NFT: Lyrics that make you cringe?

I like patriotism as a reflective gratitude. But this drivel is dumb.

to Sweet Caroline

bass, bout that bass, no treble

people with loud headphones.

Hoping to find some good songs from this.

anything by Florida Georgia Line.

She wrecked the car and she was sad
And so afraid that I'd be mad
But what the heck
Though I pretended hard to be
Guess you could say she saw through me
And hugged my neck
I came home unexpectedly
And caught her cryin' needlessly
In the middle of the day
And it was in the early Spring
When flowers bloom and robins sing
She went away

In comment 12205882 FatMan in Charlotte said:

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bass, bout that bass, no treble

Yep

I'm cringing right now...

Everytime I used to go to the Eagles-Giants game at the Vet and then the Linc...I would pray that we would shut them out or hold them to field goals so I wouldn't have to hear that awful song!

Those lyrics are the WORST lyrics EVER!

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Norm and Adam Carolla analyze Kenny Rogers songs - ( New Window )

Especially the song "Photograph"- Legit has the creativity of a 5 year old

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most any filthy rap "song" that I overhear from cars Victor in CT : 8:51 am : link : reply

Don't hate on me just because you can't handle my fire.

By Simon and Garfunkel has to the the winner, methinks.

Butterfly, by Crazy Town. Just awful.

and pick "Fucking an animal" by GWAR, except, the Lyrics are pretty awesome.Depends on your sensibilities, I guess.

by Pearl Jam. What the fuck does that even mean?

MEAT!

SANDWICH!

Every word of it

You shouldn't have.

"We're two birds of a feather and the rest is just whatever."

Deep stuff.

In comment 12205928 Wuphat said:

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Every word of it

Let's have a party! haha....my wife loves that song, unfortunately.


Looking at this from a slightly different angle.....are there any songs you enjoy that have lyrics that you find disturbing? I absolutely love the song Tyler by the Toadies, but if you actually pay attention to the lyrics, they're VERY disturbing. It's about a guy stalking a girl and breaking into her home.

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I find a window in the kitchen, and I let myself in Rummage through the refrigerator, pour myself a beer I can't believe I'm really here, and she's lying in that bed I can almost feel her touch, and her anxious breath I stumble in the doorway, outside her bedroom door I hear her call out to me, I hear the fear in her voice She pulls the covers tighter, I press against the door I will be with her tonight

how do you not go Possum Kingdom for disturbing?

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are there any songs you enjoy that have lyrics that you find disturbing?

TOOL
Prison Sex

"I have found some kind of temporary sanity in this shit, blood, and cum on my hands."

I'm the realist.

Friday, Friday, gotta get down on Friday.

For the next thread about songs that you make you (opposite-of-cringe):

You n****s mad that you not me.
I remain a Giant and you Jeremy Shockey.

/revved up like a deuce

Possum Kingdom's actually about a vampire - that's his "dark secret", and why he promises the girl she'll stay beautiful forever. It's actually kind of a goofy supernatural song. Tyler is realistic and frightening.

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Eff that guy!!!

Overall, it is probably one of the better songs on the album, but the chorus is just laughable:

LA River dragnet coming down
Boom shacka lackalackalackalackalackalacka Boom
Shimmy Shimmy Shake Shimmy Shake Shimmy Shimmy Shimmy

LA River dragnet coming down
Boom shacka lackalackalackalackalackalacka Boom
Shimmy Shimmy Shake Shimmy Shake Shimmy Shimmy Shimmy

When you hear it, the first thought is they actually thought this was a good idea? When I need a laugh, I'll listen to this song.

Pretty much anything by Creed

In comment 12205970 Wuphat said:

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Pretty much anything by Creed

if I had just one wish, only one demand, I hope he's not like me!

Cute little old school song about cannibalism.
link - ( New Window )

though now that you say it I can see it. I always pictured it being a murderer who was going to preserve his victim's corpse as his "blushing bride" in his little Possum Kingdom world by the lake.

and I've heard this so much it doesn't make me cringe, but I wouldn't be surprised if some people found this line from Death or Glory cringeworthy

"...But I believe in this and it's been tested by research,
He, who fucks nuns, will later join the church...."

is ranting about?

