Poll: What are the worst lyrics you've ever heard?

[clairedelune]

Martin Luther King rebelled for equal rights. The Americans rebelled for independence. The protestants rebelled for religious freedom. The French rebelled in WWII for their beloved country. Gays rebel for the right to marry. I myself would rebel for freedom. What exactly does RATM rebel for? The only thing I can guess is that either they rebel just to rebel or their parents wouldn't let them go out on Saturday night, so they are just angry. I will willingly change my mind if you can offer up a good reason why they rebel.

I think you would change your mind if you read up on Zach de la Rocha's life.

Spoiler: Wikipedia excerpt

De la Rocha's father Roberto "Beto" de la Rocha, a muralist and member of Los Four, the first Chicano art collective to be exhibited at a museum (LACMA, 1973), played an integral part in his son's cultural upbringing. He also saw the hardships of his Sinaloan grandfather ? a revolutionary who fought in the Mexican Revolution and an agricultural laborer in the US, reflected in the struggles of the Zapatistas (also known as EZLN).[1]
When de la Rocha was a year old, his parents separated. He and his German-Irish mother, Olivia de la Rocha, moved from East Los Angeles to Irvine, California, where she attended the University of California and earned a Ph.D. in Anthropology. De La Rocha described Irvine as "one of the most racist cities imaginable. If you were a Mexican in Irvine, you were there because you had a broom or a hammer in your hand."[2]
De La Rocha's father, Beto, suffered a nervous breakdown and took his religious ideals to extremes. He destroyed his own art and when Zack visited him on the weekends, he was forced to fast, sit in a room with the curtains closed and the door locked and help destroy his father's paintings. Not long after, Olivia stopped the visits.[3]

 

[BubbaJeff]

I kinda take it for granted that most pop songs aren't gonna have much depth to them lyric-wise; so they don't really count.

BUT I have to say my pet hate in this area is the ridiculous amount of faux-political bollocks that so many bands churn out without even seeming to understand the words, let alone what they're supposed to be angry about.

 

[ejb626]

ALL Hip Hop these days I HATE THOSE DAMN SONGS my PE class in Middle School played a lot these horrible lyrics include

Soulja Boy for obvious reasons what the hell if he even talking about?

"apple bottom jean boots with the fur" you know where that one goes right? I don't know the artise but the song is terrible

Another one whoose artist I don't know but if I did I would kill him for even daring to think that humanity was dumb enough to consider it music get ready

"baby where'd yo get yo' body from tell me where'd you get yo' body from, I got it from ma' mama" so on and so forth for FIVE MINUTES the only break if when the guy decides to think super hard about how she can't possibly be hot if her mama's not or something thats just as annoying

Oh yes and "They call me (stream of names) thats not my name.."
God why is it so repetitive

 

[Cody211282]

Anything by Hawthorne Heights or Greenday

 

[caz105]

(See: 99% of all Rap/Country music ever made.)

How can you hate the wurzels?

 

[funguy2121]

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You had a good thing going there when you made up your own funny name for them. Instead of getting all defensive why don't you have a bit of fun at my expense as well? I've owned 3 of their albums and can't recall a song without meaning. Can you google any examples? KRS-One is, in my opinion, one of the pioneers of hip-hop and one of the best, but on occasion some of his lyrics were cheesy beyond belief. I personally love a great many Green Day lyrics and I love Biz Markee's music, but in this very thread some of their worst material was mocked. Why not present some of their cheesier stuff, or the stuff that, as you claim, has no meaning?

By the way, I google'd "Rage Against the Machine's worst lyrics" and the first link was to this page.

 

[funguy2121]

I think you would change your mind if you read up on Zach de la Rocha's life.

Marry me.

 

[Kingemoney]

I cringe every time I hear "Love is a four-letter word, and never spoken here. Love is a four-letter word, here in this prison," from The Day That Never Comes by Metallica. I love Metallica, but yuck.

 

[Unstoppable Wall]

Well personally I think Lil' Wayne has it covered, I'm not sure of the song title but the lyrics proudly proclaim "I got ten bathrooms I can shit all day!"...need I really say more? case closed.

