Lyrics that make no damn sense

a classic album...but a WTF line.

My Own Way - Duran Duran

- "mouthwash jukebox gasoline" ("Devil's Haircut")
- "slap a turkey neck and it's hangin' from a pigeon wing" ("Loser")
- "hot milk, tweek my nipple" ("Hot Milk")
and so on

The worst offenders are the lyrics where they repeat them again and again (i.e. in the chorus) as if simple repetition will somehow grant meaning where none can be. eg the Sugababes, "In The Middle", "I'm caught up in the middle / Jumping through the riddle", IT DOES NOT MATTER how often you sing it girls it is NONSENSE!

'play in the sunshine' - prince

come again ? it may well be 1 of my favourite ever songs, from my favourite ever album but what in the name of...

'and i run just as fast as i can to the middle of my frustrated ph34rs'

say wha?

Underworld to thread.
Right. But also this one by Dizzy Mizz Lizzy, who may also be trying too hard, but in a corny way:

I can't find you
where are you barbedwired baby
Are you hiding?
But the objection's overruled
Why do I always play the fool
Please tell me what's inside the screen
Is it a barbedwired baby's dream?

ahem ...

I woke up at seven and my body was vibrating
I was wrapped up in a blanket
I was grey
Damp and sore
The bedroom was an engine and my heartbeat was erratic
(Like I think I'm at the racing
Like the night before)
I remember one girl standing
One was sitting on the ground
One was holding me up
The other pulling me down
And I couldn't decide which one was real
Because there wasn't a sound
(Like I was pregnant again... )

"Don't move don't blink don't think don't even breathe" she said
"Or the photograph will spoil
And cut you off at the head"
So I was sucking
I was sucking like a fat lady would
But I couldn't hold it down another second
(Bleagh!)
"Don't twitch don't shout don't think don't even breathe" she said
"Or the photograph will spoil and cut you off at the head"
So I was sweating
I was sweating like a fat lady would...
And I woke up
With a man inside my mouth
(This won't hurt at all... )

'There are women and children in boats/Crying and dying like Jews/Do you like tennis?'

that clearly must win.

I got my head shaved
By a jumbo jet
It wasn't easy
But nothing is, no

Blur: Song 2

The zebra spilled its plastinia on bemis
And the gelatin fingers oozed electric marbles
Ramona's titties died in hell
And the Nazis want to kill everyone.

John Trubee: Blind Man's Penis

not that that makes any more sense

-- Savin All My Love 4 u (savinallmylove4...), November 26th, 2003.

that makes sense. it's about someone who might be cool.

He wore a scarlet tunic
A blue-green hood
It looked quite good
He had a big adventure
Amidst the grass
Fresh air at last
Wining
Dining
Biding his time

And then one day
Hooray!
Another way
For gnomes to say
Oooooo my

Look at the sky
Look at the river
Isn't it good?
Look at the sky
Look at the river
Isn't it good?
Winding
Finding
Places to go

And then one day
Hooray!
Another way
For gnomes to say
Ooooooooo my
Oooooooooooooooo my

Isn't that quite clear? A jumbo jet flew so near to his head that it shaved his hair off. And it "wasn't easy", because the jet was more likely to decapitate him or smash him altogether...

"It's like Murder She Wrote
Once I getcha out them clothes"

There's no context clues given for what he means by this. Angela Lansbury? Crime? Mystery? What does this have to do with nudity?

In context, all of the playing around will stop once he gets her out of those clothes.

Who was that man's religious studies teacher.

"casual sex ..is it irrational? {yes}
i think it's time to find out why and soon i fall asleep, it's nighttime.
in a dream there's a dolphin and a soldier, they're walking
through the sand and toward a morgue. in an office there's a hostess
who has carried our friend and wheeled him into a drawer.
she pulls his file, the air is cold.
down the aisle we follow her, i'm thinking
casual sex - the feeling. casual sex -
the soldier's life's the same as mine and he's attracted to a nun."

Um... yes, OK.

It's de-louse, safe-house time
When I get to the safe house
Hanging rhyme
Hang this crummy blitz trad. by its neck
Pink press threat
I escaped the pink prole effect

(Prole Art Threat)

What is he on about?

Big Mess-Devo. It's based on real letters sent to a TV personality by some little kid or retard maybe. Should make sense now!

(of course, the ones that these fine gentlemen wrote that DO make sense were about blow-jobs.)

