Worst lyrics ever.

[storrsroars]

One of my all time favorite songs has some lyrics that make absolutely no sense except to Shaun Ryder when wasted, apparently...

Don't talk to me about heroes
Most of these men sing like surfs
Jesus was a black man
No, Jesus was Batman
No, no, no, no, not at all
That was Bruce Wayne
Who's got the biggest
Who's got the biggest
Who's got the biggest brain?
For a year I did bang her
And Dennis sleeps f--ked off
He'll surface again

 

[dennismenace]

DOA by Bloodrock

"
I remember, we were flying low,
And hit something in the air

Laying here, looking at the ceiling,
Someone lays a sheet across my chest.
Something warm is flowing down my fingers
Pain is flowing all through my back.

I try to move my arm and there's no feeling
And when I look, I see there's nothing there.
A face beside me stopped the totally bleedin
The girl I knew has such a distant stare.

I remember, we were flying a-low,
And hit something in the air.

Then I look straight at the attendant,
His face was pale as it could be
He bends and whispers something softly,
He said "there's no chance for me".

I remember, we were flying a-low,
And hit something in the air.

Life is flowing out my body,
Pain is flowing out with my blood.
The sheets are red and moist where I'm lyin
God in Heaven, teach me how to die.

I remember, we were flying a-low,
And hit something in the air.

 

[metsfan2323]

That's the Beatles lyric that you picked, not this?

Here come old flat top
He come grooving up slowly
He got joo joo eyeball
He one holy roller
He got hair down to his knee
Got to be a joker he just do what he please
He wear no shoe shine
He got toe jam football
He got monkey finger
He shoot Coca-Cola
He say I know you, you know me
One thing I can tell you is you got to be free
Come together, right now, over me
He bag production
He got walrus gumboot
He got Ono sideboard
He one spinal cracker
He got feet down below his knee
Hold you in his armchair you can feel his disease
Come together, right now, over me
He roller coaster
He got early warning
He got muddy water
He one mojo filter
He say, "one and one is three"…

It's all about context. That's great nonsense poetry and it all fits together and works. (the song went to #1) The other song tells a beautiful poetic story about a girl running away from home and then we find out at the end that she's meeting up with Bob Diaco, a cringeworthy ending.

 

[mussels]

I think what’s being demonstrated here is how little lyrics can matter in rock. Many of the songs here are pretty good. How many songs have you liked where you couldn’t understand a word outside the refrain?

 

[HuskyCLT]

"You got a Prada bag with a lotta stuff in it" -Will Smith

 

[Kenny11]

“It ain’t what it isn’t” - Chet Hanks

 

[metsfan2323]

This video provides wonderful insight into lyric creation for the George Harrison song "Something". Just throwing things at the wall to see what sticks.

"Something in the way she moves attracts me like a Cauliflower"

 

[Waquoit]

Knee deep in the hoopla

Bernie Taupin, ladies and gentlemen

 

[8893]

Bernie Taupin, ladies and gentlemen

And Peter Wolf, among others.

Somehow the combination of their considerable talents—and I do love them both—resulted in a steaming turd.

 

[CCSU97]

Most.of R.E.M.'s songs: Example from "Orange Crush:

" Follow me, don't follow me)
I've got my spine, I've got my orange crush
(Collar me, don't collar me)
I've got my spine, I've got my orange crush
(We are agents of the free)
I've had my fun and now it's time to serve your conscience overseas
(Over me, not over me)
Coming in fast, over me (oh, oh)"

Say what?

Great lyrics - its a song about Agent Orange in Viet Nam.

Horrible lyrics - anything from Ted Nugent!

 

[Waquoit]

Horrible lyrics - anything from Ted Nugent!

Sorry, Stranglehold cannot be denied.

 

[CONN78SEJ]

“I gave my love a cherry”……….

Belushi saved the world when he pulverized that kids guitar on the stairs.

followed closely by

“When you’re hot you’re hot”

and……..

“Who let the dogs out”……..

they play that at my gym. Lol

 

[Pinnacle]

Every rap song!

 

[alphasigko]

Great lyrics - its a song about Agent Orange in Viet Nam.

Horrible lyrics - anything from Ted Nugent!

Thx, never knew that... However, I still cannot stand R.E.M.!

 

[CL82]

DOA by Bloodrock

"
I remember, we were flying low,
And hit something in the air

Laying here, looking at the ceiling,
Someone lays a sheet across my chest.
Something warm is flowing down my fingers
Pain is flowing all through my back.

I try to move my arm and there's no feeling
And when I look, I see there's nothing there.
A face beside me stopped the totally bleedin
The girl I knew has such a distant stare.

I remember, we were flying a-low,
And hit something in the air.

Then I look straight at the attendant,
His face was pale as it could be
He bends and whispers something softly,
He said "there's no chance for me".

I remember, we were flying a-low,
And hit something in the air.

Life is flowing out my body,
Pain is flowing out with my blood.
The sheets are red and moist where I'm lyin
God in Heaven, teach me how to die.

I remember, we were flying a-low,
And hit something in the air.

Wow I haven’t thought about that song in years. I think I still have the album. Not sure how I got it.

 

[August_West]

I did it all for the nookie, so you can take this cookie and stick it up your……………..

 

[August_West]

This video provides wonderful insight into lyric creation for the George Harrison song "Something". Just throwing things at the wall to see what sticks.

"Something in the way she moves attracts me like a Cauliflower"

It’s all about syllables that fit melody. It’s a great way to write. Come up with chord progression and melody and scat stuff over it and then replace later. McCartneys yesterday was written with him singing “ scrambled eggs”

 

[oldanintheway]

"Someone left the cake out in the rain..."

"Yummy, Yummy, Yummy, I Got Love in My Tummy...." Also released in 1968, -Ohio Express, Reached Number 4 on the Charts, while "MacArthur Park" reached number 2.

 

[Waquoit]

It’s all about syllables that fit melody.

I'm sure you heard the story that DiMaggio didn't understand that even after he asked Simon "Why me?"

 

[Waquoit]

"Yummy, Yummy, Yummy, I Got Love in My Tummy...." Also released in 1968, -Ohio Express, Reached Number 4 on the Charts,

But contains the genius lyric (imo) "The lovin' that you're givin is what keeps me livin'"

 

[ClifSpliffy]

im not much into words for my tastes in music. it's all about the sounds.
worst lyrics ever? in a gadda da vida.
worst sounds ever? prolly same tune.

'organist-vocalist Doug Ingle wrote the song one evening while drinking an entire gallon of Red Mountain wine. When the inebriated Ingle then played the song for Bushy, who wrote down the lyrics for him, he was slurring his words so badly that what was supposed to be "in the Garden of Eden" was interpreted by Bushy as "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida". sounds aboot right. wrong, all wrong.

 

[Marbles90]

As soon as I saw the thread title, this song popped into my head. With so many songs with bad lyrics, not sure why I thought of this one. But, yeah, these lyrics are pretty bad:

Here is my heart
Waiting for you
Here is my soul
I eat at chez nous

Love Will Find a Way - Yes

 

[tdrink]

Not commenting on the song or the band, but the lyric

“I'll keep you by my side with my superhuman might-
Kryptonite.”

is so bad I actually listen to the song because I keep believing I must have misremembered it somehow.

 

[QuickDraw]

not sure you can choose just 1 song, but a couple bands at the top for "worse lyrics in their entire body of work" are,
Red Hot Chile Peppers
Stone Temple Pilots
any others you care to nominate, feel free

 

[Madmannsucks]

No time for my watch and chain.