worst lyricists ever (with examples) - Page 3

plastic sun · 10.21.2007, 11:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LittlePuppetBoy

Three days Grace have bad lyrics (they're pretty much all about him suffering) but Nickleback have worse.

thank you! i've never understood the appeal of those types of bands.
nickleback just growl the same lines over and over again.

atari 2600 · 10.21.2007, 08:28 PM

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to finding nobody again.

SpectralJulianIsNotDead's contrarian dismissal of Dylan (who is widely regarded as one of the best or the best lyricist in rock history, no less) isn't surprising considering he's a fucking ghostbuster haha.
Hey Spectral, read this and perhaps gain an inkling of perspective, if you dare:
http://www.historynet.com/culture/so...y/3035296.html
It's about the impious and bored Fox sisters in the nineteeth century who are largely responsible for bringing ghost mumbo-jumbo to the new world; they both confessed later that it was all a prank that got out of hand.

Meanwhile, nitwit Jenna Bush remarked recently that she believes there are ghosts in the White House.
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/IanDB1/4502

the ikara cult · 10.21.2007, 09:43 PM

Noel Gallagher deserved recognition. His music is fine, but his lyrics instill despair.

therealglenstyler · 10.22.2007, 07:37 AM

corgan, hetfield, dude from editors.

I always find it most offensive when lyrics are presented with gravitas and conviction as though they are enormously profound and insightful when really they are ugly lists of cliche which only successfully express the extraordinary level of delusion under which the writer labours... Corgan wins hands down (infact he should probably have had his voice box removed the very first time he announced that the chorus for bullet with butterfly wings was going to be "despite all my rage I'm still just a rat in a cage") but Hetfield and the arse in editors are all putting up decent stabs (hetfield has a particularly compelling narrative as he started out as an awful lyricist and is actually managing to get worse as time goes by).

jetengine · 10.22.2007, 08:47 AM

Some of the greatest lyricists of the 1960s and early '70s had their 'dumb fun' moments too. Check out Lennon & McCartney's 'Rocky Raccoon', Morrison's 'Do It', Reed's 'Ferryboat Bill' and 'Andy's Chest', Cohen's 'Queen Victoria' and 'Is That What You Wanted', etc.

A friend of mine once pointed out the dumbness of old Kiss lyrics--'She' in particular.

I also seem to recall some lines from '80s black metallers Bathory that went something like "Every night at midnight twelve, I read Satanic Bilble/Take off my clothes/Get into bed/Masturbate myself to death." Sounds like the narrator's early socialisation may have been a little flawed.

alyasa · 10.22.2007, 08:56 AM

Fly into the rising sun,

Faces, smiling everyone

Yeah, she is a whole new tradition

I feel it in my heart

My woman from Tokyo

She makes me see

My woman from Tokyo

She's so good to me

Talk about her like a Queen

Dancing in a Eastern Dream

Yeah, she makes me feel like a river

That carries me away

My woman from Tokyo

She makes me see

My woman from Tokyo

She's so good to me

But I'm at home and I just don't belong ...

So far away from the garden we love

She is what moves in the soul of a dove

Soon I shall see just how black was my night

When we're alone in Her City of light

Rising from the neon gloom

Shining like a crazy moon

Yeah, she turns me on like a fire

I get high

My woman from Tokyo

She makes me see

My woman from Tokyo

She's so good to me

atari 2600 · 10.22.2007, 06:34 PM

President Eisenhower, WWII general and Republican, tried to warn everyone in his farewell address way back in 1961, so the situation seems fairly hopeless, groar.

It seems that even if Barack Hussein Obama (you'll be hearing more about that middle name soon) is for real, he'll never get elected. It's not even likely that John Edwards will get a nomination. No, most likely we'll get Giuliani, Thompson or Hillary Clinton as our next president. In short, business as usual.

And don't forget the Carlyle Group and Raytheon and many others along with Haliburton.

