside. If he's um...inside, that's different. :blush:

It's an interesting love song from an angry guy, but it makes total sense to me.

[LaurenG]

33. I thought it said I want to ***you FROM the inside

I couldn't figure out how that would happen without a death of some sort. lol Ok then your version makes more sense than mine. I should have listened to it again. :shrug:


edit spelling

[Touchdown]

15. So Happy Together...How is the Weather?

And Duran Duran, famous for :wtf: lyrics...

The Reflex is in charge of finding treasure in the dark. And watching over lucky clover. Isn't that bizarre? Every little thing the Reflex does, leaves you answereed with a question mark.

Uh' Reflex is a verb, pretty boys.

I know that it's evil that follows me, so why is he trying to bother me? How many reasons do they need, but I just need time to try. I'm talking for free. I can't helpo myself, it's a new religion.

Speaking in tongues?

[asthmaticeog]

20. The Cars: "Let me brush your rock and roll hair."

From "Let the Good Times Roll." If that's supposed to be a sexual entendre, it's pretty fuckin' lame. If it's supposed to be something else, well, I'm at a loss.

And of course, as per XNASA, there's the grammar-nazi classic: "In this ever-changing world in which we live in" from Wings' "Live and Let Die." *wince*

[Parrcrow]

21. Just about anything by America

Horse with no name
Tinman
etc

can't quote the lyrics but:wtf:

[kwassa]

22. Tupelo Honey by Van Morrison

You can take all the tea in china
Put it in a big brown bag for me
Sail right around the seven oceans
Drop it straight into the deep blue sea

[lovelaureng]

25. Most lyrics for The Mars Volta.

Here is an example of one of their songs,

"The Widow"

He's got fasting black lungs
Made of clove splintered shard's
They're the kind that will talk
Through a wee-zing of coughs

And I hear him every night
In every pore
And every time he just makes me warm

Freeze without an answer
Free from all the shame
Must I hide?
Cause I'll never
Never sleep alone

Look at how they flock to him
From an isle of open sores
He knows that the taste is such
Such to die for

And I hear him every night
On every street
The scales that do slither
Deliver me from…

Freeze without an answer
Free from all the shame
Then I'll hide
Cause I'll never
Never sleep alone

Oh lord
Said I'm bloodshot for sure
Pale runs the ghost
Swollen on the shore

Every night
in every pore
The scales that do slither
Deliver me from…

Freeze without an answer
Free from all the shame
Then I'll hide
Cause I'll never
Never sleep alone

Freeze without an answer
Free from all the shame
Let me die
Cause I'll never
Never sleep alone

[BulletproofLandshark]

26. I can't believe no one mentioned Beck yet.

Loser

In the time of chimpanzees, I was a monkey
Butane in my veins and I'm out to cut the junkie
With the plastic eyeballs, spray-paint the vegetables
Dog food stalls with the beefcake pantyhose
Kill the headlights and put it in neutral
Stock car flaming with a loser in the cruise control
Baby's in Reno with the vitamin-D
Got a couple of couches, sleep on the loveseat
Someone keeps sayin' I'm insane to complain about
A shotgun wedding and a stain on my shirt
Don't believe everything that you breathe
You get a parking violation and a maggot on your sleeve
So shave your face with some mace in the dark
Saving all your food stamps and burnin' down the trailer park
Yo cut it!

Soy un perdedor
I'm a loser baby
So why don't you kill me?
(double-barrel buckshot)
Soy un perdedor
I'm a loser baby
So why don't you kill me?

The forces of evil on a bozo nightmare
Ban all the music with a phoney gas chamber
'Cause one's got a weasel and other's got a flag
One's on the pole, shove the other in a bag
With the re-run shows and the cocaine nosejob
The daytime crap of a folksinger slob
He hung himself with a guitar string
A slab of turkey neck and it's hanging from a pigeon wing
And you can't write if you can't relate
Trade the cash for the beat and body for the hate
And my time is a piece of wax falling on a termite
And it's choking on the splinters

Soy un perdedor
I'm a loser baby
So why don't you kill me?
(Get crazy with the Cheez-Whiz)
Soy un perdedor
I'm a loser baby
So why don't you kill me?

