Following off the Dillon thread (cos I know hardly any Dillon) here is a more general thread. What is the worst line, couplet or verse from a song by one of your favorite artists.
Flaming Lips, Yoshi Batlles The Pink Robots…
She’s gotta be strong to fight them,
so she’s taking lots of vitamins.
– No, just no.
[spelling Nazi]
yep, you’re right there!
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My pick - from Sting’s “We Work the Black Seam Together”
Deadly for twelve thousand years, is carbon 14
No. No it isn’t.
Closely followed in the same song by…
Build machines that they can’t control
And bury the waste in a great big hole
“Great Big” = “admission of complete poetic failure”. Can we just scrub that whole song please?
I believe U2’s line about the “intellectual tortoise” in “All Because of You” ranks up (or should it be down?) there…