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Worst lyrics?

Surely said:
According to John, it was about a drawing that his son drew of a woman named Lucy in the sky with diamonds.

I think that John was FOS. That song was inspired by, if not about, LSD. It just wasn't acceptable to write a song about drugs at that time, so they had to make up something to reduce the controversy.
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Agreed. There's no way that song wasn't drug-inspired (or induced!) That said, it has some fascinating lyrics that are fun to visualize... they're very abstract, but not bad :p
 
Alicia Keyes - Dragon Days

And it feels like, dragon days
And the fire's hot
Like the desert needs water
I need you a lot
Dragon days
I need to be saved
I'm missin' you
(and the days drag on and on)
 
Anything with or like:

"Down on my knees, begging you please"

"You're a star, that is what you are"
 
Surely said:
According to John, it was about a drawing that his son drew of a woman named Lucy in the sky with diamonds.

I think that John was FOS. That song was inspired by, if not about, LSD. It just wasn't acceptable to write a song about drugs at that time, so they had to make up something to reduce the controversy.
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I'm pretty sure the story is real - there's even a scan of the picture:

http://www.all-science-fair-project...ts_encyclopedia/Lucy_in_the_Sky_with_Diamonds
 
Journey -- a band I've never been able to stomach -- seems to be having something of a resurgence, maybe because "Don't Stop Believing" closed the Sopranos. Ok, OK, I'll put my Journey-hate aside long enough to say that DSB isn't horrible. But this is some of the dumbest lyrics in rock:

Some will win
Some will lose
Some are born
to sing the blues.

Ugh. People should just la-la-la through that verse. It's less inane.

mt
 
Tomorrow said:
I'm pretty sure the story is real - there's even a scan of the picture:

http://www.all-science-fair-project...ts_encyclopedia/Lucy_in_the_Sky_with_Diamonds
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Yes, I know there is an "actual picture" of Lucy. However, it was thought to have been produced after-the-fact, in order to make the "my kid drew a picture so we wrote a song" story seem more believable.

Besides, if you actually read the link you posted, you would have read the following in the fourth paragraph:

However, during a newspaper interview in 2004, McCartney was quoted as saying, "Day Tripper, that's one about acid. Lucy in the Sky, that's pretty obvious.
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mysterytramp said:
Journey -- a band I've never been able to stomach -- seems to be having something of a resurgence, maybe because "Don't Stop Believing" closed the Sopranos. Ok, OK, I'll put my Journey-hate aside long enough to say that DSB isn't horrible. But this is some of the dumbest lyrics in rock:

Some will win
Some will lose
Some are born
to sing the blues.

Ugh. People should just la-la-la through that verse. It's less inane.

mt
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Best. Drunk. Song. Ever.

Seriously.
 
I don't really mind a lot of the not-wrapped-very-tight lyrics of alt rock or even some pop -- after all, I do like puzzles, and laughing at absurdities-- but when I'm in the supermarket and something like the below bit from a Trace Adkins song oozes out of the audio system, I often enough think about abandoning my shopping cart and leaving the store empty-handed.

"Every light in the house is on
just in case you ever do get tired of bein' gone.
If I should ever start forgettin'
I'll turn the lights off one by one
for you to see that I agree it's over,
but until then I want you to know
if you look south you'll see a glow:
that's me waitin' at home each night to hold ya."

A good band and a good beat can transform bad lyrics into great music. But when the lyrics are just plain insipid and the music also lacks inspiration, that's a pretty high bar for the performers to face (and for listeners to tolerate).

The best lyrics draw you into a story. Willie Nelson's "City of New Orleans" (about the train of that name, not the town) is wonderful:

"... and the sons of Pullman porters and the sons of engineers
ride their fathers' magic carpet made of steel;
mothers with their babes alseep, rockin' to the gentle beat
and the rhythm of the rails is all they feel.
Good mornin' America, how are ya?
Say, don't ya know me? I'm your native son!
I'm the train they call The City Of New Orleans
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done..."

When you have heard that song, you have heard a story, shared a journey, learned something about the USA. And you haven't a clue whether the singer-songwriter's personal heart is broken or he's had a really good day. When the song is over, you may well feel sad over "the disappearin' railroad blues" but mostly you're sorry the song is finished. It's like coming to the end of a book you have liked, feeling sad there are not more chapters.

The Trace Adkins' "Every Light in the House" track reveals only that he is obsessed about the "you" to whom he is singing. The lyrics caricature rather than illuminate the pain of a broken heart. When that song is over, you are GRATEFUL!
 
50 Cent - Wanksta
We in the club doing the same ol' two step
Gorilla unit cause they say we bugged out
Cause we don't go nowhere without toast we thugged out

Makes no sense whatsoever.
 
Shakira wins:
Lucky that my lips not only mumble
They spill kisses like a fountain
Lucky that my breasts are small and humble
So you don't confuse them with mountains

:eek:

She admitted she didn't speak english real well when she wrote the song so she just sorta slapped something together that rhymed.
 
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LOL. For sure!



Last night I had the strangest dream
I sailed away to China
In a little row boat to find ya
And you said you had to get your laundry cleaned
Didn't want no-one to hold you
What does that mean
And you said

Ain't nothin' gonna to break my stride
Nobody's gonna slow me down, oh-no
I got to keep on movin'
Ain't nothin' gonna break my stride
I'm running and I won't touch ground
Oh-no, I got to keep on movin'
 
"...Choke me in the shallow water
Before I get too deep
What I am is what I am
You what you are or what
What I am is what I am
You what you are or..."

All time 80s epic Fail

LOL! :cool:
 
DELLsFan said:
"...Choke me in the shallow water
Before I get too deep
What I am is what I am
You what you are or what
What I am is what I am
You what you are or..."

All time 80s epic Fail

LOL! :cool:
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You have the lyrics partially wrong. It's:
"What I am is what I am
Are you what you are or what?"

It's a cool song with interesting lyrics.

"Philosophy is the talk on a cereal box,
Religion is the smile on a dog"
 
cycocelica said:
Sadly both of you keep a narrow point of view of hip hop/rap and wouldn't know a good rap song if it blared in your headphones.
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The problem is that all of the popular hip hop/rap (e.g. Lil' Wayne) really really sucks. It's just so bad.

The only good hip hop/rap is made by indie artists, and the casual listener doesn't get to hear it because the radio doesn't play it.
For example: D-Sisive (check out his song "Brian Wilson"), K-OS, and Grand Analog.
 
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