Wednesday, April 03, 2013

Stoopid lyrics

Here is another installment of my blog feature "Stoopid lyrics" where I share with you a well-known song with lyrics that don't make sense.

Keep in mind this doesn't mean the song is stoopid or that I don't like the song. In fact, most of the time I like the songs and only discover they contain stoopid lyrics when I try to sing along.  But in all cases, the lyrics make absolutely no sense.

Blinded By the Light 
performed by Manfred Mann's Earth Band

Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night
Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night
Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night


Madman drummers bummers, Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat
In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps his way into his hat
With a boulder on my shoulder, feelin' kinda older, I tripped the merry-go-round
With this very unpleasin', sneezin' and wheezin, the calliope crashed to the ground
The calliope crashed to the ground.  But she was...


Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night
Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night
Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night
Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night


Some silicone sister with a manager mister told me I go what it takes
She said "I'll turn you on sonny to something strong, play the song with the funky break"
And go-cart Mozart was checkin' out the weather chart to see if it was safe outside
And little Early-Pearly came by in his curly-wurly and asked me if I needed a ride
Asked me if I needed a ride.  But she was...


Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night
Blinded by the light


She got down but she never got tired.  She's gonna make it through the night
She's gonna make it through the night.  But mama, that's where the fun is.  

But mama, that's where the fun is.  Mama always told me not to look into the eye's of the sun
But mama, that's where the fun is.


Some brimstone baritone anticyclone rolling stone preacher from the east
Says, "Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone, that's where they expect it least"
And some new-mown chaperone was standin' in the corner, watching the young girls dance
And some fresh-sown moonstone was messin' with his frozen zone, reminding him of romance
The calliope crashed to the ground.  But she was...


Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night
Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night
Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night
Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night

Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night
Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night
Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night
Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night


Madman drummers bummers, Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat
In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps his way into his hat
With a boulder on my shoulder, feelin' kinda older, I tripped the merry-go-round
With this very unpleasin', sneezin' and wheezin, the calliope crashed to the ground


Now Scott with a slingshot finally found a tender spot and throws his lover in the sand
And some bloodshot forget-me-not said daddy's within earshot save the buckshot, turn up the band
Some silicone sister with a manager mister told me I go what it takes
She said "I'll turn you on sonny to something strong"


She got down but she never got tired, she's gonna make it through the night.

5 comments:

anne marie in philly said...

nope, this sone is stoopid; not one of bruce springsteen's well-written tunes (e.g., brilliant disguise).

NEVER liked this song.

Java said...

Once I learned that the line is "revved up like a Deuce, another runner in the night" it made more sense and I liked this song better. That doesn't make up for how weird the rest of the lyrics are, though. It has a good sound, but the words? Nope.

Jon said...

I'm glad you brought this up, because I never cared for the song and always thought the lyrics were incomprehensible.

Ron said...

There are some beautiful, poetic lyrics and then there are stoopid lyrics. I do believe the stupid lyrics far outnumber the beautiful lyrics. "Get a job, she nah nah nah nah" (by the Coasters). I haven't been able to get those lyrics out of my head since I first heard them in the late Fifties.

Ron
Retired in Delaware

Ron said...

auto correct! I mean "sha nah nah nah nah" They may be stupid but I have to get it right.

Ron
Retired in Delaware