I doubt it. So? Nonsense lyrics are not the same as bad lyrics. There’s both good and bad nonsense.
And what would you consider theirs to have been?
I’d say good. They worked with the music, and some of it really spoke to people. Although it might have helped that Kurt Cobain wasn’t exactly Henry Higgins. 
You want weird? Look no further than 1970’s Yes songs. I love their songs, but “Heart of the Sunrise”, “Yours is no Disgrace”, “Roundabout”, and others don’t really make any sense.
When I was ten, this was my favorite song - and I had the lyrics completely wrong. I always thought it was a song about seizing the day and living your dreams. After all, this guy was going to “catch some rays down in Africa - take some time to do the things [he] never had.” Obviously, he was going to take a trip to an African beach.
I like my lyrics much better.
“hurry boy, it’s waiting there for yoooouu…”
I always thought he was singing “I guess it rains down in Africa” which, while still not making sense, sounds better to me than the actual lyrics.
You’ll have to admit, some of Rush’s early lyrics were a bit on the “Neil, put down the bong and back away from the lyrics…”
Having said that, I love his writing, weird shit or not.
Arguably topped by Sheryl Crow’s SOAK UP THE SUN: first she rhymes RV with TV, and then she runs through all the clichés, rhyming “you” and “do” and “too” before ending the song by rhyming “on” with – “on”.
I actually knew a girl named Abra (my brother dated her briefly), who was named after this song. I never had an urge to reach out and grab her, though.
Their first album doesn’t count because Neil Peart wasn’t a member. But I’m not saying every line was golden, I’m just pointing out that it’s not fair to criticize Neil Peart as a bad lyricist when songs like ‘My Humps’ exist.
Apparently, both it and Guildenstern Avenue are, eventually, dead ends.
I haven’t heard this song in over 20 years, but I always thought it was (performed) by Michael Jackson. I’d never even heard of Rebbie Jackson until I looked her up on Wikipedia just now. Seems she’s Michael’s oldest sister and the song was written by Michael.
As much as I’d like to make a “that explains it all” joke, I have to admit that none of the Michael Jackson music I’m familiar with has really bad lyrics.
One thing I hate and personally think is stupid are lyrics that are clearly their because the song writer needed a rhyme.
“I’m a lucky mannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn”
“with fire in my hannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnds”
I love the song, but that one part ::shudder::
As long as we are on the subject (or were yesterday at least) I will just say that I heard that line the same way, but also misheard nearly the whole verse. This is what I was singing when I sang along to the radio playing Africa:
“It’s gonna take a lot to take me away from you
That’s nothing that a hundred men on Mars could ever do
I guess it rains down in Africa…”
Sure, from the loving ode “Hotter Than Hell” (the chorus is the worst):
*Come on
She looked good
She looked hotter than hell
All dressed in satins and lace
I looked at her and it was just too clear
I had to get on the case
I said “Lady, oh lady, can I take you home
There’s just so much we could do
I’ll take you all around the whole wide world
Before the evening is through”
Hot, hot, hotter than hell
You know she’s gonna leave you well done
Hot, hot, hotter than hell
Burn you like the midday sun *
She’s “gonna leave you well-done”? Really?
sigh
Watching Roxxette’s “The Look” on VH1 Classic reminded me, although I love the song, some of the lyrics:
“Walking like a man, hitting like a hammer
She’s a juvenile scam, never was a quitter
Tasty like a raindrop, she’s got the look”
WFT?
OK, actually, pretty much all the lyrics are WTF are they singing about lyrics.
Dance, romance, take a chance.
If I were a songwriter (but, then again, no 
) I would write something like:
C’mon, baby, c’mon and dance
C’mon, baby, let’s make romance
C’mon, baby, lookit your gay brother prance
Just to throw a curveball.
Stacy’s Mom Has Got It Going On
OK, I had to go back a couple of pages, but I just wanted to ask about
When you look at:
Song she sang to me
Song she brang to me
Words that rang in me
Rhyme that sprang from me
brang rhymes with sang, rang, and sprang. Somehow, I think
Song she sang to me
Song she brought to me
Words that rang in me
Rhyme that sprang from me
just wouldn’t sound quiet right.
I’m with unwashed brain. I think Bush might own this thread. Once you got past the killer riffs and Rossdale’s imitation grunge voice… you realized that none of their lyrics even remotely made sense:
There must be something we can eat
Maybe find another lover
Should I fly to Los Angeles
Find my asshole brother
Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow
Dave’s on sale again
We kissy kiss in the rear view
We’re so bored
You’re to blame
-“Everything Zen”
New Order’s Bernard Sumner writes some cringe-inducing stuff. So bad, in fact, it’s gone round the other way and become brilliant. Case in point:
Every second counts
When I am with you
I think you are a pig
You should be in a zoo
I guess I should’ve known
I’d end up on my own
Every second counts when I am with you
Every second counts
-“Every Little Counts”
This song is made even more brilliant by Barney cracking up after the pig in a zoo line.