Lyrical Cliches You Can't Stand

Slippery When Wet might at least provide some competition.

IIRC:

Let It Rock
You Give Love a Bad Name
Livin' On a Prayer
Social Disease
Wanted Dead or Alive
Raise Your Hands
Without Love
I'd Die For You
Never Say Goodbye
Wild In the Streets

(Hey, I got all but one from memory)

Hmm, Asia may have the edge.

4. Tori Amos - "Hey Jupiter"

Whatever, wu-tang's "mystery of chessboxin" is awesome.

i love that song by the way.

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5. Alice Cooper, Clones (We're All)

Six is having problems adjusting to his clone status
Have to put him on a shelf, please don't put me on a shelf
All day long we hear him crying so loud
I just wanna be myself, I just wanna be myself
I just wanna be myself, be myself, be myself

1) The Power Of Love
2) If You Asked Me To
3) Beauty and The Beast
4) Because You Loved Me
5) It's All Coming Back To Me Now
6) Love Can Move Mountains
7) To Love You More
8) My Heart Will Go On
9) I'm Your Angel
10) That's The Way It Is
11) If Walls Could Talk
12) The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
13) All The Way
14) Then You Look At Me
15) I Want You To Need Me
16) Live

And, yes, Phil Collins, we do now know that you have been "waiting for so long" :-)

I can't stand it when an artist - especially one not known for being socially conscious - makes an attempt at political or social comment and then writes a hackneyed lyric that displays NO insight or understanding beyond "the world's in a mess" or "our politicians lie". The only example I can name right now is Phil Collins' "Another Day In Paradise" (Phil Collins again!!!), but I know there have been others.

I saw a band the other night that I was quite enjoying, at least until that line came out.

Michael Jackson to thread! :-)

Can I Touch You ...There?

..both?

You're my heart, you're my soul
I'll keep it shining everywhere I go
You're my heart, you're my soul
I'll be holding you forever
Stay with you together

Your my heart, you're my soul
Yeah, I'm feeling that our love will grow
You're my heart, you're my soul
That's the only thing I really know

Let's close the door and believe my burning heart
Feeling alright come on open up your heart
Keep the candles burning
Let your body melt in mine
I'm living in my, living in my dreams

You're my heart, you're my soul
I'll keep it shining everywhere I go
You're my heart, you're my soul
I'll be holding you forever
Stay with you together

Your my heart, you're my soul
Yeah, I'm feeling that our love will grow
You're my heart, you're my soul
That's the only thing I really know

You're my heart, you're my soul
I'll keep it shining everywhere I go
You're my heart, you're my soul
I'll be holding you forever
Stay with you together

Your my heart, you're my soul
Yeah, I'm feeling that our love will grow
You're my heart, you're my soul
That's the only thing I really know

(c) Modern Talking/Dieter Bohlen 1985

:-)

-- Hurting (Hurtingchie...), October 4th, 2004.

isn't that also an mbv lyric?

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Name three.
-- Joseph McCombs (jmccomb...), October 1st, 2004 5:04 PM. (Joseph McCombs)

one two three four five six seven
it said on the clock when I got a call from my man Kevin
he's talkin' some stoned nonsense about the ebb and
flow of things he don't know, film at eleven

OFF TEH DOME FUXOR!

The rolling list of "on the shelf" songs:
Joy Division - Novelty
When ya gonna grow up and act, and be yourself
Cause pretty soon you'll find yourself nailed to the shelf
(at least it's nailed to the shelf.)

(actually i love it but i guess this is the thread for recycled lyrics?)

"I'd rather go blind than to see you walk away"

(Excessive cellulite on the arse will do that to you....)

Didn't the Beastie Boys rhyme "self-ish" with "shelf-ish" on Paul's Boutique?

I want to get away
I want to fly away
Yeah yeah yeah
Girl I gotta get away
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah....

("Patience" by Gn'R, "Every Breath You Take" by the Police)