__________________
The Boston-based watchdog group United for a Fair Economy, known in general for its reports on the vast pay gap between CEOs and workers, published a report in 2003 on the even more insane gap between soldiers and weapons CEOs. Using federal, corporate, and think tank data, the group found that while the average army private in Iraq earns about $20,000 a year, the average CEO among the 37 largest publicly traded defense contractors made 577 times more money in 2002, $11.3 million. Since 2000, the 37 defense contractor CEOs (actually, given our first-strike war, it is more appropriate to refer to them as offense contractors) have taken home $1.35 billion. That may not be Bill Gates, but it still means that just 37 men have made enough money in the last three years to, for instance, pay for two years of running the Boston public schools. Meanwhile, everyone knows how the budget cuts have turned public school systems into their own little Baghdads because our governments say there is no more money after war, tax cuts, corporate giveaways, and sports stadiums.

Rob Instigator · 10.23.2007, 04:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jetengine

I also seem to recall some lines from '80s black metallers Bathory that went something like "Every night at midnight twelve, I read Satanic Bilble/Take off my clothes/Get into bed/Masturbate myself to death." Sounds like the narrator's early socialisation may have been a little flawed.

Rocky Racoon is great!

those bathory song lyrics you quoted make me wanna go listen to and like bathory!

that shit's genius! Genius I say! "masturbate myself to death!" I love it

cellscape · 10.24.2007, 11:52 AM

I can't believe this gem was excluded. Right up there with Durst(who lyrics have always entertained me).

CRAZY TOWN LYRICS

"Butterfly"

Come my lady
Come come my lady
you're my butterfly
Sugar.baby

Come my lady
Come come my lady
you're my butterfly
Sugar.baby

Such a sexy,sexy pretty little thing
Fierce nipple pierce you got me sprung with your tongue ring
and I ain't gonna lie cause your loving gets me high
So to keep you by my side there's nothing that I won't try
Butterflies in her eyes and looks to kill
Time is passing I'm asking could this be real
Cause I can't sleep I can't hold still
The only thing I really know is she got sex appeal

I can feel too much is never enough
You're always there to lift me up
When these times get rough I was lost Now I'm found
Ever since you've been around
You're the women that I want
So yo, I'm putting it down.

Come my lady
Come come my lady
you're my butterfly
Sugar.baby
come my lady you're my
pretty baby ill make your legs shake
you make me go crazy

Come my lady
Come come my lady
you're my butterfly
Sugar.baby
come my lady you're my
pretty baby ill make your legs shake
you make me go crazy

I don't deserve you unless it's some kind of hidden message
to show me life is precious
Then I guess it's true
But to tell truth, I really never knew
T'll I met you... See I was lost and confused
Twisted and used up
Knew a better life existed but thought that I missed it

My lifestyle's wild I was living like a wild child
Trapped on a short leash paroled the police files
So yo. what' s happening now?
I see the sun breaking down into dark clouds
and a vision of you standing out in a crowd.

Come come my lady
you're my butterfly
Sugar.baby
come my lady you're my
pretty baby ill make your legs shake
you make me go crazy

Come my lady
Come come my lady
you're my butterfly
Sugar.baby
come my lady you're my
pretty baby ill make your legs shake
you make me go crazy

Hey sugar momma, come and dance with me
The smartest thing you ever did was take a chance with me
Whatever tickles your fancy
Girl it's me and you like Sid and Nancy
So sexy....almost evil Talkin' about butterflies in my head
I used to think that happy endings were only in the books I read but
you made me feel alive when I was almost dead

You filled that empty space with the love I used to chase
and as far as I can see it don't get better than this
So butterfly, here is a song and it's sealed with a kiss
and a thank you miss.

come and dance with me
come and dance with me
come and dance with me
so come and dance with me
uhhhhh ha uhhh ha

Come my lady
Come come my lady
you're my butterfly
Sugar.baby
come my lady you're my
pretty baby ill make your legs shake
you make me go crazy

Come my lady
Come come my lady
you're my butterfly
Sugar.baby
come my lady you're my
pretty baby ill make your legs shake
you make me go crazy

Come my lady
Come come my lady
you're my butterfly
Sugar.baby
come my lady you're my
pretty baby ill make your legs shake
you make me go crazy

Come my lady
Come come my lady
you're my butterfly
Sugar.baby
come my lady you're my
pretty baby ill make your legs shake
you make me go crazy

come and dance with me
come and dance with me
come and dance with me
come and dance with me
uhhhhhh ha uhhhhhh ha
come and dance with me
come and dance with me
come and dance with me
come and dance with me
come and dance with me
come and dance with me
come and dance with me
come and dance with me

Stijn · 10.24.2007, 06:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cellscape

I can't believe this gem was excluded. Right up there with Durst(who lyrics have always entertained me).

