Bizarre song lyrics

[Sleeping Menace]

Last night.. the topic came up.. of bizarre song lyrics..
All those in attendance agreed that Frank Zappa has the title hands down.. ..
My personal vote went for the songs:
Jewish Princess or perhaps Bobby Brown, both by Zappa..

Anyone else have any other candidates?



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[Mad Doug Biker]

Bohemian Rhapsody of course.

 

[alecstilleyedye]

the cure sang of "a palace of stones of your bananafishbones makes me like 100 years old" (bananafishbones, from 1983's "the top")

not a bad candidate methinks…

 

[byegad]

The Hutt Sutt song. Very old but total gibberish.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

George Jones - I'm a People. Very strange but then GJ did spend half the 50s and all of the 60s and 70s off his face.

Now if I was a monkey, a-workin' for a livin',
I'd be a-gettin' instead of a-givin'.
A-hangin' by my tail, a-waitin' for the dinner bell,
Puttin' humans on.

Every day them fools rush in,
And lay down the cash and watch me grin
I put 'em all on, I'd hum a little song,
An' watch 'em all go tee-hee.

But I spell a P, a little bitty E.
Sweet bop, bop, bop, sh-shoo, shoobie doobie doh,
In a little round O.
Now you add another P, a big skinny L,
There's a-one more E,
An' you got a people that looks like, me.

Now a monkey don't have to go down town,
An' ask for a job an' gettin' turned down.
I'm mad at me, I could smash me,
'Cause I am a people.

Etc...

 

[Chromatic]

Magma used their own made up language for their lyrics.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Oh and 95% of anything written by Captain Beefheart, bless him!

 

[Monsieur Remings]

Spending warm summer days indoors
Writing frightening verse to a buck-toothed girl in Luxembourg
Ask me ask me ask me!

Because if it's not love then it's the bomb, the bomb, the bomb, the bomb
The bomb, the bomb, the bomb that'll bring us together.

And a whole host of many other strangenesses

 

[Over The Hill]

Sussudio.

All I can guess is Collins made up the song and could not find a name to fit so made up some gibberish to fit.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Well, it all makes perfect sense to me!

It's a bit lost on me since I gave up taking drugs!

 

[mark barker]

Hurdy Gurdy Mushroom Man (b side to Hole In My Shoe)

"Hurdy gurdy mushroom man
Is living in a frying pan
And all the fishes swim away
And say don't hassle us today

Fluffy hair on a polar bear
Means more to me than a lavatory
You wont get far in a motor car
With my front door key"

Possible the finest song of the 1980s....

 

[GordonB]

Unquestionably it has to be Joanna Newsom. Two extracts given below from "The Milk-Eyed Mender" album. The first was used in an Orange tele advert a couple of years ago. Weird voice but I like it. The second extract is from Swamsea off the same album, interesting to me because Assateague is a small island off the eastern shores of Virginia that we have visited several times and I've never heard it referred to in any other context (other than an American 1950's childrens book series)

Gordon

This Side of the Blue
Svetlana sucks lemons across from me,
and I am progressing abominably.
And I do not know my own way to the sea
but the saltiest sea knows its own way to me.

The city that turns, turns protracted and slow
and I find myself toeing th'embarcadero
and I find myself knowing the things that I knew
which is all that you can know on this side of the blue

And Jaime has eyes black and shiny as boots
and they march at you, two-by-two (re - loo - re - loo);
when she looks at you, you know she's nowhere near through:
it's the hardest heart beating this side of the blue.

Swamsea
If you want to come on down,
down with your bones so white,
And watch the freight trains pound
into the wild, wild night

How I would love to gnaw,
gnaw on your bones so white,
and watch as the freight trains paw,
paw at the wild, wild night.

All these ghost towns, wreathed in old loam
(Assateague knee-deep in seafoam)-
Ho Swansea! Buttonwillow!
Lagunitas! Ho Calico!

 

[the snail]

Well, it all makes perfect sense to me!

Batchain puller, puller, puller!

 

[slowwww]

For me, it has to be Blue Oyster Cult's Career of Evil

The whole song is bizarre, but the highlight (or lowlight!) is:

Pay me I'll be your surgeon, I'd like to pick your brains
Capture you, Inject you, leave you kneeling in the rain

I'd like your blue eyed horseshoe, I'd like your emerald horny toad
I'd like to do it to your daughter on a dirt road

And then I'd spend your ransom money, but still I'd keep your sheep
I'd peel the mask you're wearing, and then rob you of your sleep

 

[her_welshness]

As discussed on Gavin & Stacey, James Blunt's 'Wise Men':

She said to me, "Go steady on me.
Won't you tell me what the Wise Men said?
When they came down from Heaven,
Smoked nine 'til seven,
All the shoot that they could find,
But they couldn't escape from you,
Couldn't be free of you,
And now they know there's no way out,
And they're really sorry now for what they've done,
They were three Wise Men just trying to have some fun."

Look who's alone now,
It's not me. It's not me.
Those three Wise Men,
They've got a semi by the sea.
Got to ask yourself the question,
Where are you now?

Really sorry now,
They weren't to know.
They got caught up in your talent show,
With you pernickety little bastards in your fancy dress,
Who just judge each other and try to impress,
But they couldn't escape from you,
Couldn't be free of you,
And now they know there's no way out,
And they're really sorry now for what they've done,
They were three Wise Men just trying to have some fun.

Look who's alone now,
It's not me. It's not me.
Those three Wise Men,
They've got a semi by the sea.
Got to ask yourself the question,
Where are you now?