Stupid lines from pop songs

Kindly top: "I've been to Nice and the Isle of Greece."

"How can you Marys tell me what to do, when you lost your love so true?"

This one has always annoyed me especially since its in a song that I actually kind of like...

Jewel, Foolish Games-

"You'd teach me of honest things, Things that were daring, things that were clean. Things that knew what an honest dollar did mean."

Huh?

In the desert you can remember your name,

Cause there ain't no one gor to give you no pain.

There ain't no one for to give you no pain.

..when you know the notes to sing, you can sing most anything, that's what Julie Andrews told me

"You peep things in me no one sees, you hold it down fo she-e-zy."

Yo they tell I'm a trooper. And you know I'm satisfied. I do yoga and pilates. And the room is full of hotties.

Shooby-doo-wop and scooby snacks, met a fly girl and I can't relax.

Summertime girls are the kind I like, I'll steal your honey like I stole your bike.

The Killers 'Are we humans or are we dancer".

The silly twat who wrote it said he was free to do what he wanted with grammar and words. Dumb cunt.

I love you like a fat kid loves cake.

"She's so fine, there's no telling where the money went"

It goes without saying that “MacArthur Park” and “You’re So Vain” own this thread, but of course there’s more.

One particularly horrible stanza from Bobby Goldsboro’s schlocky “Honey” is as follows:

"She wrecked the car and she was sad and so afraid that I’d be mad, but what the heck. Though I pretended hard to be, guess you could say she saw through me and hugged my neck."

Cunt DESERVED to be taken away by the fuckin’ angels.

SHE HAD DUMPS LIKE A TRUCK TRUCK TRUCK/ THIGHS LIKE WHAT WHAT WHAT/ BABY MOVE YOUR BUTT BUTT BUTT/ THINK I'LL SING IT AGAIN/ SHE HAD DUMPS LIKE A TRUCK TRUCK TRUCK/ THIGHS LIKE WHAT WHAT WHAT/ ALL NIGHT LONG/ LET ME SEE THAT THONG!

"Am I original? Yeah!

Am I the only one? Yeah!

Am I sexual? Yeah!"

Awful, sexist, douchebag trash aimed by pederasts at 12-year-old girls who are the product of the declining standards of arts education in America.

This song's lyrics are so vile in their heteronormativity and sexism while advocating codependency and suggesting that wives should have to tolerate domestic violence, I can't even type them.

The Doors' "Touch Me"

"Now, I'm gonna love you Till the heavens stop the rain I'm gonna love you Till the stars fall from the sky for you and I"

Ladies and Gentlemen Mr. Justin Timberlake's " Mirrors":

-Cause with your hand in my hand and a pocket full of soul

-It's like you're my mirror My mirror staring back at me I couldn't get any bigger With anyone else beside of me

-Ooh I can't ever change without you, you reflect me, I love that about you

-Yesterday is history Tomorrow's a mystery

"Jeremiah was a bulldog, was a good friend of mine" - Three Dog Night, "Joy to the World" What the FUCK does that mean!

All the lyrics to "A Whiter Shade of Pale" by Procal Harem set my teeth on edge.

"He had a daughter he called Easter, she was born on Tuesday night" - Sheryl Crowe, "Every Day is a Winding Road"

ALL the lyrics to "A Change Would do You Good" by S Crow. "Scully and Angel on the kitchen floor?" WTF! Ugh.

Second Madonna's "Deeper and Deeper." Great melody, inane lyrics.

ALL of Duran Duran's lyrics. "Shake up the picture with your lizard mixture with your dance on the evening tide?" ("New Moon on Monday"). Fuck you, Simon. You're hot but dumb.

That Umbrella-ella-ella song by Rhianna...UUUUUGH!

"Music" by Madonna. "The bourgeoisie and the rebel?"

Pretty much everything by Sting, but especially "This Cowboy Song," "When We Dance," and the oh so edgy, "If I Ever Lose My Faith in You" ("You could say I lost my faith in our politicians, they all seems like like game show hosts to me" REVOLUTIONARY),

Worst smug lyric - Sting, "Poor over everything on my CV and you'll still know nothin' bout me." ("Nothing 'Bout Me").

