Worst lyrics ever!

[R.I.C.O.]

D'You Know What I Mean? (What Lyrics I stole?)

It can't be worse than "D'You Know what I Meeeeeen" by Oasis -

"Step off the train all alone at dawn
Back into the hole where I was born
The sun in the sky never raised an eye to meeeeeaahhhhhh
The blood on the trax and must be mine
The fool on the hill and I feel fine
Don't look back cos you know what you might seeeeeeaahhhhh"

Chris Martin and Coldplay are shit, but Oasis top the bill of shitness everytime. That song is full of stolen lyrics.

 

[laptop]

It's sort of cheating, but:

Address to the New Tay Bridge
The Tay Bridge Disaster
​

According to this: McGonagall-Lieder.

Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ry Tay!
Alas! I am very sorry to say
That ninety lives have been taken away
On the last Sabbath day of 1879,
Which will be remember'd for a very long time.

 

[pacmanray]

"Surprisingly" MTV has filled my head with countless candidates over the last few years.

The crown though goes to Sean "Puffy" Combs/Puff Daddy/P Diddy/Diddy (he just announced the latest change last week). I'm glad none of his fetid lyrics have impregnated my mind, although I remember the chorus of one of his fairly recent songs really impressing me:

"D the I the D the D the Y, the D the I the D
It's Diddy (Hold up!) It's Diddy (That shit's crazy!)
The D the I the D the D the Y, the D the I the D
It's Diddy (Hold up!) It's Diddy (Say whaaat?!)"

P Diddy, "Diddy"

That doesn't fucking spell Diddy! That spells DIDDYDID! That shit isn't "crazy", it's illiterate. The man should not be allowed near a microphone, period. The fact that he can't even write a proper name is a pretty strong sign. Rap's own antichrist.

Coming in second place is Fred Durst. This guy is a music executive who incarnated himself as a walking talking marketing scheme, his lyrics are mindblowingly bad (he actually *is* a music executive, that wasn't a joke). Here is a sample of him having a particlarly bad emo moment:

"nobody loves me, nobody cares
nobody loves me, nobody owes me a thing
nobody loves me, nobody cares
nobody loves me, maybe I'll go eat worms

I'll go eat some worms"

Limp Bizkit, "Nobody Loves Me"

At least he's honest.

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

"And where there used to be some shops" - the normally brilliant Human League's 'The Lebanon'

"War war is stupid, and people are stupid" - Culture Club's 'The War Song' (the Boy was capable of better too)

"Walking slowly down the hall, faster than a cannonball" - N. Gallagher

"Most of my friends were strangers, when I met them" - more '80s tripe courtesy of the Goss Bros - although could it have been cryptic...?

See also: every last syllable of 'One In A Million' by G'n'R and 'Boom Bye Bye' by Buju Banton.

 

[Garvo]

Lenny Kravitz Fly away,

I wish that I could fly
Into the sky
So very high
Just like a dragonfly

I’d fly above the trees
Over the seas in all degrees
To anywhere I please

Oh I want to get away
I want to fly away
Yeah yeah yeah

For fucksake if he was an eight year old doing some sort of school poem maybe.

His lyrics are shit
No doubt of it
Lets all have a sit

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

Lenny Kravitz Fly away,

I wish that I could fly
Into the sky
So very high
Just like a dragonfly

I’d fly above the trees
Over the seas in all degrees
To anywhere I please

Oh I want to get away
I want to fly away
Yeah yeah yeah

For fucksake if he was an eight year old doing some sort of school poem maybe.

His lyrics are shit
No doubt of it
Lets all have a sit

Nuff said.

 

[R.I.C.O.]

Also may I nominate "All Around the World" by Oasis-

"All Around the World
You've got to spread the Word
Tell Em What you heard
We're gonna make a better day"

How does "World" rhyme with "Word"?

What exactly is a "better day"? It is just lazy songwriting (probably)...

I fucking hate Oasis.

 

[isvicthere?]

"It's as serious as cancer... that rythmn is a dancer".

End of thread.

The last time someone did this I quoted the above gem from Snap. Also (I believe from the same song) is "she's as soft as bubblebath/I'm as hard as Chinese math"

 

[R.I.C.O.]

