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Oh, this one's easy.

I am a def con of angora goats / Warning you all who pass this mote. (Cavalettas, The Mars Volta).

I tell ya, that Ouiji board of theirs was a crap songwriter.
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Lavenders green dilly dilly etc..

"The season of the button"

"I need a shower, take a nap, meet you in the bar we must have a rap"

Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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RUSH
Alien Shore "You and I, we are strangers by one chromosome/Slave to the hormone, body and soul.."
I Think I'm Going Bald "I think I'm going bald..."

YES
Arriving UFO - "Put your feet on the earth it is green"

KING CRIMSON
Two Hands -  "They fit together like two hands"
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Flower Kings:

"Here she comes again, smiling like a horse"
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Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto. . .Wacko
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Originally posted by VanVanVan VanVanVan wrote:

"A seasoned witch could call you from the depths of your disgrace/ and rearrange your liver to the solid mental grace." I realize that Yes always went for the sound more than the meaning, but that's just horrible sounding.


Thats one of my fav lines in prog! Smile

Close to the Edge (title track) have amazing lyrics!


Edited by Anirml - October 04 2010 at 14:37
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Originally posted by Lozlan Lozlan wrote:

Oh, this one's easy.

I am a def con of angora goats / Warning you all who pass this mote. (Cavalettas, The Mars Volta).

I tell ya, that Ouiji board of theirs was a crap songwriter.
That's not nearly as bad as "I am a kiosk in the temporal lobe of Rosalyn Carter", which is one of the dumbest things anybody has ever said. It also pisses me off when he mispronounces sepulcher. I absolutely cannot believe nobody said anything to him about that before the album was pressed.
 
I've always hated "I'm so far out I'm too far in" on Lighthouse Keepers and "fishes can't fly, neither can I" on Killer. Also, Childlike Faith in Childhood's End is a bit silly. Peter Hammill is a pretty good lyricist, but he really bombed on a couple of them.
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Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:

Originally posted by Lozlan Lozlan wrote:

Oh, this one's easy.

I am a def con of angora goats / Warning you all who pass this mote. (Cavalettas, The Mars Volta).

I tell ya, that Ouiji board of theirs was a crap songwriter.
That's not nearly as bad as "I am a kiosk in the temporal lobe of Rosalyn Carter", which is one of the dumbest things anybody has ever said. It also pisses me off when he mispronounces sepulcher. I absolutely cannot believe nobody said anything to him about that before the album was pressed.
 
I've always hated "I'm so far out I'm too far in" on Lighthouse Keepers and "fishes can't fly, neither can I" on Killer. Also, Childlike Faith in Childhood's End is a bit silly. Peter Hammill is a pretty good lyricist, but he really bombed on a couple of them.


Gah.  I forgot about that monstrosity.  Heap on some Braille liquor and some Toltec bones, and we have the undisputed masters of terrible prog rock lyricism.
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Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:

Lavenders green dilly dilly etc...

Give that "Lavender blue" is originally a 17th Century children's song, those lyrics fit perfectly with the concept.

Some lyrics I dislike:

"Just another sad old man, all alone and dying of cancer"
(Pink Floyd - Dogs)

"Naminanu, naminanu, naminanu, naminanu..."
(Genesis - Naminanu. Makes "Whodunnit?" almost seem like a work of genius.)

"Focus yourself on the love you own mankind. Communication again"
(Focus - Focus (Vocal). No wonder they became an instrumental band).
Future prosperity lies in the way you heal the world with love
(Introitus - The hand that feeds you)
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Originally posted by EnderEd EnderEd wrote:

I eat at Chez Nous Confused


I always hated that one........arghhhhhh!
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How about,

Can you believe God makes you breath
How did he lose 6 million Jews.


Arggghhhhhhhh bloomin' Lake.............
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Originally posted by EnderEd EnderEd wrote:

someone get me a ladder


There can be few worse than this........
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

And the winner of the 'how many clichés can you get into one verse?' competition goes to...
 
 
"So if you want my address it's number one at the end of the bar
Where I sit with the broken angels clutching at straws and nursing our scars.
Blame it on me, blame it on me
Sugar mice in the rain
Your daddy took a raincheck"
 
HEY! I actually like those lyrics! They were like, very significant for me when I first heard them. Mind you, I was twelve and english is my second language, but even so. Lumping them with Jon Andersons gibberish and Love Beach's offensively stupid content is very unfair to poor mr Fish.
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Originally posted by Ruby900 Ruby900 wrote:

How about,

Can you believe God makes you breath
How did he lose 6 million Jews.


Arggghhhhhhhh bloomin' Lake.............



Agreed. I love the song but the lyrics make me cringe...
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Originally posted by JemJem714 JemJem714 wrote:

Originally posted by Ruby900 Ruby900 wrote:

How about,

Can you believe God makes you breath
How did he lose 6 million Jews.


Arggghhhhhhhh bloomin' Lake.............



Agreed. I love the song but the lyrics make me cringe...

I think they're great.
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Zappa probably takes the cake:

"Give me your dirty love like a pink donation to the dragon in your dreams"

"No one could ever understand our bizarre relationship because that was your intellectual frigid housekeeper"

"The cheese I have for you, my dear is real and very new"

et cetera...
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I believe 'eating mustard' might have the same meaning as 'eating humble pie' 
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Originally posted by Anthony Anthony wrote:


Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:

Lavenders green dilly dilly etc...

Give that "Lavender blue" is originally a 17th Century children's song, those lyrics fit perfectly with the concept.
Some lyrics I dislike:
"Just another sad old man, all alone and dying of cancer"
(Pink Floyd - Dogs)
"Naminanu, naminanu, naminanu, naminanu..."
(Genesis - Naminanu. Makes "Whodunnit?" almost seem like a work of genius.)
"Focus yourself on the love you own mankind. Communication again"
(Focus - Focus (Vocal). No wonder they became an instrumental band).


Oh, but what about the Focus song "I Need a Bathroom", from Mother Focus; all allong the song it just repeats that very line. I seriously can't think of something worse.
By the way, even though I do like Dream Theater's "Black Clouds and Silver Linings", they got some really terribles lines in "A Nightmare to Remember" and "Count of Tuscany" (which are, by the way, my favourite songs from the album).
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Originally posted by Moogtron III Moogtron III wrote:

"Tonight tonight tonight, we're gonna make it right"  (Tonight, Tonight, Tonight by Genesis)
 

Musically, it is quite a nice song, I must say, but those horrible lyrics Pinch .


Hey, but elsewhere in the same song it says something like "I'm going up, going up like a Monkey", which is by far worse. What the hell were they thinking about. (I won't ask the same about Focus's song, because I think it was very obvious what they were thinking about).
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Originally posted by The Sleepwalker The Sleepwalker wrote:

SW has writen plenty of them, but these are among his most memorable:

Originally posted by Russia On Ice Russia On Ice wrote:

You think I deserve this
You said I was stupid
Really? You pick that over the plethora of atrocious lyrics present on the Fear Of A Blank Planet album?
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