(Drive-by body pierce…)

Yo bring on down
(I'm a driver, I'm a winner… things are gonna change, I can feel it)

Soy un perdedor
I'm a loser baby
So why don't you kill me?
(I can't believe you!)
Soy un perdedor
I'm a loser baby
So why don't you kill me?
Soy un perdedor
I'm a loser baby
So why don't you kill me?
(Sprechen Sie Deutsch, baby)

Soy un perdedor
I'm a loser baby
So why don't you kill me?
(Know what I'm saying?)

[flvegan]

27. Duran Duran had that whole "smell like a sound" line. WTF?

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

28. You make me wanna la la, in the kitchen on the floor...

"La La"

You can dress me up in diamonds
You can dress me up in dirt
You can throw me like a line-man
I like it better when it hurts

Oh, I have waited here for you
I have waited

You make me wanna la la
in the kitchen on the floor
I'll be a french maid
Where I'll meet you at the door
I'm like an alley cat
Drink the milk up, I want more
You make me wanna
You make me wanna scream

You can meet me on an aero-plane
Or in the back of the bus
You can throw me like a boomerang
I'll come back and beat you up

Oh, I have waited here for you
Dont, keep me waiting

You make me wanna la la
in the kitchen on the floor
I'll be a french maid
Where I'll meet you at the door
I'm like an alley cat
Drink the milk up, I want more
You make me wanna

You make me wanna la la
in the kitchen on the floor
I'll be a french maid
Where I'll meet you at the door
I'm like an alley cat
Drink the milk up, I want more
You make me wanna
You make me wanna scream

I feel safe with you
I can be myself tonight
It's alright, with you
Cuz you hold, my secrets tight
You do, You do

You make me wanna la la, la la la, la la, la la la la la la la la la
You make me wanna la la, la la la la

You make me wanna la la
in the kitchen on the floor
I'll be a french maid
When I'll meet you at the door
I'm like an alley cat
Drink the milk up, I want more
You make me wanna
You make me wanna la la
in the kitchen on the floor
I'll be a french maid
Where I'll meet you at the door
I'm like an alley cat
Drink the milk up, I want more
You make me wanna
You make me wanna scream

You make me wanna la la, la la la, la la, la la la la la la la la la
You make me wanna la la, la la la la
You make me wanna la la, la la la, la la, la la la la la la la la la
You make me wanna la la, la la la la
You make me wanna la la, la la la, la la, la la la la la la la la la
You make me wanna la la, la la la la

[tjdee]

32. La la = Have sex.

Which is hilarious, because if you ask her what the song's about, she says some bull about "having fun"...but that song is seriously bow chicka bow.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

29. "Sometimes when we touch the honesty's too much"

:WTF: Would lying be better?

Sometimes When We Touch - Dan Hill

You ask me if I love you
And I choke on my reply
I'd rather hurt you honestly
Than mislead you with a lie
And who am I to judge you
On what you say or do?
I'm only just beginning to see the real you

And sometimes when we touch
The honesty's too much
And I have to close my eyes and hide
I wanna hold you til I die
Til we both break down and cry
I wanna hold you till the fear in me subsides

Romance and all its strategy
Leaves me battling with my pride
But through the insecurity
Some tenderness survives
I'm just another writer
Still trapped within my truth
A hesitant prize fighter
Still trapped within my youth

And sometimes when we touch
The honesty's too much
And I have to close my eyes and hide
I wanna hold you til I die
Til we both break down and cry
I wanna hold you till the fear in me subsides

At times I'd like to break you
And drive you to your knees
At times I'd like to break through
And hold you endlessly

At times I understand you
And I know how hard you've tried
I've watched while love commands you
And I've watched love pass you by

At times I think we're drifters
Still searching for a friend
A brother or a sister
But then the passion flares again

And sometimes when we touch
The honesty's too much
And I have to close my eyes and hide
I wanna hold you til I die
Til we both break down and cry
I wanna hold you till the fear in me subsides

[redsoxliberal]

30. I am the walrus, koookooocachooo

:D

[tjdee]

34. 'Cause it's time, it's time in time with your time and its news is capture

d... for the queen to use.



