03-23-2007, 11:24 PM
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Out of the ordinary song lyrics
When you listen to music a lot you're bound to come across some lyrics of which you think: "How did they/he/she come up with that?!" Please share them with us here! I will start with a quote from my most favourite singer Jens Lekman:
I could say that you are pretty but that would make me a liar. But you turn my legs to spaghetti and set my heart on fire. |
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03-24-2007, 02:25 AM
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Here's Morton Harkett from A-ha failing to take a hint from his girlfriend in Maybe, maybe Quote:
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03-24-2007, 03:28 AM
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Ale! And keep 'em coming!
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My sister and I were driving in the car one day (she had picked me up from school), when "Drops of Jupiter" by train came on the radio (I still remember where we were with the car at that point, but that's just my Elephant memory). We both had heard the song a thousand times before. But suddenly one of us spoke what they were thinking, only to find out that we *both* were thinking the same thing: "What's Jupiter? I know what Mercury is, but Jupiter? How can it form drops?"
This is also the kind of thought that's common for people with ADD or ADHD (which I have). We ask us questions that other people take for granted. Another example is talking about the sun, and at the same time wondering if the sun still shines when the sky is covered completely by clouds (common sense tells you it does, but think: Have you really ever checked it?). So yeah. "Drops of Jupiter". - 
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03-24-2007, 04:27 AM
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"Alice, come back.
He's just a kitten. HE'S JUST A KITTEN!!" -- Sonic Youth -- Contre de Sexisme I know, wtf?
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03-24-2007, 04:37 AM
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Hey love crusader, I want to be your space invader.
For you I will descend the deepest moon crater. I is most stronger than darth vapor. Obey me, I is your new dictator. Zlad - Electronik supersonik. I mean, seriously! Yesterday I woke up sucking on lemon.
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03-24-2007, 06:15 AM
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Ale! And keep 'em coming!
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Ladies and gentleman
please put your patschehands together for the sensational supersack of German televison Stefan Raab O mein Gott es gibt ihn wirklich er ging nach Amerika und sagte wenn ich es dort schaffe komm ich nie mehr nach Deutschland zurück und heute Abend ist er wieder hier Wadde hadde dudde da Wadde hadde dudde da wadde hadde dudde da wadde hadde dudde da wadde hadde dudde da Hadder denn da wat un wenn ja wat hadder da hadder da wat glatt oder hatter da wat haar da hadder da wat wat sonst keiner hat oder hatter dat auf dat dat watter hat da dat wadder da da hat hat dadder nu ma da dabei war ja gar nicht klar dat dat dat da war wat dat war dat war unklar un darum sammer domma bidde wadde hadde dudde da I am so curious I just wanna know what you've there I am so curious I just wanna know what you've there wadde hadde dudde da Wadde hadde dudde da wadde hadde dudde da wadde hadde dudde da wadde hadde dudde da Aha wadde hadde dudde da wadde dudde da da hat hatt ich schon vor nem Jahr nee nee dat war weder dat dat oder dat da wie dat dat wat war ich dachte dat dat dat war wat dat da war dat is noch immer nicht klar un ob dat matt platt glatt satt oder wat auch immer war dat dat wat war und wenn wat dat da war bidde bidde sammer domma wadde hadde dudde da I am so curious I just wanna know what you’ve there I am so curious I just wanna know what you've there wadde hadde dudde da Wadde hadde dudde da wadde hadde dudde da wadde hadde dudde da wadde hadde dudde da Wadde hadde dudde da wadde hadde dudde da wadde hadde dudde da wadde hadde dudde da Wadde hadde dudde da wadde hadde dudde da Actually the text makes sense, even if it's not even proper words, albeit a very silly sense. Also, it's amazing that he didn't break his tongue singing that so fast (This one has the introduction in English). -
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- "esc(x) cot(x) dx = -csc(x)!" Dennis added, and the wizard's robe caught on fire. "Gosh," Dennis said, "and some people say higher math isn't relevant." >>>Inventor of the Mail order-Assassin<<< And *This*...is a Black Hole - BYE! |
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03-24-2007, 06:45 AM
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03-24-2007, 08:28 AM
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For strange lyrics, trip hop is the place to go, Moloko's Things to make and do is a gem of an album: Indigo Do you know that hue of my new blue jeans? Can you judge the mood of the preteens? Shrink my dreams to fit me with those laser beams. To roll with rollerina is never quite as it seems. A Drop In The Ocean If the shoe fits I swear It I will wear It By this shining stiletto I do decree I'm half full and my glass is empty Say so long and wave goodbye. The Time is Now You're my last breath You're a breath of fresh air to me Hi, I'm empty So tell me you care for me Mother Mother dear you'll never be my sister Seek the advice of a solicitor Mother dear you'll never be my sister
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03-24-2007, 07:29 PM
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The Major Grubert.
