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You know that song that you know all the words to? This is not that song. This is that song where the lyrics move so quickly or are so garbled that you know only the one word or phrase that is shouted very clearly. If it's not actually shouted by the original artist, it certainly is by anyone singing along, presumably in order to make up for lost time. The name of the trope comes from "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" by R.E.M. from their album Document. It begins "That's great! It starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes and aeroplanes, and Lenny Bruce is not afraid," and then (aside from the Title Drop in the chorus) your guess is good as ours until the only part of any of the verses that anyone knows properly: "LEO-NARD BERN-STEIN!" note The actual verse that includes Leonard Bernstein's name is as follows: "The other night I dreamt of knives, continental drift divide/Mountains sit in a line, Leonard Bernstein/Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce, and Lester Bangs/Birthday party, cheesecake, jellybean, boom/You symbiotic, patriotic, slam but neck, right? Right!" And no, it doesn't make any more sense now that you know the words. So attempts to sing along to usually go "something something Leonard Bernstein".note Trivia: So why does the song even say that? Michael Stipe had a dream where he was at a party surrounded by famous people who all had the initials "LB", which is why Leonard Bernstein, Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce, and Lester Bangs are all listed in the song. (Lenny Bruce is actually mentioned twice, first verse and again right after "LEO-NARD BERN-STEIN!") Any and all foreign songs with a token English word, when listened to by a person only fluent in English, will often fall into this as well. For instance, Japanese songs with Gratuitous English. Compare Second Verse Curse, Chorus-Only Song, Refrain from Assuming, Even the Subtitler Is Stumped, and Single Stanza Song. Related to Indecipherable Lyrics, the point here being that there is at least one word or phrase that everyone will know and shout out with gusto to make up for not knowing the rest. This phenomenon is often caused by the Perishing Alt-Rock Voice. Note, it's not being able to decipher the lyrics; it's more along the lines of not being able to remember them. Also, if you're going to put in an example, put down what the one special word or phrase that everybody absolutely gets is. If you can't do that, then put it in Indecipherable Lyrics. |
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The best-known version of the Kanon ending theme has an English rap segment. The words to that section aren't in the lyric booklet and nobody really knows it beyond "Everybody and their mama know I got it goin' on!". | |
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The grasshoppers in A Bug's Life don't know them either. | |
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"Battery", by Metallica. "Da da da da da da du du da da da da, dadadada BAT-TA-RAY!"note The true lyrics: "Crashing through the boundary/lunacy has found me/cannot stop the battery/Pounding out aggression/Turns into obsession/Cannot kill the battery", and later, "Cannot kill the family/Battery is found in me/Battery!/BAT-TA-RAY!" "GIMME FUE, GIMME FAI, GIMME DABAJABAZA!" note If you're confused: "Gimme fuel, gimme fire, gimme that which I desire!" It's a lot clearer in some of the live versions, surprisingly. |
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The verses of "Witches" by Good Kid. "???, grew up in the suburbs ???! Now just take a look at this ?????, a bit to the right!"note A narrative waste of patches and light / We grew up in the suburbs, then we cut all our ties / Now just take a look at this through Gwyllion eyes / You're wrong, my friend, the road it bends a bit to the right The band even made a video of them playing the song for random people on the street and having them guess the lyrics. | |
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In theory, the theme to The Neverhood has lyrics. In reality, it sounds like this: While that particular song does have lyrics and they even kind of make sense, a lot of the songs are just scatting using SOME English words. Or something close to words. |
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In Tommy Boy, the two protagonists hear the second verse of the Trope Namer, and just mumble along to any words past "Six o'clock, T.V. hour". | |
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The song "Born Slippy.NUXX" by Underworld may be one of the most recognizable dance songs of the 90s, and is especially popular in England. However, it features heavy echo/reverb effects over the vocals, and most people are only able to pick out the word "boy" at the end of a few lines, as well as the famous "Shouting 'Lager, lager, lager lager'" and "Mega mega white thing" bits. | |
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The John Denver song "Late Night Radio" discusses this: | |
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Umineko's ending. "Yami wo kirisaku, OH DESIRE! Something something something something..." SACRIFICE SHEEP TO GAWD!!! |
