Britney Spears’ “Email My Heart” —

It’s been hours seems like days, since you went away,
And all I do is check the screen to see if you’re ok.
You don’t answer when I phone, guess you wanna be left alone.
So I’m sending my heart, my soul, and this is what I’ll say:

[CHORUS]
I’m sorry, oh so sorry, can’t you give me one more chance to make it all up to you.
E-mail my heart and say our love will never die
and that I know you’re out there and I know that you still care.
Email me back and say our love will stay alive.
Forever, Email my heart.

Whoa
I can see you in my mind, coming on the line
And opening this letter that I’ve sent a hundred times.
Here’s a picture of us two, I look so good on you
and can’t you please forgive me for the hurt I put you through.

[Repeat CHORUS]

I’m sorry, oh so sorry, can’t you give me one more chance to make it all up to (you).

E-mail my heart and say our love will never die
and that I know you’re out there and I know that you still care
(I know that you still care…)
Email me back and say our love will stay alive
Forever (Won’t ya say, Won’t ya say)
Forever, Forever
Email my heart

“Can’t Fight This Feelin Anymore” by REO Speedwagon. Unfortunately, I can’t copy and paste lyrics at work, but the chorus is straight poop.

“all the things she said” tatu

Why do you delete posts that you dont agree with?

censorship is a dirty word

this is why i’m hot by mims.
plus most other top 40 rap and pop music.

pleeeeease bring back a tribe called quest.

i’m waiting for kanye west and common’s cds this year

Just about any song by Yes — the lyrics are simply words that sound kind of good together, unless you actually try to dissect them. Also, “Working for the Weekend” by Loverboy.

“I Want It That Way” – BSB
Worst lyrics ever….but a guilty pleasure to say the least!

If you’re going to criticize Led Zeppelin’s lyrics, at least find somebody who can pronounce them.

Bono must feature heavily here:

“A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicyle” – he’s plagiarising bumper stickers.

“Grace, it’s the name of a girl” – pure genius.

Mims – this is why I’m hot…easily the worst song ever written.

Give Peace A Chance -John Lennon

Whatsupwitu -Eddie Murphy with Michael Jackson

That Don’t Impress Me Much -Shania Twain

London Bridge -Fergie

Baby Mama Fantasia Barrino

some guys will do anything for a SAG card….

No, BBC got it right with the Des’ree song. Seriously. Worst song ever written. EVER!

There should be a tie for #1 among all popular rap songs of the past year.

Ridin’, This Is Why I’m Hot, It’s Goin’ Down…just to name a few.

I am I said
To no one there
And no one heard at all
Not even the chair
-Neil Diamond, “I Am, I Said”

“Like Britney Spears, I wear no Drawers”

Kill me.

“Photograph”, by Nickelback…

Liar Liar(Burn In Hell)- The Used

Their new album has horrible 3rd grade lyrics on every song. I’m completely let down as a fan.

Spoonman? Definitely should NOT be on the list. How about “Escargo, my car go 360″

FOB – “This Ain’t A Scene, It’s An Arms Race”

MCR Welcome to the Black Parade

yes ‘my humps’ and this is why i’m hot’ are quite lyrically terrible

No John Lennon song should ever be on this list!

Dave Matthews Band-Trippin’ Billies has some horrendous lyrics

well lets see…

“dough boy fresh” by 36 mafia is pretty unbearable…

otherwise, ANYTHING by the following bands would probably make the cut for worst lyrics ever:
1) nickelback.
2) all-american rejects.
3) linkin park.

i know there’s plenty more…

studley is the sickest last name i have ever heard…

what the hell is led zepplin doing on that list

We could just break this down in bands:
1:MCR
2:Fall out Boy
3:Hawthorn Heights (read the lyrics of “Ohio is for lovers”)
4:Jimmy Buffet (”Hamburger in Paradise”, enough said)
5:Wings (an older band fronted by a great, but come on…Band On The Run?)

oh, and i almost forgot:

“boston” by augustana, and maybe even worse, “lips of an angel” by hinder.

Dude, that was pretty funny when he did the Immagrant song, the lyrics actually make sens you know, it was about the vikings coming to America, and it wsnt the Pages lyrics that made the song great, it was jimmy’s riff.

We Built This City
Starship

Chorus:
We built this city, we built this city on rock an’ roll
Built this city, we built this city on rock an’ roll

Say you don’t know me, or recognize my face
Say you don’t care who goes to that kind of place
Knee deep in the hoopla, sinking in your fight
Too many runaways eating up the night

Ma Coley plays the mamba, listen to the radio, don’t you remember
We built this city, we built this city on rock an’ roll

chorus

Someone’s always playing corporation games
Who cares they’re always changing corporation names
We just want to dance here, someone stole the stage
They call us irresponsible, write uf off the page

Ma Coley plays the mamba, listen to the radio, don’t you remember
We built this city, we built this city on rock an’ roll

chorus

It’s just another Sunday, in a tired old street
Well if you got the toco, oh, then we just lost the beat

Who counts the money underneath the bar
Who writes the wrecking ball in two wild guitars
Don’t tell us you need us, ‘cos we’re just simple fools
Looking for America, coming through your schools

(I’m looking out over that Golden Gate bridge
Out on a gorgeous sunny Saturday, I’ve seen that low amount of traffic)

Don’t you remember (remember)

(Here’s your favorite radio station, in your favorite radio city
The city by the bay, the city that rocks, the city that never sleeps)

Ma Coley plays the mamba, listen to the radio, don’t you remember
We built this city, we built this city on rock an’ roll

“Did you meet your fortune teller
Get it off with no propeller
Do it up it’s always stellar
What a way to finally smell her
Pick it up it’s not to strong – for you
Take a piece and pass it on”

The Red Hot Chili peppers write by far the worst lyrics of all time.

I love John Lennon. But look at the lyrics to Give Peace A Chance. I liked it better when I didn’t know what the heck he was saying and just figured “it’s John Lennon, it’s probably good.”

Ev’rybody’s talking about
Bagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism, Ragism, Tagism

I also agree with Starship being on there. Maybe the worst song ever.

My Humps – Black Eyed Peas

“I met a girl down at the disco.
She said hey, hey, hey yea let’s go.
I could be your baby, you can be my honey
Let’s spend time not money.
I mix your milk wit my cocoa puff,
Milky, milky cocoa,
Mix your milk with my cocoa puff, milky, milky riiiiiiight.”

“What you gon’ do with all that junk?
All that junk inside your trunk?
I’ma get, get, get, get, you drunk,
Get you love drunk off my hump.
My hump, my hump, my hump, my hump, my hump,
My hump, my hump, my hump, my lovely little lumps (Check it out)”

“F-R-E-S-H We (fresh)
D-E-F, that’s right we def (rock)
We definite B-E-P, we reppin’ it
So, turn it up (turn it up) [3x]
C’mon baby, just
Pump it (louder) [6x]
And say, oh oh oh oh
Say, oh oh oh oh
Yo, yo”

Dashboard Confessional’s “Hands Down”

Safe in here from all the stupid questions
“He did you get some?”
Man that is so dumb.

Ringworm by Van Morrison. though, i think they were purposefully bad.

by the way, give peace a chance’s lyrics aren’t supposed to be taken so literally. they’re a commentary on prejudice (isms).

If you’re going to say a song is horrible, at least don’t sound like an idiot.
This is directed at the “‘Hamburger’ in Paradise” post.

Hey, it’s “Cheeseburger in Paradise” and you’d write lyrics lik ethat, too, if you’d spent as long on the beach sucking down maragritas as Buffett has.

I love Neil Young but during the 80’s he wrote some pretty terrible lyrics. One Example is “T-Bone” which just repeats:

Got Mashed Potatoes
Got Mashed Potatoes
Got Mashed Potatoes
Ain’t got no t-bone
Ain’t got no t-bone

Spoonman is a great song.

‘You are stuck in my heart’ and ‘You are the one’ – C21
‘Ass like that’ – Eminem
‘Smack that’ – Akon

Give…me…a…BREAK! !

I want to talk to you
Want to shampoo you
-Joni Mitchell, “All I Want”

how about anytthing by kim mitchell. and the immagrant song is a rock staple and how dare you. lol.
spoonman kicks ass, but it looks bad on paper.

“Don’t Tell Me” by Avril Lavigne taken from allavril.com

[Chorus:]
Did you think that I was gonna give it up to you, this time?
Did you think that it was somethin I was gonna do and cry?
Don’t try to tell me what to do,
Dont try to tell me what to say,
Your better off that way

The lyrics for Lennon’s “John Sinclair” (an activist who was arrested and jailed 10 years for buying 2 joints) made me sad, and not for Sinclair.

It ain’t fair, John Sinclair
In the stir for breathing air
Won’t you care for John Sinclair?
In the stir for breathing air
Let him be, set him free
Let him be like you and me

They gave him ten for two
What else can the judges do?
Gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta,
gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta,
gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta,
gotta, gotta, gotta set him free

Howie Day writes some of the worst lyrics in the history of music. Here’s just a sample, read the lyrics to all his songs and you will laugh your ass off.

Howie Day – “Trouble In Here”

Cause I couldn’t make up
A thing that you say, love
There’s trouble in here
Hold on
Thing that I fear

also any song by fergie or the BEP especially the god awful my humps….

Nickelback – photograph and pretty much any of there songs.
“First girl i kissed
“So nervous i nearly missed”
embarrasing.
John Lennon is a legend leave him out of this.

Every song by Limp Bizkit and Creed.

Every song by Limp Bizkit, three-six mafia and Creed.

corey smith. end of story

I’m a fan, but Im sorry to say that DMB’s “Hunger For The Great Light” takes the cake. attrocious song that makes me wish I never liked the band.

Saliva – Ladies and Gentlemen

Welcome to the show
Please come inside
Ladies and Gentlemen
Boom
Do You Want it?
Boom
Do You Need it?
Boom
Let me hear it
Ladies and Gentlemen

Any fraction of a syllable murmured by Sir Fred Durst. No matter where he goes, or what song he might sing, ALL will be unbearably horrible. Thank you.

“Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot” by Sting. I think the title says it all.

Sufjan Stevens: John Wayne Gacy Jr. – Completely pointless…may as well read a book on murders.

The 80´s is a goldmine of bad lyrics. Kajagoogoo´s Too shy, Culture Club´s Karma chameleon, no, if I start naming all of them I´ll be here all year… But content-wise it´s hard to beat the Pina Colada song… Reads like the worst episode of the cheesiest soap you´ve ever seen. Makes you cringe with embarrasment.

“Bang a Gong(Get it On)” by T-Rex.

Literally or not I hope Lennon did not spend more than 3 minutes writing Give Peace A Chance. The fact that he is a legend just makes it stand out even more. Almost nobody is immune from writing bad lyrics at some point.

That Nickelback song is in my head now, thanks. Wow what a bad song!

You dare mock the Spoonman? What have you become?

I like alot of the Moody Blues music and I’ve always been more of a ‘music than a lyric’ kind of guy but some of the early Moody’s stuff when they were ‘kinda hype’ is laughable pretentious twaddle. No examples..too embarrassing…

Hulk Hogan – Beach Patrol

“I was walking down the beach
Looking for some action
Had my radio set on a rap-rap station
Saw a girl in trouble, a sticky situation
She wanted me to give her mouth to mouth resuscitation

CHORUS:
We are the beach patrol
We wanna party party party
We are the beach patrol
We wanna party party party

We were cruisin’ down the beach
Checking out the action
Had my radio rockin’ to a heavy metal station
Putting on some shades, trying to catch some rays
When I caught the lifeguard messin’ with my babe”

HA! Beat that.

