Many songwriters pride themselves on their lyrics. While every aspect of a song is important to the final product, listeners immediately grab onto the lyrics, putting a stressed importance on them.

“Tomorrow Never Knows” was one of The Beatles’ first psychedelic tunes, and had pretty far-out lyrics too. There are backward loops and strange lyrics, including, “Turn off your mind/ Relax and float ...

Nonsensical lyrics are everywhere in music. At times, lyrics are simply a meaningless placeholder to bolster the melody. At other times, the songwriter purposefully writes arbitrary words to ...

The longest-running No. 1 hit of the 1980s faced radio bans and controversy over lyrics many stations deemed too suggestive.