This article in the NME made me chuckle. Music is full of preposterous lyrics, none of which I can actually bring to mind at the moment (but watch this space). I'm quite a fan of the ungrammatical (see the title of this posting).
Of course one person's stupid lyric is another person's pearl of wisdom. And if you like the artist anyway, you are much more likely to hold the latter view. I remember having heated discussions about lots of Lemonheads lyrics, and whether they were nonsense or not (I think not, but then I probably would. And in any case, I've never been in the "lyrics as poetry camp". It's about whether or not it touches you in some way).
However, there are some rubbish ones. Fist of pure emotion, anyone?
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haha! yeah... this is a definitely a subjective one. i find its a similar line between pretensiousness and, well, all that good stuff that isn't pretensiousness.
pearl jam are sadly one of those bands who started off writing brilliant lyrics and have now descended into writing absolutely awful lyrics.
to quote:
I know it's already been sung,... can't be said enough.
Love is all you need,.. all you need is love,..
Love,.. love,...
Love.
arharhahhghghghghghgghgh
you cannont, CAN NOT, say "all you need is love" ever again after those bugs sang it. unless you did it in some new, novel or clever way, of course. but here eddie is just palming it off as some wisdom that needs to be re-iterated.
awful.
still, "riot act", from which this comes, had a few songs with excellent lyrics here and there - something which the eponymous pearl jam was sadly utterly devoid of...
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