Dumb Lyrics

as much as I LOVE Genesis,

Walton Street wrote: as much as I LOVE Genesis, I can't get past these lyrics - they drive me nuts every time I hear them ..   From Attack of the Giant Hogweed   Strike by night They are defenseless They all need the sun to photosensitize their venom Still they're invincible

You think that's dumb, how about the Bobby Goldsboro song Honey? Here is just a portion....

She wrecked the car and she was sad
And so afraid that I'd be mad
But what the heck
Though I pretended hard to be
Guess you could say she saw through me
And hugged my neck

Vomitville

Tom Ozric wrote: ....We bitch and we fight, diss each other on sight........ Floyd lyric from the latest album.......

Any part of Honey by Bobby Goldsboro is worse than that! In fact that's not too bad at all.

Walton Street wrote: as much as I LOVE Genesis, I can't get past these lyrics - they drive me nuts every time I hear them ..   From Attack of the Giant Hogweed   Strike by night They are defenseless They all need the sun to photosensitize their venom Still they're invincible

I'm not baffled by these lyrics, since I can already sense that they obviously are inspired by B-movies à la "Attack of the Radioactive Giant Spiders from Mars".
It would be like saying the lyrics from Frank Zappa's "Goblin Girl" are stupid and... Oh, wait: "Goblin Girl" has stupid lyrics, but, hey, Zappa himself told it was a goofy song done for fun.

Talking about dumb lyrics, I would rather be quoting Iron Maiden and their dumb song "Quest for Fire" (on the album Piece of Mind, 1983): "In a time when dinosaurs walked the earth..."
No, Steve, no.
Dinosaurs were long extinct before anyone cared for fire...

Not dumb, but to me it looks like the lyricist is attempting to come up with some profound and emotionally engaging stuff, but the words interact with each other like a bunch of introverts on a long elevator ride. 

remember when there were contests on which were the worst Paul McCartney lyrics?

Picking on Pink Floyd again,

Was it love?
Or was it the idea of being in love?
Or was it the hand of fate
That seemed to fit just like a glove?

It's just the botched metaphor that kind of bugs me.  A "hand" can't fit like a glove, something else has to fit like a glove ON your hand.  Whatever.

Queen has some that make me cringe a little too

Told my girl I had to forget 'er
Had to buy me a new carburetor
So she made tracks saying this is the end now
Cars don't talk back, they're just four-wheeled friends now

I mean, I get the premise of the song, and it's not intended to be serious, but the whole verse just comes off kind of clumsy ("she made tracks"? what does that mean? really stretching the car metaphor there).  Now this one:

Put your money where your mouth is, Mr. Know-All
Was that fin on your back part of the deal?
(Shark!)

I just hate how Freddie feels the need to whisper "shark!" at the end, in case you still didn't get that he was comparing the music biz scumbag in the song to a shark, after referring to a fin on his back. OK, got it, Fred.


Edited by HolyMoly - December 12 2014 at 08:16

A Person wrote: "She got a big booty so I call her Big Booty" - 2 Chainz

I thought it might have been Arthur (2 chainz) Jackson

I wonder if he has any theories on dinosaurs