My wife (well, my girlfriend at the time) listened to that song All. The. Time. Until I finally found a picture of Mic Jagger from the last 10 years and showed it to her. I think it kinda ruined the song for her for a while. 
Well, it gets lonely out in the desert, but the horse insisted on a commitment first…
It happens to be a great, funny lyric because no one would have thought to do it.
Because I am an editor, this is my favorite post in this thread. 
I think you mean that cherries do grow on trees… not on a vine. Don’t you?
“And so I quit the police department
And got myself a steady job”
Now I guess there are part-time jobs at police facilities, but I picture a part-time detective working for minimum wage… couldn’t Paul have used something else?
Dave Barry talked about this song and the whole killing frost thing in his Bad Songs book. Very Funny.
Anyway, mine is “Second Chance” by Shinedown, which contains this lyric:
Huh? What bothers me most is that the moon isn’t in the stratosphere. It is in space!
(Did just the man disapppear? That doesn’t make any sense either. And it makes no sense in the context of the song.)
Argh. It irks me. It is irksome.
As much as bad lyrics get on my nerves I can’t believe I’m drawing a blank. How about a combo of mondegren and misheard lyric in which my version is better?
Adam Lambert’s “If I Had You” has the line “. . .and I’m doin’ me up with the black color liner”. I’m ashamed to admit that I initially thought he was saying something about a “black colada”, thinking it was some cool cocktail that Teh Gays were drinking these days that I’m not hip enough to be familiar with:smack: Then I “figured out” that he’s saying “with the black kohl liner” and that was cool because he is after all Mr Eyeliner. Now I find out that it’s actually “the black color liner” and it irritates me because it’s redundant and just kind of awkward.
Avril Levigne’s “Sk8er Boi” is a pretty fun song but the opening line " He was a boy ,she was a girl can I make it anymore obvious" kind of grates because she’s starting of all snarky and really, how is it obvious when she’sonly just started telling the story? Also, “all of her friends stuck up their nose” really could have been “*looked down *their nose” and avoided the whole mental picture of noses and things being stuck up them.
You might be surprised how much that song’s been discussed here. The only one that we might have mentioned more often:
Rio, by Duran Duran 
I don’t mind the song itself but the Black Eyed Peas ‘I Gotta Feeling’ bugs me something chronic because “gotta” is a way of saying “got to” not “got a”. When the song first came out I’d always render it in my brain as ‘I Got To Feeling’. Over time I’ve become used to it.
“A-with-a Teeth-a”
The lyric doesn’t bug me so much as how Trent Reznor phrases it. If he needed five syllables in a song line that only has two one-syllable words… why not add a word or two? The song would still flow if he’d sung “With sharp, pointy teeth” and would bug me a hell of a lot less.
This reminds me of I Love You Period, by Georgia Satellites frontman Dan Baird. The concept of the song is that he’s a schoolboy writing a love note to his teacher, who returns it to him, saying “that the spelling was a masterpiece; the punctuation could be better.”
“I love you period
Do you love me question mark
Please please exclamation point
I wanna hold you in parenthesis”
Champagne Supernova by Oasis:
“Slowly walking down the hall
Faster than a cannon ball”
Pick a speed already.
Not to mention how the singer can be **caught beneath **the landslide *and *be in a chamnpagne supernover in the sky.
Really, that whole song should bother you. Not just the lyrics, but the way that every line is repeated, repeated. It seems so affected, affected. And I don’t think I need to mention the skankiness, skankiness.
“Hold on to 16 as long as you can”
Look, no matter how hard you try, even in a leap year you’re not gonna get more than 366 days.
When I first heard of the song “Baby Got Back” my initial thought was, “From where?”
I’ll have to second Skara_Brae’s comment about “Second Chance” by Shinedown
To me though, it’s all of those lyrics that bug me. That whole part sounds stupid.
I dunno, I’ve never actually seen a cannon ball move much at all, unless someone was carrying it.
It rhymes, doesn’t it?
From The Little Mermaid:
I don’t know when
I don’t know how
But I know something’s starting right now…
That’s been bugging the crap out of me since I was ten.