Reminds me, Sting's daughter sucks, too: "Oh oh oh, who holds the shell shall me caesar, you can even get written on your T-shirt" ("Caesar").

I'd willingly jump into a grease fire to forget these lyrics,

"Lucky that my lips not only mumble, they spill kisses like a fountain, lucky that my breasts are small and humble, so you don't confuse them with mountains."

*pour not poor.

and "shall be Casear."

Can't remember the song exactly (I think it's by MC Hammer), but there some line about "love" and going out to buy "Dove" (soap, I assume).

Also, Madonna's Papa, Don't Preach has the line "I'm in trouble deep." This is an example of switching words just to make it rhyme--but it doesn't make sense this way. Who ever says, "I'm in trouble deep?"

R23, don't forget Madonna's "Don't Stop:" "Feel in it your body, sing la-de-da-de." Lazy writing, but it's just a filler track.

And the Christmas bells that ring there Are the clanging sound of doom, Well tonight, thank God, it's them instead of you!

- Do They Know It's Christmas

ALL songs by Duran Duran don't actually make sense.

Most songs by Sting don't make sense either. He puts in a few intellectual words and references here and there--but they still don't make sense

I'm Still A Woman To Me by Lynda Carter

Why do birds suddenly appear every time you are near? Just like me, they long to be close to you.

Nothing tops The Reflex by Duran Duran. Nothing.

Is the word bitch censored on DL?

[quote] Kindly top: "I've been to Nice and the Isle of Greece."

It's isles of Greece, Greece is on the mainland but known for the thousands of islands it also has.

[quote]It goes without saying that “MacArthur Park” and “You’re So Vain” own this thread

It should go without saying that your taste is in your ass. The lyrics to “You’re So Vain” are quite clever.

"Guilty feet have got no rhythm." Really???

- George Michael

Actually, R22, it's "pore," not "pour" in R20. Should be:

[quote]Pore over everything on my CV and you'll still know nothin' bout me.

[quote]"Jeremiah was a bulldog, was a good friend of mine" - Three Dog Night, "Joy to the World" What the FUCK does that mean!

This has been often explained. Hoyt Axton who wrote it was trying to sell the melody and was asked to come up with some lyrics on the spur of the moment. He had no idea what the actual words would be. Later he went back and changed the lyric to "Jeremiah was a prophet..."

Later when it was recorded, the producers didn't like it and told him to go back to the silly lyrics he had originally. Three Dog Night also thought the "silly lyrics" made the song sound better.

This is done a lot, Ellie Greenwich who co-wrote "Do Ron Ron" said, they had every intention of going back and thinking of words to replace "Do Ron Ron," as it was just a place holder till they thought of something better. Then she says "Thank goodness we couldn't think of anything better."

[quote]Jeremiah was a bulldog

Wasn't he a bull[italic]frog[/italic]?

R8 and R24 win. Also "moves like Jagger"?

Thank you, R35 and yes, I meant to type "bullFROG," R36!

Still hate the lyric.

And the poster upthread who mentioned The Reflex...yes, it's awful, but ALL their lyrics, particularly from that album, Seven and the Ragged Tiger (and WTF IS THAT) are like that.

[quote] Ellie Greenwich who co-wrote "Do Ron Ron"

That's "[italic]Da[/italic] Doo Ron Ron."

Baby, you're a firework!

So tell me have you ever really

Really, really ever loved a woman?

I know I'll be hated for this, but whenever I heard "Ra ra oh la la! Ra ra oh gaga" from DL fave Lady Gaga's Bad Romance , it makes me want to stick knitting needles in my ears.

*hear

[quote]I'm Still A Woman To Me by Lynda Carter

The lyric is "cause she's always a woman like me". Still fucking stupid though.

I love me some him.

I gotta shake it off just like the Calgon commercial I really gotta get up outta here and go somewhere.

