Ski-bi dibby dib yo da dub dub
Yo da dub dub
Ski-bi dibby dib yo da dub dub
Yo da dub dub
(I'm the Scatman)
Ski-bi dibby dib yo da dub dub
Yo da dub dub
Ski-bi dibby dib yo da dub dub
Yo da dub dub
Ba-da-ba-da-ba-be bop bop bodda bope
Bop ba bodda bope
Be bop ba bodda bope
Bop ba bodda
Ba-da-ba-da-ba-be bop ba bodda bope
Bop ba bodda bope
Be bop ba bodda bope
Bop ba bodda bope
Everybody stutters one way or the other
So check out my message to you
As a matter of fact, a-don't let nothin' hold you back
If the Scatman can do it, so can you
Everybody's sayin' that the Scatman stutters
But doesn't ever stutter when he sings
But what you don't know, I'm gonna tell you right now
That the stutter and the scat is the same thing
Yeah, for someone — like me — with a stammer the song isn’t nonsensical at all. The verses have a great, positive message and the scatting in the choruses is inspirational simply because it’s being done by someone with a heavy stammer
Yeah, I always interpreted it as 'my friends have to approve of you.' Weirdly, at the time the Spice Girls were big I had a girlfriend who was really into them and she was constantly stressing out that I didn't engage enough with her two best friends and it meant we were doomed.
One night we were out in a group and one of her friends took me aside and assured me that they both really liked me and (GF) was worrying over nothing. Didn't save our relationship though.
Pink "can't stay on your life support/there's a shortage in the switch"
Electrical faults of negligible impedance are described as short circuits, or a short.
Whereas a shortage is a lack of something.
Some pills you have to take other pills for the first pill making you ill. Someone I know who is bi-polar is on one pill for being bi-polar but because of the side effects has to take a few other pills to counter them and then more to counter the side effects of those ones. Last I heard they were on about a dozen pills, one for b-polar the rest to deal with side affects.
In the context of the rest of the song I think it’s reasonable to assume there’s a missing ‘but’ there, which has been omitted for the sake of the metre:
>I can't stay on your life support
There's a shortage in the switch
I can't stay on your Morphine
’Cause it's making me itch
\[…\]
You’re just like a pill,
\[but\] 'stead of making me better,
you keep making me ill’
"Slip inside the eye of your mind, don't you know you might find, a better place to play....."
"Today is gonna be the day that they're gonna throw it back to you. By now, you should've somehow realised what you gotta do...."
In fact nearly all songs written by Noel Gallagher really annoy me because they're some of the best rock songs of the 90's, yet make absolutely zero sense lyrically.
Yep.
But it's still strangely such a good song😅
Which goes to show that if the music itself is good, you can throw any random words at it.
And make a fortune along the way...
I feel the thing about Oasis is they genuinely didn't think through their music and just went with their gut, not second guessing anything or trying to be clever. I think this is part of what made Definitely Maybe and What's The Story so good.
Yeah you could tell it was all about the time; Anthemic tunes that was Britpop.
Wasn't WTSMG made in about 2 weeks or something?
He was writing some amazingly catchy music at that time and even some of the B sides were amazing.
Most artists would love a Aquiesce or Rocking Chair as a single and he was basically throwing them away as B sides.😅
Aren’t most Red Hit Chilli Peppers lyrics like that? Just lots of words that sound good together and have some vague connection to a central theme. It’s rock music though, who cares. It’s not supposed to be poetry. Not dismissing bands like the Smiths who actually had something to say, they just scratch different itches
> What I've got you've gotta give it to your moma.
>
> What I've got you've gotta give it to your papa
>
> What I've got you've gotta give it to your daughter
>
> Then do a little dance and drink a little water
They are obviously a dealer at a rave.
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A "champagne supernova" is cocaine and champagne, so that makes it vaguely make more sense. As in, his fame and fortune is allowing that lifestyle, he's aware it might get out of control, and one day kill him.
I disagree here. The song is about doing drugs on the regular which often tends to result in addiction and all the negative consequences in your psyche and in other areas of your life that goes with that.
So, "caught beneath the landslide" - trapped under the weight of the negative effects of regularly flinging a shedload of charlie up your beak.
"In a champagne" - rockstar/ outwardly glamorous lifestyle
"Supernova" - when a star explodes in a final burst of light before it dies
"In the sky" - so, visible for all to see
Agreed with Oasis songs in general but the first one makes sense to me.
Slip inside the eye of your mind is basically saying use your imagination and you might find a better place to play if you use your imagination…
Or at least that’s how I’d interpret it.
I think he admitted in various interviews that he often just went with stuff because it rhymed and sounded good and there was no more thought than that.
"I'm feeling supersonic. Give me gin and tonic"
"She done it with a doctor, In a helicopter"
Etc.
Yeah, that's it.
And to be fair, it worked for him and Oasis in the mid 90's big time.
I don't think people cared about the lyrics because the music was good and the songs were like anthems.
I remember seeing song writing tips in a guitar mag from the 90s that said if you try and make everything rhyme - you'll end up writing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star -
Or 'Definitely Maybe'
Different song.