"I'm never alone
I'm alone all the time
Are you at one
Or do you lie
We live in a wheel
Where everyone steals
But when we rise it's like strawberry fields
If I treated you bad
You bruise my face
Couldn't love you more
You got a beautiful taste"

"I'm screaming daisies
From 14 miles away
I've got my own time
Got it all today"

"Tied to a wheel, our fingers got to feel
Bleeding through a tourniquet smile
I spin on a whim, I slide to the right
I felt you like electric light ?"

"There must be something we can eat
Maybe find another lover
Should I fly to Los Angeles
Find my asshole brother

Mickey mouse has grown up a cow
Dave's on sale again
We kissy kiss in the rear view
We're so bored
You're to blame

Try to see it once my way
Everything Zen
Everything Zen
I don't think so

Rain dogs howl for the century
A million dollars at stake
As you search for your demi-god
And you fake with a saint
There's no sex in your violence
There's no sex in your violence
Try to see it once my way
Everything Zen
Everything Zen
I don't think so"

So, so what?
I'm still a rock star
I got my rock moves
And I don't need you
And guess what
I'm having more fun
And now that we're done
I'm gonna show you tonight
I'm alright, I'm just fine
And you're a tool
So, so what?
I am a rock star
I got my rock moves
And I don't want you tonight

Read more: Pink - So What Lyrics | MetroLyrics

But most of the lyrics make cringe

You know he knows just exactly what the facts is
He ain't gonna let those two escape justice
He makes his livin' off other people's taxes

In comment 12206013 Mike in Long Beach said:

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So, so what? I'm still a rock star I got my rock moves And I don't need you And guess what I'm having more fun And now that we're done I'm gonna show you tonight I'm alright, I'm just fine And you're a tool So, so what? I am a rock star I got my rock moves And I don't want you tonight Read more: Pink - So What Lyrics | MetroLyrics

Good one. That song is shit.

In comment 12205903 Shockstarr80808 said:

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Especially the song "Photograph"- Legit has the creativity of a 5 year old

Lol, you sir/madame are absolutely correct. They are beyond fking horrible.

Until then baby are ya gonna let them hold you down and make you cry?

(so, leave- right?)

(nope:)

Don't you know things will change, things will go your way
If you hold on for one more day, things will go your way.


While I appreciate the message of holding on to an abusive relationship...the first message doesn't quite mix well with the second.

But there's some song done by a bunch of shouting British chicks with a chorus of "I don't care, I love it!" that makes me want to pour molten metal into my ear canal so I'll never have to hear again.

and ignoring the truly awful.

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Ooh, yeah yeah, I'm wishin' on a fallin' star Wonderin' where you are, I wish Wish for you on a falling star, wondering where you are Do I ever cross your mind in the warm sunshine? She's from the City of Angels like Betty Davis, James Dean, and Gable Never know what she means to me, I fell for the girl that's on TV Met her at a counter affair She wore a green dress and everybody was there Felt out of place Till she looked into my eyes Shook your hand around 9 p.m. And I'm never gonna be the same again Never had to be on a movie screen To be the leading lady in all my dreams Shooby-doo-wop and scobby snacks, met a fly girl and I can't relax The only problem is she's a movie star, oh My friends, they won't believe me if they could only see me At the risk of soundin' cheesy, I think I fell for the girl on TV Wish for you on a falling star, wondering where you are Do I ever cross your mind in the warm sunshine? She's from the City of Angels like Betty Davis, James Dean, and Gable Never know what she means to me, I fell for the girl that's on TV Everybody knows her name I wanna take a picture and they're glad she came But I just wanna be there when she's down, down (Be there when she's down) I don't want her autograph I just wanna call her up and make her laugh Never had to be on a movie screen To be the leading lady in all my dreams Shooby doo-wap and scooby snacks, I met a fly girl and I can't relax The only problem is she's a movie star, oh My friends, they won't believe me if they could only see me At the risk of soundin' cheezy, I think, I fell for the girl on TV Wish for you on a falling star, wondering where you are Do I ever cross your mind in the warm sunshine? She's from the City of Angels like Betty Davis, James Dean and Gable Never know what she means to me, I fell for the girl that's on TV (Wish for you on a falling star) I'm wishing on a star and I'm wonderin' where you are (Wondering where you are) Do I cross your mind in the warm sunshine? Yeah, so I wish for you on a bright shining star Every where I look, there you are, there you are It's the girl in the green dress, she took my breath away And now I look to the sky for a better day To the beach shore and scooby snacks I met a fly girl and I can't relax Never had to be on a movie screen 'Cause she's the leading lady in all my dreams, come on Wish you on a falling star, wondering where you are Do I ever cross your mind in the warm sunshine? She's from the City of Angels like Betty Davis, James Dean and Gable Never know what she means to me, I fell for the girl that's on TV Wish for you on a fallin' star, wonderin' where you are Do I ever cross your mind in the warm sunshine? She's from the City of Angels like Betty Davis, James Dean and Gable Never know what she means to me, I fell for the girl that's on TV On TV, I wishin', I wishin' away Read more: LFO - Girl On Tv Lyrics | MetroLyrics

