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Some songs are very lyrically direct. Other songs, however, are the musical equivalent of Word Salad Title. They might have some kind of symbolic meaning. Maybe the songwriter went for the feeling associated with the words rather than the direct meaning. Or maybe they just strung together a bunch of lines that sounded cool. Either way, the results are incomprehensible. Can also extend to the title (often so weird it isn't in the lyrics). Common results when listening is hearing the lyrics wrong or not even bothering to make up words. A special case is Japanese music. A lot of apparently incomprehensible Japanese lyrics are actually puns or other wordplays based on alternate translations of the kanji used, similar-sounding words, or (most often) both. Much of what may seem gibberish even in the original Japanese, is actually clever and/or silly puns or Double Entendre for those who know their kanji well enough. Of course, a lot of the "alternate reading" wordplays are just as incomprehensible as the main readings. See the Azumanga Daioh example below. Lyrical Shoehorn (which in literature is known as Dada Poetry) where words are used exclusively for their sound, cadence, and alliteration; with no concern for meaning. See also Song of Song Titles, Surreal Theme Tune, Scatting, Word Salad Title, Word Salad Philosophy, The Walrus Was Paul, and True Art Is Incomprehensible. May overlap with Phrase Salad Lyrics. Compare Something Something Leonard Bernstein. Not to be confused with Listeners Are Geniuses, where lyrics are loaded with literary, mythological, or pop-cultural references that are confusing only to non-geniuses. |
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"I'm Too Sexy" by Right Said Fred starts off with the narrator boasting about how he's so sexy that he needs to take off his shirt to show everyone, then rapidly devolves into complete nonsense as he declares himself too sexy for every random object he thinks of, including a car, a cat, and the song itself. | |
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Sonic the Hedgehog CD: In contrast to "Sonic Boom" in the North American soundtrack, which is a clear Bragging Theme Tune about how awesome Sonic is, most of the lyrics to the two Japanese tunes "Sonic-You Can Do Anything" and "Cosmic Eternity" make no sense whatsoever, with the latter sounding more like an abstract, high energy workout tune than a motivational hero song.note However, looking at the lyrics from a different angle, the lyrics are motivational- to the player. It's about being confident of your abilities and believing in yourself - a recurring theme in the decorative text on the Japanese boxart of the Sonic The Hedgehog games. | |
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Dream Theater did this a lot in their early work, most notably "Under a Glass Moon". Part 3 of "Octavarium" has shades of this as well, since it is just Mike Portnoy mashing up the titles of his favourite songs/bands etc., while keeping to the song's theme of "everything ends where it begins". |
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If a Groove Coaster song composed by Shohei Tsuchiya has singing that isn't Scatting, most of the time it will involve nonsensical Gratuitous English lyrics. Take "It's a pit world" for example: | |
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In Nancy Drew: Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon, Hurley's engineer taught his grandson a poem so strange that, even decades ago, he still remembers it. It's a clue that shows how to find Hurley's treasure. | |
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"Dig a Pony" from Let It Be: You might have noticed all of the above songs were by John Lennon. |
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Metallica lyrics sometimes seem like a sequence of short, cool-sounding phrases, such as "The End of the Line". James Hetfield even admitted that the cryptic "anonymous but powerful" approach helps fans find some meaning of their own. | |
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Versailles mostly has songs with meaningful Japanese lyrics with only a smattering of Gratuitous English. Not that you'd know this by their Signature Song, "The Revenant Choir", which is seven minutes of badly-pronounced, nonsensical English. Vocalist Kamijo was aware that the lyrics were...off, but chose to use them anyway because he didn't feel that Japanese lyrics would suit the flow of the song. | |
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The World Ends with You's opening theme Twister, in spades. While one can make some sense out of it if one tries really hard, and the visuals that accompany it are a heavily symbolic Spoiler Opening, the words themselves are thoroughly bizarre. | |
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Underworld lyrics generally seem to emphasize setting a mood over having any literal meaning. "Born Slippy (Nuxx)" for instance - one kind of gets the impression that it's about a night of debauchery gone wrong from a handful of more direct lines, but it's full of passages like "Random blonde bio high-density rhythm / Blonde boy blonde country blonde high density". Word of God says the Born Slippy .NUXX lyrics were meant to represent an alcoholic's internal thoughts. Singer Karl Hyde was, by his own admission, a functioning alcoholic when he wrote them (so you can imagine his reaction when people took the "Lager! Lager! Lager!"-chant to them). |
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Half of Fluke's Risotto album is instrumental, but the half that's lyrical is definitely this. For instance the first two lines of the appropriately named "Absurd" are "King kong in Cannes / On a date with Spiderman" | |
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Early Modest Mouse. | |
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Winx Club transformations, namely the 'Enchantix' theme song, get this. It sounds like they just threw a bunch of semi-relevant words in. | |
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Deerhoof. They seem to have gone through the "deliberately ridiculous", ironic and post-ironic forms of this trope, and are now making songs about pandas, flowers, pickup bears and seeing the duck because those sound like awesome things to write songs about. | |
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Two notable Looney Tunes examples: 1939's "Hare-um Scare-um" features Happy Rabbit's song with lyics such as these: This from Bugs Bunny in "Hare Trigger": |
