# 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:** 8
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2011, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277/141 "2011-01-31T15:45:32Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > 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? Actually, the way I parse that, it’s the wild and windy night that was crying for the day. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2011, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277/142 "2011-01-31T15:55:06Z")
It was nominated for an Oscar, and it actually has a full set of lyrics. But the only ones I ever heard in the film, over and over and over again: _Swinging Belleville rendez-vous marathon dancing doop dee doop_ ---
**Author:** ![Slade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@Slade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slade)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2011, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277/143 "2011-01-31T16:53:57Z")
> [@Sparky812](#): > > See post #49. > > I think we should we exclude all novelty tunes and musicals, I mean, they’re both stupid and lazy by nature. Actually, the great musicals contain some of the smartest, best-crafted lyrics you’ll ever hear. Take this verse from Cole Porter’s _You’re The Top_ in the show Anything Goes: At words poetic, I’m so pathetic That I always have found it best, Instead of getting 'em off my chest, To let 'em rest unexpressed, I hate parading my serenading As I’ll probably miss a bar, But if this ditty is not so pretty At least it’ll tell you How great you are. That may not be to your taste, Sparky, but it sure ain’t stupid or 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, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277/144 "2011-01-31T18:04:29Z")
> [@Slade](#): > > Actually, the great musicals \*\*contain some \*\*of the smartest, best-crafted lyrics you’ll ever hear. > > That may not be to your taste, Sparky, but it sure ain’t stupid or lazy. …bolding mine Meh… and alot of the worst. Is this a case where the exception proves the law? Also, my personal tastes have nothing to do with it, I collect novelty songs and enjoy musicals, but thank you for your concern. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2011, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277/145 "2011-01-31T18:49:35Z")
And another Paul Simon. It was best pointed out by John Belushi, when Simon was (hosting?) SNL. Belushi comes out and does a spiel about Simon being the best poet of the generation, and then quotes the immortal lyrics: Li-la-li, li-li-li-li-li-li-li, li-la-li, li-la-LI-li, li-la-li-li, li-li-liiiiii Joe may not have transcribed that quite right ---
**Author:** ![Slade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@Slade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slade)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2011, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277/146 "2011-01-31T19:14:41Z")
> [@Sparky812](#): > > …bolding mine > > Meh… and alot of the worst. Is this a case where the exception proves the law? > Also, my personal tastes have nothing to do with it, I collect novelty songs and enjoy musicals, but thank you for your concern. Let me just deal with those points in turn. 1. “Bolding mine”. I’d have been pretty silly to say the classic musicals contained _all_ the smartest and best-crafted lyrics, wouldn’t I? Almost as silly as you were in making the blanket assertion that musicals were “stupid and lazy by nature”. 2. “and a lot of the worst”. Go on, then: give me the worst Cole Porter or Stephen Sondheim verse you can find and let’s see how it stacks up on intelligence and craft against the average rock or pop lyric. 3. “Is this a case where the exception proves the law?” No, it isn’t. Porter maintained this high standard of wit and invention throughout a long career, as anyone who takes even a cursory glance at his lyrics will see. Lorenz Hart, Oscar Hammerstein and a handful of his other rivals from the musicals’ golden age were no pikers either. Then there’s Sondheim. Which part of this dialogue verse from Sweeney Todd’s _Try A Little Priest_ strikes you as “stupid and lazy by nature”? “It’s priest. Have a little priest. _Is it really good?_ Sir, it’s too good, at least! Then again, they don’t commit sins of the flesh, So it’s pretty fresh. _Awful lot of fat._ Only where it sat. _Haven’t you got poet, or something like that?_ No, y’see, the trouble with poet is 'Ow do you know it’s deceased? Try the priest!” And once again, no, that’s not an exception. Sondheim has filled a dozen musicals with lyrics that are just as intricate, precise, clever and well-crafted as these. 1. If you really collect musicals, and you still think the whole medium is (all together, now) “stupid and lazy by nature” then all I can say is that you’re buying the wrong CDs. ---
**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, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277/147 "2011-01-31T19:49:36Z")
Dude… relax, I was kidding. I have no interest in debating with you but to pacify your obviously hurt feelings, I will clarify. IMO, the majority of musicals have awful, cheesy, and contrived lyrics due to their subject matter and performance demands. Better? Secondly, youmisread my post. I collect originals recordings, covers, and novelty songs, not musicals. Also, I will restate that I have no hatred of novelty tunes or musicals whatever you assume my personal tastes to be…call them guilty pleasures. Now please move on. ---
**Author:** ![PookahMacPhellimey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pookahmacphellimey/32/3175_2.png) [@PookahMacPhellimey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PookahMacPhellimey)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2011, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277/148 "2011-01-31T20:07:29Z")
Some people have levelled charges of laziness against the Stranglers fantastic No More Heroes: “Whatever happened to the heroes, all the Shakespear-ohs” Not me, though, I think it was purposely irreverent and total genius. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2011, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277/149 "2011-01-31T20:15:01Z")
_Feelings, Wo-o-o feelings Wo-o-o feelings…_ ---
