<p>re: the killers hit. For a while we thought the lyric was “are we human, or are we denser?”</p>
<p>My all time favorite stupid lyrics:</p>
<p>“You keep lying when you shoulda been truthin…”</p>
<p>**These Boots are Made for Walkin’ **by Nancy Sinatra.</p>
<p>OH! But These Boots are Made for Walkin’ is a true all time great! Looove that one. My mom used to put it on on Saturdays when we did family clean ups…very good. I’m suprised no rappers have used it as the background for one of their songs.</p>
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<p>Yup. Which is further reason why I say the originally quoted lines were not a mistake, but were tongue in cheek, as was much of the Turtles’ stuff.</p>
<p>Re: the misheard Killer lyrics:</p>
<p>[The</a> Archive of Funny Misheard Music Lyrics - KissThisGuy.com](<a href=“http://www.kissthisguy.com/]The”>http://www.kissthisguy.com/)</p>
<p>“Scuse me, while I kiss this guy”</p>
<p>Yeah, the line “how is the weather?” is pretty obviously intentionally silly. Maybe I judge the Turtles too harshly. But it has led to an interesting thread!</p>
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Didn’t she auction off (for charity) the right for one person to find out who it is about?</p>
<p>I think there is a difference between goofy lyrics and stupid ones. Oh, here’s another: “Say a little prayer for I.”</p>
<p>This was so catchy when I was in school, sang it all the time, but stupid</p>
<p>I wish I was in Tijuana
Eating barbequed iguana
I’d take requests on the telephone
I’m on a wavelength far from home
I feel a hot wind on my shoulder
I dial it in from south of the border
I hear the talking of the DJ
Can’t understand just what does he say?</p>
<p>I’m on a mexican radio. I’m on a Mexican, whoa-Oh, radio</p>
<p>^ a song by my buddy Stan Ridgeway of Wall of Voodoo. Love 'em</p>
<p>howzabout ANYTHING by THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS. The lyrics are not as stupid as they are endearingly silly.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.lyricsdepot.com/they-might-be-giants/birdhouse-in-your-soul.html[/url]”>http://www.lyricsdepot.com/they-might-be-giants/birdhouse-in-your-soul.html</a></p>
<p>When my D was six, she used to call this the bestest song in the whole world.</p>
<p>and who can forget Particle Man…</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.lyricsdepot.com/they-might-be-giants/particle-man.html[/url]”>http://www.lyricsdepot.com/they-might-be-giants/particle-man.html</a></p>
<p>Regarding wet cakes, that MacArthur Park melody can lead to some spirited karaoke moments…</p>
<p>They Might Be Giants are the best! There’s nothing stupid about them at all. In fact, their lyrics are more than just endearingly silly; they’re delightfully clever.</p>
<p>My story’s infinite
Like the Longines Symphonette, it doesn’t rest</p>
<p>Also sung by a sentient nightlight:</p>
<p>There’s a picture opposite me of my primitive ancestry
Who stood on rocky shores and kept the beaches shipwreck-free
Though I respect that a lot, I’d be fired if that were my job
After killing Jason off and countless screaming Argonauts</p>
<p>There’s almost no one I’d rather listen to when I’m feeling down. How could I hear those words and not smile?</p>
<p>^They have “made a little birdhouse in my soul”.</p>
<p>“Is he a dot, or is he a speck?
When he’s underwater does he get wet?
Or does the water get him instead?
Nobody knows, Particle man”</p>
<p>You are right Mantori…wrong thread, but who can resist posting these lyrics?</p>
<p>Has anybody here seen “Dave Barry’s Book of Bad Songs”? It’s priceless. My favorite line is where he describes the singer of “Sometimes When We Touch” as sounding “like he’s having his prostate examined by Captain Hook.” </p>
<p>My own favorite stupid lyric is “Afternoon Delight.” There’s lots of bad writing in there, but this line especially jumps out:</p>
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<p>I think it’s possible that never in the history of songwriting has a line failed so spectacularly in an attempt to communicate a universal experience. The feelings the line evokes–embarrassment, inhibition, mild nausea–are the exact opposite of the feelings it’s trying to evoke, even though the words, on the surface, seem to describe the thing fairly accurately. It’s Olympic-level songwriting incompetence.</p>
<p>Olympic level songwriting incompetence combined with one of the most ear wormy tunes around. So aggravating!</p>
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<p>I own a copy of and it is the funniest book I have ever read. I will never get rid of it.</p>
<p>“I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together”</p>
<p>And they argued acid made for better understanding.</p>
<p>Favorite mis-heard lyrics:</p>
<p>There’s a bad moon on the rise…
There’s a bathroom on the right…</p>
<p>Eyes without a face…
How’s about a date…</p>
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If you were tripping, it would make perfect sense to you. Q.E.D.</p>
<p>Two thumbs down for Fergie:</p>
<p>What you gon’ do with all that junk?
All that junk inside that trunk?
I’ma get, get, get, get, you drunk,
Get you love drunk off my hump.
What you gon’ do with all that ass?
All that ass inside them jeans?
I’m a make, make, make, make you scream
Make you scream, make you scream.
Cos of my hump (ha), my hump, my hump, my hump (what).</p>
<p>I met a girl down at the disco.
She said hey, hey, hey yea let’s go.
I could be your baby, you can be my honey
Let’s spend time not money.
I mix your milk wit my cocoa puff,
Milky, milky cocoa,
Mix your milk with my cocoa puff, milky, milky riiiiiiight.
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What??</p>