Post a Song You Love Even Though You Admit the Lyrics Suck.

I'll say it. Yesterday by the Beatles is a top song of all rock history and I love it, but let's face it, It was 6th grade poetry. I can't even imagine ryhming with "day" in so many way. s

I'll take my lumps.
 
I'll say it. Yesterday by the Beatles is a top song of all rock history and I love it, but let's face it, It was 6th grade poetry. I can't even imagine ryhming with "day" in so many way. s

I'll take my lumps.
I disagree. But, I’ve disagreed with other posts in this thread.

Yesterday does not have the best, deepest Beatles lyrics. They’re simple and uncomplicated. But, they work and fit the song …for me.

Isn’t that how music works? It’s about personal taste and perspective. It’s not simple accounting math. Sometimes, one person’s love is another person’s hate.
 
I disagree. But, I’ve disagreed with other posts in this thread.

Yesterday does not have the best, deepest Beatles lyrics. They’re simple and uncomplicated. But, they work and fit the song …for me.

Isn’t that how music works? It’s about personal taste and perspective. It’s not simple accounting math. Sometimes, one person’s love is another person’s hate.
Absolutely. we are alowed to disagree. God bless!
 
It’s both sublime and idiotic—which is the heart of all pop songwriting.
This. As with life itself, and I guess when it works they are two sides of the same coin.

Unrelated as such, "I'm in Love with My Car" by Queen is exceptionally lame, if you ask me, and there are a lot things I shouldn't like about that song, but I love it, no guilty pleasure, especially the backing vocals:



The machine of a dream
Such a clean machine
With the pistons a-pumpin'
And the hubcaps all gleam

When I'm holding your wheel
All I hear is your gear
With my hand on your grease gun
It's like a disease son

I'm in love with my car
Gotta feel for my automobile
Get a grip on my boy racer rollbar
Such a thrill when your radials squeal

Told my girl I have to forget her
Rather buy me a new carburettor
So she made tracks sayin' this is the end now
Cars don't talk back they're just four-wheeled friends now

When I'm holding your wheel
All I hear is your gear
When I'm cruisin' in overdrive
Don't have to listen to no run-of-the-mill talk jive

I'm in love with my car
(Ooh, I'm in love with my car)
Gotta feel for my automobile
I'm in love with my car
(Ooh, I'm in love with my car)
String-back gloves in my automolove!
 
I can't even begin a list, so many bad lyrics in songs.

Fortunately for me, if I like the music, I'm generally good. That said, I'm not listening to music that is hateful and denigrating. Music for and by bigots has no need to exist.
 
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Speaking of Dinosaur Jr...


[Instrumental Intro]

[Chorus]
I'm waiting, please come by
I've got the guts now
To meet your eye
Those guts are killing
But I can't stop now
I gotta connect with you, girl
Before I forget how
Please, wanna hang around?
You've got to wonder
What it is we found

[Instrumental Break]

[Chorus]
I'm waiting, please come by
I've got the guts now
To meet your eye
Those guts are killing
But I can't stop now
Gotta connect with you, girl
Before I forget how
Please, wanna hang around?
You've got to wonder
What it is we found
 


Mama's got a squeeze box
She wears on her chest
And when daddy comes home
He never gets no rest
'Cause she's playing all night
And the music's all right
Mama's got a squeeze box
Daddy never sleeps at night

Well the kids don't eat
And the dog can't sleep
There's no escape from the music
In the whole damn street
'Cause she's playing all night
And the music's all right
Mama's got a squeeze box
Daddy never sleeps at night

She goes in and out and in
And out and in and out and in and out
She's playing all night
And the music's all right
Mama's got a squeeze box
Daddy never sleeps at night

She goes, squeeze me, come on and squeeze me
Come on and tease me like you do
I'm so in love with you
Mama's got a squeeze box
Daddy never sleeps at night
She goes in and out and in and out
And in and out and in and out
'Cause she's playing all night
And the music's all right
Mama's got a squeeze box
Daddy never sleeps at night
 
I love Dinosaur Jr., but their lyrics all read like placeholders nobody bothered to go back to and finish.



"Hey, me, watch the corners, watch me cuz I know what you've done."

Whatever, J. Just mash on that muff and give us the good stuff.


Quality song, quality video.
 
Speaking of Dinosaur Jr...


[Instrumental Intro]

[Chorus]
I'm waiting, please come by
I've got the guts now
To meet your eye
Those guts are killing
But I can't stop now
I gotta connect with you, girl
Before I forget how
Please, wanna hang around?
You've got to wonder
What it is we found

[Instrumental Break]

[Chorus]
I'm waiting, please come by
I've got the guts now
To meet your eye
Those guts are killing
But I can't stop now
Gotta connect with you, girl
Before I forget how
Please, wanna hang around?
You've got to wonder
What it is we found

That's a good version of that.

Really, their entire catalog fits. I find it harder to memorize nonsense lyrics than lyrics that go somewhere, but hell, if it works, it works.



I got nothing where I've been
Will you bring me there again?
No one ever understands
You won't change to help them
I got lost inside a lie
With a smile you made it die
I'm not real and you know why
And I'll run to get some more, more

Can I be there all the time?
Can I stop to wonder why?
Will I crumble, will I fly?
And I've got to make it
Will I be in time to see?
Will it run all over me?
Can I fake out just to be?
You know I can't take any more, more

Held a picture yesterday
Held a picture of a moment
That I want, I want
I want, I want

You have time for me again
But you flatten me instead
Tried to hear the things you said
Like I almost had it
But I don't have it at all
And I'm sweating, trying to stall
Till I think I heard a call
I look, you're just laughing on and on
On and on, on and on, on and on


Held a picture yesterday
Held a picture of a moment
That I want, I want
I want, I want
 
I honestly have a hard time picking up lyrics to begin with, most of the songs I like probably have awful lyrics.
 
Honestly....



The music is fantastic... they play it at Notre Dame stadium all of the time and we play it at every ND tailgate. But the lyrics are just so weird... "I'm a sailor peg... I lost my leg... I climbed the mainsail and I lost my leg!" :messedup: "I'm shippin up to Bostonnnn....."

Why? Do they have a "Prosthetics While You Wait" shop at the docks? :helper:
 
Even blowjobs?! That's a damn shame.
Love the act, but the wording sucks.

Where would that air go anyways?
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What if she blew too much?
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