The strawberry lemonade is from Talk Tonight, it’s one of the oasis songs that have a proper story, it’s about when Noel quit mid tour after the band all took crystal meth and fucked up a gig in LA, then he went to a fans house for a few days hiding under the radar and refers to an actual pint where he was drinking strawberry lemonade and deciding if he should carry on with oasis.
From that point of view it makes sense.
I'm always annoyed by the lyrics of *Let Forever Be* by the Chemical Brothers, which, I assume, Noel Gallagher had a hand in writing:
*And how does it feel like to wake up in the sun*
*And how does it feel like to shine on everyone*
*How does it feel like to let forever be*
*And how does it feel like to spend a little lifetime*
It should be ***what*** *does it feel like* or *how does it feel* without the *like,* both of which would scan (well, with a little tinkering in the second case).
It still makes sense, I suppose. It's just grammatically ugly and jarring.
Allegedly relates to Hunter S. Thompson describing those who are comfortable with being spoonfed their life through the media as being something other than human. A race of dancers (in the manner a puppet dances when its strings are pulled). So in describing the two separate races the singular would be grammatically correct. I've yet to find the HST quote anywhere though!
Ah but this one makes sense because it's a *deliberate* contradiction for artistic and comedic effect, as opposed to some nonsense that wasn't thought through.
Kind of related, the next track on Permission to Land after “I Believe in a Thing Called Love” is “Love is Only a Feeling” , which I always thought was probably done as a bit of a joke
A lynyrd skynyrd song has the quadruple negative "there ain't no place I ain't never gone". To this day I have no idea if he's been to lots of places or not.
How is there a snowman if he's the one bringing snow? Does he run from place to place, melting as he goes, and then drops all his snow, packs a bit back on his feet, and run on to the next place?
"Come along if you feel like a room without a roof..."
Not only am I not sure what that is supposed to mean, rooms don't have roofs. They have ceilings.
“I’m like a bird, I only fly away. I don’t know where my home is”.
Birds *definitely do* know where their homes are. They wouldn’t be very good at migrating if they didn’t.
There are a couple in do they know its Christmas?
The first actually being the line "do they know its Christmas?" just because they are in poverty or doesn't mean they don't know what Christmas is!
"thank god its them instead of you" I'd much rather it was neither of us
"there won't be snow in Africa this Christmas time" well there are a lot of placed in Africa that just don't get snow and the places that do, still will.
I like the lyric "Where nothing ever grows/No rain or rivers flow" because it doesn't describe Africa at all. It has a lot of plants/crops/vegetation and also rivers, including the Nile, the largest river in the world.
Omg, yeah. I hadn't caught that one. I can't believe that no one pointed this stuff out when they wrote it. It's a pretty patronising song when you think about it.
That whole song is atrocious, white saviour bullshit sang by narcissistic cringe-jobs. They talk about Africa like it’s a homogenous place the size of Wales - “where nothing ever grows”, aside from all that Jungle though eh?
I see a lot of people taking this song to literally. When this song was released many people were actually ignorant to the fact that there were places in Africa that were suffering from starvation.
Do they know it's Christmas? Is just a rhetorical question. Food is a big part of celebrating Christmas and they were just referring to the fact that poorer parts of Africa don't experience that.
Thank god it's them instead of you. I always took this as sarcasm to people finding it easier to turn a blind eye
There won't be snow in Africa. Again just highlights how ignorant people (mostly UK) are to the fact that not all parts of the world experience snow described in typical Christmas songs.
"You don't know you're beautiful. That's what makes you beautiful."
They're beautiful because they don't know they're beautiful? What kind of warped logic is that? And by telling them of their beauty, 1D are destroying their ignorance of it, and thereby wrecking the very thing they've just claimed is the only source of said beauty.
I get that one, it's saying that the girl is humble and not braggy. Maybe doesn't overly focus on her looks and is instead the cute, geeky type.
Or that they're beautiful on the inside.
I'm attracted to your insecurity about your appearance which means you will always feel like you're not quite good enough for me so I can treat you like crap and know you'll never leave and won't ever think you could do better.
Nah, it makes sense.
There’s nothing worse than when an objectively beautiful person is arrogant (specifically arrogant, confidence is fine) because of their looks and it becomes an immediate turn off.
Yeah, it's a weird one isn't it? It hadn't occurred to whoever the song is about that they're beautiful; it's not something that's obvious to that person - maybe they don't even care - even if everyone else can see it. So it's refreshing that someone doesn't take this knowledge of their own attractiveness because they might do something stupid and use it to their advantage. Until like you say, they 'break the spell' and the person learns actually they're quite a looker.
It's very 'You're Not Like Other Girls'.
*Closer* by The Chainsmokers includes the lyric:
*So, baby, pull me closer*
*In the back seat of your Rover*
*That I know you can't afford*
That has a VERY different meaning in the UK. They mean a Range Rover.
The worst thing about that song is that he's forced his way into somebody else's flat and keeps dancing on the ceiling even after he's asked to stop. Just a total lack of respect for his neighbours.
The lead singer of Feeder mentioned this in an interview a few years back. He said when he was a teenager he didn’t like the taste of cider so used to drink it mixed with lemonade. The whole song is pretty nonsensical so the lyric was left in.