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Parodied in The Simpsons episode "Homer the Moe", where R.E.M. makes a guest appearance (already without Bill Berry at the time) and Homer further mondegreens their song: | |
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Lampshaded in Parks and Recreation by Leslie when she purposefully sings it without knowing the words, making up her own. It's hilarious. | |
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From The Inimitable Jeeves, by P. G. Wodehouse: | |
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The Rap Critic calls this on Mystikal (even comparing him to Yosemite Sam), saying the only line he understood was "I came in here with my dick in my hand!". | |
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ProJared does a retrospective on the original Carmen Sandiego game. He discusses the game show adaptation and praises its fantastic Theme Tune. He enthusiastically sings along to the Title Drop, then awkwardly doesn't know the rest. | |
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Into the woods nuhnuhnuhnununuhnuhnuhnhunh, Into the woods nuhnuhunhunuhunuhunuhunh journey! | |
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The first first Transformers movie had an entire soundtrack full of this. "Instruments of Destruction" and "Nothing's Gonna Stand In Our Way" are particularly notorious. | |
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H.Bomberguy's version of Mad World in his Doomfist In-Depth Analysis'' video involves him mumbling about half of the lyrics. | |
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A car ad featuring "Bohemian Like You" by The Dandy Warhols had the characters mumble everything except "I like you! And I like you! And I *something something* like you!" This was not helped by the fact that the advertisers had to chop up the first verse because the line after "You've got a great car" is "What's wrong with it today?" |
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A Mr. Bean sketch has Mr. Bean attending a church service, but when the time comes to sing the hymn "All Creatures of our God and King", the man next to Mr. Bean refuses to share his hymnal (due to Mr. Bean's earlier off-putting antics). Mr. Bean is left mumbling all the words along with the general tune until it gets to the one word he knows and shouts triumphantly: "ALLELUIA!" The rest of the first verse has him alternating between mumbling and "ALLELUIA!" | |
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After the lovable misfits of Community save Greendale College from being bought out and plowed under by unscrupulous sandwich-makers in "Basic Sandwich", they have a wild Dance Party Ending scored to The Dave Matthews Band's "Ants Marching" to celebrate. What's funny that no one seems to actually know the words to that happy little tune; they just whoop and mumble rhythmically as they go along. | |
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Every Patter Song ever written! Gilbert and Sullivan? To begin with, the Major General song and It Really Doesn't Matter, in which they actually lampshade it—the line "this particularly rapid unintelligible patter isn't generally heard" is repeated several times! [it should be noted here that, theoretically, while the actors are singing, for the most part the characters aren't supposed to be, rendering this line even more amusing] Admittedly, the singers in this sort of situation are generally of a degree of skill such that they do enunciate every word clearly, but at that speed? And even if you can hear and understand it (not a given in a theater!) that doesn't mean that you know the words; most people likely can't recite much of the Major General song beyond "I am the very model of a modern major general"! Well, most people who aren't trained actors or singers. The Major General song is a standard speech exercise during training because it's so difficult to do. One particular Motor Mouth singer of the Major General song found that the Incessant Chorus couldn't keep up with him during the even faster encore. They solved the problem by invoking this trope directly and having the chorus sing: "But still in matters lubba lubba lubba lubba lubba lubba lubba lubba lubba lubba lubba lubba GENERAL!" Although the Major General song is nothing compared to My Name is John Wellington Wells which, on account of puns, garden path sentences, archaic language, and the occasionally lexical flight of fancy by Mr. Gilbert is easily the most difficult song to sing or understand in the G&S canon and among the most difficult in the history of musical theater. Wells even gives his address, in the libretto mind you, as "number seventy Simmery Axe" (which is complete gibberish to anyone not from London). |
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Attack on Titan's opening theme is a favorite among anime fans in general. However, the lyrics are in a combination of Japanese and Gratuitous German, meaning the only word most English-speaking fans can recognize is "Jäger" (German for "hunter," and the protagonist's surname). Cue many, many Western anime fans contorting their mouths around unfamiliar words only to suddenly shout "JAEGER!!" at the right point. And then there's the first phrase of the song, which sounds something like "Yipee, a Datsun, yee-bee-dee, YEEEEAH!" or complete gibberish to those who don't speak German. | |
