“Here I am, rock me like a hurricane.”
It would rhyme if she rocked him like a “hurriCAM”. If that was a word.
And who says you can’t make up words? I wouldn’t be pompetus enough to say never.
Oh yeah. Paul McCartney, et al., with Live and Let Die.
But in this ever-changing world in which we live in…
Whew! Paul, buddy, you didn’t even need the extra “in” or two to make the meter work. How about:
But in this ever-changing world in which we live
…or…
But in this ever-changing world which we live in.
Cracks me right up every time I hear it…
If I hear the “chance…romance” pairing one more time I’ll…I’ll…I’ll open a Pit thread! That’s what I’ll do.
Also, for sheer cringworthiness, it’s hard to beat some of Fleetwood Mac’s lyrics - the poor words are tortured, battered and beaten just to get a rhyme. I love their music to death, but oh! those lyrics.
For example, from Caroline
<cringe> And later, in the same song
WTF?!
Or “in this ever-changing world in which we’re living”
Aw, at least get the line you’re criticizing correct!
“All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.”
And for the record, I actually like that line. One of my favorite Beatles lyrics, in fact. 
Yookeroo (I hope I spelt your name correctly), that is the funniest thing ever! I’m still giggling over the mental image generated by your comment. (I guess those sunglasses on the smiley above are rather appropriate.)
The Doors. LA Woman.
“If they say I never loved you
You know they are a liar.”
I’m surprised nobody’s pointed that one out yet.
The line is actually:
“But, ** IF** this ever changing world in which we live in…”
Mellencamp. Small Town.
“I cannot forget from where it is that I come from.”
Apparently the rural Indiana public education system leaves a bit to be desired.
Anything by Rush.
I mentioned it before in the thread about songs that are awful, but here we go again:
“And everything I can remember is in the past, it all may seem.”
- “It’s Been Awhile” (isn’t the band Staind?)
They take the most redundant idea ever (you remember the past? Holy Shiznit!), and then add “it all may seem” just to make it more awkward than it already was! The Pope in Rome on the phone is nothing compared to this.
Jim Morrison: one of the all-time great frauds. How it is that anyone can think this clown was a litteratus is beyond me. His only claim to fame is having invented psychedelic lounge-music.
Generals gathered in their masses,
Just like witches at black masses.
-Black Sabbath, “Warpigs”
Great rhyme there, Ozzy.
How about
“There’s a killer on the road
His brain is squirming like a toad.”
More Jim Morrison. Sheesh.
That’s a good call about War Pigs, Miller - lame line in what I think is a really good song.
The lyrics to “Institutionalized” by Suicidal Tendencies made me cringe the other day. I mean it was OK in 1984 when I was 19, but now that I’m pushing forty, the only think I can think about when listening to it is how fucking whiney Mike Muir is, and how he should get up off his ass and get his own goddamn pepsi.
I wonder if he still performs that song, and if he feels stupid doing it. I’m sure he has to, cause you gotta play what the kids wanna hear, but, I’d at least change the lyrics.
Jon
Hey, that’s the best line in the song!
My nominee is by Space (from Female of the Species):
The female of the species is more deadlier than the male.
Goddamn it, it’s either “more deadly” or “deadlier” BUT NOT BOTH! All made worse by the fact that the line would scan much better if he sang “more deadly” anyhow. It just annoys me no end.
Oh, and Mike couldn’t get a Pepsi because he was on drugs, doncha know… 
I’m all about the pop music, so that’s where I notice most of these sorts of gaffes. One of the ones that has me shaking my head after more than a dozen years is from Def Leppard’s “Pour Some Sugar on Me” – and yes, there are intelligible (if not intelligent) lyrics in the song!
A one man show with a woman (let alone the crazy and little parts) in it? It just Does.Not.Compute. Argh!
From
The oft-vaunted lyricist George Michael (shut up!) had one of these, on Wham!'s magnum opus Make it Big cd, in the song “Heartbeat”
There’s just no excuse for a native speaker of English to ever go there. None. That may well negate the entire heartfelt lyric of “Careless Whisper.”
Well, it always sounded like “more deadly” to me, and the lyrics on Space’s official site confirm it.
Maybe it’s just that Scouse accent throwing you.
Or how about The Eagles:
I’ve been running down the road, trying to loosen my load…
All together now:
EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!
No, I’m listening to it now and there’s definitely the extra syllable in there – it’s very clear. He practically makes an even quintuplet on “deadlier than the”. Maybe it’s just a strange emphasis (“deadly-YUH”) but whatever it is, he says it every time.
Well, I haven’t got the CD now but that was a song I played to death upon its release and I never noticed it … and usually things like that jump out at me. Guess I’d have to hear it again though.