Lyrics that made you go "huh?"

[bizango1]

Loser by Beck.

Everything except the chorus.

[Riverwolf]

My My, Hey Hey

Such a cool easy (now) song to play.
But "Johnny Rotten"?

Yes, I know who he is, but still...
I would like to change that one line.

[dirkronk]

Originally Posted by devellis

I always thought it was Hooka Tooka my soda cracker?

As in, who took?

Or as in, hooker took.
Part of the time honored "yo mama" put-down tradition, perhaps.

[pgilmor]

Madman drummer bummers
Indians in the summer
With a teenage diplomat
In the dumps with the mumps
As the adolescent pumps
His way into his hat
With a boulder on my shoulder
Feeling kinda older
I tripped a merry-go-round
With this very unpleasing
Sneezing and wheezing
The calliope crashed to the ground
The calliope crashed to the ground


I win!

[skidboot]

someone is knocking at the door,
someone is ringing the bell,
do me a favour,
open the door and let them in...


millions later....

[TexHawk]

Originally Posted by Kip Carter

From "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard"

Goodbye to Rosie, the Queen of Corona

Who is Rosie the Queen of Corona and where is Corona?

Corona is in Queens, NYC. Don't know about Rosie.

My public service announcement for the day.

[Dru Edwards]

Originally Posted by ToneHunter

"MacArthur Park" Beautiful song but it has some strange lyrics that most people can't fathom. "Someone left the cake out in the rain"... etc.

Lol ... "and I'll never have that recipe again".

[callouses]

Eddie Murphy as buckwheat on SNL singing " Fee times a Mady".

[ewalling]

Originally Posted by Diamond Dave

The Beatles. Hello!

"The movement you need is on your shoulder."

That means his 'head', surely. I've always understood that line to mean that the solution to his, Jude's, problems can be found by thinking rather than by knee-jerk emotion. What's "on his shoulder" is his head, i.e., his brain. The "movement" is activity. He's telling Jude to think calmly and rationally.

[Earwitness]

The REM album "Murmur" is one of my favorites, but I can' make out hardly anything that the songs are about.

[Jupiter Tarts]

Having grown up in the 90s with the likes of Nirvana and Red Hot Chili Peppers, there was always a WTF moment when it came time to learn the lyrics.

From lyrics like
"Sell the kids for food
weather changes moods
Spring is here again
reproductive glands" (In Bloom - Nirvana)

"Pour my life into a paper cup
The ashtray's full and I'm spillin' my guts
She wants to know am I still a slut
I've got to take it on the otherside

Scarlet starlet and she's in my bed
A candidate for my soul mate bled
Push the trigger and pull the thread
I've got to take it on the otherside
Take it on the otherside
Take it on
Take it on" (Otherside - Red Hot Chili Peppers)

When you're listening to the songs everything makes perfect sense and the strings of words are phonetically pleasing. When you actually stop to think about what they're saying, you realize its a lot of nonsense. Good sounding nonsense thought! Can't say I don't still love them a ton though.

[DanPanther]

Beside songs intended to not make sense.
I love the song "The Night They Drove Ol Dixie Down".
The Band Is it...
But the line below confuses me.

"I swear By the mud below my feet, you can't raise a Cain back up when he's in defeat."

Kinda sounds like once you a defeat Cain ( Not necessarily Kill Him), you win, he ain't gonna ever recover, or won't be worth anything from then on. He not just telling you that, He's making you a promise about it. "You defeat me, I'm Done".

Dan

[fuman]

Iko Iko. Look it up. It's crazy, even taking into account it's half Creole.

[Joe Mendel]

"I'll lock the door and put out the cat,
And I'll go steppin' too."

I always wondered if the singer threw the cat out the window and climbed out after it.

[Cobby]

Originally Posted by TexHawk

Corona is in Queens, NYC. Don't know about Rosie.

My public service announcement for the day.

Bummer. I always imagined Rosie to be the queen of Corona because she was overly fond of Corona Beer....