That’s such a pity, because in the right hands it’s such a beautiful song. I’ve always said that it should be the hymn of Amnesty International. But I can easily see how Sting could have botched it.
Might have to think about it.
ETA: addressing OP.
Oh but the “Proud to Be a Canadian” thing’s totally a-ok, though.
/had to
Has nobody mentioned my particular bete noire yet somehow? “Pink Houses”, by the artist formerly known as John Cougar.
“Here’s a lil’ ditty ‘bout Jack and DiAAAAAAH MAKE IT STOP! OR POUR HOT LEAD IN MY EARS, WHICHEVER’S QUICKER!
Those are two separate songs. Which one do you hate more?
I was tormented by the memory of a song the other day. Some flourishy 80s balladesque thing with the kind of brass accents you would hear in dance club music. Not even sure what is was called or who did it, just a couple lyric fragments, like “… love will never leave you …” or somesuch. Fortunately, it has left. For now.
I did find a song called “Love Will Never Leave You” by Evanescence.
Yeah, it was most decidedly not Evanescence. It was more like an '80s hair band.
Lovin’ you by Minnie Riperton. The sound of it makes me think of scratching fingernails on a chalk board. 
I think it was Peter Gabriel who said, “There have been many great songs with terrible lyrics. There have been no great songs with terrible music.” That’s pretty much my experience.
It does kinda depend on your subjective interpretation of what “great” and “terrible” mean and how you use those words. Ghengis Khan was both terrible and great at the same time. If greatness is measured by cultural prominence, there have been many songs (and other things) that were/are both at once.
During my last dental visit that song came on while I was getting a cavity repaired.
The song was worse than the drilling.
mmm
What kind of masochistical kid would go through life using a name he hated? At least say it was spelled Sioux!
A boy named Sioux married a girl called Shy Anne?
It would be pretty hard to top how much I hate the song American Pie. Turgid, nonsensical, maudlin, absurdly long, incessantly played in the 70s. Gah.
One might be tempted to characterize this as “long, long.”
No, some songs are unabsurdly long. I like the full-length In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida! Also, most of the Swans catalog.
I have to call “Whoosh” on this one. The opening lyric of the song is:
A long, long time ago…
lol fair play, funny how my brain shuts down when those words come out of the radio.
I don’t think anyone’s mentioned the ultimate wussie song yet:
“Please come back and kick me in the gut some more if you ever feel like walking all over me again, b*tch!”