chaff

waste; be silly or tease one another

Heard in 15 songs (6.3M+ combined views) — most famously in "Red Water Dreams" by Aviators.

Updated August 23, 2026

Songs Featuring “chaff”

Aviators - Red Water Dreams

Time: 1:03

Now with no more heroes left

To cull the chaff among the streets

The gates release

Aviators - Red Water Dreams

Ella Fitzgerald - Can't We Be Friends?

Time: 1:11

"Can't we be friends?"

Yes, I thought I knew the wheat from the chaff

What a laugh, this is how the story ends

Ella Fitzgerald - Can't We Be Friends?

Red Hot Chili Peppers - In the Snow

Time: 5:17

Impassible laughter blocks my path

Blue chaff (blue chaff, blue chaff)

Blue chaff (blue chaff, blue chaff)

Red Hot Chili Peppers - In the Snow

Blue Öyster Cult - Secret Road

Time: 1:38

Our life, the staff

Some of us are wheat and some of us chaff

And I'm sorry but it's true

Blue Öyster Cult - Secret Road

Carcass - Exhume to Consume

Time: 1:03

Pus dribbles from my lips

Pulverising this pustular chaff

Butchering up morgue's makes me laugh

Carcass - Exhume to Consume

Van Halen - Year to the Day

Time: 1:22

Harvest moon, soon will pass

Crop is gone, left only chaff

A bitter pill, and an overcast

Van Halen - Year to the Day

Darlene Zschech - I Will Never Be

Time: 1:15

♪

Sweep away the darkness, burn away the chaff

And let a flame burn to glorify Your name

Darlene Zschech - I Will Never Be

Beck - Dead Melodies

Time: 1:59

Slow down this old train

Cinders and chaff

Laugh at the moon

Beck - Dead Melodies

Lecrae - Too Much

Time: 1:17

If they lied on Jesus, why you think they ain't gon' cap?

Yeah, I was outside 'bout to burn with the chaff

In the cut, I run with the pack

Lecrae - Too Much

Dolly Parton - Bittersweet

Time: 1:25

Bittersweet, bittersweet

Separate the chaff from wheat

Is our love now obsolete?

Dolly Parton - Bittersweet

The Smashing Pumpkins - Cyr

Time: 2:37

Ever lost, ides

'Midst the chaff, as meek

Those weak as sand

The Smashing Pumpkins - Cyr

Donovan - A Sunny Day

Time: 0:33

Hover over river

Diving, writhing, gnattring, chiff-chaff chattering

Woodpecker staggering, hammering

Donovan - A Sunny Day

Queensrÿche - Almost Cut My Hair

Time: 3:21

I'm goin' to find a space inside to laugh

Separate the wheat from the chaff

Oh, and I feel ...

Queensrÿche - Almost Cut My Hair

Electric Six - I Belong In A Factory

Time: 0:43

It's a wonder that both ends always meet

But we separate the chaff from the wheat

Today's middle class is just so bourgeoisie

Electric Six - I Belong In A Factory

Charlie Daniels - Then, Now and Until the End

Time: 2:57

And I'm always there just the local service

And when the chaff of trend and bad is swept aside

I'm exposed again

Charlie Daniels - Then, Now and Until the End