[Music] Unusual Words that have managed to get into song lyrics.

[Jesus Gul]

emancipate yourself from mental slavery - you what Bob? - I'm a 14 year old just getting into reggae

 

[Ooh it’s a corner]

emancipate yourself from mental slavery - you what Bob? - I'm a 14 year old just getting into reggae

But what a record!

 

[Seagull58]

Eskimo, Arapahoe

 

[Seagull58]

A hot summer's day and sticky black tarmac

Two lovers missing the tranquility of solitude

 

[pocketseagull]

I think about death when you genuflect
No one like the tears of a Landlord.


Great Brighton band from the past.

 

[Seagull58]

Je t'adore, ich liebe dich,

Das ist gut! C'est fantastique!

 

[maresfield seagull]

Clitorous

Peaches

Stranglers

Not so peaches
presidents of USA
Beiber
jack black
all sang about peaches

 

[Uh_huh_him]

Up against the pink and purple wisteria

 

[maresfield seagull]

99% of gargoyles look like Bob Todd

 

[Si Gull]

C*nt. Pixies - U Mass.

Maybe not an unusual word but not often heard in songs afaik.

 

[schmunk]

C*nt. Pixies - U Mass.

Maybe not an unusual word but not often heard in songs afaik.

Depends what type of music you like...

 

[BrianB]

Bacchanal ...
Pops up in Soca and Calypso lyrics..

 

[Lincolnshire Seagull]

Not so peaches
presidents of USA
Beiber
jack black
all sang about peaches

and Steve Miller Band

 

[Coalburner]

Coldplay's new single Coloratura - whatever the f**k that means!

Colorotura soprano - it's a voice

 

[Simgull]

One of my favourites.

 

[Coalburner]

Colorotura soprano - it's a voice

Tom Lehrer conjured up a verse with Viennese and peonies as the rhyme

 

[dejavuatbtn]

Cellophane

 

[Happy Exile]

"Paracelsus"

(OK, it's a name not a word, but still kind of unusual to drop into some lyrics. From Chester P - Fire in the Streets)

 

[Baldseagull]

Pneumothorax - Kaiser Chiefs - Saturday Night

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Up against the pink and purple wisteria

Ah, a lyric from the one song we had played at our wedding!