Best "Weirdest Song Lyric Of All Time"

Voting for "Before you came into my life, I missed you so bad" because if someone says that lyric makes no sense you can respond with "APPARENTLY YOU'VE NEVER BEEN IN LOVE"

yeah that's a great line

what is weird about the Club Tropicana lyric?

if someone had asked me to quote some popular lyric i haven't quite wrapped my head around, i would have gone with:

I remember you said 'Sometimes it lasts in love, but sometimes it hurts instead'

xpost The fact that in the same song he sings about watching the waves in the bay. Agree that taken alone it's not at all weird.

However, the bay is in a lagoon not on the sea.

ah, I'd forgotten about that bit. I'd always thought it wasn't about an actual foreign resort but fantasy escapism at a nightclub in the UK, 'a whole night's holiday' etc?

"Are we human or are we dancer?" without a second thought. never liked the killers but that line is pretty amazing

"What about elephants?" etc because it actually made me laugh. I can't believe I've never heard that one before

Steve Miller Band:

"Some people call me the space cowboy, yeah
Some call me the gangster of love
Some people call me Maurice
Cause I speak of the pompitous of love"

Lots of Duran Duran:

"In touch with the ground I'm on the hunt I'm after you
Smell like I sound, I'm lost in a crowd
And I'm hungry like the wolf
Straddle the line, in discord and rhyme
I'm on the hunt I'm after you
Mouth is alive with juices like wine
And I'm hungry like the wolf"

mulatto albino denial?

"slowly walking down the hall, faster than a cannonball" isn't that weird, just seems like run-of-the-mill gallagher gibberish.

only time will tell if we stand the test of time

Duran Duran: What the hell are they on about?

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This poll is seriously lacking in Silverchair lyrics

Why is the Carly Rae Jepsen one weird... isn't she just saying there was a big hole in her heart until the dude came along?

always loved that Killers line

No Pere Ubu?

elephants

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da croupier otm about the adele line. such a vapid lyric

<3 <3 <3 the carly one

"Are we human or are we dancer?" without a second thought. never liked the killers but that line is pretty amazing

always loved that Killers line

What does it mean? It always sounded really weird and akward to me, but English not being my native language, I figure I'm probably missing something. Can someone explain it to me?

Let me go on... like I blister in the sun
Let me go on... big hands, I know you're the one

xp there is an awkwardness inherent in the line that cannot easily be explained away; the sentence as it stands is not correct in standard English, but seems to imply, through parallel grammatical construction, the existence of "dancer" as a separate race or species (because the only way the sentence *would* be grammatical is if "dancer" were an adjective, & so you/I think, Well, what might dancer-used-as-an-adjective mean?, & this answer suggests itself based on the parallel with human [n.] & human [adj.])

"It's so hot, looks like you have three beaks, crow"

I mean, levels of weirdness aren't even registering on the weirdometer I have right here.

I think that Killers lyric must come from the same parallel universe as Snap!'s "rhythm is a dancer", which is equally baffling.

"are we human, or are we dancer" is beautiful phonetically and asks for spiritual ascension

imo

from the mind that gave us I've got soul but, I'm not a soldier

Huh. This whole time I had been singing "let me go wild, like I blister in the sun."

Let me go, mom, like Wolf Blitzer is your son

Thanks Bernard and Spazzmatazz for your takes on "Human" !

Now what about "MacArthur Park" ?

imo the killers guy just wanted clarification on whether the human race was actually human or just one of santa's reindeer disguised as the human race

"It's so hot, looks like you have three beaks, crow"

I mean, levels of weirdness aren't even registering on the weirdometer I have right here.

― Mark G, Friday, August 8, 2014 3:14 AM (14 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if you can accept that he's talking to a bird it makes sense

Yes, but the 'question' was about 'weird' lyrics, not nonsense..

(q originated externally, I know)

That fucking Killers song has been following me round the shops of South London ever since reading this thread.

You know, I thought I was pretty inured to nonsense lyrics that didn't make any sense, but this one really just seems like there's some semantic nerve it seems specifically designed to get on.

"...the lyrics were inspired by a disparaging comment made by Hunter S. Thompson, where he stated America was raising "a generation of dancers"