songs you don't understand

[Darlene_Ihnfsa]

Don't you ever think that a song means something and then you noticied that really means just another thing very different?

 

Or you like a song and don't undertand why 'cause you don't get the point of the lyrics at all?

 

Or the video just confuse you more?

 

Please discuss. ;)

[Evori]

yeah

but sometimes lyrics doesn't mean anything really interesting

(sometimes :P )

[Darlene_Ihnfsa]

songs use to be ideas or short stories that wrote the songwrite.. but sometimes a song don't make sense with the whole album :confused: in that case that the bans consider the songs as a line story...

[Ambergris]

I'd say speed of sound

[Darlene_Ihnfsa]

which parts you don't understand charles? :thinking:

[berrywoman]

sometimes I think that is how the author intends it to be... when you have a song thats not so cut and dry..and easy to understand.. I think the author wants us to take awat from it what we will..

 

take Chris Martin for example.. he never fully explains what a song means or what its suppose to mean... and when he does.. its very vague. Paul Banks goes even a step further... he never even speaks on it. And his lyrics are just plain bananas!!! :lol: I kinda like coming to my own comclusions about songs.. it really adds to the listening enjoyment. :cool:

[Darlene_Ihnfsa]

i agree with you camille that's what make the song be special but don't you ever think that most fans think it's about a thing and you think it's about another very different? :thinking:

[About A Girl]

songs i dont understand????

 

EVERY SINGLE radiohead song!

[Skinned Alive]

I am me as you are he as you are me

And we are all together

See how they run like pigs from a gun

See how they fly, I'm crying

 

Sitting on a cornflake

Waiting for the van to come

Corporation T-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday

Man, you been a naughty boy you let your face grow long

 

I am the eggman

They are the eggmen

I am the walrus

Goo goo g'joob

 

Mister city policeman sitting

Pretty little policemen in a row

See how they fly like Lucy in the sky

See how they run, I'm crying

 

Yellow matter custard

Dripping from a dead dog's eye

Crabalocker fishwife, pornographic priestess

Man, you've been a naughty girl, you let your knickers down

 

I am the eggman

They are the eggmen

I am the walrus

Goo goo g'joob

 

Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun

If the sun don't come you get your tan

From standing in the English rain

 

I am the eggman

They are the eggmen

I am the walrus

Goo goo g'joob, g'goo goo g'joob

 

Expert textpert, choking smokers

Don't you think the joker laughs at you?

See how they smile like pigs in a sty

See how they snide, I'm crying

 

Semolina pilchards

Climbing up the Eiffel Tower

Elementary pengiun singing Hare Krishna

Man, you should've seen 'em kicking Edgar Allen Poe

 

I am the eggman

They are the eggmen

I am the walrus

Goo goo g'joob, g'goo goo g'joob

Goo goo g'joob, g'goo goo g'joob

G'goo

 

G'jib, jib jibba!

 

 

 

Try and make sense of that one :P

[bart]

songs i dont understand????

 

 

 

same here

[cheers2u]

yes different person, different interpretation...

you can almost never go by the video though, can you?

example: remember interpol's nyc video? it was filmed in the desert in california of all places...

the director's vision.

[Joss]

Mmm anything by The Mars volta.Do they count? they throw me off but i love them

[okpathos]

ah yes, radiohead, while there are a good number of songs where thom is pretty clear, at least he gives a good direction in what he means, there are equally as many radiohead songs that i couldn't understand at all.

 

and interpol, some of their stuff goes right over my head

[gentleparachute]

songs i dont understand????

 

EVERY SINGLE radiohead song!

 

What about Creep?

[gentleparachute]

Lyrics in songs don't influence how much I like a song. Of course some songs are beautiful because the lyrics frame a story perfectly, but so many great songs have lyrics that are totally unrelated from line to line, then there are songs that have no meaning whatsoever but still sound great...

 

Many of Bob Dylan's songs belong to the first category... so do jazz & blues songs as well as folk / country.

Rock (in all its various forms) tends to belong to the second.

And in the third... u'd have avant garde music e.g. Radiohead (since Kid A), Bjork and all those weird, eccentric, little bands out there :D

[Cabroncito]

There are some songs that seem obvious to me, but then a friend tell me what they think and it just totally takes me for a loop how they got to their conclusions. A lot of lyricists out there don't explain their lyrics all the way cause they want the fans to get something different from them. Personally, i like to know what someone is talking about or reffering to in their music.

[badlydrawngirl]

I am me as you are he as you are me

And we are all together

See how they run like pigs from a gun

See how they fly, I'm crying

 

Sitting on a cornflake

Waiting for the van to come

Corporation T-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday

Man, you been a naughty boy you let your face grow long

 

I am the eggman

They are the eggmen

I am the walrus

Goo goo g'joob

 

Mister city policeman sitting

Pretty little policemen in a row

See how they fly like Lucy in the sky

See how they run, I'm crying

 

Yellow matter custard

Dripping from a dead dog's eye

Crabalocker fishwife, pornographic priestess

Man, you've been a naughty girl, you let your knickers down

 

I am the eggman

They are the eggmen

I am the walrus

Goo goo g'joob

 

Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun

If the sun don't come you get your tan

From standing in the English rain

 

I am the eggman

They are the eggmen

I am the walrus

Goo goo g'joob, g'goo goo g'joob

 

Expert textpert, choking smokers

Don't you think the joker laughs at you?

See how they smile like pigs in a sty

See how they snide, I'm crying

 

Semolina pilchards

Climbing up the Eiffel Tower

Elementary pengiun singing Hare Krishna

Man, you should've seen 'em kicking Edgar Allen Poe

 

I am the eggman

They are the eggmen

I am the walrus

Goo goo g'joob, g'goo goo g'joob

Goo goo g'joob, g'goo goo g'joob

G'goo

 

G'jib, jib jibba!

 

 

 

Try and make sense of that one :P

 

 

what the FUCK was that man singing about? :lol:

[Cabroncito]

Who the hell knows??? He was probably tryping on acid at the time. (along with other such parafenalia)

[Skinned Alive]

Apparently John Lennon heard that teachers were asking students to analyse the Beatles' lyrics and try and come up with some meaning behind them.

 

So he wrote 'I Am The Walrus' as a way of saying "analyse that one, you fuckers!". :D

 

But yeah, he probably was on LSD or something at the time. Either way they're fucking awesome lyrics, even if they don't make sense.

[Cabroncito]

i bet that if we ate a whole bunch of shrooms it would all suddenly become clear... as if a great fog were suddenly lifted.

[badlydrawngirl]

So he wrote 'I Am The Walrus' as a way of saying "analyse that one, you fuckers!".

 

my old english teacher would be stumped which is good especially as she thought she was great :rolleyes: :lol:

[johnny_t]

for me actually there is a videoclip that i dont understand...do u all remember the song "just" for radiohead...i mean at the end wt did the guy tell them that was soo huge which made everyone lay on the ground like that :huh:

any ideas?

[*Justine*]

^ It will always be a mystery I guess.

[-JaK-]

If anyone finds out, THEY ARE NOT TO SAY ANYTHING

or people will lose faith in radiohead, Seriously thats what I like about them, They keep suspence in there songs too

[Octakon]

for me actually there is a videoclip that i dont understand...do u all remember the song "just" for radiohead...i mean at the end wt did the guy tell them that was soo huge which made everyone lay on the ground like that :huh:

any ideas?

 

That was the whole point with the video, not letting us know what he said.