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In the Discworld tale Gap Year Adventures, by A.A. Pessimal, a song from faraway Howondaland briefly grips the imagination of Ankh-Morpork and is performed in music halls. As it is not in Morporkian, people guess at the meaning of the words. The repetition of a phrase in the language spoken in Howondaland must be important. Morporkians speculate on why this bloke called Marcus Fontayne is so important. Others say no, you've got it wrong, it's a woman. Margot Fontayne. You know, the ballerina at the Opera House. The fact it's a placename with special significance — Magersfontein — is not realised by people who don't quite get the cultural reference, and in any case were on the losing side in a long-ago war. Characters called Boris Kriger (boereskryger = farmer-fighter) and Stan Your Man (staan jou maan, "face your foe") and his mate Stan Fast (staan vas! = Stand firm!) also come into the song. note A Discworld take, played relatively straight, of Bok van Blerk's Afrikaans-language nationalistic song Afrikanerhart It Makes Sense in Context The girl responsible for popularising the song in Ankh-Morpork is duly mortified with embarrasment. | |
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The final raid of Alexander in Final Fantasy XIV has "Rise", a background song that has been described as "SONIC BOOM completely incomprehensible but enjoyable rap", and has since spawned numerous videos featuring the song with mondegreen lyrics by players. There are some other phrases, such as "A to the L to the E X ANDER" and "Rise with me, rise with me, rise with me, rise up!", but since the official lyrics have not been released the only words that every player can truly agree on is "SONIC BOOM". Even with the official lyrics being released to the public, the singer sings the lyrics way too fast to keep up even with the words in front of you. | |
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When The Macarena was used in Pick Up Song in the British radio show I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, Tim gave up completely on the Spanish parts and started singing "It ain't what you do, it's the way that you do it, Hey Macarena!" Tony Hawk had to perform “Gangnam Style� for the Pick-Up Song game. He spent most of it ranting vaguely Korean-sounding gibberish apart from "Oppa Gangnam Style". Jack Dee commented after the song that Tony had performed "the lyrics we know so well". |
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The theme song to The Big Bang Theory by Barenaked Ladies is centred around a sped-up description of... everything, so it's hard to catch all but the beginning and the end, leading to "Our whole universe was in a hot dense state, and nearly 14 million years ago—mumblemumblemumble, the year began in something something, something something something, something something something we built a wall, WE BUILT THE PYRAMIDS! Math, Science, History, something something mystery, and it all started with a big bang, BANG!" That line is also sung as a gang vocal, so even though anyone who's watched the show since the beginning should have been able to pick up all the lyrics by now, most viewers will still only sing along with that part, and the "BANG!" at the end. The part after the "PYRAMIDS" line is actually "unraveling the mystery" and does get easier to understand after a while. That's not nearly as bad as "One Week" by the same band: "It's been one week...sorry...tiny nuts...Harrison Ford...one week..." Most people (well, non-fans) remember it as the 'Chickety China, the Chinese Chicken' song. Parodied in this Neil Cicierega mashup, which starts rather straight before Neil starts spamming bits like the "It's been" and "Chickety China". |
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In one episode of Freakazoid!, the villains are all being transported on a plane and try to have a singalong to "Polly Wolly Doodle", but they only know the first line and the repeated refrain: | |
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Daisy Dares You has "Number One Enemy", where the chorus essentially sounds like: | |
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From the unofficial Homestuck Christmas Album, the lyrics to The Squiddles Save Christmas seem to literally be "Squiddles, Squiddles, Squiddles, something Squiddles." | |
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Here is the potentially hard to decipher first verse from Hillbilly Jim's theme "Don't Go Messin' With a Country Boy": | |
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"Counting Stars" by OneRepublic - "Baby blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah we'll be counting stars" "TAKE THAT MONEY, WATCH IT BURN, DININININA THE LESSONS ARE LEARNED"note Sink in the river the lessons I learnt |
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"Wild Wild Life" is another standout case of this: "Danananananananana WHOA-OH-OH, we've got some wild wild life, nanananananananananana WHOA-OH-OH, we've got some wild wild life." Problematic because the song has multiple choruses, with the Title Drop being the common lyrical thread for all of them— mixing up pieces from each chorus is common. What's more, while Speaking in Tongues at least puts the lyrics in the liner notes so that you can refer to them (at least on the CD release; the LP version features scans of hand-written lyric drafts that aren't quite as easy to read through), True Stories doesn't. In fact, True Stories is the only Talking Heads album to not include lyric transcriptions in the liner notes for no apparent reasons. | |
