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!

‘There are 9 million bicycles in Beijing
That’s a fact.’

No it isn’t.

A lot of Ed Sheeran but especially 'you and me are thrifty so go all you can eat, Fill up your bag and I fill up a plate'

Urgh, just hate it.

I thought she was saying ‘I’m the whore who had your baby’s eyes’.

I never understood it.

Another Ed Sheeran,

‘When your eyes still smile from your cheeks.’

Wuh?

A song I once loved the catchy beat/tune but now realise how aggressive/stalkerish/abusive/domestic violence-y it is.

Jimmy Barnes - I Gotcha
^You made me a promise and you're gonna stick to it
You shouldn't have promised if you weren't gonna do it
You saw me and ran in another direction
I'll teach you to play with my affection
Now, give it here
You never should've promised to me, give it here
Don't hold back, now give it here
Don't say nothin', just give it here
Come on, give it here
Give it here
Give it here
Give it here
Give it to me, now
Good God
Hey
I gotcha
Shouldn't made a promise to me
I gotcha
You never should've promised to me, gotcha
Give it on, here
I gotcha
You thought you got away from me, didn't ya?
I gotcha^

@Undomesticgodde55

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 😳

Wasn't that a massive dig at Zayn Malik though? I kind of liked Perrie for that one 😂

That's only part of the song, but really the whole song's lyrics are truly disturbing when you really listen to them.

Oh, and Fifty Ways To Leave Your Lover. The song only mentions, at best, five ways, and that's if you're generously including "you don't need to be coy", which to me is lacking in clarity.

The absolute worst, by Pitbull:

'I'm slicker than an oil spill, says she won't but I bet she will'

@RainbowParadise yea I get it's a dig, but it's kinda putting herself down at the same time that line if she stayed with him and had bad sex for 4 years. Apart from that I love the song.

Whenever Katie Perry asks if I ever feel like a plastic bag, I reply "no" politely and turn off the radio. I do the same when Jay Z asks me if I've ever worn shoes without shoestrings, but in that instance my answer is yes.

@Undomesticgodde55 I know what you mean, although it took some guts to put that out there about Zayn with all the rabid directioners that must have been after her 😂 I think it was kind of like a very public 'wtf was I thinking?! Won't be making that mistake again!'

@MorvaanReed

"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.

Where is the puking emoji when you need it?

@roonetta

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 😡

Oh, puke!!! My mum stood by her man and my sister and I are both in therapy because of his abuse

Just remembered The Lightning Seeds. some of their lyrics

"Put your foot down and drive
Oh you're a silly thing
Put your foot down and drive
You're such a pretty thing"

There was another one of theirs I remember listening to and cringing. The singer's voice seems so firm and I can i!again him being the type who tells his woman what to do. Maybe am reading too much into it?

@UsernameNotValid

"Girl I want to make you sweat, swear till you can't swear no more, and if you cry out I'm going to push it some more" 😕🤮

Yes 🤢🤮

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

Bellamy Brothers, I think. Sadly par for the course for Country music.

A couple of church ones. I like them both but I find the following very irksome;

"Love came down at christmas
Love all lovely, love divine...". Love all lovely? ?? Hmm....

Everyone Needs Compassion by one of the Hillsongs worship leaders, I think

" I give myself to follow
Everything I believe in... ". Just sounds clumsy

I love Johnny Cash, but...

"Love is a burning thing...". I just think he could have come up with something other than thing? Thing just seems a bit. ..I don't know, vague? By then he had to rhyme with ring I guess

@LunaNorth

‘There are 9 million bicycles in Beijing That’s a fact.’

No it isn’t.

But...have you actually counted???are you sure????

Very niche this one, now, but it was quite big back in 1990. Without Googling, does anybody remember the song that this barrage of "Say, whaaaaat?!" came from? I was young and a big fan at the time – mainly because of the dramatic –sampled— music and impressed by how quickly he could speak whole load of incoherent nonsense, but the lyrics are, to a very large part, absolutely ridiculous:

Now I'm equipped, tooled up to the front teeth
Exceed my limits with a rhyme and a firm belief
That I am unstoppable, chew punks up like cannibal
Don't like what I say? Then sue me for libel

Just lyrics I've written
Not rhymes I've bitten

Release the leather make it clever fill in with terror
Insult me, you're directed to take a header
Into a cess pit, now eat it
Perfect time like a well-rehearsed card trick
I'll flush you out shuffle then deck you
Run a ton then deal you
Spread your ass all over the felt
Skin you clean like a buffalo pelt
You melt with the heat catch friction off my static
Baffle all punk confusion is my tactic

T for terminator
U for undertaker
N inoculator*
E for educator
S for sadistic

*These are the lyrics as given online. I always thought it was ‘N annihilator’ – either way, still nothing that N is actually for.

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll

I will now, forever, sing

What are you doing sunday baby?
Would you like to come and meet me, maybe
Do you like my hair- it's permed and wavy

Ooh ooh ooh oooh ooh ooh ooh

I'm with you regarding Moonlight Shadow OP, to the point that it ever comes on the radio when we are in the car together my DH glares at me after the first couple of bars and says "Don't say it!"
It is particularly annoying because it is completely unnecessary. "4 o'clock in the morning" would fit perfectly well. Someone should do a cover version, with the appropriate correction.

Don't let FlouncerInDenial hear you, or we'll both suffer the big MN banhammer

I was brought up with and now live with people who layer information in that "4 am in the morning," way.

I guess I had the chance to break free but CHOSE to get married into it.