Song meanings.

[smirkymonkey]

What song lyrics confuse you and what do you think their meanings are?

There are so many songs that I am so curious about, but I can't seem to find out what the lyricist meant when they wrote it. Some are obvious, but others just seem like something they just wrote when they were completely baked.

What songs and meanings baffle you?

[Glorfindel]

1. The first thing that springs to mind. I love it, but have no idea what it means:

I Am the Walrus - The Beatles

I am he 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 corn flake
Waiting for the van to come
Corporation T-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday
Man you've been a naughty boy
You let your face grow long
I am the egg man
They are the egg men
I am the walrus
Goo goo g'joob
Mr. 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've been a naughty girl
You let your knickers down
I am the egg man
They are the egg men
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 a tan
From standing in the English rain
I am the egg man (How do you do sir?)
They are the egg men (The man maintains a fortune)
I am the walrus
Goo goo g'joob, goo goo goo g'joob
Expert, texpert choking smokers
Don't you think the joker laughs at you (Ho ho ho, hee hee hee, hah hah hah)
See how they smile like pigs in a sty
See how they snide
I'm crying
Semolina Pilchard
Climbing up the Eiffel tower
Elementary penguin singing Hare Krishna
Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allen Poe
I am the egg man
They are the egg men
I am the walrus
Goo goo g'joob, goo goo goo g'joob
Goo goo g'joob, goo goo goo g'joob, goo goo

[smirkymonkey]

2. I definitely think that was a drug induced masterpiece.

I can think of no other explanation.

[Glorfindel]

4. I think you're right. What else can account for the "everybody's fucked up" chant at the end?

Many masterpieces were drug-induced during those exciting times.

[KatyMan]

24. It's "everybody's got one"

PLAYBOY: "What does 'everybody got'?". LENNON: "Anything. You name it. One penis, one vagina, one asshole-- you name it."

[dchill]

26. And I thought it was "everybody smoke pot."

And that's the beauty of abstract art. I love that song, BTW.

[cemaphonic]

13. That and Lennon's fondness for Lewis Carroll.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. You beat me to it! That's the first one I thought of.

I suspect it had something to do with recreational chemicals.

[Wolf Frankula]

23. Ringo wanted to be the Walrus

but they wouldn't let him.

Wolf

[smirkymonkey]

3. I have been listening to a lot of The Pretenders lately and wondering what their songs

were about. They can be interpreted in so many ways, but I would love it if the songwriters themselves would clue us in. It's so frustrating.

[True Dough]

5. I'm not gonna lie

this one has always puzzled me! Anyone???


ये रात
कड़ी और कोम्ब्दी की रात
ना उगली ही जाये ना निगली ही जाये
यह कलि ज़हरीली रात
पल पल बलखाती पल पल उल्जाती
पलके झपकती ये रात
सन्नाटे की सीज पे सोये
साप सी सरकती रात
ये रात ये रात
जली की छिपकली रात
ये रात
कड़ी और कोम्ब्दी की रात
ये रात

ये कलि ज़हरीली रात
पलके झपकती ये रात
साप सी सरकती रात
कलि कलि कलि ये रात
वीराना वीराना है वीराना
दिल को लाख बसा ले ये दीवाना
वीराना वीराना है वीराना
दिल को लाख बसा ले ये दीवाना
उझडी उझडी रहते है दिल सारी
वीरानो से बस्ता है वीराना
सन करके मरती है बूम करती है कलि कोद्याली रात
ये रात ये रात
जली की छिपकली रात
ये रात
कड़ी और कोम्ब्दी की रात
ये रात
ना उगली ही जाये ना निगली ही जाये
ये कलि ज़हरीली रात
पल पल बलखाती पल पल उल्जाती
पलके झपकती ये रात
सन्नाटे की सीज पे सोये
साप सी सरकती रात
ये रात ये रात

अभी अभी रात बड़ी तेजाबी
गिर ना जाये हाथ से चांद रकाबी
अभी अभी रात बड़ी तेजाबी
गिर ना जाये हाथ से चांद रकाबी
डूब रहे है सरे गुल किनारे
उमड़ उमड़ के रात आई सैलाबी
खोलती बदन पर बोलती बदन पर
जलती उबलती रात
ये रात ये रात
जली की छिपकली रात
यह रात
कड़ी और कोम्ब्दी की रात
ये रात
ना उगली ही जाये ना निगली ही जाये
ये कलि ज़हरीली रात
पल पल बलखाती पल पल उल्जाती
पलके झपकती ये रात
सन्नाटे की सीज पे सोये
साप सी सरकती रात
ये रात ये रात
ये कलि ज़हरीली रात
पलके झपकती ये रात
साप सी सरकती रात
कलि कोद्याली ये रात

[Liberal Veteran]

6. In that song, the cake is a metaphor for lost love.

And he'll never have that recipe again.

[True Dough]

7. You have a real eye for the esoteric

Thanks for clearing that up!

[nolabear]

15. BWAH!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

20. Well, I was going to mention MacArthur Park.

I must be the only person out there who likes it, so I won't bother with the YouTube video.

[steve2470]

22. I like the version by Donna Summer nt

[smirkymonkey]

10. Yeah, that one always had me puzzled too.

I think it has something to do with unrequited love.

[LeftInTX]

19. Is this the video?

A modern snake dance - LOL?

Some lyrics:
This night
Night and night of comb
Do not go to the heels
This night is poisonous night
Moment Moment Moment Moment Moment Moment
This night blows away
Seashore sage
Snake night
This night this night
Night lizard
This night
Night and night of comb
This night

[applegrove]

9. Mersydotes and doeseedotes and littlelamsyivy, kidseyivyto wouldn't

you.