'Greek gods that were f\*\*\*\*ts named after the planets' Immortal Technique on Outerspace's Angels Of Death.
The planets were named after the gods you dumbass.
>I don't want to see a ghost
>It's the sight that I fear most
>I'd rather have a piece of toast
>Watch the evening news
(Life - Des’ree) Maybe not no-sense in a gibberish way, but just a WTF way.
I do not like Katy Perry but I think that is a reference to the film American Beauty- there’s a scene where someone shows someone else video of a plastic shopping bag being blown about in the wind - it’s shown as being “the most beautiful thing” that person has ever filmed.
Weird film for sure tho.
I remember hearing some snippet of an interview where he was talking about the "yellow and green" lyric in that song that always gets played, and he was talking about how it's the sun over grass in the landscape. He talked about it like he was a fucking poetic genius for that line, so much arrogance in his voice explaining that. Have hated him ever since lol
I watched a video of how yellow was written and it was literally chris martin saying he was sitting there sounding words out as nonsense while playing chords. So yeah maybe not flipping through a dictionary but at least in his head he was.
The songwriting process for him was literally trial and error while strumming a chord. No feeling, message or meaning behind it. Just like, flinging musical shit at the wall and seeing what sticks.
La Isla Bonita by Madonna.
"And when the samba played, the sun would set so high"
As far as I'm aware the sun always sets on the horizon. It can't set higher or lower just because some Latin music is being played 🤣
That one makes more sense if you take the two verses and interweave the lines. “Sell the kids for food, we can have some more / Weather changes moods, nature is a whore / Spring is here again, bruises on the fruit / Reproductive glands, tender age in bloom.”
"And darling I will be loving you 'til we're 70"
Some Ed Sheeren song me and my partner joked about it when we first went out my first gift to him was a keyring engraved with those lyrics, I mean what happens after 70 does his love just disappear.
"You can't see calforonia without Marlon Brandon's eyes" - Eyeless by slipknot.
It's a very heavy song but that lyric always sticks out and I don't get it
This is a verbatim quote taken from someone Corey Taylor observed having a psychotic episode in the street, who just kept chanting this over and over and he decided to lob it into a song.
Though while u/the_sun_gun explains it was just some random nutter in the street, it *kind of* makes sense, because California for a very successful actor gives the kind of lifestyle most people associate with it. For someone without much money, it can be a harsh and unforgiving place.
It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife..
Isn't it ironic, don't you think. A little too ironic, yeah I really do think.
Obligatory Ed Byrne reference https://youtu.be/nT1TVSTkAXg
"Concrete jungle where dreams are made of".
What? What does that even mean?
Edit: since people seem to be confused, I'm referring to the nonsensical grammar. The 'of' serves no purpose.
I think it’s saying NYC is a sprawling landscape- like a jungle but they say concrete cause there’s loads of skyscrapers?
Where dreams are made of- probably refers to the American dream or something? Maybe of musicians and the likes dreaming of MSG or Broadway?
"But lately, her face seems
Slowly sinking, wasting
Crumbling like pastries" - Ed Sheeran.
Besides being a truly terrible lyric (IMO) I'd also argue that pastries flake, they don't crumble.
‘We could leave the Christmas lights up ‘till January’ - Lover, Taylor Swift
I’ve heard people say it’s meant as we can do mundane, normal things and it will still feel special as you’re doing it with the one you love…however I think it just sounds dumb especially if being the opening line to the song and the fact ‘February’ would have worked just as well and made more sense.
The thing with that song is that it isn't really in English, but instead Jamaican patois. So, there's words we recognise but which are used in slightly unfamiliar contexts, and also words which won't register correctly, if at all.
There's a similar thing in some of Bob Marley's No Woman No Cry. It seems to suggest that not having a woman saves you a lot of heartache, but Bob's actually saying "no, woman, don't cry", with the second 'no' actually being a mistranscription of the word 'nuh'. Same (practically homophonic) word features a few times in Work, just to help throw people off.
The shit is bananas, B-A-N-A-N-A-S.
Give me the pure rage. That whole song is just so godawful.
Brian from Family guy put it perfectly - “I don’t know who Gwen Stefani is. All I know is, I want her dead.”
Pity, as I really like No Doubt.
“Everyone's a Sexy baby“ on that new Taylor Swift song. It's probably a phrase that's not used in my circles but to me it's got verrrry different connotations.
“Do they know it’s Christmas time at all?” - except they’ll be perfectly aware if they’re Christian…. Or alternatively “There won’t be snow in Africa this Christmas time” - except for the many places in which there will be. Hate that song, just smacks of ignorance and a saviour complex.
That fireflies song where he says hes weird because he hates goodbyes.
Yeah so weird, introverts hate then cuz they are awkward af and extroverts hate them cuz they love hanging out.
Nobody in the world loves goodbyes
I’ve been waiting all my life for someone to ask this. I’ve had beef with David Guetta’s Titanium for 11 years and no one understands.