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"Daikenkai" from pop'n music and DanceDance Revolution. Here's a translation of the refrain (and let's not talk about the rest of the lyrics): Another from Pop'n Music and DDR is "CURUS". It's obviously got a vague love theme, but...some lines make absolutely no sense. Take for example the beginning of the extended version of the song (note - lyrics may not be 100% accurate): |
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From a pair of Tumblr posts that spawned a set of alternate lyrics for "Mister Sandman", as sung in this video and subsequently expanded into a full version: | |
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The Team Dai-Gurren theme from Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (technically called "Rap is a Man's Soul") is mostly a Hot-Blooded anthem about doing the impossible , but then there's the second verse... | |
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Faith No More, "Epic". It consists largely of contradictory references to an unspecified "it". Actually, most of Mike Patton's lyrics for his various projects would qualify. "Epic" makes sense when you consider that it's about auto-fellatio. "Land Of Sunshine" does this almost literally, since the lyrics are almost entirely taken from fortune cookies and a Dianetics questionnaire. The results almost make sense if read as a sarcastic parody of cults and self-help movements though. Just about any of the lyrics written by Patton's predecessor Chuck Mosley qualify for this. |
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In The Weekenders, the in-universe band ''Chum Bukkit' have a song called "Suffused Elephant Quaff Winces Exasperating" with lyrics consisting of notes whose original meanings were mangled by Carver's lack of penmanship. | |
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Lampshaded in the lyrics of "Only a Northern Song" from Yellow Submarine, which George wrote as a Take That! to Northern Songs, with the company retaining the copyright for the songs with John, Paul and the shareholders benefiting more than George did: | |
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German punk rockers Die Goldenen Zitronen are fond of long leftist rants, influenced by rap music. | |
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And "Sun King" from Abbey Road ends this way: | |
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The late Chris Cornell admitted that most of his lyrics had no intended literal meaning and were more intended to evoke a mood. As such, a number of Soundgarden songs make no sense if you actually pay attention to the lyrics: "Black Hole Sun" "Outshined": |
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Discussed in a 1977 Doonesbury. Bob Dylan is hanging out with Jimmy Thudpucker and talks about finding out that new President Jimmy Carter had called him "an authentic American voice." Dylan says, "I was just trying to make it rhyme, man," while Thudpucker thinks to himself, "Now he tells us." | |
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Most of Beck's songs qualify as this, but he actually has stories behind almost all of them. A prime example is "Loser": From Futurama: Here's another gem from "Hotwax" |
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Rick and Morty has the infamous "Get Shwifty", a song about taking off your pants, shitting on the floor, and, well, getting shwifty, whatever that means. A Justified Trope, since Rick had to improvise the whole thing on the fly to save the Earth. | |
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Some of the lyrics from Jonathan Larson's unfinished play tick, tick... BOOM! can tend this way, in particular Actions Speak Louder Than Words, which seems more concerned with what sounds pretty than what makes sense. | |
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"So Far To You I May" from Czech film Lemonade Joe sounds like a song in English spiced with some Spanish words, as fits The Western set in Arizona. The lyrics actually mean nothing, but the gibberish is hilarious. Then you read the lyrics. The words are written as Czech speakers without any knowledge of English would hear them, and transcribed phonetically ("Sou Fár Tů Jů Aj Mej"). | |
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Pretty much any lyric in any given Death Grips song. | |
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Sesame Street: A Season 18 episode gives us "Nimi Nami Nomi", a really silly song Big Bird sings with the Birdketeers about nothing in particular aside from singing with them. Besides the ridiculously-sounding gibberish chorus, he also mentions various children's songs in the lyrics, while also claiming all of which are what the song isn't about. | |
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Dethklok's "Blood Ocean." | |
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Al Stewart's "Red Toupee" song: "To Catalina in a fishing boat/They call it Henry Cisneros/We got no money but we still stay afloat/The jellyfishes don't scare us...In your Red Toupee". | |
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Melvins' lyrics frequently seem to consist of equal parts words that sound cool together, sentence fragments, and nonsense syllables. This is further compounded by their trademark sometimes unintelligible growled vocals, and the fact that they've only ever included printed lyrics to a few songs in their liner notes. "Hooch", the only song on the Houdini album to have its lyrics printed, appeared on an episode of Beavis and Butt-Head'', and amusingly Beavis' mondegreens made slightly more sense than the official lyrics. Compare "Exi-tease my ray day member half lost a beat away" to Beavis' "Exit is my raging member, band on a TV". Given the absurdist leanings of the band to outright lie in interviews and have their main website designed to give absolutely no information, they're probably Lyrical Shoehorn material. |
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The Google Translate Sings series transforms songs into this by putting their lyrics through several layers of Google Translate until it screws up hilariously. | |
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Dio, "Holy Diver". Dio is famous for this trope as a whole. |
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Annihilator's "Word Salad" from their 1989 album Alice In Hell. | |
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The Muppet Show's house band The Electric Mayhem subscribes to the True Art Is Incomprehensible philosophy, particularly bassist Floyd Pepper. | |
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A lot of Katatonia's lyrics post-Genre Shift: | |
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The Mortal Instruments: The lyrics to any song by Lawn Chair Crisis/Sea Vegetable Conspiracy/Sexist Pigs/Rock Solid Panda/Salacious Mold/Millennium Lint/Dangerous Stain/Dichotomous Lemur are like this. Not to mention Eric's poetry readings: |
