Gavin Rossdale's Lyrics

Arabesque

"There's no sex in violence..." Remember those classically awful lines? Well, Gavin had plenty of them with Bush, but the lyrics for his new outfit, Institute are so over-the-top they make me fall on the floor laughing. Just read some of them...

Song: Save the Robots

Lyrical excerpt: Save the robots...Save yourselves...Keep your head to the future, boy...For everything it's worth...I didn't mean to collide with you...We fell so far from Earth...No Guru, No System, No Mantra, Save the Robots...

Song: Information Age

Lyrical excerpt: ...Can't seem to live without...Information Age...System Overload...They shoot you for the fame...Lies flow fast like forehead sutures...We've been betrayed and now we are the hunted...Quartered and splayed...Poisoned by assumption...

Song: When Animals Attack

Lyrical excerpt: These nights are getting longer...Seems like I've always been awake...There is danger in the houses...A Nemesis in shape...She took my mental bones...Placed them where I could feel again...You know how bad things get...When animals attack...You need fire...When animals attack...You need fire...

Song: Boom Box

Lyrical excerpt: ...If tolerance is dead...There'll be no rest for the living...Imagine no trouble and little respite...This boom box needs batteries...This boom box needs batteries...Lovers and dangerous...Love will find a way through everything...Sick at the thought of losing you...No one else for my room...Soft as the snow that comes...YOU MOVE LIKE ELECTRIC WINDOW...

And so on...you get the point. But how can ANYONE, including Gavin, take him seriously? Apparently he does, because he's so serious about his music and that's the funniest part! He apparently isn't trying to make no sense but he accomplishes it perfectly every time. How can the musicians he's playing with keep a straight face???? This is the funniest album I've ever heard. I mean..."Save the Robots?" And he's NOT kidding...Save the Robots is the slow song at the end of the album!

Any thoughts?

DeLukin

Good stuff. I think may have to get "This boom box needs batteries" tattooed on my ass because I'm so touched by Gavin's ability to see right though me.

whatsthefreezer

that's the reason he sings everything so you can't understand the words.

Igottago

Yeah, this guy has to be one of the worst lyricists of all time. I've always thought that. He's kind of a wanker.

Drifting Away

its "Theres no sex in your violence"
as in refering to the glamoriseing and sexing up of violence

Arabesque

I understand...but explain to me how that relates to "I don't believe that Elvis is dead, yeah"

Drifting Away

meh who knows i still like the song

:P

El_Kabong

i always liked

"the cupboards are empty we really need food
summer is winter and you always knew"

bladworth116

I like how his lyrics have been so consistently oblique. It's like his trademark and for better or worse he doesn't deviate from it.

The man's a fucking rocker too. He leaves it all on the stage. I saw Bush on tour for "Golden State" and they were playing to a half empty stadium and the man rocked so hard that he needed oxygen halfway through the set. I fucking appreciated the effort compared to most acts that go through the motions

NakedClown

Bush puts on a great show...first concert I ever saw... back in 95 or so...

yield2me

Bush was amazing in concert! Institute is a good album IMO...just love the sound even if the lyrics are a little...different

Arabesque

I'm not saying I don't like Bush. In fact, I own every Bush album, yes, even Golden State. I always really liked their music. I thought Science of Things was a very underrated CD. I'm just pointing out how silly Rossdale's lyrics are and have always been.

I can't get into Institute yet, but it might grow on me. I want a T-shirt that says "Save the Robots" on it.

mark arm

craaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaap !

reeferchief

This thread is fucking hillarious, I remember the days long ago when I tried to make sense of Bush's lyrics, I bet Gwen Stiff fanny dosen't help neither.

red mos

Saw Bush on the sixteen stone tour in 1996 with the Goo goo dolls and no doubt opening.
I also saw them on the Razorblade suitcase tour with Varucca salt (Verucca salt was awful).

I really liked Bush's live shows. Unfortunatley, I don't think they played Houston ever again after the Razorblade tour. Maybe the Golden state tour, if there was one, but I stopped listening to Bush after the Techno phase they went through. It just didn't do anything for me- something was off.

Is Institute worth seeing?

melodyman22

Gavin is a good singer, I agree not the best song writer but that institute album is great.

MotorCityMike

hahaha, making fun of Bush lyrics is one of my favorite past times. Here's my Absoute Favorite Worst Line Ever Written In Music:

Limbo this and limbo that,
You are this and you are that.


I mean, come on! lolallthewaytothebank.

elstongunn

Arabesque wrote:

"There's no sex in violence..." Remember those classically awful lines? Well, Gavin had plenty of them with Bush, but the lyrics for his new outfit, Institute are so over-the-top they make me fall on the floor laughing. Just read some of them...

Song: Save the Robots

Lyrical excerpt: Save the robots...Save yourselves...Keep your head to the future, boy...For everything it's worth...I didn't mean to collide with you...We fell so far from Earth...No Guru, No System, No Mantra, Save the Robots...

Song: Information Age

Lyrical excerpt: ...Can't seem to live without...Information Age...System Overload...They shoot you for the fame...Lies flow fast like forehead sutures...We've been betrayed and now we are the hunted...Quartered and splayed...Poisoned by assumption...