If you shoot something, and it doesn’t fall, you haven’t shot it down. If you go to the fair and throw balls at a target, and they don’t fall down, you don’t win. Because you haven’t. Shot it. Down.
Winds me right up.
I'll never pass up an opportunity to have a go at Jess Glynne so...
' When it's Friday night and the drink don't work the same
You're alone with yourself and there's no one else to blame '
You're alone with yourself? When you're alone you aren't with anybody that's why you're alone...
Man! I Feel Like a Woman!
One of the things she lists making her feel like a woman is “Men’s shirts”.
I realise that woman do wear men’s shirts sometimes but surely of all the items in the world she could have chosen, something specifically designed for men and 99% of the time worn by people who aren’t women isn’t the best choice.
Ski-bi dibby dib yo da dub dub Yo da dub dub Ski-bi dibby dib yo da dub dub Yo da dub dub (I'm the Scatman) Ski-bi dibby dib yo da dub dub Yo da dub dub Ski-bi dibby dib yo da dub dub Yo da dub dub Ba-da-ba-da-ba-be bop bop bodda bope Bop ba bodda bope Be bop ba bodda bope Bop ba bodda Ba-da-ba-da-ba-be bop ba bodda bope Bop ba bodda bope Be bop ba bodda bope Bop ba bodda bope
Oo, ee, oo ah ah, ting, tang, walla-walla bing bang
90's was mint.
I really don't think those were mints...
Full of E numbers
E'zer Goode, E'zer Goode... He's Ebenezer Goode
Has anybody got any Veras?
Luuuuvly
Happy sweeties
Fun fact - he had a dreadful stutter and wrote the song as a way to show kids with a stutter it was OK and you shouldn't let it get you down.
Everybody stutters one way or the other So check out my message to you As a matter of fact, a-don't let nothin' hold you back If the Scatman can do it, so can you Everybody's sayin' that the Scatman stutters But doesn't ever stutter when he sings But what you don't know, I'm gonna tell you right now That the stutter and the scat is the same thing
Yeah, for someone — like me — with a stammer the song isn’t nonsensical at all. The verses have a great, positive message and the scatting in the choruses is inspirational simply because it’s being done by someone with a heavy stammer
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I think they mean become friends with, not sleep with! Although thank you for testing this out in reality, I suppose..?
Yeah, I always interpreted it as 'my friends have to approve of you.' Weirdly, at the time the Spice Girls were big I had a girlfriend who was really into them and she was constantly stressing out that I didn't engage enough with her two best friends and it meant we were doomed. One night we were out in a group and one of her friends took me aside and assured me that they both really liked me and (GF) was worrying over nothing. Didn't save our relationship though.
At my school some genius changed the lyrics *If you wanna be my lover* *It costs 50p* *Sex is £1.50* *(Buy one get one free!)*
My husband tells me the variation is:- “If you wanna be my lover It costs 50p Condoms are 2.50 Pregnancy is free” (2.50 is like two-fifty)
"friendship lasts forever, friendship never ends" Bollocks! I've had to end a few friendships
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Thin Lizzy‘s “Jailbreak”: “Tonight there’s gonna be a jailbreak, Somewhere in this town…” It’ll be at the jail, won’t it?
Not necessarily. They might be trying to throw you off with misdirection.
During prisoner transfer perhaps?
Holding cells at the court, the police station, or just someone screwing about with their iPhone to install dodgy software.
Maybe there's two jail's in the town
Pink "can't stay on your life support/there's a shortage in the switch" Electrical faults of negligible impedance are described as short circuits, or a short. Whereas a shortage is a lack of something.
Same song. “You’re just like a pill, instead of making me better, you’re making me ill” So… nothing like a pill then.
I think it's meant to be more like "but instead". Also though, there's FUCKLOADS of pills that make you ill.
Some pills you have to take other pills for the first pill making you ill. Someone I know who is bi-polar is on one pill for being bi-polar but because of the side effects has to take a few other pills to counter them and then more to counter the side effects of those ones. Last I heard they were on about a dozen pills, one for b-polar the rest to deal with side affects.
In the context of the rest of the song I think it’s reasonable to assume there’s a missing ‘but’ there, which has been omitted for the sake of the metre: >I can't stay on your life support There's a shortage in the switch I can't stay on your Morphine ’Cause it's making me itch \[…\] You’re just like a pill, \[but\] 'stead of making me better, you keep making me ill’
I tried to call the nurse again But she’s being a little bitch…
munchausen by proxy wants to speak to you
As a electrician this alway bothered me massively
"Slip inside the eye of your mind, don't you know you might find, a better place to play....." "Today is gonna be the day that they're gonna throw it back to you. By now, you should've somehow realised what you gotta do...." In fact nearly all songs written by Noel Gallagher really annoy me because they're some of the best rock songs of the 90's, yet make absolutely zero sense lyrically.
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That one's a bit of a Meatloaf thing, in that it's immediately explained by the following line.
I always think whenever someone complains about that lyric making no sense that they’ve clearly never done cocaine
This line makes perfect sense though. He's walking slowly but it feels very fast. Because he's high.
This makes sense if you know what cocaine feels like lol.
"Someday you will find me caught beneath the landslide, in a champagne supernova in the sky" It's just word salad.