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Iron & Wine's lyrics occasionally border on the incomprehensible. This verse from "Flightless Bird, American Mouth" is a pretty standard example: | |
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The English lyrics from Persona 4 occasionally have some awkward metaphors or mispronounced emphasis, but most of the time are mostly-sensical and tie into the game's themes. Then out came the Reincarnation remix album, which adds a second verse to the main battle them "Reach Out to the Truth". While a couple of the lines are okay if a second look is taken at them ("Bleach out cock and bull" refers to washing away lies, for example), most of the entire second verse seems to be completely random, featuring lines such as "Flooded apple pie" and "It's already disgusting/To dance with your palm". | |
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All of the English songs on the Soul Eater OSTs, as well as the French one. "Step Up" in particular comes to mind. | |
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All of System of a Down's releases have at least one of these. The self-titled debut album has "DDevil"... ...And Sugar. While more likely construed as a series of sexual euphemisms, elements of "Bounce" could certainly qualify as the example from Toxicity. Steal This Album! has "Chic 'N Stu" And the Mesmerize/Hypnotize double CD gets represented by "Vicinity Of Obscenity". |
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"Elektrobank", by The Chemical Brothers: | |
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Azumanga Daioh's OP, "Soramimi Cake," is a great anime example of a word-salad song. Somewhat justified, in that much of the lyrics are odd puns and wordplays in the original Japanese. For example, the song title, "Soramimi Cake", which is pronounced "soramimi keiki" and is usually translated "Fancy Hearing Cake", sounds a lot like "sora mimikaki". "Sora" is typically translated as "sky", and the kanji used to write it is also translatable as "air" or "empty". "Mimikaki" is a device for cleaning out earwax, and the two kanji used to write it can be translated as "ear" or "edge", and "scratch", "scrape, or "noise" respectively. So with a slight twist, the title becomes "Empty Ear Noise". Taking things a step further, in the popular Japanese vernacular, "soramimi" is a slang term for the phenomenon of foreign-language lyrics sounding uncannily similar to nonsense phrases in the listener's native tongue, deriving itself from the aforementioned "empty ear noise" meaning. That's right: the song is deliberately as nonsensical as possible simply to poke fun at inter-linguistic mondegreens! |
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The song "Pegleg Potion" by Alestorm features this in the break before the chorus, ostensibly a side effect of drinking the titular potion. | |
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Jon Lajoie parodies this in all three "WTF Collective" videos with MC Confusing. From the first collective: | |
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Ultra Fast Pony: Zecora communicates mainly in rap, so she tends to say what she means in one line, then spout a complete non-sequitur that happens to rhyme in the second line. Rarity's Hard-Work Montage is set to "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" with new, nonsensical lyrics. Discord introduces himself by singing a song about "Penny and Clyde". He admits, in the song, that Penny and Clyde have nothing to do with anything, but he just likes saying their names. |
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Parodied in the Hancock's Half Hour radio episode "The Poetry Society" where Hancock tries to ingratiate himself with a group of snobbish intellectuals by attempting to imitate their word salad verses. Naturally, they immediately denounce him as a fraud, but when his idiot friend Bill tries it they hail Bill as a fellow genius. | |
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Much of Sleigh Bells' album Treats - the music was written first, so the lyrics often seem to be chosen for sound rather than meaning. From "Infinity Guitars": | |
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Cashell's "Un-Gravitify" from Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity makes such little sense that any attempts to find meaning in it are futile at best. There are even several sentences that are just plain grammatically incorrect! | |
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The Black Lagoon opening "Red Fraction" by MELL is a prime example: Granted, some of the lyrics could vaguely reflect some aspect of Revy's life. When you've got the lyrics, the song makes sense. Deciphering them from the song, though... |
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The anime Weiß Kreuz has image songs for all the major characters. "Spiritualized", the song for psychic Schuldig, is like this, likely to illustrate the chaotic feeling of touching unshielded minds. | |
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RWBY has a soundtrack full of songs where composer Jeff Williams read the scripts, put himself in a mindset complete with a few dialogue lines verbatim, and somehow manages to get a thematically coherent set of lyrics. That is, aside from "Caffeine", featuring a bunch of cool-sounding but nonsensical boasts ("A certified monster I'm an absolute trip,\\ Like Otis Redding, hard to handle so you better get a grip,\\A super-fast, superfly, bonafide wise guy.\\Call the morgue and say goodbye, write your will; it's time to die."), and the Volume 6 opener "Rising", which after a straightforward opening verse gets very cryptic: | |
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Lucky Star's opening theme "Motteke! Sailor Fuku!" has rather nonsensical lyrics, which is quite appropriate considering it somewhat parodies shows with songs exactly like it. It doesn't help that what the song actually says changes depending on who you're talking to. Is the second line about being wrapped up in a sailor uniform, a school uniform being wrapped in the person wearing it, or rapping in a sailor uniform? It's so confusing! | |
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Haruhi Suzumiya: Most of the Image Songs (and indeed, most Image Songs in general) are designed to make sense, as they're written to give depth to the characters. Not Nagato Yuki's. As we don't really understand what's going on in her head, some of her image songs get nigh-incomprehensible. "Under Mebius" (which actually means "Moebius") starts out with English word salad, then segues into the kind of equally nonsensical Japanese you'd hear from a human computer: The opening of Haruhi-chan, "The Story Up To Now", combines anime references, Mythology Gags, obscure Japanese puns, and... words fail, just watch this. |
