What song lyrics sound profound at first, but make no sense at all on second glance?

Question

My favorite is the beatles in "all you need is love" -- the first two lines:

"Theres's nothing you can do that can't be done
there's nothing you can sing that can't be sung"

It sounds kind of deep at first, and it's a cool song lyric, but then think about it. . . duh! Of course there's nothing you can sing that can't be sung! That's like saying "there are no green things that aren't green". Obviously!

What cool-sounding nonsense song lyrics stick in your head?

Answer 1

Oh god so many
Nirvana-On A Plain (I start this off without any words)
Green Day and U2=The Saints are coming(I cried to my daddy on the telephone, how long now?)
Derek and the Dominoes-Layla (Before I finally go insane)
Placebo-36 Degrees (it's the bit with the numbers I'll see if i can remember it) "4,7,2,3,9,8,5 I've gotta breathe to stay alive, and 1, 4,2, 7,8 Feels Like I'm gonna suffocate, 14, 16,22 Skin Blister Blue, I'm 36 degrees"
REM The Great Beyond (I'm pushing an elephant up the stairs, I'm tossing up punchlines that were never there, Over my shoulder a piano falls, cr-as-hin-g to the ground)

Answer 2

Second Glance Lyrics

Answer 3

I think it has to be 'I am the Walrus' by the Beatles, not only is it trying to be profound but it is absolute nonsense as really are the rest of the Beatles Lyrics.

- Maxwells Silver Hammer
- Yellow Submarine

Etc

Answer 4

White Room by The Cream (although I love the song)
In the white room with black curtains near the station.
Blackroof country, no gold pavements, tired starlings.
Silver horses ran down moon beams in your dark eyes.
Dawnlight smiles on you leaving, my contentment.
Chorus: I'll wait in this place where the sun never shines:
Wait in this place where the shadows run from themselves.
You said no strings could secure you at the station.
Platform tickets, restless diesels, goodbye windows.
I walked into such a sad time at the station.
As I walked out, felt my own need just beginning.
Chorus; I'll wait in the queue when the trains come back;
Lie with you where the shadows run from themselves.
At the party she was kindness in the hard crowd.
Consolation for the old wound now forgotten.
Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes.
She's just dressing, goodbye windows, tired starlings.
Chorus; I'll sleep in this place with the lonely crowd.
Lie in the dark where the shadows run from themselves.

Answer 5

Changing of the Guards by Bob Dylan.
I spent years trying to work it out but now realise there was nothing to work out.
Dylan has other songs too - like Close connection to My Heart or Someones gotta hold of my heart - diverse.
What a great writer though!

Answer 6

Sweet Dreams are made of this
Who am I to disagree?
I travelled the world and the 7 seas
Everybody's looking for something...

(by the Eurythmics, 1983)

Also
I believe I believe what the old man says
I believe that theres a lord above
I believe in me I believe in you
And you know I believe in love

(by the Human League, "Love Action", 1981)

Answer 7

Anything by Bob Dylan, and i mean ANYTHING. He's always rated as a great "poet" and lyric writer, he just makes the words rhyme, and probably uses a rhyming dictionary too!
Also he is guilty of writing really good songs but his versions are terrible, then people cover them and hey presto..>WOW! Jimi Hendrix's version of All Along the Watchtower is probably my fave example of that.

Answer 8

surely it's gotta be "whiter shade of pale" ?!


We skipped the light fandango
turned cartwheels 'cross the floor
I was feeling kinda seasick
but the crowd called out for more
The room was humming harder
as the ceiling flew away
When we called out for another drink
the waiter brought a tray

And so it was that later
as the miller told his tale
that her face, at first just ghostly,
turned a whiter shade of pale

She said, 'There is no reason
and the truth is plain to see.'
But I wandered through my playing cards
and would not let her be
one of sixteen vestal virgins
who were leaving for the coast
and although my eyes were open
they might have just as well've been closed

She said, 'I'm home on shore leave,'
though in truth we were at sea
so I took her by the looking glass
and forced her to agree
saying, 'You must be the mermaid
who took Neptune for a ride.'
But she smiled at me so sadly
that my anger straightway died

If music be the food of love
then laughter is its queen
and likewise if behind is in front
then dirt in truth is clean
My mouth by then like cardboard
seemed to slip straight through my head
So we crash-dived straightway quickly
and attacked the ocean bed

Answer 9

My Good Friend Les Claypool rights extremly wierd songs. And the Red Hot Chili peppers

Answer 10

That's pretty funny. Before I opened your question, I was going to say "Any Beatles song". Good call. LOL