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Sometimes songs will be written with random words and phrases. There is often no underlying theme or message. In one Lennon doc, it has him telling a fan that Dig A Pony was a nonsense song and he shouldn't apply it to his own life. Does it turn you off when songs are written like that? What are some of your favorite songs with nonsense lyrics?

Every Def Leppard song.

Tons...but first one that comes to mind is City Boy Blues. Had no idea what the hell they were talking about

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVpb5stEKok

Get up and get your grandma out of here.
And pick up, old Jim is working hard this year

daveg wrote: ↑Wed Sep 03, 2025 6:59 am Tons...but first one that comes to mind is City Boy Blues. Had no idea what the hell they were talking about

yeah, that one’s a real head scratcher
Wtf

About 80% of the KISS catalog.

"Jesus Built My Hotrod" owns this thread.

Sabrina Carpenter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcSP1ZUf1eQ

Anything written by Sammy Hagar.

Every song created by Stone Temple Pilots (and I say this as a big fan of STP).

A mulatto, an albino
A mosquito, my libido, yeah
Hey, yay

A few Pixies songs.

Bob Dylan - Wiggle wiggle wiggle . . .

Fire Woman

Seems there's this cat twisting on a hot tin shack, there's smoke on the horizon and this Fire Woman is to blame for all of it.

Smoke stack lightening, lord have mercy.

Shake it baby!

“We were walking through some youth” What?

Hoodoo Voodoo (Lyrics by Woodie Guthery, recorded by Wilco & Billy Bragg)

Someone’s gonna Break Your Heart (FoW). Less nonsense words, more that each line has nothing to do with any other line.

I wanma put my log in your fireplace

BURN BITCH BURN

"Come Together", duh

Every Ratt song is like a jumble of random words thrown together. You can kind of MAKE them mean something when you hear them, but the meaning isn't really there in just the words.

I mean, just what teh fuck is this?

Out on the streets, that's where we'll meet
You make the night, I always cross the line
Tightened our belts, abused ourselves
Get in our way, we'll put you on your shelf

...or...

You take the midnight subway train
You're callin' all the shots
You're struck by lightning
You're in love

Oasis has a lot of shit that is just word salad too, but they somehow pull it off. I think they just choose cool sounding phrases and throw them in whether they mean anything or not.

Most of the B C D and E level bands

The Reflex Duran Duran.

Tutti Frutti by Little Richard
MMMBop by Hanson
Every rap song from the last two decades.

Another for for Def Leppard. I like them a lot, but I feel like Joe Elliot is just saying stuff, like his vocals are just another instrument and he was forced to sing words to make it culturally acceptable. Might as well scat, then harmonize the slow scats during the choruses. Pour Some Sugar on Me, Armageddon It are two examples of the "catchy, but no idea what you're talking about" genre.

Yes, sir, no, sir
Don't come close to my
Home sweet home
Can't catch no dose
Of my hot tail poontang sweetheart
Sweathog ready to make a silk purse
From a J. Paul Getty and his ear
With her face in her beer

Great song, but WTF?

Nonsense-but-not-nonsense goes to Extreme's "Play With Me" from the Bill & Ted Excellent Adventure soundtrack.

Ironically some of the least cringeworthy lyrics from this band when you realize they are all about childhood games, and it actually comes off pretty clever, combined with a crazy good solo from Nuno.

So...silly lyrics? Sure. But does it work for this song? Yep.

Thread used to be titled "Lyrics that DONT.MAKE.FUCKING.SENSE"

What be this and what be that
And why ya gotta look like that
I just looked at him and kinda laughed and said
Hey man, I am cool, I AM THE BREEZE

Like someone said, almost any KISS song.

There are a ton of songs that sound like nonsense without knowing the underlying context the writer had in their head. Take Overkill by Men At Work (love the song but sort of nonsense without the context).