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Words of song that annoy you

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Whingey · 18/06/2021 10:28

Why does rain fall from the sky. What else would it do?

OP posts:
AngeloMysterioso · 18/06/2021 21:03

“She wrote my name on a red telephone box
When I got there she’d already rubbed it off”

I mean... what the fuck is the point of that line?!

carbon60 · 18/06/2021 21:05

@AppleSouffle

‘Rain on me tsunami’

Somebody wasn’t listening in Geography lessons

not rain on me, its tsunami tsunami came washing over me
IHateWasps · 18/06/2021 21:07

Plus cancer doesn’t even rhyme with dancer you twat.

It doesn't?

Gullible2021 · 18/06/2021 21:10

@IHateWasps

Plus cancer doesn’t even rhyme with dancer you twat.

It doesn't?

I was going to pick up on this! I think for the vast majority of the world it definitely does rhyme.
Nohomemadecandles · 18/06/2021 21:12

@Lonelycrab

I’m as serious as cancer, when I say rhythm is a dancer

Rhythm can be all sorts of things, could be the seasons, could be a drummer so you can’t say it’s a dancer really. Plus cancer doesn’t even rhyme with dancer you twat.

Oh and

Gucci gang
Gucci gang
Gucci gang
Gucci gang

You’d think that a tune with a billion YouTube hits might actually be worth listening to...

It does rhyme with dancer. I mean, it's a classically shit line but unless you're Craig Revell Horwood, cancer & dancer rhyme Grin
Nohomemadecandles · 18/06/2021 21:13

Hungry Eyes lyrics make me feel a bit sick.

moonbedazzled · 18/06/2021 21:29

@weegiemum

"Why does it always rain on me, Is it because I lied when I was seventeen?"

No Travis. It's cos your bloody Scottish, that's why!

🤣🤣🤣🤣
HalfBrick · 18/06/2021 21:35

I can forgive most shit lyrics if they fit/rhyme but the two that truly get on my tits have both been mentioned:

  1. There was more of them than us-Take That, so clunky and unnatural sounding, frankly.
  2. Concrete jungle where dreams are made of - wtf? Can't even miss hear that as something else.
Nohomemadecandles · 18/06/2021 21:46

@HalfBrick

I can forgive most shit lyrics if they fit/rhyme but the two that truly get on my tits have both been mentioned:
  1. There was more of them than us-Take That, so clunky and unnatural sounding, frankly.
  2. Concrete jungle where dreams are made of - wtf? Can't even miss hear that as something else.
Yes! #2 ruins a really good song too
WalkingOnTheCracks · 18/06/2021 22:04

@Ihopeyourcakeisshit

'Hot dog jumping frog Albuquerque.' Fuck off
That, frankly, is genius.

And I think it's a reference to a short story by Mark Twain.

WalkingOnTheCracks · 18/06/2021 22:07

@Sootybear

Generals gather in their masses Just like witches in black masses, It so annoys me as it's the same word. Ozzy ( if he wrote the lyrics ) really should have come up with a different rhyming word Grin
I think Geezer Butler (the bass player) wrote it.

Ozzy couldn't write a note to the milkman.

AphroditeGoddessOfLove · 18/06/2021 22:12

"So if by the time the bar closes
And you feel like falling down
I'll carry you home"

Tonight by fun - the "and" does not need to be there and it irritates me every time

suckingonchillidogs · 18/06/2021 22:15

In Moonlight Shadow - "3am in the morning" - as opposed to 3am in the afternoon??

WalkingOnTheCracks · 18/06/2021 22:15

"Tonight's the night
I've been waiting for
Because you're not a baby
Anymore.
You've turned into the prettiest girl I've ever seen.
Happy birthday, Sweet Sixteen..."

You can practically hear the drool.

Also...

Never gonna stop, give it up, such a dirty mind
I always get it up for the touch of the younger kind
My, my, my, aye-aye, whoa!
M-m-m-my Sharona

Hippopotas · 18/06/2021 22:37

Just thought of another lyric

What's she gonna look like with a chimney on her?

Hippopotas · 18/06/2021 22:40

My DHs contribution to this thread

I wouldn't believe your wireless radio
If I had myself a flying giraffe
You'd have one in a box with a window

From you can have it all by Stereophonics

spaceghetto · 18/06/2021 22:52

Chuck a the china the chinese chicken, had a drumstick and my brain starts ticking, eating dolmio sauce with the lights on...

I love this song (not what I was asked, sorry op!) and know I have the words completely wrong

iklboo · 18/06/2021 23:16

I wouldn't believe your wireless radio
If I had myself a flying giraffe
You'd have one in a box with a window

They're great lyrics - it's about someone trying to play one upmanship all the time. Whatever you have, the've got one better.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 18/06/2021 23:17

"Say I look nice when I'm not".

In Little Things Mean A Lot. Lovely sentiment, rotten grammar.

I’ve always thought that, too; but I suppose you could interpret it as ‘even though I’m a really rude, unpleasant person, could you at least temper that by telling me that I look pretty?’.

As much as I enjoy Marc Bolan and T Rex, I think some of the lyrics are absurd. I wouldn't say that they annoyed me, but they make me a bit confused.

Poppycock! Only last week I was saying that we really should trade in our car for a Rolls Royce, as I’ve always wanted a car that’s good for my voice. #followthescience Grin

Google Mount Kilimanjaro. It's snowcapped.

But it isn’t in the Serengeti, as we’ve already established!

Didn’t Midge originally write it as Ethiopia, but Bob changed it to Africa? Not sure if that would make a factual difference snow-wise or not??

50 Ways to Say Goodbye.

That reminds me of another very similarly-titled song: If there really must be 50 ways to leave your lover, why don’t you give more than a handful of them? And considering that you apparently are only allowed to choose a way that rhymes with your own name, your options are even more limited than that!

Hungry Eyes lyrics make me feel a bit sick.

This might be a bit niche, but there was an episode of The Kumars At No 42 on years and years ago, where they were discussing skimpy pants and thongs and Ummi describes the wearing of said undergarments as ‘hungry arse syndrome’. Now, we cannot hear anything else whenever that song comes on the radio Grin

iklboo · 18/06/2021 23:22

I've always sung Hungry Eyes as Hungry Arse Grin

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 18/06/2021 23:28

Probably giving away just how cool and rock 'n' roll I am with this one, but....

"Red and yellow and pink and green, orange and purple and blue; I can sing a rainbow, sing a rainbow, sing a rainbow too"

Not only can you clearly not sing a rainbow, you don't even tell us what else you claim you can supposedly can do too, as well as not being able to sing a rainbow.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 18/06/2021 23:29

*extraneous second 'can' there!

MalingeringMary · 18/06/2021 23:33

Have to correct the incorrect Take That 'Babe' lyrics from earlier...

Then a voice I once knew answered in a sweet voice
She said hello then paused before I began to speak

Still nonsensical, but at least correct

spotcheck · 18/06/2021 23:34

@StepAwayFromTheEcclesCakes

Someone left a cake out in the rain

I don’t wanna see a ghost id rather have a piece of toast

If you receive your calling before i awake help me make it through the night

Yes!!! That stupid cake song!!!!!
WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 18/06/2021 23:46

Yes!!! That stupid cake song!!!!!

Especially when they chose a song with a range that even somebody like Michael Ball or Glen Campbell would find a bit of a challenge - and then gave it to Richard Harris, whose talents.... possibly didn't focus themselves chiefly on his singing voice.

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