Nonsensical Song Lyrics, Queen
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And the night followed day
And the story tellers say
Brian, Brian, Brian. Well, the night following day... that's the way it usually happens. You know, most of us aren't oblivious to that fact. Kind of stating the obvious there.
Submitted by: Sara Stapleton
Don't you hear my call 'though you're many years away
don't you hear me calling you
How can you call to someone who is in the past? I presume the song is about a stellar expedition: a space travel with velocities very near the light speed, and the ship mentioned in the song is a space ship. Weird things can happen at those velocities, like the flow of time going awry. The song also mentions time dilation: 'For so many years have gone but I'm older than a year, your mother's eyes in your eyes cry to me'. I interprete it that the singer has travelled one year (his time) in space with velocity very near c, and at the same time many years have passed at Earth, and his old love has aged decades. This is confirmed on the last lines: 'All my life/still ahead/pity me'.
Submitted by: Susanna Viljanen
For the day I take your hand
In the land that our grandchildren knew
**Blinks without comprehending** Uh, our grandchildren knew? So, you're talking from the past to someone from the past, speaking of your grandchildren to appeal to the masses who are going to hear the song in the future.. Right, I get you. **shrug**
Submitted by: Sara
Queen's,
"All God's People"
Yes there was this magic light
I said to myself,
'I'd better go to bed and and have an early night'
Then I, then I, then I went into a dream
This is a great song, but what's the deal with this verse? I'm sure if you saw some kind of magic light you'd be saying more than 'I want to go to bed.' And what's with all the "then I's"? Yes, you've made your point! You had a dream when you went to sleep! Wow Freddie, has that never happened before? Call me old fashioned, but don't people normally dream when they go to sleep?
Submitted by: Oliver South
Queen's,
"Bohemian Rhapsody"
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me,
for me, for me
Beelzebub IS the devil so how can he put himself aside for someone??? duh!!
Submitted by: Jason Preece
Queen's,
"Bohemian Rhapsody"
I see a little silhouetto of a man
Scaramouch, Scaramouch will you do the fandango
Thunderbolt and lightning - very very frightening me
Galileo, Galileo,
Galileo, Galileo,
Galileo Figaro - magnifico
I don't know what he was smoking when he saw it, but it must have been highly toxic.
Submitted by: sonikal
Queen's,
"Bohemian Rhapsody"
Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide,
no escape from reality.
Wouldn't you be dead already if you were caught in a landslide?
Submitted by: Celeste
Queen's,
"Don't Try Suicide"
Don't try suicide
You're just gonna hate it
If they succeed, they'll be dead. So how can you really hate something when you are no longer alive?
Submitted by: Timmy O'Toole
Take me to the room where black's all white
And the white's all black,
take me back to the shack
Ok, the black's all white and the white's all black? I don't think so! That is completely contradictory and...weird! And first he wants to go to some room and then back to the shack? Make up your mind, Freddy!
Submitted by: Riekiebol
Take me to the room where the beat's all round
Gonna eat that sound yeah yeah yeah yeah
How can you eat a sound? Does it taste good? I doubt it! Sound is not edible, let alone tangible!
Submitted by: Riekiebol
Take me to the room where the green's all green
And from what I've seen it's hot it's mean
Green *is* green; duh! But, what's so hot and mean exactly?
Submitted by: Riekiebol
Take me to the room where the red's all red
Take me outta my head is what I said
Well, red *is* usually sort of red and...the second line is rather confusing!
Submitted by: Riekiebol
He used to be a man with a stick in his hand
She used to be a woman with a hot dog stand
Now you've got soup in the laundry bag
I really do like this song, but what the heck is it about?! And what the heck is up with soup in a laundry bag?! They must've really been scraping the bottom of the metaphoric lyrics barrel!
Submitted by: Nicola
Queen's,
"I'm Going Slightly Mad"
I think I'm a banana tree
What in the world?! I guess you really *are* going slightly mad!
Submitted by: Sara Stapleton
Queen's,
"I'm Going Slightly Mad"
This kettle is boiling over
I think I'm a banana tree...
The song's title speaks for itself... In fact, all of the song's lyrics are more than slightly mad, but this line... Imagine how mad you must be to come up with that...
Submitted by: Rock Princess
To avoid complication,
she never kept the same address
It seems to me that constantly changing addresses would add to the complication rather than avoiding it, because the person would confuse others by relocating all the time.
Submitted by: baa
When the soup is cold on the table
That's a sign!
Come to the Ogre Battle Fight!
A soup is cold whilst sitting on the table, such an incredible sign that an Ogre Battle is coming! I'll never leave my soup and let it get cold again! Good grief, guys...could you think of worse lines than these??
Submitted by: Andrews
All we hear is, radio gaga, radio googoo
Roger Taylor of Queen (not to be confused with the same-named member of Duran Duran; different guy) came up with the idea of radio gaga, when he saw his then-2 year old son pointing at the radio while saying: "radio...gaga". So then he thought: 'Wow! Let's make a song of it!' So this might explain why the song seems nonsensical.
Submitted by: Dark Oceangirl
You call me sweet like I'm some kind of cheese
The first and so-named winner of the 'Brian May Stupid Line Award'. It's obvious he wasn't even looking for a rhyme!
Submitted by: Terri Silvers
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