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Parodied by comedian Kyle Gordon with "Planet of the Bass" (aka "Every European Dance Song in The '90s"), a spoof of Y2K-era Europop in which he and Chrissi Poland (credited as DJ Crazy Times and Ms. Biljana Electronicanote The latter is played in the video by a revolving door of influencers (Audrey Trullinger, Mara Olney, and Sabrina Brier), in a parody of how many Eurodance songs regularly swapped out their female vocalists and treated them as interchangeable) sing nonsense lyrics that sound poorly machine-translated from Slovakian into English over an uptempo electronic beat. Aqua, one of the bands whose music was being parodied, voiced their approval by way of a Euphoria meme. | |
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"Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo" from Cinderella is 25% intelligible, and the rest of its lyrics are nonsensical gibberish. Justified, since most of it consists of magic words. | |
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This applies to the Laurie Anderson collab "Love Love Love" to a lesser extent—until you discover that Laurie Anderson has pieced together some of the words in the lyrics from entirely different words. | |
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Since they started their ever-increasing tendency to go more Pop on every album since 2013, this has become one of their major criticisms. On Save Rock and Roll, this was mostly due to mixed metaphors that Pete Wentz wrote in some of the songs. American Beauty/American Psycho has more of these, particularly in 'Uma Thurman,' a song they admit they specifically wrote after some people suggested to them that the Munsters theme that they had ready to sample reminded them of Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill, with Uma's roles in those movies. Then some of the singles on Mania definitely have this, with them directly name-dropping Nikki Sixx, but then referencing Britney Spears' song 'Oops I Did It Again' not two lines later for some reason, and some of the choruses of their more recent songs not being directly relating to the stories of their songs, but more so being a part of the song because they sound nice when put into a song. An example from 'Uma Thurman': | |
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Phineas and Ferb The duo make a song with meaningless lyrics in the episode "Flop Starz" Most songs in the series end up like this. A delicious example is "Dance, Baby" from "Candace Disconnected". The moment the song is sung is random and silly, and the lyrics top it off: There is also the infamous "Squirrels in My Pants", which is the most random song in the whole show, having no scheme to it other than rhyming phrases with "Pants" and "P". |
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Opus tries to think up a poem in an old Bloom County comic: | |
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Clutch loves this trope. The best example may be "10001110101": | |
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The Mighty Boosh with their crimps. | |
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Sabaton: The demo version of "The Art of War" included on the reissued version of the album is pretty much a three-minute string of nonsense phrases that fit the beat. The first stanza is approximately: | |
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Sparklehorse lived on this trope. Example: The Knives of Summertime. | |
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The opening of Haruhi-chan, "The Story Up To Now", combines anime references, Mythology Gags, obscure Japanese puns, and... words fail, just watch this. | |
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Big the Cat's theme from Sonic Adventure. Here are the lyrics. Some lines make sense, but... some of them definitely don't. Lines like "Happy, Happy Muy Amable", and "Okay, all you have to do is sit up, look left, right, up, and down" makes one wonder what Ted Poley was smoking... At least it fits Big's character. | |
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His take on one of the Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) openings: | |
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YouTube music critic Diamond Axe Studios Music asked his friends to each rewrite a line from "Astronaut in the Ocean" completely independent of each other, resulting in a comically disjointed (but still no less coherent than the original) song he called "Cucumber Melon Lotion". | |
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"Swordfish Hotkiss Night" by Empire of the Sun, though there does seem to be a running theme of contrasting nature and tradition with modern conveniences and technology: | |
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A Hawk and a Hacksaw: "I Am Not a Gambling Man". | |
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"Small of Two Pieces" from Xenogears. It's an absolutely gorgeous song with amazing vocals by Joanne Hogg, but the lyrics can be pretty confusing. Even after you've played the game several times and understand how the lyrics are supposed to relate to the game, it still doesn't make a lot of sense. | |
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One of Not the Nine O'Clock News's songs had a Surreal Music Video and word salad lyrics — except for the chorus, which was, ""Nice video, shame about the song." | |
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An "Axe Cop Christmas carol" that sounds like the (very young) writer improvised on the combination of the topics of Axe Cop and Christmas carols via random association before wandering off mentally: | |
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Erykah Badu's "On and On", which incorporates the teachings of the Five Percent Nation, an offshoot of the Nation of Islam, which believes heavily in numerology and symbolism (and influenced many early hip-hop artists). To anyone not in the know, however, they seem like nonsense lyrics. | |
