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A Girls Against Boys fan is accustomed to putting up with some retarded verses coming out of the speakers now and then. But while listening to You Can't Fight... for the first time today, I was unprepared for this:

My BFF
My best friends forev
My BFF
My best friends forev

It's great to be a rock and roll star
It's great to be a rock and roll star
It's great to be a rock and roll star
No matter where you are


It looks like it was written for Hilary Duff. But it's kind of amusing sung in Scott McCloud's voice.

While I'm at it, in case anyone doesn't know, this band has a song called "TheKindaMzkYouLike."

Guthrie wrote:I recall the Steely Dan song "Kid Charlemagne." I actually like the lyrics in this song, however they contain this gem...(highlighted below). I don't think it's a re-post, though I didn't really look through the early pages.

IS THERE GAS IN THE CAR?
YES, THERE'S GAS IN THE CAR

one of my favourite parts in any steely dan song. that part in particular is fantastic.

millions wrote:All of the lyrics on Rancid's "Out Come The Wolves" are pretty awful to my taste.

You are mad.

Yes, Lars Fredriksen is not a lyrical genius, and it would be my guess that he's the author of She's Automatic. Bland and uninteresting, but it does work fairly well with the music.

Some of Tim Armstrong's lyrics are amazing. Consider the following passage from The 11th Hour on said album:

It's a wounded dove
And the hawks are above
Blood splattered on a reel-to-reel

Well done, Lint!

Time Bomb on the other hand... little more than a nursery rhyme.

A Girls Against Boys fan is accustomed to putting up with some retarded verses coming out of the speakers now and then. But while listening to You Can't Fight... for the first time today, I was unprepared for this:

My BFF
My best friends forev
My BFF
My best friends forev

It's great to be a rock and roll star
It's great to be a rock and roll star
It's great to be a rock and roll star
No matter where you are

I couldn't agree more. Even songs I like a lot sound like the lyrics were written during extended glue sniffing sessions.

Rockets are Red

Why don't you go make yourself
Yeah, why don't I?
There's something missing

Hey Mr. Tough
Mr. Baby
Anyway you want it
(Make it stick)

Like candy
This baby's bone dry
Some say...

Shit just don't arrive
Some things just don't arrive
Some hits just don't arrive
(Yeah, here we go)

'Cause rockets are red
Rockets are red
Babies are blue

How do you feel?
And how do you feel?
What kind of question is that?

Every goddamn time
It's the same
Every goddamn time

At the top we spin
It don't mean nothing
At the top we spin
(Just to feel a lil' bit more alive)

What to expect
Something different?
What do you expect

Where's all the babies gone?
Have a look she says
"I'm not crazy
(but I'm trying)"

Could there be a more disjointed grouping of words and sentence fragments?

JMoffitt wrote:

A Girls Against Boys fan is accustomed to putting up with some retarded verses coming out of the speakers now and then. But while listening to You Can't Fight... for the first time today, I was unprepared for this:

My BFF
My best friends forev
My BFF
My best friends forev

It's great to be a rock and roll star
It's great to be a rock and roll star
It's great to be a rock and roll star
No matter where you are

I couldn't agree more. Even songs I like a lot sound like the lyrics were written during extended glue sniffing sessions.

Don't be sexplayer hatin'

Why have Weezer not been mentioned?


I'm me
Me be
Goddamn
I am
I can
Sing and
Hear me
Know me

If you want to destroy my sweater
Hold this thread as I walk away


Oh no
It go
It gone
Bye-bye
Who I
I think
I sink
And I die

If you want to destroy my sweater
Hold this thread as I walk away
Watch me unravel, I'll soon be naked
Lying on the floor (lying on the floor)
I've come undone

If you want to destroy my sweater
Hold this thread as I walk away (as I walk away)
Watch me unravel, I'll soon be naked
Lying on the floor (lying on the floor)
I've come undone

I don't want to destroy your tank-top
Let's be friends and just walk away
It's good to see you lying there in your Superman skivvies
Lying on the floor (lying on the floor)
I've come undone

and...one of my least favourite songs ever....

Where I come from isn't all that great
My automobile is a piece of crap
My fashion sense is a little whack
And my friends are just as screwy as me

I didn't go to boarding schools
Preppy girls never looked at me
Why should they I ain't nobody
Got nothing in my pocket

[Chorus]
Beverly Hills - That's where I want to be! (Gimme Gimme)
Living in Beverly Hills...
Beverly Hills - Rolling like a celebrity! (Gimme Gimme)
Living in Beverly Hills...

Look at all those movie stars
They're all so beautiful and clean
When the housemaids scrub the floors
They get the spaces in between

I wanna live a life like that
I wanna be just like a king
Take my picture by the pool
Cause I'm the next big thing!

[Chorus]

[Bridge]
The truth is...I don't stand a chance
Its something that you're born into...
And I just don't belong...

No I don't - I'm just a no class, beat down fool
And I will always be that way
I might as well enjoy my life
And watch the stars play

i just listened to a song called "No air conditioners in hell".

That is REALLY stupid, and even dumber when sung.

Dave Matthews - Gravedigger:

Gravedigger


Cyrus Jones 1810 to 1913

Made his great grandchildren believe
You could live to a hundred and three
A hundred and three is forever when you're just a little kid
So Cyrus Jones lived forever

Gravedigger
When you dig my grave
Could you make it shallow
So that I can feel the rain
Gravedigger

Muriel Stonewall
1903 to 1954
She lost both of her babies in the second great war
Now you should never have to watch
Your only children lowered in the ground
I mean you should never have to bury your own babies

Gravedigger
When you dig my grave
Could you make it shallow
So that I can feel the rain
Gravedigger

Ring around the rosey
Pocket full of posey
Ashes to ashes
We all fall down

Gravedigger
When you dig my grave
Could you make it shallow
So that I can feel the rain
Gravedigger

Little Mikey Carson 67 to 75
He rode his
Bike like the devil until the day he died
When he grows up he wants to be Mr. Vertigo on the flying trapeze
Ohhh, 1940 to 1992

Gravedigger
When you dig my grave
Could you make it shallow
So that I can feel the rain

Gravedigger
When you dig my grave
Could you make it shallow
So that I can feel the rain
Feel the rain
I can feel the rain
Gravedigger

Gravedigger




Scaaaa-wy.