To get, some might say, far too irate with song lyrics that Make. No. Logical. Sense *screams with rage*

[Tallalime]

Just for example, and it annoys me every time I hear it,

Both Nirvana and Malcolm in the Middle were not big when you were little.

Nirvana was big in the late 80's/early 90's

MitM started in 2000.

Rage

The way i are.

The blurred lines song is a bit sinister.

I hate songs with really lazily contrived rhymes where the writer has just given up and copped out. for example:

(talking of Elton)
I sat on the roof and kicked off the moss
Well a few of the verses well they've got me quite cross

Why do I find it hard to write the next line?
Oh, I want the truth to be said. (

And the ultimate fromHaircut100:

Where does it go from here?
Is it down to the lake I fear?
Ay ah ah ah ah ah
Ay ah ah ah ah ah

Can anyone work out in which decade I was a teenager?

This is the reason why I can't stand most pop music.

Three song writers who can really write good lyrics:
Nick Cave
Leonard Cohen
Roger Waters

Handlers of the new generation clearly think that their audience doesn't have a brain. They may be right, too, sadly.

Oh yes teaandcake the rap in that Jessie j song is awful! He also says:

'If I swim with the pihranas guaranteed that I'm gonna probably have a fish dinner.'

That fucking whiny Adele 'Somebody Like You. The girls's got a belting voice, but her songwriting is pants. 'Old friend, why are you so shy?' Because he's fucking happily married and you've turned up at his door - out of the blue, by your own admission - hoping he'll see your face and leave his wife for you. But nevermind, you'll find someone just like him. Oh do piss off.

chasing pavements? I always sing "chasing payments " - a song for all credit controllers

That godawful current song about walking like Rihanna.

Although I always imagine Brian Blessed reciting the lyrics which improves most things.

Another MNer has turned that into "walks like me nana" - much better

And "Beneath your Beautiful" (if anyone has brought it up$) is about a Yorkshire terrier named Beautiful who is sitting on his car keys. Bet you never realisd the explanation was so mundane

Actually Fans by Kings of Leon...I resorted to reading the lyrics in the CD insert but I'm sure thats not what the bloke is singing. I want to sing along cos its a crackin' tune but can only get something along the lines of...
'On the road..mhmhmnn mnnhm mnmnh something about a radio. Ner ner ner ner ner ner...hnghne the role'

The first line of vertigo by U2
Unos, dos, tres, catorce!
Translates to 'one, two, three, fourteen!'
Makes me mad.

You're so vain..
I bet you think this song is about you.

Er...

SPB for Yorkshire terrior named Beautiful

"even at the centre of the fire, there is cold"
Never tried it but I suspect at the centre of the fire it is very very hot!

I adore Take That but have yet to understand how one dances the rain.

Although no one understood we were holding back the flood,
Learning how to dance the rain.
We were holding back the flood they said we?d never dance again.

This one was playing in the gym this morning and has been my head all frigging day..don't know who sings it but it's something like

Must be a reason your the king of my castle
must be a reason your free in my trestle...

And it's is trestle cos I watched her lips in the video!Hateful song!

And you can all lay off Duran Duran..have you ever met a nuclear war that was easy?!Mmmm? Well then!

There's a killer on the road, his brain is burning like a toad.

??

I nominate "he starts to cough, just like the old man in that famous book by Nabokov" for most contrived rhyme.

Someone from Destiny's Child - "her life was stole"

No, it was STOLEN!

Also, I remember watching a thing about Oasis and how amazing they are. Apparently the song Wonderwall is unbelieveably profound as the lyrics are " I can't believe that anybody, feels the way I do, about you now".

It's the now apparently. I remember some muso waxing lyrical about how nonsensical it was to add the "now" to the lyric but how it made it so much more deep.

Or, it just scanned better

Kings of Leon - "she saw my combover" - WTAF??!!

PS - I thought that was me mishearing but it is in the lyrics card with the CD!

The 'King of My Castle' lyrics are actually '...free in my trapped soul'. Not that that's what I'd call an improvement.

Loving this thread

Another lifelong Durannie here. I think Simon LB has written some great songs in his time, but then there's this from New Moon on Monday:

Shake up the picture, the lizard mixture,
With a dance on the eventide.
You got me coming up with answers,
All of which I deny.

Erm, yes.

I always assumed Champagne Supernova was a nonsense song. Like
"One fine day in the middle of the night
Two dead men got up to fight
Back to back they faced each other
Drew their swords and shot each other..."

The song that's currently bugging me is True Love by Pink. Its clearly about infatuation and a dysfunctional relationship not a decent loving one:

"At the same time, I wanna hug you
I wanna wrap my hands around your neck
You're an asshole but I love you
And you make me so mad I ask myself
Why I'm still here, or where could I go
You're the only love I've ever known
But I hate you, I really hate you,
So much, I think it must be

True Love"

Ooh ooh, and speaking of Eliza Doolittle, I'm surprised no one has mentioned her lyrical travesty 'Tweet tweet, tweet twe- twe- twe- twe- tweet tweet, tweet twe- twe- twe- twe- tweet tweet, tweet twe- twe- twe- twe- tweet'.

Makes my teeth itch.

noisy I always thought the 'tweet tweet' thing in that song was a reference to twitter and letting people's negative comments wash over you rather than get upset.

Still fairly annoying though!

There is a Backstreet Boys song with the line:

"I don't care if he buys you nice things
Does his gifts come from the heart?"

It drives me mad! Do his gifts come from the heart, do, do do, not does! Does is incorrect and totally unnecessary, changing it to do would not affect the way it scans, or the rhyme or anything, it is just plain wrong!

PrimaDonna and NoisyBrain

I love Duran Duran, I really do, and still intend to marry Roger Taylor one day (when he comes to his senses and realises I exist!) but what do the lyrics to any of the songs mean? Pleeeeeeeease!