10 Worst Pop Song Lyrics

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Per an article on BBC, I give you the 10 worst pop song lyrics.




Top 10 Worst Pop Lyrics

1 DES'REE - LIFE
I don't want to see a ghost
It's the sight that I fear most
I'd rather have a piece of toast
Watch the evening news

2 SNAP - RHYTHM IS A DANCER
I'm as serious as cancer
When I say rhythm is a dancer

3 RAZORLIGHT - SOMEWHERE ELSE
And I met a girl
She asked me my name
I told her what it was

4 ABC - THAT WAS THEN BUT THIS IS NOW
More sacrifices than an Aztec priest
Standing here straining at that leash
All fall down
Can't complain, mustn't grumble
Help yourself to another piece of apple crumble

5 U2 - ELEVATION
I've got no self control
Been living like a mole now
Going down, excavation
High and high in the sky
You make me feel like I can fly
So high
Elevation

6 TOTO - AFRICA
The wild dogs cry out in the night
As they grow restless longing for some solitary company
I know that I must do what's right
Sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti

7 OASIS - CHAMPAGNE SUPERNOVA
Slowly walking down the hall
Faster than a cannonball
Where were you when we were getting high?

8 DURAN DURAN - IS THERE SOMETHING I SHOULD KNOW?
And fiery demons all dance when you walk through that door
Don't say you're easy on me you're about as easy as a nuclear war

9 HUMAN LEAGUE - THE LEBANON
Before he leaves the camp he stops
He scans the world outside
And where there used to be some shops
Is where the snipers sometimes hide

10 BLACK SABBATH - WAR PIGS
Generals gathered in their masses
Just like witches at black masses
 
F the BBC....that Black Sabbath is on there as "Pop" should tell you something. Idoits.

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"Africa" is a great pop song, but that verse is a complete train wreck. "Solitary company" is a terrible way to end a line, but it only gets worse when they try to squeeze in the words "Kilimanjaro," "Olympus," and then shoehorn "Serengeti" at the end and pretend it rhymes. Ugh.

I can't believe there's a list that doesn't include:
Someone left the cake out in the rain,
And I don't think I can take it,
'Cause it took so long to bake it,
And I'll never have that recipe agaaaaaaaiin...
(written by Jimmy Webb, performed by Diana Ross, among others)
 
Hootie and the Blowfish - Only Wanna Be With You

Sometimes you're crazy
And you wonder why
I'm such a baby yeah
The Dolphins make me cry

Rush - "Trees"

There is unrest in the forest
There is trouble with the trees
For the maples want more sunlight
And the oaks ignore their pleas

The trouble with the maples
(and theyre quite convinced theyre right)
They say the oaks are just too lofty
And they grab up all the light
But the oaks cant help their feelings
If they like the way theyre made
And they wonder why the maples
Cant be happy in their shade?
 
I just remember a song from the 80's that went something like this:

" Oh I'm just burning doing the neutron dance"

I'd put that up with just about anything.
 
"Trees" has all the subtlety, nuance, and quiet genius that give such power to Sammy Hagar's music videos.

And I agree on "We Built This City" (co-written by Bernie Taupin, btw). Listen to "Gimme Shelter" and then 10 seconds of that homogenized, corporate-approved piece of **** and try to explain what the hell happened. Makes me think of the Lester Bangs observations in "Almost Famous," when he's telling the young William Miller about the state of rock music: "You got here just in time for the death rattle."
 
What about the song that says, "We don't have to take our clothes off, to have a good time"? Later on they go on to drink cherry wine, uh-huh. I have an hour long mix I am playing for HorninHongKong.

And what is wrong with The Lebanon lyrics? There are freaking snipers there to kill his *** where he was shopping previously. It must be the Highland Mall.
 
"Love Humps" or whatever they named that tripe, though the "Serengeti" line deserves mention. Whenever I hear "Africa", I think of the washed up singer in Love Actually complaining to the booth about the lyrics.
 
Billy Mack is a detective down in Texas.
You know he knows just exactly what the facts is.
He's not gonna let those two escape justice.
He makes his living off other people's taxes.
 
Beau_Vine, the Rangers just put out out an APB for you. The folks at Hunstville are looking forward to your short "visit."
 
I like the song, but...

