# Worst lyric rhymes **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [September 1, 2021, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-lyric-rhymes/949876 "2021-09-01T04:57:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2021, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-lyric-rhymes/949876/41 "2021-09-01T15:50:06Z")
Dare I cite The Beatles in this thread? I’m going for it… _And when I touch you_ _I feel happy inside_ _It’s such a feelin’ that my love_ _I can’t hide…_ I always thought the clumsy Yoda-like construction of the phrase “my love I can’t hide” just to rhyme with “inside” was an uncharacteristic lyrical misstep for Lennon / McCartney. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2021, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-lyric-rhymes/949876/42 "2021-09-01T15:58:05Z")
How niche can these be? Steve Taylor, a Christian music new wave singer from the 80’s, wrote in _Whatever Happened To Sin?_: _If the Lord don’t care and he chooses to ignore-ah tell that to the people of Sodom and Gomorrah_ which to me is a literary atrocity much worse than anything the people of Sodom and Gomorrah ever did. ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2021, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-lyric-rhymes/949876/43 "2021-09-01T16:05:17Z")
> [@solost](#): > > _And when I touch you_ > _I feel happy inside_ > _It’s such a feelin’ that my love_ > _I can’t hide…_ I excuse it as a circumlocution for “You’re giving me a boner.” ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2021, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-lyric-rhymes/949876/44 "2021-09-01T16:46:10Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Don’t knock it till ya try it eh, it ain’t my cuppa meat > [@pulykamell](#): > > I can’t even think of a single song off the top of my head that uses it. The primary one for me is: School by Supertramp I can see you in the morning when you go to school Don’t forget your books, you know you’ve got to learn the golden rule, I know more, but I try to forget them. 🙂 eta Journey: You take that golden rule That you learned in school Lynyrd Skynyrd, with bonus use of fool I never cared for school or any golden rule . Papa used to always say I was a useless fool. To be fair, the Plasmatics aren’t too well known Country Fairs Village Squares Sunday School Golden Rules Be Polite Do What’s Right ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2021, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-lyric-rhymes/949876/45 "2021-09-01T17:06:20Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Dare I cite The Beatles in this thread? I’m going for it… > > _And when I touch you_ > _I feel happy inside_ > _It’s such a feelin’ that my love_ > _I can’t hide…_ > > I always thought the clumsy Yoda-like construction of the phrase “my love I can’t hide” just to rhyme with “inside” was an uncharacteristic lyrical misstep for Lennon / McCartney. D’oh! I always thought he was referring to his feelings as the thing he can’t hide, and was just calling his girlfriend “My Love”. Not that that’s much better. ---
**Author:** ![Yodalicious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yodalicious/32/8195_2.png) [@Yodalicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yodalicious)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2021, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-lyric-rhymes/949876/46 "2021-09-01T17:14:11Z")
Here I am. Rock you like a hurrican(e). Rhyming am and hurricane, just doesn’t work. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2021, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-lyric-rhymes/949876/47 "2021-09-01T18:59:31Z")
> [@Yodalicious](#): > > Rhyming am and hurricane, just doesn’t work. I don’t feel like they’re trying to rhyme them. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2021, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-lyric-rhymes/949876/48 "2021-09-01T19:02:30Z")
Yeah, me neither. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2021, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-lyric-rhymes/949876/49 "2021-09-01T19:20:05Z")
Also people who write lyrics in a second language get a pass. ---
**Author:** ![Crane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crane/32/3495_2.png) [@Crane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crane)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2021, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-lyric-rhymes/949876/50 "2021-09-01T19:45:08Z")
I think Sullivan just got tired: When I have learnt what progress has been made in modern gunnery, When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery– In short, when I’ve a smattering of elemental strategy, You’ll say a better Major-General has never sat a gee. You’ll say a better Major-General has never sat a gee. You’ll say a better Major-General has never sat a gee. You’ll say a better Major-General has never sat a gee. For my military knowledge, though I’m plucky and adventury, Has only been brought down to the beginning of the century; But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General. In the case of ‘gee’ he couldn’t fix it so he featured it. And, adventury isn’t even a word. But, who cares? It’s a song about a guy who’s faking everything else. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2021, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-lyric-rhymes/949876/51 "2021-09-01T19:52:04Z")
