Oldness and Weirdness

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So I was thinking about the lyrics to the song "P.Funk (Wants To Get Funked Up)" by Parliament.

Take a gander:

Welcome to station W-E-F-U-N-K,
better known as We-Funk,
Or deeper still, the Mothership Connection.
Home of the extraterrestrial brothers,
Dealers of funky music.
P.Funk, uncut funk, The Bomb.

Coming to you directly from the Mothership
Top of the Chocolate Milky Way,
500,000 kilowatts of P.Funk-power.
So kick back, dig, while we do it to you in your eardrums.

Anyway, I realized that these are some of the most bizarre lyrics pressed into vinyl, at least until Beck came along.

So, here's what I'm trying to figure out. This song would pop up in the iPod every now and again with some regularity, but it's been a long time since I actually thought about how weird they are.

I can't remember the first time I heard Parliament, so I don't know if they always struck me as weird, if I initially said, "What the [redacted] is this [redacted]?" but after repeated listenings, I lost that feeling, until the song was just music and words.

Or is it possible that I just didn't notice the weirdness? Maybe odd stuff strikes me now in a way it didn't used to. Just a part of getting old. Losing your edge.

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