CRAZY TOWN LYRICS

"Butterfly"

I Like that song, don't mind the lyrics

Rob Instigator · 10.25.2007, 09:17 AM

4 non blondes

25 years and my life is still
trying to get up that great big hill of hope
For a destination
I realized quickly when I knew I should
That the world was made up of this
Brotherhood of man
For whatever that means
And so I cry somethimes when I'm lying in bed
Just to get it all out what's in my head
And I'm, I am feeling a little peculiar
So I wake in the morning and I step outside
And I take deep breath and I get real high
And I scream from the top of my lungs
What's goin' on
And I say hey....
And I say hey what's goin' on
And I say hey....
I said hey what's goin' on
Oooh....
Oooh....
And I try, oh my God do I try
I try all the time
In this institution
And I pray, oh my God do I pray
I pray every single day
For a revolution
And so I cry sometimes when I'm lying in bed
Just to get it all out what's in my head
And I'm, I am feeling a little peculiar
So I wake in the morning and I step outside
And I take deep breath and I get real high
And I scream from the top of my lungs
What's goin'on
And I say hey...
And I say hey what's goin' on
And I say hey...
I said hey what's goin' on
And I say hey...
And I say hey what's goin' on
And I say hey...
I said hey what's goin' on
Oooh....
25 years and my life is still
trying to get up that great big hill of hope
For a destination

demonrail666 · 10.25.2007, 01:26 PM

The Go-Betweens had the weirdest genius for blurring that fine line between awful and brilliant:

Exhibit A:

She was in The Omen with Gregory Peck
She got killed, what the heck

From the song, 'Lee Remick'

MellySingsDoom · 10.25.2007, 01:56 PM

From "Foundations" by Kate Nash:

You said I must eat so many lemons,
'cause I am so bitter.
I said "I'd rather be with your friends mate,
cause they are much fitter"

demonrail666 · 10.25.2007, 02:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MellySingsDoom

From "Foundations" by Kate Nash:

You said I must eat so many lemons,
'cause I am so bitter.
I said "I'd rather be with your friends mate,
cause they are much fitter"

Which is, as we know, quite a fantastic lyric.

Cantankerous · 10.26.2007, 12:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SpectralJulianIsNotDead

Oh, and I've always hated Bob Dylan lyrics.

someone fetch me my revolver please so i can off this sadistic landshark and whoever it was who mentioned bowie
jean genie (i'm using a glam-era example) has fucking great lyrics as do a ton of his other shit from space odditiy on to scary monsters.

Torn Curtain · 10.26.2007, 05:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cantankerous

someone fetch me my revolver please so i can off this sadistic landshark and whoever it was who mentioned bowie
jean genie (i'm using a glam-era example) has fucking great lyrics as do a ton of his other shit from space odditiy on to scary monsters.

I love Bowie, but some his early lyrics are really awkward in my opinion ("Song for Bob Dylan" being a good example for instance).