It is actually:

mares eat oats
And does eat oats
And little lambs eat ivy
Kids eat ivy too wouldn't you.

I was actually 12 when i figured that out.

[smirkymonkey]

11. Brilliant!

[applegrove]

12. Don't I know it.

[cemaphonic]

14. Dylan's "Isis" has always intrigued me

It has a somewhat comprehensible story, but a very weird one about graverobbing pyramids (but in the far north instead of the equatorial climates that we usually associate with pyramids), and the whole thing is drenched in mythology and symbolism.

Dylan used to introduce it as a song about marriage, and you can definitely see some of Dylan's marital troubles in the narrator's relationship with Isis. But then, why the pyramids, and the specific dates and directions? Not to mention, the curious detail that they go on the adventure with the intention of removing a body from the pyramid, but end up leaving one instead.

Just a strange and fascinating song.

[Doc_Technical]

16. Cirkus- King Crimson

[Verse 1]
Night: her sable dome scattered with diamonds
Fused my dust from a light year
Squeezed me to her breast, sewed me with carbon
Strung my warp across time
Gave me each a horse, sunrise and graveyard
Told me only I was her
Bid me face the east, closed me in questions
Built the sky for my dawn

[Verse 2]
Cleaned my feet of mud, followed the empty
Zebra ride to the Cirkus
Past a painted cage, spoke to the paybox
Glove which wrote on my tongue
Pushed me down a slide to the arena
Megaphonium fanfare
In his cloak of words strode the ringmaster
Bid me join the parade

[Verse 3]
"Worship!" cried the clown, "I am a T.V
Making bandsmen go clockwork
See the slinky seal Cirkus policeman
Bareback ladies have fish"
Strongmen by his feet, plate-spinning statesman
Acrobatically juggling
Bids his tamers go quiet the tumblers
Lest the mirror stop turning


[Verse 4]
Elephants forgot, force-fed on stale chalk
Ate the floors of their cages
Strongmen lost their hair, paybox collapsed and
Lions sharpened their teeth
Gloves raced round the ring, stallions stampeded
Pandemonium seesaw
I ran for the door, ringmasters shouted
"All the fun of the Cirkus!"

[hack89]

17. Looks like someone took LSD and went to see Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey. nt

[yesphan]

29. Excellent

album.

[FSogol]

18. I never got the lyrics to Trio's Da Da Da, but maybe it's because I don't speak German

[steve2470]

21. Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Blinded By The Light"

[Chorus:]
Blinded by the light
Revved up like a deuce
Another runner in the night
Blinded by the light

Madman drummer bummers
Indians in the summer
With a teenage diplomat
In the dumps with the mumps
As the adolescent pumps
His way into his hat
With a boulder on my shoulder
Feeling kinda older
I tripped a merry-go-round
With this very unpleasing
Sneezing and wheezing
The calliope crashed to the ground
The calliope crashed to the ground

[Chorus:]
But she was blinded by the light.
Revved up like a deuce,
Another runner in the night.
Blinded by the light.
Revved up like a deuce,
Another runner in the night.

Some silicone sister
With her manager mister
Told me I got what it takes
She said, I'll turn you on sonny to something strong
Play the song with the funky break
And go-kart Mozart
Was checking out the weather chart
To see if it was safe outside
And little Early Pearly
Came by in his curly-wurly
And asked me if I needed a ride
Asked me if I needed a ride

Chorus:]
‘Cause she was blinded by the light.
Revved up like a deuce,
Another runner in the night.
Blinded by the light.

She got down but she never got tight
She's gonna make it to the night
She's gonna make it through the night

But mama, that's where the fun is
But mama, that's where the fun is

Solo]

Mama always told me not to look into the eyes of the sun
But mama, that's where the fun is

Some brimstone baritone
Anticyclone rolling stone
Preacher from the east
Says, "Dethrone the dictaphone.
Hit it in its funny bone.
That's where they expect it least."
And some new mown chaperone
Was standing in the corner
Watching the young girls dance
And some fresh-sown moonstone
Was messing with his frozen zone
Reminding him of romance

The calliope crashed to the ground

But she was blinded by the light.
Revved up like a deuce
Another runner in the night.
Blinded by the light.
Revved up like a deuce
Another runner in the night.

(Madman drummers bummers and Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat

In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps his way into his hat)

Blinded by the light.
Revved up like a deuce
Another runner in the night.
Blinded by the light.
Revved up like a deuce
Another runner in the night.

(With a boulder on my shoulder feelin' kinda older I tripped the merry-go-round
With this very unpleasing sneezing and wheezing the calliope crashed to the ground)

Blinded by the light.
Revved up like a deuce
Another runner in the night.
Blinded by the light.
Revved up like a deuce
Another runner in the night.
Some silicone sister with her manager mister told me I got what it takes
She said I'll turn you on sonny to something strong)

She got down but she never got tired,
She's gonna make it through the night.

https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/manfredmannsearthband/blindedbythelight.html

Originally by Bruce Springsteen

[MissMillie]

25. Crowded House--Nails in my Feet

I totally get the end of song... "touch is so tender"

The rest of it means nothing to me.

[Phentex]

27. More Than A Woman by the Bee Gees

More than a woman (you are)
More than a woman to me
More than a woman (uh my baby)
More than a woman to me
More than a woman
More than a woman to me (oh so much more)
More than a woman (oh baby)
More than a woman to me
More than a woman
More than a woman to me
More than a woman
More than a woman to me


What are you if you are more than a woman?

[smirkymonkey]

28. A man?