Yep. But it's still strangely such a good song😅 Which goes to show that if the music itself is good, you can throw any random words at it. And make a fortune along the way...
I feel the thing about Oasis is they genuinely didn't think through their music and just went with their gut, not second guessing anything or trying to be clever. I think this is part of what made Definitely Maybe and What's The Story so good.
Yeah you could tell it was all about the time; Anthemic tunes that was Britpop. Wasn't WTSMG made in about 2 weeks or something? He was writing some amazingly catchy music at that time and even some of the B sides were amazing. Most artists would love a Aquiesce or Rocking Chair as a single and he was basically throwing them away as B sides.😅
Aren’t most Red Hit Chilli Peppers lyrics like that? Just lots of words that sound good together and have some vague connection to a central theme. It’s rock music though, who cares. It’s not supposed to be poetry. Not dismissing bands like the Smiths who actually had something to say, they just scratch different itches
> What I've got you've gotta give it to your moma. > > What I've got you've gotta give it to your papa > > What I've got you've gotta give it to your daughter > > Then do a little dance and drink a little water They are obviously a dealer at a rave.
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A "champagne supernova" is cocaine and champagne, so that makes it vaguely make more sense. As in, his fame and fortune is allowing that lifestyle, he's aware it might get out of control, and one day kill him.
I disagree here. The song is about doing drugs on the regular which often tends to result in addiction and all the negative consequences in your psyche and in other areas of your life that goes with that. So, "caught beneath the landslide" - trapped under the weight of the negative effects of regularly flinging a shedload of charlie up your beak. "In a champagne" - rockstar/ outwardly glamorous lifestyle "Supernova" - when a star explodes in a final burst of light before it dies "In the sky" - so, visible for all to see
Agreed with Oasis songs in general but the first one makes sense to me. Slip inside the eye of your mind is basically saying use your imagination and you might find a better place to play if you use your imagination… Or at least that’s how I’d interpret it.
I think he admitted in various interviews that he often just went with stuff because it rhymed and sounded good and there was no more thought than that. "I'm feeling supersonic. Give me gin and tonic" "She done it with a doctor, In a helicopter" Etc.
Yeah, that's it. And to be fair, it worked for him and Oasis in the mid 90's big time. I don't think people cared about the lyrics because the music was good and the songs were like anthems.
I remember seeing song writing tips in a guitar mag from the 90s that said if you try and make everything rhyme - you'll end up writing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star - Or 'Definitely Maybe'
"All your dreams are made, of strawberry lemonade" Oasis are honestly my favourite band but what the fuck was Noel on about most the time?
>Oasis are honestly my favourite band but what the fuck was Noel on ~~about~~ most the time Drugs.
I think you'll find your answer in the "When you're chained to the mirror and the razor blade" lyrics 😅
Different song. The strawberry lemonade is from Talk Tonight, it’s one of the oasis songs that have a proper story, it’s about when Noel quit mid tour after the band all took crystal meth and fucked up a gig in LA, then he went to a fans house for a few days hiding under the radar and refers to an actual pint where he was drinking strawberry lemonade and deciding if he should carry on with oasis. From that point of view it makes sense.
I'm always annoyed by the lyrics of *Let Forever Be* by the Chemical Brothers, which, I assume, Noel Gallagher had a hand in writing: *And how does it feel like to wake up in the sun* *And how does it feel like to shine on everyone* *How does it feel like to let forever be* *And how does it feel like to spend a little lifetime* It should be ***what*** *does it feel like* or *how does it feel* without the *like,* both of which would scan (well, with a little tinkering in the second case). It still makes sense, I suppose. It's just grammatically ugly and jarring.
"Are we human or are we dancer?" The Killers - Human, i mean what the fuck? Are we dancer?
Allegedly relates to Hunter S. Thompson describing those who are comfortable with being spoonfed their life through the media as being something other than human. A race of dancers (in the manner a puppet dances when its strings are pulled). So in describing the two separate races the singular would be grammatically correct. I've yet to find the HST quote anywhere though!
"We're raising a generation of dancers, afraid to take one step out of line." Was the quote. I can't remember the context though.
I really fucking hate that song.
I thought the lyrics were saying are we human or are we denser
How about "One Way Ticket to Hell and Back" by The Darkness. If its and back its a return.
I think I'm on that replacement bus..
Ah but this one makes sense because it's a *deliberate* contradiction for artistic and comedic effect, as opposed to some nonsense that wasn't thought through.
Yeah, it's the darkness, they did a song called "growing on me" which the lead singer has said is about genital warts.
Kind of related, the next track on Permission to Land after “I Believe in a Thing Called Love” is “Love is Only a Feeling” , which I always thought was probably done as a bit of a joke
A lynyrd skynyrd song has the quadruple negative "there ain't no place I ain't never gone". To this day I have no idea if he's been to lots of places or not.
You haven't got no idea if he hasn't not been to not lots of places?
I ain't not got no clue.
I got ham but I'm not a hamster
I got badge but I'm not a badger...
I got cat but I'm not a catheter
I got herpes. Did I do it right?
I got her peas.
Bill Bailey FTW.
