# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2011, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277/121 "2011-01-30T20:49:17Z")
> [@pepperlandgirl](#): > > When I hear Wilco’s **Hummingbird** , I always wonder if Jeff Tweedy could have done better than: > _A cheap sunset > On a television set > Could upset her > But he never could_ What about **A Shot In the Arm** , where he sings: _We fell in love In the key of C We walked along Down by the sea You followed me down The neck to D We fell again Into the sea_ ---
**Author:** ![Slade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@Slade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slade)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2011, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277/122 "2011-01-30T21:53:38Z")
It’s very easy to mock lyrics when they’re in cold print, because they were never meant to be experienced that way. The real test is whether they work when heard in the context of the accompanying music. And that’s why “Ah-wop-bop-a-loo-bop-a-wop-bam-boom” seems ridiculous in print, but sublime when Little Richard screams it at just the right moment in _Tutti Fruiti_. That said, Sham 69’s _If The Kids Are United_ still deserves a place in any Hall of Shame: “Freedom is given, / Speak how you feel, / I have no freedom, / How do you feel?” ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2011, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277/123 "2011-01-30T22:41:47Z")
“I kissed a girl, and I liked i-i-i-i-it.” When I first heard “I Kissed A Girl”, I wasn’t sure whether or not I liked it. The five-syllable “it” was what decided it for me. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2011, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277/124 "2011-01-30T22:42:40Z")
> [@Slade](#): > > It’s very easy to mock lyrics when they’re in cold print, because they were never meant to be experienced that way. The real test is whether they work when heard in the context of the accompanying music. And that’s why “Ah-wop-bop-a-loo-bop-a-wop-bam-boom” seems ridiculous in print, but sublime when Little Richard screams it at just the right moment in _Tutti Fruiti_. Or, as it was put in the Stephen King episode of _Family Guy_, “Piano Riff Woo!” ---
**Author:** ![laurence](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5fc32e/32.png) [@laurence](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/laurence)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2011, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277/125 "2011-01-30T22:58:47Z")
The lyrics to the Lolita Yah Yah song (from the film LOLITA) are as follows: Yah Yah Wah Wah Yah Yah Wah Wah What genius wracked his brain to compose those? Also, the last line in the MY FAIR LADY song “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly” reads as follows: Loverly, loverly, loverly, loverly, loverly. (I think there are 5 loverlys, but could be six - I didn’t bother to do an exact count) ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2011, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277/126 "2011-01-30T23:16:28Z")
“i would do anything for love, But I won’t do that” Repeated about 100 times. Put a little more effort into it next time, wouldja, Mr. Loaf? ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2011, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277/127 "2011-01-30T23:26:58Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > Whereupon I stole her passport and her wig > And headed for the airport and the midnight flight, you dig? Oh. I wondered why he flew **to Nice** instead of DeGaulle. I vaguely thought there might be a well-know flight to Nice people took after an evening of gambling in Monte Carlo. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2011, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277/128 "2011-01-30T23:32:32Z")
“Jungle love, jungle love…its drivin me crazzee”? Very profound-goood for a Ph.D thesis. ---
**Author:** ![Postariti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Postariti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Postariti)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2011, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277/129 "2011-01-30T23:57:39Z")
Bonus tracks are great for this. Often they’re not quite finished. My current favorite is Alone by Assemblage 23. It’s a great song - the music is perfect, the vocals are perfect, and I couldn’t imagine why they didn’t put it on the album. The I listened to the lyrics and the songwriter explained to me: The rain comes down like angry bees And the streetlight flickers on I thought that I could overcome this song But now I see I was wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2011, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277/130 "2011-01-31T01:13:02Z")
The thing about America’s lyrics was, they were streaky. You got your “plants and rocks and things” lyrics … I mean … what sort of things? and you have your “the heat was hot” … orly? lyrics … then you got “and the story it told/about a river that flowed/made me sad to think it was dead” which is … pretty good … you never knew where they were coming from. I’d class “gator lizards in the air” as coming from their inspired side … ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_A.Robrin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sam_a.robrin/32/14497_2.png) [@Sam\_A.Robrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_A.Robrin)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2011, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277/131 "2011-01-31T03:13:11Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > I would love to hear an explanation about the difference between ‘lazy’ and ‘simple’. > > I will concede your other point, though; ‘whacky’ is a more apt description than ‘stupid’ with regard to Lennon’s lyrics. And yes, he was very good at whacky. > > (the more you type the word whacky, the whackier it looks) > mmm “Simple” is when you’ve managed to reduce it down to just the right words. “We Shall Overcome” is simple, and that’s how it got to be super-iconic. The Beatles’ “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)” is simple. “San Francisco (Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair)” was also pretty iconic, but it was lazy, haphazardly rhyming words with themselves and making little real sense. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2011, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277/132 "2011-01-31T03:31:14Z")