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Tom Waits What's he building in there? What's He Building? What the hell is he building In there? He has subscriptions to those Magazines... He never Waves when he goes by He's hiding something from The rest of us... He's all To himself... I think I know Why... He took down the Tire swing from the Peppertree He has no children of his Own you see... He has no dog And he has no friends and His lawn is dying... and What about all those packages He sends. What's he building in there? With that hook light On the stairs. What's he building In there... I'll tell you one thing He's not building a playhouse for The children what's he building In there? Now what's that sound from under the door? He's pounding nails into a Hardwood floor... and I Swear to god I heard someone Moaning low... and I keep Seeing the blue light of a T.V. show... He has a router And a table saw... and you Won't believe what Mr. Sticha saw There's poison underneath the sink Of course... But there's also Enough formaldehyde to choke A horse... What's he building In there. What the hell is he Building in there? I heard he Has an ex-wife in some place Called Mayors Income, Tennessee And he used to have a consulting business in Indonesia... but what is he building in there? What the hell is building in there? He has no friends But he gets a lot of mail I'll bet he spent a little Time in jail... I heard he was up on the Roof last night Signaling with a flashlight And what's that tune he's Always whistling... What's he building in there? What's he building in there? We have a right to know... |
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03-25-2007, 07:14 AM
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I've got more from my hero Jens Lekman: Quote:
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03-25-2007, 07:17 PM
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Esibrecher - wilkommen im nichts (Probably my favorite song, lyrics wise)
I'm not sure if this is along the same lines, it's not that the wording is weird, it's the general theme of it that's unusual. It's anthemic like "smells like teen spirit", except it's more ... objective. Wir leben schnell und radikal Was um uns ist ist uns egal Wir brauchen Feuer Wir atmen Benzin Schampus Schlitten Titten Kokain! |
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03-26-2007, 03:09 AM
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Jimmy Cross - I Want My Baby Back
Not exactly lyrics and I can't just write them down, you owe it to yourself to listen to the song. EDIT: Oh, and Pavement are indisputable kings of strange lyrics. Here's just a sample: Watch out for the gypsy children in electric dresses they're insane. I hear they live in crematoriums and smoke your remains. or Sue the fortune-teller, Rue the rising tide, General Washington, patented that skull, Throw him out or indeed There's no women in Alaska There's no Creoles in Vermont There's no coast of Nebraska My mother, I forgot Slavic princess with a rose in her teeth Do you suppose she would bite you if she could? Insane cobra split the wood Trader of the lowland breed Call a jittney, drive away In the slipstream we will stay Stay away, away, away, away, away, away, away, away, away
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03-26-2007, 12:42 PM
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 Which reminds me of some of John K. Samson's (former Propaghandi, now Weakerthans) lyrics. That's so cool stuff. This one, a , well "Plea from a cat named Virtue" (directed at its owner, obviously): Lie down and lick the sorrow from your skin. Scratch the terror and begin to believe you're strong. All you ever want to do is drink and watch tv. Frankly that thing doesn't really interest me. I swear I'm gonna bite you hard and taste your tinny blood, if you dont stop the self-defeating lies you've been repeating since the day you brought me home. I know you're strong. Always makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside.
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03-26-2007, 07:21 PM
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The Major Grubert.