I Just Died in Your Arms _Her diary, it sits by the bedside table_ _The curtains are closed, the cats in the cradle_ I’m not bothered that “cradle” and “table” aren’t an exact rhyme, but cats in the cradle really has no meaning in this context so why cram it in there at all? Yeah, yeah, meter and all that, but it just sounds out of place to me. ---
**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2021, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-lyric-rhymes/949876/52 "2021-09-01T22:13:05Z")
> [@solost](#): > > _It’s such a feelin’ that my love_ > _I can’t hide…_ ‘Hide, hide, a cow’s outside.’ ‘Well open the door and let her in!’ –Homer and Jethro’s version ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2021, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-lyric-rhymes/949876/53 "2021-09-01T22:38:20Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > Yes, I came here to post these, which are both terrible, but I’ll add one, from Chuck Berry, Rock and Roll Music: > > > You must admit they have a rockin’ band > > Man, they were blowing like a hurricane > > And, he pronounces hurricane like hurr-i-can. Even if that’s how hurricane were pronounced, “can” doesn’t rhyme with “band”. It’s just awful. I could not disagree more. This is a brilliant lyric. The band rocked, only like a hurri can. mmm ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2021, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-lyric-rhymes/949876/54 "2021-09-01T22:51:16Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Dare I cite The Beatles in this thread? I’m going for it… > > _And when I touch you_ > _I feel happy inside_ > _It’s such a feelin’ that my love_ > _I can’t hide…_ Dare! Dare! Because I will too. I’ve always loved this little nugget of Paul’s. **She’s A Woman** “She will never make me _jealous_, Gives me all her time as _well as_, loving,don’t ask me why” He pronounces “well as” to rhyme with “jealous”. ( JELLus / WELLus ) ---
**Author:** ![anny\_m](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@anny\_m](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anny_m)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2021, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-lyric-rhymes/949876/55 "2021-09-01T23:13:43Z")
If I ever wanted proof that Yoko Ono was a bad influence on John Lennon’s lyric-writing prowess, I just had to refer to **Happy Xmas (War is Over)**. The whole song seems to be a compilation of trite or forced rhymes, particularly the refrain: “A very merry Christmas And a happy New Year I hope it’s a good one Without any fear.” So this is the work of someone who’s supposed to be one of the premiere poets of our generation… ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2021, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-lyric-rhymes/949876/56 "2021-09-02T02:30:01Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](#): > > Her diary, it sits by the bedside table I don’t care what the lyrics _say_, he definitely sings “Her Daria sits by the bedside table.” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2021, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-lyric-rhymes/949876/57 "2021-09-02T02:38:10Z")
Aerosmith’s “Big Ten Inch Record” Bad enough Tyler sings about the blues in (their attempt at) a swing number. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2021, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-lyric-rhymes/949876/58 "2021-09-02T02:46:07Z")
Examples escape me (I know some exist!) of rhymes with “do you know what I **mean-a**.” ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2021, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-lyric-rhymes/949876/59 "2021-09-02T03:08:30Z")
_As the big freighters go it was bigger than most_ ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2021, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-lyric-rhymes/949876/60 "2021-09-02T03:39:48Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > Aerosmith’s “Big Ten Inch Record” > > Bad enough Tyler sings about the blues in (their attempt at) a swing number. You know that’s a cover right? [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Rws_7mLTqj8/hqdefault.jpg "Bull Moose Jackson - Big Ten Inch") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rws_7mLTqj8) And I’m not sure what the second sentence means. Are you implying this isn’t a blues song? It ain’t Delta or Chicago blues, but it’s a jump blues number. (An immediate precursor of rock & roll.) The song has blues all over it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-lyric-rhymes/949876.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-lyric-rhymes/949876.md?page=4)