On the way in to work today, I heard a snippet of The Steve Miller Band's "Jungle Love." I am probably way off base, but are these not some of the strangest song lyrics you have ever heard? Example:
But lately you live in the jungle
I never see you alone
But we need some definite answers
So I thought I would write you a poem
The question to everyones answer
Is usually asked from within
But the patterns of the rain
And the truth they contain
Have written my life on your skin
"...But we need some definite answers/So I thought I would write you a poem?" What? And I think that "Jungle Love" isn't the only song in his catalog with prose such as this.
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Comment posted by Charles Robinson01/26/2007 06:36:03 PM
Homepage: http://cubert-codepoet.blogspot.com
I have a thing for nonsensical song lyrics. :) Feel Good Inc by Gorillaz has some extremely strange lyrics. Apple used this in an iPod commercial, too:
City's breakin' down on a camel's back
They just have to go coz they don't know when
So all ya fill the streets it's appealing to see
You won't get out of the county coz you're bad and free
You got a new horizon it's ephemeral style
In a melancholy town where we never smile
And all I wanna hear is the message beep
My dreams they got to kiss cause I don't get sleep no
Windmill windmill for the land
Turn forever hand in hand
Take it all it on your stride
It is sinking, falling down
Love forever love is free
Lets turn forever you and me
Windmill windmill for the land
Is everybody In?
Pretty much everything on Gorillaz second album, Demon Days, is like that. Good music and it's catchy, but it makes no sense.
Who can forget Whiter Shade of Pale?
She said, "There is no reason
and the truth is plain to see."
But I wandered through my playing cards
and they would not let her be
one of sixteen vestal virgins
who were leaving for the coast
and although my eyes were open wide
they might have just as well been closed
Comment posted by Gregg Eldred01/27/2007 05:17:44 PM
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@Charles - Loved your 'Sphere posts! I am not a musician, but do you suppose that they created some music, and then said, we need some lyrics and just wrote what fit, regardless of whether it made any sense?
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