The Lyricist Game

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When I was a  teeny bopper in the late 1960's my piers taught me that what a singer / song writer / artist was trying to convey to the audience was far more important than say "the beat of the song" 

After listening to TOMMY 300 times and other rock opera's it really turned out to be a cool game with so many coincidences which I do not believe in any longer. Coincidences are just more clues.

This secret coding still exists in the most modern songs written even last week and has become part of the underground rock genre thus surviving 50 years of censorship to emerge as these days as just being a Cool or 'Heavy' way to write lyrics. 

Without a censor writers can say whatever they want now without 'beating around the bush' on a topic.  So why 50 years later are so many lyric's still twisted, hidden, subverted into a hidden language that takes even more skill to decode and decipher than a song written in the 1960's did?

 

The incredibly strict stranglehold that the censorship committees of the 1960's imposed on western cultures has now been replaced with a simple PAL or a Parental Advisory Warning Label.

But most of the really coolest rockers and rappers would still rather use diabolically clever lyrics rather than submit to a PAL label which I think is a sell out.  The real rocker and rapper master minds are keeping it real by keeping us guessing as to the real meanings behind their art.

 

So here is the Game:  Submit a song either by youtube link that contains imbededded lyrics or just cut and paste the name of the song and the lyrics here (with a youtube link)

 

It will be up to us to debate what he or she was trying to talk about.

 

There is no right or wrong in this game. Only mind opening opinions.

 

 

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih7N9_VUU4U

 

American Pie

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In the  ARO hit song- Cocaine Style.  ( Aimee Osbourne  (Ozzy's Daughter))

 

http://vevo.ly/gvJyCC

 

 

 

[Verse 1]

You're no dark prince

Just a scam artist

It's in your black eyes

And all those ellis lies

Oh how your drunk heart

Tears your life apart

While truth too much for you

 

[Hook]

Cocaine style

Cocaine style

 

[Verse 2]

Quite the dark horse

What a charming force

Can't hide your state of mind

On someone else's time

How tired you must be

Dragging around old misery

While truths too much for you

 

[Hook]

Cocaine style

Too much for you

Cocaine style

Cocaine style

Too much for you

Cocaine style

 

[Verse 3]

Tried to drag me down with you

Poison my body too, too, too, too

All you say don't match up with what you do, do, do

All what's become of you

What you running for

Don't you like who you are

What can you blame now

And now the pay with now

Whose fault can it be

If you don't like what you see

Child, life's too much for you

 

[Hook]

Cocaine style

Cocaine style

 

[Verse 4]

Oh how your drunk heart

Tears your life apart

While life's too much for you

 

[Hook]

Cocaine style

Cocaine style

 

How tired you must be

Dragging around old misery

While life's too much for you

Cocaine style

 

 

We know Aimee is the sibling that got hit hardest by her dads drug abuse problems

 

 

http://www.lifeandstylemag.com/posts/ozzy-osbourne-daughter-aimee-osbourne-divorce-101813

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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 cornflake, waiting for the van to come.

Corporation tee-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday.

Man, you been a naughty boy, you let your face grow long.

I am the egg man, they are the egg men.

I am the walrus, coo coo cachoo

 

Mister 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 been a naughty girl you let your knickers down.

I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.

I am the walrus, coo coo cachoo

 

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, they are the egg men.

I am the walrus, coo coo cachoo ca coo coo cachoo

 

Expert text pert choking smokers,

Don't you think the joker laughs at you?

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 Hari Krishna.

Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.

I am the egg man, they are the egg men.

I am the walrus, coo coo cachoo ca coo coo cachoo. Coo coo cachou ca coo.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih7N9_VUU4U

 

American Pie

 

Simple by kind of complex when you think about it!

 

The day the music died  "THE MAN SAID THE MUSIC WOULD NOT PLAY"  Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens??? HMMMM.

[[Bi...]]

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 cornflake, waiting for the van to come.

Corporation tee-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday.

Man, you been a naughty boy, you let your face grow long.

I am the egg man, they are the egg men.

I am the walrus, coo coo cachoo

 

Mister 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 been a naughty girl you let your knickers down.

I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.

I am the walrus, coo coo cachoo

 

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, they are the egg men.

I am the walrus, coo coo cachoo ca coo coo cachoo

 

Expert text pert choking smokers,

Don't you think the joker laughs at you?

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 Hari Krishna.

Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.

I am the egg man, they are the egg men.

