Lyrics that make you cringe

[presta]

Anything that's gabbled because it doesn't fit the tune.
Craig David/Ed Sheeran, are you listening?

Eurythmics:

"The bad thing's gone away...
The good thing's here to stay"

Really? Good thing bad thing? Is that the best you can come up with? Have another go.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Agadoo doo doo, push pineapple shake the tree.

The brother of someone l work with is (still) in that band
He doesn’t mention it much, but it paid off his brothers mortgage

 

[Dogtrousers]

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)

I like that.

I suppose one person's "interestingly off-the-wall" is another person's "clunky and awful".

I can't listen to "Upside Down" without swearing at the radio. One moment you're listening to a Motown great, and the next she comes out with "respectfully I say to thee". FFS!

 

[CarbonClem]

Slowly walking down the hall, faster than a cannonball.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Slowly walking down the hall, faster than a cannonball.

Oh blimey, them. I'd forgotten about Oasis. The Sultans of Cringe

 

[Smokin Joe]

"Hats off to Larry, he broke your heart just like you broke mine"

And -

"I want you back, I think you'll change,
But there's one more thing I gotta say,
Hat's off to Larry"

 

[Chris S]

Agadoo doo doo, push pineapple shake the tree.

It's a classic compared to another one of their offerings


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn3aPweeZVQ

 

[Chris S]

Judas Priest

Living after midnight
Rocking to the dawn
Loving till the morning
Then I'm gawn!

Only a band from the Black Country could rhyme 'dawn' and 'gone'

 

[matticus]

Only a band from the Black Country could rhyme 'dawn' and 'gone'

Belfast band Kneecap's recent single rhymed
car-full with powerful
I doff my cap to them.

 

[Seevio]

I still cringe at hearing Europe rhyming "We're heading to Venus" with "and maybe they've seen us".

 

[yello]

If we're going to talk cheesy rhymes then Bettie Boo has to be a nominee with "I've used up all my tissues, with this most serious of issues". There's genuis in simplicity.

 

[Drago]

The brother of someone l work with is (still) in that band
He doesn’t mention it much, but it paid off his brothers mortgage

Many people payoff their mortgage without stooping so low!

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Life by Des’ree contains this masterpiece from the school of f*ck it, this’ll do’:

🎶I don't want to see a ghost
It's a sight that I fear most
I'd rather have a piece of toast🎶

 

[figbat]

Quick to the point, to the point, no faking
Cooking MCs like a pound of bacon

Vanilla Ice shoehorning the rhyme.

 

[yello]

Going for a different meaning of cringe, there's a Crowded House song that mentions "moving inside her" that has me pulling a face and saying "too much info mate" (deliberately appropriate vernacular)