Lyrical Cliches You Can't Stand

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In looking for other albums with cliched song titles, I came across Michael Bolton's greatest hits. I won't bother posting all the titles, but the absolute best has to be:

Can I Touch You ...There?

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 4 October 2004 02:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah the man's a genius. WTF!

― Kim (Kim), Monday, 4 October 2004 03:33 (nineteen years ago) link

I sing that song while I'm playing "Operation." The buzzer really completes it.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Monday, 4 October 2004 12:07 (nineteen years ago) link

"Went down to the ocean
Went down to the sea"

..both?

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 4 October 2004 12:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Deep in my heart - there's a fire - a burning heart
Deep in my heart - there's desire - for a start
I'm dying in emotion
It's my world in fantasy
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

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

:-)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 4 October 2004 12:17 (nineteen years ago) link

feckin Sunshine

― mentalist (mentalist), Monday, 4 October 2004 12:23 (nineteen years ago) link

there should be more songs about the milkman's wife's tits

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 4 October 2004 18:37 (nineteen years ago) link

It should be noted that Dieter Bohlen is a lyrical genius, insofar as he is a German artist able to write English lyrics that scan beautifully and are gramatically correct while possessing an almost surreal meaninglessness.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Monday, 4 October 2004 18:53 (nineteen years ago) link

In looking for other albums with cliched song titles, I came across Michael Bolton's greatest hits. I won't bother posting all the titles, but the absolute best has to be:
Can I Touch You ...There?

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

isn't that also an mbv lyric?

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 4 October 2004 18:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh yeah, songwriters, check it...there are other words that rhyme with the number SEVEN besides HEAVEN thx k bye.
-- nickalicious (nickaliciou...), October 1st, 2004 4:29 PM. (nickalicious)

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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!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 4 October 2004 19:03 (nineteen years ago) link

The rolling list of "on the shelf" songs:
6. Georgia Satellites - "Keep Your Hands To Yourself"

― briania (briania), Monday, 4 October 2004 19:08 (nineteen years ago) link

i get tired of lazy jasonspacemanisms in noisyguitarmusik. just make it a friggin' instrumental. yer "spoon-moon-june" rhyme schemes are making me sleepy, drugman.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 4 October 2004 19:26 (nineteen years ago) link

b-b-but you haven't asnwered the eternal question: "How DOES it feel?"

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.)

― Loose Translation: Sexy Dancer (sexyDancer), Monday, 4 October 2004 19:31 (nineteen years ago) link

anything about putting anyone's tender heart into a blender, or any such kitchen appliance.

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 4 October 2004 19:46 (nineteen years ago) link

The river goeth into the sea...

― Joe (Joe), Monday, 4 October 2004 20:43 (nineteen years ago) link

are there lots of songs that use the feeble conceit of "trying to say [something] but the words get in the way"? maybe there's only one & i forgot how it went so every time i hear it i think it's a different one. i don't know.

― doorag x, Tuesday, 5 October 2004 02:01 (nineteen years ago) link

one year passes...

the roof the roof the roof is on fire
we don't need no water let the motherfuck burn burn motherfucker burn!!!

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

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 11 November 2005 12:14 (eighteen years ago) link

From an old Motown song:

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

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

― ron critchlow, Friday, 11 November 2005 15:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Ugh...if I hear one more song referencing The Fat Lady of Limbourg, I'm gonna puke.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Friday, 11 November 2005 15:23 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm surprised nobody has yet mentioned "high as the sky." Regardless of context (drugs, love, whatever), it's a lameass rhyme.

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

― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 11 November 2005 15:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Anything involving having to call the doctor. (Exception: Sleater-Kinney's "Call The Doctor.")

― mike a, Friday, 11 November 2005 17:37 (eighteen years ago) link

I wish that I could fly, into the sky, so very high
Just like a dragonfly
I'd fly above the trees, over the seas, in all degrees
To anywhere I please
I want to get away
I want to fly away
Yeah yeah yeah
I want to get away
I want to fly away
Yeah yeah yeah
Let's go and see the stars,the Milky Way or even Mars
Where it could just be ours
Let's fade into the sun, let your spirit fly
Where we are one
Just for a little fun
Oh oh oh yeah
I gotta get away; girl I gotta get away
Oh oh oh yeah
I want to get away, I want to get away
I want to get away, I want to get away
YEAH!!!
I want to get away
I want to fly away
Yeah yeah yeah
Girl I gotta get away
I want to get away, I want to get away
I want to get away, I want to get away
YEAH!!!

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

― mike a, Friday, 11 November 2005 17:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Make - take - shake - break - etc.

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

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 11 November 2005 17:45 (eighteen years ago) link

"The lovelight in your eyes," people!

― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Friday, 11 November 2005 17:47 (eighteen years ago) link

_______ want to dance/________ took a chance
"hey, Mr. DJ"

― Cunga (Cunga), Friday, 11 November 2005 17:57 (eighteen years ago) link

"love" and "turtle dove"

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Friday, 11 November 2005 20:57 (eighteen years ago) link

146 posts, no scorn for waitin'/anticipatin'?

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:31 (eighteen years ago) link

Shivers up/down my spine.

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 11 November 2005 22:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Anything about taking ones breath, losing one's breath, etc.

I always found this lyric to be especially egregious:

I can be your hero baby,
I can kiss away your pain
I will stand by you forever
you can take my breath away

Jesus, he falls back on the most tired cliche but still can't even make it rhyme properly or even work that well with the rhythm.