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Another Tom Waits song, Watch Her Disappear
Last night I dreamed that I was dreaming of you. And from a window across the lawn I watched you undress, wearing a sunset of purple tightly woven around your hair that rose in strangled ebony curls moving in a yellow bedroom light. The air is wet with sound. The faraway yelping of a wounded dog and the ground is drinking a slow faucet leak. Your house is so soft and fading as it soaks the black summer heat. A light goes on and a door opens and a yellow cat runs out on the stream of hall light and into the yard. A Wooden cherry scent is faintly breathing the air. I hear your champagne laugh. You wear two lavender orchids, one in your hair and one on your hip. A string of yellow carnival lights comes on with the dusk circling the lake in a slowly dipping halo and I hear a banjo tango. And you dance into the shadow of a black poplar tree. I watch you as you disappear. I watch you as you disappear. I watch you as you disappear. |
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03-26-2007, 09:37 PM
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Leatherface--Gone Fishing (caps not mine)
LORD AND LADY MUCK AGAIN ESPECIALLY WANT ME TO BE LIKE OPEN SESAME A SEESAW OF A STINKING BORE THAT WILL CHANGE LIKE YOU CHANGE THAT DRESS HAVE I REALLY COME TO THIS? ARE YOU MISSING ME? WHILE YOU'RE KISSING THEM DO YOU SAY THE RIGHT NAME? WHEN THE DAY FINALLY ENDS DO YOU LIE AWAKE? WONDERING IF YOU'RE LOST A BEST FRIEND WHATEVER! I'VE GONE FISHING BUYING SECURITY THINGS SWEARING DOWN ON YOUR LOVED ONES AGAIN THEY SHOULD'VE DIED SOME TIME SINCE IS THERE NOTHING SACRED IN THIS SUPERFICIAL AND FABRICATED MORNING AFTER AT LEAST I'VE NOT COME TO THIS ARE YOU MISSING ME? WHILE YOU'RE KISSING THEM DO YOU SAY THE RIGHT NAME? WHEN THE DAY FINALLY ENDS DO YOU LIE AWAKE? WONDERING IF YOU'RE LOST A BEST FRIEND WHATEVER! I'VE GONE FISHING I'M DYING BECAUSE YOU WANT ME TO BE ANYTHING BUT ME I'M AT FAULT A LOT SO THERE'S ALWAYS HANDS TO WASH AT LEAST I'VE NOT COME TO THIS I'M AT FAULT A LOT
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03-27-2007, 09:03 AM
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My currently favourite line out of a song is from Salon Kitty's "Greatest Love Affair":
~You were lost, but I say: Finders, keepers!~  And of course, no thread about out of the ordinary song lyrics would be complete without Luxuria (or other Devoto works). Sample: ~Over here may be bad, realissimo bad; but that nameless other place, it's far far worse.~ ~This feeling's mutual now, but so separately we're burning up, we're collapsing into probability.~ Though I don't claim any of that actually makes sense.  And then there's Soul Coughing - 16 Horses, which always struck me as, um, odd. But for full effect, you'll actually have to listen to the song.
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03-28-2007, 06:33 PM
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I'm pretty fond of these lyrics:
Operator Plays A Little Ping Pong from the album "Imaginarium" (Soundtrack to "The Neverhood," "Skullmonkeys" & "Boombots") Words & Music by Terry Taylor ©1996 Songs of SKG Budda budda budda budda budda Do bop bee Bud bud bud da beau Budda budda budda budda budda Do bop bee Ba boo zuba beau Boo boo zee zam bud dee oh Bowly oh ze zat Op a zop a see saw 2nd verse, same as the first ! (kinda) Za bee zop da bee dop do dah bee bay bay dot dot beau Ahh bah zay zee a beau beau yatta beau Ya ta zim bah beau dee oh Ged yerself a zee toe Oh poe poe beau dee liddle operator Berta ber ta ta root taw bay Ow bay so bray day beau Uh hey operator Bay day operator operoo Operee operator Oper oper operator ah bee Baba daba daba daba daba da bop be Zim bot bah dot boo Ahh dah wah dah zee dah zah bah zah bah wah Bop bee Uh bup bup dot bwee Wah bah zeep zom bee dee dom Veet ah liddle heet bomb Bomp by zoe dough on da way Ta live a ling zong Bazzah baddle ahh Boy da baseball Bay saw zaw de zee Ahh bah dip eh somebody Let's play a little pingpong! By a sigh a bee Ahh bah deep bop bop bop Play a liddle ding dong Bay say bah dah bee |
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03-31-2007, 01:04 PM
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I could mention a lot of Rammstein songs here. They made some lyrics that I find both crazy and entertaining (Stein um Stein, Rein Raus etc.)
On my way to work recently I noticed the lyrics for "Adios" and suddenly realised it was something about drug addiction: Er legt die Nadel auf die Ader und bittet die Musik herein zwischen Hals und Unterarm die Melodie fährt leise ins Gebein Los! Los! Los! Bop bop shu bop Er hat die Augen zugemacht in seinem Blut tobt eine Schlacht ein Heer marschiert durch seinen Darm die Eingeweide werden langsam warm Los! Los! Los! Bop bop shu bop Nichts ist für dich nichts war für dich nichts bleibt für dich für immer Er nimmt die Nadel von der Ader die Melodie fährt aus der Haut Geigen brennen mit Gekreisch Harfen schneiden sich ins Fleisch er hat die Augen aufgemacht doch er ist nicht aufgewacht Nichts ist für dich nichts war für dich nichts bleibt für dich für immer I also like another song that has special lyrics. My favorite quote from it is: Bowie knife bowie knife - looong glittering steel if my gun don't take your evil life you can bet my bowie knife will Not sure who made that song though? |
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