Word Salad Lyrics/Quotes

Enemy lasagna
Robust below wax
Semiautomatic aqua

Accompany slacks

—Lemon Demon, Word Disassociation

"In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey
Butane in my veins and I'm out to cut the junkie

With the plastic eyeballs and spraypaint the vegetables..."

—Beck, "Loser"

"Normalized the signal and you're banging on freon
Paleolithic eon

Put the fake goatee on"

—Soul Coughing, "Sugar Free Jazz"

"Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come
Corporation t-shirts, stupid bloody Tuesday
Man, you've been a naughty boy, you let your face grow long

I am the eggman, they are the eggmen, I am the walrus, Goo goo ga joob"

—The Beatles, "I Am the Walrus"

"Interior crocodile alligator

I drive a Chevrolet movie theater"

—Chip tha Ripper, "S.L.A.B. Freestyle"

"It is now time to make it unclear

To write off lines that don't make sense"

—Nirvana, "On a Plain"

Does it hurt when 'glossolalia coats your skin?' Where can I find a nice new pair of 'unkempt nourishment plows?' What are 'castrating kisses stalactite stems?' I certainly don't know, and neither do the members of Mars Volta who wrote these lyrics.

—Dustin Glick, The Five Most Unintentionally Funny Albums of 2006

"Chickity China the Chinese chicken
You have a drumstick and your brain stops tickin'
Watchin X-Files with no lights on, we're dans la maison
I hope the Smoking Man's in this one
Like Harrison Ford I'm getting Frantic
Like Sting I'm Tantric
Like Snickers, guaranteed to satisfy
Like Kurosawa I make mad films
Okay I don't make films
But if I did they'd have a samurai
Gonna get a set of better clubs
Gonna find the kind with tiny nubs just so my
irons aren't always flying off the back-swing
Gotta get in tune with Sailor Moon
Cause that cartoon has got the boom anime babes

that make me think the wrong thing"

—Barenaked Ladies, "One Week"

"I must have played this song like 3000 times in concert. And after all this time, I still have no idea what the fuck it's about."

—Peter Buck talking about the song "Orange Crush"

Bernie Taupin has the ability to use allegory and irony in his lyrics to express profound truths about the human condition ... He also has the ability to write lyrics that make no fucking sense at all...

—Cracked.com on Elton John

"We pretty much write these songs and let other people figure them out."

—John Linnell

"I was trying to see if I could write a song made up entirely of palidromes ... I said, "This sounds like it means something, but it doesn't mean anything. [Beat] It's a Bob Dylan song!"

—"Weird Al" Yankovic on the writing of his song "Bob", during a concert in Atlantic City, NJ, 16 March 2018