Wire somehow get away with it despite singing "money spines paper lung kidney bingos organ fun"....

Isn't that quite clear? A jumbo jet flew so near to his head that it shaved his hair off. And it "wasn't easy", because the jet was more likely to decapitate him or smash him altogether...

-- Tuomas (tuomas.alh...), November 26th, 2003.
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sorry, but as likely as that sounds, that's wrong...and many people seem to think that that is the correct line. more likely, (and more sensibly), it is
"i got my head shaved
by a zamboni"

and for those too lazy to try to prove me wrong,
-Zam·bo·ni--A trademark used for a machine that resurfaces the ice in an ice rink.

right off dictionary.com

so there...not QUITE as garish as a jumbo jet, and a much more obscure line than "hey, did you cut your hair with a weed wacker?"

-out

Maybe this lines are not supposed to make sense right away (the song is called "The Riddle" after all). But does anybody know what this is about?

ready for the world :'oh sheila'.

I am the fly on the wall,
My prying eyes are looking through your bottom drawer.
I just came flying through your door,
You didn't notice that your number had been called.

I see the mother who's beating the babe,
I see the money,
The pennies you save,
Stored on computers,
From birth to the grave.

The fly on the wall,
He's seeing it all.

I am the fly upon the wall,
You're in the index of the files that stand so tall.
Although your health is rather poor,
We have a place for those who cannot find a cure.

I know your income,
Your daily crust,
I know your pleasures,
Your passion,
Your lust,
I know when you're living and I know when you're dust.

The fly on the wall,
He's seeing it all.

One is born and one will die, it's all understood
The bit that's in the middle doesn't count

I am the fly on the wall,
My prying eyes are looking through your bottom drawer.
I just came flying through your door,
You didn't notice that your number had been called.

I see the mother who's beating the babe,
I see the money,
The pennies you save,
Stored on computers,
From birth to the grave.

The fly on the wall,
He's seeing it all. I am the fly

I am the fly upon the wall,
You're in the index of the files that stand so tall.
Although your health is rather poor,
We have a place for those who cannot find a cure.

I know your income,
Your daily crust,
I know your pleasures,
Your passion,
Your lust,
I know when you're living and I know when you're dust.

The fly on the wall,
He's seeing it all.

why would a heffer be happy about being slaughtered?

"You're the hooker
A spy in the bath
We make us move
Like some kind of bath"

(Throwing Muses "Backroads").

what's up with that?!

This sort of makes sense to me.

One that I always found utterly nonsensical was from a 80s track, 'Footsteps Following Me' by Frances someone (Nero, possibly):

'Faith, hope and charity
Love is the greatest of the three'

errr...
and, more recently, Sean Paul's

'Gotta stick to my girls like glue
and I'm a lovely number two'.

The first bit is fine, but a lovely number two?

What, Sean, you're a bowel movement?

Not that that makes more sense or anything, though.

Can I remember where I read that? No.

I did wonder if it was 'lovely' or 'knobbly'. Then I thought...why would he boast about being knobbly?

I like the real version better. Even if I still don't understand it.

"The rhythm is the BASS and the BASS is the treble"

Homophones are the mindkiller

CHORUS

A far away light in the futuristic place we might be,
It's a tiny world just big enough to support the kingdom of one
knowledgeable,
throw away the loneliness and head back down,
I'm going too fast, I'm going too fast

CHORUS

I plunge right on through the office door,
and into the arms of the bottomless negro of love,
suddenly I can't remember,
how to stop, or turn around,

Do I have to get behind myself,
Do I have to turn around before I can point,
I flip 'til I can breathe

CHORUS

"The bottomless negro of love"??!! Wtf?!

plastic fantastic lobster telephone

huh???

I don't wanna be
how other people are
don't wanna own a key
don't wanna wash my car

Fucking car washing conformists.

http://www.tate.org.uk/collection/T/T03/T03257_9.jpg

now, if we can only figure out what dali was thinking.

Still:

Grail overfloweth there is rain
and there's saliva, and there's you

Liz you damn goth.

"Bananafishbones" is loosely inspired by the short story "A Perfect Day For Bananafish" by JD Salinger.

"i got a dick for a brain
and my brain,
is gonna sell my ass to you"

This seems pretty self-evident, doesn't it???

"Funny it's just like a scene out of a Voltaire, twisting out sight."