And the days surround your daylight there.

Seasons crying no despair.

Alligator lizards in the air.

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

I'd 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

Let's go and see the stars
The milky way or even Mars
Where it could just be ours

but a lot of Zepplin lyrics do.

Also, most rap.

he's a beast of a talent and he has incorporated some great hooks but he just took the easy way out. I think he could have been a great song writer and someone that could have pushed the envelop a little bit. Wasn't meant to be I guess...

The song is I Love It (I don't Care) and those lyrics are ridiculously stupid and annoying.

I hate the lyrics to All About that Bass, but for some reason I like the song (the beat).

pain and music is my aeroplane. Is my aeroplane.

It has actually served me well because there have been a ton of songs over the years where I never knew the words, and I liked a song for the beat and music. Then when I learned the lyrics I hated the song and wondered what I was thinking.

In a little while from now
If I'm not feeling any less sour
I promised myself to treat myself
And visit a nearby tower

And climbing to the top
Will throw myself off
In an effort to make it clear to who
Ever what it's like when you're shattered

Left standing in the lurch, at a church
Where people are saying
My God that's tough, she stood him up
No point in us remaining

May as well go home
As I did on my own
Alone again, naturally



Read more: Gilbert Osullivan - Alone Again (naturally) Lyrics | MetroLyrics

You look so good I'll suck on your daddy's dick - Biggie Smalls

In comment 12205882 FatMan in Charlotte said:

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bass, bout that bass, no treble

horrific. i want to beat any and all speakers that play that monstrosity.

that Summer Girls song (I think that was it) got a lot of radio play maybe 10 or 15 years ago...I still get that fucking absurdity stuck in my head now and then

"New Kids on the Block had a bunch of hits, chinese food makes me sick...and I think it's fly when girls stop by for the summer...I like girls who wear abercrombie and fitch...etc etc etc"

Most other songs discussed on this thread are timeless fucking classics compared to anything ever written and performed by whoever those LFO fuckers were

"Hey Joe"? Really? A song about the planning, execution and flight from prosecution for the cold blooded murder of your significant other?... Nice beat, though.

And Johnny Cash: "I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die."

3 doors down, Kiss and the list goes on.

Don MacLean - "American Pie"

Rye is whiskey, asshole.

And appropriate for this time of year...I always get douche chills when I hear "One Shining Moment" at the end of the NCAA Tournament. Just hideous.

I believe that's an old blues tune.

there's SO many.. but the one that LITERALLY makes me cringe is:


"do you take sugar? ONE LUMP OR TWO!?"

worst ever.

In comment 12206215 Go Terps said:

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I believe that's an old blues tune.

right.. it's an old standard folk song that was covered by many, including a great version by LOVE

It felt good to get out of the rain
In the desert, you can't remember your name
'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain...

What the f...???

