As much as you love your favourite bands don't you sometimes listen to their music and think 'What the hell are they trying to say with that? It doesn't make any sense'?.
Post some examples here.

"And I sang my La-la-teacher, my La-la-teacher for you. I'm coming on the window." (Mando Diao)

"Combat salicious removal"(Interpol)

yeah, the thing with this la-la-teacher is weird. dunno what this is about.

I can't look 'em up over the internet right now, but some of Rancid's lyrics are pretty fooked up.

...and I love this song.

*sings*

Karma police arrest this man
He talks in maths
He buzzes like a fridge
He's like a detuned radio

But that actually makes sense, at least to me.

and I watch my baby from the seaside, yeah I watch my baby from the seaside I never said I didnt like that song

Big-jesus soul-mates trash-can
Fucking rotten business this
Both feet in the bad-boot
Stiff in the crypt, babay, like a rock
Rock-rock-rock
Big-jesus soul-mates trash-can
And he pumped me fulla trash at least it smelt like trash
And he’s got greasy hair wears a suit of gold
But God gave me sex appeal
Right right

~"Big Jesus Trash Can" The Birthday Party


Sharks-fin slices sugar-bed slices that pretty red-head
~"6 & QUOT;GOLD BLADE"

Me too.

I always note that 'let's get married in a big cathedral by a priest' in Hotel Yorba by The White Stripes is incorrect as they'd be likely to be married by someone 'higher' than a priest in a cathedral. 'Bishop' doesn't rhyme quite as well with 'least', though. "Let's get married in a big cathedral by a bishop/'cause if I'm the man that you love the most you can do the washing up"...it's not really such a good line.

to brush : i love this song ,too.

Falling out of sleep, I hit the floor
Put on some rock tee and I'm out with the door
From Bowery to Broome to Greene, I'm a walking lizard
Last night's dream was a talking baby lizard

All comin' from hu-man imagination
Day dreaming days in a daydream nation

Smashed-up against a car at three A.M.
Kids just up for basketball, beat me in my head
There's bum trash in my hall and my place is ripped
I've totaled another amp, I'm calling in sick

It's an anthem in a vacuum on a hyperstation
Day dreaming days in a daydream nation

Hyperstation- sonic youth....

And I quote......"I am the eggman, they are the eggmen, I am the walrus, goo goo goo joob."

What the fuck does that mean? Great fucking song though. It's the beatles, by the way.

i never heard that before.. sounds crazy. eggman?

The whole thing's written in a similar vein:

I am he as you are he as you are me
and we are all together
See how they run like pigs from a gun
see how they fly
I'm crying
Sitting on a cornflake
Waiting for the van to come
Corporation T-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday
Man you've been a naughty boy
you let your face grow long

I am the eggman
they are the eggmen
I am the walrus
Goo goo g' joob

Mr. city policeman sitting
pretty little policemen in a row
See how they fly like Lucy in the sky
See how they run
I'm crying
I'm crying, I'm crying
Yellow matter custard
Dripping from a dead dog's eye
Crabalocker fishwife
Pornographic priestess
Boy, you've been a naughty girl
you let your knickers down

I am the eggman
They are the eggmen
I am the walrus
Goo goo g' joob

Sitting in an English garden
waiting for the sun
If the sun don't come you get a tan
from standing in the English rain

I am the eggman
They are the eggmen
I am the walrus
Goo goo g' joob

Expert, texpert choking smokers
don't you think the joker laughs at you
See how they smile like pigs in a sty
See how they snide
I'm crying
Semolina pilchard
climbing up the Eiffel tower
Elementary penguin singing Hare Krishna
Man, you should have seen them kicking
Edgar Allan Poe

I am the eggman
They are the eggmen
I am the walrus
Goo goo g' joob
Goo goo g' joob
Goo goo g' goo
goo goo g' joob goo
juba juba juba
juba juba juba
juba juba juba juba
juba juba

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I would probably have picked out 'semolina pilchard climbing up the Eiffel tower' as the most odd.

I am he as you are he as you are me ... that sounds nice !

The Beatles: my anti-drug

I like the lyrics to 'I am the Walrus' though.

I always tried to really understand 'Come together'.