Chris Cornell has written some pretty awful lyrics. He is the one who wrote “Full On Kevin’s Mom” and “Big Dumb Sex.” Spoonman is another good example. The funny thing is, I don’t care. They’re all good songs.

I agree that Nicelback, Creed, and Limp Bizkit all are deserving but what about Metallica? Their lyrics have always been laughable.

Battery

“Lashing out the action, returning the reaction
Weak are ripped and torn away
Hypnotizing power, crushing all that cower
Battery is here to stay

Smashing through the boundaries
lunacy has found me
cannot stop the Battery
Pounding out aggression
turns into obsession
cannot kill the Battery

Cannot kill the family
Battery is found in me.”

It’s a great song but the lyrics are terrible.

TAKE THAT BACK ABOUT SUFJAN. Obviously, you cannot appreciate the artistry required to create a song thats is A) beautiful and B) about a murderer

“No sign of guilt… no feeling of bad, no.”

Puddle of Mudd.

Worst song ever written:

“Sugar, ah honey honey
You are my candy girl
And you’ve got me wanting you.
Honey, ah sugar sugar
You are my candy girl
And you got me wanting you”….ad nauseum.

I don’t think spoonman is that bad. he had worse lyrics as mentioned.

I never understood what Battery was about.

i can’t remember the exact song but i think there was a van halen line that went like:
only time will tell
if we stand the test of time.

wow. those guys were geniuses.

Lenny Kravitz “Fly Away”: ‘I wish that I could fly/ Into the sky/ So very high/ Just like a dragonfly’
Oh, please.

hmmmmm…how about any song ever written by R. Kelly

Spoonman might have lame lyrics but its a cool song.

Fergie, “Fergalicious”:

I’m Fergalicious
Up in the gym, just a workin’
On my figh-ness (or fitness, in English)

The Click Five, “Time Machine”

Girl, I need to go far away
A few years back would be okay
I just need to run away
In my Time Machine

I need some time by myself
Without anybody else
I just need to run away…

(Notice the redundancy of “some time by myself…without anybody else. Also, the unabashed banality of the entire thing.)

If you want bad lyrics listen to Fall Out Boy, Panic! at the Disco & Hello Goodbye, well maybe they dont have bad lyrics they all just suck!

What about “my humps”…..plain nonsense….its not even english……shame on you fergie….

I’ve always thought there was a place in Hell reserved for “Get Out of My Dreams, Get Into My Car” by Billy Ocean. But the 70’s had some of the most mind-numbingly awful lyrics ever. “Horse With No Name” is a great example:

“The ocean is a desert with its life underground.”

“There were plants and birds and rocks and things.”

“The heat was hot.”

“Live and Let Die” also has one of the most convoluted lines ever constructed:

“In this ever changing world in which we live in…”

MCR!?!?! I’m sorry, perhaps you’re one of those people that need lyrics to be totally literal, or else the meaning goes right over your head.

Avril Lavigne and Limp Bizkit are tied for first.

Any, and I mean ANY, song by Bob Dylan. They’re all trash.

There was this guy here in Canada a few years back called Lee. He had a hit with a song called “Party”. Don’t remember all the words but the chorus went like this:

Gonna have a party
We’re gonna have a good time
I’m gonna get to know you
I’m gonna make it all right

Another one for me would be “Catch my Disease” by Ben Lee:

“My head is a box full of nothing.”

Enough said.

how about des’ree song, life. these lyrics are just amazing,
“i dont want see a ghost it’s the sight i fear the most, rather have a piece of toast, watch the evening news!
oh dear God!!!!
Also rs shame on you for trashing the immigrant song, those lyrics are pretty good compared to most.

I think Give Peace A Chance was kind of a jam. When he starts naming people its just all the people in the hotel with him, I don’t think he was worried about many lines other than “give peace a chance”

“This is why I’m hot.
This is why I’m hot.

I’m hot cause I’m fly.
You ain’t cause you not.”

Thanks Mims. Can’t wait for your next slice of lyrical genius.

Has anyone stopped to think that songs weren’t meant to be read, they were meant to be sung and performed. and you know when you heard most of those songs, you were hooked. Get your dicks out of your mouths and quit being such elitist pricks.

MCR is amazing
John Lennon is a legend
Spoonman is catchy as hell
and nickelback needs to fall off the planet.

The worst song of all time, largely due to it’s terrible lyrics, goes hands down to the generally forgotten Genesis gem “Whodunnit” off of ABACAB.

“Was it you or was it me/or was it he or she/Was it you or was it me/ or was it x or z/I didn’t do it I-I I didn’t do it (etc.)/We know we know we know we know (etc.) who did it (repeat)”

chevelle makes a good point – most songs are sound over sense, they are not page poetry.
and most songwriters get in a corner because of an inability to escape the strictures of end rhyme, which results in a lot of silly lyrics, even by artists with deeper intentions.
even still, “the heat was hot” is simply inexscusable – an example of a writer being pretentious and dumb, while believing he’s the opposite.

Dio’s ‘Holy Diver’:

“Jump on the tiger, you can feel his heart but you know he’s mean “

Has “We Built This City On Rock ‘n Roll” been mentioned?

I apologize to all of you for offending your ears with these four lines from “Take the Money and Run”:

“Billy Mack is a detective down in Texas.
You know he knows just exactly what the facts is.
He ain’t gonna let those two escape justice.
He makes his livin’ off of the people’s taxes.”

I hope you can forgive me.

Kenny Loggins’ “Playing with the boys” deserves attention…

“After chasing sunsets, one of life’s little joys is playing with the boys.”

Woo … it’s hard to argue with Kobi. “Whodunnit?” has got to be the worst song ever written!

Eddie Murphy’s
“Party all the time”
A.K.A. “Potty all the time”

Foreigner, “Double vision” opener:

“Feelin’ kinda dirty, feelin’ kinda mean..”

and “Feels like the first time”:

“…must be the woman in you, that brings out the man in me:

You Remind Me of My Jeep – R. Kelly.

I’m sure it’s been mentioned, but My Humps ranks right up (down) there.

The Who’s
‘bargain’
(though, Pete Townsend is one of the greatest lyricists)

“..one and one don’t make two
one and one make one”

Maybe its not among the very worst, but when Phil Collins starts singing “Sussudio” I start feelign rather ill. I think R. Kelly should have his own wing of this museum.

“Photograph” by Nickelback makes me want to stab my ears..

“Look at this photograph
Every time I do it makes me laugh
How did our eyes get so red?
And what the hell is on Joey’s head?”
A low point in Canadian music…

Crazy G:

I be trippin…mad sons sippin…I be flippin…ya the bird!!

Quite bad.

Every line from “Mr. Roboto”
from Styx…actually, every song from Styx…

just kick it like tae bo

Sisqo’s ”Thong Song ” and R.Kelly’s ”You Remind Me of My Jeep” song are defenitly the all time worst crap ever written.

===>Ricky Martin’s ”She Bangs” also deserves a nod for the effort.

what about Metallica’s -

whack for my daddy-o,
there’s whiskey in the jar-o.

Too much whiskey I guess…

Gotta say Missy Elliot’s line from “Work It”:

This the kinda beat that go bha ta ta
Ra ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta
Sex me so good I say blah blah blah
Work it, I need a glass of wata

It’s amazing someone got paid for that.

Where did he look up the Zeppelin lyrics??? “…where the hot springs blow”? Hot springs don’t normally blow, but I’m pretty sure HARSH WINDS do. Other then that, nicely done.

that is an awesome song

and its originally an old irish folk song dummy!

Maybe it’s a cool fun song to some, but I could never get past:

Everybody have fun tonight.
Everybody Wang Chung tonight.

Gag me with a spoon.

it wasnt me!

stupidest song ever!

Now what the hell is Jay-Z talking about in this gem called ”umbrella” by Rhianna.

====>No clouds in my storms
Let it rain, I hydroplane in the bank
Coming down with the Dow Jones
When the clouds come we gone, we Rocafella
She fly higher than weather
And G5’s are better, You know me,
an anticipation, for precipitation. Stacked chips for the rainy day
Jay, Rain Man is back with little Ms. Sunshine
Rihanna where you at?

Jay Z is referring to the feeling of angst he experiences as a poor fellow. His explanation of extemporance really endears a kind of extestenlistic anaflactic feeling of narcissistic neophytism. Although his artistic expression is quite venerable, I believe he has yet to experience the kind of enigmatic exasperation (along with flatulation) that is his to claim. Never forget the words of the great Reverend Jackson, “From the outhouse, to the white house, it’s mornin’ time”.

‘wake me up before you go-go’ by WHAM! terrifically horrible

“wild wild west” from ‘Escape club’

“..gimmie gimmie wild west, gimmie gimmie safe sex..”

One of the dumbest songs ever written was by Stone Temple Pilots: “Meat Plow”…just consider:

fine place for a day full of breakdowns
takes more than a meltdown to show us how
throw a tack on the road, stop the meatplow
got a bullet but it ain’t mine.

they got these pictures of everything
to break us down, yeah to break me down.
they make us hate and we make it bleed.

but I got a lover and yeah
she shows me how,
to understand it, yeah to understand
I got a brother and well
he show me how,
to make amends, yeah to make amends
with it
take a break from the mousetrap we call home
takes more than a message to make me smile
I can feel when she kisses me sleeping
but not when the news is on.

Also, a lot of Ozzy’s Black Sabbath lyrics are pretty vapid. While it’s a killer tune, “War Pigs” screams lack of brain cells:

Politicians hide themselves away
they only started the war
Why should they go out to fight?
They leave that role to the poor

Time will tell on their power minds
Making war just for fun
Treating people just like pawns in chess
Wait ’till their judgement day comes, yeah!

Finally, genius though he is, Bob Dylan penned some dogfood in his time, too. Witness for the prosecution: “Lay Lady Lay”:

Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big brass bed
Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big brass bed
Whatever colors you have in your mind
I’ll show them to you and you’ll see them shine.

Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big brass bed
Stay, lady, stay, stay with your man awhile
Until the break of day, let me see you make him smile
His clothes are dirty but his hands are clean
And you’re the best thing that he’s ever seen.

“Teddy bear”
from Elvis

“Hey fat girl, c’mere are ya ticklish? Yeah I called you fat, look at me I’m skinny. Never stopped me from getting busy. I’m a freak, I like the girls with the boom! I once got busy in a Burger King bathroom!…..I get stupid
I shoot an arrow like cupid
I use a word that don’t mean nothin’, like ‘luptid’. DIgital Underground

Well, the worst single line I’ve ever heard is from Bon Jovi’s “Its My Life” where he says: “Like Frankie said I did it my way.” Not sure why it gets under my skin, but it does — in a way that a consciously stupid line, like countless of those from bands like Men Without Hats (”What planet are we on? The Earth. Pop goes the world”) never did/will.

“shang-a-lang”
bay city rollers

Why is that Led Zepplin song on there? I honestly, truly think those are good lyrics and a fantastic song. I’m truly puzzled by that choice.

That ‘This is Why I’m Hot’ song by Mims is probably the worst lyrics ever. In fact, most popular rap songs from the past 5 years are godawful.

“trapped in a box” by no doubt. and gwen’s water-orchestra-meets-hyena screeching doesn’t make it any saner.

Nickelback’s “If Everyone Cared” is the worst song of the year:

If everyone cared and nobody cried
If everyone loved and nobody lied
If everyone shared and swallowed their pride
Then we’d see the day, when nobody died

Yes, that’s right, let me present to you Nickelback’s entry into the 1st grade poetry contest, rhyming cried, lied, pride, and died all in a row. Yay for Nickelback!