I know they're a shitty band anyway and I call them seaman puke (Blink-182) but I gotta nod a couple of their songs particularly from "The Rock Show" song when that song was out, that "She said what and I told her that I didn't know" ....what? Who the fuck writes these songs? A 4 year old?? Another one is Down down down repeated 67 times throughout the song.

Fuck Blink182

Come Together

They must have really been into LSD when they wrote that one.

...Where do I pick up my prize?

that I am in the vast minority on this one but Imagine rubs me in the wrong way.

that song was pretty much all John. He was still in his late Beatles 'write a bunch of nonsensical lyrics' phase that started with I Am The Walrus and continued unabated until the end.
Still, I like it. Aerosmith's cover of the song is the only Beatle cover that I admit I like more than the original. They made it even sleezier sounding.

Mark C is a clown, that's nothing new, but for this question your pick in Folsom Prison Blues? Seriously?

I go crazy 'cause she
Looks like a flower
But she stings like a bee
Like every girl in history

UGH!!! It's not supposed to be high art but that painful forced rhyme of "bee" and "history" is f'in terrible

except for a couple numbers, almost every song on the Snakes and Arrows album makes me cringe lyrically. Ditto "Wish Them Well" and "The Garden" on Clockwork Angels.

"Say, what's in this drink?"

Didn't know it was quite that date-rapey all this time and I loved that song. Didn't even make this connection until last year.

Bakerman is baking bread bakerman is making bread
sagabona kunjani wena sagabona kunjani wena
The night train is coming, gotta keep on running.

you can include quite a bit of John Lennon's utopian drivel to the steaming pile that has been accumulated here.

no explanation needed.

just because of the grammar:

In this ever changing world in which we live in...
Come on, Sir Paul! You can do better than that!

Otherwise, most cringeworthy to me goes to - Paul Anka!
Havin' My Baby

I won't even stoop to posting the lyrics here.

mind immediately went to any number of Beatles tunes. The vast majority of their tunes are smarmy vomit or nonsensical drug induced lyrics that people go to great lengths to defend.

One of the first AC/DC tunes I heard was Shook me all night long. the line of "she told me to come, but I was already there" almost ruined them forever for me.

"See the tree how big it's grown
My friend it hasn't been too long,
it wasn't big."

I don't know who wrote this song,
But you can see his brain is blown,
his grave I'll dig.

In comment 12206307 Gman11 said:

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Come Together They must have really been into LSD when they wrote that one.

What the hell were they on when they wrote "we all live in a yellow submarine"?

In comment 12206323 jnoble said:

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that song was pretty much all John. He was still in his late Beatles 'write a bunch of nonsensical lyrics' phase that started with I Am The Walrus and continued unabated until the end.

I Am the Walrus was purposely written to be inane. Lennon had read about a schoolmaster at his former school giving kids writing assignments to decipher Beatles lyrics. Allegedly, when Lennon finished "Walrus", he said, "let the little fuckers figure that one out!"

only mentioned once on this thread?

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Oh I swear to you I'll be there for you This is not a drive by Just a shy guy looking for a two-ply Hefty bag to hold my love When you move me everything is groovy They don't like it sue me Mmm the way you do me

"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 the recipe again
Oh, No!"

don't get me wrong, I'm one of the biggest Beatle fans you'll ever meet. But the more I thought about it as I got older the more apparent it was that Lennon was largely mailing it in lyrically 1967 and after:

Good Morning Good Morning: taken partially from a TV cereal commerical

Being For The Benefit of Mr Kite: taken almost word for word from an old poster

I Am The Walrus, Everybody's Got Something To Hide, Hey Bulldog, Glass Onion, Dig a Pony, Come Together, Across The Universe, Whats The New Mary Jane (unreleased)...all pretty much just random words and thoughts shoehorned into a song

Please hold off on flaming me as a Beatle hater...I love almost all these songs! I'm just being honest. I really think John just stopped giving a crap about writing really good lyrics after meeting Yoko. The heroin addiction didn't help much either circa the Let It Be sessions.