"You can't go yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah..." It's just about noise and hassle, right?!

And what about:

" Now I don't wanna slide away with you
I've got ten little soldiers pointing at you."

If you look at all lyrics there are only a few which make sense.

"You're down in the past where my mother will last
And she will make sure that you remember."

"And if you don't like the taste of wine" or something like that... It also doesn't make sense or does it fit in the whole song?

I thought it was so funny when they said they sing in english so people understand their lyrics. Seriously Gustaf and Björn, maybe you should start singing in swedish

Oh, the presidents have some senseless lyrics....

Peaches some from a can
They were put there by a man
In a factory downtown

If I had my little way
I'd eat peaches everyday
Sun soakin bulges in the shade

Move into the country
Gonna eat a lot of peaches(repeat 3 more times)

well, with mando diao's song paralyzed, I instantly thought of a donkey doing this "wtf" face when gustaf (is that right?) sung the line about the girl paralyzing donkies...

Those aren't really senseless, though...you can get what they're on about.

Yeah "She's got a bent belt by her side, she's got a donkey paralyzed. She got a cold inner wind and a ware full of sins"

I don't know, but most of Oasis' lyrics are normal.

Mick Jagger kissin' Froggie's lips
Studying films of froggie hips
His eyes are closed 'cause he's off in a world of ecstasy
Where the froggie folks get the froggie scene and
Froggie jumped all over the stage that day!!!!

"Slowly walking down the hall, faster than a cannonball"

The sink is full of fishes, she's got dirty dishes on the brain
And my dog's been itchin', itchin' in the kitchen once again

You see me, I've got my magic pie

Rolling Stone magazine
Sucked him dry and made him king
Froggie let rip with a big burp
And froggie jumped all over the stage that day!!!

Fly from a tree to a sea bed
Mean while, you´ve been locked in a freezer

Combat salicious removal

This one makes sense. You're trying to (combat) overcome (salacious) sexual desires, or the removal of these thoughts.

Big-jesus soul-mates trash-can
Fucking rotten business this
Both feet in the bad-boot
Stiff in the crypt, babay, like a rock
Rock-rock-rock
Big-jesus soul-mates trash-can
And he pumped me fulla trash at least it smelt like trash
And he’s got greasy hair wears a suit of gold
But God gave me sex appeal
Right right

This one kinda makes sense to me too. (Nice choice on the Birthday Party as well.)
Kinda saying how life's a "rotten business" and that he was born under a bad sign or with "both feet in the bad boot". I think the last part is likening God to a drug dealer; being born such a terrible nothing, just full of shit, like a drug dealer will make you become.

Falling out of sleep, I hit the floor
Put on some rock tee and I'm out with the door
From Bowery to Broome to Greene, I'm a walking lizard
Last night's dream was a talking baby lizard

All comin' from hu-man imagination
Day dreaming days in a daydream nation

Smashed-up against a car at three A.M.
Kids just up for basketball, beat me in my head
There's bum trash in my hall and my place is ripped
I've totaled another amp, I'm calling in sick

It's an anthem in a vacuum on a hyperstation
Day dreaming days in a daydream nation

I love Sonic Youth.
I'd say these lyrics make sense. Waking up to nothing, putting on a dirty rock t-shirt, walking under the sun like a lizard. Like the lizard in his dream, probably drug induced. The next verse makes it sound like he was getting beat up in the bad part of town, before stumbling back home and ruining another guitar amp. I love "it's an anthem in a vacuum on a hyperstation". Makes sense cause there are vacuum tubes in a guitar amp.

You see me, I've got my magic pie

Sounds sexy. Pie being a terrible euphamism.

Anyhow...
I won't confess to know what the fuck Lennon was writing though.

I'm afraid I really don't think Magic Pie is that clever:

http://www.oasisinet.com/site.php?site=son...0&from=&boxidx=

Uh, thanks. That's the first time I actually understood an explaination for that line.

...eh, most Strokes lyrics

eh... they make you just revive this thread?

I just agree.

Pretty much every Interpol lyric they have, I don't get.

Example:
"She can read, she can read, she's bad" (Obstacle 1)
What the bloody fuck does that mean?