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* You don't seriously think the lyrics of [[The Arrogant Worms]]' "Gaelic Song" actually ''mean'' anything, do you?
* Request-a-Song's [http://www.request-a-song.com/songs/viewsong.php?songid=99 "Ancient Chinese Secret (from Japan)"] contains a line of pseudo-Japanese and two lines of pseudo-Chinese, but it's all genuine gibberish.
* Somewhat inverted with Adiemus. The language for this series of albums was deliberately stylized, ''not'' to be in any recognizable tongue. Instead, the intent was for the listener to percieve the voices as instruments, as [[wikipedia:Adiemus|The Other Wiki]] explains.
* [[Billy Joel]]'s song "Don't Ask Me Why" inexplicably drops "parlez-vous francais" ("Do you speak French?") for no other reason than it rhymes with the word "away".
{{quote|''Yesterday you were an only child''
''Now your ghosts have gone away''
''Oh, you can kill them in the classic style''
''Now you parlez-vous francais
** The song is basically one big "I know what you ''really'' are", so that's probably intended to mock the subject for learning French and using it to pretend she's ''from'' France or at least grew up there.
* German metal Band ''Knorkator'' is well known for hilarously silly lyrics and the song ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCmbXcJW49U&feature=relmfu "Maj Khao Djaj"]'' is only an exception in so far that it's entirely in Thai. However [[Bilingual Bonus|when translated]], the lyric starts with {{spoiler|i'm thai and have a german boyfriend / he asked me writing a songtext}} and later directly references the trope with {{spoiler|it's no problem if people can't understand the lyrics / so then they wont realise that it's a bad text}}.
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