Truffle Butter from Nicki Minaj... Absolutely trashy and disgusting. Seriously, who the hell comes up with this as a thing.

ooh I need your love, babe, guess you know it's true. Hope you need my love, babe, just like I need you. HOld me, love me, hold me, love me. aint got nothing but love, babe, 8 days a week.


Listen. Do you want to know a secret? Do you promise not to tell? I'm in love with you


and when I touch you, I feel happy inside. It's such a feeling that my love I can't hide, I can't hide, I can't hide.

not implying you're a Beatle hater at all, just saw it as an opportunity to pass along what I think is a really funny aside about Walrus.

Although I completely disagree about many of the songs you list. Glass Onion is one of my favorite Beatle tunes. It was written as a companion piece to Alice in Wonderland, where everything is opposite (the walrus was Paul? No, it was John; I told you about the fool on the hill? No Paul told us about the fool on the hill, etc).

And you may be missing the humor in "Everybody's Got Something to Hide". If you look at the "monkey" as a bad habit, or a skeleton in the closet, I find it to be pretty funny.

not survive today:

Well, she's all you'd ever want
She's the kind I like to flaunt and take to dinner
But she always knows her place
She's got style, she's got grace, she's a winner
She's a lady
Oh, whoa, whoa, she's a lady
Talkin' about that little lady
And the lady is mine

Well, she's never in the way
Always something nice to say, and what a blessin'
I can leave her on her own
Knowin' she's OK alone and there's no messin'
She's a lady
Oh, whoa, whoa, she's a lady
Talkin' about that little lady
And the lady is mine

In comment 12206607 PatersonPlank said:

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not survive today: Well, she's all you'd ever want She's the kind I like to flaunt and take to dinner But she always knows her place She's got style, she's got grace, she's a winner She's a lady Oh, whoa, whoa, she's a lady Talkin' about that little lady And the lady is mine Well, she's never in the way Always something nice to say, and what a blessin' I can leave her on her own Knowin' she's OK alone and there's no messin' She's a lady Oh, whoa, whoa, she's a lady Talkin' about that little lady And the lady is mine

Interesting that you (and many others) think these lyrics would not fly today, yet the rappers can routinely refer to women as bitches, hos, sluts and worse, thoroughly degrading and graphicly shouting how they would use and abuse them, and yet there is no problem or outcry.

"If you ever find someone new, you know he'd better be good to you, because if he doesn't (isn't?), I'll be there."

OK, class, conjugate the verb "do be."

"Always somethin' greener on the other side of that hill, I was born a wrangler and a rambler and I guess I always will."

Will what?

do be do?

Sorry for the misunderstanding...I DONT hate those songs! At all! I was just thinking off the top of my head of the John Beatle songs that he seemed to write the words for in a haphazard incoherant way or just copy-pasted from somewhere else.

btw, if Whats The New Mary Jane was released as an offical song on the White Album as originally intended it would've been lumped right in with Revolution 9 as one of their least liked. It sounds like a bad high school demo by a couple of stoned kids.

My Humps

Enough said. Effin' terrible.

Here ya go.

My life is brilliant
My love is pure
I saw an angel
Of that I'm sure
She smiled me on the subway
She was with another man
But I won't lose no sleep on that
'Cause I've got a plan

You're beautiful, you're beautiful
You're beautiful, it's true
I saw your face in a crowded place
And I don't know what to do
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Wait, I thought he had a fucking plan. What happened?
And what do the first two verses have to do with anything? My life is brilliant? Yeah, but you're a dim bulb. lol

the bird is the word!

“Boy I send them bloods at your ass like a tampon.”- Lil Wayne Tha Carter IV

In comment 12206043 Jon said:

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I wish that I could fly Into the sky So very high Just like a dragonfly I'd 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 Let's go and see the stars The milky way or even Mars Where it could just be ours

Confused, are you defending Nickelback? lol

I think thats a Kravitz song no?

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Link - ( New Window )

I thought you were linking a song by the real Iggy, and I wanted to find you and punch you.

"I really think you're groovey, lets go out to a movie" Really?

The thing is, nearly all of the Turtles songs were written either stoned, or with tongue implanted deeply in cheek.

