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Made Up Words in Songs Lyrics, S

Performer		Song Title		Made Up Words		Comments & Submittor Name
Salt-N-Pepa		Shoop		shoop, ba-doop		The chorus goes: "Shoop shoop ba-doop, Shoop ba-doop, Shoop ba-doop ba-doop ba-doop." This song was a #4 hit in the U.S. in 1993. - Yvette Bristle
Savage Garden		I Want You		Chika		"Chika cherry cola" How much cola is that? - Karen B
Screaming Jets		Individuality		Suiciety		They're saying that if you always do as society expects you to, you've effectively given up your own life - No 56279
Scritti Politti		Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin)		beez		- Candy Welty
Shagnasty		Chewbacka		Shagnasty		No comment - Erbie
Shakira (Ripoll)		"This Time For Africa"		Waka waka		What exactly IS "waka waka?" - Parker Gabriel
Sherbet		Howzat		howzat		In this 1976 hit song, "Howzat" means "How's that." - Yvette Bristle
Shirley & Lee		Well-A, Well-A		well-a		- Loree Dare
Silver		Wham Bam Shang-a-Lang		Shang-a-Lang		Is this song a reminisce of 50's doo-wop? - Paul Warren
Sister Siren		Innocent Killah		killah		- Candy Welty
Skin Yard		Psychoriflepowerhypnotized		Psychoriflepowerhypnotized, Psychoriflehypnotized		These run-on "words" appear to be sung in reaction tho thoughts of being held at gunpoint by police. Otherwise lyrics are of rather obscure meaning. - Cynthia Avery
Skrillex featuring Sirah		Bangarang		bangarang		- Loree Dare
Slade		Gudbuy T' Jane		gudbuy, t'		- Loree Dare
Slim & Slam		Flaat-Foot Floogie With A Floy-Floy		floogie, floy-floy		These were fun times. - Opie M.
Slipknot		Disasterpiese		Disasterpiece		- Maggot army
Sly & The Family Stone		Everyday People		scooby dooby, sha		And so on and so on and scooby dooby dooby, oooh, sha sha. - Reggie Pillbox
Sly & The Family Stone		Everyday People		Scooby dooby-doo-bee		This came before the long running Scooby Doo cartoon series. - Soul
Smash Mouth		Pet Names		Schnookums, Peet, Goochy goochy goo goo gaga, hunky dory		Schnookums, Peet, Goochy goochy goo goo gaga are (pet) names SHE used to call him and sweet talk - Franka
Smashing Pumpkins		Stumbleine		stumbleine		"I'll be your stumbleine / I'll be your super queen". From their 1995 dual album "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" - RevengeFromMars YouTube
The Smashing Pumpkins		Luna		moonsongs		"What moonsongs / Do you sing your babies?" From the 1993 album Siamese Dream. - RevengeFromMars YouTube
Smokey Robinson		Baby That's Backatcha		backatcha		- Loree Dare
Sonny & Cher		The Beat Goes On1		rem-o-nisce		Lyrics: "Grandmas sit in chairs and rem-o-nisce, boys keep chasing girls to get a kiss." - Martha Hankins
Sopwith Camel		Orange Peel		Duyadytandu		"Aw come on! That's not even CLOSE to a language! The last time I saw this word come up, we were playing Klingon Scrabble, and huffing motor oil out of a trash can!" - princejellyfish
The Spencer Davis Group		Gimme Some Lovin'1		Gimme		Apparently 'give me' took to long to say. - JC Foster
Spice Girls		Wannabe		Zigga zigga-ah		Acording to Melanie B this is just a nonsensical word that they made up. - Celeste
Spiderbait		ShaShaVaGlava		ShaShaVaGlava [or Sha, Va, Glava ?]		What does any of that mean? - Tara Gilmer
Spoon		Don't You Evah		Evah		Evah is substituted for 'ever' for no apparent reason. There isn't even a rhyme scheme it tries to follow, except for that they change 'lover' to 'lovah' and 'never' to 'nevah'. It would have been as easy to keep the normal... - JC Foster
SSQ		Synthicide		Synthicide		There's a line in the song that goes "killing the pain, synthicide". So I think it's saying that listening to synthesizer music or synthpop music will help get rid of you sadness, hurt and other negative emotions. But "synthicide" is definitely not a real word. To me, the word implies murdering somebody with a synthesizer (beating them to death with it I guess LOL) or that you've killed a synthesizer, LOL. The song's from the 80s but definitely wasn't a hit. But the lead singer of SSQ was a young Stacy Q., who would a few years later have a hit with and become a "one hit wonder" with her catchy song Two Of Hearts. Synthicide's an OK song but I think the title and lyrics hurt it somewhat and that's why it wasn't a hit, but yeah I've definitely heard better. - Edward
Stan Freberg		Wun'erful, Wun'erful! (Sides Uh-One And Uh-Two)		wun'erful, uh-one, uh-two		- Loree Dare
Steppenwolf		Sookie, Sookie		Sookie		I've looked it up on Dictionary.com. Believe me, it doesn't exist. - Rock Quarry
Sterling Holloway		'Twas Brillig		'twas brillig, slithy toves, gyre, gimble,wabe, mimsy, borogoves, mome raths outgrabe		"'Twas" is a contraction of "it was;" the rest are words Lewis Carroll made up in his poem "Jabberwocky." - Alan of Seville
Steve Lawrence		The Bad Donkey (Pum-Pa-Lum)		pum-pa-lum		- Loree Dare
Steve Miller Band		The Joker		Pompatus		Used in the lines "Some people call me Maurice, / Cause I speak of the Pompatus of love". - ChuckyG
Stevie Wonder		Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day		shoo-be-doo-be-doo-da-day		- Loree Dare
Stevie Wonder		Yesterme, Yesteryou, Yesterday		Yesterme Yesteryou		There is a Yesterday and a Yesteryear, but no Yesterme nor Yesteryou. - Paul Warren
Strong Bad		Trogdor		Burninnating		I figure it's most likely a combination of "Burning" and "Annihilating." Sounds kind of stupid, though. - Jonathan S.
Sum 41		Fat Lip		Kufuffin		What kind of word is kufuffin?? - chineze_kid1
Sylvia & The Moments		Sho Nuff Boogie (Part 1)		sho, nuff		And also: Sho Nuff Boogie (Part 2) - Loree Dare

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