REmeber that Summer Girls song the Abercrombie & Fitch one you know ilike girls who where Abercrombie & Fitch I’d take if i had one wish. That one has the worse lyrics hands down. something about mac and cheese in there its horrible.

Bernie Taupin wrote the lyrics for “We Built This City” by Starship.

Young B feat. DJ Webstar

“Chicken noodle soup, chicken noodle soup,” – and get this. this is where it gets tricky “chicken noodle soup with a soda on the side”

Worst lyrical songs of all time, in order:
1. My Humps–Black Eyed Sucks
2. Milkshake–Kelisucks
3. This is why I’m hot–M.I.M.S.U.C.K.S.

It’s more interesting when a good artist gets mentioned. We don’t expect much from Fergie or Sisqo and they probably don’t expect much of themselves lyric wise. My Humps is lyrically stupid but yet one of those guilty pleasures. So bad its fun type songs.

The bands that really try, are where it seems more sad and more of a failure. Isn’t Bernie Taupin regarded for his lyrics with Elton John? And he wrote that Starship song!!? White Rabbit and Somebody To Love vs. We Built This City. Its hard to believe its the same people (more or less)

Love Hurts by Nazareth, is a great example of a truly bad lyric, because it is totally serious.

His friends should have taken him out for drinks to get over his breakup or something, but not told him to write a song in his condition.

Lest we forget tool.

this is why im hot
and shame on guy who put in bono

My Neck My back–Khia

Trapped in the Closet–R.Kelly

I like the Crotch on You–R.Kelly

WTF…TOOL!!

So RS wants to compile the worst lyrics ever. They refrain from mentioning any real pop stars, but take shots at Zepplin and Soundgarden. I am now fully convinced that everyone at RS is mentally retarded. I’m not trying to be funny. I would never in a million years doubt the integrity of RS, but after seeing this I am convinced they have none.

Shame on a fool for dissin’ Humpty Hump! Samoans do the Humpty Hump. Puerto Ricans do the Humpty Hump.

Led Zeppelin’s ‘Immigrant Song’ is an indestructable masterpiece and should never be on any negative list. Shame on RS for once again trying to crap on the mighty Zeppelin. P.S. How about this guy pronouncing his words correctly if he’s going to criticize lyrics? He flubbed five or six common words.

In “Ramble On” Robert Plant loses his girlfriend to Gollum from Lord of the Rings. Weak.

who is MCR?

ok Erik (Oak Lawn)first put down your pink iPod for a sec and listen. all of the songs you listed are songs that have what we adults call a “double meaning” look it up. those lyrics you posted are genious you fool. the only way your excused from this comment is if your actually 13, which i will allow you to pass for just for the benefit of the doubt…ok now back to your “Good Charlotte” song

Dissing Zeppelin? You’re stupid.

How about Kiss – HOTTER THAN HELL:

She looked good
She looked hotter than hell
All dressed in satins and lace
I looked at her and it was just too clear
I had to get on the case
I said lady, oh lady, can I take you home
There’s just so much we could do
I’ll take you all around the whole wide world
Before the evening is through

Hot, hot, hotter than hell
You know she’s gonna leave you well done
Hot, hot, hotter than hell
Burn you like the midday sun

“Lick it up” from Kiss

Most of those are lame, yes… but come on! Immigrant Song? That song’s amazing, and I don’t see what’s so bad about the lyrics. It’s about vikings. Songs about vikings are automatically awesome. This guy is a tool.

I love LIVE – the music is great but the lyrics make me cringe sometimes – ‘Morgue’ “smorgasboard” Ugh. Also that song by TRAIN that uses “checks out Mozart while she does Tai Bo…” and even works Soy Latte in there – totally dated!

I love LIVE – the music is great but the lyrics make me cringe sometimes – ‘Morgue’ “smorgasboard” Ugh. Also that song by TRAIN that uses “checks out Mozart while she does Tai Bo…” and even works Soy Latte in there – totally dated!

Black Eyed Peas “Humps” and that eamon song are up there. However, I can’t believe no one has mentioned MacArthur Park (guess I’m dating myself…)

Top This!

Spring was never waiting for us, girl
It ran one step ahead
As we followed in the dance
Between the parted pages and were pressed
In love’s hot, fevered iron
Like a striped pair of pants

MacArthur’s Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
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!

Dave Matthews Band – “Dreamgirl”

I would dig a hole all the way to China
Unless of course I was there
then I’d dig my way home

Does it count if they’re intentionally bad? Beck has some crazy ass lyrics in just about everything he writes, but Debra is pure gold:

I wanna get with you (Only you girl)
And your sister
I think her name is Debra
Girl, I only wanna be down with you
‘Cause you got something
That I just got to get with
I’ll pick you up late at night after work
I said lady, Step inside my Hyundai
I’m gonna take up to Glendale
Yeah
I’m gonna take you for a feel good meal
‘Cause when our eyes did meet
Girl, you know I was packing’ heat
Ain’t no use in wasting no time?
Getting to know each other
You know the deal
‘Cause only you got a thing
That I just got to get with
Got to get with
I just got to get with you girl

Give me some water
’cause I killed a man at the Mexican water

zeppelin ?? wow. RS doesn’t have, I think, any grasp of free-form lyrics or poetry. maybe its just me, but the immigrant song makes excellent sense. and soundgarten ?? sheesh, even zep’s worst songs rocked & soundgarten splitting up still hurts. new idea for firewood – roll up all the back-issues of RS you’ve been saving into tight little logs. you lost your instinct guys, time to fold

“Ma Coley plays the mamba”???????

I think it’s “Marconi plays the mamba”. Marconi being the inventor of the radio.

Someone’s knockin’ at the door.
Somebody’s ringing the bell.
Someone’s knocking at the door.
Somebody’s ringing the bell.
Do me a favor, open the door and let them in.

“silly love songs”

As I commented in the BBC article, “Unskinny Bop. Nothing more to say.” is THE worst song lyric ever, period!

Brandy by Looking glass

“Brandy you’re a fine girl, what a good wife you’ll be. But my luck my love and my lady are the sea”

worst lyrics ever written by anyone ever: “hot dog and a shake” by none other than david lee roth.

I see ya shake and shimmy
Cross the burger shop floor
I never seen a woman move so slow
I’m dyin’
French-fryin’
By the seat of my pants
Take a bite of double fries
Swear to god it make ya
Late for the dance

Here’s one for hte road
One shot for the real go-getter
Silly rabbit, you know just what it takes

A hot dog and a shake
That’s what you’re hungry for
A hot dog and a shake

My stomch’s makin’ noise
We’re having dinner late
Cuz I gotta be kept
In a cool dry place
Just like any bowl of cherries
When the cream is risin’ to the top.
You find your real bottom line is when your
Spine snap crackie and pops, pal

Give me one to go
He buddy, take a number
She can’t say no
To what it takes

A hot dog nad a shake
That’s what you’re hungry for
A hot dog and a shake.

I’m more that just a victim
Of a hungry heart
Kiss me quick
I’m double- parked

A hot dog and a shake
That’s what you’re hungry for
A hot dog and a shake

Way to steal Steve Allen’s schtick. Try something original next time.

i think they always put bands like zeppelin on lists like these so they aggrivate people enough to read into it a little more… but anyway “this is why im hott” made me wanna go deaf when i heard it

You kids need to get off my lawn:

- Mairzy Doats – (1943)
Words & Music by Milton Drake, Al Hoffman and Jerry Livingston

I know a ditty nutty as a fruitcake
Goofy as a goon and silly as a loon
Some call it pretty, others call it crazy
But they all sing this tune:

Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey
A kiddley divey too, wouldn’t you?

Yes! Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey
A kiddley divey too, wouldn’t you?

If the words sound queer and funny to your ear, a little bit jumbled and jivey
Sing “Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy”

Oh! Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey
A kiddley divey too, wouldn’t you-oo?
A kiddley divey too, wouldn’t you?

(REPEAT)

any song by Phil Collins era Genesis,,actually any Phil Collins solo for that matter

Sting’s lyric in The Police’s “Don’t Stand So Close to Me,” “Just like the old man in that book by Nabokov” always makes me cringe. Seriously. So you read a book, Sting. Bravo.

Porno for Pyros: Pets
“My friend says we’re like, the Dinosaurs, but here we are doing ourselves in much faster than they…..ever did. We’ll make great pets (we’ll make great pets)”

Nirvana: “And i swear i dont have a gun, and i swear i dont have a gun.” It looks as though, Mr. Cobaine indeed did have a gun.

Look, I love Zep as much as anyone does, but c’mon, it’s impossible for anyone to have put out as much music while doing as many drugs as they did and not have some clunker lyrics.

Case in point, from Dancing Days:

“I told your mamma I’d get you home /but I didn’t tell her I had no car
I saw a lion he was standing alone/ with a tadpole in a jar. “

America’s “Horse with No Name”

“For there ain’t no one for to give you no pain”

What could possibly be worse than that?

Simon, re: Nabokov

You apparently don’t understand the reference.

Tony Parker’s latest song “Balance toi”(that’s french).i think it should be better for him to go work his 3pts shot than rapping silly lyrics!Go Pistons!

How about Van Halen’s “Only time will tell if we stand the test of time”?

marconi didn’t invent the radio. Tesla did

“de do do do de da da da” from
the POLice, the line that goes:
..de do do do de da da da..

“ain’t nothin’ changed but the linens”

-P Diddy

Firstly – to clarify regarding the Metallica comment ‘whack for my daddy-0′ That is a several hundred year old Irish folk song. Some of the weird chorus is (I think) Gaelic.

Secondly – you people are piling on Nickelback, which I think is great. I don’t listen to their music, because I can’t stand that over emotive pathos faking weasel of a singer

Thirdly – my prize goes to Jackson Browne for phoning this one in:

Open the door, baby turn on the light
We’re gonna have a party tonight
For a rocker
For a rocker

I’ve got a shirt so unbelievably bright
I’m gonna dig it out and wear it tonight
For a rocker
For a rocker
For a rocker
For a rocker

Here comes Ricky, Danny, and Doerge
They got Petie’s number and they’re looking at me
Russell and Bobby setting up the drums
Gonna pound on ’till the landlord comes
Don’t want to argue, I don’t want to fight
But there will definitely be a party tonight
For a rocker
For a rocker
For a rocker
For a rocker

********* I don’t care if he ghost wrote half the Eagles albums, dude should be arrested for assault. For a Rocker? Jesus, Jackson, go write for Nickelback!

How any any forget this gem by Lover boy?

“Working for the weekend:

Everybody’s working for the weekend
Everybody wants a little romance
Everybody’s goin’ off the deep end
Everybody needs a second chance, oh
You want a piece of my heart
You better start from start
You wanna be in the show
Come on baby lets go

Up in the gym just a workin on my fitness… Fergilicious

Now that is cheesy

“come with me” P-Diddy,
what was Jimmy Page thinking by letting him use the music to Kashmir.

read dave berrys book of bad songs. every last song you need to know is in there. i promise.

my bad lyric song?
“i am i said” neil diamond

Whoa oh here she comes,
watch out boy she’ll chew you up.

also, to be fair- bastardization of the language can be clever and brilliant. Let’s look at Dylan with ‘Don’t Think Twice’:

It ain’t no use in turnin’ on you light, babe A light I never knowed It ain’t no use in turnin’ on your light, babe I’m on the dark side of the road

* as for all the bad punnery – there are only six seconds written that weren’t about sex. So, folks gotta get creative with the language.

