# All-time laziest song lyrics **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 28, 2011, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277 "2011-01-28T06:35:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2011, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277/41 "2011-01-28T14:38:15Z")
> [@psychonaut](#): > > If any fault is to be found with “A Horse With No Name”, it is the following mindless tautology: > > > [@](#): > > > > The heat was hot Or the line “There were plants and birds and rocks and things.” Was it that difficult to think of a fourth item for the list? And for a bonus, it follows, “I was looking at all the life.” To most people, ‘rocks’ do not qualify as a form of life. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2011, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277/42 "2011-01-28T14:45:39Z")
Bob Seger, _Roll Me Away_, which is otherwise a pretty cool song: > [@](#): > > Just then I saw a young hawk flyin’ > And my soul began to rise . . . WTF? How does he know it was a _young_ hawk? Is he an expert at identifying juvenile plumage? Do hawks old enough to fly even _have_ juvenile plumage? He needed an extra syllable so he droped in “young” as filler, just like those limericks that go “There was a young man from Kilkenny . . .” Nighthawk would have been better. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2011, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277/43 "2011-01-28T14:47:38Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > “This Song Is Just Six Words Long” by Al Yankovich, a parody of George Harrison’s “I’ve Got My Mind Set On You”. Yankovic, and it’s hardly lazy… it’s exactly the point. You could argue Harrison’s lyrics were lazy, but Yankovic was making fun of him for it. And of course the title itself is a joke, since it’s seven words long. I also have to object to some of the other choices here, like the “Ma na ma na” Muppets song. “Na na na na, hey hey hey, goodbye,” “Around the world” and songs like that. In some songs, repetition is the point; the voice is being used as an instrument. You don’t complain about the guitarist playing the same chord progression over and over, or the bassist repeating a few bass lines; sometimes the repetition of vocals is a deliberate choice. And the “Adieu, to you and you and you” line from The Sound of Music fits the scene perfectly - it’s a choreographed part of a musical, after all, not a stand alone song. Lazy lyrics are ones like “A Horse With No Name” where they’re traditional lyrics but the songwriter was obviously drunk, high, or just didn’t give a shit. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2011, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277/44 "2011-01-28T14:49:15Z")
**don’t ask** – and everyone else – pls. don’t quote long chunks of lyrics, in the interest of protecting the artists’ copyrights. If you need a long quotation to make your point, pls. link to the lyrics elsewhere. Thanks, twicks ---
**Author:** ![justrob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9adbd/32.png) [@justrob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justrob)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2011, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277/45 "2011-01-28T14:50:07Z")
Tequila! ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2011, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277/46 "2011-01-28T14:51:19Z")
> [@Suil\_Dubh](#): > > This line from the Dead Kennedys’ “California Über Alles” always seemed a bit, umm… forced. > > _You too, will meet the secret police, > They’ll draft you, and they’ll jail your niece!_ That’s from _We’ve Got A Bigger Problem Now_ (an updated – and admittedly weaker – version of _CÜA_). The _California Über Alles_ line was: _Now it’s 1984 “Knock, knock” at your front door It’s the suede-and-denim secret police They’ve come for your uncool niece_ My contribution is from _Mulan_ – quite a good Disney movie, but it had one song lyric that makes me all nun-punchy: _Ancestors, hear my plea Help me not to make a fool of me_ Gaaaaaa!! ---
**Author:** ![justrob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9adbd/32.png) [@justrob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justrob)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2011, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277/47 "2011-01-28T14:52:35Z")
Of course it might have been really thought out because it does fit so very well. ^of course referring to my post above, not **Hal Briston** ’s ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2011, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277/48 "2011-01-28T15:12:53Z")
I can’t quote the bad parts of this song because the lyrics are very short. But “We’re Off to see the Wizard” is pretty dreadfully lazy. “Because because because because because Because of the wonderful things he does.” ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2011, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277/49 "2011-01-28T15:13:50Z")
> [@Milossarian](#): > > Steve Miller deserves his own special wing in this museum: > > _Billy back, he’s a detective down in Texas,_ > _You know he knows just exactly what the facts is_ > > That lyric makes me want to punch you in the solar plexus. Which is actually a better rhyme to “Texas” and I just came up with it in about 3 seconds. > > And the entire song “Abracadabra” is just a collection of awful, lazy, Romper Room lyrics. It’s Billy Mack and he makes his living off the people’s taxes! The lyrics the Abracadabra are better than the video! How about Alice Cooper’s School’s Out? > [@](#): > > Well we got no class and we got no principals and we got no innocence > We can’t even think of a word that rhymes or The Refreshments - Down Together? > [@](#): > > I could forget the words here one more time > and hope that no one notices … and of course, Van Halen’s Why Can’t This Be Love. > [@](#): > > … only time will tell > If we stand the test of time ---
**Author:** ![WreckingCrew](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wreckingcrew/32/4080_2.png) [@WreckingCrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WreckingCrew)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2011, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277/50 "2011-01-28T15:49:36Z")
Foreigner checking in with “Hot Blooded” “You don’t have to read my mind To know what I have in mind” ---
