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Phrase Salad Lyrics
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Sometimes songwriters write lyrics that are completely incomprehensible, stringing together a bunch of words that have just the right rhythm for the song, but in context make no sense whatsoever. This is known as Word Salad Lyrics. However, sometimes the same effect is done in a slightly less extreme way. Introducing the Phrase Salad Lyrics, where, unlike the more extreme Word Salad Lyrics, each line or sentence in a song actually completes a thought— but string several sentences together, and no meaning is clear. It may be symbolic, or it may not be. Sometimes each sentence sounds fitting to the mood of the song; but together the meaning of the sentences is still difficult, if not possible, to comprehend. While it's true that Word Salad Lyrics and Phrase Salad Lyrics often overlap, Phrase Salad Lyrics are found so much more often than Word Salad Lyrics that the existence of the corresponding trope in songs with Phrase Salad Lyrics is often completely over-looked. It's even possible that songs with Phrase Salad Lyrics are just as common as songs with a clear meaning. |
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Many songs from the Sonic the Hedgehog series that have lyrics qualify. Some more notable examples are listed below. Sonic Adventure: "Unknown from M.E." (Knuckles the Echidna's theme): Sonic Adventure: "Lazy Days ~Livin' in Paradise~" (Big the Cat's theme): Sonic and the Secret Rings: "Seven Rings in Hand", the main theme of the game (overlapping with Word Salad Lyrics): |
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Sonic and the Secret Rings: "Seven Rings in Hand", the main theme of the game (overlapping with Word Salad Lyrics): | |
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"Moonlight Shadow" by Mike Oldfield (with vocals by Maggie Reilly) otherwise tells a fairly clear story of a woman whose lover is shot, but it uses a trick of having every second line in every stanza be the same, and only some of those lines fit between the ones telling the story. | |
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"Do You Like Me" by Fugazi is said to be the result of Guy Picciotto fusing two unfinished songs together, one being a song about a crush and the other being a Protest Song about war - hence why the song starts with him describing someone who "should pay rent in my mind", but ends with a chant of "Lockheed, Lockheed Martin Marietta", as in the arms corporation. | |
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"Take Me to Church" by Hozier can fall into this. Word of God is that it's a metaphor about the Catholic Church and its stance on homosexuality, although if you don't know this, the lyrics sound somewhat nonsensical. | |
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Sonic Adventure: "Lazy Days ~Livin' in Paradise~" (Big the Cat's theme): | |
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"The Arrangement" by Oliver! can easily be regarded as this. | |
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The Strangers with Candy movie ends with a Phrasebook Salad song composed entirely of random Spanish sentences. | |
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Many heavy metal lyrics have cool/threatening phrases stringed together, even if they don't make much sense. For instance, the chorus of "Two Minutes to Midnight" by Iron Maiden is a metaphorical description of the Doomsday Clock. The verses, just random War Is Hell sentences. | |
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bill wurtz does this in just about every song. He has a fondness for love and a feeling of going back home and/or where you belong, but as per his sense of humor, his songs never really build on a specific theme or narrative despite individual phrases being perfectly coherent. An example from "La de da de da de da de day oh": | |
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Speaking of Polish rock (and pop) men, Kuba Sienkiewicz, he of the song about paintings of Salvador Dalí. Among others. | |
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