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In 3rd Rock from the Sun, the first verse of their mission song is: | |
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The chorus of the theme song to DuckTales (1987): "DuckTales! Woohoo! Beh beh beh beh, beh beh beh beh, DuckTales! Woohoo!" In fact, even the Finnish-to-English soramimi lyrics on YTMND might be better known than the real English lyrics. It's not the fact that the lyrics are hard to understand, but the fact that the stupid "DUCKTALES! A-WOO HOO!" is so catchy it's hard to remember anything else around it. | |
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Made even worse in the Raving Rabbids version, which is delivered about an octave above its usual pitch. Meaning that half the words can only be heard by your dog. | |
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Persona 3: The main battle theme, "Mass Destruction" has rapping. Fast rapping. Other songs in the game sung in English by Japanese people, like the opening theme song "Burn my Dread" are an example of this too, but not as bad as this: |
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Persona 4: It's almost impossible to make out any of the lyrics of "Reach Out to the Truth" other than "I face out, I hold out, I reach out to the truth of my life" and "can you let me out, can you let me out, can you set me free from this dernernerIdunnotherest".note It's "from this dark inner world, save me now, last beat in the soul". It's also frequently heard as "All the LESBIANS, oh yeah LESBIANS, can you SET ME FREE" and then descends into glarble territory. The theme of the Hub Level, "Backside of the TV" is fairly incomprehensible without looking up the lyrics, aside from "Duhduhnana, duhduhnana, FEEL NO PAIN"note "Coldness, blackened, no sound, feel no pain" and later "Numb feeling, whole dizziness, deep scars, feel no pain" from the intro, and "Somethingwhatever, cantunderstand, WHATCHU GONNA DO" in the rapping segment. |
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Persona 5: As usual, Shoji Meguro's themes are in English, despite Meguro not being entirely fluent, and sung by a non-English speaker, resulting in hard to make out lyrics. Special mention goes to "Last Surprise", the normal battle theme, because you're going to hear it a lot. | |
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In Dave Barry Slept Here, the lyrics of the supposed hit song are presented as follows: | |
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Super Best Friends Play: In Part 7 of the Twilight Princess LP, Woolie attempts to sing the Grenadan national anthem based solely on what he could recall from his childhood. Although he's amazed that he remembered it as well as he did, it starts to fall apart around the second verse. | |
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In British magazine Amiga Power's review of the licensed Motörhead game, the author mentions that one of his main memories of the band is | |
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The Red Dwarf theme song for some people. "Nananannananaanaaa MANGO JUICE!" | |
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System of a Down's "IEAIAIO" was made for the sole reason of taking this trope to eleven, so as a result, the original REM song sounds really clear and articulate in comparison. "Fighting crime/with a partner/Lois Lane/Jimmy Carter"? The only easily intelligible word is the "WHY?!" at the end of each line. Probably their most famous example is the opening verse of "Chop Suey" which is pretty much made of this. While most of the song is fairly slow and easy to make out, the most that most people can get from the opening is "WAKE UP! DunnernunnernunnernunnerMAKE-UP! HusserfussermusserfusserSHAKE-UP! HajamajhajafajaTABLE! Heemamummaheemamumma(somethingthatrhymeswith)ABLE!" and then the whole thing again with "YOU WANTED TO" at the start of every line. (The actual lyrics are surprisingly easy- "Wake up/Grab a brush and put a little make-up/Hide the scars to fade away the shake-up/Why'd you leave the keys upon the table?/Here you go create another fable.") This happens with a LOT of System of a Down's music, actually, due to Serj's weird accent and Motor Mouth. |
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A "foreign song" variant in the ProZD video "when you know only the random English parts in a non-English song" where SungWon listens to "Snow Halation" and just stares blankly at the screen until it gets to the Title Drop, which he belts out proudly. In a sequel video, he listens to the Haikyuu!! season two theme song, but only sings along to the "Aw yeah!" parts. | |
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This comes up in The Fairly OddParents: Breakin' da Rules, when Timmy faces the Disco Dan character Gilded Arches. If you come across his goons, Cosmo will attempts to sing the chorus of "Tragedy" by The Bee Gees, very quickly devolving into gibberish after the Title Drop. | |
