# Worst lyrics in rock/pop music **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 2, 2009, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-lyrics-in-rock-pop-music/519759 "2009-12-02T21:22:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2009, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-lyrics-in-rock-pop-music/519759/81 "2009-12-03T23:16:19Z")
“Who let the dogs out? Who…Who” Repeat 100 times! ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2009, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-lyrics-in-rock-pop-music/519759/82 "2009-12-03T23:24:41Z")
> [@FordTaurusSHO94](#): > > The part where Madonna raps in American Life is full of embarrassing lyrics such as: > > I’m drinking a soy latte > I have a double shot-ay > It goes right through my body \*I’m diggin’ on the isotope, this metaphysics shit is dope And if all this can give me hope you know I’m satisfied \* See, that rap always cracks me up, because I interpret it as completely tongue-in-cheek. She’s the polar opposite of hardcore and she knows it. In _Mother and Father_, on the other hand, the song is about processing grief. There’s nothing playful about it. She was trying to write from the perspective of a child and it fell flat. I still think _American Life_ one of her best albums. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2009, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-lyrics-in-rock-pop-music/519759/83 "2009-12-03T23:25:49Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Billy Joel’s full of them. But I’ll defend him on this one. The key word there is “still.” This guy probably didn’t plan on joining the Navy and didn’t want to make a life of it, but he’s never going to do anything else. (Davy/Navy is a really irritating rhyme, though.) The “real estate novelist” is the same idea. The whole song is about people who are never going to amount to anything and are trying to forget about it. I really hate this song. I remember deliberately setting out to pay attention to the lyrics one day when it came on the radio. I remember thinking, ‘‘That’s it?’’ ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2009, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-lyrics-in-rock-pop-music/519759/84 "2009-12-03T23:57:53Z")
No discussion of horrendous lyrics is complete without citing Golden Earring. The same group that gave us classics like “Radar Love” and “Twilight Zone” also perpetrated (and included on their Greatest Hits album) such lyrical travesties as “She Flies On Strange Wings”: _Lonely is the night without you Just as lonely as the shepherd without sheep_ Even that one stands out as genius compared to “Leather”: _Love at first sight, lasts all night Baby from the moment you opened my fly It’s been alright, for my gesundheit Baby from the moment you crossed my eye Here it comes, here it comes I don’t know where to go, it’s a sadomasochism._ And so it is. ---
**Author:** ![kidneyfailure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kidneyfailure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidneyfailure)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-lyrics-in-rock-pop-music/519759/85 "2009-12-04T00:10:51Z")
“Pinnacle,” by Today is the Day: _Watch me destroy you Get out of my path I fucked your wife Fucked her in the ass She loved it She sucks me That’s really funny Suck me You fucker I hate you You’re nothing Orgasmic Oh I’m coming Harder please harder Fuck me Fuck me I called you My best friend The truth hurts The price you pay Don’t spit on me You don’t know me My ass bleeds for you sincerely_ Somebody was on something when they wrote that… ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-lyrics-in-rock-pop-music/519759/86 "2009-12-04T00:14:33Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > No discussion of horrendous lyrics is complete without citing Golden Earring. Well, in their defense, they weren’t native English speakers. Can’t say if their lyrics would be any better in Dutch, though… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-lyrics-in-rock-pop-music/519759/87 "2009-12-04T00:27:20Z")
Brandy wears a braided chain made of finest silver from the north of Spain. Because silver from the south of Spain is, you know, crap. ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-lyrics-in-rock-pop-music/519759/88 "2009-12-04T01:08:51Z")
Any song that rhymes two out of these three: school, cool, and fool. It’s been done to death, folks. Find a new rhyme. ---
**Author:** ![TheFatKid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/34f0e0/32.png) [@TheFatKid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheFatKid)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-lyrics-in-rock-pop-music/519759/89 "2009-12-04T01:16:16Z")
Gotta be Night Ranger’s “[Sister Christian](http://www.nightranger.com/music/songography/NR_SongDetails.aspx?songid=3a135d79-4fed-4a67-83ef-fe897218682b)”. ---
**Author:** ![TheFatKid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/34f0e0/32.png) [@TheFatKid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheFatKid)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-lyrics-in-rock-pop-music/519759/90 "2009-12-04T01:19:03Z")
Oh, wait… I forgot Gloria Estefan: C’mon shake your body baby do the conga I know you can’t control yourself any longa Feel the rhythm of the music getting stronga ---
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-lyrics-in-rock-pop-music/519759/91 "2009-12-04T01:20:54Z")
> [@Ponch8](#): > > And from the same song: > I know that I must do what’s right > As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serrrrr-engeti I’ve always thought that that line is so awful that it went around the end and came back to awesome. ETA: And if you think the lyrics are cheesy, you should check out the music video. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPT\_3PEjnsE](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPT_3PEjnsE) The globe in particular is a thing of beauty. ---
**Author:** ![TheFatKid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/34f0e0/32.png) [@TheFatKid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheFatKid)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-lyrics-in-rock-pop-music/519759/92 "2009-12-04T01:23:59Z")
“I cannot forget from where it is that I come from.” John Mellencamp ---
**Author:** ![cactus\_waltz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@cactus\_waltz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cactus_waltz)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-lyrics-in-rock-pop-music/519759/93 "2009-12-04T01:38:40Z")
> [@Stephe96](#): > > Thin Lizzy: “Tonight there’s gonna be a jailbreak…_somewhere in this town_” Hah. Well, yeah, I see what you mean. “Somewhere in this town” is a pretty lame finish to the build-up in that sentence. But I’ve always liked it. It gives me this sense of excitement, like it doesn’t matter exactly where the jailbreak is, just that there’s commotion and a sense of forbidden action. It’s like knowing your favorite band is playing at a secret gig but you don’t know exactly where it is. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-lyrics-in-rock-pop-music/519759/94 "2009-12-04T01:43:22Z")
> [@cactus\_waltz](#): > > Hah. Well, yeah, I see what you mean. “Somewhere in this town” is a pretty lame finish to the build-up in that sentence. But I’ve always liked it. It gives me this sense of excitement, like it doesn’t matter exactly where the jailbreak is, just that there’s commotion and a sense of forbidden action. It’s like knowing your favorite band is playing at a secret gig but you don’t know exactly where it is. These lyrics are more relevant today than ever. With all the Black OPs CIA prisons, there could be dozens of jails in every podunk town. ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-lyrics-in-rock-pop-music/519759/95 "2009-12-04T01:59:12Z")
> [@JSexton](#): > > Any song that rhymes two out of these three: school, cool, and fool. > > It’s been done to death, folks. Find a new rhyme. And “fire” and “desire.” Jesus. We don’t smell THAT coming a mile away! :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![cactus\_waltz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@cactus\_waltz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cactus_waltz)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-lyrics-in-rock-pop-music/519759/96 "2009-12-04T02:23:06Z")
Speaking of rhymes… [QUOTE=Oasis, “Some Might Say”] Cos I’ve been standing at the station In need of education in the rain You made no preparation for my reputation once again The sink is full of fishes Cos she’s got dirty dishes on the brain And my dog’s been itchin’ Itchin’ in the kitchen once again [/QUOTE] Itchin’ in the kitchen, eh. ---
**Author:** ![TheFatKid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/34f0e0/32.png) [@TheFatKid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheFatKid)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-lyrics-in-rock-pop-music/519759/97 "2009-12-04T02:47:10Z")
> [@voguevixen](#): > > And “fire” and “desire.” Jesus. We don’t smell THAT coming a mile away! :rolleyes: “You can’t run…” _Oh, no, man, please don’t say it, please don’t–_ “You can’t hide…” _Aw, geez, he said it!_ ---
**Author:** ![jasonh300](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/46a35a/32.png) [@jasonh300](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasonh300)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-lyrics-in-rock-pop-music/519759/98 "2009-12-04T02:59:28Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > One of the true gems that gets trotted out for these lists: **I Am…I Said** , by Neil Diamond: > > I am, I said > To no one there > And no one heard at all > Not even the chair Songs she sang to me, Songs she _ **brang** _ to me ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-lyrics-in-rock-pop-music/519759/99 "2009-12-04T03:11:27Z")
Not a rock song, but this one drives me crazy each time this year: \* **You know** Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen, Comet and Cupid And Donner and Blitzen. But **do you recall** The **most famous** reindeer of all? \* If we already “know” about the other reindeer but have to somehow “recall” Rudolph, then how in the world could he be the “famous” one? Just about any other two-syllable word would have worked in that line. They picked the one word that totally invalidated the entire stanza! ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-lyrics-in-rock-pop-music/519759/100 "2009-12-04T03:15:56Z")
> [@TheFatKid](#): > > “You can’t run…” > > _Oh, no, man, please don’t say it, please don’t–_ > > “You can’t hide…” > > _Aw, geez, he said it!_ ::sad trombone:: (I lol’d for real.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-lyrics-in-rock-pop-music/519759.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-lyrics-in-rock-pop-music/519759.md?page=6)