Bad Lyrics

[Playbilly]

I have always liked that NYC lyric ended on "tough". People who hate New York say it's big, loud and tough. Here, it's the city's virtues. "Proud" would be WRONG.

[oliviacecilia]

I hate to jump on the William Finn bandwagon because I do love his work, but in "the I love you song", I always thought 'we always knew you were a champion, your sadness filled my room, dear if you should feel my gloom blame it on me" was a bizarre and unclear phrase; perhaps it's going over my head somehow.

[GavestonPS]

oliva, I love Finn, but I wrote a few pages back that he tends to let his rhyming lead him by the nose through a lyric. The lines you quote seem like an example.

[SporkGoddess]

The "depression runs in our family" line, too.

Oh, and "God, we love the way you grew" just sounds weird.

[HistoryBoy2]

I love 'Blame it on your daddily and mammily / Cause depression runs in our family' is incredibly contrived and absolutely wonderful.

[CATSNYrevival]

Has everyone seen this video? Apparently "la, a note to follow so" is lyricism at its worst.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8zD0qFvvMs

[After Eight]

Just watched this video.

What an obnoxious idiot. What a jerk.

And stupid, too.

Doesn't know that lyricsm is not the same as lyric-writing.

Hey kid, don't try to use big words you don't know. In fact don't use small words either- especially the four letter ones.

Or better yet, do us all a favor and just shut up altogether.

I pity his parents.

And his teachers even more!

And kid, you don't know every lyric ever written, so you can't comment on any being the worst of all time.

And if you ever heard "Home on the Range," you would know that the word "deer" appears in that song.

I think I need a cup of tea with jam and bread as an antidote to this clod.

[Wynbish]

Whatever happened to Chi Chi?

[jasonf]

Wait, the Do-Re-Mi video wasn't a satire? I thought it was a lame attempt at humor...

[After Eight]

^

Yes, it was.

Pathetically lame.

But to get back on topic, here's a lame lyric I heard while watching the ART Pippin, from "Simple Joys":

"Wouldn't you rather be a left-handed flea"

A left-handed flea? Whaaaa?