**Author:** ![Mikemike2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikemike2/32/305_2.png) [@Mikemike2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikemike2)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2011, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277/150 "2011-01-31T20:25:14Z")
[Silver Convention](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM72iWami9M) - Fly, Robin, fly Fly, Robin, fly Up, up to the sky That’s the full set of lyrics ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2011, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277/151 "2011-01-31T21:20:12Z")
Dead or Alives song ‘Spin me round’ You spin me right round, baby right round like a record, baby Right round round round You spin me right round, baby Right round like a record, baby Right round round round [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJv5qLsLYoo) Youtube it and you will llive to regret it. Perhaps you should look up the lyrics to Blondie’s ‘Atomic’ , the lyric is repeated seveeral times and is just plain lazy, in fact my view is that this is the exemplar of lazy lyrics. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E1-VOMxS6w) 2Unlimited’s song ‘No limits’ No no, no no no no, no no no no, no no there’s no limit! No no, no no no no, no no no no, no no there’s no limit! [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFd5Cci_pE4) Utterly dreck ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2011, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277/152 "2011-01-31T21:52:21Z")
\*"Keep on smilin’ through the rain, laughin’ at the pain Just flowin’ with the changes, till the sun comes out again Keep on smilin’ through the rain, laughin at the pain Just flowin’ with the changes, \*and singin’ this **refrain** \*" Hard up for a rhyme, there, bro? Now he’s not _totally_ wrong here. A refrain is a phrase repeated over and over usually at the end of every stanza and they do sing “Keep On Smilin’” a lot. Also it’s a 2 syllable word which _does_ rhyme (according to the Rhyming Dictionary), but it has always bugged me with its redundancy. Q \*Wet Willie - Keep On Smilin’ ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2011, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277/153 "2011-02-01T01:08:01Z")
Deja Vu - Iron Maiden “Feel like I’ve been here before Feel like I’ve been here before Feel like I’ve been here before Feel like I’ve been here before” ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2011, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277/154 "2011-02-01T01:28:34Z")
I always hated the rhythm of this verse from “Straight Up” by Paula Abdul: _I’ve been a fool before Wouldn’t like to get my love caught In the slammin’ door Are you more than hot for me Or am I a page in your history book_ Just the way that the final rhyming word is completely out of the phrase just grates me. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dc4da7/32.png) [@The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_With_The_Golden_Gun)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2011, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277/155 "2011-02-01T03:12:26Z")
> [@casdave](#): > > Dead or Alives song ‘Spin me round’ > > You spin me right round, baby > right round like a record, baby > Right round round round > You spin me right round, baby > Right round like a record, baby > Right round round round > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJv5qLsLYoo](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJv5qLsLYoo) > > Youtube it and you will llive to regret it. Even worse is that I will always know that song as the Meatspin song. Google if you haven’t heard of Meatspin. Or on second thought, don’t. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2011, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277/156 "2011-02-01T17:12:01Z")
**the Garry Shandling Show** theme song: “This is the theme to Garry’s show, To Garry’s show, To Garry’s show. This is the theme to Garry’s show, the Garry Shandling Show.” ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2011, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277/157 "2011-02-01T17:49:31Z")
> [@Don\_Draper](#): > > **the Garry Shandling Show** theme song: > > “This is the theme to Garry’s show, > To Garry’s show, > To Garry’s show. > This is the theme to Garry’s show, > the Garry Shandling Show.” Or the Tom Green show: [FONT=Trebuchet MS] > [@](#): > > [FONT=Trebuchet MS][FONT=Trebuchet MS]This is the Tom Green show,[/FONT] > [FONT=Trebuchet MS]Its not the Green Tom show,[/FONT] > [FONT=Trebuchet MS]This is my favorite show,[/FONT] > [FONT=Trebuchet MS]Because it is my show.[/FONT] > [FONT=Trebuchet MS]If this was your show,[/FONT] > [FONT=Trebuchet MS]You’d probably like it more,[/FONT] > [FONT=Trebuchet MS]But maybe that’s just because it was your show,[/FONT] > [FONT=Trebuchet MS]But it’s not your show,[/FONT] > [FONT=Trebuchet MS]It’s the Tom Green show.[/FONT] [/FONT][/FONT] ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2011, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277/158 "2011-02-01T18:04:18Z")
I can’t be the first to mention Crash Test Dummies, “Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm” I’l just post the chorus: Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2011, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277/159 "2011-02-01T18:12:44Z")
What about “Da, Da, Da” by Trio, from the '80s? ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2011, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277/160 "2011-02-01T18:55:50Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > I can’t be the first to mention Crash Test Dummies, “Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm” > > I’l just post the chorus: > > Mmmm Mmmm > Mmmm Mmmm > Mmmm Mmmm > Mmmm Mmmm Not to pick apart your choice, 'cause that’d be rude and senseless, this being a matter of opinion and all but I kind of find this particular chorus pleasing, as far as one word . . .chanting(?) goes. The song is told from the point of view of a kid whose telling about some of the strange kids he encountered in school. Kids that puzzled him make him go “mmmmmmmm. . . .” as opposed to someone who ran out of words and filled the space in with mindless humming. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-laziest-song-lyrics/569277.md?page=9)