History Main / WordSaladLyrics

* In the Series/UnbreakableKimmySchmidt episode "Kimmy Goes To School!", Titus writes a song called "Peeno Noir" where all the lyrics are just non sequitur words and phrases that happen to rhyme with the song title (e.g. "Caviar, Myanmar, mid-sized car") . Played with when the full song is eventually heard over a montage - certain lyrics ''do'' end up being surprisingly relevant to the other main characters' side plots in the episode, but there's no way Titus could have known that when he was writing it.

* Take away the more straightforward songs such as "Everybody Hurts" and "Don't Go Back To Rockville" and just about everything Music/{{REM}}'s done qualifies. As their name implies, a lot of their songs are based on dreams or intended to feel dreamlike, so its sort of inevitable that this happens. Guitarist Peter Buck said once that Michael Stipe did this intentionally at times: "''Murmur'' is such a lyrically dense record that I don't think anyone will ever get all of it. And some of its not there to get. Certain bits are just words that sounded good strung together."

* The English version of "Twister", the theme song of ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'', is definitely one of these. Many of the lyrics appear to be intentional mondegreens of the Japanese lyrics.
** Needs more candy canes...
* Music/LemonDemon's "Word Disassociation" is pretty much this in its purest form.
* Almost every song by Cincinnati's electro indie-pop band The Seedy Seeds.
* Ricardo Arjona sometimes goes too far into "post-modern metaphors", so they decided to create [[https://youtu.be/3TyF9ixMyq4 this]].

* Music/BobDylan was a TropeCodifier, if not the {{Trope Maker|s}}. His lyrics, which were influenced by surrealist poetry, prompted John Lennon and Mick Jagger, among others, to step up their songwriting, and generally introduced the idea that rock/pop lyrics could go beyond "Love Me Do."

** This is, perhaps, excusable, as Thom Yorke was notoriously obsessed with Dadaism during this period and wrote the lyrics to some of the songs on ''Kid A'' following Tristan Tzara's instructions for writing a Dada poem.

** Justified given Morphine's [[Creator/TheBeatGeneration beat generation]] style. Beat poetry tends to LyricalShoehorn as often as it makes even symbolic sense.

* "[[https://youtu.be/v2giCw8JrRY And Then To CODA]]", the main theme of ''VideoGame/SolatoroboRedTheHunter'', has nothing to do with the game's plot or setting, aside from a few token mentions of the sky and winds.