Billy Shakespeare wrote a whole lot of sonnets.

da da da, da da da, da da da, da da da da da da I do not love you, you love me not da da da I do not love you, you love me not da da da I do not love you, you love me not da da da I do not love you, you love me not da da da, da da da, da da da, da da da

Thanks R20 about Madonna's when you know the notes to sing.

They'll be scary ghost stories and tales of the glories of Xmas especially long long ago.

R48, Aw, I find Trio quite droll!

"If I knocked the "L" out of Kelly, sure he's knock the "L" out of me!"

Unless her trick ejaculated on her head, then I suggest "I'm going to wash that man right out of my hair" is inane.

The ringing of your laughter it sounds like a melody

W&W for R53!

"Songs she sang to me, notes she brang to me."

Phil Collin's song "Sussudio" what the hell word is that?

FANK You, R57! I always wondered.

How about: She wants to multiply! Are you gonna do it? She wants to be your bride! Are you gonna do it? The Power Station, 'Some Like it Hot.'

(RIP, Robert Palmer)

Can't believe no one's mentioned "my pussy tastes like Pepsi Cola" Lana Del Rey.

[R47] Full phrase: When she gets buzzed, she stings like a hawnet. Billy Shakespeare wrote a whole lot of sonnets.

Strange illuminated mannequins~alphaville

Everybody Wang Chung tonight ????

"Alligator lizards in the air" America

"I gave you the finger, you took me to dinner"

Voted in grey gloves..to Germany with love.

The Mozart rip at the end is indeed priceless

Coated in grey gloves..to Germany with love

Niel Diamond's "Play Me" -- Song she sang to me / Song she brang to me / Words that rang in me, / Rhyme that sprang from me

Brang? That must have sprang from Neil Diamond, 'cuz there ain't no such word as brang!

"You do the walk, you do the walk of life" - Dire Straits. What is the walk of life? Hate the song and video.

I took my love and took it down, first line of Landslide.

I only wanna die alive. Song by Ariana Grande.

We can dance, we can dance, everybody look at your hands.

Well it's safety dance! Well it's safety dance.

“She sits / At the Ritz / With her splits / Of Mumm’s / And starts to pine / For a stein / With her Village chums / But with her Schlitz / In her mitts / Down at Fitz- / Roy’s Bar, she thinks of the Ritz, oh / It’s so schizo.”

"Don't you wanna dance with somebody who loves MEEEEEEE!" Since you're asking me Whitney the answer is "no", I don't give a fuck if the person I'm dancing with loves YOU, you egotistical bitch.

Turn on your heart light Neil dion about movie E.T.

Howard Stern started a let's not let Neil Diamond go to movies anymore crusade. Remember that?

Warm leatherette. .a tear of petrol is in your eye, with a handbrake and a trace of your thigh

Quick, let's make love before you die

Let's build a madman nation, learn and work as never yet...

[quote] “She sits / At the Ritz / With her splits / Of Mumm’s / And starts to pine / For a stein / With her Village chums / But with her Schlitz / In her mitts / Down at Fitz- / Roy’s Bar, she thinks of the Ritz, oh / It’s so schizo.”

Talk about overcooked.

"Came a telegram/Mama passed away while making homemade jam"

"Laying in the grass writing poetry looking at the midnight sun while you're making love to me"

Lord knows we ain't got money, I'm so in love with my pussy.

A lot of these are complaints about poetic phrasing by people who are too literal.

R77 It's actually very clever, in a silly way.

I want your sex

And when the radical priest comes to get us released, we is all on the cover of Newsweek

The best soy latte that you ever had in me.

I'm the one who wants to love you more

Well I'll be goddamed you.

I drove all night to get to you. Is that alright?

Baby, I'm a want you!

Baby, I'm a knee choo!

Baby. Hey baby, don't get me in here acting silly now. Ha ha ha, you're not taping this are you? HE-HE!!!!Edit.

R83, that's a great line.