Song: When Animals Attack

Lyrical excerpt: These nights are getting longer...Seems like I've always been awake...There is danger in the houses...A Nemesis in shape...She took my mental bones...Placed them where I could feel again...You know how bad things get...When animals attack...You need fire...When animals attack...You need fire...

Song: Boom Box

Lyrical excerpt: ...If tolerance is dead...There'll be no rest for the living...Imagine no trouble and little respite...This boom box needs batteries...This boom box needs batteries...Lovers and dangerous...Love will find a way through everything...Sick at the thought of losing you...No one else for my room...Soft as the snow that comes...YOU MOVE LIKE ELECTRIC WINDOW...

And so on...you get the point. But how can ANYONE, including Gavin, take him seriously? Apparently he does, because he's so serious about his music and that's the funniest part! He apparently isn't trying to make no sense but he accomplishes it perfectly every time. How can the musicians he's playing with keep a straight face???? This is the funniest album I've ever heard. I mean..."Save the Robots?" And he's NOT kidding...Save the Robots is the slow song at the end of the album!

Any thoughts?

little embarrassed to admit, but i once made a girl cry because i read aloud the lyrics, and on display how awful they were (i was 20, but i'd do it again today, maybe Coldplay lyrics this time):)

stu gee

Arabesque wrote:

"There's no sex in violence..." Remember those classically awful lines? Well, Gavin had plenty of them with Bush, but the lyrics for his new outfit, Institute are so over-the-top they make me fall on the floor laughing. Just read some of them...

Song: Save the Robots

Lyrical excerpt: Save the robots...Save yourselves...Keep your head to the future, boy...For everything it's worth...I didn't mean to collide with you...We fell so far from Earth...No Guru, No System, No Mantra, Save the Robots...

Song: Information Age

Lyrical excerpt: ...Can't seem to live without...Information Age...System Overload...They shoot you for the fame...Lies flow fast like forehead sutures...We've been betrayed and now we are the hunted...Quartered and splayed...Poisoned by assumption...

Song: When Animals Attack

Lyrical excerpt: These nights are getting longer...Seems like I've always been awake...There is danger in the houses...A Nemesis in shape...She took my mental bones...Placed them where I could feel again...You know how bad things get...When animals attack...You need fire...When animals attack...You need fire...

Song: Boom Box

Lyrical excerpt: ...If tolerance is dead...There'll be no rest for the living...Imagine no trouble and little respite...This boom box needs batteries...This boom box needs batteries...Lovers and dangerous...Love will find a way through everything...Sick at the thought of losing you...No one else for my room...Soft as the snow that comes...YOU MOVE LIKE ELECTRIC WINDOW...

And so on...you get the point. But how can ANYONE, including Gavin, take him seriously? Apparently he does, because he's so serious about his music and that's the funniest part! He apparently isn't trying to make no sense but he accomplishes it perfectly every time. How can the musicians he's playing with keep a straight face???? This is the funniest album I've ever heard. I mean..."Save the Robots?" And he's NOT kidding...Save the Robots is the slow song at the end of the album!

Any thoughts?

Memories of Dylan at his best

Towerman

"this boom box needs batteries"


what the fuck is wrong with him?

Flannel Shirt

Arabesque wrote:

"There's no sex in violence..." Remember those classically awful lines? Well, Gavin had plenty of them with Bush, but the lyrics for his new outfit, Institute are so over-the-top they make me fall on the floor laughing. Just read some of them...

Song: Save the Robots

Lyrical excerpt: Save the robots...Save yourselves...Keep your head to the future, boy...For everything it's worth...I didn't mean to collide with you...We fell so far from Earth...No Guru, No System, No Mantra, Save the Robots...

Song: Information Age

Lyrical excerpt: ...Can't seem to live without...Information Age...System Overload...They shoot you for the fame...Lies flow fast like forehead sutures...We've been betrayed and now we are the hunted...Quartered and splayed...Poisoned by assumption...

Song: When Animals Attack

Lyrical excerpt: These nights are getting longer...Seems like I've always been awake...There is danger in the houses...A Nemesis in shape...She took my mental bones...Placed them where I could feel again...You know how bad things get...When animals attack...You need fire...When animals attack...You need fire...

Song: Boom Box

Lyrical excerpt: ...If tolerance is dead...There'll be no rest for the living...Imagine no trouble and little respite...This boom box needs batteries...This boom box needs batteries...Lovers and dangerous...Love will find a way through everything...Sick at the thought of losing you...No one else for my room...Soft as the snow that comes...YOU MOVE LIKE ELECTRIC WINDOW...

And so on...you get the point. But how can ANYONE, including Gavin, take him seriously? Apparently he does, because he's so serious about his music and that's the funniest part! He apparently isn't trying to make no sense but he accomplishes it perfectly every time. How can the musicians he's playing with keep a straight face???? This is the funniest album I've ever heard. I mean..."Save the Robots?" And he's NOT kidding...Save the Robots is the slow song at the end of the album!

Any thoughts?

maybe we are missing something in translation?