I am the walrus, coo coo cachoo ca coo coo cachoo. Coo coo cachou ca coo.

 

 

I know the CORNFLAKE is one of those post modern thin fiberglass chairs they used in the old star trek TV series.

Anyone have any other ideas?

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Well, this one is pretty simply to figure out  :laugh

 

Not much imagination needed here 

 

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih7N9_VUU4U

 

American Pie

 

That's about the death of Buddy Holly. Oops I see that Birdman beat me to it.

 

Here's another one.

 

 

He was sitting in the lounge of the Empire Hotel

He was drinking for diversion

He was thinking for himself

A little money riding on the Maple Leafs *

Along comes a lady in lacy sleeves

She says let me sit down

You know, drinkin' alone's a shame

It's a shame it's a crying shame

Look at those jokers

Glued to that damn hockey game

Hey honey-you've got lots of cash

Bring us round a bottle

And we'll have some laughs

Gin's what I'm drinking

I was raised on robbery

 

I'm a pretty good cook

I'm sitting on my groceries

Come up to my kitchen

I'll show you my best recipe

I try and I try but I can't save a cent

I'm up after midnight cooking

Trying to make my rent

I'm rough but I'm pleasin'

I was raised on robbery

 

We had a little money once

They were pushing through a four lane highway

Government gave us three thousand dollars

You should have seen it fly away

First he bought a '57 Biscayne *

He put it in the ditch

He drunk up all the rest

That son of a bitch

His blood's bad whiskey

I was raised on robbery

 

You know you ain't bad looking

I like the way you hold your drinks

Come home with me honey

I ain't asking for no full length mink

Hey, where you going

Don't go yet

Your glass ain't empty and we just met

You're mean when you're loaded

I was raised on robbery

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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 cornflake, waiting for the van to come.

Corporation tee-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday.

Man, you been a naughty boy, you let your face grow long.

I am the egg man, they are the egg men.

I am the walrus, coo coo cachoo

 

Mister 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 been a naughty girl you let your knickers down.

I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.

I am the walrus, coo coo cachoo

 

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, they are the egg men.

I am the walrus, coo coo cachoo ca coo coo cachoo

 

Expert text pert choking smokers,

Don't you think the joker laughs at you?

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 Hari Krishna.

Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.

I am the egg man, they are the egg men.

I am the walrus, coo coo cachoo ca coo coo cachoo. Coo coo cachou ca coo.

 

That's John at his LSD best.

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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 cornflake, waiting for the van to come.

Corporation tee-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday.

Man, you been a naughty boy, you let your face grow long.

I am the egg man, they are the egg men.

I am the walrus, coo coo cachoo

 

Mister 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 been a naughty girl you let your knickers down.

I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.

I am the walrus, coo coo cachoo

 

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, they are the egg men.

I am the walrus, coo coo cachoo ca coo coo cachoo

 

Expert text pert choking smokers,

Don't you think the joker laughs at you?

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 Hari Krishna.

Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.

I am the egg man, they are the egg men.

I am the walrus, coo coo cachoo ca coo coo cachoo. Coo coo cachou ca coo.

 

That's John at his LSD best.

 

 

OK this "eggman"  song has always confused me.  Can some one PLEASE  Explain it to me?

 

IF you do this for me I'll explain this one for you!!

 

 

Lyrics

He was standing at the rock

Gathering the flock

And getting there with no directions

And underneath the arch

It turned into a march

And there he found the spark to

Set this fucker off

Set it off

Set it off now children

Set it right

Set it off

Set it off now children

Set it off

Set it off now children

Set a fire

Set it off

Set it off now children

Suddenly a shot

Ripped into his heart

He lay in need of some attention

And there he played his card

Going into shock

The last thing that he said was

Set this fucker off

Set it off

Set it off now children

Set it right

Set it off

Set it off now children

Set it off

Set it off now children

Set a fire

Set it off

Set it off now children

Alright

Jesus at the back door

Everything is all right

All we need is some direction

Every time the wind blows

Everything you don't know

Turns into a revelation

And it all adds up inside your head

Time is wasting

Set it off

Set it off now children

Set it right

Set it off

Set it off now children

Set it off

Set it off now children

Set a fire

Set it off

Set it off now children

Alright

 

 

[[Bi...]]