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Disturbed singer David Draiman's style has a way of doing this for three reasons: For the most part, just about the entire discography could count (though "Voices", "Sons of Plunder", "The Night", "Asylum" and "This Moment" are particular stand-outs). |
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Coal Chamber's "Loco" is infamous for this, mainly on the account of Dez Fafara's Motor Mouth delivery of the lyrics and the effects used on the vocal track. | |
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Desert Bus for Hope has turned not knowing the other words to Toto's "Africa" except the title word into their own meme. | |
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In The Office (US), Dwight and Michael mumble through a verse of "We Didn't Start the Fire" (or really "Ryan Started the Fire") until they can shout "Marilyn Monroe". The trope is subverted when Dwight demonstrates in a later confessional that he can deliver the lyrics perfectly. (Or else he looked them up and rehearsed before going on camera.) | |
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Skindred tends to end up with this, being essentially Welsh Death Reggae. Band from Wales with a lead singer of Jamaican descent playing music that they describe in one of their songs as "Ragga metal punk hip-hop". | |
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The opening theme of Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure Phantom Blood is definitely subject to this, as the most prominent words from that theme seem to be "SONO CHI NO SADAME, JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOJO!" | |
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Many of Haim Saban and Shuki Levy's theme songs from their 80s heyday could count, mainly because of frequent singer Noam Kaniel's thick Israeli accent. The theme tunes to Heathcliff & the Catillac Cats and The Get Along Gang are the worst offenders (in fact, the closed captioning on some Heathcliff episodes can't tell if one line is "The gang will reign supreme!" or "The king will reign supreme!") | |
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Many of The Rolling Stones' songs. Critic Dave Marsh summed it up discussing "Tumbling Dice" from Exile on Main St.: | |
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Miles Morales of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse doesn't know most of the lyrics to Post Malone & Swae Lee's "Sunflower" beyond "...nevertheless, callin' it quits now, baby, I'm a wreck," faking his way through the rest when he sings it. | |
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Scorpions' Signature Song "Rock You Like A Hurricane". The only lyrics anybody can make out are "Its early morning...", "He's licking his lips, he's ready to win / On the hunt tonight for Love at First Sting...", and the chorus. | |
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Persona: Tracks with lyrics in this series are often very difficult to interpret due to swapping between English and Japanese, sometimes mid-sentence. Persona 3: The main battle theme, "Mass Destruction" has rapping. Fast rapping. Other songs in the game sung in English by Japanese people, like the opening theme song "Burn my Dread" are an example of this too, but not as bad as this: Persona 4: It's almost impossible to make out any of the lyrics of "Reach Out to the Truth" other than "I face out, I hold out, I reach out to the truth of my life" and "can you let me out, can you let me out, can you set me free from this dernernerIdunnotherest".note It's "from this dark inner world, save me now, last beat in the soul". It's also frequently heard as "All the LESBIANS, oh yeah LESBIANS, can you SET ME FREE" and then descends into glarble territory. The theme of the Hub Level, "Backside of the TV" is fairly incomprehensible without looking up the lyrics, aside from "Duhduhnana, duhduhnana, FEEL NO PAIN"note "Coldness, blackened, no sound, feel no pain" and later "Numb feeling, whole dizziness, deep scars, feel no pain" from the intro, and "Somethingwhatever, cantunderstand, WHATCHU GONNA DO" in the rapping segment. Persona 5: As usual, Shoji Meguro's themes are in English, despite Meguro not being entirely fluent, and sung by a non-English speaker, resulting in hard to make out lyrics. Special mention goes to "Last Surprise", the normal battle theme, because you're going to hear it a lot. |
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"Burning Down the House" from Speaking in Tongues is a particularly glaring example: "What's that?/ Ching fanna army naftah!/ Who's there?/ Dee fellow party's over!/ I'm in... ordinary high! BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE!note "Watch out!/You might get what you're after!/Cool baby!/Strange but not a stranger!/I'M! AN! OR! DI! NA! RY! GUY! BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE!" The big problem here is that the line before the title drop is "I'm an ordinary guy" and there is no one on Earth who can understand why David Byrne would say that about himself. | |
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In the Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return Christmas Episode "The Christmas That Almost Wasn't", Jonah starts the one Christmas carol nobody knows: Good King Wenceslas. | |
