Perfect August Time Suck: 32 Worst Lyrics Of All Time
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Our to favorities:
THE SONG: Train “Drops of Jupiter”
THE LYRIC: “Can you imagine no first dance, freeze dried romance five-hour phone conversation /The best soy latte that you ever had . . . and me”
THE VERDICT: First we’re traveling in space all fine and dandy, then he starts name-dropping fads from the year 2000 as if it’s a VH1 special and he’s Hal Sparks. Soy Lattes? Tae Bo? Yes, Venus did blow our minds.THE SONG: America, "A Horse With No Name"
THE LYRIC: "There were plants and birds and rocks and things"
THE VERDICT: What, did he get tired? Rocks and things? Try a fuckin’ cactus. Dirt? Bugs?
30 more here. Got any lyrics you want to add to the list?
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“abra abra cadabra, i want to reach out and grab ya” steve miller
“jeremiah was a bullfrog, he was a good friend of mine…” three dog night
“got a bowling ball in my stomach, got a desert in my mouth” tori amos
“there’s an old man threading his toes through a bucket of rain” counting crows
“i got more rhymes than i got gray hair, and that’s a lot because i got my share” beastie boys
“a palace of stones of your bananafish bones, i’d buy you a hundred years old to celebrate our difference” the cure
“forget oreos, eat cool j cookies” ll cool j
“we can dance, we can dance, everybody look at your hands” men without hats
“yeah my girl she’s one too, gonna get her a skirt, stick it in her shirt, she grabbed a razor for me” jane’s addiction
“polly wants a cracker, think i should get off of her first, i think she wants some water to put out the blow torch” nirvana
“follow me, don’t follow me, i’ve got my spine, i’ve got my orange crush” REM
“They polarized the pumpkin-eaters”- Jethro Tull ‘Minstrel in the Gallery’