In comment 12206911 Shockstarr80808 said:

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In comment 12206043 Jon said: Quote: I wish that I could fly Into the sky So very high Just like a dragonfly I'd 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 Let's go and see the stars The milky way or even Mars Where it could just be ours Confused, are you defending Nickelback? lol I think thats a Kravitz song no?

No and yes. Just adding to the sucky, childish lyrics spirit of the thread

But "Barbie Girl" and "I'm Too Sexy" are two that jump to mind rife with shyte.

The men in my little girl's life.

rap can degrade all they want, but I would bet a song like She's a Lady would bring an uproar. Just my opinion.

In comment 12206338 jnoble said:

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except for a couple numbers, almost every song on the Snakes and Arrows album makes me cringe lyrically. Ditto "Wish Them Well" and "The Garden" on Clockwork Angels.

Blasphemy...if you want to bash Peart, go back to Test for Echo. Dog Years and Virtuality are awful..

this thread suggests about a song, but sometimes listening to those great Steely Dan songs reveal some really dark stuff when interpreted several ways.

In comment 12206572 moose53 said:

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"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 the recipe again Oh, No!"

we agree on that and what is weird is that the music has some nice harmonic stuff going in it and then those whacko lyrics are laid over it. Maybe they could not figure how to create a vocal line over it.

that song "Unbelievable" by EMF. mumbles....your unbelievable for very long minutes...hype guys shouting in the background. Total shit.

Is anyone coming up with anything were an actual singer/songwriter shit the bed? The Rush ones are intriguing...

We drunk 'em...got drunk

Macarena in any language (Los del Río & the Bayside Boys)
Wildfire - Michael Martin Murphy
Poker Face - Lady Gaga (appropriately she named herself after the hideous lyrics below)
Daddy Don't You walk So Fast - Wayne Newton
Billy Don't Be a Hero - Paper Lace
Seasons in the Sun - Terry Jacks
Abracadabra - Steve Miller Band
More Fool Me - Genesis (on Selling England By the Pound)

The entire song isn't bad, but Queen's
All we hear is
Radio ga ga
Radio goo goo
Radio ga ga
All we hear is Radio ga ga
Radio blah blah
Radio what's new?
Radio, someone still loves you!

sucks!

Hey ktinsc, I'm sure Lennon had someone in mind when he wrote this:
Working Class Hero - ( New Window )

Billy Don't Be a Hero was sung by Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods.

Paper Lace did The Night Chicago Died.

Inane lyrics, with a rotten performance by Richard Harris.

Say what you wanna say, and let the words fall out. I want to see you be brave. Ugh. This I feel will just open the floodgates for every annoying girlfriend. No! I don't want you to be encouraged to keep talking and "speak your mind"

In comment 12206324 Greg from LI said:

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Mark C is a clown, that's nothing new, but for this question your pick in Folsom Prison Blues? Seriously?

Thanks Greg, I see you're still incapable of encountering an opinion you don't share without resorting to name calling. You're as self-assured as ever... But as to the OP, the question was what lyrics make you cringe. I love the song; just find that line a little cringe-worthy.

"I used to love her, But I had to kill her."

Depending on how your love life is going, those are either the most cringeworthy or best lyrics ever.

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But he is popular for the "beef" he got into with LL Cool J. This is the song that he put out to dis LL first... There is one line in particular that is disastrous:

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Somebody that he gotta know is better than him but he feelin himself, cause he's got more cheddar than him Well let me tell you somethin, you might got more cash then me But you ain't got the skills to eat a ni***'s ass like me

It just blows my mind that's in there hahaha.

I'd go with "If You Seek Amy" by Britney Spears.

Just awful on so many levels. I feel embarrassed that it took me a couple of listens to finally get what she was saying.

started from the bottom now my whole team f***ng here

yeah drake, you and your crew started from the bottom, living in a community that is the rye, NY equivalent in toronto.

Drake is such a fucking vagina

You're going to catch a cold from the ice inside your soul.

Bruno Mars lyrics are pretty gay too. Literally... NTTAWWT.