10.21.2007, 08:28 PM	#42
atari 2600 invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 8,212	You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to finding nobody again. SpectralJulianIsNotDead's contrarian dismissal of Dylan (who is widely regarded as one of the best or the best lyricist in rock history, no less) isn't surprising considering he's a fucking ghostbuster haha. Hey Spectral, read this and perhaps gain an inkling of perspective, if you dare: http://www.historynet.com/culture/so...y/3035296.html It's about the impious and bored Fox sisters in the nineteeth century who are largely responsible for bringing ghost mumbo-jumbo to the new world; they both confessed later that it was all a prank that got out of hand. Meanwhile, nitwit Jenna Bush remarked recently that she believes there are ghosts in the White House. http://journals.democraticunderground.com/IanDB1/4502
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10.21.2007, 09:43 PM	#43
the ikara cult invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: London sink Posts: 4,576	Noel Gallagher deserved recognition. His music is fine, but his lyrics instill despair.
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10.22.2007, 07:37 AM	#44
therealglenstyler stalker Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: London Posts: 430	corgan, hetfield, dude from editors. I always find it most offensive when lyrics are presented with gravitas and conviction as though they are enormously profound and insightful when really they are ugly lists of cliche which only successfully express the extraordinary level of delusion under which the writer labours... Corgan wins hands down (infact he should probably have had his voice box removed the very first time he announced that the chorus for bullet with butterfly wings was going to be "despite all my rage I'm still just a rat in a cage") but Hetfield and the arse in editors are all putting up decent stabs (hetfield has a particularly compelling narrative as he started out as an awful lyricist and is actually managing to get worse as time goes by).
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10.22.2007, 08:47 AM	#45
jetengine children of satan Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 399	Some of the greatest lyricists of the 1960s and early '70s had their 'dumb fun' moments too. Check out Lennon & McCartney's 'Rocky Raccoon', Morrison's 'Do It', Reed's 'Ferryboat Bill' and 'Andy's Chest', Cohen's 'Queen Victoria' and 'Is That What You Wanted', etc. A friend of mine once pointed out the dumbness of old Kiss lyrics--'She' in particular. I also seem to recall some lines from '80s black metallers Bathory that went something like "Every night at midnight twelve, I read Satanic Bilble/Take off my clothes/Get into bed/Masturbate myself to death." Sounds like the narrator's early socialisation may have been a little flawed.
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10.22.2007, 08:56 AM	#46
alyasa invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Singapore Posts: 3,791	Fly into the rising sun, Faces, smiling everyone Yeah, she is a whole new tradition I feel it in my heart My woman from Tokyo She makes me see My woman from Tokyo She's so good to me Talk about her like a Queen Dancing in a Eastern Dream Yeah, she makes me feel like a river That carries me away My woman from Tokyo She makes me see My woman from Tokyo She's so good to me But I'm at home and I just don't belong ... So far away from the garden we love She is what moves in the soul of a dove Soon I shall see just how black was my night When we're alone in Her City of light Rising from the neon gloom Shining like a crazy moon Yeah, she turns me on like a fire I get high My woman from Tokyo She makes me see My woman from Tokyo She's so good to me __________________ Sab Kuch Tick Tock Hai
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10.22.2007, 06:34 PM	#47
atari 2600 invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 8,212	President Eisenhower, WWII general and Republican, tried to warn everyone in his farewell address way back in 1961, so the situation seems fairly hopeless, groar. It seems that even if Barack Hussein Obama (you'll be hearing more about that middle name soon) is for real, he'll never get elected. It's not even likely that John Edwards will get a nomination. No, most likely we'll get Giuliani, Thompson or Hillary Clinton as our next president. In short, business as usual. And don't forget the Carlyle Group and Raytheon and many others along with Haliburton. __________________ The Boston-based watchdog group United for a Fair Economy, known in general for its reports on the vast pay gap between CEOs and workers, published a report in 2003 on the even more insane gap between soldiers and weapons CEOs. Using federal, corporate, and think tank data, the group found that while the average army private in Iraq earns about $20,000 a year, the average CEO among the 37 largest publicly traded defense contractors made 577 times more money in 2002, $11.3 million. Since 2000, the 37 defense contractor CEOs (actually, given our first-strike war, it is more appropriate to refer to them as offense contractors) have taken home $1.35 billion. That may not be Bill Gates, but it still means that just 37 men have made enough money in the last three years to, for instance, pay for two years of running the Boston public schools. Meanwhile, everyone knows how the budget cuts have turned public school systems into their own little Baghdads because our governments say there is no more money after war, tax cuts, corporate giveaways, and sports stadiums.
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10.24.2007, 11:52 AM	#49