R83 it is a great line, I agree

I will call you Betty and Betty when you can call me, you can caaaaaaalll meeeee Al! - Paul Simon

Simon and Chevy Chase were both extremely annoying in the video.

R87, that's a song by Roy Orbison covered by Celine and also Cyndi Lauper.

Yeah, but Sussudio is still a kick ass song, R57.

R89, what do you mean? That's the best part of Rhythm Nation 1814!

R87 fanks. I'd always thought it was written by someone like me taking that 6 hr. Drive from LI up to Montreal

[quote] It's actually very clever, in a silly way.

It's clever clever, and entirely too pleased with itself.

Your father's gone looking to find him a job / Your grandmother sends all her welfare to God / Your brother's been taking it out on the dog / So don't run away from me now.

In a town where I was born Lived a man who sailed to sea And he told us of his life In the land of submarines

So we sailed up to the sun Till we found the sea of green And we lived beneath the waves In our yellow submarine

We all live in a yellow submarine Yellow submarine, yellow submarine We all live in a yellow submarine Yellow submarine, yellow submarine

And our friends are all on board Many more of them live next door And the band begins to play

We all live in a yellow submarine Yellow submarine, yellow submarine We all live in a yellow submarine Yellow submarine, yellow submarine

[Full speed ahead, Mr. Parker, full speed ahead! Full speed over here, sir! Action station! Action station! Aye, aye, sir, fire! Heaven! Heaven!]

As we live a life of ease (A life of ease) Everyone of us (Everyone of us) has all we need (Has all we need) Sky of blue (Sky of blue) and sea of green (Sea of green) In our yellow (In our yellow) submarine (etc)

More Winning Lyrics by Boomtown Rats

The silicon chip inside her head Gets switched to overload. And nobody's gonna go to school today, She's going to make them stay at home. And daddy doesn't understand it, He always said she was as good as gold. And he can see no reason 'Cause there are no reasons What reason do you need to be shown?

Tell me why? I don't like Mondays. Tell me why? I don't like Mondays. Tell me why? I don't like Mondays. I want to shoot The whole day down.

The telex machine is kept so clean As it types to a waiting world. And mother feels so shocked, Father's world is rocked, And their thoughts turn to Their own little girl. Sweet 16 ain't so peachy keen, No, it ain't so neat to admit defeat. They can see no reasons 'Cause there are no reasons What reason do you need to be shown?

Tell me why? I don't like Mondays. Tell me why? I don't like Mondays. Tell me why? I don't like Mondays. I want to shoot The whole day down.

All the playing's stopped in the playground now She wants to play with her toys a while. And school's out early and soon we'll be learning And the lesson today is how to die. And then the bullhorn crackles, And the captain crackles, With the problems and the how's and why's. And he can see no reasons......

r100, what's wrong with that song, which seems to make perfect sense, rhymes nicely, documents history and has a good melody? Agreed, not the best dance tune, but . . . ?

[quote]A lot of these are complaints about poetic phrasing by people who are too literal.

I hope you don't include Neil Diamond's use of the word 'brang' in that.

LFO's Summer Girls basically owns this thread.

"Stayed all summer then went back home, Macauly Culkin wasn't home alone."

"Fell deep in love but now we ain't speakin, Michael J. Fox was Alex P. Keaton."

"There was a good man named Paul Revere, I feel much better baby when you're near."

"Call you up but what's the use , I like Kevin Bacon but I hate Footloose."

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O bla dee o bla da, life goes o-on

La la la la life goes on

This is that ice cold Michelle Pfeiffer that white gold...and I'm bad about that money...Uptown funk you up

I did it all for the nookie. The nookie. So you can take that cookie and stick it up your yeah! Stick it up your yeah! Stick it up your yeah!

By the time I get to Phoenix, she'll be rising...

Yeah, like from the ashes of her abusive relationship with passive-aggressive YOU

You'd better look before you leap. Still waters run deep. So smile for a while and let's be jolly

r101 I Don't Like Mondays - it is the only 'song' that ever incited sympathy in me for the knuckleheads who 'sang' it. I used to wince at Geldof trying to pass himself off as a credible lead vocalist.