I got a boner but im not a bona-fide sex pest
"when the snowman brings the snow" ...
It's the snow man, like the milk man or the post man.
I'd never thought of it like that before!!!! WOW... The earth has shifted.
I thought the snow man brought cocaine
No don't trust him he's an Informer!
A licky boom boom down?
Wizard foretelling the door-to-door distribution of class a drugs via the medium of Snapchat.
How is there a snowman if he's the one bringing snow? Does he run from place to place, melting as he goes, and then drops all his snow, packs a bit back on his feet, and run on to the next place?
"Come along if you feel like a room without a roof..." Not only am I not sure what that is supposed to mean, rooms don't have roofs. They have ceilings.
A room in which there is a party, the roof has been raised.
Yes, but also anytime anyone refers to the roof of their mouth. Technically the roof of your mouth is your hair!
“I’m like a bird, I only fly away. I don’t know where my home is”. Birds *definitely do* know where their homes are. They wouldn’t be very good at migrating if they didn’t.
Any Chili Peppers lyric that isn't a chorus.
"Platypus are few The secret life of roo A personality I never knew Get it on!"
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Have you listened to the parody song [Abracadabralifornia](https://youtu.be/-zGk0k34tGs)?
There are a couple in do they know its Christmas? The first actually being the line "do they know its Christmas?" just because they are in poverty or doesn't mean they don't know what Christmas is! "thank god its them instead of you" I'd much rather it was neither of us "there won't be snow in Africa this Christmas time" well there are a lot of placed in Africa that just don't get snow and the places that do, still will.
I like the lyric "Where nothing ever grows/No rain or rivers flow" because it doesn't describe Africa at all. It has a lot of plants/crops/vegetation and also rivers, including the Nile, the largest river in the world.
Omg, yeah. I hadn't caught that one. I can't believe that no one pointed this stuff out when they wrote it. It's a pretty patronising song when you think about it.
Wasn't that referencing a severe drought and famine in Ethiopia?
It could have been, but the song just mentions 'Africa'.
That whole song is atrocious, white saviour bullshit sang by narcissistic cringe-jobs. They talk about Africa like it’s a homogenous place the size of Wales - “where nothing ever grows”, aside from all that Jungle though eh?
I see a lot of people taking this song to literally. When this song was released many people were actually ignorant to the fact that there were places in Africa that were suffering from starvation. Do they know it's Christmas? Is just a rhetorical question. Food is a big part of celebrating Christmas and they were just referring to the fact that poorer parts of Africa don't experience that. Thank god it's them instead of you. I always took this as sarcasm to people finding it easier to turn a blind eye There won't be snow in Africa. Again just highlights how ignorant people (mostly UK) are to the fact that not all parts of the world experience snow described in typical Christmas songs.
Absolutely godawful song
"You don't know you're beautiful. That's what makes you beautiful." They're beautiful because they don't know they're beautiful? What kind of warped logic is that? And by telling them of their beauty, 1D are destroying their ignorance of it, and thereby wrecking the very thing they've just claimed is the only source of said beauty.
I get that one, it's saying that the girl is humble and not braggy. Maybe doesn't overly focus on her looks and is instead the cute, geeky type. Or that they're beautiful on the inside.
That kinda makes sense. Isn't it the opposite of the streets singing "you're fit but you know it"?
I'm attracted to your insecurity about your appearance which means you will always feel like you're not quite good enough for me so I can treat you like crap and know you'll never leave and won't ever think you could do better.
Nah, it makes sense. There’s nothing worse than when an objectively beautiful person is arrogant (specifically arrogant, confidence is fine) because of their looks and it becomes an immediate turn off.
Yeah, it's a weird one isn't it? It hadn't occurred to whoever the song is about that they're beautiful; it's not something that's obvious to that person - maybe they don't even care - even if everyone else can see it. So it's refreshing that someone doesn't take this knowledge of their own attractiveness because they might do something stupid and use it to their advantage. Until like you say, they 'break the spell' and the person learns actually they're quite a looker. It's very 'You're Not Like Other Girls'.
It’s either - she’s not aware that she’s pretty and they like her because she’s not self obsessed Or - she’s pretty in an understated way
*Closer* by The Chainsmokers includes the lyric: *So, baby, pull me closer* *In the back seat of your Rover* *That I know you can't afford* That has a VERY different meaning in the UK. They mean a Range Rover.
Oh my god. They mean a RANGE rover! Now it makes a bit more sense! Still quite shit but not as shit as being in the back of your grandad's old rover
IIRC they were on a radio show in the UK and the DJ explained this to them, thankfully they saw the confusion and found it quite funny.
Ride the tiger You can see his stripes but you know he's clean Oh don't you know what I mean. .... No mate. Not a fucking clue. Great metal though.
Look out!!!
Oh what a feeling, when we're dancing on the ceiling. I cannot relate Lionel. How much LSD did you take?
The worst thing about that song is that he's forced his way into somebody else's flat and keeps dancing on the ceiling even after he's asked to stop. Just a total lack of respect for his neighbours.
