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!

Vanessa Williams - Save The Best

Sometimes the snow comes down in June
Sometimes the sun goes round the moon
Just when I thought our chance had passed
You go and save the best for last

For the love of fuck, never in the history of the world has the sun gone round the moon.
Hands up, im not an astronomer, but i know enough that should that ever happen the earth would get a bit hot.

All of of "baby it's cold outside"

Great tune but the lyrics are a little concerning...

What is in her drink? Why won't he take no for an answer? How old is she to still be concerned that her mother will start to worry and her father will be pacing the floor?!

In the Michael Buble/Idina Menzel version there's a bit where she says "you're very pushy you know" and he responds "I like to see it as opportunistic"

shudder

And another that grinds my gears ... Chris de Burgh and Lady in Red. "... looking for a little romahnce" rather than romance to rhyme with 'dance'

@Miljea

Police, 'Every breath you take'

Stalkerish nastiness.

'Oh, can't you see, you belong to me?'

That is the point of the song though.

Mungo Jerry, 'In the Summertime'

Lyrics -

If her daddy's rich take her out for a meal
If her daddy's poor just do what you feel

What does her fathers financial status have to do with anything?

McArthur Park - 'Someone left the cake out in the rain'

Lyrics -

Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it

I coudn't bear this song when I was a child, the cake being wasted!

Do you know what it feels like to be the last one to know the locks on the door have changed..Obviously Enrique!! You clearly were the last to know because you were the one locked out ffs

I sang Empire State of Mind with mynchoir and have the score.
It's 'concrete jungle where dreams are made oh' not of.

Far and away the best 'version' of the Alicia Keys song ever!

The Take That Flood one already mentioned, and Ed Sheeran's ghastly grammatically incorrect magnets.

DH loathed Rihanna's Umbrella, every time it came on the radio he would say " she can shove her Umbrella up her arse and open it", i can't listen to it now without laughing.

Not a song lyric exactly, but Natasha Bedingfield's mispronunciation of 'hyperbole' in These Words bothers me more than it probably should...

Can’t believe no one has said Alanis Morisette Ironic song with just one example of irony in it...
“Isn’t it ironic... doncha think?”
Mmmm no... no I don’t think it is Alanis. Sorry.

A few of the Beatles lyrics actually. I'm sure there's one that starts, "I'd rather see you dead little girl than see you with another man." Charming. I skip it when it comes on, don't really want my DDs listening to that shite!

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll

That's brilliant

R E M

“Late spring and you’re drifting off to sleep, with your teeth in your mouth.”

As opposed to being in a glass at the side of the bed!

@Permanentlypuzzled

Sitting on a park bench Eyeing little girls with bad intent.

Aqualung. By Jethro Tull.

However, he is presented as a nasty nonce with snot running down his nose-he is not the good guy in the song.

*And.....'Would you let me see beneath your beautiful, would you let me see beneath your perfect'

Your beautiful perfect WHAT? angry

I think it's supposed to mean "Let me see beneath the superficial facade of beauty that you show to everyone else", but it always sounds faintly mucky to me. I'd certainly be considering hoofing the guy in the plums if he ever said that to me.*

@JimmyJabs @Chipship I always imagine a serial killer gently crooning to his victim as he opens them up to look at their organs....

I’m pretty forgiving of artistic license in songs but one that really annoys me is “Only Lonely” by Tina Arena, it’s a lovely song but one line goes “you occupy my mind, every other night”, like it’s supposed to be about how intensely she feels for someone but yet it’s apparently only every other night, presumably the next night she’s like meh and goes straight to sleep, and then the night after that she’s back to thinking about them. “Other” flows marginally better than “single” I will admit but not enough to justify the mild irritation I feel when listening to an otherwise beautiful song

"When the snowman brings the snow" -WTAF??

"Every step you take, every move you make,...I'll be wAtching you" ok, am calling the Police now! The proper ones, not the Sting ones!

"He sees you when your sleeping, he knows when you're awake". You let your kids sit on this guy's lap ??

" see the little bunnies, sleeping until noon, shall we try to wake them, with a merry tune?
They're so still
Are they ill? ". Leave them alone. Stop.torturing little bu n buns. They still because they scared of you trying to wake them

A song from about 1999ish. Cannot remember artist or title but there was a lyric which went

"Anyone can make you sweat,

But I can keep you wet". Makes me cringe every time

I remember a bizarre song from about the same time period... Just instrumentals and a woman with an Irish accent saying "I've noticed you around.....I think you are very attractive....". Lots. of brassy sounds in the backing. Very odd

Surely I can't have got to page 6 without anyone mentioning Duran Duran?

"Strut on a line, it's discord and rhyme"
"I smell like I sound, I'm lost in a crowd
And I'm hungry like the wolf"

@Isadora2007

Can’t believe no one has said Alanis Morisette Ironic song with just one example of irony in it... “Isn’t it ironic... doncha think?” Mmmm no... no I don’t think it is Alanis. Sorry.

This was my thoughts exactly! I can't believe it took me getting to the end of the thread to mention this song. How is it raining on your wedding day ironic? It's an unfortunate circumstance that happens to many people this song annoys me so much

@OPYourMingeIsShowing

A song from about 1999ish. Cannot remember artist or title but there was a lyric which went

"Anyone can make you sweat,

But I can keep you wet". Makes me cringe every time

I remember a bizarre song from about the same time period... Just instrumentals and a woman with an Irish accent saying "I've noticed you around.....I think you are very attractive....". Lots. of brassy sounds in the backing. Very odd

It's called Would You by someone called Touch & Go

@Landlubber2019 Des’ree is a serial offender in that song.

“Life, oh life, oh life
Doo doo doo doo”

Yes that’s very deep love

But the most irritating for me is:

“I'm a superstitious girl,
I'm the worst in the world
Never walk under ladders,
I keep a rabbit's tail”

No no no it’s the foot you need (sicko)!

@sunnysidegold I've always misheard this and sang 'she handed me a bottle of what I thought was tequila' and now I know the real lyrics I actually think mine make more sense

@Nandocushion

Surely I can't have got to page 6 without anyone mentioning Duran Duran?

"Strut on a line, it's discord and rhyme"
"I smell like I sound, I'm lost in a crowd
And I'm hungry like the wolf"

I remember reading an interview where Simon Le Bon said he was half cut when he wrote those lyrics.