Last week's lousy lyrics post was fun, so I thought I'd do something similar this week: what is the worst rhyme you've ever heard in a song ?
For some reason, all my examples came from the same guy:
- With words they try to jail ya /... / but it's the rhetoric of fail-yah
- You consider me the young apprentice / caught between the Scylla and Charibdes
- He starts to shake and cough / just like the old man in that book by Nabakov
Oh Sting. Sigh. You can do better.
Got any that aren't from Mr Sumner ?
95% of SMB’s Take the Money & Run.
hell yeah.
“facts is” “taxes”
hah!
But if this ever-changing world in which we live in
Just that line. Not only a painful cliche but the line seems constructed to avoid the terminal preposition AND THEN FOR NO GOOD REASON THROWS IT BACK IN THERE!
Too much weed, Mr. CuteBeatle.
Although, on reflection he might be singing ” in which we’re livin.’ ”
Maybe we should give him the benefit of the doubt.
Maybe, but it always sounded like “in which we live in” to me too.
“Maybe we should give him the benefit of the doubt.”
the guy who rhymed “Obladi Oblada” with “life goes on bra” ?
nah, fuck that guy.
j/k. of course.
Here’s a delicious one from a lesser-known Harry Belafonte song, “I do Adore Her:”
Oh dear.
groan
“He starts to shake and cough / just like the old man in that book by Nabakov”
Wonder which book that was.
I am an antichrist.
I am an anarch-iced.
but I’m not sure it tops this:
It’s so deep, it’s so wide
Your inside
Synchronicity.
ew.
i never knew what he was saying there. i always heard “ess so ee. ess so eye. come inside, Synchronicity” which isn’t really much worse.
I have mercifully forgotten all the lyrics to “Synchronicity”. I am hoping against hope that one of the la-la-la-la,la-la-lahhhh lines near the end is “suppurating festule”