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    You are tiny and your lips are like two little pieces of bacon.

    And I don't think I can take it, cause it took so long to bake it, and I'll never find that recipe again.

    I'm the Cash Money Makaveli, y'all ain't ready, break fast like Tom Petty, y'all just petty.

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    I'll lay you out over some beef like some sesame seeds.

    Gap tooth in your mouth so my dick's got to fit.

    There's three of us but we're not The Beatles.

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    Oh, and my all-time favorite from Lil Wayne:

    And yeah, I'm a bear. Like black and white hair, so I'm polar.

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    Yes has some awesomely bizarre ones:
    From "And You and I"

    Sad preacher nailed upon the coloured door of time,
    Insane teacher be there reminded of the rhyme
    There'll be no mutant enemy we shall certify,
    Political ends, as sad remains, will die
    Reach out as forward tastes begin to enter you

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    MacArthur Park is melting in the dark
    All the sweet, green icing flowing down...
    Someone left the cake out in the rain
    and I don't think that I can take it
    'cause it took so long to bake it
    and I'll never have that recipe again

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    one of sixteen vestal virgins
    who were leaving for the coast
    and although my eyes were open
    they might have just as well've been closed

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    One thing I find amusing about the Killers is how often something that could be very serious will suddenly go for odd rhyme choices instead.

    The Killers, Tranquilize:
    Acid rain, when Abel looked up at Cain
    We began the weeping and wailing
    A hurried high from pestilence, pills and pride
    It's a shame, we could have gone sailing

    The Killers, Uncle Johnny:
    When everybody else refrained
    My uncle Johnny did cocaine
    He's convinced himself right in his brain
    That it helps to take away the pain

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    He bag production he got walrus gumboot
    He got Ono sideboard he one spinal cracker
    He got feet down below his knee
    Hold you in his armchair you can feel his disease
    Come together right now over me

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    Good point Sarah. I've never not know those lyrics and so I don't think of them as odd, but they are truly bizarre.

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    Man, that is one awesome song. I was thinking of the Beatles, too. They had some delightfully weird lyrics that we're all quite used to now, so they don't seem so strange. Well. Most of them don't.

    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 eggman, they are the eggmen.
    I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob.
    So now they are just dirt-covered English people in fur pelts with credit cards.

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    Zuul told me that, although I want to give the tATu translators special consideration for actualy managing to make English words fit into the Russian songs, they're fun enough for this thread. So....

    "Cosmos"
    Dry every tear in my eye
    You can tell me why
    This is our secret place
    Outer space, outer space

    "Craving"
    And consequences in the future
    And feel it as now
    I now I can’t feel the future
    But I can be there for you now

    "Sparks"
    Delicate endless flow
    Running down my electric wire
    Sunshine and midnight glow
    Lightning discharge and eternal fire

    "Little People"
    Love is an exercise
    In always telling lies
    In always breaking hearts
    In changing body parts
    So, I'll whisper in the dark, hoping you'll hear me.

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    And, for Zuul, I shall add our favorite semi-direct translation of a tATu song:

    "Obezyanka Nol"
    No one can blame anyone
    The moon is reflected in each puddle
    There are no more coordinates
    That I can use to find you

    I'm still not there and you're not here
    The clouds foolishly miss each other
    A monkey, you are for now
    Monkey, and I'm alive for now

    You're my cheerful pain
    You're my funny pain
    I'm Monkey Number Zero
    You're Monkey Number Zero

    Honest pyschos don't need healing
    Neither of us will be set free
    We can't give up this anguish
    Monkeys will live in prison

    Monkeys will live in prison
    Love for everyone and anguish for monkeys
    You're the monkey in my dreams
    Monkey - I'll be in your dreams

    You're my cheerful pain
    You're my funny pain
    I'm Monkey Number Zero
    You're Monkey Number Zero

    You're my cheerful pain
    You're my funny pain
    I'm Monkey Number Zero
    You're Monkey Number Zero
    So, I'll whisper in the dark, hoping you'll hear me.

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    Quote Originally posted by Marsilia View post
    You're my cheerful pain
    You're my funny pain
    I'm Monkey Number Zero
    You're Monkey Number Zero

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    Zuul, what sucks is the "official" translation isn't nearly that cool.
    So, I'll whisper in the dark, hoping you'll hear me.

