StreakerOfinsky

Absurdism and surrealism, of course, are not just writing whatever comes to the top of one's pointy little head. Surrealism can definitely be. Dada is usually seen as closely related to surrealism if it's not seen as a species of it.

I prefer lyrics in a foreign language to those in my own that don't make sense. I have to say, if I think a writer is just stringing together nonsense -- and I have that feeling more than a little -- I feel cheated, like the guy/gal just doesn't care enough to put in the effort. Partially because I do not believe that "transparent" meanings or correct interpretations are possible, I exploit vagueness/ambiguity in my lyrics, and they're often more or less nonsensical. I'm also a big fan of absurdism, so that's another motivation. I do not see my job in writing lyrics like that as less work than if I were to write more conventional lyrics . . . although I also do not see "more work" as being indicative of aesthetic quality. I look at it as an awareness of providing "meaning potentials", rather than the illusion of transparently transferring some specific meaning.