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Horrific lyrics?

  • 27-06-2010 1:11pm
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 24


    I'd wager that there's probably been a thread on this subject here before, but something just popped into my head and I think these things are good for a giggle.

    What are the worst lyrics you've ever heard? To paraphrase Bernard Black, rhymes that made you "vomit into your own scorn"?

    Here's my favourite howler, from 'Tired of Me' by Live:

    "Hope is the letter that never arrives, delivered by the postman of my fear."

    Makes me laugh my arse off every time :D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,068 ✭✭✭StereoLove


    That's a good one!!:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5 Hexagrams


    ""I am," I said
    To no one there
    An no one heard at all
    Not even the chair"

    I Am I Said, Neil Diamond.

    One of my faves :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 28 Sparki


    In fairness, there are a lot of dodgy lyrics in the charts these days!!

    Heard the new boyzone song yest and thought it was particularly dreadful:

    "Its's like one step forward and two steps back
    Cause love is like a hurricane"

    What!? that makes no sense!


    And also:


    "Butterflies I want to keep
    I try to laugh but I just weep"



    So bad! As long as it rhymes they will sing it....

    *sigh of exasperation*


  • Registered Users Posts: 125 ✭✭randomuser77


    My all time favourite (is that the right word?) is the first verse of Life by Des'ree:

    "I'm afraid of the dark
    Especially when I'm in a park
    And there's no one else around,
    Oh I get the shivers.
    I don't want to see a ghost,
    It's the sight that I fear most
    I'd rather have a piece of toast
    And watch the evening news."


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 71 ✭✭gavitron22


    i hated that rip off of sweet home alabama by kid rock, the lyrics weren't horrifically bad (like those ones....) but he rhythmes "things" with "things" about three times! it's so god damn poetically and aesthetically incorrect! AH!! :mad:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 202 ✭✭Caught


    My Mam HATES the lyrics in Beat Again by JLS that go:

    If I die, yeah
    Would you come to my funeral?
    Would you cry?

    :L

    On the other hand, she loves the lyrics in a Bell X1 song that go:

    You're like the chocolate at the end of my
    Cornetto


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,014 ✭✭✭Colm!


    My all time favourite (is that the right word?) is the first verse of Life by Des'ree:

    "I'm afraid of the dark
    Especially when I'm in a park
    And there's no one else around,
    Oh I get the shivers.
    I don't want to see a ghost,
    It's the sight that I fear most
    I'd rather have a piece of toast
    And watch the evening news."
    This, a million times, this


  • Registered Users Posts: 254 ✭✭ttoppcat


    My all time favourite (is that the right word?) is the first verse of Life by Des'ree:

    "I'm afraid of the dark
    Especially when I'm in a park
    And there's no one else around,
    Oh I get the shivers.
    I don't want to see a ghost,
    It's the sight that I fear most
    I'd rather have a piece of toast
    And watch the evening news."

    that one ALWAYS pee'd me off too...especially the piece of toast bit:rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,159 ✭✭✭daz801


    With the lights out, it's less dangerous
    Here we are now, entertain us
    I feel stupid and contagious
    Here we are now, entertain us

    A mulatto, an albino
    A mosquito, my libido
    Yeah, hey, yay

    Smells like teen spirit - Nirvana


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    I don't think these lyrics are horrific but they make me laugh - they're just too ridiculous, and have the hallmarks of "what rhymes with that word? Oh yeah, that'll do..." I still like them though. Probably substance-influenced too, in fairness:
    Well she's my woman of gold
    And she's not very old - a ha ha
    Well she's my woman of gold
    And she's not very old - a ha ha
    I don't mean to be bold, a-but a-may I hold your hand?

