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!

"He abhors not the Virgins womb / Very God".

From O Come All Ye Faithful.

Very God?

@Liddell

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?

Also from that song

Have a drink have a drive

Err no don't!

They played it on Virgin radio breakfast show a few weeks ago, I was pretty shocked to hear it

Sweet Caroline by Neil diamond. "Good times never seemed so good". I just wish he hadn't used good as an adjective twice. Lazy writing! I do like the song but that just grates on me

I may be remembering this wrongly, but I think he went through a stage of changing the starting lyrics to "Where it began - it was in London, England" when he performed in the UK, to try to get the crowd on his side and drum up a bit of local pride. However, I hear that he also did exactly the same at his stadium concert in Glasgow. 'Suicide by mass-public malkie'

Very God?

In old English, 'very' also meant 'truly' or 'indeed' - the writer was saying 'Truly God' rather than 'somewhat God-ish'!

@MrJollyLivesNextDoor I was listening to that song the other day, came up on my Spotify as part of a 70s compilation. and I was thinking what awful lyrics... Poor girls can be used for sex, but rich girls deserve to be treated better? Shocking. The drink and drive thing is also terrible although of its time, am afraid. Am glad we have wised up on drink driving now. WELl, except the twats that still do it

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll

Sweet Caroline by Neil diamond. "Good times never seemed so good". I just wish he hadn't used good as an adjective twice. Lazy writing! I do like the song but that just grates on me

I may be remembering this wrongly, but I think he went through a stage of changing the starting lyrics to "Where it began - it was in London, England" when he performed in the UK, to try to get the crowd on his side and drum up a bit of local pride. However, I hear that he also did exactly the same at his stadium concert in Glasgow. 'Suicide by mass-public malkie'

Whoops! I bet that went down well in Glasgow, NOT

Apparently, Yesterday by the Beatles originally had different lyrics when it was being written. Beginning "Scrambled eggs, Oh my baby, how I love your legs"

@Drawmelikeoneofyourfrenchgirls

I’m glad I’m not the only one that is annoyed by that Ed sheeran line!!

I dislike Ed Sheeran's music for many reasons, but his shoddy lyrics are one of the main factors. He's such a lazy lyricist, going for a cheap rhyme.

@Kidneybingo Ed Sheeran irritates me generally. I can never put my finger on why but his face just makes me angry

Similar era to Mungo Jerry, but the Dr Hook song: "When you're in love with a beautiful woman.... it's hard". Grown men releasing a commercial record with lyrics that they almost certainly first made up behind the bike sheds at school, whilst passing around torn magazines full of 'rude ladies' that they found under the see-saw at the park.

If anybody doubts my assumptions, listen to 'Freakers' Ball' by them as well. Actually, probably don't. Such a shame, as their sound was lovely and their cover of 'The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan' was beautiful.

Razorlight

"I met a girl
She asked my name
I told her what it was"

The Cranberries

"With their ranks and their bombs
And their bombs and their guns"

Feeder

"We'll buy a house in Devon
Drink cider from a lemon". I thought cider came from apples? Not lemons

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll

Similar era to Mungo Jerry, but the Dr Hook song: "When you're in love with a beautiful woman.... it's hard". Grown men releasing a commercial record with lyrics that they almost certainly first made up behind the bike sheds at school, whilst passing around torn magazines full of 'rude ladies' that they found under the see-saw at the park.

If anybody doubts my assumptions, listen to 'Freakers' Ball' by them as well. Actually, probably don't. Such a shame, as their sound was lovely and their cover of 'The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan' was beautiful.

Some song lyrics really do or did seem as though they were penned by obnoxious 15 year old boys having a wank over Playboy or Nutz! A lot of misogyny in the rock business, it sems

Agree with a PP.
WTF is Duran Duran’s The Reflex about?! Puzzled!

@Creakyladder

Agree with a PP. WTF is Duran Duran’s The Reflex about?! Puzzled!

He was drunk when he wrote that!

Stand by your man, Tammy Wynette

You’ll have bad times
And he'll have good times,
Doin' things that you don't understand
But if you love him you'll forgive him,
Even though he's hard to understand

Enough sad 😡

Oops enough said although also sad 🤣

Little mix shout out to my ex. Love the song but the first few lines:

"Hope she getting better sex, Hope she ain't faking it like I did babe, took 4 long years to call it quits..."

Why would you stay with someone for bad sex for four years faking it 😳

'The Reflex' is obviously the name of Simon's slightly mischievous childhood teddy - his pwecious fwuffy fwend whom he slept with still does every single night and they comforted each other through the scary dark hours.

That's the best that I can come up with - and it's still more than a little tenuous....

Pulp's 'Disco 2000' - mostly a great, very catchy song that you can't help tapping your feet to when it comes on the radio.... BUT....

"What are you doing Sunday, baby?"
"Would you like to come and meet me, maybe?"
"You can even bring your baby"

I hate it when songwriters rhyme the same word twice. Something like "Bring a mask with you, 'cos I've got rabies" or even a semi-rhyme like "Hope you'll like my hair - it's permed and wavy" would have been so much better

And I know it was a breezy, lighthearted, cheeky song, but "You were the first girl at school to get breasts" is still really, really ick.

"If I said you had a beautiful body would you hold it against me..." Dr Hook again?

There is not enough yuck in the world.

Not a word against Jarvis @WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll or I'll have to report your post to MNHQ for offence/trigger warning

Oh god. I've just remembered "A little bit more" also by Dr Hook.

"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. "

OhGodOhGodOhGod

A pseudonym, to fool him
She could not have made a worst move’

Babushka, Kate Bush. I love her, I do, but dear me.

Just about every song by Scouting For Girls makes me feel stabby because of the "cheeky chappy blokey cokey" lyrics. They all sound as if they were written by a man who has only ever seen women in Viz and not in real life. I almost expect him to start singing about his unfeasibly large testicles.

As much as it pains me to say it, I usually have to listen to Suede with the lyrics tuned out in my brain. I love them but they're definitely more about the tunes than the lyrical genius. Some choice examples:

"She live in a house, she stupid as a mouse"
"In your council home, he jumped on your bones"
"She sells hearts, she sells meats, oh Dad, she's driving me mad, come and see-ee-ee"
"An elegant sir in a terylene shirt"
Not to mention the fondness for the words slippery, nuclear, and dogs. I guess you have to bear in mind they were on an awful lot of drugs.

Oh yes, also from the same song,

‘Just like his wife
Before she freezed on him’