[Music] Irritating Lyrics

[Swansman]

Its always a bit of a mess when people are trying to be a bit sentimental (or whatever) and play this:



The song is fine until you listen carefully and understand they've written the lyrics as "fastest car" when its obvious to anyone with a couple of ears that she is singing about the "fattest cock".

 

[Norman Potting]

Did that apply to gypsies being in the company of gypsies? Or just non gypsies who may have been gypsified?

Asking for a gypsy.

Jimi Hendrix was pushing his luck then

 

[Biscuit Barrel]

Piano Man - Billy Joel

It's nine o'clock on a Saturday
The regular crowd shuffles in
There's an old man sitting next to me
Makin' love to his tonic and gin

Nobody says tonic and gin

 

[darkwolf666]

I give you Adrian Gurvitz - Classic

Got to write a classic
Got to write it in an attic
Babe, I'm an addict now
An addict for your love


Aaaargghh...

 

[BN9 BHA]

Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak

Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak
Somewhere in this town

Unless it's a very large town with more than one jail, I think the jail break just maybe at the jail

 

[Hu_Camus]

It feels good to be outta the rain.
Cos there ain't no one for to give you no pain..


Shakespeare at his best, 54 MILLION plays, ffs.

 

[Mr Banana]

In attempting to understand why a broad range of people and musicians like Sheeran's stuff, I briefly listened to a few tracks of his and heard two lyrics that seem lodged in my head forever as the worst bits of writing I've ever discovered in any genre.

“Up and coming like I'm ****ing in an elevator”
"Crumbling like pastry"

Something about their pure half-arsed thickness blew a valve in my head. The first things your child brain would think of, when asked "what goes up?" and "what crumbles?", are, I realised, a lift and pastry. So there's been no thought of "should I think again? Am I sure there's not a better word that could go there?" And the words themselves - pastry, elevator - in the context of down-with-the-kids, aim-for-the-heartstrings songs. A scientific formula to find the worst, most jarring lyrics for each song could not have struck truer.

 

[theboybilly]

Won the award for "Worst Lyrics Ever" when Mark and Lard (think it was them) had a vote/competition about it years ago on Radio 1.

She was a great sport and appeared on the show to accept it. Said she wrote it in about 10 minutes and never thought it'd be a hit.

I have a love/hate relationship with that tune as I actually think it's quite good, despite the appalling rhyming.

And she's got a great voice.

Same here as it brings back memories of me moving into a flat in Egremont Place (until I founds something permanent) Happy days

 

[Tokyohands]

What's she gonna look like with a chimney on her

 

[Brok]

Not lyrics exactly, but I offer this cracker from Manilow-


Copa, Copacabana
His name was Rico
He wore a diamond
He was escorted to his chair, he saw Lola dancing there
And when she finished, he called her over
But Rico went a bit to far
Tony sailed across the bar
And then the punches flew and chairs were smashed in two...



Now, when Rico calls her over, just listen to the pathetic little whistle he gives to 'call her over'...
Once heard, never forgotten...

 

[zefarelly]

Mentioned this on the Oasis thread.

It's funny that Liam has turned out to be a better lyricist than his brother. Who'd have thought it...

I wasn't aware he could write, maybe he has a helper.

 

[zefarelly]

Deacon Blue Real Gone Kid

Show you the photographs that I ever got took!
I’ll do what I should have did!

Make some effort please

they could have put a bit of effort into the music as well.