    Well she ain't no witch and I love the way she twitch - a ha ha
    Well she ain't no witch and I love the way she twitch - a ha ha
    I'm a labourer of love in my persian gloves - a ha ha

    Well she's faster than most and she lives on the coast - a ha ha
    (T-Rex - Hot Love)


    Some of these just make me cringe, even if the song is fantastic. Not because I think they're sexist, just embarrassing - especially the last line... :eek:
    strolling along minding my own buisness
    well there goes a girl and a half
    she's got me going up and down
    she's got me going up and down

    walking on the beaches looking at the peaches

    well i got the notion girl that you got some suntan lotion in that bottle of yours
    spread it all over my peelin' skin baby
    that feels real good
    all this skirt lappin' up the sun
    lap me up
    why don't you come on and
    lap me up

    walking on the beaches looking at the peaches

    well there goes another one just lying down on the sand dunes
    i'd better go take a swim and see if i can cool down a little bit
    coz you and me woman
    we got a lotta things on our minds (you know what i mean)

    walking on the beaches looking at the peaches

    will you just take a look over there (where?) there
    is she tryin' to get outta that clitares?
    liberation for women
    thats what i preach
    preacher man

    walking on the beaches looking at the peaches

    oh ****
    there goes the charabang
    looks like im gonna be stuck here the whole summer
    well what a bummer
    i can think of a lot worse places to be
    like down in the streets
    or down in the sewer
    or even on the end of a skewer

    (The Stranglers - Peaches)


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  • Site Banned Posts: 4,415 ✭✭✭MilanPan!c


    Rollercoaster of love
    Say what?
    Rollercoaster,
    yeah (ooh ooh, ooh ooh)
    Rollercoaster
    Love rollercoaster, child
    Lovin' you is really wild
    Love love love love love love love love love love
    Rollercoaster,
    uhuh (ooh ooh, ooh ooh)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 202 ✭✭Caught


    All the Small Things:

    Keep your head still
    I'll be your thrill
    Tonight is the night
    My little windmill?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    A classic BB song spoiled a little by some naff lyrics

    Dont Worry Baby

    I guess I should've kept my mouth shut
    When I started to brag about my car
    But I can't back down now
    I pushed the other guys too far


  • Registered Users Posts: 202 ✭✭Peppapig


    #You can be my DJ
    I can be your dancefloor#


    WTF!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 202 ✭✭Caught


    Peppapig wrote: »
    #You can be my DJ
    I can be your dancefloor#


    WTF!

    All good JLS songs seem to just be catchy tunes with lyrics thrown around. Whatever rhymes [or in this case its just plain old random] sticks.

    And its actually
    "you can be the DJ,
    I can be the dancefloor,
    you can get up on me," I think. :L

    Still makes no sense... They should be a dancer in that case...

    Love your name btw. :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 571 ✭✭✭Parawhore.xD


    Horrific lyrics?
    Tik tok by ke$ha says it all doesn't it?? :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 202 ✭✭Caught


    Horrific lyrics?
    Tik tok by ke$ha says it all doesn't it?? :P

    Tik tok on the clock cause the party dont stop. :L
    Wouldnt mind, but isn't it spelt tick?

    I hate the name Ke$ha. I always say it wrong. C'mon like, how on earth do you pronounce a dollar sign? I think its easier if we all follow Youtuber Glozell's trend and call her Ketchup and Cashew.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,577 ✭✭✭Android 666


    Another JLS one that bugs the shíte out of me:
    Ohh, shes the kinda girl I dream about
    Magazines, glossy magazines

    Another terrible one:
    You cut me open and I keep bleeding, keep, keep bleeding love


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 614 ✭✭✭colinod0806


    Yeah (i) yeah, im in charge now,
    Im a star and I bought my ****ing cast out,
    I live a very very very wild lifestyle,
    Heidi and Audrina eat your heart out,
    I used to listen to you dont wanna bring arms house
    I got so many clothes I keeps em in ma aunts house,
    Disturbing London baby we about to branch out,
    Soon ill be the king like Prince Charles Child, Yeah!

    from tinie tempah-pass out. the line in bold particularly grates on me.on one end of the rap scale you have eminems genius lyrics and on the other end well...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22 !Pablo Fanquez!


