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".

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Found it! Except, I did waste about 15 minutes looking for a version of a song with lyrics in that I said annoyed me. On the plus side I'm not going mad...
ALthough the other meals: currant buns, cheese on toast etc are'nt time consuming meals either.

Not the actual lyrics, but the way they're sung - 'Still' by Macy Gray.

"Be lovin' you, baby and it's much too much."

Why does she start the line off sounding like the American that she is and then suddenly, randomly switch to full-on West Yorkshire for the last three words?!

Regarding The Specials, what young mother makes currant buns.

Ew.

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I can’t believe no ones brought up the festering turd that is Alesha Dixon’s ‘The Boy Does Nothing’

“ Does he brush up?
Never brushed up”

Who in the history of time has ever brushed up in the context of cleaning?! Gives me the rage.

‘We could laugh and party all night
And drink some cherry wine, a ha’

What’s cherry wine, when it’s at home?

What’s cherry wine, when it’s at home?

It sounds disgusting, but it is in quite a few songs - like Sweet Cherry Wine "Sweet cherry wine, so very fine, Drink it right down, Pass it all around, So stimulating, so intoxicating."

I’ve only ever come across it in songs. Don’t songwriters know about grapes?

Cherry Coke gives you the most spectacularly loud belches - that's all I know.

@NotExactlyHappyToHelp

I can’t believe no ones brought up the festering turd that is Alesha Dixon’s ‘The Boy Does Nothing’

“ Does he brush up?
Never brushed up”

Who in the history of time has ever brushed up in the context of cleaning?! Gives me the rage.

Surely it's in the context of 'He brushes up ok' which falls under personal grooming/cleaning, suggesting that he doesn't even attend to that?

But I quite like that song so clearly I'm unhinged.

Whatever cherry wine is, it sounds nicer than lilac wine.

All of Every Breath You Take by the Police. I call it the Stalker Song.

Unpopular opinion here - Africa by Toto. "As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti", which has zero to do with the rest of the song, and when you read it like that it's impossible to work out how it actually fits into the melody anyway. Pretentious crap.

Another one - Nial Horan "Slow hands, like sweat running out my dirty laundry". Well, that's just designed to seduce, isn't it? ewww.

I'm on a roll now. ZZ Top - Gimme all your lovin. The whole song.
Robbie Williams, Rock DJ - "Gimme no head, no backstage passes."
Also, a recent one and I'm too old so I don't know who it's by, but I cringe when I hear it - "I lean in for the kiss and she says I'll 'prolly send some pics, and I'm like hell no, I been waiting too long". A wee bit rapey.

"Slow hands, like sweat running out my dirty laundry".

How lovely. 🤢

"Who run the world" from a Beyonce song. It should be runs, or maybe even ran, but not run. It was the unofficial slogan for a university society I was a member of, and I wanted to correct people every time I heard it, which was a lot.

Sandra, you’re not alone. I can’t bear ‘Africa‘- especially that line!

Currant buns take AGES to make if you make them from scratch though. All that kneading and proving and knocking down and proving again... I may be prejudiced though because I make the worst bread in the world.

@Greenandcabbagelooking

"Who run the world" from a Beyonce song. It should be runs, or maybe even ran, but not run. It was the unofficial slogan for a university society I was a member of, and I wanted to correct people every time I heard it, which was a lot.

The worst thing about this one is that "runs" would have scanned just as well, so there was no reason for such an ungrammatical lyric.

@Sandra2010

Another one - Nial Horan "Slow hands, like sweat running out my dirty laundry". Well, that's just designed to seduce, isn't it? ewww.

Eww. I didn't realise that was what he was singing. I hate that song anyway because I assumed it was about wanking 😅😂

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll does it make you feel better to know that that dire travesty of a last verse wasn't even written by John Newton?

(I've always held that "grace shall lead me home" is the end of the song)

Oh, and I can't find it now, but surely the line should be

you're the girl I wanted ever since I was little, girl

@FOKKYFC I might owe Ms Dixon an apology then . I’ve literally never heard that expression only ever someone brushing up on a skill.

I like many a song people would think me unhinged for .

“Do you ever feel like a plastic bag?”

[quote NotExactlyHappyToHelp]@FOKKYFC I might owe Ms Dixon an apology then . I’ve literally never heard that expression only ever someone brushing up on a skill.

I like many a song people would think me unhinged for .[/quote]
No, you don't. I've just realized I mean 'he scrubs up ok'. You're right - 'brushes up' means to improve upon or freshen up a rusty skill. Aleesha is a cretin. As am I.

Cringe.