cellscape little trouble girl Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 76	I can't believe this gem was excluded. Right up there with Durst(who lyrics have always entertained me). CRAZY TOWN LYRICS "Butterfly" Come my lady Come come my lady you're my butterfly Sugar.baby Come my lady Come come my lady you're my butterfly Sugar.baby Such a sexy,sexy pretty little thing Fierce nipple pierce you got me sprung with your tongue ring and I ain't gonna lie cause your loving gets me high So to keep you by my side there's nothing that I won't try Butterflies in her eyes and looks to kill Time is passing I'm asking could this be real Cause I can't sleep I can't hold still The only thing I really know is she got sex appeal I can feel too much is never enough You're always there to lift me up When these times get rough I was lost Now I'm found Ever since you've been around You're the women that I want So yo, I'm putting it down. Come my lady Come come my lady you're my butterfly Sugar.baby come my lady you're my pretty baby ill make your legs shake you make me go crazy Come my lady Come come my lady you're my butterfly Sugar.baby come my lady you're my pretty baby ill make your legs shake you make me go crazy I don't deserve you unless it's some kind of hidden message to show me life is precious Then I guess it's true But to tell truth, I really never knew T'll I met you... See I was lost and confused Twisted and used up Knew a better life existed but thought that I missed it My lifestyle's wild I was living like a wild child Trapped on a short leash paroled the police files So yo. what' s happening now? I see the sun breaking down into dark clouds and a vision of you standing out in a crowd. Come come my lady you're my butterfly Sugar.baby come my lady you're my pretty baby ill make your legs shake you make me go crazy Come my lady Come come my lady you're my butterfly Sugar.baby come my lady you're my pretty baby ill make your legs shake you make me go crazy Hey sugar momma, come and dance with me The smartest thing you ever did was take a chance with me Whatever tickles your fancy Girl it's me and you like Sid and Nancy So sexy....almost evil Talkin' about butterflies in my head I used to think that happy endings were only in the books I read but you made me feel alive when I was almost dead You filled that empty space with the love I used to chase and as far as I can see it don't get better than this So butterfly, here is a song and it's sealed with a kiss and a thank you miss. come and dance with me come and dance with me come and dance with me so come and dance with me uhhhhh ha uhhh ha Come my lady Come come my lady you're my butterfly Sugar.baby come my lady you're my pretty baby ill make your legs shake you make me go crazy Come my lady Come come my lady you're my butterfly Sugar.baby come my lady you're my pretty baby ill make your legs shake you make me go crazy Come my lady Come come my lady you're my butterfly Sugar.baby come my lady you're my pretty baby ill make your legs shake you make me go crazy Come my lady Come come my lady you're my butterfly Sugar.baby come my lady you're my pretty baby ill make your legs shake you make me go crazy come and dance with me come and dance with me come and dance with me come and dance with me uhhhhhh ha uhhhhhh ha come and dance with me come and dance with me come and dance with me come and dance with me come and dance with me come and dance with me come and dance with me come and dance with me
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10.25.2007, 09:17 AM	#51
Rob Instigator invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In the land of the Instigator Posts: 27,975	4 non blondes 25 years and my life is still trying to get up that great big hill of hope For a destination I realized quickly when I knew I should That the world was made up of this Brotherhood of man For whatever that means And so I cry somethimes when I'm lying in bed Just to get it all out what's in my head And I'm, I am feeling a little peculiar So I wake in the morning and I step outside And I take deep breath and I get real high And I scream from the top of my lungs What's goin' on And I say hey.... And I say hey what's goin' on And I say hey.... I said hey what's goin' on Oooh.... Oooh.... And I try, oh my God do I try I try all the time In this institution And I pray, oh my God do I pray I pray every single day For a revolution And so I cry sometimes when I'm lying in bed Just to get it all out what's in my head And I'm, I am feeling a little peculiar So I wake in the morning and I step outside And I take deep breath and I get real high And I scream from the top of my lungs What's goin'on And I say hey... And I say hey what's goin' on And I say hey... I said hey what's goin' on And I say hey... And I say hey what's goin' on And I say hey... I said hey what's goin' on Oooh.... 25 years and my life is still trying to get up that great big hill of hope For a destination __________________ RXTT's Intellectual Journey - my new blog where I talk about all the books I read.
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10.25.2007, 01:26 PM	#52
demonrail666 invito al cielo Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 18,510	The Go-Betweens had the weirdest genius for blurring that fine line between awful and brilliant: Exhibit A: She was in The Omen with Gregory Peck She got killed, what the heck From the song, 'Lee Remick'
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10.25.2007, 01:56 PM	#53
MellySingsDoom invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 8,662	From "Foundations" by Kate Nash: You said I must eat so many lemons, 'cause I am so bitter. I said "I'd rather be with your friends mate, cause they are much fitter" __________________ Snow on Easter Sunday - Jesus Christ in reverse.
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