> [@The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](#): > > I don’t think it gets much lazier than Anal Cunt’s “Tom Arnold”. And yes, such a song by such a band exists. Here’s the full lyrics: > > “Tom Arnold > Tom Arnold > Tom Arnold” > > That’s the whole song. Seriously. It doesn’t help that the song itself is nine seconds long. On the contrary, I imagine that it helps a great deal. ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2011, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277/133 "2011-01-31T05:15:22Z")
> [@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. From the same song, "They headed down to, ooh, old El Paso. That’s where they ran into a great big …(I want to say “asshole”, because it fits better than “hassel”.) ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2011, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277/134 "2011-01-31T05:40:22Z")
O Holy Night They get about 2/3 through the first verse and just give up. Fall on your knees! Oh, hear the angel voices! O night divine, the night when Christ was born; O night, O Holy Night , O night divine! O night, O Holy Night , O night divine! ---
**Author:** ![KinkiNipponTourist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e9bcb4/32.png) [@KinkiNipponTourist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KinkiNipponTourist)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2011, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277/135 "2011-01-31T12:01:05Z")
I was in the US over Christmas and heard this [gem](http://www.metrolyrics.com/billionaire-travie-mccoy-lyrics-various.html) \*I wanna be a billionaire so freaking bad Buy all of the things I never had… It’s been a couple months since I been single so You can call me Travis Claus minus the ho ho Yeah, can’t forget about me stupid Everywhere I go I’ma have my own theme music\* The first time I heard it, I found myself pissed off at the inanity. It sounded like a stream-of-consciousness whine. aaaaaaaaagghhh, just lazy lazy lazy. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2011, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277/136 "2011-01-31T12:32:42Z")
> [@Sam\_A.Robrin](#): > > “Simple” is when you’ve managed to reduce it down to just the right words. “We Shall Overcome” is simple, and that’s how it got to be super-iconic. The Beatles’ “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)” is simple. > “San Francisco (Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair)” was also pretty iconic, but it was lazy, haphazardly rhyming words with themselves and making little real sense. Fair enough. I would still categorize ‘Love Me Do’ as lazy - rather than simple - though. Someone to love Somebody new Someone to love Someone like you (not that I don’t dig the song, mind you) mmm ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2011, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277/137 "2011-01-31T14:01:44Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > Fair enough. I would still categorize ‘Love Me Do’ as lazy - rather than simple - though. > > Someone to love > Somebody new > Someone to love > Someone like you > (not that I don’t dig the song, mind you) > mmm But these simple lyrics are the perfect ones for the song. Lazy is when the line clearly _isn’t_ right for the song, but you leave it in because you can’t come up with anything better. Someone to love Somebody new Someone to love Someone named Lou _That_ would be lazy. ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2011, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277/138 "2011-01-31T14:28:38Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > My favorite lazy/stupid lyrics come from Van Hagar’s first big hit, _Why Can’t This Be Love_, which was played approximately 4,896,786,233,491 times per month in the mid-to-late '80s in every top 40/rock/adult contemporary market in the United States: > > “Only time will tell > If we can stand the test of time” > > No shit? Really? Wow, how insightful. :rolleyes: See post #49. I think we should we exclude all novelty tunes and musicals, I mean, they’re both stupid and lazy by nature. ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2011, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277/139 "2011-01-31T14:43:29Z")
We used to make fun of The Offspring because we imagined Dexter in the studio saying “I didn’t write any lyrics yet but if I did they would go like this…Ohh Yeah…Yaaa…Yaaa, Yaaa Yaaa!” There was an 80’s Japanese metal band called Loudness who barely spoke english and had a minor hit with “Crazy Nights”. Apparently, the lead singer during recording, randomly chanted M-Z-A for a bridge, intending to come up with something later. That take was used and it took on a life of it’s own, even though it has no meaning at all. ---
**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 31, 2011, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277/140 "2011-01-31T15:00:42Z")
The wild and windy night that the rain washed away Has left a pool of tears crying for the day. Since when do pools of tears cry? Aren’t they a result of crying? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277.md?page=8)