Oh my god, debbie, are you having a really bad period?

Oh my god, debbie, are you having a really bad period?

Get it on. BAngie a gong. You're dirty and sweet and you're my girl

It hides a mess of stains just lying there

The Kesha song Tik Tok which includes the lyric, "We kick em to the curb unless they look like Mick Jagger." What??!! The man looks like a prune.

I'm such a baby and the Dolphins made me cry - Hootie & The Blowfish

War war is stupid and people are stupid - Culture Club

Get out of my dreams, get into my car - Billy Ocean

"Never Ever", All Saints:

"A few questions that I need to know..." and a few answers that she needs to ask, presumably.

R59, that's probably Lana's most ridiculous lyric. And that's saying something.

Just like the white winged dove

Sings a song

Sounds like she's singin'

ooh ooh ooh

Just like the white winged dove

Sings a song

Sounds like she's singin'

Ooh, baby, ooh

Say ooh

There are BAD stupid lyrics and there are GOOD stupid lyrics. "Bang A Gong" had good stupid lyrics. "Do They Know It's Christmas?" has very bad stupid lyrics.

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R119, agreex. Just trying to keep an awesome thread going..

You won't fiND roses growing on stocks of clover, so you'd better think it over

R119, agreex. Just trying to keep an awesome thread going..

You won't fiND roses growing on stocks of clover, so you'd better think it over

I am the eggman, they are the eggmen I am the walrus, goo goo g' joob goo goo g' joob

R100 song lyrics are perfectly credible. It was based on an actual quote from a 16 year old girl who shot up her elementary school. When they asked her why she said "I don't like Mondays"

Maybe you can accuse them of being a little too lyrics but to me it's pretty much spot on.

a little too literal

GIRL FLEX! TIME TO HAVE SEX!

How about this classic:

Whatcha gonna do with all that junk All that junk inside your trunk

I'm get get get get you drunk Get you love drunk off my hump My hump my hump my hump my hump my hump

Smack it up, flip it, rub it down, oh noooooo!

"In the desert you can remember your name,

for there ain't no one for to give you no pain.

America, Horse With No Name.

What does this even mean?

OP, you have the lyrics wrong, hahaha. Well, maybe the song won't bother you so much now.

It's like Romeo and Juliet, hot sex on a platter just to make you sweat.

Simply having a wonderful Christmas time

That Brian Adams Xmas song and anything by Jobn Bon Vovi where he's "gonna live his life"

"Something 'bout you right here beside me / Touches the touched part of me like I can't believe."

I'm still a woman to me - Lynda Carter

Interpol sound good, but the lyrics are always dumb as shit

I am I said. To no one there. Not even the chair.

R132, I know I'm in the minority, but I love Wonderful Christmastime. It reminds me of being 12 and hearing this spacey sounding song from another era.

And I adore Stella's designs! Fluid, classic but modern, androgynous and yet feminine, too.

I liked the old songs from Tin Pan Alley, cause they wouldn't usually accept a bad rhyme, but the result left some twisted, yet stupid, or brilliant, depending on how you look at it, lyrics.

Like:

Rubbing Elbows

With their swell beaus

or

Beans could get no keener reception in a beanery

Bless this mountain greenery home

Get spelling check, a hearing aid, and an editor, R20

There's no particular order, just be certain to get all three of them.

"Now that I've become who I really are"

Sorry, R140, I got carried away before I could adequately composes my thought!

COMPOSE, I meant!

Like a willow I can bend.

I don 't like cities

But I like New York

Other places make me feel like a dork

My ding-a-ling, my ding-a-ling, I want you to play with my ding-a-ling.

[quote]Howard Stern started a let's not let Neil Diamond go to movies anymore crusade. Remember that?

That's hilarious. Diamond has a couple dozen songs built around movies, and pretty much all of them suck. That bastard has one called "Don't Think, Feel" based on some Bruce Lee quote. Haven't listened to it but that's because I don't hate myself. It can't be good.