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"We Are," the original theme (and occasional leitmotif) from One Piece, falls under the Gratuitous English variant, and is therefore basically incomprehensible to English speakers until the final few lines of the song, to wit: | |
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How to be a Werewolf: Eli butchers the lyrics to Bon Jovi's "Living on a Prayer" while driving with Vincent to "borrow" a chainsaw and other things from his mother. When Vincent tries to point out that that's not quite how the lyrics go Eli insists his version is an improvement. | |
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The Butthole Surfers song "Who Was In My Room Last Night?" has this in spades. "All night long my body burned mumble mumble mumble WHO WAS IN MY ROOM LAST NIGHT WHO THE HELL WAS IN MY BED?!" | |
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One of the ghosts in Osohe Castle in Mother 3 sings his own version of the song that the ghost at the piano is playing, admitting that, while he likes the song, he doesn't quite have the lyrics down. | |
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Also applicable to "It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" (from the same album as "Mr Tambourine Man"). "Sometimes even the president of the United States has to stand naked" is the only line of the rather long and complex song audiences in the 60s really bothered to remember. This is probably because most people were still looking for clear anti-establishment messages in Dylan's lyrics, unable or unwilling to see that he'd moved on from straight-up protest songs to much more abstract beat poetry-influenced lyrics. | |
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The Doobie Brothers has, at the very least, "China Grove": "Well the people 'n' the peep, noo joo me crossnote Well, the preacher and the teeacher, Lord, they're a caution / they are the talk of the town... People are some kind the strange / damn Mrs. Perkins againnote The lyrics are different, though, as the first verse says, "The people of the town are strange, / and they're proud of where they came", and the second verse says, "They say that the father's insane, / and dear Mrs. Perkins' a game.".... WOAH-HO, CHINA GROVE!" One way you can pick out someone from San Antonio is that they know a bit more than the above lyrics in said song, because "China Grove" is a song about a community called China Grove in south San Antonio. There's a bit about "old San Antone" and another one about "they just keep on lookin' to the East" in the song that refer to S.A. and is thus instantly pick-uppable for S.A. natives. Oh, and it's "dear Mrs. Perkins' a game". |
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Aaron G., who frequently does vocals for Naoki's songs in DanceDanceRevolution, has a talent for really fast rapping. The lyrics to Dynamite Rave scroll quite fast on DDR 3rd Mix's karaoke lyrics, and later games removed the lyrics display altogether, so for most people singing along, the rap section's lyrics might as well be "Techno rave, mumblemumblemumble mumblemumblemumble mumblemumblemumble... DYNAMITE RAVE mumblemumblemumble..." It helps that the Title Drop is in all caps in the official lyrics. | |
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Hellsing opening theme The World Without Logos, also called LOGOS Naki WORLD, confuses almost everybody who hear it, thinking they just can't make out Yasushi Ishii's accent. As it turns out, it's because the lyrics mean literally nothing. Observe... | |
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Final Fantasy: Sephiroth's leitmotif from Final Fantasy VII. Something indecipherable, probably Latin, something something something SEPHIROTH! The final raid of Alexander in Final Fantasy XIV has "Rise", a background song that has been described as "SONIC BOOM completely incomprehensible but enjoyable rap", and has since spawned numerous videos featuring the song with mondegreen lyrics by players. There are some other phrases, such as "A to the L to the E X ANDER" and "Rise with me, rise with me, rise with me, rise up!", but since the official lyrics have not been released the only words that every player can truly agree on is "SONIC BOOM". Even with the official lyrics being released to the public, the singer sings the lyrics way too fast to keep up even with the words in front of you. |
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Kids probably know the lyrics in The Fairly OddParents! | |
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Every Stephen Sondheim musical has at least one Patter Song that moves so quickly, only a trained singer can perform it at speed in an understandable manor. | |
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The beginning of Nightwish's Fantasmic basically goes "Wish upon a star, nwlasfjdkcldnsfcnsal, take my ham, nwsdlkjncklcxfndskjl..." Oh, that's nothing. Wait till part 3. It's all over in older Nightwish songs, as Tarja's Finnish accent became progressively less pronounced with each album. Can anyone understand anything Tarja says the first time they listened? I thought not. "Did she just say 'happy haunting, you taco-faced carnie fork'?" For the curious, they're probably listening to "Romanticide"— the actual lyrics are, "Happy hunting, you double-faced carnivore." |
