Do people actually listen to lyrics?

[Nostromo]

Are you sure? I thought that songs had lyrics by definition. If they have no lyrics, they're something else.

[Barnabas]

Didnt Radiohead have a song which was just

"yesterday i woke up sucking a lemmon/ eveything in its right place/ Ive got 2 colours in my head/

Thats what I mean with nonsensical lyrics

[Drake Tungsten]

I thought that songs had lyrics by definition.

Incorrect.

"yesterday i woke up sucking a lemmon/ eveything in its right place/ Ive got 2 colours in my head/

That makes complete sense.

[Nostromo]

Originally posted by Barnabas
Didnt Radiohead have a song which was just

"yesterday i woke up sucking a lemmon/ eveything in its right place/ Ive got 2 colours in my head/

Thats what I mean with nonsensical lyrics

Everything in its Right Place
Kid A, Kid A
Kid A, Kid A
Everything
Everything
Everything
Everything in its right place
In its right place
In its right place
In its right place

Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon
Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon
Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon
Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon

Everything
Everything
Everything
Everything in its right place
In its right place
In its right place
Right place

There are two colours in my head
There are two colours in my head
What, what is that you tried to say?
What, what was that you tried to say?
Tried to say
Tried to say
Tried to say
Tried to say

Everything in its right place... (to end)

I love that song. But the lyrics are obscure. Not sure if they are nonsensical, though. Maybe it all means something...

[bipolarbear]

Well, Word Web sort of disagrees Drake.

1: A short musical composition with words
2: A distinctive or characteristic sound
3: The act of singing
4: The characteristic sound produced by a bird
5: A very small sum

[Drake Tungsten]

Well, Word Web is wrong, then.

[Barnabas]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten

I thought that songs had lyrics by definition.

Incorrect.

"yesterday i woke up sucking a lemmon/ eveything in its right place/ Ive got 2 colours in my head/

That makes complete sense.

So you think something like

"The jews are in the kitchen/ Ive got bronchitis/ Putin farts funny" makes sense? they certainly have a meaning but it is more like aleatory sentences

(I think my example makes more sense than Radioheads btw, I had a difficult time coming with similar to their lyrics)

For me something like this are lyrics which make sense

Ask me why
I'll say it's most unusual
How can I even try to explain
why today I feel like dancing
singing like lovers sing
when I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing?
I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing

Ask me when
I'll say it started when I met you
and ever since then I knew that the past couldn't last
For right now I think I'm running
a race I know I'm gonna win
and I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing
I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing

If people say I'm crazy
I tell them that it's true
Let them watch with amazement
say it won't last beyond breakfast
it's a phase he's going through
denigrate or speculate
on what I'm going through
because it isn't the sort of thing I'd normally do

Ask me what
I'll say I think it's good for you
Believe it or not I know where it's all leading to
I feel like taking all my clothes off
dancing to The Rite of Spring
and I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing
I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing
I wouldn't normally do this kind of
this kind of thing

[Drake Tungsten]

"The jews are in the kitchen/ Ive got bronchitis/ Putin farts funny" makes sense? they certainly have a meaning but it is more like aleatory sentences

This doesn't make any sense. The Radiohead lyrics, OTOH, are clearly talking about the type of anal, closed-minded people (everything in its right place) who walk through life with sour looks on their face (I woke up sucking a lemon) and who view the world solely in black and white terms (I've got two colours in my head)...

[Barnabas]

Meh , thats your interpretation.

Has the radiohead guy ever said what that song is about?

[Nostromo]

This doesn't make any sense. The Radiohead lyrics, OTOH, are clearly talking about the type of anal, closed-minded people (everything in its right place) who walk through life with sour looks on their face (I woke up sucking a lemon) and who view the world solely in black and white terms (I've got two colours in my head)...

The kind of people who ask "What, what was that you tried to say?", like Barnabas?

Not bad, not bad at all

[Drake Tungsten]

The line, "Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon," apparently refers to the face one makes in reaction to a lemon's sourness. Yorke revealed in an interview that while promoting OK Computer, he was told he frequently exhibited a sour-faced look. Other lyrics are said to obliquely refer to other negative personality traits in a process inspired by artist Tristan Tzara, whose instructions for "How to make a Dada poem" appeared on Radiohead's website at this time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_in_Its_Right_Place

[bipolarbear]

Well, Word Web is wrong, then.

DO NOT MOCK MY FREEWARE!

1. a short metrical composition intended or adapted for singing, esp. one in rhymed stanzas; a lyric; a ballad.
2. a musical piece adapted for singing or simulating a piece to be sung: Mendelssohn's “Songs without Words.”
3. poetical composition; poetry.
4. the art or act of singing; vocal music.
5. something that is sung.
6. an elaborate vocal signal produced by an animal, as the distinctive sounds produced by certain birds, frogs, etc., in a courtship or territorial display.

[Dis]

good thread, now maybe someone could tell me what Nirvana's lyrics mean.

aquaseafoam shame? what the hell is that?

[bipolarbear]

Deliberate enigma ala Don Mclean?

[Dis]

I often mishear lyrics anyways. For the longest time I thought Fleetwood Mac's (Stevie Nick's) Gold dust woman's lyrics were: put your king down my ***** (rhymes with wussy to get around auto censor). when in reality she was saying kingdom up for sale. I like my version better.