Let me show u the worst number one song ever on the bilboard charts history

Here’s just alittle from Mim’s “This Is Why I’m Hot”

This is why I’m hot(x2)
This is why(x2) uh
This is why I’m hot (uh)
This is why I’m hot(x2) whoo
This is why(x2)
This is why I’m hot

I’m hot coz I’m fly (fly)
You ain’t coz you’re not (mims)
This is why x2
This is why I’m hot(x2)

This is why I’m hot
Catch me on the block
Every other day
Another bitch another drop
16 bars, 24 pop
44 songs, nigga gimme what you got
I’m in there driving cars

This is why I’m hot
I dont gotta rap
I can sell a mill sell you nothing on the track

Oh really Mims you can sell a million making a track with nothing on it hmm and while ur at it maybe u can sell a mill making a decent track with actual decent lyrics maybe you should try that for a change

The Immigrant Song is one of Zeppelin’s most powerfully lyricized songs. Don’t read the words, listen to how he sings them. You can’t just say “Ah-hah” in place of the awesome sound Plant makes throughout that song. I can’t beleive that was placed next to dumps like a truck truck truck.

And as for losing the girlfriend to gollum in Zeppelin’s Ramble On, the lyrics actually go “then Gollum and the Evil One crept up and slipped away with her…” and it’s not the only Lord of the Rings reference Zeppelin’s had. The entire Misty Mountain Hop song is about slipping into the world of Middle Earth while hanging out in a park for an afternoon. The gollum Plant sings about isn’t the comical Andy Serkis, who I admittedly love from the great LOTR movies, but the creature from the books that reinvented the fantasy genre and blew the entire world away with it’s almost incomprehensibly large and imaginative scope. Those books had a huge impact on peoples lives when they can out. People like the members of Led Zeppelin. Hell they’re still inspiring the young and old today, movies or no. The line about Gollum stealing a girlfriend comes from a time that too few people see for it’s greatness compared to the Nickelback of a culture we find ourselves in today.

“…and you can call me betty,
and betty when you call me you can call-me-Aaaaal”

I agree wholeheartedly with the person below me who mentioned “This Is Why I’m Hot” by Mims. I wish the rap wars would start up again so that Mims could get clapped, then maybe hip-hop would start getting thought-provoking again.

Okay, seriously. ANYTHING R. Kelly sings is complete crap.
Especially Trapped in the Closet. That was just messed up.
But Ignition Remix? Holy GOD GAG ME.
“this is the remix to ignition
hot and fresh out the kitchen
mama rollin that body
got evey man in her wishin
sippin on coke and rum
I’m like so what im drunk”

I seriously dislike the Finger Eleven song that is super repetitive and was so over played on the radio..”One Thing” I think. Also, that Tim McGraw/Nelly song “Over and Over Again” was just as lyrically terrible. As for those two who said MCR was terrible, I have a feeling they just put them there because they are considered a “punk/emo” band and they commenters seem to have a distaste for those sorts, also listing Hawthorne Heights and Fall OUt Boy. Well, if you take a listen to MCR’s lyrics and find the deeper meanings, you’ll find they are quite fascinating and that some are -gasp- uplifting…not so emo, huh? I’ll be the first to say Hawthorne Hights isn’t a great band, but MCR is entirely different. They try to create a different sound, incorporate more into their songs than some of the other more popular “punk” bands. They are literally the only “punk” band I enjoy.

Take a listen to 88 Lines About 44 Women by The Nails. Now that’s some lyrical juggling. Not best lyrics ever, but a good example of the right stuff…

“I’m as serious as cancer, when I say rhythm is a dancer”

let’s put the x in sex. love’s like a muscle and you make me wanna flex.

yum.

putting any led zeppelin song on this list is a crime. you people are worthless and pathetic, you can’t even pronounce basic words right. somebody should fire that old POS reading those lyrics and anyone else who collaborated on the making of this list.

Hey Jordan Lund: it’s
Mares eat oats and
does eat oats and
little lambs eat ivy.
A kid’ll eat ivy too,
wouldn’t you?

(Still doesn’t make any sense)

These two will ruin just about anyone’s day:

Bangles: “It’s another manic Monday / I wish it was Sunday / ‘Cuz that’s my funday”

Supertramp: “C’mon you little fighter / No need to get uptighter”

Rick Springfield! “I feel so dirty when they start talkin’ cute I’d like to tell her that I love her BUT THE POINT IS PROBABLY MOOT”

This is so retarded. How dare they defile the mighty Zep like that? Plant and Paige should come forth and smite their asses with the mighty seal club of rock! Oh, and the most annoying lyrics is that police song “SOS” where they say, “I’ll send an S.O.S….”

With all that meat hangin girl i feel like a butcher
Just wanna chop you up and cut ya
Got the whole place schemin like a hustler
With that beautiful skin the color of muster

Rush – Tom Sawyer

A modern day warrior
Mean, mean stride
Today’s Tom Sawyer
Mean, mean pride

How about Bruce Cockburn’s…

If I had a rocket launcher
If I had a rocket launcher
If I had a rocket launcher
I’d make somebody pay.

I am amazed that anyone would put any Rush song in a worst lyrics conversation. For one thing, you can’t take four lines of lyrics out of context of any song and say that they are awful or don’t make sense. Also, though Neil Peart’s lyrics may not always make sense immediately, if you THINK about them for a while, their meaning will come. I’d love to hear anyone try to diss the lyrics to 2112 or The Spirit of Radio or Freewill.

mims-this is why im hot
fergie-all songs
black eyed peas-my humps
Yung Joc-Its Goin Down
Lips of an Angel-Hinder

Oh yeah, and that one song by Seether, “Broken” I think it was… “’cause I’m broken/when I’m lonesome/and I don’t feel right/when you’re far away…” It just sounds like it was stolen from an acne-scarred teenage goth girl’s diary, an effect only amplified by Amy Lee’s overly-emotive backing vocal

Ice Ice Baby, Vanilla Ice

All right stop collaborate and listen
Ice is back with my brand new invention
Something grabs a hold of me tightly
Flow like a harpoon daily and nightly
Will it ever stop yo I don’t know
Turn off the lights and I’ll glow
To the extreme I rock a mic like a vandal
Light up a stage and wax a chump like a candle

The whole dang song is hilarious!

Ok, so RS hates zeppelin.. whatever.. but how could you forget MF’n Triumph..

–
Somebody’s out there, somewhere
Waiting for someone to come their way
Somebody’s out there, somewhere
I will somehow be somebody’s someone, someday

What’s this crap about not being able to RIP Zepplin … Presence and In Through the Out Door were crappy albums … they’re not untouchable … so all you “Male Groupies” can Blow Yourselves … even though you’d rather Blow Plant & Page

The Buoys “Timothy”. Just plain creepy.

“Walk the Dinosaur” by Was (Not Was)

Boom boom acka-lacka lacka boom
Boom boom acka-lacka boom boom
Boom boom acka-lacka lacka boom
Boom boom acka-lacka boom boom

It was a night like this forty million years ago
I lit a cigarette, picked up a monkey skull to go
The sun was spitting fire, the sky was blue as ice
I felt a little tired, so I watched Miami Vice

Africa by Toto;
I don’t need to say anything more

Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah! For the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. Hallelujah

What was that Handel guy thinking?

Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah! For the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. Hallelujah

What was that Handel guy thinking?

The subject is the worst lyrics. A song can have terrible lyrics but be a good song. It can have no lyrics and be a good song. Some songs can be improved by changing the lyrics (See Weird Al).

Anyone who says Bob Dylan had the worst lyrics needs to go back to kindergarten. His singing was pretty bad, but his lyrics were fine.

You hate Dylan? Cool. I hate Elvis. But his lyrics weren’t terrible, either.

“Whiskey in the Jar” by Metallica? Oh, you mean by Irish folk singers since forever. Blame them. If you want to dog Metallica for bad lyrics, try: “Through the Never”

The Immigrant Song has bad lyrics. But it’s a great song.

“All the things she said” by Tatu has fine lyrics. Before it was translated to English. See also “99 Red Balloons” by Nena.

A song can have the worst lyrics in the world, but if it’s a good song, it’s a good song. A song with bad music can have the deepest lyrics. When they both match, you get a classic.

Any other questions?

Whoever said “Call Me Al”…shame on you. That song is fantastic.

I know Creed has been mentioned, but once again:
“Above all the others we’ll fly
This brings tears to my eyes
My sacrifice”
And need I mention “With Arms Wide Open”?

Who’s Johnny
She Said
And Smiled in her Special Way
Who’s Johnny
She Said
You know I love you.

How can that lose?

Love Hurts was written by Roy Orbison. Don’t blame Nazareth.

nuff said.

It’s so damn catchy though.

I’m sorry Zeppelin lovers, but the worst lyrics of all time? “Stairway to Heaven.”

They’re the worst because the music is so memorable, while the words are moronic. If you write a song that great, take the time to put down the bong and write some decent lyrics.

“Bustle in your hedgerow” my ass.

Christina Aguilera – Candyman
every word is just a hint to sex
just boring and stupid

I’m going to have to vote for Daft Punk’s “Around the World”, most repetitive song ever:
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MacArthur Park.
Cake in the rain.
’nuff said.

when one says MCR lyrics , MCR fans get annoyed and say others understand nothing ,if one say Zeppelin, Zeppelin fans do so ! if one say John Lennon most say ” oh he is a legend his songs shouldnt be on the list”

what are you talking about all musicians or bands have bad songs even legends!

T-Bone by Neil Young from the “Trans” album!

Natalie Umbruglia, “Smoke”

my lullaby, hung out to dry, what’s up with that?
its over, where are you dad, mum’s looking bad, what’s up with that?
it’s dark in here, why bleeding is breathing, you’re hiding underneath the smoke in the room, try bleeding is believing
i used to, my mouth is dry, forgot how to cry, what’s up with that.

(ad nauseum)

She’s my cherry pie. cool drink of water…oh jeesh I can’t do it

Undercover Angel by Alan O’Day

Cryin’ on my pillow
Lonely in my bed
Then I heard a voice beside me
And she softly said
“Thunder is your night light”
“Magic is your dream”
And as I held her
She said, “See what I mean”

I said “Whaaaat”
She said “Ooo-ooo-ooo-wee”
I said “All right”
She said “Love me, love me, love me”

how about the one that goes:

i am greg of the hill people
bow down to me.
i am greg of the hill people
to be or not to be.

how about any song by journey

or any song by the beatles…cause they rape.

jkl;jkl;jkl;jkl;rg

i love this rant

Anything by Asia — especially “Heat of the Moment”… it starts off bad enough, but then, inspiration —

“Remember when we used to dance, and incidents arose from circumstance”

Who in their right mind is gonna take credit for that???

Are You Jimmy Ray? – Jimmy Ray
So bad, it’s bad

Yellow Ledbetter- Pearl Jam

Who let the dogs out-Baha Men

Macarena-Los Del Rio

Whomp There it is–Tag Team

“Cherry Pie”, Warrant

Step back you’re dancing kinda close
I feel a little poke coming through
On you
Now girl I know you felt it
Before you know I can’t help it
You know what I wanna do

Baby girl’s dancing so close
Ain’t a good idea
Cuz I’mma want you now and here
The way that you shake it on me
Makes me want you so bad sexually
Oh girl

Rollin by LB is pretty bad…

Alright partner
Keep on rollin’ baby
You know what time it is

Throw your hands up
Ladies and gentlement
Chocolate Starfish
Keep on rolling baby

Move in, now move out
Hands up, now hands down
Back up, back up
Tell me what you’re gonna do now
Breath in, now breath out
Hands up, now hands down
Back up, back up
Tell me what you’re gonna do now

Keep rollin’ rollin’ rollin’ rollin’
What?
Keep rollin’ rollin’ rollin’ rollin’
Come on!
Keep rollin’ rollin’ rollin’ rollin’
Yeah

Absolutely moronic!