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    Over the rooftop sails Billy
    A string tied to his underwear
    Through cobbled stone streets a child races
    And shouts "Billy, come down from there"

    "My mother's calling" his voice whimpers
    A string clutched in his tiny hand
    Not till I've seen the sky's not lit up
    In tears, child try and understand
    Don't pull the string, Don't bring me down
    Don't make me land

    Plastic palace people
    Sing silent songs, they dream too long
    Their memories just stare
    Plastic palace Alice
    She steals her cards tomorrow deals
    With deafening despair

    Hurry, you've got to get in line
    Your nose might start to shine
    And sweat it out and dance about
    The whole eternal life
    To sleep, perchance to experience amygdalocortical activation and prefrontal deactivation.

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    From Katie Melua's Happy Place:

    I have found that stress and nonsense
    Puts me in zone of avoidance
    Could my mind be moving faster
    Pulling like a super cluster
    Can be hard to trust a feeling
    But believing ends in seeing
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    So, I'll whisper in the dark, hoping you'll hear me.

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    I think just about anything by Shonen Knife would fit. While they often recorded the songs in both English and Japanese, some were English-only, so it's not just a case of odd translation.

    "Cookie Day"
    I have a postcard of a big buffalo.
    I bought it during the tour.
    I missed a chance to send it to you
    back in North Dakota.
    There are many pretty things in life.
    Take it easy, let it be.
    I promise to send it next time to you.
    Really means a lot to me.
    Thinking about these kinds of things
    I suddenly wanted to eat
    some cookies and dip them in milk.

    "People Traps"
    Watch out for those people traps.
    A sly old fox has set you up.
    Many numbers of people traps on the path, hey!
    You better keep your eyes wide open all the time.
    You've stepped into a danger zone.
    It's a very nasty trick.

    "I Am A Cat"
    Sometimes I feel like I'm in the Milky Way
    And I lose myself
    I don't know who I am
    I discover whiskers of a cat in a timeless zone
    And I put them on my face.
    In a moment I become a sweet little cat
    And I dance on a flying saucer.

    I am a cat

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    The lyrics to Me So Horny, seriously.

    http://www.lyricsfreak.com/2/2+live+..._20000597.html

    Some of you may remember OCS lipsyncing this song, filmed on my cell phone, while quite inebriated. He has a perverse fondness for this song.

    Examples that always leave me with furrowed brow:

    "I know he'll be disgusted when he sees your pussy busted" - The "he" in question is the young lady's father. What kind of household is this, where the father apparently examines his daughter's ladyparts for evidence of loss of virginity? I guess there are no tampons or athletic endeavors happening for this girl.

    "I'm just like that man they call Georgie Puddin' Pie, I fuck all the girls and I make 'em cry" - I guess we were reading some different versions of nursery rhymes. This must be an example of how they cleaned up formerly scary or explicit content, like they did with Red Riding Hood.

    "Put your lips on my dick, and suck my asshole too" - Suck? Really?

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    Quote Originally posted by parzival View post
    "I Am A Cat"
    Sometimes I feel like I'm in the Milky Way
    And I lose myself
    I don't know who I am
    I discover whiskers of a cat in a timeless zone
    And I put them on my face.
    In a moment I become a sweet little cat
    And I dance on a flying saucer.

    I am a cat
    I think I can explain this one.

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    You might wake up some morning
    To the sound of something moving past your window in the wind
    And if you're quick enough to rise
    You'll catch the fleeting glimpse of someone's fading shadow
    Out on the new horizon you may see the floating motion of a distant pair of wings
    And if the sleep has left your ears
    You might hear footsteps running through an open meadow
    Don't be concerned it will not harm you
    It's only me pursuing something I'm not sure of
    Across my dreams with nets of wonder I chase the bright elusive butterfly of love

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    Delicious Demon by the Sugarcubes, Bjork's band before she went solo. I hope those lyrics are some sort of translation error from Icelandic.



    One person calls someone
    To pour the water,
    Because it takes two to pour the water,
    To plow takes two as well,
    But only one to hold up the sky.

    One plays the harp, beats a rock with a stick,
    Becomes a priest at least, a delicious demon.

    Two men need one money
    But one money needs no man,
    One is on ones knees, loses ones head,
    Except maybe a delicious demon, hee how!

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