Best/Worst Lyrics of All Time

Tell me what your favorite and least favorite lyrics are, from any time period, any genre, etc. Don't hold back.

My favorite, just to get the ball rolling is as follows......



Where they at, where they at?

 

Roxy Music's "Mother of Pearl" has the most beautiful and profound lyrics in the history of music.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKMMTp_qWNY"]YouTube - Roxy Music - "Mother of Pearl"

 

I've never heard that before I'll be sure to check t out.

 

I love Simon and Garfunkel lyrics. This is from Bookends.

Time it was, and what a time it was, it was
A time of innocence, a time of confidences
Long ago, it must be, I have a photograph
Preserve your memories, they're all that's left you

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Money can't buy back
Your youth when you're old
Or a friend when you're lonely
Or a love that's grown cold

The wealthiest person
Is a pauper at times
Compared to the man
With a satisfied mind

 

Hope there's someone
Who'll take care of me
When I die, will I go

Hope there's someone
Who'll set my heart free
Nice to hold when I'm tired

There's a ghost on the horizon
When I go to bed
How can I fall asleep at night
How will I rest my head

Oh I'm scared of the middle place
Between light and nowhere
I don't want to be the one
Left in there, left in there

There's a man on the horizon
Wish that I'd go to bed
If I fall to his feet tonight
Will allow rest my head

So here's hoping I will not drown
Or paralyze in light
And godsend I don't want to go
To the seal's watershed

Hope there's someone
Who'll take care of me
When I die, Will I go

Hope there's someone
Who'll set my heart free
Nice to hold when I'm tired

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AlZnPZyHls&feature=related"]YouTube- Antony and the Johnsons - Hope There's Someone

 

"Positions himself in space
And looks down on such slight a thing
Swears he'll make what he can of this
Because one day out there we will all be dead
So leave your imprint upon
All the atoms you press against
All the people you press against
Because one day out there we will all be
Leave your imprint upon
Every mouth that you press against
Every word that you press against
It's okay because one day we will be dead"
-From "Hands" by Tunng.

The worst lyrics in the world are without a doubt these:

"Teenage dreams in a teenage circus
Running around like a clown on purpose"

By Mika

 

Do you realize...that you have the most beautiful face?
Do you realize...we're floating in space?
Do you realize...that happiness makes you cry?
Do you realize...that everyone you know someday will die....

And instead of saying all of your goodbyes - let them know
You realize that life goes fast
It's hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun don'-go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round
-The Flaming Lips


Also nice, if a bit corny. They pop into my head from time to time.

 

"The world is just illusion trying to change you"

"a childhood imagination,has been my salvation"

 

I'm not so sure about that.....

Rah-rah-ah-ah-ah
Roma, Roma-ma
GaGa, ooh la la
Want your bad romance

Rah-rah-ah-ah-ah
Roma, Roma-ma
GaGa, ooh la la
Want your bad romance

Walk, walk fashion baby
Work it, move that bitch crazy
Walk walk fashion baby
Work it, move that bitch crazy

Walk, walk fashion baby
Work it, move that bitch crazy
Walk walk passion baby
Work it, I'm a free bitch baby

:-/

 

^^Winner for worst

 

Lovely stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6Xz20S880I"]YouTube - IAMX - Mercy

Mercy...
When I melt in the kiss by the words and the whispers you sing me
Mercy...
And I'm frail in the kill by submission and will that you bring me
Mercy...
When I'm nothing but ego, you slap me to let go and sleep free
Now I sleep free

You're my toybox
You're my memories
When I smell your skin you just make my whole world weep
I'm at your feet
I'm at your feet

Mercy...
when the grey turns to black and the wave's on my back, you make me smile
Mercy...
Is the trauma no martyr you crush into pleasure and downtown
Mercy...
It's the shining of you that just breaks me in two like a lifeline
You're my lifeline

I'm the idiot to your poetry
When you burn you bleach
Everything and all I need
Is at your feet
Is at your feet

Mercy...
Are the licks and the lips of temptation, just tricks, not for playing?
Mercy...
Are you the camera suck, gun slut to headphone fuck holes in my being
Mercy...
Are you everything which put the sex into bitch, or just faking?
Do you fake it?

So I celebrate your chemistry
If you bond with me
I could make your whole world sweet
I'm on my knees
I'm on my knees

 

Wow, those are some awesome lyrics. I had hoped that this thread would make people aware of wonderful songs and lyrics that we/they are unfamiliar with. I know it is true with me so far. And as a side note, I believe the Gaga lyrics are by far the worst I've ever seen, but I would love to see what could possibly be worse.

 

"i'm as serious as cancer when I say rhythm is a dancer???"

 

Alice in Chains - Nutshell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_GPxe91hWE"]nutshell




We chase misprinted lies
We face the path of time
And yet I fight
And yet I fight
This battle all alone
No one to cry to
No place to call home

Oooh...Oooh...
Oooh...Oooh...

My gift of self is raped
My privacy is raked
And yet I find
And yet I find
Repeating in my head
If I can't be my own
I'd feel better dead

Oooh...Oooh...
Oooh...Oooh...

 

I was blissfully unaware

 

I apologize for ruining your innocence.
Also, you've mentioned Mika before and it reminded me of this:

Big girl you are beautiful

Walks in to the room
Feels like a big balloon
I said, 'Hey girls you are beautiful'
Diet coke and a pizza please
Diet coke I'm on my knees
Screaming 'Big girl you are beautiful'

You take your skinny girls
Feel like I'm gonna die
'Cause a real woman
Needs a real man here's why

You take your girl
And multiply her by four
Now a whole lot of woman
Needs a whole lot more

Get yourself to the Butterfly Lounge
Find yourself a big lady
Big boy come on around
And they'll be calling you baby

No need to fantasize
Since I was in my braces
A watering hole
With the girls around
And curves in all the right places

Big girls you are beautiful
Big girls you are beautiful
Big girls you are beautiful
Big girls you are beautiful




Why do I even know these things....

 

dear god these "worst" lyrics are really awful.

heres my best:
My love she speaks like silence
Without ideals or violence
She doesn’t have to say she’s faithful
Yet she’s true, like ice, like fire
People carry roses
Make promises by the hours
My love she laughs like the flowers
Valentines can’t buy her

In the dime stores and bus stations
People talk of situations
Read books, repeat quotations
Draw conclusions on the wall
Some speak of the future
My love she speaks softly
She knows there’s no success like failure
And that failure’s no success at all

The cloak and dagger dangles
Madams light the candles
In ceremonies of the horsemen
Even the pawn must hold a grudge
Statues made of matchsticks
Crumble into one another
My love winks, she does not bother
She knows too much to argue or to judge

The bridge at midnight trembles
The country doctor rambles
Bankers’ nieces seek perfection
Expecting all the gifts that wise men bring
The wind howls like a hammer
The night blows cold and rainy
My love she’s like some raven
At my window with a broken wing

love minus zero/no limit by bob dylan.

and worst:

I will be your father figure
put your tiny hand in mine
i will be your preacher teacher
anything you have in mind
i will be your father figure
i have had enough of crime
i will be the one who loves you
until the end of time

....what the fuck, george michael????

 

That Purple Pills song

"You see me stepping on these leprechauns?
It gotta be acid cause the X is gone
Ya I took them all dog with some parmesan
And I think my arm is gone"

That comes to mind as the dumbest lyric ever

I took a range of drugs with some parmesan?

And in the same song he has a go at Vanilla Ice trying to rap again???