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Revolutionary Girl Utena is loaded with rock-opera-esque choral songs by composer J.A. Seazer, all with dense, metaphorical lyrics. The writing come in two general modes: word salad invoking a barrage of relevant imagery, and obtuse commentary relating the imagery to the individual. Then again, only in Japanese is it possible to eloquently sing: J.A. Seazer is a sort of musical Refuge in Audacity. One of these songs basically just lists all the components of a heraldic crest ('"I Am All the Mysteries in Creation") and another one more-or-less recites geological eras ("Paleozoic in My Body'") but this works - sung by a choir, they seem like incantations.The thematic link between the song lyrics and the action on-screen is seldom obvious. Most of the songs were not written for the show, but picked from Seazer's earlier works based on correlations that the audience can only guess at. But they aren't all impossible. For instance, "Utopian Past Tense Incantation" is a song about using a time machine to return to an idealized childhood, which accompanies a fight with a duelist who idealizes her childhood. |
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Mystery Science Theater 3000: The show parodies this trope with "Idiot Control Now", their mondegreen-ish remake of "Burning Rubber Tires", a song performed by the Fake Band in Pod People. Season 12 gives us "Get In Your Mech", an In-Universe attempt to cash in on "Every Country Has A Monster" from Season 11. |
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Daria: Mystik Spiral songs tend to be this way. One episode has Daria sneak a peek at the notebook where Trent works on lyrics. | |
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Big & Rich did this on occasion as well, most notably on "Real World". This one is made even weirder in that its melody and orchestration sound like a countrified "Bohemian Rhapsody": Before Big & Rich, Big Kenny also did this a lot on his 1998 solo album (which was not released until 2005, after which Big & Rich had become famous). Case in point with "Candy Colored Glasses": |
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"No Return", the theme song in the opening sequence of Yellowjackets. Anna Waronker and Craig Wedren wrote it specifically for the show, but it fits in with grunge music from The '90s, complete with world salad lyrics. | |
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Spoofed in the February 1982 episode of '80s All Over: Drew pokes fun at the songs Tom Waits contributed to the film One from the Heart by singing in a low, scratchy voice "And the piano jumped upside down/And the bathtub's full of vinegar..." | |
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"And You And I" is clearly inspired by The Foundation Trilogy (as it then was), but has some lyrics which make little sense in that or any other context. Jon Anderson has admitted that he often chose words because they sounded good, rather than because they made sense. | |
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From Futurama: | |
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"Long Train Running" by The Doobie Brothers. Most of the individual sentences or sentence fragments are perfectly sensible, having something to do with either trains, or love (more specifically, the lack thereof). Figuring out exactly why the singer thinks they fit together is what will break your brain. |
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One NPC in Chrono Cross offers this example: | |
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Barbie Dreamhouse Adventures: Tammy's song "Rock Your Socks Off", which we never hear in full: | |
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The opening to the TV series adaptation of Hellsing, 'The World Without Logos' is (almost) completely in Englishnote it slipped the Japanese word 'sekiran' into the 2nd verse, but barely even 2 words in a row make any sense. | |
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Portal 2 has four different title-screen pieces (one for each act, and another for after completion). The song that plays in Act II titled PotatOS's Lament is a hauntingly beautiful song, sung in Latin. That is —by the lyricist/vocalist's own admission— high-school student Latin. The lyrics, while sung very beautifully, make absolutely zero sense. | |
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Michael Nesmith's 1967-68 Monkees songs, which also usually had inscrutable titles that appeared nowhere in the lyrics: "Daily Nightly", "Auntie's Municipal Court", "Tapioca Tundra", "Writing Wrongs", "Circle Sky", "Highway 99 with Melange". Also bandmate Micky Dolenz's "Randy Scouse Git" ("Alternative Title" in the UK, where they knew what "randy Scouse git" meant; Micky heard it on Till Death Us Do Part and thought the words were inherently funny). "No Time" starts out like this: "Daily Nightly" is Nesmith's commentary on the 1966 Sunset Strip curfew riots. Still, knowing that doesn't make the song much easier to understand... |
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Pretty much anything by Nightwish. Example: Occasionally subverted, such as with Fantasmic, which if you listen closely just lists all of Tuomas's favorite Disney characters. |
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The Reluctant King: One story by Jorian has a king presiding over a poetry contest whose proposed winning entry (plus the other submissions) was a rhymeless random word string literally plucked from a dictionary. He dismisses them all in disgust. This is a rather obvious slam against certain modern "poetry". | |
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The song "The Bug" from the Batman & Robin soundtrack was written in one day with lyrics randomly scrawled on a legal pad and then thrown away. Doughty doesn't remember what the words are, doesn't care, and says whatever you imagine them to be is probably more interesting anyway. | |
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That particular song's actually a rather clever sort of word salad— it's a bunch of overlapping phrases, along the lines of Wheel of Fortune's "Before and After" category. | |
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Sonata Arctica have the song "My Dream's But A Drop Of Fuel For A Nightmare," which is about, well, dreams and dream imagery. It contains this beautiful part: | |
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The lyrics to "The Riddle" by Nik Kershaw are, in the words of the artist himself, "nonsense, rubbish, bollocks, the confused ramblings of an 80s popstar". This was really the lyrical equivalent of Lorem Ipsum that led to a bit of kerfuffle as the result of over-eager executives at the label. Running out of time before the recording session, he cobbled together some nonsense to fit the melody and laid it down as a vocal, and then decided it sounded good enough that it didn't matter that it didn't mean anything, so he left it like that. Before he could break the bad news, someone had decided to promote the single with a competition to decipher the lyrics. |