Whatcha gonna do with all that junk
all that junk inside your trunk

[Fergie]

I’ma get get get get you drunk
get you love drunk off my hump
my hump my hump my hump my hump my hump
my hump my hump my hump my lovely little lumps

Check it out

I drive theese brothers crazy
I do it on the daily
they treat me really nicely
They buy me all these ices
Dolce and Gabbana
Fendi and then Donna
Caring they be sharin
All their money got me wearin fly
brother I aint askin
They say they love mah ass in
Seven Jeans
True religion
I say no
but they keep givin
So I keep on takin
And no I aint taken
We can keep on datin
ill keep on demonstrating

My love my love my love my love
you love my lady lumps
my hump my hump my hump
my humps they got you..

[Will.i.am]

Shes got me spendin..

[Fergie]

Ohh.. Spendin all your money on me..and spendin time on me..

[Will.i.am]

Shes got me spendin..

[Fergie]

Ohh.. Spendin all your money on me..uh on me on me..

[Will.i.am]

Whatcha gonna do with all that junk
all that junk inside that trunk..

[Fergie]

I’ma get get get get you drunk
get you love drunk off my hump

[Will.i.am]

Whatcha gonna do with all that ass
all that ass inside your jeans

[Fergie]

I’ma make make make make you scream
make you scream make you scream

Coz of my humps my hump my hump my hump
my hump my hump my hump my lovely lady lumps

Check it out

[Will.i.am]

I met a girl down at the disco
She said hey hey hey yeah lets go
I can be ya baby, you could be my honey
Lets spend time not money
And mix your milk with my cocoa puff
milky milky cocoa
mix your milk with my cocoa puff
Milky milky
Riiiiight…

[Fergie]

They say I’m really sexy
The boys they wanna sex me
They always standin next to me
Always dancin next to me
tryna feel my hump hump
Lookin at my lump lump
you can look but you can’t touch it
if you touch it
I’ma start some drama
you don’t want no drama
No no drama no no no no drama
So don’t
Pull on my hand boy
you aint my man boy
I’m just tryna dance boy

And move my hump
my hump my hump my hump my hump my hump my hump
my hump my hump my hump my hump my lovely lady lumps
my lovely lady lumps my lovely lady lumps
In the back and in the front

my loving got you..

[Will.i.am]

Shes got me spendin..

[Fergie]

Ohh.. Spendin all your money on me..and spendin time on me..

[Will.i.am]

Shes got me spendin..

[Fergie]

Ohh.. Spendin all your money on me..uh on me on me..

[Will.i.am]

Whatcha gonna do with all that junk
all junk inside that trunk

[Fergie]

I’ma get get get get you drunk
get you love drunk off my hump

[Will.i.am]

Whatcha gonna do with all that ass
all that ass inside dem jeans

[Fergie]

I’ma make make make make you scream
make you scream make you scream

[Will.i.am]

Whatc ha gonna do with all that junk
all that junk inside that trunk

[Fergie]

I’ma get get get get you drunk
get you love drunk off this hump

[Will.i.am]

Whatcha gonna do with all that breasts
all that breast inside dat shirt

[Fergie]

I’ma make make make make you work
make you work work make you work

[Will.i.am]

Shes got me spendin..

[Fergie]

Ohh.. Spendin all your money on me..and spendin time on me..

[Will.i.am]

Shes got me spendin..

[Fergie]

Ohh.. Spendin all your money on me..uh on me on me..

So reeeal…so reeeal…so reeeal…so reeeal…
so real…so real…so real…so real….
So reeeal….So reeeal….so reeeal…so reeeal…
So real…so real…so real…so real…
So reeeal…(echoes and fades out)

“You don’t have to read my mind
To know what I have in mind
I want to know
What you’re doing after the show”

“I am the Lizard King
I can do anything”

“Some win, some will lose
Some were born to sing the blues”

“TNT, I’m a power load
TNT, watch me explode”

“I am the walrus, goo goo ga joob”

“She’s young now, she’s wild now, she wants to be free
Got the magic power of the music from me”

“Love, love me do
You know I love you
I’ll always be true
So please love me do”

“All that you eat
And everyone you meet
And all that you slight
And everyone you fight”

“Unter glieben glocken globen”

“Rising from the grave
Kills the people he once saved”

“One day love will find you
Break those chains that bind you”

“I can’t fight this feeling any more
I’ve forgotten what I started fighting for
It’s time to bring this ship in to the shore
And throw away the oar
Forever”

“We’re an American band
We’re an American band
We’re coming to your town
We’ll help you party down
We’re an American band”

“Yo no soy marinero
Yo no soy marinero, soy capitan
Soy capitan, soy capitan”

“Rock and Roll Hootchie Koo,
Come on mama, light my fuse.
Rock and Roll Hootchie Koo,
Truck on out and spread the news.”

“I’m madly in anger with you” – Metallica (St. Anger)

“Thank you very much-o Mr. Roboto” – Styx

(The entire song is an abomination)

Glad someone has posted some Def Leppard. Their entire opus, along with their very name, should be in the Hall of Shame, but mostly for “Are you getting it? Armageddon it!”

BTW, the Bangles song was actually written by Prince, who should be awarded a special Lifetime Achievement Award for anything that uses “u” as “you”, and “2″ for “two”.

All I really know is the day I heard Lil Jon “Oh Skee SKee SKee”
I realized life was over…. I was 21

Stand in the place where you live.

Helvis | 5/11/2007, 7:37 am EST

T-Bone by Neil Young from the “Trans” album!

CORRECTION: T-Bone is off the 1981 Album “Reactor”, the predecessor to “Trans”

New Radicals – Someday We’ll Know
Just a few gems:

Whatever happened to Emelia Earhart
Who holds the stars up in the sky
Is true love once in a lifetime
Did the captain of the titanic cry

Does anybody know the way to Atlantis
Or what the wind says when she cries

Someday we’ll know
If love can move a mountain
Someday we’ll know
Why the sky is blue
Someday we’ll know
Why I wasn’t meant for you
Someday we’ll know
Why Samson loved Delilah
One day I’ll go
Dancing on the moon
Someday you’ll know
That I was the one for you

I bought a ticket to the end of the rainbow
I watched the stars crash in the sea
If I could ask god just one question
Why aren’t you here with me

“Cat scratch fever”

RUSH—

“Net boy, net girl,
Send your signal
’round the world.

Let your fingers walk and talk,
And set you freeeee.”

Two things…

If most of you would go ahead and look up the origins of some of the lyrics you mentioned, you’d realize that they make sense. And therefore, are far from “awful”. Example: “Unter, glieben, glocken, globen” was just some spoken nonsense instead of simply going “1,2,3,4″. It definately wasn’t meant to be serious.

And second…Janie Lane made millions off of those horrible “Cherry Pie” lyrics. So how about we commend these musicians for writing great and/or popular songs without having to get all poetry-like?

“I would do anything for love,
but I won’t DO THAT!” .

“Snot is running down his nose”

(from Jethro Tull’s “Aqualung”)
UGH.

SPOONMAN?!?
keep in mind when listening to that song that its about “spoonman” who is a street performer up here in seattle and you can hear him playing in the background of the song.

lyrics aren’t bad people just have no idea what they’re about

anyone that thinks the lyrics to Spoonman are bad, or THE WORST EVER should honestly shoot them selves. especially if they WORK at a music magazine. if rollingstone goes under, that will just be one of the best examples of why.

the worst lyrics are ANY song by Ice Cube. that kid must be a retard, nevermind all the morons that buy his music.

“I GOT,2 tickets to paradise”

Toto’s “Africa”

the line that goes:
“Sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti”.

Artist: Powerman 5000 Lyrics
Song: Bombshell Lyrics
Chorus:
Get up, get up, get up, drop the bombshell
Get up, get up, this is out of control
Get up, get up, get up, drop the bombshell
Get up, get up, (get gone)

Now look who’s coming, yeah, look who’s back
Quick, drop the bombshell straight to the track
21st century killing machine
Burnt on the inside, a five-headed team
Now I’m not the same because you’re not the same
And you’re not the same because I’m not the same
And we’re not the same this could never be the same
And we just want to survive

:Chorus:

Now you want to save us and you want it all
And you want the trasmit because you want the call
And you want the one that makes the worlds the collide
But since that has happened it has grown twice inside

(I’m not the same)

:Chorus:

Get up, get up (drop the bombshell)

:Chorus:

(everybo dy should drop the bomb)

Yeah!

KISS – Dr. Love

You need my love baby, oh so bad
You’re not the only one I’ve ever had
And if I say I wanna set you free
Don’t you know you’ll be in misery
They call me (Dr. Love)
They call me Dr. Love (calling Dr. Love)
I’ve got the cure you’re thinkin’ of (calling Dr. Love)

And even though I’m full of sin
In the end you’ll let me in
You’ll let me through, there’s nothin’ you can do
You need my lovin’, don’t you know it’s true

So if you please get on your knees
There are no bills, there are no fees
Baby, I know what your problem is
The first step of the cure is a kiss

So call me (Dr. Love)
They call me Dr. Love (calling Dr. Love)
I am your doctor of love (calling Dr. Love), ha
They call me (Dr. Love), they call me Dr. Love (calling Dr. Love)
I’ve got the cure you’re thinkin’ of (calling Dr. Love)

Ooh, they call me (Dr. Love)
I am the doctor of love (calling Dr. Love)
I’ve got the cure you’re thinkin’ of (calling Dr. Love)
Ooh, they Call me (Dr. Love)
I am your doctor of love (calling Dr. Love)
I’ve got the cure you’re thinking of (calling Dr. Love), yeah
Yeah, they call me (Dr. Love)
They call me Dr. Love (calling Dr. Love)
I’ve got the cure you’re thinkin’ of (calling Dr. Love)
Love, love, love, (Dr. Love)
Love, love, love, love, (calling Dr. Love) love Dr. Love
(Calling Dr. Love)
I’ve got the cure you’re thinkin’ (Dr. Love)
I’ve got the cure you’re thinkin’ (calling Dr. Love)
I’ve got the cure you’re thinkin’ of (calling Dr. Love)
They call me Dr. Love (Dr. Love)
They call me Dr. Love (calling Dr. Love)
I’ve got the cure

How about “Monster Mash” !!!

hey.. spoonman and the immigrant song are two songs that I really like man.. its cool that you made fun of them.. but there are some songs on the radio right now that I think have THE WORST LYRICS EVER — millions of times worse. Emo, not intellectuo ha ha ha

don’t worry, be happy

I don’t like her, but it’s Sha Ny A, not Shayna, and her song was a good interperation of what most working women do. And last but not least how dare you say that a Led Zeppelin Song is dumb lyrics. I’d like to see that stupid office nerd write lyrics as mystical as Robert Plant.

MacArthur Park has lousy lyrics, and London Bridge by Fergie makes me wanna puke, but no worst lyrics list if complete without the magic that Lindsey Buckinghams lyrics add to the Fleetwood Mac song Family Man. Brace for impact:

Walk down this road
When the road gets rough
I fall down
I get up
I am what I am…
A family man
I am what I am…
A family man
Mother… father… brother…
Mother… father… brother…
Walk down this road
In the cool of the night
Don’t know what’s wrong
But I do know what’s right
I am what I am…
A family man
I am what I am…
A family man
Mother… father… brother…
Mother… father… brother…
I am what I am…
A family man
I am what I am…
A family man
Mother… father… brother…
Mother… father… brother…

THAT is bad.

