Most abtruse rock lyrics ever?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

I nominate "Assassing" by Marillion:

I am the assassin, with tongue forged from eloquence
I am the assassin, providing your nemesis

On the sacrificial altar to success, my friend
Unleash a stranger from a kiss, my friend
No incantations of remorse, my friend
Unsheathe the blade within the voice, my friend
My friend, my friend, my friend

I am the assassin

Who decorates the scarf with the fugi knot
Who camouflaged emotion in a thousand yard stare
Who gouged the notches from the family tree
Who hypnotised the guilt in career rhythm trance

Assassing, assassing, assassing, assassing
Listen to the blade, feel the blade!

Listen as the syllables of slaughter cat with calm precision
Patterned frosty phrases rape your ears and sow the ice incision
Adjectives of annihilation
Bury the point beyond redemption
Venomous verbs of ruthless candour
Plagiarise assassins fervour
Apocalyptic alphabet casting spell
The creed of tempered diction

My friend, your friend the assassin
My friend, your friend the assassin
A friend in need is a friend that bleeds
A friend in need is a friend that bleeds
Let bitter silence infect the wound
Let bitter silence infect the wound

I am the assassin, my friend
I am the assassin, my friend
I am the assassin, my friend

You were a sentimental mercenary in a free fire zone parading a hollywood conscience
You were a fashionable objector with a uniform fetish
Pavlovian slaver at the cash till ring of success
A non com observer
I assassin the collector
Defector

So you resigned yourself to failure, my friend
And I emerged the chilling stranger, my friend
To eradicate the problem, my friend
Unsheathe the blade within the voice, within the voice
Within the voice, within the voice

And what do you call assassins who accuse assassins anyway, my friend?

[tuvor]

1. "Abtruse"? Do you mean "obtuse"?

If so, I'd go with the Cars' "A Dream Away".

five in the mornin,' all alone in your room
door locked tight, private moon
no faces to face, no one to blame
nonexistent inside this frame

take it on the run
oo, yeah take it on the run
uh yeah

there's a cheetah walkin' high
liquid whispers, dragonfly
charleston booties on painted toes
drop the knot ivory soul

take it on the run
oo yeah, take it on the run
oo yeah, take it on the run
because the good life is just a dream away
I said the good life is just a dream awaaaay

choke emotion, all lose control
chicken encounters fill your bowls
the lonely crowd is decomposed
lost obsession, future froze

[tinanator]

2. making love to a vampire with a monkey on my knee

God fuck my mind for good.

[MrBenchley]

3. Do you mean abstruce?

"A preachment, dear friends, you are about to receive
on John Barleycorn, nicotine, and the temptations of Eve"

No parkin' by the sewer sign
Hot dog, my razor's broke
Water drippin' up the spout
But I don't care, let it all hang out

Hangin' from a pine tree by my knees
Sun is shinin' through the shade
Nobody knows what it's all about,
It's too much, man, let it all hang out

Saw a man walkin' upside down
My T.V.'s on the blink
Made Galileo look like a Boy Scout
Sorry 'bout that, let it all hang out

Sleep all day, drive all night
Brain my numb, can't stop now
For sure ain't no doubt
Keep an open mind, let it all hang out

It's rainin' inside a big brown moon
How does that mess your baby up?
Leg eatin' a Reuben sandwich with sauerkraut
Don't stop now, baby, let it all hang out

[ForrestGump]

4. Chartreuse?

How about this release?

[WilliamPitt]

5. Here I am

Rock you like a hurricane.

[tuvor]

8. Like a rock...

...charging from the gate.

Yes, just like a rock.

[Dookus]

6. Bowie always had some good

weird lyrics. Jean Genie is great.

[Bok_Tukalo]

7. I'm going with abstruse

The wheelbarrow's fallen
Look at my hands
They've found some surplus, cheaper hands
Rubbing palms and pick and choose,
who will they choose? Here is the news.

Look at that building, look at this man
Haloed and whitewashed
Gone to find a cheaper hand
he'll offer a pound, offer a pound.

Green grow the rushes go
Green grow the rushes go
Green grow the rushes go
The compass points the workers home

Pay for your freedom, find another gate
Guilt by associate, the rushes wilted a long time ago
Guilty as you go

Stay off that highway, word is it's not so safe
The grasses that hide the greenback
The amber waves of gain again
The amber waves of gain

Green grow the rushes go
Green grow the rushes go
Green grow the rushes go
The compass points the workers home

[tuvor]

9. I didn't realize there WAS such a word.

Man, am I obtuse.

[Bok_Tukalo]

11. A subtle difference between obtuse and abstruse

Sort of like the line between clever and stupid.

[Beware the Beast Man]

10. "Hooch" by the Melvins:

Los ticka toe rest. Might likea sender doe ree. Your make a doll a ray day sender bright like a penelty.
Exi-tease my ray day member half lost a beat away. Purst in like a one way sender war give a heart like a fay. Cuz I can ford a red eed only street a wide a ree land. Die-mond make a mid-evil bike a sake a like a ree caste. Cuz I can ford a red eed only street a wide a ree land. On a ree land. Find a ree land.
You sink a my swan. Rolly a get a worst in. Maybe minus way far central poor forty duck a pin.
Milk maid dud bean. Master a load a head. Pill pop a dope a well run general hash pump a gonna led.



for that matter, anything by the Melvins. :shrug:

[asthmaticeog]

13. Pez are gonna let it slide

gonnna burn what cotton decides are apple-y
my main oven drive pulling out from under
what's come over me.

:)

[blue neen]

12. "If there's a bustle in your hedgerow,

Don't be alarmed now.
It's just a spring clean for the May Queen."

Stairway to Heaven

Sorry Zeppelin fans, but that song drives me crazy. Maybe there's some hidden meaning I didn't know about?

[bbernardini]

15. Have you tried Frank Zappa's version?

It's on "The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life". Done reggae style, with a five-piece horn section playing the original guitar solo in unison. Absolute genius.

[bbernardini]

14. How about "Stash" by Phish?

Featuring the classic line "the solar garlic starts to rot".