Probably the weirdest lyrics i've come across in prog are those of Faust.

"You are a fruit fork"

"It's only a garden made of sandwich
Marshmallows jumping around and smiling quiet"

Forever I wanted
Still, lifeless and empty
The shadow of you
To lie on
The bridal couch
Where you laughed
Astonished
Minding the tales
Bizarre and contorted
I told you every night
Prior to submitting
To the empire of the dark

-> from devil doll's sacrilege of fatal arms

"On a telegraph pole an assassin is training his soul"
Amon Düül II - The opening lines of "Halluzination Guillotine" (second part of "Soap-Shop-Rock")

A mass of gallon sloth
As flys have walls for feet
A rapturous verbatim-someone said but who is to know
And when you find the fringe
The one last hit that spent you
You'll find the ossuary spilling by the day

The iconoclastic had it coming for years
They know the prisons that you have yet to fear
Where thumbs hide inside of sleepingbag mouths
Adlib your memoires by casting a drought

AWESOME LYRICS!!!

Citanul wrote: maidenrulez wrote: A mass of gallon sloth As flys have walls for feet A rapturous verbatim-someone said but who is to know And when you find the fringe The one last hit that spent you You'll find the ossuary spilling by the day The iconoclastic had it coming for years They know the prisons that you have yet to fear Where thumbs hide inside of sleepingbag mouths Adlib your memoires by casting a drought AWESOME LYRICS!!! But what the hell do they mean?  I don't mind vague lyrics, but these (which I'm assuming are from the Mars Volta) seem like a bunch of words thrown together.

i can admit that the lyrics to de-loused in the comatorium might be a bit hard to comprehend without the decoder...but i think that the lyrics in frances the mute although they might seem to be a bit strange is alot easier to understand as it is not a strange story of a world inside Cerpin's taxt's head, it is infact real life.

The last song Take the veil cerpin taxt is suggesting that he went somewhere else in his afterlife...but if you put your mind to it the mars volta's lyrics is quite understandable once you have figured out the basics

"hammer hammer hammer hammer schmooze schmooze schmooze schmooze"
"patronize patronize pass the buck pass the buck"
"wheedle wheedle wheedle wheedle sell sell sell sell"

"weasel weasel weasel weasel lie lie lie lie"
"shuffle shuffle shuffle shuffle yawn yawn yawn"

(Kevin Gilbert - The Shaming of the True - Suit Fugue)

       The White Cane Fandango
         
The White Cane Fandango in Morse code,
try to shake through the message,
shake the load;
only venial sin, running on the spot
till the dance begins.
        
Where does a man go when the muscles cramp?
Try to write out a postcard on a postage stamp
with a drawing pin punching out the Braille
for the whole within?
        
Upset the contango on your future stock;
paying backwardation, hold onto what you've got -
such a sideways grin!
Some day you may need
to trade that in.
        
P.H. if full 'Flight'

parrymason wrote: "West is Mike and Susie" VDGG - Refugees I searched and found that Mike and Susie shared one flat with Peter Hammill, but still this line doesn`t seem to make any sense to me.

The flat was in West Kensington, if that helps.

HUR
DEH ANTZIK KOHNTARKOSZ KREUHN KOHRMAHN
STOHT WURDAH MELEKAAHM
UZ, DEH ORKBAHNN KREUHN KOHRMAHN
ZËBËHN STRAIN DE GEUSTAAH WORTSIS, DA REUS STOAH

LAH WORTZ REISFUNK DEH WEHRESTEHGEUHNZUR,
UND, DEH BUNDEHR DRAKAIDA KOMMANDOH,
WUHR DI HEUL ZORTSUNG.
UTS FUR KALAIN, HIMEUHN ZËBËHN DEH REUSTIIHN,
EWEHN DEUH LANTSIN SLAKEHNDO

From the introduction to Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh by Magma.