NFT: Lyrics that make you cringe?

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



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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?