I heard a song on the radio yesterday that I actually like, but this thread has made me start listening for silly lyrics, and I found some. It was Foreigner’s “Feels Like the First Time.” The gratuitous use of the word “me” in that song was strangely reminiscient of the classic “there” scene in Plan 9 From Outer Space.
A ewer song on the radio “Inside Out” by Eve 6… I call it the Cliche song, every line in it is some hmahanded segue to something else.
example:
I would swallow my pride
But I would choke on the rinds
And the lack thereof would leave me empty inside
or
I want to put my tender
Heart in a blender
and watch it swirl around to a beautiful oblivion
Wisconsin wishes it had as much cheese.
Don’t let the loveless ones sell you a world wrapped in grey.
I don’t know if this is obvious, but it sure as hell is pretentious. One of Alanis Morisette’s (sp) new songs contains the line “You reduce me to cosmic tears”. I hate that!!!
One of my favorites is from a Cyndi Lauper song played over my office Muzak:
Genius!
Any song that rhymes “seventeen”, “beauty queen” and “movie screen”, or any combination thereof.
And I have to agree with you on that Eve 6 song. Is it “I burn, burn like a wicker cabinet” or “liquor cabinet”? Does he really say “I think sick like ginger ale?” And what’s this about origami?
One of my former evil roomies and I had a fight about that Eve 6 song. She was convinced it was brilliant symbolism. I spent 20 minutes pointing out examples of how craptacular it really was, and that is wasn’t symbolism, but cheap rhymes for the sake of rhyming and she STILL said, “Well, I think it’s good.”
Neuro-trash grrl: I believe he’s singing “wicker cabinet.” And I think we all know the danger of having those flamn-dammable wicker cabinets around. They often spontaneously combust! WHEN will the government step up and ban them? How long must we live in fear?
As far as the “Seventeen/Beauty Queen/Movie Screen” rhymes, they also usually throw in “Magazine” just to get the point across. Brilliant.
The new Lit song (“Ziplock”) grates on me due to the inaninity of the lyrics:
“If I had another chance
I’d put it in a Ziplock bag
And keep it in my pocket”
Well.
Also: Jewel “Hands” –
“My hands are small like yours
But they’re not yours, they’re my own”
(or something like that)
I generally love Paul McCartney, but once in a while he has serious lapses of judgment. For instance, what would possess a musical genius to sing the words “That doggone girl is mine” (from the Michael Jackson/McCartney best forgotten duet “That Girl is Mine.”)? Hopefully the “girl” in question had enough sense to run off with Tito while the two were arguing over her.
Speaking of Michael Jackson, I hate when he adds nonsensical utterings in the middle of a song, for lack of a lyric. “Going to make a change, ‘Sha-moy’”, for instance, from “Man in the Mirror”. Drives me nuts.
I think he just means “C’mon” but he pronounces it real weird. It’s been rumoured that this disease that turns black people into white people also affects your vocal cords and vocabular memory. Other symptoms:
" You know I’m badAH, I’m badAH…"
" Annie-a-you-woah-kay ? "
" It don’t matter if you’re black or whiiiiDA ! "
Huh ? Sure doesn’t if your color’s shifting anyway 
Coldfire
“You know how complex women are”
- Neil Peart, Rush (1993)
There’s some famous examples of these goofy extra syllables, I just can’t think of them now. I don’t remember lyrics well, just titles.
I came up withe famous one: Needles and pins-a (the Searchers recording).I think it’s a Sonny Bono song.
We were talking about contrived and clumsy lyrics, and someone at another board came up with Jonathan Richman(the guy’s OK) lyrics:
1.When there’s things to do not because you gotta
When you run for love not because you oughtta
When you trust your friends with no reason not ta
2.That guy’s playing drums on a card tabile
I left my guitar in the laundry pile
3.Well the first bar things were stop and stare
But in this bar things were laissez faire
4.Well now the beach be one of the best things there be,
Well the fashion show is there for you to see.
Admittedly, Tito was quite the hunk, but didn’t he die in the 70s?
apparently they cloned him, but the new one had no political interests.
My SO is a big Tim McGraw fan, and I am routinely subjected to
…wait for it…
“you flipped the switch on my doomaflochie(sp?)/played my piano like Liberace.”
Granted, I know country music goes without saying in a contest such as this…I just had to get that one off my chest.
Z
“Diplomacy is the art of saying “nice doggy” until you can find a rock.”
- Will Rogers
The line Horse With No Name by America:
In the desert you can remember your name,
'cause there ain’t no-one for to give you no pain.
I thought wtf when I heard it the first time. I still do.
Feel free to insert the word ‘from’ into my previous post anywhere you feel comfortable.