Peace,War,Love,Hate,Chaos,and Greed
-Unstoppable Wall

 

[SonicKoala]

"You're a sacrificial suicide/like a dog that's been sodomized"
- East Jesus Nowhere, Green Day

Seriously, what the fuck? Is that suppose to be deep? Could he not think of a better rhyme than suicide/sodomized? Just plain awful...

 

[Trotgar]

DragonForce's lyrics are bad. They are almost always just random lines thrown into a pile.

I think DragonForce lyrics are excellent just for that reason. They're gloriously over the top and X-TREME to such a level that they must be parody. Think of them as Warhammer 40K, but in music form.

Through damnation we rise, sign of the times
Master of bleeding eyes

As the red day is dawning and the lightning cracks the sky
They'll raise their hands to the heavens above with resentment to their eyes
Running back through the mid morning light there's a burning in my heart
We're banished from a time in a fallen land to a life beyond the stars

I'm struggling just to read that with a straight face. DragonForce write better comedy-music than Weird Al. There's no way they're being serious.

They can't be.

Please tell me they aren't.

Well, the lyrics are funny, but they could sometimes be better (Well, I think some of their songs do have better lyrics) but some of "Heroes of Our Time" for example of the randomness of the lines:

Lost in a dream, finally it seems,
Emptiness and everlasting madness,
See the sadness grow, watching as we know,
Long before our journey for the world,
Call for us, the power in all of us,
So far beyond the blackened sky tonight...
Glorious, forever more in us,
We are victorious, and so alive.

[Chorus]
We'll all find our sacrifice tomorrow,
Our journey on towards a brighter day,
Silent tears we left behind, still so far away,
Across the endless sands,
Through the fields of our despair,
Free for all eternity, we stand, yeah,
Rise above the universe tonight,
Starchaser

Well, okay, this is probably one of Dragonforce's randomest lyrics, but there's only a few things keeping this together, like "we" and in the chorus the universe and stuff.

I don't listen to Dragonforce that much, but I don't dislike them either, I think they have some good songs.


And no. They can't be serious.

Just. No.

Please.

EDIT: Could anyone give a hint, how can I hide the lyrics?

 

[Wintermoot]

Chaperone these are the lyrics: Cahperone Chaperone huhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuh

 

[Erja_Perttu]

Anything by Lady Gaga deserves a mention as well.

Ra, ra, um ra-ra, ruma (insert noises here) Ga Ga Oh Lala (insert more noises here)

Yes, pure lyrical genius, right there.

 

[ScarlettRage]

anything that has to do with disney....
Jonas brothers the works...

 

[MysticnFm]

Anything Lada Gaga writes. It is just all so horrible...

 

[gartoo]

"If I was a sculpture,
but then again, no"
From Elton John's Your Song

 

[Ophiuchus]

The worst lyrics ever?

"Number nine. Number nine. Number nine. Number nine. Number nine. etc..."

Doesn't count, words thrown in as part of a sound collage can't really be called lyrics by any stretch of the imagination.

I won't pick on obvious targets because I don't care about them, so an example of terrible lyrics from a band I love:

...actually I can't think of a specific song, but Weezer. Dear lord, Weezer. I love them to death but the amount of nonsense they come out with is just astonishing sometimes.

 

[timmytom1]

Pretty much anything by exodus i love their technical skill on the instruments , but "i`m not a patriot,i`m just a hateriot" is terrible they also loose points for using scar spangled banner twice (listen to aformentioned song and then riot act and you`ll see what i mean ,still kick ass though)

 

[Jaqen Hghar]

my hump, my hump my hump my hump my hump, my lovely lil' lumps

OR

Oh I wish I was a punk rockerrrr with flowers in my hair
(one stop towards that dream would be stop singing shitty pop songs)

This is pretty awesome though [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRmYfVCH2UA]
It shows how awful the lyrics are while making fun of it in the best way possible.

OT: Every pop song out these days. There aren't any thought behind the lyrics, there is no substance to them and the ones singing are a dime a dozen (did I use that right?)
There is a reason why every band I listen to have a vocalist with a very distinct voice.

 

[Mr.Black]

The black eyed peas boom boom pow or that tonight gonna be a good night song i`m sorry but that`s just plain shit

http://www.cracked.com/video_17618_black-eyed-peas-have-officially-written-worst-song-ever.html

That says everything I wanted to say.

This.