" Your love is like a booger on my finger and I cannot flick it off." -- Merle Nares

R145, that is terrible!

Appreciate my ARTistry, bitch, R140!

Oops that was for you, R149. I am an ARTISTE

You call me sweet like I'm some kind of cheese

R150, hahaha, did she actually write that line, I wonder! Or was it Dipblow?

I've never been to ME!

Listen 153, it's a scorcher of a tune and the lyric is so bad it's perfect, and that's why she'll be the first female pop billionairess.

The ESL ones of the words. Think Germans or Austrians writing in English.

When we all give the power / we all give the best / every minute of an hour / don't think about the rest / and you all get the power / you all get the best / when everyone gets everything / and every song everybody sings / live is life (nanananana) / live is life (nanananana)

Ha! That should read "The ESL ones are the worst"

I'm a big big girl in a big big world. It's not a big big thing if you leave me. But I do do do think I will will will miss you much, miss you much.

I'm so stupid Because I used to live In a tiny bubble And I wanted to be Like all the pretty people That were all around me But now I know for sure That I was stupid Stupider than stupid Stupider than stupid Stupider than stupid

The Bee Gees have a long history of just rhyming words that don't make any sense, but sometimes they also come up with a clunker without reaching for a rhyme.

[quote]It ought ta be ILLEGAL! Make it a crime to be lonely or sad!

Bad girl, drunk by six, kissing someone else's lips - Madonna

99% of all rap songs

For you R162.

I PUT MY HAND UP ON MY HIP WHEN I DIP YOU DIP WE DIP!

COTTON CANDY SWEET AND LOW LET ME SEE THAT TOOSTIE ROLL!

COME ON RIDE THE TRAIN YOU CAN RIDE IT WHOO! WHOO!

I kiss the morning goodbye

But down inside you know

We never know why

"COME ON RIDE THE TRAIN YOU CAN RIDE IT WHOO! WHOO!"

"Pulling a train" is slang for a woman having sex with a lot of men, one right after the other. Gag.

All aboard for moo moo land.

[quote]"Pulling a train" is slang for a woman having sex with a lot of men, one right after the other.

No shit, R165.

Shocked @R68, Knopfler's a great lyricist at times, and very inventive in a way not many of these others are. His true strength is characters and stories that are powerful enough to stand on their own no matter the lyric, but he's got some good lines to his name. He's got a lexicon and an imagery bank that's unusual and evocative, which you have to appreciate in a writer, even when it doesn't always click. A good example is the song 'Skateaway' from the album Making Movies, which has some brilliant verses mixed with a vaguer, weaker (not great) chorus lyric. Here's the first and second verses to show you how he writes. There's a lot of wordplay and dialogue, which gives it a humorous slant.

I seen a girl on a one-way corridor,//Stealing down a wrong-way street... For all the world like an urban Toreador,//She had wheels on her feet.. Well, the cars do the usual dances,//Same old cruise, and the kerbside crawl.. But the Rollergirl, she's taking chances,//And they just love to see her take them all...! .. Hallelujah, here she comes, Queen Rollerball!//"Enchante, what can I say?" "I don't care at all..." .. She tortures taxi drivers, just for fun,//She like to read their lips.. She says, "Toro-toro, Taxi, see ya t'morrow, my son!"//I swear she let a big truck grease her hip..

Don't like cities

But I like New York

Other places make me feel like a dork

Johnny hit and run Pauline

Hot town, summer in the city

Back of my neck getting dirty and gritty

Been down, isn't it a pity

And so on and so on and scooby dooby doo.

[quote]Can't believe no one's mentioned "my pussy tastes like Pepsi Cola" Lana Del Rey.

I fail to see why that's a problem.

"I am"... I said

To no one there

And no one heard at all

Not even the chair. _____________ This song was big when I was in college. It made me cringe every time I heard it.

"The ants are my friends are blowin in the wind - the ants are a blowin in the wind".

R118 It's so catchy tho. In fact, it's stuck in my head now.