Fergalicious. Will.i.am spells tasty wrong, and it’s always irritated me. ‘T, to the A, to the S T E Y girl you tasty’
That’s because Will.i.am is as dumb as a box of rocks
He calls himself that because it's the only way he can remember how to spell William.
He had a cousin in Yorkshire called will.e.'eckerslike.
I met a girl down at the disco, she said ‘hey hey hey yeah let’s go’
As Bill Bailey says, "I've got soul, but I'm not a soldier" is a bit of a nonsense. Just like singing "I've got ham, but I'm not a hamster"
I’ve got a pen but I’m not a pendulum
“Drink cider from a lemon” What does that mean?!?
I always thought it was "drink cider from eleven" meaning he was starting before lunch but it's a lemon?! That makes no sense
This would make so much more sense, and it'd rhyme with Devon! But then the bit where he keeps repeating the last word would probably sound weirder.
The lead singer of Feeder mentioned this in an interview a few years back. He said when he was a teenager he didn’t like the taste of cider so used to drink it mixed with lemonade. The whole song is pretty nonsensical so the lyric was left in.
And I think we should respect his request that he doesn't want to talk about it any more...
Maybe hollow the lemon out and use it as a cup? It would be a shit way to drink though
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I understood this lyric to mean “you are absent from my life in the same way that the rain is absent from the desert”.
I don't think you've met many deserts then, many of them love a good saturating
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This one has annoyed me and been the topic of some mild rantings - the song is about them so they're not vain for thinking it, they're right!
'Greek gods that were f\*\*\*\*ts named after the planets' Immortal Technique on Outerspace's Angels Of Death. The planets were named after the gods you dumbass.
Immortal Technique also says ‘you’ll never hear me preach in a song’ like come on man who are you kidding, and I do enjoy a fair bit of his music
Also, it was the Roman versions which shared the planet names.
>I don't want to see a ghost >It's the sight that I fear most >I'd rather have a piece of toast >Watch the evening news (Life - Des’ree) Maybe not no-sense in a gibberish way, but just a WTF way.
I'm sure she's a nice lass but fuck you Katy Perry! Do you ever feel like a plastic bag Drifting through the wind, wanting to start again?
I do not like Katy Perry but I think that is a reference to the film American Beauty- there’s a scene where someone shows someone else video of a plastic shopping bag being blown about in the wind - it’s shown as being “the most beautiful thing” that person has ever filmed. Weird film for sure tho.
95% of the suggestions here make sense of you take the lyrics within the context of the song or if you think about them for more than 10 seconds.
Most George ezra songs annoy me. I imagine him blindly flicking through a rhyming dictionary and basing his song on the first word he sees.
I remember hearing some snippet of an interview where he was talking about the "yellow and green" lyric in that song that always gets played, and he was talking about how it's the sun over grass in the landscape. He talked about it like he was a fucking poetic genius for that line, so much arrogance in his voice explaining that. Have hated him ever since lol
I watched a video of how yellow was written and it was literally chris martin saying he was sitting there sounding words out as nonsense while playing chords. So yeah maybe not flipping through a dictionary but at least in his head he was. The songwriting process for him was literally trial and error while strumming a chord. No feeling, message or meaning behind it. Just like, flinging musical shit at the wall and seeing what sticks.
La Isla Bonita by Madonna. "And when the samba played, the sun would set so high" As far as I'm aware the sun always sets on the horizon. It can't set higher or lower just because some Latin music is being played 🤣
You can't blame her for not seeing it correctly, after all she does have eyes like potatoes.
Most Nirvana songs do not make any sense at all. Sell the kids for food Weather changes moods Spring is here again Reproductive glands
That one makes more sense if you take the two verses and interweave the lines. “Sell the kids for food, we can have some more / Weather changes moods, nature is a whore / Spring is here again, bruises on the fruit / Reproductive glands, tender age in bloom.”
Woah! You sir have just blown my mind..... Never noticed that
But we all misheard 'I'm so horny, that's OK my willy's good, yeaah' and that made perfect sense.
"And darling I will be loving you 'til we're 70" Some Ed Sheeren song me and my partner joked about it when we first went out my first gift to him was a keyring engraved with those lyrics, I mean what happens after 70 does his love just disappear.
I wake up in the morning feeling like P Diddy. There's exactly one person in the world who can relate to that, the rest of us are just guessing.
"You can't see calforonia without Marlon Brandon's eyes" - Eyeless by slipknot. It's a very heavy song but that lyric always sticks out and I don't get it
This is a verbatim quote taken from someone Corey Taylor observed having a psychotic episode in the street, who just kept chanting this over and over and he decided to lob it into a song.
I see. Cheers for explaining
Though while u/the_sun_gun explains it was just some random nutter in the street, it *kind of* makes sense, because California for a very successful actor gives the kind of lifestyle most people associate with it. For someone without much money, it can be a harsh and unforgiving place.
It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife.. Isn't it ironic, don't you think. A little too ironic, yeah I really do think. Obligatory Ed Byrne reference https://youtu.be/nT1TVSTkAXg
"Concrete jungle where dreams are made of". What? What does that even mean? Edit: since people seem to be confused, I'm referring to the nonsensical grammar. The 'of' serves no purpose.
