# Songs with stupid lyrics **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 12, 2008, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-stupid-lyrics/459768 "2008-08-12T19:52:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![LiveOnAPlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@LiveOnAPlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiveOnAPlane)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-stupid-lyrics/459768/21 "2008-08-13T16:24:02Z")
[QUOTE=42fish] Not to mention “There were plants and rocks and things” (you couldn’t come up with a third item for your list?) and “The heat was hot” (as opposed to those cold heats, I presume) [/QUOTE] Ha, ha, yeah, and “The air was full of sound.” I’ve been in deserts before and yeah, they sure are loud places, uh huh, can’t hardly hear myself think in them deserts. ---
**Author:** ![pentadent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee7513/32.png) [@pentadent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pentadent)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-stupid-lyrics/459768/22 "2008-08-13T16:31:43Z")
[QUOTE=freckafree] I was coming in to post: “In the desert, you can remember your name For there ain’t no one for to give you no pain.” [/QUOTE] furthermore - “there were plants and birds and rocks and _things_” _things_ . . . very creative :rolleyes: worst. song. lyrics. ever. ---
**Author:** ![takehomenanny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/51bf81/32.png) [@takehomenanny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/takehomenanny)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-stupid-lyrics/459768/23 "2008-08-13T16:53:39Z")
[QUOTE=alice\_in\_wonderland] _My Humps_ by the **Black Eyed Peas**. That’s a special kind of stupid right there. [/QUOTE] A-MEN! I swore then to hate Fergie forever. Does anybody remember _Buttermilk Biscuits_ by Sir Mix-A-Lot? Now grab that can and wrap it in your hand Bang that sucker till THE DOUGH EXPANDS PUT them suckers up in your oven Grab your girlie and get a little lovin’ Add a BIT of honey if you want to get funny Microwave the suckers if you want your honey runny GONNA get naughty at the Mix-A-Lot party And rub them suckers all over your body (huh huh) ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-stupid-lyrics/459768/24 "2008-08-13T17:45:02Z")
[QUOTE=Labdad] “But Oz never did give nothing to the Tin Man That he didn’t, didn’t already have And Cause never was the reason for the evening Or the tropic of Sir Galahad” WTF?? 😕 [/QUOTE] This has come up before on the SDMB and I believe the answer was that America would write lyrics that they just thought “sounded good” musically. Often without sweating the fact that people would be saying “Tropic of Wha-?” for decades to come. But I can agree that it results in some pretty stupid lyrics. [QUOTE=42fish] Not to mention “There were plants and rocks and things” (you couldn’t come up with a third item for your list?) and “The heat was hot” (as opposed to those cold heats, I presume) [/QUOTE] Michael Sembello, “Maniac” (from _Flashdance_): “There’s a cold kinetic heat…” …'the hell? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Emily\_Litella](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emily_litella/32/3370_2.png) [@Emily\_Litella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emily_Litella)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-stupid-lyrics/459768/25 "2008-08-13T17:53:33Z")
Anyone remember “Good Morning Starshine” from the 60’s? Here’s the chorus: Gliddy glub gloopy Nibby nabby noopy La la la lo lo Sabba sibby sabba Nooby abba nabba Le le lo lo Tooby ooby walla Nooby abba naba Early morning singing song Complete nonsense. Oh, and I apologize to the citizens of Hawley PA for singing this in the car at the top of my lungs with the windows open last Saturday. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-stupid-lyrics/459768/26 "2008-08-13T21:01:46Z")
I’ll nominate one from the country side of things: _Honky Tonk Badonkadonk_ by Trace Adkins. “She’s got it going on Like Donkey Kong And ooo-eee shut your mouth Slap your grandma” ---
**Author:** ![mrsspooky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/439d5e/32.png) [@mrsspooky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrsspooky)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-stupid-lyrics/459768/27 "2008-08-13T21:55:39Z")
Beck - ‘Loser’ \* In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey butane in my veins so i’m out to cut the junkie with the plastic eyeballs spray paint the vegetables dog food stalls with the beefcake pantyhose \* WTF is that all about?! ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-stupid-lyrics/459768/28 "2008-08-13T22:13:38Z")
[QUOTE=mrsspooky] Beck - ‘Loser’ \* In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey butane in my veins so i’m out to cut the junkie with the plastic eyeballs spray paint the vegetables dog food stalls with the beefcake pantyhose \* WTF is that all about?! [/QUOTE] Exactly. IOW, “whoosh.” ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-stupid-lyrics/459768/29 "2008-08-13T22:42:05Z")
[QUOTE=mrsspooky] Beck - ‘Loser’ \* In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey butane in my veins so i’m out to cut the junkie with the plastic eyeballs spray paint the vegetables dog food stalls with the beefcake pantyhose \* WTF is that all about?! [/QUOTE] That’s why you need to get yourself both the Becktionary and the Rhyming Becktionary. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-stupid-lyrics/459768/30 "2008-08-13T22:47:48Z")
[QUOTE=lissener] Exactly. IOW, “whoosh.” [/QUOTE] Yep. We need to get this man a Rhyming Becktionary.\* My vote for awful lyrics: _Fever, Fever_ - **Melody Club**. Catchy as hell (though I could see me playing it to death and canning it within a couple of weeks), but I don’t really want to sing along to the chorus: _Fever, fever, leave my heart alone Tear drops down my face I curse the day that I was born_ That’s some melodramatic emo there, kid. It’s okay, for real. You’ll live, even if it sucks for the rest of us. Another catchy one, though it might not be fair, as I don’t know for certain if English is their first language… but still: \*Do Ya \* - **Dover** _Oh! Feel free to come back home Irradiates! Irradiates! Oh! Feel free to come back home I´m already there_ And forget the rest of the song, which is just full of “Do ya want me to [insert various contradictory actions]”. But “irradiates”? Come back home and… I’ll expose you to radiation? I know it can simply mean the same damn thing as “radiate”, but, well, why not just say “radiate”? Don’t you talk to me about poetic tempo, you can still make it work. I originally thought they were saying “it radiates”. But why the hell would you want to, either way? Argh. Confounding. But catchy. - - curse you, **asterion** , and your five-minutes-quicker typing fingers! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![mr.jp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@mr.jp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr.jp)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-stupid-lyrics/459768/31 "2008-08-13T23:16:32Z")