Also: Louie Louie

If you would take a look at the song title -- "Last Chance on the Stairway" -- it's actually about what the French would call l'esprit d'escalier, or the "spirit of the stairway". According to something I found about that phrase, it's supposed to mean "that moment when you find the answer, but it's too late. Say you're at a party and someone insults you. You have to say something. So under pressure, withe verybody watching, you say something lame. But the moment you leave the party? As you start down the stairway, then -- magic. You come up with the perfect thing you should've said. The perfect crippling put-down."

Basically, the protagonist of the story behind this song is singing about someone he's fallen in love with -- perhaps at a party ("maybe it's something said in a movie/or you could've said last night"). "Just get a picture of sun/In your eyes, the waves in your hair" -- all of these are memories of this beautiful woman who's captivated his attention. Maybe he tried saying something, anything, to get her to notice him. Maybe she took offense at what he said ("It doesn't seem right that we fight"). Maybe he's just fantasizing about a perfect relationship with her, one in which it would be out of place to argue. The "out of sight"? He's probably missed his chance to make as positive an impact on her as she's already made on him; the goal of reaching her is no longer visible. But now that she's no longer within his grasp, he's suddenly got what it is he could've said ("I'm out of reach, I'll talk if it feels right"); he could've complimented her on her scent ("wonder why what makes me rise so high/maybe it's something they put in your perfume"), told her how much of an impression she's left on him (the whole "it keeps this heaven alive" bit), and then sorta implored her to dance with him. Hence... l'esprit d'escalier, or "Last Chance on the Stairway".

Which all explains the whole of the song, I know, but hopefully will also go far in explaining the lyric segment originally quoted.

(I'm free to explain pretty much every other bit of Duran lyric, you know.) (Not like that'd surprise anyone, but, hey.)

My Own Way - Duran Duran

That's not EXACTLY how the lyrics go, though. "I saw you at the air race yesterday/April showers get out of my way/Fear of flying, no not me" -- THAT'S how the lyrics go. Apparently, "My Own Way" is supposed to be about the band's ever-increasing fandom and success, so he could've been talking about his competition herein, how that despite any obstacles that might come his way ("April showers get out of my way"), he'll be deviled if he's going to back down from putting his all in this competition to reach a desired goal. This desired goal? To be able to conquer the biggest city on the other side of the Atlantic (the whole "I'm drinking 7-Up between Sixth and Broadway" line).

(The associations with the Frank Sinatra hit "My Way" aren't exactly 100% coincidental, BTW. Nick Rhodes has always been a big Sinatra fan and could've certainly been an influence upon the "My Own Way" theme.)

"Sarcastic Existence":

Humidity could be felt on the walls
Touched with the palm and used to scare
They used to sweat, they used to stink
Everything swamped and hot
But in the corner laying on a bed
A cold piece made to stay alive
Trapped within its body
It could not think anymore
Thoughts of times of sanity
The world was isolated
Where the sun would salute him
And the night was violent
Fear and guilt
Invade the corners of the room
Pain was felt constantly
They keep on destroying
It could be seen through the window
The eye of disgust and scorn
When you hear the laugh of a madman
Thats about to die
To suffer alone in disgrace
His hate is his own
Always hating being alive
Sarcastic Existnece

I'm sure I'm missing the reference.

Sitting on a cornflake waiting for the van to come
Corporation teeshirt, 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 goo 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, I'm crying
I'm crying, I'm crying

Yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dog's eye
Crabalocker fishwife pornographic priestess
Boy you been a naughty girl, you let your knickers down
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen
I am the walrus, goo goo goo joob

Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun
If the sun don't come
You get a tan from standing in the English rain
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen
I am the walrus, goo goo goo joob goo goo goo goo joob

Expert textpert choking smokers
Don't you think the joker laughs at you? (Ha ha ha! He he he! Ha ha ha!)
See how they smile like pigs in a sty, see how they snied
I'm crying

Semolina pilchard climbing up the Eiffel Tower
Elementary penguin singing Hare Krishna
Man you should have seen them kicking Edgar Alan Poe
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen
I am the walrus, goo goo goo joob goo goo goo joob
Goo goo goo joob goo goo goo joob
Goo gooooooooooo jooba jooba jooba jooba jooba jooba
Jooba jooba
Jooba jooba
Jooba jooba

That's not EXACTLY how the lyrics go, though. "I saw you at the air race yesterday/April showers get out of my way/Fear of flying, no not me" -- THAT'S how the lyrics go.

There is a line in the song that says "took another green but it's not the same", though.

Run run morning soon Indian dream tiger moon
Yellow bird fly high go battle sky to shatter the moon
Babbette baboon gonna catch her soon Babbette baboon

Dalai llama lama puss puss
Stella maris missa nobis
Miss a dinner miss shapiro
Shampoos pot-pot pinkies pampered
Movement hampered like at christmas
Ha-ha isn’t life a circus
Round in circles like the archers
Always stiff or always starchy
Yes it’s happening and it’s fattening
And it’s all that we can get into the show.

Only came outside to watch the night fall with the rain
I heard you making patterns rhyme
Like some new romantic looking for the tv sound
You'll see I'm right some other time

Look now, look all around, there's no sign of life
Voices, another sound, can you hear me now?
This is planet earth, you're looking at planet earth
Bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop this is planet earth

Still a great song though :)

Ha ha ha ha. First off, I'm Dee -- nice to meet you, Alfred. Secondly -- when/where shall I collect on that drink? ;)

There is a line in the song that says "took another green but it's not the same", though.

Oh, I know, Ian; it's just in a different part of the song, a part where the line would make more sense. Instead of just being dropped in like the way it was previously quoted as being. (I'll have to remember the context to figure out what that line means, BTW.)

And... ahhh, "Planet Earth". Great song, but the lyrics.... Mind, he could be addressing his fellow New Romantics, telling them to stop, take notice of what's going on, and recognize how precious life is here on Planet Earth. I know that back then, nuclear conflict was a very vital concern, and it certainly wasn't far from SLB's mind; he did, after all, say that he wanted the band to "be the band you dance to as the bomb drops". Or something along those lines; it's from an early '80s interview with someone from Melody Maker. (I *think* it was Steve Sutherland... ?) Anyway. I can't remember the Official Word from The Source Himself, but that's what I'm thinking that song's about.

Here I am, I'm a dotted line
Cut the corner, stick me to your door

ARGH! If he'd written, "Here I am on the dotted line, cut the corner, stick me to your door," that'd have been a LOT better. But -- "I'm a dotted line"?!?! HOLY. CRAP. That was baaaaad. (You may feel free to think differently.)

Queen - Don't Stop Me Now

Nice enough singalongability but Mr Mercury, you can't reload an atom bomb.

I don't get it.
The next lines are a bit more understandable

"Practicing makeup she laughs at us all
'Hey look at you!'
She's seen it all before"

Well, sort of.

*clears throat*

Scientific, my hand kissed it
Robotic let's think optimistic
You probably missed it, watch me dolly dick it
Scotty watty cop it to me, big microphone hippie
Hit Poughkepsie crispy chicken verbs throw up a stone richie
Chop the O, sprinkle a lil' snow inside a Optimo
Swing the John McEnroe, rap rock'n'roll
Tidy Bowl, gung-ho pro, Starsky with the gumsole
Hit the rump slow, parole kids, live Rapunzel
but Ton' stizzy really high, the vivid laser eye guide
Jump in the Harley ride, Clarks I freak a lemon pie
I'm bout it, bout it - Lord forgive me, Ms. Sally shouted
Tracey got shot in the face, my house was overcrowded
You fake cats done heard it first
On how I shitted on your turf
at times, Cuban Link verse yo
Check out the rap kingpin, summertime fine jewelry drippin
Face in the box, I seen your ear twitchin
As soon as I drove off, Cap' came to me with three sawed-offs
Give one to Rae', let's season they broth
Lightning rod fever heaters, knock-kneeder Sheeba for hiva
Diva got rocked from the receiver bleeder
Portfolio, lookin fancy in the pantry
My man got bigger dimes son, your shit is scampi
Base that, throw what's in your mouth, don't waste that
See Ghost lampin in the throne with King Tut hat
Straight off

Now, some of these lyrics may make sense if you think about them for a second or two or at least try and get into Ghostface's brain. But before you even have a chance to say, "what the fuck?" he hits you with verse number two:

Aiyyo spiced out Calvin Coolidge, loungin with 7 duelers
The Great Adventures of Slick, lickin with 6 rugers
Rock those, big boy Bulotti's out of Woodridge
Porch for the biggest beer, season giraffe ribs
Rotissiere ropes, hickory scented mint scented glaze
Perfected find truth within self, let's smoke
All hail to my hands, 50 thou' appraisal
Dirty nose with the nasal drip, click flipped on fam
Dancin with Blanch and them bitches, flickin goose pictures
Kick down the ace of spades, snatch Jack riches
Olsive compulsive lies flies with my name on it
Dick made the cover now count, how many veins on it
Scooby snack jurassic plastic gas booby trap
Ten years workin for me, you wanna tap shit?
Bung bung bung! Your bell went rung rung rung!
Staple-Land's where the ambulance don't come

Ha HA!
BOW DOWN TO THE NONSENSE!

