Ok Lamia, fair’s enough. May I still register my “want to puke my guts out on the sidewalk” level of hatred for that song though?
Ok, a song I like as long as I ignore the lyrics - Save Yourself by Sense Field (no, I’m not a fan).
Here’s a sample for you to enjoy:
Is it really true
Could you save yourself for someone who, loves you for you
So many times we just give it away, to someone who
Someone who you met in bar
The back of a car
And for a moment you felt important but not in your heart
My self esteem, it’s been low, go ahead and count it’s been lower than low… WTF? Your self esteem? Okaaaay…
My lyric peeves - ax, instead of ask in songs (latest offender - “I Am The Greatest” by R.Kelly(?) - “If anyone should ax you…” - arrrrgggghhhhh!! The word is “ask”. Not “ax”. If someone axs you, they are CHOPPING YOU!!!)
“I” instead of “me” and vicy versy (“you and me” or “you and I” when it should be the other one).
Any use of “I know it’s crazy, but it’s true…” - this should be outlawed in lyrics by now.
Okay, I managed to look up three different songs with this title, none of which has anything remotely close to what you have posted; what on earth are you talking about? Could you please clarify the artist and what the rest of the lyrics are?
Okay, I managed to look up three different songs with this title, none of which has anything remotely close to what you have posted; what on earth are you talking about? Could you please clarify the artist and what the rest of the lyrics are?
I had always thought this was a reference to an incident in Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain. However, I don’t much like the song and I’ve never managed to work up the energy to find out for certain.
Hans becomes obsessed with Clavdia (?), to the point of hanging about with the doctor, in order that he might see the x-rays of her lungs. It’s been a long time since I read the book, so I don’t remember the exact details.
>>The worst line in that song is “Everyone avoids me like a cyclone ranger.” What the heck is a cyclone ranger?<<
I thought I was just clueless…!!!
Ok, this is embarassing, and I never listen to this song if it’s humanely possible, but “Freek” by George Michael drives me nuts.
“I’ll be your sexual freak (freak)
Of the week
I’ll be your inspirational brother (sister)”
First time I heard this I thought he said “I’ll be your inspirational butt-fuck…” And now I sing it like that every time I hear it. While making sure I got the original lyrics right I came across this in the first verse:
I believe the correct lyric is: “if you see her on the street don’t try to choose her” Yep, meaning for a race. You know - don’t think that she’s gonna be an easy win just because she’s old.
Re the Uncle Kracker lyric (“Swim thru your veins yadda yadda”): It gives me the heebie-jeebies too. And yes, I realize it’s a metaphor-kind of a clever one at that. I get it. But to hear it gives me the willies!
How about Sheryl Crow’s “A Change Will Do You Good”: “God’s little gift is on the rag.” Sheryl, come on! That’s just vulgar! Sad thing is, otherwise it’s a great song.
Last but not least, remember that old Dionne Warwick chestnut “That’s What Friends Are For?” It’s a puerile song anyway, but the first line starts, “And I never thought…” You can’t start the very first line with “and.” Arrgh!!
Actually, there’s an even worse line in the same song:
“Can you imagine no love, pride, deep-fried chicken,
Best friend always stickin
Up for you…”
Oh, my GOD. Later they have the nerve to actually use the metaphor “The best soy latte that you ever had.” In 20 years this will be considered one of the most hysterically dated songs ever written.
My favourite band, the Tragically Hip, has a pretty good song called “So Hard Done By” with the line “You’ll have to wait a minute, 'cause it’s an instamatic.” Uh, guys; I think you were thinking of a Polaroid camera, the one with self-developing prints, when you said “wait a minute.” An Instamatic is something completely different.
I love Pearl Jam, and I am quite fond of their song “MFC”…except for one line. “There’s no leaving here [so far so good, but just you wait!]/Ask, I’m an ear.” What the hell? I suppose it’s meant as a sort of, “Hey, you got problems, I’m willing to listen” sort of thing, but it always reminds me of that Gogol short story “The Nose” about the guy’s nose that went off on its own and started causing trouble.
Well, Aerosmith’s “Love in an Elevator” has got to be just about
the most tastless song ever, and Neil Young’s “Hey Hey, My My” has particularly simple-minded lyrics.
We could look at Roger Waters, but that would be Too Easy.
I often wince when a cover version of a song gets the lyrics wrong. For example, the song “I just wanna make love to you” has a line that goes
I can love you baby till I cry in shame
which is ofen mistakenly replaced with I can love you baby it’s a cryin’ shame
I think Foghat got this wrong at first, but later corrected themselves.
Even worse, in the song “Roll over Beethoven”, the line
Tell Tschaikovsky the news
is often replaced with gibberish by those who can’t understand it (as in the ELO version).
I never said the line doesn’t fit in. It’s still a stupid line.
And, I forgot to mention the lyric that is, IMHO, the worst lyric ever. In the song “Fat Lip” by Sum 41 (Ak! Ew!), they sing “Stormin’ through the party like my name was El Nino.” Think about it. It’s not clever. At all. Like nails on a chalkboard.
Along those same lines, “baby” does not rhyme with “crazy.” Those words are treated as rhymes in every single pieve of bubblegum pop ever written. It drives me crazy, baby.
“Billy Mac is a detective down in Texas
He always knows just exactly what the facts is
He’s not gonna let those two escape justice
Makes his living off of the people’s taxes”
Wow, I didn’t know those words rhymed. Far out man. And here is Cecil’s take on the whole Pompatus of Love thing.
Bonnie Raitt’s song “Thing Called Love” has this mixed-up metaphor:
“Take off your kid gloves, I ain’t no porcupine”
Kid gloves are for handling something fragile, not something dangerous.
I’ve heard that The Turtles wrote this song with the intent to make fun of how lame love songs were, so the they wrote stupid lyrics on purpose, but people are dumb and thought it was serious and liked it anyway, in spite of these intentional stupid lyrics.
