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noticing how many people switch lyrics around in the improved lyrics thread i got to thinking how many songs i absolutely adore that are just downright bizarre lyrically.
AT THE DRIVE IN is a perfect example of this. all of their songs are random as can be and i know they must make some sort of sense to the band but i'm lost myself.
THE BLOOD BROTHERS is another example of this.
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What do you mean? Aren't everone's shoes "laced with irony"?
Or "do you never know what you're going to find when you open up your letterbox tomorrow, because a little bird never tells you anything you want to know; she's your best friend, she's a sparrow?" I often have this problem.
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I think the "Giants" songs make a lot of sense.
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quote: Almost any REM album has this aspect.
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It cracks me up that every wedding I've gone to plays the song that starts "This one goes out to the one I love."
Nevermind that the next lines are: This one goes out to the one I've left behind. A simple prop to occupy my time.
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PSI: Yeah, do they not get the tone of the melody? Peter Buck once said he thought it was pretty weird when he used to see people making out to "The One I Love" at concerts.
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It's worth noting that TMBG did not, in fact, write the Sun song. They just performed it. (Same goes for "Istanbul, not Constantinople.")
But I don't find their lyrics inscrutable, at least not compared to the weirder songs from REM and Tori Amos.
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Bok- Plus, it's not like they don't repeat those lyrics an infinite number of times. And there aren't a whole lot of other words to detract from them.
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This is totally random, like so much of what I've said today. But I really like Dan. All flattery aside, he's really sharp and funny. His kid is very, very lucky.
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For truely cryptic lyrics, check out David Byrne. He went on a period of using "found lyrics", gleaned from Newspapers and other media. Witness "Born Under Punches" on the Remain in Light album.
Brian Eno has also been known to be random. And not just lyrically either....
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quote: I have a couple or 3 where the lyrics are in Czech.
It seems to me that there should be some joke here about the musical comedy Chess, or inserting the word "mate," but I'm just not sharp enough to come up with it at the moment.
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