Strange song lyrics

Covered End

Happy Valley said on the worst songs thread :-

"I actually think that The Killers will sink in the same way. Anyone who can write a lyric that says, 'You had a boyfriend who looks like a girlfriend I had in February of last year' and then repeat it several times deserves everything they get."

Now I absolutely love The Killers, but worse than the above. I've always wondered what this means, Anyone ?

Are we human or are we dancer ?

SuedeAdidas

Don't know the answer - but there was a lot of debate at the time as to whether the lyric was "or are we denser?

BIG_ROB

"KILL AN OLD LADY" In that Queen song, ain't sure what one though...Under Pressure maybe?

McBobbin

from wikipedia "There remains confusion and debate over the line "Are we human, or are we dancer?" in the song's chorus due to its grammar.[10] Debate raged across the Internet over whether the lyrics said "dancer" or "denser", a misunderstanding which invoked conflicting interpretations of the song's meaning.[11][12] On the band's official website, the biography section states that Flowers is singing "Are we human, or are we dancer?" and also says that the lyrics were inspired by a disparaging comment made by Hunter S. Thompson, where he stated America was raising "a generation of dancers".[13][14] If "dancer" is taken as a collective noun for that generation, it works without the "s" (just as "human" does in the first part of the question)."

SuedeAdidas

2 that bug me....

"If you don't get yours I won't get mine as well" - OASIS - Some Might Say

"I gazed a gazely stare" - Bowie - The Man Who Sold The World.

Covered End

Very interesting. Thanks McBobbin. Some lyrics refer to both denser & dancer.

Stig

You'l have to go some to beat this:

Running through my head secretly
The shouts of the boys in the factory
I ring you on the telephone silently
Like blood, like the wine in the darkroom scene

The darkroom scene
Darkroom scene

A letter
Once composed
Seven years long and as tall as a tree
Reading
On the wall
Emissions, efficiency

Efficiency
Efficiency

Resurrect
As a feeling
On my window
Of a past reunion

Resurrect
As a feeling
On my window
Of a past reunion
Vision
Of a picture
Like the city
And the air we breathe

The air we breathe
Air we breathe

She stood beside me once again
I knew her face
We met before in the street
Recalling all the children dancing at our feet

The dancing feet, dancing feet

dEpEchE modE - Ice Machine

Covered End

Common link for the last 3 is drugs :-)

Sonicstud85

I don't want to see a ghost
It's the sight that I fear most
I'd rather have a piece of toast
Watch the evening news

PaulCAFC

Shakira - 'lucky that my breasts are small and humble, so you don't confuse them with mountains'..................WTF is that about? I am sure that Gerard Pique might know.

EpsomAddick

I left the South, I travelled North
I got confused
I killed a horse
I can't help the way I feel

The Smiths, 'Is It Really So Strange'

golfaddick

EpsomAddick said:

I left the South, I travelled North
I got confused
I killed a horse
I can't help the way I feel

The Smiths, 'Is It Really So Strange'

......and they say he is/was a brilliant lyricist !!!

Six-a-bag-of-nuts

Sometimes it's poetry; sometimes it's free association wordplay; sometimes it's the only shit they could come up with that scans!
Sometimes it's best not to take a lyric too seriously (ask Pete Shotton)
But who am I to blow against the wind ;-)

Solidgone

I am a walrus.... Goo goo gee choo...?

CafcCrazy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLnWf1sQkjY

When i saw Bruce willis was dead at the end of sixth sense i jizzed in my pants.

Miserableoldgit

A crack in the sky and a hand reaching down to me! All the nightmares came today......

CharltonKerry

My all time favourite was the complete lyrics of the all time classic Procol Herems (yes i know i spelt it wrong) whiter shade of pale, and they reckon it had nothing to do with drugs! Believe that you'll believe anything.

BIG_ROB

I'm chasing an elephant up the stairs

Halix

"Me, I'm just a lawnmower, you can tell it by the way I walk" Genesis I know what I like in your Wardrobe.

" Little old Lady Laid mutiLated Late Last night,.... werewolves of London again" Warren Zevon.

" I saw a shooting star last night, I wished on it but it was just a satellite, its wrong to wish on space hardware, I wish, I wished you cared......" Billy Bragg New England.

Redskin

"Slowly walking down the hall
faster than a cannon ball"

Gallagher + coke = piss-poor lyricIst.

nth_london_addick

What ya gonna look like with a chimney in ya


Dunno who sang it but it used to irritate the shit out of me

MuttleyCAFC

A song like are we human that engages you to think about what it means is brilliant. When I listen to it, I think of dancer/s as the ability of us - an insignificant part of the Universe - to do brilliant and creative things and the human being the selfish, boring, stupid society that largely exists. But I am probably so way off the mark and others may interpret the song totally differently -which makes the song even better IMO.

Acab

Bother Johnny, caught a plane and he got on it.

Happy Valley

I feel quite honoured that post I made on another thread has been used to start a new one! I expected some flak over the "Killers' comment as well.

This is not a bad lyric but defies understanding:

'Cos if I'm not here then it's not there.'

Kevin Ayers, Song from the Bottom of a Well from the Whatevershebringswesing album. The LP is sleeve is also weird.

Stig

nth london addick said:

What ya gonna look like with a chimney in ya

Dunno who sang it but it used to irritate the shit out of me

That always reminds me of the play off final. That song was all over the place that spring and I remember hearing it in the car on the way to the match. Shit song, but positive vibes for evermore.

nth_london_addick

The song of the play offs for me will be new radicals

You get what you give

I think it was called

JiMMy 85

Love REM but "leaving New York never easy, leaving was never my proud," irritates me

red_murph

I love loads of Oasis stuff and I love the song but the lyrics really are awful...

I know a girl called Elsa
She's into Alka Seltzer
She sniffs it through a cane on a supersonic train
She made me laugh
I got her autograph

thewolfboy

Another sublime Kevin Ayers lyric:
'Am I just an envelope through which you can see' (Hat song)

dizzee

PaulCAFC said:

Shakira - 'lucky that my breasts are small and humble, so you don't confuse them with mountains'..................WTF is that about? I am sure that Gerard Pique might know.

He probably wrote them

tom_k

What a feeling, when we're dancing on the ceiling