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Sonic the Hedgehog Sonic the Hedgehog CD: In contrast to "Sonic Boom" in the North American soundtrack, which is a clear Bragging Theme Tune about how awesome Sonic is, most of the lyrics to the two Japanese tunes "Sonic-You Can Do Anything" and "Cosmic Eternity" make no sense whatsoever, with the latter sounding more like an abstract, high energy workout tune than a motivational hero song.note However, looking at the lyrics from a different angle, the lyrics are motivational- to the player. It's about being confident of your abilities and believing in yourself - a recurring theme in the decorative text on the Japanese boxart of the Sonic The Hedgehog games. Big the Cat's theme from Sonic Adventure. Here are the lyrics. Some lines make sense, but... some of them definitely don't. Lines like "Happy, Happy Muy Amable", and "Okay, all you have to do is sit up, look left, right, up, and down" makes one wonder what Ted Poley was smoking... At least it fits Big's character. Cashell's "Un-Gravitify" from Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity makes such little sense that any attempts to find meaning in it are futile at best. There are even several sentences that are just plain grammatically incorrect! |
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Just about any song by Bush, especially "Little Things": | |
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The ending of Joshiraku begins with an untranslatable simile-rap verse that has no grammatical structure and doesn't seem to have any meaning other than being a Tongue Twister Hurricane of Puns… much like the series itself, one could say. It's actually the name of Jugemu, a famous Rakugo character. | |
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"Gang Fight", the poorly lip-read version of "Friday" by Rebecca Black, has major themes of chicken (which, by the way, is for us to no eat) and gang fights, and then there's this: | |
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Fair to Midland has "Abigail": Their lyrics generally range from being...layered in metaphor to full-on word salad. |
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"This Is A Call" by Foo Fighters. The chorus is pretty straightforward, but the verses seem to just consist of cryptic wordplay, the strangest line being "Seems that all the cysts and mollusks tend to barter". Dave Grohl admitted that most of the lyrics in the debut album were scribbled 20 minutes before he recorded the songs, and that "a few of them aren't even words", written out of catharsis after Kurt Cobain's death. Or "All My Life" (on his words, "the middle section is about eating pussy and the verses are kind of vague. That's all you've gotta know!"): Dave wrote more intelligible lyrics as time passed, but every now and then (specially after his bassist said "I really like it when you write songs that are silly and mean nothing, too.") he does something like "White Limo" ("There's a line in it that says 'what ever happened to dayglo thongs' and that's why it's easy to scream because I don't feel like I have to write a love letter to myself."). Parodied by "Weird Al" Yankovic in "My Own Eyes", which he admitted to be a Foo Fighters tribute and is full of absurd lines. |
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In The Late Show (1992), Tony Martin's parody of the R.E.M. song "Stand", making the point that Michael Stipe could come out and sing pretty much anything and it just wouldn't matter. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: In the episode “Sing a Song of Patrick,� Patrick writes a song, but when it’s broadcast on the radio, the entire town hates it and even starts an angry mob about it. Considering that it was written by Patrick, the lyrics are complete nonsense. Despite this, the song actually doesn’t sound all that bad. | |
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"Glen Belt"'s song in I Am Not an Animal: "Why do you reject me? / You know I'm full of diseases / Quattro formaggio / Pizza made with four kinds of cheeses". It gets worse. | |
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The secret track on NoFX's album Wolves In Wolves' Clothing has Fat Mike singing either this or outright Singing Simlish to the tune of various songs the band made. This was (if I recall) because the lyrics to those songs had not actually been written yet at that point. | |
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The song "Whackit on the Dram" from the Hamish and Dougal episode "Fame Idol" is a string of random Scots words and just plain gibberish, concluding "Hi-ho! For the open road!" | |
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Tom Petty (minus the Heartbreakers, on "Full Moon Fever") in "A Mind With A Heart Of Its Own": "Well the man out to end us had a hurricane business / He'd raise them from babies all by himself / But his teen-age accountant had become surrounded / He drank up the party and everyone left." There's also random mentions of Brooker and Micanopy, are/were two suburbs of Gainesville (Petty's hometown). a bit further down Speaking of Petty, see also the entry for the Traveling Wilburys (of which Petty was a member). |
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Diablo Swing Orchestra, an eclectic avant-garde metal band, has lyrics that seem to exist purely to accentuate the (operatic) singer's voice. For instance, the first verse of Bedlam Sticks: | |
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"Anyone for Tennis" by Cream. | |
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Lemon Demon's "Word Disassociation" is a collection of Inherently Funny Words that have nothing to do with the word that came before it. | |
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...and keeps going in the same vein (the most quoted line being "Stealing cake to eat the moon", and if you think it probably makes sense in context, go look it up on YouTube). A lot of their other hits also lean heavily on lyrics that just sound good rather than making any actual sense, but worthy of particular mention is "Lifeline", which on first hearing not only sounds like it makes sense but even like it might have a proper storyline. Until you try to work out what the story actually is... | |
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On the self-titled debut by That Petrol Emotion — when they were still post-punk — a wildly-varied (but great!) profusion of styles were attempted: unified, primarily, by loud guitars and killer hooks. More of a head-scratcher, "Cheapskate" knelt before the altar of The Fall: | |