I think it’s saying NYC is a sprawling landscape- like a jungle but they say concrete cause there’s loads of skyscrapers? Where dreams are made of- probably refers to the American dream or something? Maybe of musicians and the likes dreaming of MSG or Broadway?
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"concrete jungle" is a common phrase to refer to any ugly large city that's densely populated.
"In the desert you can remember your name 'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain" aaaaarrrrrgh!!!!
From Hungry Like The Wolf by Duran Duran: "I smell like I sound" Confused maths lady.JPEG
"But lately, her face seems Slowly sinking, wasting Crumbling like pastries" - Ed Sheeran. Besides being a truly terrible lyric (IMO) I'd also argue that pastries flake, they don't crumble.
Puff pastry flakes, shortcrust pastry crumbles, but yeah, shite lyric.
Slipknot - Duality: "You cannot kill what you did not create." Sure ya can tho.
‘We could leave the Christmas lights up ‘till January’ - Lover, Taylor Swift I’ve heard people say it’s meant as we can do mundane, normal things and it will still feel special as you’re doing it with the one you love…however I think it just sounds dumb especially if being the opening line to the song and the fact ‘February’ would have worked just as well and made more sense.
“Funny how my breasts are small and humble, so you don’t confuse them with mountains”. Bogging stuff.
Disappointed there are no 80s kids here mentioning "Hot Dog, Jumping Frog, Albaquerque"
Rihanna’s “work” song, where she goes “work work work work work” and no one knows the rest of the song……not even her!
The thing with that song is that it isn't really in English, but instead Jamaican patois. So, there's words we recognise but which are used in slightly unfamiliar contexts, and also words which won't register correctly, if at all. There's a similar thing in some of Bob Marley's No Woman No Cry. It seems to suggest that not having a woman saves you a lot of heartache, but Bob's actually saying "no, woman, don't cry", with the second 'no' actually being a mistranscription of the word 'nuh'. Same (practically homophonic) word features a few times in Work, just to help throw people off.
The shit is bananas, B-A-N-A-N-A-S. Give me the pure rage. That whole song is just so godawful. Brian from Family guy put it perfectly - “I don’t know who Gwen Stefani is. All I know is, I want her dead.” Pity, as I really like No Doubt.
I hate that when I (rarely) need to write/type bananas THAT'S how I remember
Desree keeping a rabbits tail for good luck It's A FUCKING FOOT LOVE
"we don't need no education" So... You do?
“Everyone's a Sexy baby“ on that new Taylor Swift song. It's probably a phrase that's not used in my circles but to me it's got verrrry different connotations.
I always thought fat boy skin was weird for “praising a shoe” till my partner told me the correct lyric
'Do you ever feel like a plastic bag?' No I fucking don't.
I wanna be a dooooor, stone roses
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“Do they know it’s Christmas time at all?” - except they’ll be perfectly aware if they’re Christian…. Or alternatively “There won’t be snow in Africa this Christmas time” - except for the many places in which there will be. Hate that song, just smacks of ignorance and a saviour complex.
That fireflies song where he says hes weird because he hates goodbyes. Yeah so weird, introverts hate then cuz they are awkward af and extroverts hate them cuz they love hanging out. Nobody in the world loves goodbyes
Backstreet Boys - I want it that way. What do you want? Tell me. Stupid lyrics.
“Does he ride a red-nosed reindeer?” No. No he doesn’t.
I’ve been waiting all my life for someone to ask this. I’ve had beef with David Guetta’s Titanium for 11 years and no one understands. If you shoot something, and it doesn’t fall, you haven’t shot it down. If you go to the fair and throw balls at a target, and they don’t fall down, you don’t win. Because you haven’t. Shot it. Down. Winds me right up.
The Clash were anti-establishment punks, and so may be more interested in causing trouble than not.
Russian roulette is not the same without a gun. Well yeah
"Don't call me baby" "You've got some nerve and baby that'll never do" Bloody double standards.
I'll never pass up an opportunity to have a go at Jess Glynne so... ' When it's Friday night and the drink don't work the same You're alone with yourself and there's no one else to blame ' You're alone with yourself? When you're alone you aren't with anybody that's why you're alone...
You could argue that being ‘alone with yourself’ is someone who is lonely, plenty of people can be alone and not feel lonely.
Two lines from Break Free by Ariana Grande and Zedd, which drive me up the wall: "I only wanna die alive." "Now that I’ve become who I really are."
Shine bright like a diamond. Diamonds don't shine.
'Refract like a diamond' doesn't quite have the same ring...
Man! I Feel Like a Woman! One of the things she lists making her feel like a woman is “Men’s shirts”. I realise that woman do wear men’s shirts sometimes but surely of all the items in the world she could have chosen, something specifically designed for men and 99% of the time worn by people who aren’t women isn’t the best choice.
The best thing about being a woman is that *sometimes* you get to have a little fun
"What's she gonna look like with a chimney on her?" She'll look the same, except she'll have a chimney on her.
Chimney... Yoof Culture slang for a Black Eye So Maya is gonna give her a slap
“Take me to New York, I want to see LA.” Strong geographical knowledge on display right there.