Words and music of course go together, or what is a song anyway?


That being said, there are terribly successful pop songs where the words barely make sense. Some of my favorite groups fall into this category. First in my mind is one of my favorite groups Talking Heads. Then there are great groups with great words such as 10CC. Then there are characters like Bob Dylan who are multi genre multi song type. Of particular note are the singer-songwriters such as Warren Zevon. His "Frank and Jesse James" song is right up there with the stuff of excellence like the great Stan Rogers. On the other hand, he was capable of fun stuff like these lines from "Jungle Work":

We parachute in
We parachute out
'Death from above'
We're screaming now

It's funny and ridiculous and goes right by you unless you are paying attention. I love stuff like that.