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The songs by Foals, at least their earlier work, featured nonsense lyrics like "The lighthouse is an accident" and "Saturday we could go home and cut the phone lines". The band that preceded Foals, called The Edmund Fitzgerald, was also a bit like this. It seems like the lyrics are all written by Yannis Philippakis himself, and the booklets that accompanied the albums "Antidotes" and "Total Life Forever" were more like art pieces than anything else. It is important to note that Foals (and The Edmund Fitzgerald) have math rock origins - that is a genre where long song titles and bizarre lyrics are extremely common; the instrumentation is considered more important. There is also the related project "Youthmovies Soundtrack Strategies" by ex-Foals member Andrew Mears where he also sang pretty nonsensical stuff. | |
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Dave Wyndorf, the lead singer of Monster Magnet, admits that when he gets stuck on the lyrics to a song, he just writes something about volcanoes, because volcanoes are "always cool". Not that he isn't perfectly capable of producing word salad lyrics without talking about volcanoes. |
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While most of Matthew Good's lyrics do have some meaning to them, obscured or otherwise, the lyrics to Hello Time Bomb are a bit of a headscratcher. Somewhat understandable, as Matt's gone on record saying that the song came from a discussion with some friends about "songs that are about nothing". Lampshaded by Matt himself during the Live at Massey Hall album: |
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The lyrics in his previous group Japan were often written due to Sylvian liking the way the words sounded and having little time to write anything better. A popular example of this is "Communist China", which has nothing to do with Chinese politics. It still cropped up in their later career "Gentlemen Take Polaroids", for example, is mostly titled due to the long words fitting the tune (although Sylvian did like photography). | |
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Many of Black Sabbath's songs until the end of the Ozzy Osbourne era. For instance, "Symptom Of The Universe" is pretty much a combination of strange fantasy imagery and Meaningless Meaningful Words: | |
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Parodied by Eminem in "Not Alike", where he mocks Migos, Bhad Bhabie, etc by rapping a Rhyming List of random gibberish in a dead-on imitation of their style: | |
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Phish does this often. Some songs, like "Cavern" or "Stash," feature vivid imagery worked into a narrative that makes no rational sense, whatsoever. As a taste, here's the first verse of "Chalk Dust Torture": Subverted in their song "Down with Disease," which mentions jungles, head-dwelling demons, and a thousand barefoot children, but which is actually about hallucinating while ill. |
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In one issue of Tank Girl, the titular heroine does a particularly crude version of this when fronting the band The Funsters, having just crushed their lead singer by landing on him after flying to their show via rocket pack (she's also wearing his skin!). | |
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Falling Up does this with a whole album, Fangs!. Some of the tracks: "Exit Calypsan", "Goddess of the Dayspring Am I", and "The Color Eoptian" | |
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Train's "Drops of Jupiter". It definitely seems to have some sort of meaning, but it's so wrapped up in abstract similes and such that it's incomprehensible. The song is metaphorical for someone leaving and returning different and perhaps alien to the narrator, though if you aren't looking for the meaning, you probably won't hear it. "Hey, Soul Sister" - not particularly made better by the fact that Pat Monahan was writing about what he thought Burning Man would look like. |
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Since Bruce was mentioned, when Iron Maiden isn't straightforward they get as wordy and trippy as possible. Their Filk Song "Brave New World" has many sentences which hardly have anything to do with Huxley (opening line: "Dying swans, twisted wings, beauty not needed here"). | |
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A lot of the songs from Deemo, when they're not being Lyrically Dissonant. Probably most notably, Invite. | |
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Well-exemplified by the music for the world-view portions of Rome: Total War; it won several awards, but the lyrics are just random Latin words with no particular relevance to anything. | |
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The Presidents of the United States of America do this often, usually for comedic purposes. On example, "Twig," starts like this: "Some weepy creepy willow pillow boggy shit....," and descends from there. | |
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Bruce Dickinson's Tears of the Dragon. The song is about being scared of the future; | |
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The ending theme to Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, "Lithium Flower" by Scott Matthew and Tim Jensen: The song makes complete sense, however, when listened to in its entirety: it's sung from the perspective of a man enamoured by an amazing surfer girl (In context: Motoko's ability to net dive. Cyber-surfing,) and trying to come up with crazy, made-up similes to describe how awesome she is ("So matador, so calm, so oil-on-a-fire"), before going on about her ability to surf ("wow, where did she learn how to surf/You know I've never seen the girl wipe out"). These types of lyrics are typical in many of Yoko Kanno's soundtracks, and none of it is because she's Japanese. She speaks, reads, and writes fluent English, among other languages. |
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In the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt episode "Kimmy Goes To School!", Titus writes a song called "Peeno Noir" where all the lyrics are just non sequitur words and phrases that happen to rhyme with the song title (e.g. "Caviar, Myanmar, mid-sized car") . Played with when the full song is eventually heard over a montage - certain lyrics do end up being surprisingly relevant to the other main characters' side plots in the episode, but there's no way Titus could have known that when he was writing it. | |
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The "Willow Farm" portion of the Genesis song "Supper's Ready" definitely qualifies. | |