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

Let's go and see the stars,
the Milky Way, or even Mars
Where we can just be ours.
 
Entertaining songs? No doubt. Nonsensical lyrics? You betcha:

A wild ride, over stony ground
Such a lust for life, the circus comes to town
We are the hungry ones, on a lightning raid
Just like a river runs, like a fire needs flame
I burn for you

I gotta feel it in my blood whoa oh
I need your touch don't need your love whoa oh

And I want and I need
And I lust animal
And I want and I need
And I lust animal

Cry wolf, given mouth to mouth
Like a movin' heartbeat in the witching hour
I'm runnin' with the wind, a shadow in the dust
And like the drivin' rain, yeah, like the restless rust
I never sleep

And:

Drive me crazier, no serenade
No fire brigade, just Pyromania

What do you want? What do you want?
I want rock'n'roll, yes I do
Long live rock'n'roll

Oh let's go, let's strike a light
We're gonna blow like dynamite
I don't care if it takes all night
Gonna set this town alight

What do you want? What do you want?
I want rock'n'roll, Allright!
Long live rock'n'roll

Rock of ages, rock of ages
Still rollin', keep a-rollin'
Rock of ages, rock of ages
Still rollin', rock'n'rollin'

More:

When you make love, do you look in the mirror?
Who do you think of, does he look like me?
Do you tell lies and say that it's forever?
Do you think twice, or just touch 'n' see?
Ooh babe ooh yeah

When you're alone, do you let go?
Are you wild 'n' willin' or is it just for show?
Ooh c'mon

I don't wanna touch you too much baby
'Cos making love to you might drive me crazy
I know you think that love is the way you make it
So I don't wanna be there when you decide to break it
No!

Love bites, love bleeds
It's bringin' me to my knees
Love lives, love dies
It's no surprise
Love begs, love pleads
It's what I need


And the piece de resistance:

Love is like a bomb, baby, c'mon get it on
Livin' like a lover with a radar phone
Lookin' like a tramp, like a video vamp
Demolition woman, can I be your man?
Razzle 'n' a dazzle 'n' a flash a little light
Television lover, baby, go all night
Sometime, anytime, sugar me sweet
Little miss ah innocent sugar me, yeah

Hey!
C'mon, take a bottle, shake it up
Break the bubble, break it up

Pour some sugar on me
Ooh, in the name of love
Pour some sugar on me
C'mon fire me up
Pour your sugar on me
Oh, I can't get enough

I'm hot, sticky sweet
From my head to my feet yeah

Listen! red light, yellow light, green-a-light go!
Crazy little woman in a one man show
Mirror queen, mannequin, rhythm of love
Sweet dream, saccharine, loosen up

You gotta squeeze a little, squeeze a little
Tease a little more
Easy operator come a knockin' on my door
Sometime, anytime, sugar me sweet
Little miss innocent sugar me, yeah

Take a bottle, shake it up
Break the bubble, break it up

Pour some sugar on me
Ooh, in the name of love
Pour some sugar on me
C'mon fire me up
Pour your sugar on me
Oh, I can't get enough

I'm hot, sticky sweet
From my head to my feet yeah

[guitar solo]

You got the peaches, I got the cream
Sweet to taste, saccharine
'Cos I'm hot, say what, sticky sweet
From my head, my head, to my feet

Do you take sugar? one lump or two?

Take a bottle, shake it up
Break the bubble, break it up

Pour some sugar on me
Ooh, in the name of love
Pour some sugar on me
C'mon fire me up
Pour your sugar on me
Oh, I can't get enough
Pour some sugar on me
Oh, in the name of love
Pour some sugar on me
Get it, come get it
Pour your sugar on me
Ooh
Pour some sugar on me
Yeah! Sugar me!
 
America and the song A horse with no name, very old but still has to be one of the worst composed lyrics of all time.

I been through the desert on horse with no name,
it felt good to get out of the rain

There were plants, and birds, and rocks and things.

Pretty hard to beat those lyrics.
 
^^^^^^^^

Winner!


There were plants and birds and rocks and things
There was sand and hills and rings
The first thing I met was a fly with a buzz
And the sky with no clouds
The heat was hot and the ground was dry
But the air was full of sound


In the desert you can remember your name
'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain


Is that song really about heroin, or did it just suck so bad they everyone assumed that it must be about drugs?
 
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