Beach Boys - Be True To Your School ---
**Author:** ![paffinity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ec9cab/32.png) [@paffinity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paffinity)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-stupid-lyrics/459768/32 "2008-08-13T23:22:51Z")
I used to enjoy _The End_ by The Doors, but now I can’t hear it without laughing at Jim Morrison’s horrible, stupid rhymes:_Ride the snake to the lake hes old, and his skin is cold orThe west is the best_ The worst thing is the way he _says_ it, all pretentious as if these are the best words ever written. These are rhymes I could have come up with in Kindergarten! “American poet” my ass, his lyrics are crap in every song. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2008, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-stupid-lyrics/459768/33 "2008-08-14T15:17:33Z")
Most of the things listed in [My Favorite Things](http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/thesoundofmusic/myfavoritethings.htm) wouldn’t make the list of anyone’s top million favorite things. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2008, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-stupid-lyrics/459768/34 "2008-08-14T16:26:03Z")
[QUOTE=alice\_in\_wonderland] _My Humps_ by the **Black Eyed Peas**. That’s a special kind of stupid right there. [/QUOTE] Yeah, but Alanis Morrissette’s version of that made it all worthwhile. I was just listening to a song the other day, it had a catchy beat but unfortunate lyrics. I can’t remember what it was though. It’s just annoying when a nice tune gets saddled with stupid lyrics. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2008, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-stupid-lyrics/459768/35 "2008-08-14T17:25:54Z")
I was just listening to a song (probably) called “Life is Beautiful”. If I got the lyrics right, part of it said, “Will you swear on your life that no one will cry at my funeral?” Now I admit I don’t know who sang it or what the whole thing’s all about, so I could be missing the big picture, but that seemed pretty damn dumb. Also, aren’t you trying to say that, you know, life is beautiful? Why are we talking about your funeral and shouldn’t this song be more upbeat? Damn modern kids with their rockin’ and their rollin’… ---
**Author:** ![mrsspooky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/439d5e/32.png) [@mrsspooky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrsspooky)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2008, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-stupid-lyrics/459768/36 "2008-08-14T19:17:27Z")
‘Dogshit on your shoes’ by Mechanical Horsetrough. I cant find this anywhere and Im dying to listening to it again. I cant remember the lyrics properly but it went something like _I wont dance with you because you have dogshit on your shoes, its in your hair…_ Oh and Berry Chucks ‘my ding-a-ling’. Such classics! ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2008, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-stupid-lyrics/459768/37 "2008-08-15T07:29:39Z")
Someone mentioned “My Humps” by the Black Eyed Peas. Their singer, Fergie, does a song called "London Bridge. " I dont’ know if it’s just as stupid or stupider: How come every time you come around My London, London bridge wanna go down Like London, London, London? We goin’ down like London, London, London? That, and the random shouts of “Oh, shit!” (changed to “Oh, snap!” for the radio version) make for a dumb song. And don’t even get me started on the video. I wish I knew how to link to YouTube so you guys could enjoy the silliness. ---
**Author:** ![Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bites_when_provoked/32/18073_2.png) [@Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bites_When_Provoked)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2008, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-stupid-lyrics/459768/38 "2008-08-15T08:25:14Z")
[QUOTE=mrsspooky] This morning I had the misfortune of being stuck in traffic, well stuck longer than usual. I had my two best friends in the car and we got talking about songs with stupid lyrics. I was always fond of that song ‘life’ by Des’ree. I was just wondering what songs my fellow dopers could come up with in the stupid lyircs front!? 😃 [/QUOTE] I have yet to find anything worse than that song. Particularly this bit: _I don’t want to see a ghost it’s the sight that I fear most I’d rather eat a piece of toast_ :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Walpurgis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Walpurgis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walpurgis)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2008, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-stupid-lyrics/459768/39 "2008-08-15T09:32:43Z")
[QUOTE=Bites When Provoked] I have yet to find anything worse than that song. Particularly this bit: _I don’t want to see a ghost it’s the sight that I fear most I’d rather eat a piece of toast_ :smack: [/QUOTE] I remember those very line being awarded with the title “Stupidest lyrics ever”. Can’t remember where, though. I think it was a music magazine, like Melody Maker or Mojo. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2008, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-stupid-lyrics/459768/40 "2008-08-15T18:22:41Z")
[QUOTE=Lucky 13] Someone mentioned “My Humps” by the Black Eyed Peas. Their singer, Fergie, does a song called "London Bridge. " I dont’ know if it’s just as stupid or stupider: How come every time you come around My London, London bridge wanna go down Like London, London, London? We goin’ down like London, London, London? That, and the random shouts of “Oh, shit!” (changed to “Oh, snap!” for the radio version) make for a dumb song. And don’t even get me started on the video. I wish I knew how to link to YouTube so you guys could enjoy the silliness. [/QUOTE] My girlfriend at the time was very into this song. She told me that London Bridge was a euphemism for a girl’s panties. So every time the guy came around, she wanted to get nekkid with him. It’s still really stupid. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-stupid-lyrics/459768.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-stupid-lyrics/459768.md?page=3)