Not very well. Whats your point?
I always cringe when I hear the following from Toto’s Africa:
Sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti
Does anybody really know what time it is?
Does anbody really care?
Does anybody really care?
Relax, ‘We’ve all got time enough to die’
G-d D@mn Mother-F$(K!N( slow load times! Now my unoriginal, poinless post is even more pointless 
"Umm, that line is not by Led Zep, it is by Robert Johnson, the master himself. Shame on you! "
Er, actually it’s not really original to Robert Johnson, either. By the time Johnson recorded Traveling Riverside Blues, there are were already a bunch of lemon-squeezing blues songs out there. (A quick trip trip to AMG pegs Roosevelt Sykes, Blind Boy Fuller, and Charlie Pickett at least.) It’s just one of those common idioms that makes the blues so colorful. 
Thats okay…
I misspelled Anybody :rolleyes:
It’s not Steve Miller’s line and there’s a lot more history to it than you think.
I think “we walked in the garden, we planted a tree” in Heart’s “All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You” may in fact be the worst metaphor for sex ever.
Of course, it might also be disqualified under Quercus’ axiom that to be truly bad lyrics have to go with good music, because the song as a whole is truly wretched.
Also, Eric Clapton’s “Wonderful Tonight” is highly amusing in ways that it probably was not intended to be.
<clears throat>
Ahem. The…Tubes:
**
Step right up and don’t be shy
Because you will not believe your eyes
She’s right here, behind the glass
You’re gonna like her, 'cause she’s got class
You can look inside another world
You get to talk to a pretty girl
She’s everything you dream about…
But don’t fall in love
She’s a beauty
She’s one in a million girls
She’s a beauty
Why would I lie
Why would I lie?**
Well, I might lie if somebody asked me if I was responsible for that horrifically bad lyric.
Maybe not the worst, but the stupidest:
The Turtles - Happy Together
Me and you and you and me
No matter how they toss the dice
It had to be
The only one for me is you
And you for me
So happy together
So happy together
How is the weather
So happy together
"How is the weather?? WTF!?
I see your hair is burning.
Hills are filled with fire.
If they say I never loved you
you know they are a liar.
These are the lines that get me.
They mean the same frickin thing!
I love the song, really, but The White Stripes’ Hardest Button to Button has soom doozies:
My favourite:
We started living in an old house
My ma gave birth and we were checking it out
It was a baby boy
So we bought him a toy
It was a ray gun
And it was 1981
But The whole song is full of some really goofy lyrics. Jack actually manages to not sound…uhm…dumb singing this stuff, but taking it out of the context of the song. Hoo boy.
Speaking of the White Stripes, Fell in Love With a Girl has the really…strange lines:
Red hair with a curl
mellow roll for the flavor
and the eyes were peeping
Jack, Meg…I love you guys…perhaps even more because of this…stuff.
How can there be any question? The worst lyric of all time, from Train’s “Drops of Jupiter”:
If the randomly inserted “Deep fried chicken” isn’t the worst forced rhyme in music history, you tell me what is.
I have three to nominate.
From AC/DC’s “Touch too Much”:
"She had the face of an angel smilin’ with sin,
The body of Venus… with arms!
From Kiss (can’t recall the song title):
“Let’s put the x in sex,
Love is like a muscle and you make me want to flex!”
And from the immortal Annie Lennox in “Talkin to an Angel”:
“I walk into an empty room,
And suddenly my heart goes boom.” The delivery doesn’t help this one either.
Stinkers all!
One of the few punk songs that deserves to have been written in the 70’s. I’m a real punk snob, but I’m willing to forgive Jack White just about anything because he wrote this:
I had opinions
That didnt matter.
I had a brain
That felt like pancake batter.
If that ain’t classic punk, I don’t know what is.
Now, if he’d only stop trying to pretend he’s a Brit (“the hardest bu’on to bu’on”).
I won’t dispute that, but don’t forget Queen’s “One Vision”, which endeth thusly:
One one one one…
One vision…
One flesh one bone
One true religion
One voice one hope
One real decision
Gimme one light
Gimme one hope
Just gimme
One man one man
One bar one night
One day hey hey
Just gimme gimme gimme gimme
Fried chicken
And while we’re on the topic of random lines and endings, here’s this from John Prine’s “Illegal Smile” (brilliant song from a brillant man) before I join Sample_the_Bitch (smile when you say that) in bed for some obviously much needed sleep:
Won’t you please tell the man
I didn’t kill anyone.
I’m just trying to have me some fun.
Well done.
Hot dog bun.
My sister’s a nun.
Sorry, meant to write “one of the few 21st century punk songs”. To bed… :o