Um, WHY?! None of the above is the color blue.

--And the sun slips down bedding heavy blind--
--The front of your dress all shadowy lined--
--And the droning engine throbs in time--
--With your beating heart--
--Sing Blue Silver--

I'm wondering here about the first and the last line.

At The Drive-In used to drive me stark-raving mad. The lyrics were like cryptic crossword clues sung with feeling. I couldn't listen to them because I'd get this overwhelming compulsion to try & make sense where there was none.

The front of your dress all shadowy lined -- The woman is wearing a wisp of a dress. Perhaps it's even a little bit see-through (the "shadowy lined" part).

And the droning engine throbs in time with your beating heart -- "Droning engine" = the man's penis and "throbs in time with your beating heart" = his erection? I don't know. All I can remember about erections was what I learned in sex ed. (The "you" in question is probably the woman he's addressing these sentiments toward.)

Sing Blue Silver -- The "singing" of "blue silver", i.e. the "droning engine"? That's what makes the most sense to me.

*: That was from "Who Do You Think You Are?". I had to quote it.

You can explode one though! He's only making claims as to the reloadability of a sex machine, which I guess may be accurate enough based on hygiene issues.

Um, WHY?! None of the above is the color blue.

He's feeling blue because he has a lot of spare time on his hands that he wishes he could spend with his S/O laughing, living and rolling but unspecified forces are keeping them apart.

"i tried to dance britney spears"
--rufus wainwright, "vibrate"

OK, here's one song that I managed to finally work out! It was all in the punctuation. (I raised this on a different thread, can't find it now)

I often pray before I lay down by your side;
If you receive your calling before I awake,
Could I make it through the night,
Cherish the love we have!
we should cherish the life we live

etc.

So, if she dies, or if he doesn't die.. um, they should cherish their lives...

Actually, it's still cack-handed.

I've never understood why or how the rhythm is the bass and the bass is the treble.

I've got a ticket to the world.
But I've come back again.

http://www.pictures.vaty.net/uploaded_images/crazy_blondes-794828.jpg

Seriously wtf, that's something you carve into your skin with a shard of broken glass after not sleeping for a month.

Worst line ever from crap band:

"Play a fly track from your record collection /
It's your mix--congratulations!"

Ummmm, why exactly are congratulations in order?

yeah, he only came second to Franco's Spain!

I can't believe Cream hasn't warranted more inclusion here...

You've got that rainbow feel,
such good responses,
but the picture has a moustache.

"I will listen hard to your tuition."

Wow, Cream huh.

spanish folks trying to decipher the lyrics of kurt cobain

http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=34522

Boo Radleys - Ride The Tiger

"I don't really need a fuel infected car"

Kind of makes sense, but doesn't.

Shudder to Think lyrics in general; these lines in particular:

All over town they've got these
Like, messenger girls, that ride around on innertubes
Their asses are all scraped up
Their eyes cold kick me off the bus, y'all

I can't stop staring at that photo of those two girls above and making the same face that I would if I were staring at someone with a really bad sunburn.

looking at it now and I'm actually making the same face as the girl on the right

"benezedrine telephone" -- Bush

These lyrics may not make any sense, but at least the video shows what's going on in the lyrics: ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFGwpTl9iLs

WTF, how did this thread get this far without any mention of Dylan???? He tured nonsensical lyrics into an art form. My favorite:

You raise up your head
And you ask, “Is this where it is?”
And somebody points to you and says
“It’s his”
And you say, “What’s mine?”
And somebody else says, “Where what is?”
And you say, “Oh my God
Am I here all alone?”

thinking about cypress hill:

"Sawed-off shotgun hand on the pump, left hand on the 40, PUFFIN ON A BLUNT, pump my shotgun, NIGGAS GETTIN' JUMPED"

ok first of all what the fuck do you have three hands? And second, even if you have your right hand on the pump, left hand on the 40, and the blunt in your mouth hands free, it's going to be kind of awkward to pump your shotgun with one hand. And why pump the shotgun at all if you're just going to jump someone?

maybe he's only holding the pump of the gun and he's pumping it by jerking the gun forward

like in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J31uavVgOc

and maybe he can drop the 40 in honor of the guy he's about to shoot and simultaneously gain use of the hand he needs to pull the trigger

Duran Duran to thread. they seriously write songs like English is their second language

The wild boys are calling
On their way back from the fire
In august moon's surrender to
A dust cloud on the rise
Wild boys fallen far from glory
Reckless and so hungered
On the razors edge you trail
Because there's murder by the roadside
In a sore afraid new world

They tried to break us,
Looks like they'll try again

Wild boys never lose it
Wild boys never chose this way
Wild boys never close your eyes
Wild boys always shine

You got sirens for a welcome
There's bloodstain for your pain
And your telephone been ringing while
You're dancing in the rain
Wild boys wonder where is glory
Where is all you angels
Now the figureheads have fell
And lovers war with arrows over
Secrets they could tell

They tried to tame you
Looks like they'll try again

Wild boys never lose it
Wild boys never chose this way
Wild boys never close your eyes
Wild boys always shine

"Every day a little sadder...a little madder...someone get me a ladder" - ELP, "Still...You Turn Me On"

yeah, i was looking looking at the lyrics to Rio not too long ago, and was stunned at how bad they were:

Moving on the floor now babe you're a bird of paradise
Cherry ice cream smile I suppose it's very nice

Came to thread to say Simon Le Bon's entire lyrical history, but I see i'm late to the party.

now the figureheads have fell?

have

fell?

in a sore afraid new world

delightfully handsome and I enjoy listening to their songs very much but wtf, honestly

America: "Tin Man"; the chorus...

But Oz never did give nothing to the Tin Man
That he didn't, didn't already have
And Cause never was the reason for the evening
Or the tropic of Sir Galahad.

Uhh, WTF???

Grateful Dead: "Brown Eyed Women":
"Dad made whiskey and he made it well.
Cost two dollars, burned like hell"

Sounds like Dad needs to refine his process.

"We get it on most every night, when that moon is big and bright."

The moon is not big and bright almost every night.

If the song is set on Earth, yes.

Ha, beat me to it

It's also "a supernatural delight" so maybe you're on to something.

Perhaps it’s set on an, um, dying Earth.

Good to know people will still be 'getting it on'.

The Moon is bigger and brighter than other objects in the night sky I guess, on the whole.

Talking about space

Look up, I look up at night
Planets are moving at the speed of light
Climb up, up in the trees
Every chance that you get
Is a chance you seize
How long am I gonna stand
With my head stuck under the sand?
I'll start before I can stop
Before I see things the right way up

All that noise, and all that sound
All those places I have found
And birds go flying at the speed of sound
To show you how it all began
Birds came flying from the underground
If you could see it then you'd understand

Wham!, Club Tropicana:

All that's missing is the sea
...
Watch the waves break on the bay

Let's get drunk on Saturday
Walk up Primrose Hill until we lose our way

if you were drunk enough to lose your way on primrose hill you probably wouldn't be able to walk.

She was a day tripper
One way ticket yeah

A day tripper would buy a return ticket, no question.

stoopid beatles

oh when the day goes to sleep, and the full moon looks
and the night is so black, that the darkness cooks

Oi Greeny! If the moon is full, no way is the night also dark.

Yellow Submarine:

And our friends are all aboard
Many more of them live next door

So... they're not all aboard?

Some of their friends have responded to the call of "all aboard" to get on the vessel. An unspecified number of those who did not board the vessel are readily available nearby.

Wham!, Club Tropicana:

All that's missing is the sea
...
Watch the waves break on the bay

― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Tuesday, May 31, 2022 10:41 AM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Apparently this crux is resolved by the mention of a lagoon in the next line? idk I'm suspicious but I don't know how lagoons work.

Interesting. So either it's a large lagoon with waves breaking in a bay, in which case why the is the 'missing' sea a problem? Or it's a small calm lagoon and the waves are breaking in a separate bay outside of the lagoon, still doesn't seem like a reason for complaint.

it's a mirage

i'm telling y'all it's sabotage