Love the song, get the chess references...but WTF??

[undeterred]

35. "I pulled out my dick, she called me rude/But then she ate it like food."

- Too $hort, "Big Booty Hoes"

:shrug:

[skygazer]

36. Someone left the cake out in the rain

I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again,.....

Yeah, yeah, I know it's a metaphor but it's a lousy metaphor sung in an overblown, frantic style. I HATE MacArthur Park!!!!! :grr:

[jmm]

38. I don't know where I was when they were getting high

but Oasis had to be high when they wrote and recorded Champagne Supernova.

How many special people change?
How many lives are living strange?
Where were you while we were getting high?
Slowly walking down the hall
Faster than a cannonball
Where were you while we were getting high?
Someday you will find me
Caught beneath the landslide
In a champagne supernova in the sky
Someday you will find me
Caught beneath the landslide
In a champagne supernova
A champagne supernova in the sky
Wake up the dawn and ask her why
A dreamer dreams, she never dies
Wipe that tear away now from your eye
Slowly walking down the hall
Faster than a cannonball
Where were you while we were getting high?
Someday you will find me
Caught beneath the landslide
In a champagne supernova in the sky
Someday you will find me
Caught beneath the landslide
In a champagne supernova
A champagne supernova
'Cuz we don't believe
That they're gonna get away from the summer
But you and I will never die
The world's still spinning around we don't know why
Why-why-why-why-i-i
(guitar solo)
How many special people change?
How many lives are living strange?
Where were you while we were getting high?
Slowly walking down the hall
Faster than a cannonball
Where were you while we were getting high?
Someday you will find me
Caught beneath the landslide
In a champagne supernova in the sky
Someday you will find me
Caught beneath the landslide
In a champagne supernova
A champagne supernova
'Cuz we don't believe
That they're gonna get away from the summer
But you and I will never die
The world's still spinning around we don't know why
Why-why-why-why-i-i
(a really long guitar solo)
(background - sounds like a bunch of "No"'s)
(birds chirping)
(more guitar)
How many special people change?
How many lives are living strange?
Where were you while we were getting high?
We were getting high <-- 9 times, background "Oooh-oooh"
(Fades out 7th-9th times to just one "Oooh-oooh")
(Song gets really quiet, fades to a peaceful guitar solo.)

[Taxloss]

41. The Divinyls - "I touch myself"

I love myself
I want you to love me
When I'm feelin' down
I want you above me
I search myself
I want you to find me
I forget myself
I want you to remind me

Chorus:
I don't want anybody else
When I think about you
I touch myself
I don't want anybody else
Oh no, oh no, oh no

etc.

Great song. But ... :wtf:

[6000eliot]

44. Um

Do you think it's a song about masturbation?

[Taxloss]

45. It might be.

But I think it would be wrong to jump to conclusions.

[6000eliot]

46. What about

I want you to squeeze my lemon
'Til the juice runs down my leg?

Can't figure that one out!

[Taxloss]

47. They might be making margaritas.

That can get messy.

[6000eliot]

42. Oz never did give nothin' to the Tin Man

That he didn't, didn't already have
And cause never was a reason for the evening
Or the Tropic of Sir Galahad

So please
Believe in me

When I say I'm spinning round round round round
Smoke glass stained bright colors
Image going down down down down
Soapsuds green-like bubbles

Make some sense of that!