History Main / WordSaladLyrics

* The Eels' "Hidden Track" (yes, that's the actual name of the song, and it's not even particularly "hidden") consists of drummer Butch sing/speaking lyrics like "Jacuzzis and bunnies / A broken fondue set / Kool G is in the outhouse / you can be my Mr French". The official story to it is that there was an online contest for song titles, then the band just ended up putting a bunch of them together to use as lyrics. However, it seems that no one in the fan community remembers any such thing, so it was probably just written to ''sound'' like that was what happened.

* Glassjaw certainly loves this trope, with {{Word Salad Title}}s thrown in for good measure. Check out the lyrics of "Radio Cambodia".

** Contemplate the implied meaning of ''that''. And that's just one of their songs.
** Shame that Daryl Palumbo's other band, Head Automatica, uses more straightforward lyrics in their songs.

* SongsToWearPantsTo's [[http://www.songstowearpantsto.com/index.php?s=i+ empty+ my+ baby&submit=SEARCH "I Empty My Baby"]]: A fan sent Andrew some already pretty silly lyrics for him to use in a song, and added that the lines didn't necessarily have to be in the same order. Andrew took the LiteralGenie approach, and changed the order of ''every'' single word. Thus:

* [[LedZeppelin Led Zeppelin's]] "Stairway to Heaven", which combines references to Celtic mythology and Christianity, concepts from ''TheLordOfTheRings'', and outright lyrical noodling.

** Here's another gem from ''Hotwax''

* Glassjaw certainly loves this trope, with [[WordSaladTitle Word Salad Titles]] thrown in for good measure. Check out the lyrics of ''Radio Cambodia''.

* A recent example is Bowling For Soup's "I Gotchoo", especially obvious since their lyrics are generally witty, not that it detracts from the song.

* ''Fireflies'' by the musical project OwlCity, featuring such gems like "Cause I'd get a thousand hugs/From ten thousand lightening bugs/As they tried to teach me how to dance.

* The infamous {{Mondegreen}} "Some day monkey won't play piano song."

* The emphasis {{Mondegreen}} "Some day monkey won't play piano song."

* ''Fireflies'' by the musical project Owl City, featuring such gems like "Cause I'd get a thousand hugs/From ten thousand lightening bugs/As they tried to teach me how to dance.

* While there might be a meaning behind it, Alanis Morissette's "Thank U" has verses that qualify in this trope:

*** "All My Love" is about Robert Plant's son dying prematurely.

* Lemon Demon's "Word Disassociation" is pretty much this in its purest form.

* Bohemian Rhapsody.

* While most people have probably repressed all memories of the briefly very popular mid-90s band Bush, their lyrics would go up against any other member of this list for the title of most nonsensical. "Everything Zen", for example: "Raindogs howl for the century, a million dollars a steak, as you search for your demi-god, and you fake with a saint. There's no sex in your violence...". Deep stuff there.
** They're a guilty pleasure, but I'd like to add an example from "Swim": "House is on fire, we're naked again, but maybe all we need is water and friends".
** This troper disagrees, and quite likes Bush. One of the best bands of the 1990s. And he's excited for their reunion album.

* FaithNoMore, "Epic". It consists largely of contradictory references to an unspecified "it". Actually, most of Mike Patton's lyrics for his various projects would qualify.

* Neutral Milk Hotel have such moving yet surreal lyrics as "Blister please, with those wings in your spine/Love to be with a brother of mine/How he'd love to find/Your tongue in his teeth/In a struggle to find/Secret songs that you keep/Wrapped in boxes so tight/Sounding only at night as you sleep". SoYeah.

SoYeah.

*** Both Angelspit and KMFDM toured together last year in the United States. SoYeah.

* The second song in {{Imaginaria}}, ''Anything Is Possable Now'', seems to literally try to form some cohesion to footage obviously edited together from multiple shorts.

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**The second verse is even stranger.
-->Battleships confide in me and tell me where you are,\\
Shining, flying, purple wolfhound, show me where you are,\\
Lost in summer, born in winter, travel very far,\\
Lost in losing circumstances, that's just where you are.
**Mind you, the "flying purple wolfhound" line is actually one of the few parts that does make literal sense, if you know that a "Purple Wolfhound" is the nickname for a kind of British fighter jet. Thus it's perfectly reasonable for one to be shining and flying. "Yours Is No Disgrace" is meant to be a ProtestSong, albeit a highly obtuse one, about the Vietnam War.

**Shining flying purple wolfhounds? Even when high off your ''ass'' this song makes no sense.
***A Purple Wolfhound is the nickname for a kind of British fighter jet, so it actually is reasonable for one to be shining and flying. "Yours Is No Disgrace" is apparently an anti-war song, albeit a very obtuse one, and is about the Vietnam War

Some songs are very lyrically direct. Some songs, however, are the musical equivalent of WordSaladTitle. [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory They might have some kind of symbolic meaning]], the songwriter went for the feeling associated with the words rather than the direct meaning or [[RuleOfCool maybe he/she just strung together a bunch of lines that sounded cool]]. Either way, the results are [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible incomprehensible]]. Can also extend to [[WordSaladTitle the title]] (often [[NonAppearingTitle so weird it isn't in the lyrics]]). Common results when listening is [[{{Mondegreen}} hearing the lyrics wrong]] or [[SomethingSomethingLeonardBernstein not even bothering to make up words]].