New Game I Invented!!!!!!!!! "Say What?"

[whitecrow]

:D All right! I invented this little game in the shower thi morning. Well...it's not so much of a game as a thread idea...well...you'll see.

I call it "Say What?"

Okay, basic premise and rules as follows.

1. Basically, song lyrics that make <i>NO</i> sense what so ever. Like you listen to it a million times, but it's just....plain..."Say What?"
Example: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Around The World
"Wake up the cake, it's a lake she's kissin' me. As they do when when they do in Sicily"

Say What??

2. It has to be a band / group / artist <b>YOU LIKE</b> no making fun of Jewel if you don't like her.

3. Just a lyric snippit is fine...don't need a whole song.

Okay? pretty simple. You can even give a brief synopsis of what you <i>think</i> it means.

Hopefully it'll make us look at the stuff we listen to and LOVE and realise that...sometimes...it just makes no sense.

SAY WHAT?

[whitecrow]

And I'll even start the ball rolling:

Third Eye Blind, Farther
"You are of the earth, I am of the sky - I don't even know what the hell that means"

Yes Stephen..and neither does anyone else.

[Boozer]

Tenacious D

"And then you say, "Wait a minutes Sally,
I think I got something in my teeth,
could you get it out for me?"
That's f*cking teamwork!!


Why in the hell would you put that in a song????

[Sterling]

Lemonheads:

"<i>A ship without a rudder's like a ship without a rudder's like a ship without a rudder's like a ship without a rudder.</i>"

While, undeniably, a ship without a rudder is indeed very much like a ship without a rudder, I'm left wondering what point was being made with this particular lyric...

[JakeD]

Originally posted by Boozer
Tenacious D

"And then you say, "Wait a minutes Sally,
I think I got something in my teeth,
could you get it out for me?"
That's f*cking teamwork!!


Why in the hell would you put that in a song????

Because it's Tenacious D, dude.

They perform songs about hard fucking, double-teaming, their "kielbasa sausage", and even a rock tribute to Ronnie Wayne Dio.

And they're the greatest band in the world, incidentally. At least that's what they say.

[JakeD]

He's a strange son of a bitch, but I'd give my left big toe to shake his hand and talk to him. Tom Waits, king of the odd music and even quirkier lyrics. He's one of the most unique musicians out there, and I totally respect him as an artist. He's a really talented guy, in my humble opinion.



Tom Waits-Filipino Box Spring Hog
Well I hung on to Mary's stump
I danced with a soldier's glee
With a rum soaked crook
And a big fat laugh
I spent my last dollar on thee
I saw Bill Bones, gave him a yell
Kehoe spiked the nog
With a chain link fence
And a scrap iron jaw
Cookin up a Filipino Box Spring hog
Spider rolled in from
Hollister Burn
With a one-eyed stolen Mare
Donned himself with chicken fat
Sawin on a jaw bone violin there
Kathleen was sittin down
In little reds recovery room
In her criminal underwear bra
I was naked to the waist
With my fierce black hound
And I'm cookin up a Filipino Box Spring Hog
Cookin up a Filipino Box Spring Hog
Cookin up a Filipino Box Spring Hog

Dig a big pit in a dirt alley road
Fill it with madrone and bay
Stinks like hell
And the neighbors complain
Don't give a hoot what they say
Slap that hog
Gotta roll em over twice
Baste him with a sweeping broom
You gotta swat them flies
And chain up the dogs
Cookin up a Filipino Box Spring Hog
Cookin up a Filipino Box Spring Hog

Rattle snake piccata with grapes and figs
Old brown Betty with a yellow wig
Tain't the mince meat filagree
And it ain't the turkey neck stew
And it ain't them bruleed
Okra seeds though she
Made them especially for you
Worse won a prize for her
Bottom black pie
The beans got to thrown to the dogs
Jaheseus Christ I can always
Make room when they're
Cookin up a Filipino Box Spring Hog
Cookin up a Filipino Box Spring Hog
Cookin up a Filipino Box Spring Hog

[whitecrow]

I got another one:

Powderfinger, Rockin Rocks
"Who'd you say is you?
where'd you say you hide your proof?
Swollen like a lexicon,
if you hurry we'll be home real soon..."

Swollen like a WHAT? A Lexicon? how the heck does a lexicon SWELL?????

ARRRGH!!!