Lyrical Cliches You Can't Stand

Popture, those excerpts strick me as good uses of a cliche!

"like a thief in the night"

:-(

"up against the wall"

Full or weird names used for purposes of crappy rhyme

"Jimmy Mack, when are you coming back?"

and ... others that escape me

Sheena in "Funky Cold Medina"?

cliche in EVERY line has to be Des'Ree's goddawful "Life (Oh Life)".
Any more contenders to songs with them in every line, I'd like to hear it

How about Amazed by Lonestar;

Every time our eyes meet
This feeling inside me
Is almost more than I can take
Baby when you touch me
I can feel how much you love me
And it just blows me away
I've never been this close to anyone or anything
I can hear your thoughts
I can see your dreams

I don't know how you do what you do
I'm so in love with you
It just keeps getting better
I want to spend the rest of my life
With you by my side
Forever and ever
Every little thing that you do
Baby, I'm amazed by you

The smell of your skin
The taste of your kiss
The way you whisper in the dark
Your hair all around me
Baby you surround me
You touch every place in my heart
Oh, it feels like the first time, every time
I want to spend the whole night in your eyes

Songs I really like despite containing lyrical cliches I can't stand:

PJ Harvey - Rid of Me (fire/desire)
Fats Waller - Ain't Misbehavin (myself/shelf) (Oddly, it bothers in many other versions of the song)
Get Up Morning - Eddy Current Suppression Ring (songs about getting up in the morning).

Realized today that "Eternal Flame" by the Bangles is composed almost entirely of cliches. Yet somehow the fantastic melody redeems it (and despite the incredibly awful singing, yet!) - I can't summon anything like the contempt it would seem to deserve.

this stupid fucking Cage The Elephant song that's been a hit the last few months has a chorus that's pretty much back to back cliches:

There ain't no rest for the wicked, money don't grow on trees, I got bills to pay, I got mouths to feed, there ain't nothing in this world for free.
I know I can't slow down, I can't hold back though you know I wish I could, oh no there ain't no rest for the wicked, until we close our eyes for good.

reggae lyric cliches could have a thread of their own, but the one that always comes up is the school/rule rhyme, e.g. when I was a youth in school, me never take in the golden rule

Use of "till the early morn" really really bugs me.

"till the early morn" is a classic imo, esp if rhymed w/ "break of dawn"

Another one that always pisses me off is describing something/someone as being "sweeter than wine".

there's a "lies / eyes" in the little boots single that is only annoying me because it's the bit that spotify are playing me all the time

the cage the elephant ones aren't lyrical cliches, they're just truisms really - nb. i can't imagine that being a good song, though

"…color tv"

They've definitely had their moments, but I could never hear Gucci and Louis Vuitton in another rap or r&b song and be perfectly happy.