The worst lyrics, post your best examples (Part 2)

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by PaulKTF, Feb 2, 2019.

  1. JumpinJimF

    JumpinJimF Still perfecting ways of making sealing wax

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    Quite simple - it's not supposed to be literally you and Jagger, it's humans collectively. The whole song is saying that instead of blaming the bad things that happen on some fictitious supernatural malevolent force, we should accept that bad things are caused by people and we (collectively) should take responsibility for that.

    Genius song.
     
  2. JumpinJimF

    JumpinJimF Still perfecting ways of making sealing wax

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    This song was from the first Neil Young album I heard and more or less stopped me listening to him for about 25 years.

    How foolish I was, but I've made up for it since and I now think he's a genius. I don't mind the song now, but the lyrics remain as dumb as ever.

    I reproduce them in full, for the complete effect.

    "Got mashed potatoes
    Got mashed potatoes
    Got mashed potatoes
    Ain't got no T-Bone
    Ain't got no T-Bone

    Got mashed potatoes
    Got mashed potatoes
    Got mashed potatoes
    Got mashed potatoes
    Ain't got no T-Bone

    Got mashed potatoes
    Got mashed potatoes
    Got mashed potatoes
    Ain't got no T-Bone
    Ain't got no T-Bone

    Got mashed potatoes
    Got mashed potatoes
    Got mashed potatoes
    Ain't got no T-Bone
    Ain't got no T-Bone
    T-Bone

    Got mashed potatoes
    Got mashed potatoes
    Got mashed potatoes
    Ain't got no T-Bone
    Ain't got no T-Bone
    Ain't got no T-Bone
    Ain't got no T-Bone
    No T-Bone

    Got mashed potatoes
    Got mashed potatoes
    Got mashed potatoes
    Ain't got no T-Bone
    Ain't got no T-Bone

    Ain't got no T-Bone
    Ain't got no T-Bone
    Ain't got no T-Bone

    Ain't got no T-Bone

    Got mashed potatoes
    Got mashed potatoes
    Got mashed potatoes
    Ain't got no T-Bone

    Got mashed potatoes
    Got mashed potatoes
    Got mashed potatoes
    Ain't got no T-Bone
    Ain't got no T-Bone
    Ain't got no T-Bone
    Ain't got no T-Bone
    Ain't got no T-Bone"
     
  3. Ricky Lampoon

    Ricky Lampoon Forum Resident

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    Neil Young can be a master of naff lyrics (but I’m still a big fan, though).

    From Comes a Time:

    Whoa, this old world keeps spinnin' round
    It's a wonder tall trees ain't layin' down
    There comes a time
     
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  4. Manslick

    Manslick Well-Known Member

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    The Girl from Ipanema

    And when she passes, each one she passes goes ah.

    For some reason that line does not work for me.
     
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  5. JumpinJimF

    JumpinJimF Still perfecting ways of making sealing wax

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    Yes I think it's very surprising that the tall trees haven't been flattened by the earth's incessant rotation ;)
     
  6. Ricky Lampoon

    Ricky Lampoon Forum Resident

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    Doesn’t centrifugal force push things outwards? Think about being on a childrens’ roundabout.
     
  7. JumpinJimF

    JumpinJimF Still perfecting ways of making sealing wax

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    OK, got it. So it's centrifugal force keeping the trees upright then. Obviously outweighs the flattening effect caused by the atmosphere blasting through them as the earth spins ;)
     
  8. yesstiles

    yesstiles Senior Member

    John Lennon "I Found Out
    John Lennon "How Do You Sleep?
     
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  9. HaileyMcComet

    HaileyMcComet Forum Resident

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    Bismillah
    No, we will not let you go
    Let him go
    Bismillah
    We will not let you go
    Let him go
    Bismillah
    We will not let you go
    Let me go
    Will not let you go
    Let me go
    Never, never let you go
    Let me go
    Never let me go
    Oh, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
    Oh, mama mia, mama mia
    Mama mia, let me go
     
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  10. plugmeintosomething

    plugmeintosomething Forum Resident

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    Like the song and the movie! No accounting for taste I guess.
     
  11. Count Orfloff

    Count Orfloff Forum Resident

    I'm your turbo lover, tell me there's no other.
     
  12. bettsaj

    bettsaj “I'm in competition with myself and I'm losing.”

    I hate to say it, but.....

    "There was a ragged band that followed in our footsteps
    Running before times took our dreams away
    Leaving the myriad small creatures trying to tie us to the ground
    To a life consumed by slow decay"

    What is that line about.... Also there's too many syllables in that line.... Typical Polly Samson dross. Don't get me wrong, I like her as a person, but this line is awful.
     
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  13. plugmeintosomething

    plugmeintosomething Forum Resident

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    Oh ma cameo molesting
    Kee pa a pourer for tee
    Solar prestige a gammon
    Lantern or turbert pa kwee

    Bernie...what????
     
  14. problemsathome

    problemsathome New Member

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    Runners up:

    Sade, Smooth Operator:"Coast to coast LA to Chicago." That always bothered me as Chicago is decidedly not on the coast.

    Beastie Boys: "Well, everybody rapping like it's a commercial. Actin' like life is a big commercial." Self-explanatory.
     
  15. DaveinMA

    DaveinMA Some guy

  16. Wait - I thought this thread was about bad lyrics.
     
  17. bicyclops

    bicyclops Forum Resident

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    It's hard
    It's very, very, very, very hard, so very hard
    It's hard
    It's very, very, very, very hard, so very hard
     
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  18. Jon1969

    Jon1969 I Like Beer

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    Well, OK, my Mother would call it bad. I must admit he is using the proper medical terminology! I didn't think I could right the lyrics in a post, probably be censored!
     
  19. samthesham

    samthesham Forum Resident

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    I am quite aware of various interpretations , I was there & I have mine & others have theirs...

    Actually "you" is a veiled reference to my generation , the '60s...

    Stupid then & stupid now...

    Only appeals to the shallowest of listeners IMO
     
  20. vonwegen

    vonwegen Forum Resident

    Especially the following lines:
    Let's go and see the stars
    The milky way or even mars


    He was probably in some airport, sitting next to a candy vending machine when he wrote that. :rolleyes:
     
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  21. Keith V

    Keith V Forum Resident

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    Atlantic Starr- Secret Lovers

    Lousy Message.
    Awkwardly said.
    Dumb.
     
  22. wrappedinsky

    wrappedinsky Forum Resident

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    I "liked" this, but only because it's a good call for this thread. So far, this is the song that "wins" imho. Wow, that's bad. I really hope they didn't make any money for this mishmash of words sorta kinda composed in the English language.
     
  23. Odysseus

    Odysseus Forum Resident

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    The "even Mars" lyric always bothered me. It always seemed to me that Kravitz checked out on the lyric partway through.
     
  24. Jon-A

    Jon-A Forum Resident

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    Madison, WI
    Joni Mitchell's lyrics to Goodbye Pork Pie Hat.

    When Charlie speaks of Lester
    You know someone great has gone
    The sweetest swinging music man
    Had a Porkie Pig hat on...


    Pork pie hats have nothing to do w Porky Pig. The rest of the lyrics aren't all that great, either.
     
  25. JumpinJimF

    JumpinJimF Still perfecting ways of making sealing wax

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    In which case I am the shallowest of listeners.

    I genuinely don't see a veiled reference to a specific generation - what makes you think that? The song covers just about the whole of human history and points out that it's people that do bad stuff.

    Hopefully we can both agree that it's not a "devil worship" song. That really is the dumbest interpretation.
     
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