All very weird, true, but how about we keep it to the sort of ‘popular’ music you might actually hear once in a while on the radio? I say this because I heard on the radio today Blinded By The Light, a Bruce Springsteen song successfully covered by Manfred Mann’s Earth Band in 1976 – and a more weird chart-toppin’ song lyric you couldn’t hope to hear…
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
I know that a merry-go-round and a calliope can be one and the same (unless you are into Greek mythology and know that she was an erotic poetry muse) but there does seem to be rather a lot of nonsensical rhyming, and just what is the adolescent pumping into his hat?
I now expect to find most of U2s back catalogue proclaimed as weird…;o)
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