Vin Diesel is a fool. Did he even look at the lyrics for Hinder’s “Lips of an Angel” or “Photograph” by Nickelback. Lips of an Angel is about a couple who has already broken up and one person is trying to move on but the other hasn’t. Photograph is about looking back at your high school years and remembering. Most of Linkin Park’s stuff is about the thought of loneliness and I can be honest that if you want to look at something from Nickelback and criticize it, look at “Rockstar.” Again, Nickelback has some amazing lyrics.

This is why I’m hot is horrid. So is Starship’s We Built This City.

Speaking of one single line that just totally grates for some reason, for me it is

-New Radicals
“someday we’ll know, why the sky is blue”

Um, we know now why that is. You can look it up. Just order some encyclopedias. You know, it would be a nice thing to have anyway

“You make me feel like dancing (gonna dance the night away)”.

I would like to nominate one of Brian Hyland’s contributions to the earworm phenomenon: one Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weenie Yellow Polka-Dot Bikini.

She was afraid to come out of the locker
She was as nervous as she could be
She was afraid to come out of the locker
She was afraid that somebody would see

One, two, three, four
Tell the people what she wore

It was an itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka-dot bikini
That she wore for the first time today
An itsy teenie weenie yellow polka-dot bikini
So in the locker she wanted to stay

One, two, three, four
Stick around, we’ll tell you more

She was afraid to come out in the open
And so a blanket around her she wore
She was afraid to come out in the open
And so she sat bundled up on the shore

One, two, three, four
Tell the people what she wore

It was an itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka-dot bikini
That she wore for the first time today
An itsy teenie weenie yellow polka-dot bikini
So in the blanket she wanted to stay

One, two, three, four
Stick around, we’ll tell you more

Now she’s afraid to come of the water
And I wonder what she’s gonna do
Now she’s afraid to come out of the water
And the poor little girl’s turnin blue

One, two, three, four
Tell the people what she wore

It was an itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka-dot bikini
That she wore for the first time today
An itsy teenie weenie yellow polka-dot bikini
So in the water she wanted to stay

One, two, three, four
Stick around, we’ll tell you more

From the locker to the blanket
From the blanket to the shore
From the shore to the water
Guess there isn’t any more

Neil Diamond -”I Am I Said”

“no one heard at all not even the chair”

usually people who think that chairs can talk are sent away to the funny farm.

is there gas in the car yes there’s gas in the car

The song “Brimstone and Fire” by Cyndi Lauper comes to mind, with this lyric:

“Now we have dinner every Saturday
I make spagetti, she brings cake
I make spagetti with tomato sauce
Because that’s all I can make”

“If I were a sculptor…but then again, no…” Elton John

Honorable mention to the entire song “Sad Songs” and to every word ever written by Dave Matthews. I’d look some up, but it would just be too painful

P.S.: I actually think a lot of the lyrics others, including RS, listed are good. A lyric can only be so bad if the lyricist is just having fun and not taking himself too seriously. To be truly offensive, it has to be clear that they think they’re rhapsodizing.

“If I could fall into the sky, do you think time would pass us by?”

What?

“I’d walk a thousand miles if I could just see you tonight.”

Well you better get moving because a thousand miles is a pretty long way to walk in less than a day.

Vanessa Carlton, lyrical genius.

shock the monkey.

watch the monkey get hurt.

monkey.

Mr Chevelle is correct that sometimes the lyrics are not intended to be read out of the context of the song. When John lennon wrote “I am the Walrus” for the Beatles he said that he put together a crazy mixture of images that were not to have any real meaning. The images and the music worked very well together and many people love that song. Then on:”The Beatles” you have the perfectly crazy little ditty: “Honey Pie”. I must admit that I have been listening to the recordings of the band YES for years and in some cases have no clue where Jon Anderson is going with the lyrics. However, they create a really powerful atmosphere and imagry that blends with the music wonderfully. It is all in the total context of the song that the lyrica should be seen.
Means Johnston III

“You’re Having My Baby”
by Paul Anka

Havin’ my baby
What a lovely way of sayin’
How much you love me
Havin’ my baby
What a lovely way of sayin’
What you’re thinkin’ of me
The need inside you
I see it showin’
Whoa, the seed inside ya
Baby, do you feel it growin’
Are you happy you know it
That you’re

[Both:]
Havin’ my baby

[Odia:]
I’m a woman in love
And I love what it’s doin’ to me

[Both:]
Havin’ my baby

[Odia:]
I’m a woman in love
And I love what’s goin’ through me

[Paul:]
Didn’t have to keep it
Wouldn’t put ya through it
You could have swept it from you life
But you wouldn’t do it
No, you wouldn’t do it

[scratch your eyes out here...]

Avril and Nickleback are bad and oh I forgot about eddie murphy making music yeesh. Also agree the music can make a song good even if the lyrics blow. See almost all rap songs and 80s stuff for the worst. Lest we forget MJ’s “I’m bad, I’m bad, you know it, you know cuz blah blah blah blah blah I’m bad!”

ewww :s

“we built this city” insipid lyrics for sure…

“you drive me crazy” fine young cannibals…

“maxwell’s silver hammer” the beatles… a hot, steamy turd on an otherwise classic record abbey road

“Chug All Night” by the Eagles

I believe we can chug all night
I believe we can hug all night
The band is loose and the groove is right
You’re so much woman
I believe we can chug all night

We’re gonna do a little chuggin’
We’re gonna do a little huggin’

“She’s like, so whatever.”-Avril Lavigne’s “Girlfriend”

“If the light is off, then it isn’t on.”-Hilary Duff’s “So Yesterday”

“You make me wanna La La.”-Ashlee Simpson’s (wait for it…”La La”)

Yeah…

Madonna! Angel’s chorus is typical of her songs, just repeating a line twice and adding a kicker.
“Oooh you’re an angel
Oooh you’re an angel
Oooh you’re an angel
In disguise, I can see it in your eyes”
And lest we foget:

“I don’t like cities, but I like New York
Other places make me feel like a dork
Los Angeles is for people who sleep
Paris and London, baby you can keep”

How stupid!! Sting read “A” book. Sting graduated from none other than…Oxford University! Ummm, isn’t that like THE premier university in the world, particularly for English Lit?! (Yes, I know Nabokov is Russian) Many of the older Police songs make literary allusions. Politically, Sting is a moron; lyrically, he’s genius.

Worst:

anything by Justin–doesn’t matter what the words are, this guy’s whiny falsetto could kill any song.

“I would do anything for love, but I won’t do that.”–do what meatloaf? Lose 50 lbs? Write interesting lyrics?

Anything by Neil Young

U2 starting “Vertigo” with “Uno, dos, tres, catorce” meaning “1,2,3,14″ and any Nickelback cock rock

Fergie – London Bridge
Gwen Stefani – Hollaback Girl
The Black Eyed Peas – My Humps
Paris Hilton – Turn It Up
Black Eyed Peas – Let’s Get Retarded

…

Pretty much all of the Black Eyed Peas lyrics are horrid.

did barry say that nickelback has amazing lyrics? Barry go bedtime now come back when you turn eight

“Only time will tell if we stand the test of time!” – Van Halen

“It’s like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife” – Alanis Morissete

To the guy who said Sting is a lyrical genius: my friend, you are daft beyond repair. He and Ed K. from Live are the most pretentious (yet empty-headed) twits ever unleashed on the world of music. That Sting has been so encouraged by success is one of the great crimes of popular music. The “literary allusions” he drops into his songs, the deliberately archaic titles, and the convoluted “poetic” phrasing he uses, which seem to impress you so, are transparent window-dressing. Any half-bright teenager can write lyrics that sound “poetic.” But if you can tell the difference between pretentious, self-congratulatory claptrap and actual poetry, it’s painful to endure the fake stuff.

I love the idea that if you graduate from a respected school you are magically prevented from writing crap lyrics. I also love the idea that if a song is “about something,” then its lyrics can’t be bad (like Nickelback or MCR–who, by the way are not punk, poor, sheltered child).

I mentioned Live–they deserve some piling-on:

love will lead us, alright
love will lead us, she will lead us
can you hear the dolphin’s cry?
see the road rise up to meet us
it’s in the air we breathe tonight
love will lead us, she will lead us

life is like a shooting star
it don’t matter who you are
if you only run for cover, it’s just a waste of time
we are lost ’til we are found
this phoenix rises up from the ground
and all these wars are over

or:

this is not a black and white world
you can’t afford to believe in your side
this is not a black and white world
to be alive
I say that the colors must swirl
and I believe
that maybe today
we will all get to appreciate
the beauty of gray

Oh, when will the world realize that Live has all the answers?

” Im drinkning a soy-latte
I getta double Shottay
it goes right through my body and you know im satisfied”

worst f*cking lyrics ever written anywhere ever bar none even the hulk hogan lyrics quoted by fynondor are no match for that, they are close but F*CK ME THAT WAS BAD, also anything avril lavigne (little miss stage prescence) has ever contributed to should be included, watched an interview on mtv where she says that she wrote the chorus to “girlfriend” (shudder) in “liek 5 minutes”.. i got a newsflash for you

“YOU CAN F*CKING TELL”

gdiaf kthx

By horse, by rail, by land, by sea, our journey starts
Two men incensed by one man’s journey from the past
In Iceland, where the mountain stood with pride
They set off with their guide
To reach the mountain side

Roped as one for safety through the long descent
Into the crater of volcanic rock they went
Look up from our telescopic laair,
One star for us to share,
We continue on our prayer.

Crystals of opaque quartz, studded limpid tears,
Forming magic chandeliers, lighting blistered galleries.

Rick Wakeman. Journey To The Centre Of The Earth. And it just keeps getting better.

Neil Diamond’s “Desiree” announces itself as one of the most pathetic lyrical turds ever unleashed on the American population with the immortal words “It was the third of June,
On that summer’s day…”
Um, Neil, summer begins on the 21st of June, no?
Trust me, it just gets worse from there:
“…When I became a man
At the hands of a girl almost twice my age”
Yikes.
Sorry Neil, I gotta tune out right now. I’m just too emotionally fragile to endure the mental picture of you poppin’ your cherry. Thank you, I need a shower now.

Any of the chart topping Bush songs of the 90’s. Rossdale must throw a set of “psuedo-deep” word magnets on his fridge and write an albom in 5 minutes.

UMM NOT SURE OF THE BAND BUT THE SONG WAS “EVERYBODY WANG CHUNG TONIGHT” WTF IS THAT???

AND EWWW STEELY DAN, MOMMY MAKE IT STOP!!

wang refers to stumming down on a guitar chung is strumming back up the other way

ANYTHING by Avril Lavigne…

Girlfriend
“Hey hey
You you
I dont like your girlfriend
No way
No way
I think you need a new one
Okay
Okay
I could be your girlfriend”

Complicated
“Uh huh, life’s like that
Uh huh, thats the way it is (x2)
La… la la la la (Uh huh)”

I’m With You
“Yeah-yah yeah, yea-yah, yeah-yah, yeah-yah, yahhhhhh-uhuhhhh”

like how the f*** did she win a Juno for songwriter of the year???
hey man, we still got nickelback

I read it in the papers, I saw it on TV
I guess there’ll be one empty seat when I wrestle at Wimbely
I used to tear my shirt, but now you’ve torn my heart
I knew you were a Hulkamaniac right from the very start

CHORUS:
You were my friend
I’ll see you again
When the Hulkster comes to Heaven
We’ll tag up again
The world just lost another Hulkamaniac
I wish Hulk’s love could bring you back again
You were my friend
I’ll see you again

When I climb back in the ring, you know I’ll win this fight
I wish you were here at ringside to cheer me on tonight
The spotlight now grows dim, and now it’s not on me
The prayers we said together are still our guarantee

maybe someone remembers this classic:

“Is Sheniqua there? HELL NO! Sheniqua don’t live here no more!”

