Song lyrics that [potentially irrationally] anger you (1 Viewer)

[Jules Winnfield]

Squeeze my lemon till the juice runs down my leg

I get what Robert is talking about but seriously...this lyric blows

 

[JaxBill]

Steve's in a class of his own when it comes to stupid lyrics:

"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"

You have to forgive him his pompitous of love

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

Squeeze my lemon till the juice runs down my leg

I get what Robert is talking about but seriously...this lyric blows

I see what you did there.

 

[JaxBill]

I see what you did there.

Despite his displeasure with the lyric, it still had a happy ending.

 

[Jules Winnfield]

Time for a geography lesson- 'cause Joel can read a map.

Coast to Coast, L.A. to Chicago

Sade has never seen a map

 

[Dr_Zaius]

Time for a geography lesson- 'cause Joel can read a map.

Ouch - guess that's a burn on me for not fact-checking myself.  I did say "potentially irrationally" 

I do not withdraw my objection about the end of the song though - it is pompous.  (and not the pompous[-tus] of love variety)

 

[RedmondLonghorn]

Bawitdaba da bang a dang diggy diggy diggy said the boogy said up jump the boogy

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

Ouch - guess that's a burn on me for not fact-checking myself.  I did say "potentially irrationally" 

I do not withdraw my objection about the end of the song though - it is pompous.  (and not the pompous[-tus] of love variety)

No argument there.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

I've been to paradise, but I've never been to me

What the cheese does this even mean?  That song is just whack.  And you can tell two guys wrote it.

 

[zamboni]

Another one from today: Walk on the Wild Side

Lyric: "but she never lost her head even when she was giving h..."

Why are you rhyming head with itself?!?  I get that you used two different meanings of the word, but they're still the same phonetically.  And similar to wikkid's previous complaint, it's not like head is a particularly hard word to rhyme.  For a song that for the most part flows well lyrically, this line just sticks out to me.

There are worse violations than that in terms of using the same word to "rhyme". Take Kid Rock in "All Summer Long":

And we were trying different things
We were smoking funny things 

Nice job there, Walt Whitman.

 

[zamboni]

For me, it's easily "everybody clap your hands" from that "Cha Cha Slide" song.

Probably more the song itself than that specific lyric, but that clapping thing is about the only good thing about not having been to sporting events in some time.

 

[TheWinz]

I would write the lyrics for Informer, if I knew what the hell they were - I think he's licking somebody's boom boom down though

 

[Juxtatarot]

I've been to paradise, but I've never been to me

What the cheese does this even mean?  That song is just whack.  And you can tell two guys wrote it.

It is my understanding that to be “to me” you have to have a baby with a man you fight with.

Hey, you know what paradise is? It's a lie, a fantasy we create about
People and places as we'd like them to be but you know what truth is?
It's that little baby you're holding, and it's that man you fought with
This morning, the same one you're going to make love with tonight
That's truth, that's love

 

[bostonfred]

There's are worse violations than that in terms of using the same word to "rhyme". Take Kid Rock in "All Summer Long":

And we were trying different things
We were smoking funny things 

Nice job there, Walt Whitman.

This is the first one i thought of.

What makes it so awful isn't that it's the same word, it's that it's just so inescapably dumb.  It's not done ironically or creatively. And yet he was apparently so proud of this idiot lyric that it's in the chorus. 

With "but she never lost her head, even when she was..." there's creativity.  It was a big deal to put inappropriate lyrics in songs back then.  Sneaking euphemisms past the censors was part of the game just like squeeze my lemon lyric.  Nowadays songs just talk about #######. 

Or something like dj jazzy Jeff and the fresh prince in their hot song parents just don't understand.  

We hit McDonald's

Pulled into the drive in 

Ordered two big macs

And two large fries and cokes 

Drive in is supposed to rhyme with fries and.  That's sketchy already. And then you add the cokes.  Oof. And the meter is all off.  But... it works creatively. Because it was kind of funny.  It broke the mold of old school rap as just kind of saying simple rhymes out loud.  

There's nothing like that in the Kid Rock song.  It's just painful. 