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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory: Like in the original book, the Oompa-Loompas sing a song each time a child is eliminated from the tour, but here they use lots of nonsense words just for the sake of creating easy rhymes. For example, they begin each song with "Oompa-Loompa, Doopity-Doo, I've got a perfect puzzle for you!" (switching "a perfect puzzle" to "another puzzle" in all songs after the first). | |
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Heavy metal music is parodied by Brazilian satirical band Mamonas Assassinas in their song "Débil Metal" (a blatant throwback to Sepultura at that), sung in incoherently put-together English phrases: However, the chorus more than clarifies the song's message: |
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The second song in Imaginaria, Anything Is Possible Now, seems to literally try to form some cohesion to footage obviously edited together from multiple shorts. It manages to pull it off for the most part. | |
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"Summer Girls" by LFO opens with the lyrics "New Kids On The Block got a lotta hits, Chinese food makes me sick" and just gets weirder from there. Although, it really falls more under Non Sequitur Lyrics/Lyrical Shoehorn (rhyming "hornet" with "sonnet," for example). Rich Cronin, the song's late writer, admitted that it was a silly demo for his friends that unexpectedly got big, which had he known he would have worded the lyrics differently. | |
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Ghost from True Capitalist Radio seems to be keen on inventing his own songs with rather surreal lyrics including Money success fame... bronies? She blinded me with science! There she goes again! I don't believe it! She's doing a barrel roll! And she's a melting pot of friendship! |
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Homestar Runner: Homestar's attempt at singing a song for a stirring utensil in "Halloween Potion-Ma-Jig". Strong Bad Email #125, "rock opera", has the eponymous rock opera "SBEmail!", a song with lyrics based on randomly-chosen words from the last 124 Strong Bad Emails, strung together into semi-coherent sentences. SBEmail #155, "theme song", features a vaguely-inspirational "life-affirming pop-ballad type theme song" with nonsensical lyrics. |
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Lene Marlin is given to this. Most of her lyrics are so unspecific they could be about anything. | |
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Several songs from the Armored Core series. Composer Kota Hoshino's engrish makes the lyrics up to interpretation to say the least. Thinker: There are wildly varying versions of Thinker floating around, due to the song's nature lending itself well to mishearing them, with the only common theme being that they make little to no sense. The official lyrics as given in the game's OST booklet are as follows: |
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The song "The Messenger" by Your Favorite Enemies, written for Dissidia Final Fantasy is a bit more normal by the standards of some of the other songs here, but the lyrics still descend frequently into "what the heck does that mean" territory. For example: or: It's not just "The Messenger." Their other, non-Dissidia songs are pretty confusing too. |
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'Exquisite Corpse' from Hedwig and the Angry Inch. | |
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Doug: "Killer Tofu" by The Beets. | |
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From Dragon Ball Z: Sparkle sparkle, the galaxy's a POPCORN SHOWER! The official English version of Cha-la Head-Cha-la, straight from Kageyama's mouth: |
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Strong Bad Email #125, "rock opera", has the eponymous rock opera "SBEmail!", a song with lyrics based on randomly-chosen words from the last 124 Strong Bad Emails, strung together into semi-coherent sentences. | |
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Dylan lampshaded this trope in his song "I Shall Be Free No. 10" from Another Side of Bob Dylan in the final lines: | |
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"Can You Picture That?" by Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem, from The Muppet Movie. See The Muppet Show entry below. | |
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"aLIEz" from Aldnoah.Zero has a chorus consisting of an incomprehensible mishmash of Japanese, English, and German. It's not the only song on the soundtrack guilty of it either. To wit, from the first ending theme "A/Z": |
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The opening theme, "Logos Naki World", from the first anime of Hellsing. It doesn't help that it's never been clarified what the actual lyrics are, prompting many fans to make their own guesses, none of them anywhere near making sense. The OST has liner notes which contain lyrics to the song, just as expected the lyrics are still quite opaque: Don't be cool vibration/Revlofantasy |
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AOP's first opening to Osomatsu-san turns out to little to no sense when translated. Hell, it's still unclear what the title is supposed to mean in the first place.note The title refers to the practice of giving a "hanamaru", the Japanese equivalent of a gold star, to good kids. Though it's mentioned somewhere in the song, and considering what the main characters are in the first place, it could just be an ode to immaturity and nonsense— traits the boys (who pretty obviously aren't "good kids") exhibit frequently. Their later openings don't make any more sense than "Hanamaru Pippi" did. | |
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Deadpool's theme from Marvel vs. Capcom 3 is pretty nonsensical, appropriate to the man himself. Here's just the first verse: | |
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DragonForce. Their lead singer, ZP Theart, has admitted that the band's lyrics only have to sound cool and have the right number of syllables. Possibly lampshaded in The Last Journey Home: |
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Rammstein's "Laichzeit" qualifies. Some fans think it's about sex because, well, many of their songs are and some parts of it can be explained this way, but most of it can't. It's more-or-less random words strung together or maybe real lyrics with every second word replaced by something else. Similarly, from another Neue Deutsche Harte band, Eisbrecher, we have "This is Deutsch", which is a hilarious (if you speak German) parody of Gratuitous German. If you don't speak German, the song just sounds cool. |
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