In the  ARO hit song- Cocaine Style.  ( Aimee Osbourne  (Ozzy's Daughter))

 

http://vevo.ly/gvJyCC

 

 

 

[Verse 1]

You're no dark prince

Just a scam artist

It's in your black eyes    OK #1 hint  Aimee doe not say ENDLESS LIES, Aimee says "ellis lies"

And all those ellis lies

Oh how your drunk heart

Tears your life apart

While truth too much for you

READ ABOUT J  ellis 

www.nytimes.com/2001/0ellis lies8/21/opinion/the-lies-of-joseph-ellis.html?mcubz=0

http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,165156,00.html

 

[Hook]

Cocaine style

Cocaine style

 

[Verse 2]

Quite the dark horse

What a charming force

Can't hide your state of mind

On someone else's time

How tired you must be

Dragging around old misery

While truths too much for you

 

[Hook]

Cocaine style

Too much for you

Cocaine style

Cocaine style

Too much for you

Cocaine style

 

[Verse 3]

Tried to drag me down with you

Poison my body too, too, too, too

All you say don't match up with what you do, do, do

All what's become of you

What you running for

Don't you like who you are

What can you blame now

And now the pay with now

Whose fault can it be

If you don't like what you see

Child, life's too much for you

 

[Hook]

Cocaine style

Cocaine style

 

[Verse 4]

Oh how your drunk heart

Tears your life apart

While life's too much for you

 

[Hook]

Cocaine style

Cocaine style

 

How tired you must be

Dragging around old misery

While life's too much for you

Cocaine style

 

 

We know Aimee is the sibling that got hit hardest by her dads drug abuse problems

 

 

http://www.lifeandstylemag.com/posts/ozzy-osbourne-daughter-aimee-osbourne-divorce-101813

[[be...]]

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 cornflake, waiting for the van to come.

Corporation tee-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday.

Man, you been a naughty boy, you let your face grow long.

I am the egg man, they are the egg men.

I am the walrus, coo coo cachoo

 

Mister 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 been a naughty girl you let your knickers down.

I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.

I am the walrus, coo coo cachoo

 

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, they are the egg men.

I am the walrus, coo coo cachoo ca coo coo cachoo

 

Expert text pert choking smokers,

Don't you think the joker laughs at you?

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 Hari Krishna.

Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.

I am the egg man, they are the egg men.

I am the walrus, coo coo cachoo ca coo coo cachoo. Coo coo cachou ca coo.

 

That's John at his LSD best.

 

 

OK this "eggman"  song has always confused me.  Can some one PLEASE  Explain it to me?

 

IF you do this for me I'll explain this one for you!!

 

 

Lyrics

He was standing at the rock

Gathering the flock

And getting there with no directions

And underneath the arch

It turned into a march

And there he found the spark to

Set this fucker off

Set it off

Set it off now children

Set it right

Set it off

Set it off now children

Set it off

Set it off now children

Set a fire

Set it off

Set it off now children

Suddenly a shot

Ripped into his heart

He lay in need of some attention

And there he played his card

Going into shock

The last thing that he said was

Set this fucker off

Set it off

Set it off now children

Set it right

Set it off

Set it off now children

Set it off

Set it off now children

Set a fire

Set it off

Set it off now children

Alright

Jesus at the back door

Everything is all right

All we need is some direction

Every time the wind blows

Everything you don't know

Turns into a revelation

And it all adds up inside your head

Time is wasting

Set it off

Set it off now children

Set it right

Set it off

Set it off now children

Set it off

Set it off now children

Set a fire

Set it off

Set it off now children

Alright

 

Hey Birdie:

 

I may have some insight to this song, I am The Walrus.

 

1. John Lennon was stoned on LSD when he wrote this nonsense.

2. John wrote this nonsense in part because he was sick to death of people trying to analyze Beatles songs.

3. John was also making fun of Bob Dylan. He never liked him. He often referred to Dylan as getting away with murder because his songs were popular and John didn't know why.

4. He asked his friend Pete Shotten to find some nursery lyrics for this song. Shotten came up with this:

Yellow matter custard, green slop pie

All mixed together with a dead dog's eye

Slap it on a butty, ten foot thick

Then wash it all down with a cup of cold sick

5. John also tried to add fuel to the fire about Paul's "death." Re waiting for the van to come meant that the police were arriving to see the dead body of Paul. Same with this part: Mister City Policeman sitting

Pretty little policemen in a row.

6. The Hare Krishna mention was that John wrote this song, in part, while visiting India. He was making fun of George's obsession with that religion. He met with Yoko there and she did not like being in India and John did whatever she told him to.