 

[scorchy]

Sticking with the geography theme:

"New York to East California, there's a new wave comin' I warn ya."

Does Kim Wilde thinks the scene is gonna die in Needles?

 

[bigmarc27]

So Kendrick Lamar says “ohh that ##### good won’t you sit it on my taste bloods” when he could easily just say taste buds and it would be better. 
 

https://youtu.be/tvTRZJ-4EyI

 

[wikkidpissah]

Someone's knockin' at the door/somebody's ringing the bell

Someone's knockin' at the door/somebody's ringing the bell

Do me a favor/open the door and let 'em in

If you got someone opening your door for you, Mr McOligarchney, you're free to concentrate on coming up with a better lyric, donchathink?!

 

[rockaction]

Sticking with the geography theme:

"New York to East California, there's a new wave comin' I warn ya."

Does Kim Wilde thinks the scene is gonna die in Needles?

Spike reference! 

 

[scorchy]

"Right about now, NWA court is in full effect.  Judge Dre residing."

Why is Dr. Dre living in the courtroom?

 

[RedmondLonghorn]

"Right about now, NWA court is in full effect.  Judge Dre residing."

Why is Dr. Dre living in the courtroom?

Blast from the past.

Both the song and poster.

 

[Kal El]

Not necessarily the lyrics per se, but the point of "Escape(The Piña Colada Song)" is irritating. There's no way that relationship ends well, because shortly after the last chorus where they meet in the bar, one of them is going to realize that not only is their relationship built on lies, but they both wanted out at the same time, and apparently don't talk about stuff they like/dislike.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Someone's knockin' at the door/somebody's ringing the bell

Someone's knockin' at the door/somebody's ringing the bell

Do me a favor/open the door and let 'em in

If you got someone opening your door for you, Mr McOligarchney, you're free to concentrate on coming up with a better lyric, donchathink?!

Same guy rhymed this:

There is no end to what we can do together
There is no end
The willow turns his back on inclement weather
And if he can do it we can do it

 

[wikkidpissah]

Same guy rhymed this:

There is no end to what we can do together
There is no end
The willow turns his back on inclement weather
And if he can do it we can do it

sometimes, i'd like to coat his head in pleather and suspend it on a tether and have a ball!

 

[otb_lifer]

Same guy rhymed this:

There is no end to what we can do together
There is no end
The willow turns his back on inclement weather
And if he can do it we can do it

that's Billy Shears, tho ... Faul, if you will 

 

[Dr_Zaius]

"Meet Virginia" by Train

does not deserve any popularity

Her daddy wrestles alligators, Mama works on carburetors
Her brother is a fine mediator for the President
Well here she is again on the phone
Just like me hates to be alone
We just like to sit at home, and rip on the President

Meet Virginia
Well she wants to live her life
Then she thinks about her life
Pulls her hair back as she screams
I don't really wanna live this life

If they couldn't think up a word that rhymes with President, and couldn't be bothered to move the words around to not leave it at the end of a line, and only once rhymed a word with itself in the song, fine....

But to immediately follow it up by not being able to think of a word that rhymes with life, and then using it to end 3 out of 4 lines... is just gruesome. That's objectively terrible. It's perhaps the worst "rhyme" scheme I've ever seen. 

A million monkeys banging away on a million typewriters for a million years would be hard pressed to come up with anything as cretinous as that song.

From the same lovely band (song is Drive By) :

"Just a shy guy looking for a two ply hefty bag to hold my love"

As the kids would say - "wat?"  I don't claim to be much of a poet, but even I can recognize that as dreck.

 

[zamboni]

Sticking with the geography theme:

"New York to East California, there's a new wave comin' I warn ya."

Does Kim Wilde thinks the scene is gonna die in Needles?

I don't know which is worse, the reference to East California or trying to rhyme "California" with "warn ya". 

 

[Dr_Zaius]

Spike reference! 

The other beagle

 

[rockaction]

I don't know which is worse, the reference to East California or trying to rhyme "California" with "warn ya". 

