A song I love, “Oliver’s Army” contains the following:
Oliver’s army is here to stay
Oliver’s army are on their way
Grammar pedant that I am, I always wished the second line read, “Oliver’s army is on its way.” No disagreement in number then, you see. Which is clearly the most important element in a pop or rock song. 
“Even my sweat smells clean.”
(Indigo Girls)
I do not want to hear your opinions on the smell of your sweat. Ever.
And I’m really not quite sure what category these Poussette Dart Band lyrics fall into:
"If you’re going to faa–aa—lll, fall on me.
"And if you’re going do—www----nnn…
“…Hold on to me.”
Damn.
British English frequently treats collective nouns as plural. You can still find it annoying, but it’s not necessarily ungrammatical.
A current lyrical gem is “Runaway Love” by Ludacris and Mary J. Blige.
So she pops X to get rid of all the pain
Plus she’s having sex with a boy who’s sixteen
Emotions run deep and she thinks she’s in love
So there’s no protection, he’s using no glove .
It goes on like that, painfully so. It does have one lyric that I happen to like, “hell is a place called home,” because I’m sure it resonates with some very sad teenagers. But the rest of the lyrics don’t resonate, they just klang.
It’s certainly inconsistent, from one line to the next.
Good one.
Also, Marshall Tucker Band “I was born a wrangler and a rambler and I guess I always will”. Always will what- wrangler and rambler? You mean “I was born to wrangle and to ramble and I guess I always will” Not perfect, still, but better.
Can you clarify? I don’t get it.
The Magnetic Fields song “If there’s such a thing as love” drives me nuts with this one -
He’ll really get into your kitten? That’s filthy.
I hate that song. It comes on at work all the time and I want to claw my skin off. I hate it so much. Hate hate hate.
One line I have always hated by the Doors. I dunno why:
There’s a killer on the road,
His brain is squirming like a toad,
Arrrgg. Sounds like an ad lib right there on the stage.
Never cared for the Doors anyway I suppose.
Eskimo Joe, Black Fingernails, Red Wine
A good title, but lyrics written by a ten year old.
You’re so vain, you probably think this song is about you."
Well, of course the song is about me. You actually used the word “you.” Three times.
For example, she uses “you” in the first verse to describe the person she is actually talking about (you walked in to the party…") then switches to talk about the vain person, and still uses “you” (“you probably think this song is about you”).
This is definitely not accurate. The lyrics are entirely written as Carly speaking directly to a person.
I suspect that panache45 considers Carly to be the vain one. 
When your heart’s on fire
You must realize
Smoke gets in your eyes
Surely, unless you had a gaping chest wound, smoke emanating from a flaming heart would merely gather at the top of the thoratic cavity? Maybe a little would come out of your ears, I don’t know. Besides, being composed of blood-riddled fleshy material, your heart would be more likely to melt into sludge rather than give off any smoke.
Then they inaccuarcy is in the accusation, sort of- you’re so vain, you probably think this song about you- well if it is about this person, then she is describing things the person actually did, so why would they be vain in thinking a song that specifically describes things they have done is specifically about them? It’s not like she is listing off generalites, she is listing at least a couple of specific events.
You flew your lear jet to Nova Scotia to see the eclipse? If I knew her, and I had actually done this, of course I would think the song is about me, but becasue of common sense, not vanity.
Poetic license.
Speaking of the Doors, I never could figure out why Jim sang:
“I’m gonna love you till the stars fall from the sky,
For you and I.”
(Yes I know they’re Robbie’s lyrics. But Jim, of all people, should have known better.)
And on a similar note, Bryan Adams singing “That would change if she ever found out about you and I.”
And finally, there’s no such thing as the “English Army” John. I think it should have been “The British army had just won the war.”
The first thing I met was a fly with a buzz
And the sky with no clouds
The heat was hot and the ground was dry
But the air was full of sound
'Cause there ain’t no one for to give you no pain :smack: