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As far as I’m concerned I believe this is the ultimate in bad lyrics. I mean its SO BAD. My boyfriend says it EVERYTIME I ask “are you serious?” I’ve learned to just expect it.
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At the risk of killing the thread, I think I may be able to go one better. From the canon of the late Biggie Smalls:
Oh really? That’s how it is, is it Biggie? That’s just a normal day in the life for you and your best bud THE BOSTON STRANGLER?!?
Not cool, dude. Not cool.
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“My Baby Does the Hanky Panky”
Repeat 4 more times.
I know there is another verse, but that is pretty much 75% of the song.
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Another wonderful line from the same song: I saw you walkin’ on down the line.
Line? What line? Flight line? Line of scrimmage? Battle line? What?
[QUOTE=PoorYorick]
Another wonderful line from the same song: I saw you walkin’ on down the line.
Line? What line? Flight line? Line of scrimmage? Battle line? What?
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It’s a receiving line. What, you didn’t know that song was about Queen Elizabeth?
HEY, I just remembered Paula Cole… “Open up your morning light, say a little prayer for I.” I’m saying a little prayer that you find a more appropriate and grammatical rhyme for “light.”
[QUOTE=Hamadryad]
HEY, I just remembered Paula Cole… “Open up your morning light, say a little prayer for I.”
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Oh, that irritates the crap out of me! Why would she actually consider this acceptable? Paula, did you even try? How about, Now open up your tiny mind / And think of other words that rhyme?
See now, that sucks, but it only took me about twelve seconds to think of it.
I don’t know if they’re the worst lyrics ever, but the Turtles’ “Elenore” always seemed to me to be somewhat lazily written. A couple of examples:
I really think you’re groovy
Let’s go out to a movie…
Okay, it was the 60s and “groovy” was in common parlance, but this just looked like a way to squeeze “groovy” into a song lyric with a rhyme of some kind. Still, it’s not as bad as one of the subsequent lines:
You’re my pride and joy, et cetera…
Yes, they actually sing et cetera in the song. But in spite of the lyrics, the song peaked at number 6, so the listening and buying public didn’t seem to let the lyrics worry them too much.
I usually read these threads and think Dopers are just too literal-minded about song lyrics. But everything here so far really does suck, except for the Spinal Tap lyrics.
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You’re my pride and joy, et cetera…
Yes, they actually sing et cetera in the song. But in spite of the lyrics, the song peaked at number 6, so the listening and buying public didn’t seem to let the lyrics worry them too much.
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Spoons, I’ve never actually heard this song, but I seem to remember, when it was mentioned before, someone piped up and said the song was intended to mock other romantic songs… it is intentionally vague and uninspired.
These lyrics are all making me crack up though.
And O how I heart Madonna and defend her as profoundly misunderstood, but her little rap breakdown in ‘‘Mother and Father’’ makes me embarrassed. This is how she chooses to express her traumatic childhood, following the death of her mother when she was five:
*I cried and cried and cried all day
Until the neighbors went away
They couldn’t take my loneliness
I couldn’t take their phoniness
My father had to go to work
I used to think he was a jerk*
Gripping, honey. Just gripping.
[QUOTE=olivesmarch4th]
Gripping, honey. Just gripping.
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Or griping.
I don’t agree with the Spinal Tap either- “Big Bottom” is genius, especially the double meaning of “how could I leave this behind” 
Another Beach Boys classic from Brian Wilson’s demented period- the homoerotic paean to Johnny Carson contains the following gems:
He sits behind his microphone
John-ny Car-son
He speaks in such a manly tone
John-ny Car-son
Ed McMahon comes on and says “Here’s Johnny”
Every night at eleven thirty he’s so funny
Don’t you think he’s such a natural guy
The way he’s kept it up could make you cry
And the fade out-
Who’s a man that we admire?
Johnny Carson is a real live wire.
Ugh. And this from the guy who wrote Good Vibrations, etc
How many of things on this list are your favorite:
Raindrops on roses
Whiskers on kittens
Bright copper kettles
Warm woolen mittens
Brown paper packages tied up with strings
Cream colored ponies
Crisp apple strudels
Doorbells
Sleigh bells
Schnitzel with noodles
Wild geese that fly with the moon on their winds.
Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes
Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes
Silver white winters that melt into Springs
Well, I do like whiskers on my kittens, but snowflakes on my eyelashes have gots to go.
My contribution to the thread:
She had dumps like a truck truck truck
Thighs like what what what
Baby move your butt butt butt
I think I’ll sing it again
No, Sisqo. Please don’t.
[QUOTE=Spoons]
I don’t know if they’re the worst lyrics ever, but the Turtles’ “Elenore” always seemed to me to be somewhat lazily written. A couple of examples:
I really think you’re groovy
Let’s go out to a movie…
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Another Turtles song (“Happy Together” I think. I’m doing this from memory):
So happy together.
How is the weather?
“How is the weather”?! Where did that come from? They couldn’t find anything else to rhyme with “weather”?
Every single rock song ever that’s decided that the way to make a real impact is to say the same line or two over and over and over and over and over. The one I’ve noticed the most is “The Hand That Feeds” - mostly because I used to really lust after Trent Reznor, and now I have to change the radio station halfway through the song, because it’s just the same damned two lines for the rest of it.
Will you bite the hand that feeds you
Will you stay down on your knees
For a bit over two minutes. ARGH. Stop! Enough! I get it! I will bite the hand that mixes if you don’t quit!
Just so you know, the cake is a lie.
[QUOTE=Typo Knig]
MacArthur Park
What do I win?
A cake? You call that a cake!? Did you leave it outside or something?
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A copy of… MacArthur Park.
[QUOTE=PoorYorick]
They couldn’t find anything else to rhyme with “weather”?
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That’s just lazy!
Dress you in leather
Tickle your ass with a feather
Let’s play balls of tether
Hey, isn’t that Heather?
[QUOTE=Octalcode]
A copy of… MacArthur Park.
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Which version?
[QUOTE=twickster]
*I love the tip, I love the top, I love you better than a hog loves slop
‘Cause you’re a big legged woman, with a short short miniskirt
Promise me darlin’, you’ll never make me feel like dirt *
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Well, I don’t think it’s that bad. It does capture the feel of this cartoon by R. Crumb and many other of his drawings of “big legged women”.
[QUOTE=control-z]
That’s not a deep, thoughtful rock ballad? The hell you say! Next you’ll tell me “Every Rose Has It’s Thorn” isn’t a masterful work! (Actually I like both.)
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I can’t help myself, every time I hear that song I sing it as, “Every rose has its thorn / Just like every night has its dawn / just like every metal band has a pussy song.”