But the ultimate is -

"MacArthur Park" by Richard Harris - check out this beauty....

Spring was never waiting for us, girl
It ran one step ahead
As we followed in the dance
Between the parted pages and were pressed
In love's hot, fevered iron
Like a striped pair of pants

MacArthur Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!

I recall the yellow cotton dress
Foaming like a wave
On the ground around your knees
The birds, like tender babies in your hands
And the old men playing checkers by the trees

MacArthur Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!

[break]

There will be another song for me
For I will sing it
There will be another dream for me
Someone will bring it
I will drink the wine while it is warm
And never let you catch me looking at the sun
And after all the loves of my life
After all the loves of my life
You'll still be the one

I will take my life into my hands and I will use it
I will win the worship in their eyes and I will lose it
I will have the things that I desire
And my passion flow like rivers through the sky
And after all the loves of my life
After all the loves of my life
I'll be thinking of you
And wondering why

[extended break]

MacArthur Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!
Oh, no
No, no
Oh no!!

What does it mean? (especially the parts in bold)

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

Also may I nominate "All Around the World" by Oasis-

"All Around the World
You've got to spread the Word
Tell Em What you heard
We're gonna make a better day"

How does "World" rhyme with "Word"?

What exactly is a "better day"? It is just lazy songwriting (probably)...

I fucking hate Oasis.

That was from the legendary snort-a-thon that was 'Be Here Now' I believe...

But the ultimate is -

"MacArthur Park" by Richard Harris - check out this beauty....


Quote:
Spring was never waiting for us, girl
It ran one step ahead
As we followed in the dance
Between the parted pages and were pressed
In love's hot, fevered iron
Like a striped pair of pants

MacArthur Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!

I recall the yellow cotton dress
Foaming like a wave
On the ground around your knees
The birds, like tender babies in your hands
And the old men playing checkers by the trees

MacArthur Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!

[break]

There will be another song for me
For I will sing it
There will be another dream for me
Someone will bring it
I will drink the wine while it is warm
And never let you catch me looking at the sun
And after all the loves of my life
After all the loves of my life
You'll still be the one

I will take my life into my hands and I will use it
I will win the worship in their eyes and I will lose it
I will have the things that I desire
And my passion flow like rivers through the sky
And after all the loves of my life
After all the loves of my life
I'll be thinking of you
And wondering why

[extended break]

MacArthur Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!
Oh, no
No, no
Oh no!!


What does it mean? (especially the parts in bold)

But Jimmy Webb wrote that! That's a classic!!!

 

[fishfingerer]

Lenny Kravitz Fly away,

I wish that I could fly
Into the sky
So very high
Just like a dragonfly

Dragonflies fly at a max height of 4 metres or thereabouts. Kravitz you fuckwit.

 

[R.I.C.O.]

That was from the legendary snort-a-thon that was 'Be Here Now' I believe...



But Jimmy Webb wrote that! That's a classic!!!

Its awful! Especially that instrumental brass section in the middle....arrghhh!

How can "rivers flow through the sky"? Eh? Eh?

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

Its awful! Especially that instrumental brass section in the middle....arrghhh!

Which was itself actually filched from Pearl and Dean, wasn't it?

How can "rivers flow through the sky"? Eh? Eh?

On the right pharmaceuticals they have been known to...

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

Dragonflies fly at a max height of 4 metres or thereabouts. Kravitz you fuckwit.

Images of low-flying fuckwit Kravitz abound...

 

[R.I.C.O.]

Only a song as bad as this can have the lyric:

In love's hot, fevered iron

Followed by:

Like a striped pair of pants

 

[fishfingerer]

Images of low-flying fuckwit Kravitz abound...

'Uh, Lenny don't do ento-muthafuckin-mology.' - A Kravitz lackey yesterday.

 

[muser]

It can't be worse than "D'You Know what I Meeeeeen" by Oasis -

"Step off the train all alone at dawn
Back into the hole where I was born
The sun in the sky never raised an eye to meeeeeaahhhhhh
The blood on the trax and must be mine
The fool on the hill and I feel fine
Don't look back cos you know what you might seeeeeeaahhhhh"

Chris Martin and Coldplay are shit, but Oasis top the bill of shitness everytime. That song is full of stolen lyrics.