    My eyes are burnt and bleeding and all that looks like a monkey on a silver bar …
    big poop hatch with a cotton hatch – hatch holes that the light shows in and the light shows out …
    and the little red fence …
    and the wire and the wood …
    and the barbs and the berries …
    and the tires and the bottles and the caruponrims …
    and the heat swims on its fenders and the dust collects and the rust of autumn surrenders into gold …
    trumpet poop on the ground with peanuts its bell was blocking an ant’s vision …
    and the mice played in its air holes and valves …
    a ladybug crawled off its mouthpiece standing out red and blacked its wings and blew off to a flower …
    its hum heard just above the ground …
    black dots were hung in what turned out to be an olive tree that originally held a tree house full of a building with one small window …
    birds and broken glass and tiny bits of newspaper …
    "My sun is free from the window," said the god the green dabbers …
    rice wires mouse tins and milk muffins …
    cereal and stone …
    matches and masks and mace and clubs …
    and splintered shaft light intrigues a cricket on a dust jeweled penlet …
    cobwebs collect down plaster run into a hole and find collected glass that drinks the reflection of midday afternoon midway between telegraph lines …
    a silver wing – a cloud – a rumbling of a cloud …
    a crowd of various violins strum from next door through my wall into my ear obviously artificial …
    neighbors laugh through sandwiches …
    Harlem babies – their stomachs explode into roars …
    their eyes shiny with starvation …
    spreckled hula dance on my phonograph …
    my door rattles windy …
    sand wears my rug shoe and taps on the unheard finish of an hourglass I cannot hear …
    a typical musician’s nest of thoughts filter through dust speakers …
    "Why don’t you go home? Oh Blobby, are you great," exclaims two lips in some jumbled rock ‘n’ roll tune and wears a spot I cannot scratch …
    the surface of a friend …
    this high book a friend laid on me …
    on the couch relaxing in the corner behind a still life pond with plenty of bugs and lily pads slurred in mud banks and boulders tin cans and raisins warped by thought …
    strain on the spoon like a wheat check – check Bif – cotton popping out of his sleeve …
    poop hatch open – big poop hatch with a cotton hatch – hatch holes – got to pick up the horns …
    but the head won’t move until it walks


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,755 ✭✭✭A V A


    Caught wrote: »
    All the Small Things:

    Keep your head still
    I'll be your thrill
    Tonight is the night
    My little windmill?


    shat up :P:P:P:P


    thats song is a complete p*ss take its was meant to be funny and lyrics were stupid and they said it was a joke themselves hahahaha
    love it
    blink 182 for life


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,092 ✭✭✭catbear


    MacArthur's 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
    MacArthur Park sung by Richard Harris, written by Jimmy Webb.
    So bad it's brilliant!


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,351 ✭✭✭Orando Broom


    Can the intro piece to You Took the Words Right out of my Mouth be included.

    Here

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fAPEUWowEc


    GAAAAAAH!!!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4 busfare_home


    'And after all,
    You're my Wonderwall'

    Yes, that certainly is a wonderful wall.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,565 ✭✭✭✭Tallon


    "How many roads must a man walk down, before he becomes a man"

    The feck? I thought he was already a man? :confused:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,577 ✭✭✭Android 666


    Tallon wrote: »
    "How many roads must a man walk down, before he becomes a man"

    The feck? I thought he was already a man? :confused:

    Obviously that would be a stupid lyric but if you actually quoted it right:
    How many roads most a man walk down
    Before you call him a man ?

    Then it would make sense ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,565 ✭✭✭✭Tallon


    How many roads most a man walk down
    Before you can call him a man ?

    :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,142 ✭✭✭ciano1


    Razorlight -Somewhere Else

    ''I met a girl,
    She asked me my name,
    I told her what it was''

    Beautiful :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,577 ✭✭✭Android 666


    Tallon wrote: »
    :rolleyes:

    Eh, actually no. Listen to the song. :P


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  • Registered Users Posts: 254 ✭✭ttoppcat


    "Now you get to watch her leave, out the window, I guess thats why they call it window pane"

    Great song, truly awful lyric.


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