Re: the most unforgettable, dumbest lyrics

Here are a few that stick in my craw.

So let's start right off
With a playful tease
Like all lovers did
Through the centuries -- Adam Ant (Other than that, I love Adam Ant)

Hey child
Stay wild -- Duran Duran

How can I save my little boy
From Oppenheimer's deadly toy? -- Sting

"Gabba Gabba Hey!"

The Ramones turned dumb lyrics into triumphant, ironic anthems.

Hey! Ho! Let's go!

"Baby I'm a star
Might not know it now, baby, but I are"

"Slowly walking down the hall
Faster than a cannonball"

"Baby we was making straight A's,
But we was stuck in the dumb days..."

"Open up your morning light
and say another prayer for I..."

Gabba Gabba hey / Hey ho, Let's go -- those are smart lyrics to me!!

hoop to, hop to chiggers.

Thought i saw my nephew wearing a bad religion tshirt @ a televised Tigers game the other day.
Pretty sure it was him, not positive though. If he'd a brought the kid, clad in the toddler joeydeedeejohnnytommy sized garb, they'rd be no qwestion bout tit. anyway/instead, I still think it was an upper peninsula mi. family member.

S.A.D. postscript:

i don't wanna fuck palin no more cause i think biden already did

I just met a nurse that you could go for....

No doubt: "Hey baby, hey baby hey/hey baby baby"

R. Kelly: “Feelin on yo booty/yo booty, yo booty/Yo boocka boo-ooty, booty/booga, booga, booga, booga, booga-ooty.”

The heavyweight champion of idiotic lyrics, the estimable Mr. Loaf. (Or more accurately, the imbecilic Mr. Steinman. Meat at least seems like a likable guy, as opposed to Steinman, who's just a pompous nitwit):


Some days it don't come easy, and some days it don't come hard
Some days it don't come at all, and these are the days that never end
Some nights you're breathing fire, and some nights you're carved in ice
Some nights you're like nothing I've ever seen before or will again

Maybe I'm crazy, but it's crazy and it's true
I know you can save me, no one else can save me now but you

As long as the planets are turning, as long as the stars are burning
As long as your dreams are coming true, you better believe it

That I would do anything for love, and I'll be there til the final act
I would do anything for love, and I'll take a vow and seal a pact

Some days I pray for silence, and somedays I pray for soul
Some days I just pray to the God of Sex and Drums and Rock 'N Roll
Some nights I lose the feeling, and some nights I lose control
Some nights I just lose it all when I watch you dance and the thunder rolls

As long as the wheels are turning, as long as the fires are burning
As long as your prayers are coming true, you better believe it

[Girl:] Will you raise me up, will you help me down?
Will you get me right out of this Godforsaken town?
Will you make it all a little less cold?

[Boy:] I can do that! I can do that!

[Girl:] Will you hold me sacred? Will you hold me tight?
Can you colorize my life, I'm so sick of black and white?
Can you make it all a little less old?

[Boy:] I can do that! Oh oh, now I can do that!

[Girl:] Will you make me some magic, with your own two hands?
Can you build an emerald city with these grains of sand?
Can you give me something I can take home?

[Boy:] I can do that! Oh oh now, I can do that!

[Girl:] Will you cater to every fantasy I got?
Will ya hose me down with holy water, if I get too hot?
Will you take me places I've never known?

[Boy:] I can do that! Oh oh now, I can do that!

[Girl:] After a while you'll forget everything
It was a brief interlude and a midsummer night's fling
And you'll see that it's time to move on

[Boy:] I won't do that! No I won't do that!

[Girl:] I know the territory, I've been around
It'll all turn to dust and we'll all fall down
And sooner or later, you'll be screwing around

[Boy:] I won't do that! No I won't do that!

Anything for love, oh I would do anything for love
I would do anything for love, but I won't do that, no I won't do that



Post Edited (10-04-08 09:31)

Breno, regarding Steinman's Anything For Love. I always thought Loaf would do anything for love except cunnilingus and anal rimming.

That's what I thought the song was about.

the old standby: in this ever-changing world in which we live in

and, to be economical,

Bruce Springsteen's first album, start to finish.

What I never understood about "Anything for Love" is that it's implied that the one thing Loaf won't do for love is screw around, which always seemed like an unlikely thing that anyone would ask him to do for love.

ALthough in Loaf's case, I guess it would be plausible. "If you love me, Meat, please go sleep with someone else. Leave me alone."

I'd dispute the Oasis line being a bad lyric "Slowly walking down the hall, faster than a cannonball" is a druggy line - it makes sense in an altered consciousness kind of way......I think.

I'll pick on Westerberg, as a bit of killing my idols :

"Wax burned my fingers like a clear blue flame
So young and tame
I was to blame
And I call your name"

Also , from Metallica:

"Now
Let my people go, land of Goshen
Go
I will be with thee, bush of fire
Blood
Running red and strong down the Nile
Plague
Darkness three days long, hail to fire"

Put on History by America, and your quota is filled.

"The heat was hot"

"Plants and birds and rocks and things"

"Alligator lizards in the air"

I'll defend Horse With No Name by using mats84 logic: These are stoner lyrics. Anything goes.

There's no more big lizard in my backyard
I won't have to feed him anymore
No more lizard in my backyard
They shipped his ass to El Salvador!

(and just about everything else from the DM - RIP Dave "Blood")

Old Time Rock and Roll, which presented the lyrical argument that nothing current was much good. Since it was itself current, it was caught in its own argument and exposed as not being much good. And it was correct, at least about itself.

you want a piece of my heart, you gotta start from the start.
you wanna be in the show, come on baby let's go


My hump, my hump, my hump, my hump, my hump,
My hump, my hump, my hump, my lovely lady lumps.

if i was a sculptor, but then again no

A traffic jam when you're already late
A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break
It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife
It's meeting the man of my dreams and then meeting his beautiful wife


I wish it was Sunday That's my fun day My I-don't-have-to-run day



Post Edited (10-10-08 10:44)

> I'd dispute the Oasis line being a bad lyric "Slowly walking down the hall, faster than
> a cannonball" is a druggy line - it makes sense in an altered consciousness kind of way......
> I think.

> I'll defend Horse With No Name by using mats84 logic: These are stoner lyrics. Anything goes.

I have done many dumb things while under the influence. Those things didn't look any smarter in retrospect when I sobered up.

Having said that, I should say it's pretty well documented that Prince is a clean-living fellow, and has been for most of his life. So he doesn't have even the stoner defense for the chorus of "Baby I'm a Star." Sure, it does make sense, and it rhymes, but it's still massively irritating.

Prince has come up with plenty of other poor lyrics before and since, but that one always has stood out like a hammer-smashed thumb. Perhaps that's because it appears on Purple Rain. The line is like a mustard stain on a beautiful (purple) silk tie.

And now, the stupidest lyric of 1994 goes to Bush. Not George W Bush. This Bush:

There's no sex in your violence.

Don't need no politician/tell me things I oughta be
Neither no optician/tell me what I oughta be

eddie and the hot rods:

i think that optician line is "what i ought to see"