Admit it, you brought all their albums and still play them them to death.
"sort you shit and roll, sex, drugs and on the dole" brilliant lyrics by our friends the streets.

 

[killer b]

Admit it, you brought all their albums and still play them them to death.

as if!

oasis were shit then, and are shit now.

no more slagging for mcarthur park please. it's a work of genius - i'll rough up anyone who says anything different.

 

[Echo Beach]

Anything that has to rely on the lyric "til the morning light".

But Oasis are just the worst. End of.

 

[Rasberry Nipple]

Oasis lyrics can be pretty wanky, but for some reason they've got a reputation for being good

"Caught beneath the landslide
In a champagne supernova
A champagne supernova in the sky
Wake up the dawn and ask her why
A dreamer dreams she never dies
Wipe that tear away now from your eye
Slowly walking down the hall
Faster than a cannonball...."

 

[R.I.C.O.]

Anything that has to rely on the lyric "til the morning light".

But Oasis are just the worst. End of.

I was rather thinking of the lyric:

"make a better day"

I want to know what exactly is "a better day"? Oasis use "better day" in about 3 or 4 of their songs.

I never actually spent any money on Oasis. I just got them bought for me.....

no more slagging for mcarthur park please. it's a work of genius - i'll rough up anyone who says anything different.

"And I'll never slag that song off again! Ohhhh Nooooooooooooooooo!!!!!"

 

[carters]

hello, you fool, I love you, c'mon join the joyride.

Inane, banal, irritating and meanlingness, but I suppose Roxette will never need to drag themselves out of bed in the morning to go to work again, so the joke is on us really. Not that I was one of those who financed their early retirement though.

 

[R.I.C.O.]

How can somebody be walking "slowly down a hall" and then be "faster than a cannonball"? Can cannonballs walk? And do they travel slower than a walking person when fired from a cannon?

 

[Sweet FA]

Depeche Mode again I think:

"Words are very
Unnecessary"

Dear God.

 

[EatMoreChips]

hello, you fool, I love you, c'mon join the joyride.

Inane, banal, irritating and meanlingness, but I suppose Roxette will never need to drag themselves out of bed in the morning to go to work again, so the joke is on us really. Not that I was one of those who financed their early retirement though.

I'm waiting to hear your finest Swedish prose before passing judgement...

 

[Louloubelle]

The worst lyrics in the world ever are the lyrics to a horrible song called Substitute by a crap girl band called Clout

http://www.lyricsondemand.com/c/cloutlyrics/substitutelyrics.html

Some of the lyrics to rappers delight are pretty grim, how about

he cant satisfy you with his little worm
but i can bust you out with my super sperm
i go do it, i go do it, i go do it, do it , do it
an i'm here an i'm there i'm big bang hank, im everywhere
just throw your hands up in the air

always makes me laugh, it's so bad it's almost good

 

[ch750536]

Def Leppard...

POUR

SOME

SUGAR

ON

MEEEEE



In the name of love

 

[EatMoreChips]

...I suppose a rock's out of the question...

 

[IntoStella]

You're beautiful
You're beautiful
You're beautiful
It's true
I see your face
In a crowded place
And I don't know what to do
Coz I'd rather be with you
But I've puked up on my shoe.

(OK, I added the last line)

The disparity between the really-not-bad Wisemen and the unutterable, Chris-de-Burgh-tastic execrability of the rest of James Blunt's output leads me to suspect that his mum helped him with the former.

 

[ether]

that was ripped of from an eric b & rakim number... personally i think rap/hiphop has all the worst lines:

'prostitutes, as young as fifteen
roaming the streets in very tight jeans'

shut up & dance, this town needs a sherrif

'never been a fake and i'm never phony
i got more flavour than a packet of macaroni'

justin warfield/bomb the bass, bug powder dust

'i'm into sex, i ain't into makin' love
so come give me a hug'

50 cent, in da club

and thousands more...

but that macaroni line's ace!

hip hop might have more bad lyrics than average (or it might not), but don't forget the average rap tune has 4 or 5 times as many lyrics as sung songs do, coz they use them up faster and still need to fill a 3 minute tune.

If we're comparing genres, and their overall ability to consistently astound the listener with bad lyrics, what about 80's chart pop? Can't think of an example really, but you know what I mean.