What inanity in song lyrics makes you roll your eyes everytime?

[Liberal Veteran]

I think I am tied between the killing frost that wiped out Wildfire and his owner vs. that song that talks about the north star being the brightest star in the sky.

[tg]

1. Everytime I . . .

... see the tree, how big it's grown ...

[Gracie43]

2. Make it stop pleeeeaaasssse

Yummy, yummy, yummy I got love in my tummy.

[Liberal Veteran]

3. So we know whoever sung that wasn't a spitter?

LOL

[Catch22Dem]

4. HOLY SHIT!

That was FUNNY! You get 2 points!

[ET Awful]

17. D'OH

Good one :)

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

5. Any song that rhymes "drank some wine and I'm feeling fine."

Trust me. There are more than a few.

:evilgrin:

[Liberal Veteran]

24. You mean like this one by Heart?

On the world's all mine
White lightning and wine came on so fast
When did I last feel this fine?
White lightning and wine

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

28. Those two words make me feel like Belushi in "Animal House"...

...the scene on the stairs with the folkie singing "I gave my love a chicken who had no bone."

OR...if you remember the old Three Stooges bit about the "Susquehanna Hat Company"...they make me feel that way too.

:evilgrin:

PS: To end on a positive note, my favorite Heart tune: "Mistral Wind." Never liked "White Lightning and Wine." I'm guessing it was because of the wine.



:evilgrin:

[stevielizard]

29. EXCEPT for "Dimples" by John Lee Hooker...

I hate ".....the way you walk.......the way you talk!"
also ".....dance.....and make ROmance!" Isn't "pants" a better rhyme?

[Jade Fox]

6. My enduring shame: I love "Wildfire".....

Send de-programers!

[Liberal Veteran]

7. What's the deal with that hoot owl he complains about in the song?

And do hoot owls really howl?

:shrug:

[Jade Fox]

8. Dunno. My critical faculties collapse as soon as the song comes on.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

10. Your no longer SECRET shame! n/t

[Jade Fox]

11. OMG, what if Karl Rove gets a hold of this info??

I'll be toast!

[MrSandman]

9. The killing frost was up there,

But in the dester there is no one for to give you a name?

That's up there with the silly question of the tree falling where noone can hear it.

[Gracie43]

12. Then, your cake melts in the rain --

in MacArthur's Park no less.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

13. I don't think that I could take it.

[Liberal Veteran]

15. And how is it that the recipe is mysteriously gone as well?

So the cake was mysteriously left out in the rain AND the recipe is gone?

Sounds like a conspiracy!

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

22. And not only that, but the source of the recipe is no longer forthcoming

with the information. Whattup wit dat?! :shrug:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

18. 'Cause it took so long to bake it.

[Liberal Veteran]

19. Don't cakes generally take the same amount of time to bake...

Give or take 10 or 20 minutes?

[Gracie43]

23. More or less

which is one of the many reasons MacArthur Park usually gets on any Top Ten Dumbass Lyrics List.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

21. And I'll never have that recipe AGAIIINNNNNNN.....

[Jade Fox]

16. You win. Worst lyrics ever!

When have you, or anyone in the entire history of planet earth, left a
cake out in the rain??

Ick, yuck, puck, gag.

[HEyHEY]

14. That edwin song

"It's sooo goood to feeel alllive"

ugh

[Liberal Veteran]

20. Guess it beats feeling dead.

You never hear anyone singing about that.

[WoodrowFan]

25. Isn't it Ironic?

A traffic jam when you're already late
A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break
It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife
It's meeting the man of my dreams
And then meeting his beautiful wife
And isn't it ironic... don't you think?


NO! that's NOT "IRONY" you stupid &*%#$$! !! ARGH

[Liberal Veteran]

27. Isn't it a bummer, don't you think?

Maybe we should make a song called bummer that only talks about irony.

[lazarus]

39. The fact that the song is about irony

and lists examples that aren't irony, is itself ironic.

[lazarus]

40. Wheel in the sky

I'm sicking of hearing about wheels in the sky.

[Philostopher]

26. In a little while from now...

If I'm not feeling any less sour
I promise myself to treat myself
And visit a nearby tower
And climbing to the top
I will throw myself off ...

(From Gilbert O'Sullivan's 'Alone Again (Naturally)')

You git the rifle, Ma, I'll get the shells -- we'll make that sonofabitch go up that tower if we have to tie him up and drag him!

Gads, I got sick of that song back in the seventies.

Besides 'Wildfire' and 'Honey', the Bobby Goldsboro song, I also hate every single note of 'Seasons In The Sun,' but the lyrics are stupid all the way through and I can't bring myself to go to the effort to find them.

And 'The Night Chicago Died.' 'On the streets of the old East Side,' which would have placed the song somewhere in the middle of Lake Michigan.

[CBHagman]

33. Augh! Seventies flashbacks here.

Though there were some outstanding albums in the '70s, there was also considerable wretchedness, all of which is etched in my brain, as it is in yours.

As for me, I hated that song about the drowned dog ("Shannon is gone; I hope she's drifting out to sea") and "Seasons in the Sun" ("We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun.").

Let's not forget later stuff, like "Abracadabra, I want to reach out and grab you." I always thought it was a shame the Steve Miller Band didn't have Peter Lorre (or at least Spike Jones) to do that particular lyric.

Oh, and then there's that idiotic country song, "Close Enough to Perfect." Sample lyric: "Well, she's been known to wear her pants too tight, and drinking puts her out just like a light." So he's dating a tacky lush?

