Song lyrics that infuriate you

[JimmyJabs]

I'm sure this has been done before but I just heard Moonlight Shadow on the radio and it's set me right off. "4am in the morning"! A.m. MEANS morning, Oldfield, you oaf. It's tautological and really pissing annoying.

Also, Razorlight's woeful effort "I met a girl, she asked me my name, I told her what it was".

Share your annoyances so that we can all be enraged too!

‘A Little Bit More’ by Dr Hook:

‘And when your body's had enough of me
And I'm layin' flat out on the floor
When you think I've loved you all I can
I'm gonna love you a little bit more’

NO, Dr Hook. Her body has ‘had enough’ of you. Let her go to sleep FFS. If you keep hammering away at it she’ll get cystitis and then she’ll hate you.

That one where the vocalist sings “wild, wild, wild” but it sounds like “Wah, wah, wah”.
The one about pulling a sheet of a stolen mattress. Uh?

At the midnight hour??

Rihanna did that too:

‘Wah, wah, wah,
when I’m with you all I get is wild thoughts’

You've just made me think of Runaway by Del Shannon, where he actually does go "Wah wah wah wah" during the chorus. I was terrified of that song when I was little because of the high-pitched organ solo in the middle, and the wah-wahs were an indication that it was coming up. Even now, I feel slightly panicky when I hear the introduction 😂

Champagne Supernova by Oasis
Slowly walking down the hall, faster than a cannonball...

Just the whole of Rude..

Asks the dad for permission..he says no.
So goes on about how he is rude and shouldnt have said no but who cares he will marry her anyway.

Why bother asking then?! Maybe he isn't doing it to be rude..

Not yet read the whole thread, so hope no-one's said these yet.
There's Nothing Like This, by Omar:
Sip a glass of cold champagne wine
The rug that we lie on feels divine
If this forced nonsense is the best you could come up with for your opening lines, maybe songwriting isn't for you.

Jailbreak, by Thin Lizzie:
Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak
Somewhere in this town
Err, the jail, perhaps?

Led Zeppelin, How Many More Times
Now I've got ten children of my own
I got another child on the way that makes eleven
Check out the big brain on Robert!

Disney's let it go - "Let it go. Let it go. I am one with the wind and sky"

They had the perfect opportunity to rhyme with snow. Every time I hear sky I get so irrationally mad. It's literally a movie called frozen, snow would make more sense AND the song would flow better 😡

It's a beautiful night, we're looking for something dumb to do
Hey baby, I think I wanna marry you
Is it the look in your eyes, or is it this dancing juice
Who cares baby, I think I wanna marry you

So, they're drunk and want to do something stupid. So hey, let's let married!! Everyone thinks this is so romantic, I just cringe and think Ross and Rachel in Las Vegas.

Also his song grenade.

1. have you tried flowers? Chocolate?
2. no, of course I'd jump in front of a train for you. Here, you go first Bruno!

Especially for today I give you
"Hey hey hey
Ba de ya, say do you remember?
Ba de ya, dancing in September
Ba de ya, never was a cloudy day
Ba duda, ba duda, ba duda, badu
Ba duda, badu, ba duda, badu
Ba duda, badu, ba duda"

@OublietteBravo

Aha lyrics are a whole new level of genius

I've got every album they ever made and I can't think of one single song that I've understood all the way through. I get the gist of what they are trying to portray, but the lyrics are just brilliant.

Bob Dylan, Ballad of a Thin Man

"...you're a cow
Give me some milk or just go home"

Genius.

Speaking of A-ha, does anyone know what ‘take on me’ means?

It’s bugged me off and on for years.

@LunaNorth

Speaking of A-ha, does anyone know what ‘take on me’ means?

It’s bugged me off and on for years.

I should think it means the same as the next line: "Take me on" (i.e. start going out with me)

Perhaps Morten thought word order in English was

a little less rigid than it actually is!

I've always been annoyed that Chris de Burgh ran out of lyrics in A Spaceman Came Travelling ... "And he went la la-la-la-la la-la-la la-la-la"

I did wonder if that was the case. It always sounded weird to me. Though I forgave him when I saw the cheekbones

‘A choir of children sing their song
They’ve practised all year long
Ding dong ding dong ding
Oooh oooooh oooooh
Oooooh ooooooh ooooooooh oooh oooh ooooh
Doo-doo doo-doo du-doo-doo’

They practised that all year?

Jesus.

PussycatDolls

Don't cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me?
Don't cha wish your girlfriend was a freak like me? (like me)
Don't cha?

Fuck off luv, you ain’t all that.

She is though

I like too much, too young by the Specials but the bit in the lyrics where he sings
"now you're chained to the kitchen making beans on toast for tea"

I mean it takes five minutes to heat up beans for crying out loud. Was he making the beans from scratch???

Razorlight:

But then last night was so much fun
And now your sheets are dirty
The streets are dirty too but
You never look back over what you've done.

It’s the line about the streets being dirty too- it just annoys me!

@yetanothernamitynamechange

I like too much, too young by the Specials but the bit in the lyrics where he sings "now you're chained to the kitchen making beans on toast for tea"

I mean it takes five minutes to heat up beans for crying out loud. Was he making the beans from scratch???

But they're making currant buns for tea not beans on toast 😕

@emwithme I just listened to that song again on youtube and they do only sing current buns for tea. But in the version I had they definately had one verse that was beans on toast, and another with currant buns. I remember because it annoyed me. But I can't find it now :(

Yes, @LunaNorth, I think most of us would've happily overlooked any minor oversight of Morten's after a second or so gazing upon him!