Lyrics that make you cringe

[BrumJim]

I think that really takes some beating..

Peddlers of such offensively lazy, meaningless drivel should be publicly burned alive.

It is a cracker of a song to improve your skiing technique.

Some of the great songs have simple lyrics. Elton John "Deny the passenger, who wanna get on", 2 unlimited "There's no lyrics", etc.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Elton John "Deny the passenger, who wanna get on",

Ah yes, that was the theme song of a tour from London to SW England then over the Severn into Wales that I went on with a friend in 1984. Our lyrics were "I've got a knackered bum and, I wanna get off"

 

[yello]

I never did get the whole music thing.

Must admit, I have moments like that. I mean, you hear kids on swings in the playground, in shopping aisles, just making up silly little songs for themselves. I love that. Songs how they oughta be, where they oughta be. But when you get some earnest looking sincere (sometimes) young thing doing the tortured face to torturous lyrics, well, I just want to laugh.

 

[yello]

Or perhaps, in a Kafkaesque twist, the entire town consists of nothing but jails.

yebbut, the lyric "there's going to be a jailbreak, everywhere in this town" doesn't scan quite so well. Kafka didn't think of that, for all his literary genius.

 

[Beebo]

See also: a number of Bat out of Hell [the album] lyrics.
In both cases they're written from the POV of horny teenagers. Not a 40yo man. CASE DISMISSED 🔨 !

p.s. Tina Turner has never done private dances for money. Just FYI.

Next you’ll be telling me that Johnnie Cash never shot a man just to watch him die.

 

[matticus]

Next you’ll be telling me that Johnnie Cash never shot a man just to watch him die.

Why do you think he had to perform so many shows from prison?!?

 

[MontyVeda]

I'm a huge fan of Gong... but not so much the Shamal album which has these two utterly cringeworthy lines...

There was a pussy in the well, must've been a cat that fell
and
There was a lion in the glen, who met a unicorn

 

[richardfm]

"I've got an overdose of doctors notes"

Nobody outside RCT would understand that, Dave

I'm in Cardiff and recognise it

 

[Gwylan]

"I knew the bride when she used to rock'n roll"

I'm in Cardiff and recognise it

There we are then!

 

[Legs]

Levon sells cartoon balloons in town
His family business thrives
Jesus blows up balloons all day
Sits on the porch swing watching them fly
And Jesus, he wants to go to Venus

 

[Yellow Fang]

The whole of "I've never been to me" by Charlene is a train crash as far as I am concerned, but the worst verse went thus:

Sometimes I've been to crying
For unborn children
That might have made me complete
But I took the sweet life I never knew
I'd be bitter from the sweet
I've spent my life exploring
The subtle whoring
That costs too much to be free

 

[Yellow Fang]

There was a song sung by Joan Osborne that went 'If God was one of us/ Just a slob like one of us/ Just a stranger on the bus/ Tryin' to make his way home'

She didn't seem to have paid much attention in Sunday school.

 

[Yellow Fang]

War is stupid and people are stupid, and love means nothing in some strange quarters.
Henry Kissinger or Boy George - your guess.

 

[Yellow Fang]

Not me, but Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols always cringed at "I am the Antichrist / I am an anarchist". I think it is quite a good couplet, although I agree it doesn't quite rhyme.

 

[MontyVeda]

Can I nominate absolutely everything by The Streets?