[Liberal Veteran]

34. Yeah, what was up with Shannon?

Maybe she'll find an island with a shady tree?


Where she will starve to death??????

[Philostopher]

35. One of my favorites was Ariel

by Dean Friedman:

Way on the other side of the Hudson
Deep in the bosom of suburbia
I met a young girl she sang mighty fine
Tears on my pillow and Ave Maria
Standing by the water fall in Paramus Park
She was working for the friends of BAI
She was collecting quarters in a paper cup
She was looking for change and so was I
She was a Jewish girl, I fell in love with her
She wrote her number on the back of my hand
I called her up, I was all out of breath
I said, "Come hear me play in my rock and roll band"
I took a shower and I put on my best blue jeans
I picked her up in my new V double U van
She wore a peasant blouse with nothing underneath
I said "Hi", she said, "yeah, I guess I am"
Ariel, Ariel

I'm guessing, though, that there are plenty of people who would be happy to ram a railroad spike in their ears never to hear it again.

[non sociopath skin]

30. How about Elton John's classic reflection...

"If I were a sculptor ... but then again, no."

The Skin

[VOX]

31. Any time someone is "walking on down the line."

What "line," goddamnit? There's no **line** there where you're walking, unless you're taking a sobriety test!

[Raven Macabre]

32. This one

Now many many years ago when I was twenty-three
I was married to a widow who was pretty as can be
This widow had a grown-up daughter who had hair of red
My father fell in love with her and soon they too were wed

Oh I'm my own grandpa
I'm my own granpa
It sounds funny I know,
But it really is so
Oh I'm my own grandpa

This made my dad my son-in-law and changed my very life
My daughter was my mother 'cause she was my father's wife
To complicate the matter even though it brought me joy
I soon became the father of a bouncing baby boy

My little baby then became a brother-in-law to Dad
And so became my uncle, though it made me very sad
For if he was my uncle, then that also made him br'ther
Of the widow's grown-up daughter who was also my stepmother

Father's wife then had a son who kept them on the run
And he became my grandchild, for he was my daughter's son
My wife is now my mother's mother and it makes me blue
Because altho' she is my wife, she's my grandmother too

Now if my wife is my grandmother, then I'm her grandchild
And every time I think of it, it nearly drives me wild
For now I have become the strangest case I ever saw
As husband of my grandmother, I am my own grandpa

[argyl]

36. For you oldtimers,the lyrics to the "Rawhide" theme.

"Don't try to understand them.Just ride and rope and brand them"

Someone was really stretching for a rhyme here.

[Beware the Beast Man]

37. Any song lyric involving a locomotive with no fixed destination point.

"She took the midnight train going anywhere."
"I'm on the night train, never to return."
"Nonstop to nowhere."
Ad nauseum...

[NashVegas]

38. "Your Body Is a Wonderland" - Too Obvious?

Right up there with Starland Vocal Band.

[NightTrain]

41. "I've seen a million faces / and I've rocked them all."

Jon Bon Jovi: Pat Boone in leather! :puke:

[NightTrain]

42. Lovin' Spoonful: "Every one's a yellow Sun record from Nashville."

Goddammit, the Sun studios were in Memphis! :grr::nuke:

[grannylib]

43. Blinded by the light, Wrapped up like a deuce Another runner in the night

And why the hell did he pronounce "deuce" like "douche?" Pisses me off for some reason.

The other one that just bugs me is
"I want you to want me
I need you to need me
I'd love you to love me
I'm begging you to beg me..." etc etc.

Worst Cheap Trick song ever, IMHO. They were better when they were rocking, a la "He's a Whore" (which these days reminds me of Robert NoFacts, wonder why????)

[Berserker]

44. Strange one here

Dead Puppies

Dead puppys aren't much fun
> they don't play they don't run.
> My puppy died late last fall
> he's still rotting in the hall.
> Dead puppys aren't much fun.

Now, now - quoting from old songs is just not on 8-) Anyway, you got it wrong.

Dead puppies
Dead puppies
Dead puppies aren't much fun.
They don't come
When you call
They don't chase
Squirrels at all
Dead puppies aren't much fun.

My puppy died
Late last fall
He's still rotting
In the hall
Dead puppies aren't much fun

Mom says puppy's
Days are through
She'd going to put him
In the stew
Dead puppies aren't much fun


And in the same vein

(To the tune of "I'm Looking Over A Four-Leaf Clover")

I'm looking over my dead dog Rover
Who I hit with the power mower
One leg is missing
The other is gone
The third leg is scattered
All over the lawn
No need for explaining
The one leg remaining
Is spinning on the car port door
I'm looking over my dead dog Rover
Who I overlooked before.

I'm looking over my dead dog Rover
Who I hit with the power mower
Rover's not eating
He no longer barks
He hit the propellor
And turned into sparks
No need for explaining
There's no dog remaining
He's part of the grass you see
I'm looking over my dead dog Rover
Whom I sent to eternity.

[LostInAnomie]

45. Anything by Train

I hate their fucking songs.

[NightTrain]

47. Hey! What did I ever do to you?

;)

[LostInAnomie]

49. They put out shitty songs that the radio overplayed

Other than nothing

[PassingFair]

46. Read every post and was suprised not to see:

The Pompatus of Love. WTF!

[grannylib]

48. LOL! Good one -

[Lizzie Borden]

50. Don't hurt my heart,

my achy, braky heart...

Sorry for bringing that up.

[No2W2004]

51. "But in this ever changing world in which we live in"

McCartney trying to fit a lyric to music