Lyrics that make you cringe

[Dogtrousers]

Not necessarily lyrics from awful songs. Just awful lyrics.

Respectfully I say to thee, I'm aware that you're cheatin' Diana Ross - "Upside Down". Really Diana? Couldn't you have sent that back for a re-write?

If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed. It's just a spring-clean for the may queen. Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven. I personally think that's a generally rubbish song, but I know other people like it. But that line ... couldn't you have done better?

 

[Smokin Joe]

"And then one day when I was not at home the angels came"

Honey, Bobby Goldsboro.

 

[Drago]

Agadoo doo doo, push pineapple shake the tree.

 

[yello]

I hope my legs don't break, walking on the moon.... The Poe Lice.

Apparantly the working title for the song was 'Kneecapped by Clangers'

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Agadoo doo doo, push pineapple shake the tree.

But but but

That's a classic!!!!

My wife even knows the dance for it

(personally I refuse to do "approved" dances to anything - smacks of "rules" to me but what can you do!)

 

[Chris S]

Brother, you can't go to jail for what you're thinking
https://www.streetdirectory.com/lyricadvisor/song/wecefj/standing_on_the_corner/
Dean Martin, 'Standing on the Corner'

 

[Dogtrousers]

Agadoo doo doo, push pineapple shake the tree.

Surely some mistake. Did you mean to post in the "genius lyrics" thread?

 

[Chris S]

Mungo Jerry, 'In the Summertime'. The whole song is a bit dodgy:

Have a drink, have a drive
Go out and see what you can find

If her daddy's rich, take her out for a meal
If her daddy's poor, just do what you feel

Speed along the lane, do a ton or a ton and twenty-five

 

[Chris S]

10CC, 'Second sitting for the last supper'
Another n*gger on the woodpile
Another honky on the dole

 

[Dogtrousers]

From Telegram Sam Purple Pie Pete Purple Pie Pete / Your lips are like lightning / Girls melt in the heat

Great song but that last bit doesn't scan and is just rubbish.

 

[richardfm]

MacArthur Park
Between the parted pages and were pressed
In love's hot, fevered iron
Like a striped pair of pants

And
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

 

[yello]

The whole song is a bit dodgy

Well, if we're going to do "dodgy" then you're into a whole new category, and I'm NOT going to open that one up. We're only 'avin'a larf here.

 

[matticus]

Not necessarily lyrics from awful songs. Just awful lyrics.

Respectfully I say to thee, I'm aware that you're cheatin' Diana Ross - "Upside Down". Really Diana? Couldn't you have sent that back for a re-write?

If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed. It's just a spring-clean for the may queen. Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven. I personally think that's a generally rubbish song, but I know other people like it. But that line ... couldn't you have done better?

Much as I love most things by 'Zep (as we know them), lyrics were never their strong point. My favourite song of theirs is probably Ramble On, which has 90% quite normal, vague, slightly "folk"-tinged lyrics ... but then this cringe-worthy Tolkien reference sneaks in:
How years ago in days of old
When magic filled the air
'T was in the darkest depths of Mordor
I met a girl so fair
But Gollum, and the evil one
Crept up and slipped away with her
Her, her, yeah

Come on, man!!!

 

[yello]

10CC,

10cc have form. They've copped a bit of flack over 'Dreadlock Holiday'. but that's what happens with revisionism. SO (sorry yello)... back to the groove....

I got my head checked / By a jumbo jet / It wasn't easy / But nothing is, no (Song 2, Blur. You know, the woo-hoo one)

 

[Arjimlad]

"4am in the morning" mars an otherwise perfect song!