It's funny because you need that Lon Guyland kind of vowel skwonk to do it, and you're really from California if you're Kim Wilde (I'm assuming that. I didn't look it up). Like when Kim Shattuck tried to rhyme it in their cover of it for the movie Clueless and they totally tricked out her voice. 

 

[otb_lifer]

  Dustin Nguyen ... all we are is Dustin Nguyen

 

[zamboni]

It's funny because you need that Lon Guyland kind of vowel skwonk to do it, and you're really from California if you're Kim Wilde (I'm assuming that. I didn't look it up). 

She's a Brit.

 

[rockaction]

She's a Brit.

We're the kids in America? Huh. Never assume or somebody among us will be an infiltrator. 

 

[zamboni]

We're the kids in America? Huh. Never assume or somebody among us will be an infiltrator. 

Some people can't get past 1776.

 

[rockaction]

Some people can't get past 1776.

Benedict Arnold shan't.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

It is my understanding that to be “to me” you have to have a baby with a man you fight with.

Hey, you know what paradise is? It's a lie, a fantasy we create about
People and places as we'd like them to be but you know what truth is?
It's that little baby you're holding, and it's that man you fought with
This morning, the same one you're going to make love with tonight
That's truth, that's love

Because a woman's life only has meaning if she has a kid.  Idiots.

 

[Hot Diggity Dog]

Paradise City, its a six minute song, either come up with more lyrics or shut up and let the band play the music with out Axel singing the same thing over and over.

 

[Hot Diggity Dog]

Also Journey Don't Stop Believing,  only reference i have ever heard to "South Detroit " , is that a thing?

 

[zamboni]

Also Journey Don't Stop Believing,  only reference i have ever heard to "South Detroit " , is that a thing?

Yes, it's called Windsor, Ontario.

 

[RedmondLonghorn]

Yes, it's called Windsor, Ontario.

Good short article on this weird lyrical choice

 

[Dr_Zaius]

There are worse violations than that in terms of using the same word to "rhyme". Take Kid Rock in "All Summer Long":

And we were trying different things
We were smoking funny things 

Nice job there, Walt Whitman.

I hate this song with a passion.  Such a deflating feeling when you hear it start and think "Nice!  Werewolves of London!", and then the disappointment and anger set in when you realize it's Kid Rock.

 

[RedmondLonghorn]

I hate this song with a passion.  Such a deflating feeling when you hear it start and think "Nice!  Werewolves of London!", and then the disappointment and anger set in when you realize it's Kid Rock.

Let me assure you there is nothing irrational about that reaction.

 

[ChiefD]

We Built This City

We Built This City On Rock and Roll

Just a horrible idea and song and general execution of music. They should just execute that song. 

 

[Hot Diggity Dog]

Good short article on this weird lyrical choice

I suppose it works as a kind of Shangrala.  That spelling may not be right.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

Also Journey Don't Stop Believing,  only reference i have ever heard to "South Detroit " , is that a thing?

Oddly, there is an East Chicago- and it's not in Lake Michigan.

 

[Mr. Ected]

In the desert you can remember your name, for there ain’t no-one for to give you no pain.

The grammar is atrocious and it doesn't make much sense either. Not to mention how sad it is that the equine in question didn't have a moniker.

Does this not fit the criteria, since it is rational?  

 

[nirad3]

I'm just madd you made me remember Color Me Badd.

Sad to say they were my first concert experience along with Paula Abdul.  :(

 

[RedmondLonghorn]

Sad to say they were my first concert experience along with Paula Abdul.  :(

Little known fact that their lead singer played WR for the Bruins and had a bit of an NFL career.

 

[ProstheticRGK]

Sad to say they were my first concert experience along with Paula Abdul.  :(

At least she was hot back then.

 

[E Street Brat]

Paradise City, its a six minute song, either come up with more lyrics or shut up and let the band play the music with out Axel singing the same thing over and over.

Such a great song musically. Such lazy lyrics.

 

[Mr. Mojo]

Skyrockets in flight

Afternoon Delight

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

Skyrockets in flight

Afternoon Delight

It's a metaphor.  And it's way better than this crap:

And they whirl and they twirl and they tango
Singing and Jinging a Jango
Floating like the heavens above
Looks like Muskrat Love