Worst couplet in a lyric by respected artiste(s)

[AndyM]

Why liver????? Plenty of less preposterous words would scan.

I met Jon Anderson's daughter once. She was at Roedean. So there's a lot of money in hippiefied gabble!

[Adam Blake]

Well as I've already confessed, I was a teenage Yes fan and I remember thinking even then that the lyrics didn't make any sense but I thought that they must be deep and that I would come to understand them in the fullness of time. I suspect many people felt this way.

[Adam Blake]

Here, as an antidote, how great is this?

"Generals gathered in their masses
Just like witches at Black Masses"

[AndyM]

Here, as an antidote, how great is this?

"Generals gathered in their masses
Just like witches at Black Masses"

pithy, direkt, a triumf.

[Hugh Weldon]

"My love don't give me presents/I know that she's no peasant"

?

[Adam Blake]

"My love don't give me presents/I know that she's no peasant"?

Oooh, that's terrible isn't it? Lennon was profoundly embarrassed by those (as well he might have been). Offering by way of excuse that the song was largely written in the studio as the session progressed ("that's why the words are so crappy" - he explained to an alarmed Brian Matthews on a BBC radio broadcast, back in the days when Fab Moptop Mersey Marvels weren't supposed to say words like "crappy" on live radio.)

[Barry K]

slowly walking down the hall,
faster than a cannonball...
aaaaaaagh!

Oh sorry youre after respected artists

[allears]

Yes, that ^ is truly terrible ! I wonder what respected artist it is by ?

Here are some more sub-prime lyrics :-
> From BoneyM :-
Ra Ra Rasputine
Leader of the Russian dream

> After the big orchestral build up at the beginning of Days Of Future Passed, The Moody Blues could only come up with this rather forced rhyme to kick off a great album :-
Dawn is a feeling
A beautiful ceiling

> Not much better is Lou Reed`s stab at starting an album by starting a day:-
Sunday morning, praise the dawning
He even seemed to think the line was good enough to be worth a second run-through later in the same stanza:-
Early dawning, Sunday morning

So far, though, it looks like "Horse With No Name" is winning the worst-ever lyrics contest - and no-one has yet mentioned the line about "The heat was hot..."

[will vine]

Eleanor, Gee I think you're swell / And you really do me well.
You're my pride and joy........etcetera!
I think that's how it goes.

Take issue with Mr. Hall on the George Michael lines. I think "Guilty feet have got no rhythm" really rather good.

I have a feeling we may have knocked on the door of George Harrison in this context before and, as with Jon Anderson, we could be here a good while but - Ding Dong!

[john poole]

You're my pride and joy........etcetera

That's a great line!

[AndyM]

You're my pride and joy........etcetera

That's a great line!

I think I recall reading that 'Eleanor' was written as a send-up of soppy romantic songs ("I really think you're groovy / Let's go out to a movie" suggests this!) but I've always thought it works both as spoof and a joyous celebration of the emotions it purports to parody. One of the many reasons it's so great.

[Adam Blake]

"I'd even give up a month's supply of chewing tobaccy,
Just to be known as Mrs Neil Sedakky"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RECh8jR3DJI

[matt m]

"everyone's rhymin' like it's a commercial
acting like life is a big commercial"
The Beastie Boys, rhyming the word "commercial" with, um, "commercial"

A related point, when I first heard Ewan MacColl's "Sweet Thames Flow Softly", I always thought this was particularly rubbish:

"I met my girl at Woolwich Pier
Beneath the big cranes standing
And oh, the love I felt for her
It passed all understanding"

Namely, they rhyming of "standing" with "under-standing". Is there a technical term for this particular type of crap rhyme?

[Rob Hall]

Maybe not a greatly respected artiste, but I've just heard Barry McGuire's 'Eve of Destruction' which features the lines: " My blood's so mad, feels like coagulatin'/An' I'm sitting here, just contemplatin' "