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.
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.
I excuse it as a circumlocution for “You’re giving me a boner.”
eh, it ain’t my cuppa meat
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
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.
Here I am.
Rock you like a hurrican(e).
Rhyming am and hurricane, just doesn’t work.
I don’t feel like they’re trying to rhyme them.
Yeah, me neither.
Also people who write lyrics in a second language get a pass.
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.
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.
‘Hide, hide, a cow’s outside.’
‘Well open the door and let her in!’
–Homer and Jethro’s version
I could not disagree more. This is a brilliant lyric. The band rocked, only like a hurri can.
mmm
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 )
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…
I don’t care what the lyrics say, he definitely sings “Her Daria sits by the bedside table.”
Aerosmith’s “Big Ten Inch Record”
Bad enough Tyler sings about the blues in (their attempt at) a swing number.
Examples escape me (I know some exist!) of rhymes with “do you know what I mean-a.”
As the big freighters go
it was bigger than most
You know that’s a cover right?
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.