Once there was this girl who

Wouldn’t go and change with the girls in the change room

But when they finally made her

They saw birthmarks all over her body

She couldn’t quite explain it

They’d always just been there

Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm

Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm

Rush, Led Zep & Doors songs are lyrics’s & Music fused, U can’t separate a Scrambled egg & call it a chicken!! Ok My nomination is “Shannon ” a song about a dog, I named my Dog after it, & do have a sentimental luv 4 it but listen to this! “Shannon is gone
I hope she’s drifting out to sea
She always loved to swim away
Maybe she’ll find an island
With a shaded tree
Just like the one in our backyard !” The Contest is over, if you’re not into yoga, & have half a brain, I will except the Worst Song Lyrics prize now
Thank You, Calgary, Canada

What a gross set of lyrics..how trashy

Very ‘Gross’, touche Holly. You must ” like Yoga, and have half a Brain’, no offence intended

” Groiss as in Henry Gross who wrote ‘Shannon”, Brilliant!

‘Avalanche’ by Stevie nicks, great song but ” I saw my reflection in the snow cover hill” obviouse drug reference . How about ” Drug Themes ” or references in songs that are really tacky as the next Poll?

who are the people that are suddenly coming up with these “worst lyric lists” these are hardly the worst of the worst and who is the old fat bald guy reading the list? i think any lyric read by this guy would not sound good.

HOW HAS NO ONE MENTIONED “THIS IS WHY IM HOT” BY MIMS?

and i quote….

This is why I’m hot(x2)
This is why(x2) uh
This is why I’m hot (uh)
This is why I’m hot(x2) whoo
This is why(x2)
This is why I’m hot

I’m hot coz I’m fly (fly)
You ain’t coz you’re not (mims)
This is why x2
This is why I’m hot(x2)

Verse 1:

This is why I’m hot
I dont gotta rap
I can sell a mill sell you nothing on the track
I represent New York
I got it on my back
And they say that we lost it
So I’mma bring it back
I love the dirty dirty
Coz niggas show me love
The ladies start to bounce
As soon as I hit the club
But in the Midwest
They love to take it slow
So when I hit the H
I watch you get it on the floor
And if you needed hyphy
I take it to the bay
Frisco to Sac town
They do it eryday
Coppin a Hollywood
As soon as I hit LA
I’m in that low low
I do it the cali way
And when I hit the Chi
People say that I’m fly
They like the way I dress they like (they like my) my attire
move crowds from side to side
They ask me how I do it and simply I reply

(Chorus)

Verse 2:
This is why I’m hot
Catch me on the block
Every other day
Another bitch another drop
16 bars, 24 pop
44 songs, nigga gimme what you got
I’m in there driving cars
Push them off the lot
I’m into shutting stores down so I can shop
If you need a bird I can get it chopped
Tell ne what you need you know I get ‘em by the flock
I call my hommie black meet me on the ave
I hit wash heights with the money in the bag
we into big spinners
See my pimping never dragged
Find me with different women that you niggas never had
For those who say they know me know I’m focused on my cream
Playa you come between you’d better focus on the beam
I keep it so feen the way you see me lean
And when I say I’m hot my nigga this is what I mean

(Chorus)

Verse 3:
This is why I’m hot
Shorty see the drop
Ask me what I paid and I say yeah I paid a ?quap?
And then I hit the switch that take away the top
So chicks around the way they call me cream of the crop
They hop in the car
I tell them all about
We hit the studio they say they like the way I record
I gave you black train and I did you wrong
So everytime I see them and they tell me that’s their song
They say I’m the bomb
They love the way the charm hanging from the neck
And compliments the arm which compliments the ear then comes the gear
So when I hit the room the shorties stop and stare
Then niggas start to hate rearrange their face
Little do they know I keep them things by waistside
I reply nobody gotta die
Similar to lil wiz coz I got the fire
(Chorus)

Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.
It’s getting hard to be someone but it all works out, it doesn’t matter much to me.
Let me take you down, ‘cos I’m going to Strawberry Fields.
Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about.
Strawberry Fields forever.

only kidding the beatles are great and i have been to strawberry hill

I’m still sticking with my Elton John attrocity (”If I were a sculptor….But then again…No”, which I have said for years is the most false lyric ever written. I occasionally try to say it believably in conversation as a sort of acting exercise, and I don’t think it can be done.), but there are some pretty strong contenders further down the list. The Rush lyrics submitted are particularly compelling. I think I had blocked them out of my mind like a horrific, traumatizing, violent event.

I don’t see the point of attacking hip hop lyrics that aren’t pretentious. They might be dopey, but they’re just playing. And Neil Diamond is getting unfairly attacked. He’s old and dorky, but he’s a good songwriter. Someone cited “and no on heard at all, not even the chair” as evidence that he thinks chairs can talk. Still trying to work out the logic there. (I’m pretty sure it implies that chairs can’t hear.)

“Telephone Call from Istanbul”

“Never trust a man in a Blue Trenchcoat …. Never drive a car when your Dead”

Tom Waits

What has happened to this magazine? You used to talk INTELLIGENTLY about music (kinda) and now your a liberal, propaganda spewing magazine, that craps on Led Zeppelin (the greatest of hard rock bands) and gives Byran Adams praise and Fall Out Boy (Angry teenager cry baby MUSIC) rave reviews. Where are their RETARTED lyrics?

Fall Out Boy:
We’re going down, down in an earlier round
And Sugar, we’re going down swinging
I’ll be your number one with a bullet
A loaded God complex, cock it and pull it

LOL…..I guess whiny music and sub par ANYTHING is what Liberals like anyways.

Corey Hart ‘Boy in the Box’ is Bad but this is Badder! I wear my sunglasses at night
So I can, so I can
Watch you weave
Then breathe your story lines
And I wear my sunglasses at night
So I can, so I can
Keep track of the visions in my eyes

While she’s deceiving me
It cuts my security
Has she got control of me
I turn to her and say

Don’t switch the blade
On the guy in shades, oh-no
Don’t masquerade
With the guy in shades, oh-no
I can’t believe it
‘Cause you got it made
With the guy in shades, oh-no

This topic is a fraud if there is no mention of LFO’s “Summer Girls.” “When you take a sip you buzz like a hornet/Billy Shakespeare wrote a whole bunch of sonnets.” Or, how about “I’ll steal your honey like I stole your bike.” Top that!

U2’s Some Days Are Better Than Others

Some days are dry, some days are leaky
Some days come clean, other days are sneaky
Some days take less, but most days take more
Some slip through your fingers and onto the floor
Some days you’re quick, but most days you’re speedy
Some days you use more force than is necessary
Some days just drop in on us
Some days are better than others

Some days it all adds up
And what you got is not enough
Some days are better than others

Some days are slippy, other days sloppy
Some days you can’t stand the sight of a puppy
Your skin is white but you think you’re a brother
Some days are better than others

Some days you wake up with her complaining
Some sunny days you wish it was raining
Some days are sulky, some days have a grin
And some days have bouncers and won’t let you in

Some days you hear a voice
Taking you to another place
Some days are better than others

Some days are honest, some days are not
Some days you’re thankful for what you’ve got
Some days you wake up in the army
And some days it’s the enemy

Some days are work, most days you’re lazy
Some days you feel like a bit of a baby
Lookin’ for Jesus and His mother
Some days are better than others

Some days you feel ahead
You’re making sense of what she said
Some days are better than others

Some days you hear a voice
Taking you to another place

oh come on – you can´t seriously think that the lyrics for “fly away” are the worst EVER! Where do you get off?

what about porcupine pie by neil diamond

“porcupine pie, porcupine pie… better eat it with a glove or your hand’ll turn green”

Isn’t this sort of a moot point – songs tend to be ear-candy with no intended deeper meaning or they are written to have more than one meaning for the listener. Besides that, almost any lyric can sound pretty ridiculous when taken out of context.

Some the worst lyrics I have the misfortune of hearing are of Soft Cell’s “Tainted Love,” Black-Eyed Peas’ “My Hump,” Madonna’s “Die Another Day,” Eminem’s “Without Me,” and Avril Lavigne’s “Girlfriend.” We sometimes burn books. Sometimes we delete files. We should burn the master tapes of these God-awful songs.

stxyx mr. roboto yeah and also the funniest/dumbest lyrics even written

Brimful of Asha on the 45
Well it’s a brimful of Asha on the 45
Brimful of Asha on the 45
Well it’s a brimful of Asha on the 45

Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow
Everybody needs a bosom
Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow
Everybody needs a bosom

Anything by Nickelback “yeah yeah…yeah yeah,..oh yeah”

1st thing to the dimwit that said ” anything by Neil young’, take your Brittney Spears CD & shove it in your Pie hole. Okay , how about ” There’s a World you’re living in, take it in & Blow Hard”, opps that’s Neil, he’s still one of the best Lyricist of the 20th century, it’s all in the context, you can’t unscramble a Egg & call it a chicken!

I don’t know what the worst lyrics ever are but the worst insanely popular lyricist of the last 20 years is definitely Lenny Kravitz. His songs get by on the energy of the music but the lyrics are embarassing.

Almost any lyrics are OK (i.e. entertaining) if you’ve ingested enough of the appropriate substances…

A lot of lyrics exist just to give the singer something to do with his/her mouth. Just ask Michael Stipe. Who knows whether they’re any good?

I didn’t see it on here….no one mentioned Pour Some Sugar On Me – Def Leppard. It’s insanely bad!

Paris Hilton! Paris Hilton!
Anything that comes out of that girls mind is a joke!

can there really be anything worse than “Trapped in the Closet”, by R. Kelly?

My god.

this is why im hot, this is why im hot, this is why, this is why,this is why, im hot this is why im hot, this is why im hot, this is why, this is why, this is why im hot, im hot cuz im fly, you aint cuz u not, this is why, this is why, this is why im hot im hot cuz im fly, you aint cuz u not this is this is why, this is why, this is why im hot

You are KILLING ME!

Led Zepplin John Lennon America

Are you not just listening to but understanding the words, get a dictionary

Lyrics are the writers POETRY and ART!!!!

Considering the bands above still sell their albums put out over 20 years ago the “Lyrics’ are pretty dam good.

pee pee

AC/DC have some incredibly stupid lyrics. “Let Me Put My Love Into You” springs to mind.

Let me put my love into you babe.
Let me put my love on the line.
Let me put my love into you babe.
Let me cut your cake with my knife.

AC/DC have some incredibly stupid lyrics. “Let Me Put My Love Into You” springs to mind.

Let me put my love into you babe.
Let me put my love on the line.
Let me put my love into you babe.
Let me cut your cake with my knife.

“All I Want Is Everything” by Def Leppard is incredibly stupid as well.

All I want is everything.
Am I asking too much?

I think the problem with most lists like this is that some people can’t seem to understand the difference between:

a) bad singers (the guy from Def Leppard)
b) bad song writers (i.e, Def Leppard)
c) bad songs (most of Def Leppard’s)
d) bad lyrics (as I mentioned below).