7. He got the name, The Walrus, from the Lewis Carroll book, Through the Looking Glass. He then got upset because he learned the walrus was a villain.

8: The end of this song was taken from a BBC radio production of King Lear. He was listening to it when he wrote the last part of the song.

9. See how they fly like Lucy in the Sky. Reference to His song, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. Used via a picture young Julian painted.

Repeat: John was just plain stoned and as you can tell, he was!

[[Bi...]]

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 cornflake, waiting for the van to come.

Corporation tee-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday.

Man, you been a naughty boy, you let your face grow long.

I am the egg man, they are the egg men.

I am the walrus, coo coo cachoo

 

Mister 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 been a naughty girl you let your knickers down.

I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.

I am the walrus, coo coo cachoo

 

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, they are the egg men.

I am the walrus, coo coo cachoo ca coo coo cachoo

 

Expert text pert choking smokers,

Don't you think the joker laughs at you?

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 Hari Krishna.

Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.

I am the egg man, they are the egg men.

I am the walrus, coo coo cachoo ca coo coo cachoo. Coo coo cachou ca coo.

 

That's John at his LSD best.

 

 

OK this "eggman"  song has always confused me.  Can some one PLEASE  Explain it to me?

 

IF you do this for me I'll explain this one for you!!

 

 

Lyrics

He was standing at the rock

Gathering the flock

And getting there with no directions

And underneath the arch

It turned into a march

And there he found the spark to

Set this fucker off

Set it off

Set it off now children

Set it right

Set it off

Set it off now children

Set it off

Set it off now children

Set a fire

Set it off

Set it off now children

Suddenly a shot

Ripped into his heart

He lay in need of some attention

And there he played his card

Going into shock

The last thing that he said was

Set this fucker off

Set it off

Set it off now children

Set it right

Set it off

Set it off now children

Set it off

Set it off now children

Set a fire

Set it off

Set it off now children

Alright

Jesus at the back door

Everything is all right

All we need is some direction

Every time the wind blows

Everything you don't know

Turns into a revelation

And it all adds up inside your head

Time is wasting

Set it off

Set it off now children

Set it right

Set it off

Set it off now children

Set it off

Set it off now children

Set a fire

Set it off

Set it off now children

Alright

 

Hey Birdie:

 

I may have some insight to this song, I am The Walrus.

 

1. John Lennon was stoned on LSD when he wrote this nonsense.

2. John wrote this nonsense in part because he was sick to death of people trying to analyze Beatles songs.

3. John was also making fun of Bob Dylan. He never liked him. He often referred to Dylan as getting away with murder because his songs were popular and John didn't know why.

4. He asked his friend Pete Shotten to find some nursery lyrics for this song. Shotten came up with this:

Yellow matter custard, green slop pie

All mixed together with a dead dog's eye

Slap it on a butty, ten foot thick

Then wash it all down with a cup of cold sick

5. John also tried to add fuel to the fire about Paul's "death." Re waiting for the van to come meant that the police were arriving to see the dead body of Paul. Same with this part: Mister City Policeman sitting

Pretty little policemen in a row.

6. The Hare Krishna mention was that John wrote this song, in part, while visiting India. He was making fun of George's obsession with that religion. He met with Yoko there and she did not like being in India and John did whatever she told him to.

7. He got the name, The Walrus, from the Lewis Carroll book, Through the Looking Glass. He then got upset because he learned the walrus was a villain.

8: The end of this song was taken from a BBC radio production of King Lear. He was listening to it when he wrote the last part of the song.

9. See how they fly like Lucy in the Sky. Reference to His song, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. Used via a picture young Julian painted.

Repeat: John was just plain stoned and as you can tell, he was!

 

Thanks Benz-G!

I think your 99% right. 

 

OK,  you win the grand prize.  Chris Cornell made a point NEVER to convey any messages via his Lyrics.  He openly admits this in the video link I gave.  Chris was the first new age thinker that wrote easy to follow lyrics that lead no place.  ANY interpretation you wanted to form around them was the correct message to each individual listener.  One of the few artists that strived to write lyrics to deliver a 'ZERO DAY MESSAGE'     

Chris was the first "Un-Heavy" rocker         R.I.P Chris

 

[[be...]]

Good to know that BM:

 

Joni Mitchell does the very same thing. It drives me nuts at times. So does Paul Simon. Here's one song that he won't give in on. It's from his Live Concert in Central Park. I was there.

 

Betsy

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtRal_mv4x4