Sentence examples for nonsensical lyrics from inspiring English sources
(That does not mean, of course, that corny or nonsensical lyrics are remotely a new phenomenon — they are not).
(That does not mean, of course, that corny or nonsensical lyrics are remotely a new phenomenon they are not).
But the meaning of language is preordained and theoretically immovable; even at their most arcane and nonsensical, lyrics are often the less ambiguous tool.
(Petrusich) Stone Temple Pilots (Monday) Although this band began innocuously enough — as a second-string grunge band with nonsensical lyrics, distorted guitars and a sinewy, prancing vocalist — their golden years have been particularly tumultuous.
If the band recall post-Gong experimental proto punk-hippy 1970s band Here and Now – the propulsive guitar lines, the nonsensical lyrics – that's probably more an indication of my age than any actual influence.
The song stood out like a sore thumb, with a swinging 6/8 beat and slyly nonsensical lyrics: "Wanna love you, wanna bug you/Wanna squeeze you, stupid girl".
He realised that "a shitty nonsensical lyric" could work in one song, but equally that he could deliver words that "actually fucking resonated on a very deep level.
However, amid the debris of Beck's sonic adventuring, Loser is a rather apposite introduction to his precocious talent: it has the samples (Johnny Jenkins's cover of Dr John's I Walk on Gilded Splinters), some blues slide guitar over shuffling hip-hop breaks and the enduring, nonsensical opening lyrics: "In the time of chimpanzees, I was a monkey".
The more nonsensical the lyric, the harder it was to remember, and that, most likely, is why I retained the song about the kookaburra — it was less abstract than the others.
The more nonsensical the lyric, the harder it was to remember, and that, most likely, is why I retained the song about the kookaburra it was less abstract than the others.
PopMatters' Nick Pearson saw the opposite, claiming that "[o]nce you reach the level of intellectual maturity where you can tell the difference between cryptic but poetic lyrics and nonsensical crap, you have outgrown Silverchair".