As the title is supposed to be “worst lyrics”, that’s what the list should contain. So, yes, some of Neil Young’s LYRICS would fit. Maybe even some entire SONGS. But he is not a bad song writer.

Personally, I also think its wrong to include any pop or rap at all. Rock and folk lyrics will always been considered of higher quality because they mean more to the song.

Perhaps this is a mixed-blessing. Disappointment with mass-marketed lyrical disasters that have a better effect on your stomach than a laxative brings a smile to me. I would like to extend my nomination to anything by 50 Cent.

“I’ll take you to the candy shop” – I bet you will …

“I got the magic stick” – I assure you; you do not

“This Rap shit is so easy” – Forget the last three words and you got where modern Rap is

Very, very, disappointing.

Insulting Immigrant Song is totally uncalled for. Those are some of the most awesome lyrics I’ve ever heard.

Don’t forget Bon Jovi.
Cliches, only cliches.
You Give Love A Bad Name.
Livin’ On A Prayer.
Wanted Dead Or Alive.
Never Say Goodbye.
Bad Medicine.
UF

Joel D. Bilbao , you do know that Soft Cell didn’t actually write Tainted Love. That was Ed Cobb for Jackie O.

U2 Elevation and Gwen Stefani’s Hollaback Girl are awful.

In Mean girls, i kinda like it well just the story line but here’s one 4 everyone…………

( at a party looking at her EX- boyfriend while her half friend likes him)

Regina: Why wouldn’t anyone break up with you? Your SO HOT!

Caddy: I never felt this feeling before, it felt like my ass was going to fall out my stomach like word vomit.

( later)

Janet: Regina is a bully, now Caddy, there are two kinds of peolple, people who see evil stuff going on and don’t try to stop it, or people who DO evil stuff. I need you to act as if nothing is wrong, can you do that?
Caddy: Yeah! I think so.

Janet: Great, let’s rock this bitch

In Mean girls, i kinda like it well just the story line but here’s one 4 everyone…………

( at a party looking at her EX- boyfriend while her half friend likes him)

Regina: Why wouldn’t anyone break up with you? Your SO HOT!

Caddy: I never felt this feeling before, it felt like my ass was going to fall out my stomach like word vomit.

( later)

Janet: Regina is a bully, now Caddy, there are two kinds of peolple, people who see evil stuff going on and don’t try to stop it, or people who DO evil stuff. I need you to act as if nothing is wrong, can you do that?
Caddy: Yeah! I think so.

Janet: Great, let’s rock this bitch

i’m sorry but how can yall say that this is why i’m hot is a bad song…and my humps…have ya’ll ever heard of songs that were made for the club? and whoever wrote the lyrics for it, it’s Donna Karen, really, name brands kid. and also, hip hop is still thought provokin,cuz we still got luda, we still got Jay, we still got wayne, and most of the rappers put out mainstream hits on the rado so u can buy their album…yall sitting here dissin music y not write a song ya’ll selves, mad cuz yall can’t understand slang and saying hip hop ain’t thought provokin no more…pop ain’t neva made no one think but ain’t nobody mad about that

Someone left the cake out in the rain.
I don’t think that I can take it,
cuz it took so long to bake it,
And I’ll never have that recipe again, Oh Nooooooooooo!

I was 17, and it was simply embarrassing.

“lip gloss” by lil mama is one of the biggest pieces of garbage ever written. Here is a sample.
“what you know about me?”repeat several times. “My lip gloss is poppin, my lip gloss is cool,all the boys keep stoppin,they chase me after school”. Also anything by T-pain(or testicular pain) deserves to be banned forever.

Lobo – 1973 or so “I’d love you to want me”

When I saw you standing there
I ’bout fell off my chair
When you moved your mouth to speak
I felt the blood go to my feet

It’s not hard for me to know
What you’re trying not to show
Something in my soul just cried
I see the want in your blue eyes

How about a worst gag-me lyric factor?

The two that immediatly come to mind are –
“My Heart Will Go On”
“I Don’t Wanna Miss a Thing”

I think ‘My heart will go on’ wins. Tyler manages to make me not throw up – barely. Thank God he didn’t write that song.

Rihanna-umbrella ella ella eh eh eh,(breaking a song down in sylabells[sic] is total crap. Also, jay-z’s rap at the beginning sucked too. anything else by rihanna sucks as well.

Hollaback girl- Worst song ever

Avril lavigne’s my happy ending uses lyrics that dont make sense.

Sean kingston- beatiful girls(gag)

Chris brown (is your man on the flo, if he aint let me know) go back to school

something called soulja boy(never heard it?, youre lucky)

and last, i was gonna metion lip gloss until i saw it posted so im gonna nominate “beatiful soul” by jesse mccartney, that song is just downright creepy to me.

wtf led zeppelin on there?

immigrant song pwns

U2’s lyrics in “Vertigo” is not them misunderstanding Spanish, Senor Smarty-pants. That was the beginning of their 14th album. It was actually clever to those of us who LISTEN. Dearest doof dog, there is such a thing in this world called wit. Look into it.

Worst lyric ever?

“As God has shown us by turning stone to bread” from We are the world, just because I am pretty sure no account of any God had that happen. I think they may be refferring to Jesus refusing to turn stone into bread…Or maybe it is Quincy Jones’ own religion. He was the genius behind thriller so maybe its worth following? I hear prayer meetings are minimal…

I cant believe led zeppelin was on there. Almost all rap has terrible lyrics, besides some of the 80’s and 90’s rap. I cant even listen to the “popular” songs anymore, all it is is rap, r&b and emo.

Worst ever? Anything by james blunt! all he does is rearrange other peoples bad, cliche lyrics.
Other than Blunt there is allways KT Tunstal (even the mane is full of pretention ‘you spell it KATY’)! for this blinder -

‘i was tired of January, i was tired of June, i felt a change a coming…’

you can probably guess the next word so ill leave it out. No i cant resist it. the first time i heared it i found myself shouting SOON! at the radio before she had even got to that word!

this guy is dumb as hell. immigrant song bad lyrics? wtf?! That’s Led Zeppelin’s best lyrics…he can’t even pronounce Valhalla correctly…which obviously points that he has a lack of intelligence

Most of the songs you sighted I agree 100% with, but the immigrant song and honey I’m home are both good songs.
Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and Shaniah ROCK!

Worst lyrics ever, in my opinion Rihanna’s unfaithful. I mean if she doesn’t want to hurt him anymore stop cheating on him. Gimme more by Britney Spears. Nickelback Figured you out, his like abusing the girl. And most of all Black Eyed Peace “My humps”

I hate that song..”Brim full of asha on the.. 45!”

Jesus tap-dancing Christ I hate that song. Here’s another sample lyric from the same song : “Everyone needs a bussom for a pillow, everyone needs a bussom.” Repeat x 10

I have enjoyed all your comments and agree with most of you! Songs today are mostly crap! Just anything to rhyme! No meaning, no thought behind them. Empty and meaningless!

Lenny Kravitz-Fly Away

I wish that I could fly
Into the sky
So very high
Just like a dragonfly

Id fly above the trees
Over the seas in all degrees
To anywhere I please

Oh I want to get away
I want to fly away
Yeah yeah yeah

Oh I want to get away
I want to fly away
Yeah yeah yeah

Lets go and see the stars
The milky way or even mars
Where it could just be ours

Lets fade into the sun
Let your spirit fly
Where we are one
Just for a little fun
Oh oh oh yeah !

I want to get away
I want to fly away
Yeah yeah yeah

I want to get away
I want to fly away
Yeah yeah yeah

I got to get away
Feel I got to get away
Oh oh oh yeah

I want to get away
I want to fly away
Yeah with you yeah yeah
Oh yeah !

I want to get away
I want to fly away
Yeah with you yeah yeah
I got to get away

I want to get away x4
Yeah
I want to get away
I want to fly away
Yeah with you yeah yeah
I got to get away

I want to get away x4
Yeah

I want to get away
I want to fly away
Yeah with you
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

for leaving a comment!! (^ ^) I thoroughly enjoyed reading every single one.lol hilarious!

“its all the same, only the names have changed” So its not the same?

“Sometimes I sleep, sometimes its not for days” Anyone wanna tell me what our other option besides be asleep and be awake are?

” I walk around with a loaded 6 string on my back” How do you load a 6 string?

I love how all of you are criticizing these amazingly rich people…let’s see you write a hit song.
If they’re as “untalented” as you claim, why are they still getting money?

because no one cares about talent anymore. hell, no one even knows what it is

u r idets

u r idets

Hey. Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
I am from Marino and now teach English, please tell me right I wrote the following sentence: “Search hundreds of travel sites, compare results.”

Best regards , Rylan.

WOAH. How is “Beat of my heart” by Hilary Duff NOT on this list??

Okay everyone, all of those songs are terrible.
But the song that is the lamest, stupides, incredibly ignorant, dumbest song of all time is:

Disco Duck by Rick Dees.

It is a duck singing about how much he likes disco music.

A duck.

Neil Young – Words Between The Lines of Ages

“Someone and someone were down by the pond
Looking for something to plant in the lawn
Out in the fields they were turning the soil
I’m sitting here hoping this water will boil”

I admit it has great imagery, but what the hell does it mean.

How about “The Safety Dance”

Any song by REM makes no sense at all. For that matter, any song by Bob Dylan too! Both are total frauds.

I’m glad Ken mentioned Dylan. Didn’t see anyone else mention it in the comments, but “All the Tired Horses in the Sun” has to top the list. The entire lyrics consist of one phrase repeated way too many times. Absolute tripe!

Nickelback – anything they write is wimpy and lame. Listen to the lyrics to “Gotta Be Somebody” very wimpy. I’m Canadian and these guys embarass me, we are actually a country of tough bad-asses who drink a lot. These guys make us look soft and don’t represent us.

where I do admit “Milkshake”
is catchy and it really does an awesome job at being mind numbing drivel.. but it still drives me crazy with the contradiction:

“I can teach you but I’d have to charge”
followed soon after with
“it can’t be bought” unless she’s referring to plastic surgery…hmmm going with that so once again my mind will instantly shut off as soon as this or any similiar song is played.
mind control via bad pop songs… good one Bush..

Kelly Clarksons since u( I think it might actually be you instead of you’ve) been gone song.. is another one that drives me crazy.. not only b/c of bad grammer but the constant change in tense (time)makes me bonkers and sadly makes me remember the lyrics the first time I heard it : “heres the thing we started off as friends..it was cool but it was all pretend.. yeah yeah .. since you been gone..you dedicated you took the time… it wasn’t long before I made you mine.. yeah yeah since you’ve been gone..” and to add insult to injury she forces my brain to find it catchy by what?.. oh yeah stealing a Yeah Yeah Yeahs riff. Also to another commenter you are exactly right.. “email my heart” by Britney should have been in the top of the list; RS if your going to make a list.. title it correctly.. it should be “some songs we think have bad lyrics in no particular order”… shame on you.. unless you didn’t WANT your readers to take you seriously.

I know don’t tell me- making fun of Kelly Clarkson whilst making errors myself..I didn’t proof read before publishing.. my bad.. it’s not like I was trying to publish a song or anything…

“She’s got a smile that seems to me reminds me of childhood memories..where everything was as fresh as the bright blue sky” that says it all..actually Axl should really take the cake especially since he’s prone to breaking down and crying when he looks at someone too long..and for anyone that disagrees that that is a terrible lyric, see here: how can it seem to him that it reminds him (A) and (B) tell me just how one can be reminded of memories? There’s obviously a C and D but I don’t want to succumb to Axl’s ad nauseam…