**Author:** ![fuzzypickles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9d8465/32.png) [@fuzzypickles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fuzzypickles)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2011, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277/51 "2011-01-28T15:56:15Z")
> [@Jeff\_Lichtman](#): > > From America’s _A Horse with No Name_: > > > [@](#): > > > > In the desert you can remember your name, > > 'Cause there ain’t no one for to give you no pain. > > You’d think that, with all that wandering in the desert, they’d find the time to come up with a lyric that doesn’t need a spurious word to make it fit the rhythm of the song. It wouldn’t surprise me if the band spent several hours trying to write that chorus, until they finally said, _“Screw it – nobody’s ever gonna notice!”_ 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2011, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277/52 "2011-01-28T15:58:44Z")
In the desert things all look the same I’m not really sure if I’m glad that I came Two minutes. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Pliny\_the\_younger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/aca169/32.png) [@Pliny\_the\_younger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pliny_the_younger)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2011, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277/53 "2011-01-28T15:59:31Z")
Lazy lyrics? The king of them all: Lenny Kravitz "I wish that I could fly Into the sky So very high Just like a dragonfly I’d fly above the trees Over the seas in all degrees To anywhere I please Oh I want to get away I want to fly away Yeah yeah yeah That’s the one that irks me to all hell. Lazy, lazy, lazy!! ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2011, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277/54 "2011-01-28T16:07:28Z")
Don Black’s lyrics to “Tell Me On A sunday,” about how she wants him to say good-bye descends from “Take me to a park that’s covered with trees” to “Take me to a zoo that’s got chimpanzees” and finally “Find a circus ring with a flying trapeze.” ETA: [In case you don’t believe it](http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Tell-me-on-a-Sunday-lyrics-Sarah-Brightman/71BC453B59C2BEA348256960002F83A4) ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2011, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277/55 "2011-01-28T16:14:38Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > Nit-pick: It’s an “ever-changing world.” > But this one has always bugged me because he could so easily have made it “in which we’re livin’” without changing the meaning or the cadence or anything, and the grammar wouldn’t hit the ear with such a thud. > > ETA: Whoops, simulpost. **psychonaut** may be right; those could be the actual lyrics. I can confirm that “in which we’re livin’” is correct. I have a not so shiny copy of “Wings Complete” published in 1977. (Which I see someone has a copy of which he’s sellin’ on eBay at the moment.) That’s how the lyrics are printed in the book. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2011, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277/56 "2011-01-28T16:20:11Z")
> [@Koxinga](#): > > There’s some romantic song out there that forces a rhyme with the prepositional phrase “for only you and I.” Can’t remember what it is but it makes me want to punch someone. > > ETA: another shoehorned rhyme, not ungrammatical but still kind of lame: Lucinda Williams’s “Passionate Kisses”: “Is it much to demand / I want a full house and a rock and roll band / Pens that won’t run out of ink / And cool quiet and time to think” > > :dubious: You really fret about your pens running out of ink? I’m gonna give her that one. If you’re a (song)writer, what do you want? Cool quiet, time to think, and a pen that actually writes when inspiration strikes. On the other hand, consider the Suzanne Vega song “Gypsy”. With the lyric: “Yes now I’ve met me another spinner Of strange and gauzy threads With a long and slender body And a bump upon the head” A bump upon the head? Seriously? ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2011, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277/57 "2011-01-28T16:24:41Z")
Koxinga: > [@](#): > > There’s some romantic song out there that forces a rhyme with the prepositional phrase “for only you and I.” Can’t remember what it is but it makes me want to punch someone. “Meet me Halfway” by Kenny Loggins, perhaps? ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2011, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277/58 "2011-01-28T16:28:15Z")
> [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](#): > > Bob Seger, _Roll Me Away_, which is otherwise a pretty cool song:WTF? How does he know it was a _young_ hawk? Is he an expert at identifying juvenile plumage? Do hawks old enough to fly even _have_ juvenile plumage? He needed an extra syllable so he droped in “young” as filler, just like those limericks that go “There was a young man from Kilkenny . . .” > > Nighthawk would have been better. Sorry, but juvenile hawks do have different plumage. Red-tailed hawks, for example, don’t develop the distinctive red tail for a couple of years. And bald eagles (essentially big-ass hawks) don’t develop the distinctive white head for almost four years. Young hawks also have different hunting patterns because they haven’t quite figured out the “sit on a branch until something moves and then eat it.” paradigm. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2011, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277/59 "2011-01-28T16:36:38Z")
Band on the Run: And the jailer man, and sailor Sam Were searching everyone For the band on the run That’s the best Paul McCartney can come up with: jailer man, and sailor Sam? It hurts my head. ---
**Author:** ![koufax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7ea924/32.png) [@koufax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koufax)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2011, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277/60 "2011-01-28T16:39:42Z")
If you are looking for LAZY, how about Johnny Lennon: “And no religion TOO.” And Bobby Dylan: “While all the women came and went, barefoot servants, TOO” If you have to rhyme by ending the sentence with “too”, you are very lazy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277.md?page=4)