― Hurting (Hurting), Saturday, 12 November 2005 05:11 (eighteen years ago) link

i kind of love it when paul stanley flips the cliche back on himself in "I was made for livin' you" and demands to know, "I can't get enough of you,baby, CAN YOU GET ENOUGH OF ME?"

umm, actually, Paul, we've all had more than enough, thanks for asking.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Saturday, 12 November 2005 05:24 (eighteen years ago) link

"head in the clouds, feet on the ground" or the REALLY FUCKING PROFOUND CONVERSE "feet in the clouds, head on the ground" maaaaaaaaaaaaan.
-- tom cleveland (guitar68...), October 1st, 2004.
kylie "wouldn't change a thing"
this reminds me - if i had the chance to dit all again , i wouldn't chnge a single thing .
eg - hold me in your arms - rick astley , souterns sons.
tears fall like rain - glenn emdeiros, kiss

― retroboy, Saturday, 12 November 2005 12:40 (eighteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

"i can't stop because i'm in love
and she's the only girl that i'm thinking of"

― deeany, Tuesday, 6 December 2005 05:54 (eighteen years ago) link

oh dear i forgot the most egregious of cliches: the christmas song.

".... this time of year"
"families get together"
"warm by the fire"
"all i want for christmas is you"

blech

― deeany, Tuesday, 6 December 2005 06:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Knowledge/college

― Confounded (Confounded), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 12:24 (eighteen years ago) link

"If you get what you want but not what you need" someone kill me plz

― joe schmoe (joeschmoe), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 14:33 (eighteen years ago) link

You cut me down a tree
And brought it back to me
And that's what made me see
Where I was going wrong
You put me on a shelf
And kept me for yourself
I can only blame myself
You can only blame me
And I could write a song
A hundred miles long
Well that's where I belong
And you belong with me
And I could write it down
And spread it all around
Get lost and then get found
or swallowed in the sea
You put me on a line
And hung me out to dry
And darling, that's when I
decided to go see
You cut me down to size
And opened up my eyes
Made me realize
What I could not see
And I could write a book
The one they'll say that shook
The world and then it took
It took it back from me
And I could write it down
And spread it all around
Get lost and then get found
And you'll come back to me
Not swallowed in the sea
And I could write a song
A hundred miles long
Well that's where I belong
And you belong with me
The streets you're walking on
A thousand houses long
Well, that's where I belong
And you belong with me
Oh, what good is it to live
With nothing left to give
Forget, but not forgive
Not loving all you see
All the streets you're walking on
A thousand houses long
Well, that's where I belong
And you belong with me
Not swallowed in the sea

You belong with me
Not swallowed in the sea
Yeah, you belong with me
Not swallowed in the sea

Take a bow, Mr. Martin.

― Deluxe (Damian), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 14:43 (eighteen years ago) link

three years pass...

no one here has mentioned the dancefloor. i mean, give me a fucking break already. not that much interesting shit happens there.

― musically, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 01:37 (fourteen years ago) link

and what's with all the LOVE SONGS, huh? why do all these people write songs about LOVE? why is THAT interesting? HUH?

― thomp, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 01:44 (fourteen years ago) link

From an old Motown song:
"I'd rather go blind than to see you walk away"
(Excessive cellulite on the arse will do that to you....)
― ron critchlow, Friday, November 11, 2005 3:14 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^ can someone explain this joke to me

― thomp, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 01:47 (fourteen years ago) link

blindness is preferable to having to look at someone's butt

― musically, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 02:51 (fourteen years ago) link

"Love you long time" references have been played out and should be retired by now.

― musically, Monday, 17 August 2009 02:55 (fourteen years ago) link

you should never rhyme heaven with "seven" or "eleven" anymore. I hate it literally every time

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 17 August 2009 02:56 (fourteen years ago) link

I love "dancefloor". Then again, "Vogue" and "Pump Up the Jam" are two of my all-time faves

― claws of jungle red (Stevie D), Monday, 17 August 2009 03:18 (fourteen years ago) link

model/bottle couplets have really become the modern moon/june/spoon. really never a time that it doesn't annoy me.

― some dude, Monday, 17 August 2009 03:23 (fourteen years ago) link

"Self" rhyming with "shelf." Aargh.

Wait, when does THIS happen?

― cosmic abbigong (Abbott), Monday, 17 August 2009 20:27 (fourteen years ago) link

when taking your one off the other

blindness is preferable to having to look at someone's butt

― musically, Wednesday, August 12, 2009 2:51 AM (5 days ago) Bookmark

my god, what a terrible joke

― thomp, Monday, 17 August 2009 20:29 (fourteen years ago) link

admittedly the guy who made it seems to have not posted since 2005, so i'm not sure why i'm so bothered

― thomp, Monday, 17 August 2009 20:31 (fourteen years ago) link

•rain falling down
•tears falling down like rain

Never saw it fall up, nope.

"waiting/anticipating" OTM.

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
IIRC, Bryan Adams' "Everything I Do, I Do It For You" might be a contendah.

― staggerlee, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 00:09 (fourteen years ago) link

Lines/songs beginning with "sitting here" or "standing here" or some other such iteration

― Eric H., Tuesday, 18 August 2009 00:17 (fourteen years ago) link

i would love to hear a song begin with "squatting here"

― m0stlyClean, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 02:07 (fourteen years ago) link

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