lumbering

to proceed or act clumsily or ineffectually

Heard in 14 songs (2.7M+ combined views) — most famously in "Elephants" by Them Crooked Vultures.

Updated September 28, 2026

Songs Featuring “lumbering”

Them Crooked Vultures - Elephants

Time: 1:51

Alone in the garden

Like lumbering giants in a shameful parade

We came to ruin all and make a rotten trade

Them Crooked Vultures - Elephants

Symphony X - Incantations of the Apprentice

Time: 1:10

Through eerie reach of ancient woods

Where lumbering mists arise

I journeyed for nine moons of the year

Symphony X - Incantations of the Apprentice

Job for a Cowboy - Cronenberged

Time: 2:27

A thousand days of work on a novel

As this lumbering abomination becomes a fraud

Hammered into the golden fold

Job for a Cowboy - Cronenberged

Mount Eerie - Forest Fire

Time: 3:22

The leaf on the ground pokes at my slumbering grief

Walking around, severed, lumbering

Mount Eerie - Forest Fire

billy woods - Houdini

Time: 1:51

Walked into the forest filled with fear

Couldn't see it coming, but I could hear something lumbering near

Woke up sudden in armchair

billy woods - Houdini

Aesop Rock - 1,000 O'Clock

Time: 3:04

As if guided by the trident of poseidon to cavort

Each a lumbering and boisterous glutton

Like a half-ton annoyance 'til the heart-warming story went public

Aesop Rock - 1,000 O'Clock

Miracle of Sound - Mojave Song

Time: 3:28

Stack the deck, I'm letting nothing fall to chance

Lumbering across the west

Ruined treasures repossessed

Miracle of Sound - Mojave Song

Poison Ruïn - Bastards Dance

Time: 0:44

Lumbering

Clattering

Poison Ruïn - Bastards Dance

Westerner - The Dawn of the World

Time: 2:04

On Sunday the King and Queen of Avalon

Sitting atop their lumbering elephants

At the dawn ride toward the newborn sunrise

Westerner - The Dawn of the World

Akira the Don - From the Trees to the Starship

Time: 2:31

And then, this asteroid struck

You know, the dinosaurs that we find are the lumbering,

Enormous ones

Akira the Don - From the Trees to the Starship

Maniac - Mutant

Time: 0:26

I'm an ogre now

Disgusting lumbering freak

I scare everyone

Maniac - Mutant

Sehar Sharma - 2am

Time: 1:16

I'm yawning but I can't sleep

Time is moving at a lumbering pace

I guess I've tried everything

Sehar Sharma - 2am

Nightmarer - Brutalist Imperator

Time: 0:59

King megalith

Lumbering fortress of pain

Prehistoric monument

Nightmarer - Brutalist Imperator

Cowboy Junkies - Hollow as a Bone

Time: 2:00

We will kiss goodnight under a starlit sky

whisper oaths at a lumbering moon

dream sweet dreams before the morning comes

Cowboy Junkies - Hollow as a Bone