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Saturday Night Live: One skit has a fake commercial for J-Disc Presents: Ten Beatles Classics You Kind of Know the Words To. Sung by the Kind of Know the Words To Singers. The lyrics of "Smooth Criminal" are difficult to understand other than "You've been hit by, you've been struck by..." SNL points this out in a sketch with Bruno Mars where his character works at Pandora Radio and has to impersonate various singers when their stations crash. While singing "Smooth Criminal" for the Michael Jackson station he just sings gibberish. A Christmas show sketch took place at a dinner for members of a lodge. The emcee led the crowd in Christmas carols, only for everyone to start mumbling after the well-known first line. When they tried The First Noel, they started with the chorus ("Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel...."), but the only person who knew the next words ("Born is the King of Israel") was Mickey (Elliott Gould), their Jewish guest . The Eddie Murphy skit "Buckwheat Sings" - or rather, "Buh-weet Sings". He sings "Three Times a Lady", which the captions identify as "Fee Tines a Mady", then "Lookin' for Love" ("Wookin' pa Nub"). But when he starts singing "Bette Davis Eyes," the caption just says, "?????" because he's so unintelligible. Another fake commercial for an album by "The Drunken Asses" features episode host Tom Hanks leading a group of intoxicated people in a bar who can only remember parts of the choruses of popular songs, mumbling their way through the verses. |
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A good number of Reggae songs are like this to listeners outside of Jamaica. The unusual vocal style and heavy use of patois and Rasta jargon will seem incomprehensible, but the refrains tend to be simple and memorable. On Twitter there was a joke that the lyrics to Sean Paul's dancehall song "Gimme the Light" were "Just gimme the light anacasta jooooe/baka maka laka lamo" |
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Animal House also lampshades the difficulties when Bluto teaches the freshmen frat members a more obscene version of the song. To their credit, though, the soundtrack actually has a well-sung — even comprehensible! — version sung by none other than Mr. Belushi himself! | |
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"Kid A" is one of their worst songs for this. Thom Yorke's voice is so distorted it's hard to make out anything other than the odd word like "away". Notably, this was an Invoked Trope here, with Thom distorting his vocals specifically to distance himself from the highly personal tone of the song; still, if you didn't have the lyrics pointed out to you already, it can be hard to decipher much beyond a few scattered words and phrases like "come on, kids." | |
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"I Want You" by Savage Garden comes close, since the words go fast, you can barely comprehend them, all except for the last few words of every line, one of which is "Chik-a-cherry cola" (not "chicken cherry cola"), which is sometimes a nickname for the song used by people who don't know the real name of the song. Rosie O'Donnell went to town with this one on her talk show. Then the single really took off. | |
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The pre-chorus of "Always" by Erasure, made famous from Robot Unicorn Attack seems to go "When it's cold outside, da da da da daaay, HOLD ON TO THE NIGHT, THERE WILL BE NO SHAME!" (It's actually "Am I here in vain?") Andy Bell's occasionally cryptic lyrics, high tessitura, and penchant for jamming words into awkward spaces make this sort of thing relatively commonplace in Erasure songs. |
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While "DVNO" by Justice has a pretty clear chorus, good luck trying to understand anything before that | |
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Anything by The 1975, thanks to Matty Heally's ridiculously thick British accent, but especially the verses of "Chocolate": | |
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"Technical Difficulties" by Julien-K, from the first live-action Transformers movie. "We are/ something technical/ something" a few times, and then "Nothing is working, please stand by." The rest of the song is lost not in fast delivery, but electronic distortion and very little contrast. And to some, Kick the Bass by the same group is worse - "Great song, and I only know the first line." It's apparently about girls and parties, but good luck figuring that out with the mushy audio and the lyrics not fitting in with the overall feel of the song. The first first Transformers movie had an entire soundtrack full of this. "Instruments of Destruction" and "Nothing's Gonna Stand In Our Way" are particularly notorious. |
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Todd in the Shadows: From his review of Flo Rida's "Club Can't Handle Me": When discussing R.E.M. in the "Top Ten Songs About Mediocre Romance" list, Todd uses the Trope Namer to show how Michael Stipe's fast singing make them hard to understand and sing along. (he also claims Stipe's slurring delivery can be blamed, at least in the first albums) Also provides the page quote when discussing Snow's "Informer" |
