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The Worst Lyrics of All Time

'I feel real phoney when my name is Bill... or was that Phil' and more

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(Newser) – Great music can inspire, but even the greats have thought up some atrocious lyrics. NME mines these gems:

  • "What else could I say? Everyone is gay." (Nirvana, All Apologies)
  • "I met a girl. She asked me my name. I told her what it was." (Razorlight, Somewhere Else)
  • "Give me some milk—or else go home." (Bob Dylan, Ballad of a Thin Man)
  • "Can't forget to stay real. To me it's like breathing." (Jennifer Lopez, Jenny From The Block)

  • "I fell in love with a slit-eyed lady." (Rod Stewart, Every Picture Tells a Story)
  • "The sea was very rough, it made me feel sick. But I like that kind of stuff, it beats arithmetic." (New Order, Slow Jam)
  • "Girl you look just like my car. I wanna wax it." (R. Kelly, You Remind Me of Something)
  • "Oh babe, I wanna put my log in your fireplace." (Kiss, Burn Bitch Burn).
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'Can't forget to stay real. To me it's like breathing,' Jennifer Lopez says in 'Jenny From The Block.'
'Can't forget to stay real. To me it's like breathing,' Jennifer Lopez says in 'Jenny From The Block.'   (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)
'I can see that you're fifteen years old. No I don't want your ID,' The Rolling Stones bravely penned in 'Stray Cat Blues.'
'I can see that you're fifteen years old. No I don't want your ID,' The Rolling Stones bravely penned in 'Stray Cat Blues.'   (AP Photo/Nathan Strange, file)
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I know a mouse and he hasn't got a house. I don't know why, I call him Gerald.
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drgonzo12321
Jun 3, 09 3:02 PM CDT
"I know a mouse and he hasn't got a house. I don't know why, I call him Gerald." Wow, that is just awful. Reply
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NutsInNY
Jun 3, 09 3:10 PM CDT
Some are stupid, some are classic, all are out of context... But the list is rubbish because not a single Paul McCartney or Paul Simon lyric is mentioned... and those 2 guys have written some of the most nonsensical gibberish of all time. (Although I've been known to like their work otherwise.) Reply
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Collusive
Jun 3, 09 7:51 PM CDT
don't forget chris martin.
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northeast
Jun 4, 09 10:33 AM CDT
The whole point of "give me some milk or else go home" is to piss off and confuse Dylan's critics...if you're going to pick out that line, you might as well admit that you don't understand the entire song; the rest is equally indecipherable.
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NewserHound
Jun 3, 09 3:33 PM CDT
Hmm.. I think an entire article could be written about the hair bands of the 80s. Reply
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