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Andrea Bocelli's "Con te partirò" is otherwise known as "Time to Say Goodbye", as that is the only English line in the verses, and for that matter, the only line English-speakers recognize. | |
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Pearls Before Swine, as well as providing the current page image, is the partial Trope Namer. | |
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There's a scene in The Blue Lagoon where the marooned Richard and Emmeline are celebrating Christmas and try to sing carols, but they've been on the island too long and have forgotten most of them. Each one they try they get through the first line or two, then peter out. Eventually they just giggle awkwardly and give up. | |
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One of the show's cutaways claims that you can understand only the last three words from any of Sting's songs, using "Fields of Gold" as an example. | |
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Clear Mind by Masaaki Endoh has a ton of English pieces in it; some pronounced well, some not. Most of them, like "Keep on Burning Soul" or "Crazy Keep on Driving", make no sense; so even if you hear the lyrics correctly, you may second-guess your understanding of them. | |
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The lyrics of the theme song to Good Times can be this. Most people know the line "GOOD TIMES!". This was parodied on Chappelle's Show with a quiz show in which contestants were asked to finish a specific lyric to the song ("_____, GOOD TIMES!"). They came up with "hanging in a jury", "hanging a jacket" and indecipherable humming noises. Dave Chappelle gave the correct answer as "hangin' in a chow line", but the song's writers say that it's actually "hangin' in and jivin' ". | |
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"Take on Me" by A Ha is basically 50/50, between understandable and not (primarily due to the fact that the band is Norwegian). Probably more due to the very high pitch and the quite fast singing over also very high instruments. Of course some strange fast and strangely enunciated words don't help. "I'll be there lalalaaaaa" (actually: "in a day or two"). | |
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From his review of Flo Rida's "Club Can't Handle Me": | |
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If you hear Hoagy Carmichael's "The Monkey Song" and don't understand most of the lyrics, you're hardly alone. This was demonstrated on The Stan Freberg Show. | |
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Pere Ubu, a weird band to begin with, have a song call "Street Waves," in which the only comprehensible words are "I ride a street wave." As they don't ever release their lyrics, no one's even sure about this part. "Street Waves" aside, at least 95% of Pere Ubu's oeuvre is indecipherable due to David Thomas' squawking, blubbering vocal delivery and the band's bizarre, often esoteric lyrics. For added fun, track down a Pere Ubu record, try writing down what you hear, then go to their website and look up the lyrics. Compare results. Ubu started to include lyrics on their releases in The '80s, but stopped a few years later. Band leader David Thomas explained his reasons in the liner notes of the 1995 release Raygun Suitcase: |
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In an episode of Family Guy, Peter tries to sing "We Didn't Start the Fire", but only remembers the vague concept and tune without the lyrics: | |
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The animated adaptation of Horton Hatches the Egg: | |
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Black Onslaught from BlazBlue is sung in a muffled death growl and goes roughly "barghlegarghlebla WHAT A BIG BIG MISTAKE". A new version was recorded for the L.A. Vocal Edition album without the death growl, while the remastered version from Chronophantasma keeps the death growl but is still much more intelligible than the original. | |
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In "Look Before You Leap", Frasier is set to perform a solo at a PBS telethon. At the last second he backs out of performing a "challenging aria" from Rigoletto and decides to do his traditional performance of "Buttons and Bows" from Paleface. The problem is, he hasn't rehearsed "Buttons and Bows" at all and once he starts singing he discovers he can't remember most of the lyrics forcing him to improv to fill the gaps. | |
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In the episode "Killer Queen", Lois notes that Peter isn't very good at patter songs. This claim is backed up with two cutaways, one of Peter singing "America" from West Side Story with him mumbling everything but "America", and the other cutaway is of Peter singing the Major General Song from The Pirates of Penzance. | |
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The 'Singular-English-line' variant appears in the Rammstein song "Amerika," with growled German lyrics for the majority of the song, and the chorus "We're all living in America, America, it's wunderbar." | |
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