Lyrics or lines that made you cringe!- Page 2

[Emutional]

Posted: 7/11/04 at 5:04pm

because with terrible lines come amazing ones.

[Broadway Matt]

Posted: 7/11/04 at 5:10pm

good call on the "old" This Is The Moment lyrics. they did a decent job of cleaning it up eventually, but the pre-broadway concept and demo versions of Jekyll and Hyde had some truly abominable lyrics. a few that come to mind:

"Give me this moment, this momentous moment."

"If you live around here, you need plenty of cash. Cause the houses round here was designed by John Nash."

"The world has gone insane, and parasites are eating at my brain."

all the lyrics to "Midnight"

[sean martin]

Posted: 7/11/04 at 5:21pm

Read the lyrics from "Music of the Night" from POTO. Gah. The music does a decent job of saving them, but they're still pretty horrendous.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 7/11/04 at 5:31pm

WICKED takes the cake for cringe worthy lyrics. Most of them are just terrible. The ones that make me cringe the most are...

"Instead of dreary who-you-were... ARE...
There's nothing that can stop you
from becoming popu-
ler- LAR..."

"There's something exquisite
You'll want to visit
Before the day's through..."

"They couldn't be GOODLIER.
She couldn't be lovelier.
We couldn't be luckier..."

"There are precious few at ease
with moral ambiguities..."

"Kiss me too fiercely
Hold me too tight
I need help believing
You're with me tonight..."

"Like a comet pulled from orbit
as it passes a sun
Like a stream the meats a boulder
halfway through the wood."

PHANTOM OF THE OPERA:
The original opening for the title song:

"Beneath the opera house
I know he's there
He's with me on the stage
He's everywhere"

JEKYLL & HYDE (concept CD):

"One last final chance
That only I can take
When everything I've fought for
is at stake..."

"Like a tiger to tame
and our senses proclaim
It's a dangerous game..."

"I have my hopes
I have a child
and children
must be fed
forget your hopes
or you will be mislead..."

and my best friend hates the following line with a passion, but I LOVE it!:

"Night time is where we live
Night is where we give
Everything we have to give.
Most lovers can rejoice
We don't have a choice
We just know we have to give..."

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF:
I hate the whole:

"The mamma... THE MAMMA!
The papa... THE PAPA!
TRADITION!"

drives me up a wall...
Updated On: 7/11/04 at 05:31 PM

[MusicMan]

Posted: 7/11/04 at 6:02pm

SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE:

"...What made it so right together/
Is what made it all wrong..."

Nonsense. Bleccch. Updated On: 7/12/04 at 06:02 PM

Posted: 7/11/04 at 6:10pm

"Famous man since Noah
Only goes to showa"

Joseph........


"She's a terror, she's a tartar
We don't mean to show a bias (?)
But Glinda you're a martyr."

Wicked

[ShbrtAlley44]

Posted: 7/11/04 at 6:14pm

Oh God, I hate that one from Wicked. The rhyme scheme is so awkwardly written.

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 7/11/04 at 6:16pm

"Her fever's breaking" Idina Menzel on the cast recording of Rent. The insipid quality of her voice on that line drives me crazy.

[th]

Posted: 7/11/04 at 6:51pm

"Say it's just a show on the radio
Like an old movie with Marilyn Monroe"

"Take me to a zoo that's got chimpanzees
Tell me on Sunday Please"

[BroadwayBound06]

Posted: 7/11/04 at 6:55pm

Don't knock Blood Brothers

[Mattio98]

Posted: 7/11/04 at 7:00pm

What's the most swank-ified place in town. That one just drives me nuts.

[ShbrtAlley44]

Posted: 7/11/04 at 7:16pm

"Let's go down to the Ozdust Ballroom
We'll meet there later tonight..."

Palm, meet face.

[Taryn]

Posted: 7/11/04 at 7:43pm

All of the similes in "For Good." *shudders* A bird dropping a seed? A rock in a river? AUGH.

[Emutional]

Posted: 7/11/04 at 7:46pm

it represents something being changed by something else, as is explained in the song. I guess only certain people get it...

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The whole score/lyrics/book of "Honk!" drives me CRAZY.

[SammyGal]

Posted: 7/11/04 at 7:47pm

"Not that you really care much about my underwear..."
~Avenue Q

Why is that song even there?! The rest of the OBCR is BRILLIANT and that ruins it! Except for the end when Ann Harada yells "Get a job!"

They also say the lines "Unlimited. Together we're unlimited" TOO MANY TIMES in Wicked. It makes me want to chuck the OBCR across the room.

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 7/11/04 at 7:48pm

The Producers (Ulla) - "Step right up and strut your stoof. People tell you modesty's a wirtue. But in the theater modesty can hurt you. Ven you got it, flaunt (correct word?) it. Show your assests let them know your proud. Yer goodies yew must poosh stick your chest out shake yewr toosh, ven yew got it....."

42nd Street (Maggie Jones??)- When she does that goat voice during "Keep Young and Beautiful"

[BlueWizard]

Posted: 7/11/04 at 7:52pm

The underwear song isn't really a true Avenue Q number, it's more to show that Brian really isn't a good comedian. That's why the track is so short, I think.

[Plum]

Posted: 7/11/04 at 7:54pm

Actually, I love "When You Got It, Flaunt It."

And I don't care about "What made it so right together/ Is what made it all wrong" as long as it's Bernadette Peters singing it. That song never fails to move me.

But I have a real problem with "I sing a rondelay" in Falsettoland. What a terrible word to disrupt a very sweet song.

Posted: 7/11/04 at 7:58pm

anything from THE APPLE TREE, a really awful bock and harnick play from, like '68

"PASIONALLA: I'm Pasionalla, that's who I am.
STREETPEOPLE: That's who she am!!!!!!!!"
I actually had to sing that on stage, ick

oh and this gem

"that time you got the croup
Who fed ya chicken soup"
From the bye bye birdie film

uy vey

[tennis85]

Posted: 7/11/04 at 8:00pm

"Nessa?"
"Yes?"
"Uh, Nessa, I've got something to confessa..."

Come on!

[dry2olives]

Posted: 7/11/04 at 8:33pm

"Moosical" is supposed to make you cringe. Sondheim is writing a song for a bad vaudeville act. He wanted the lyric to be awful.

My favorite horrible lyric is "The Fickle Finger of Fate", Richard Kiley's big number from I Had a Ball. But on the cast album Kiley sings it with such dramatic oomph that its fascinating to listen to. The lyric begins...

Well, it was quite a ball,
Too bad your bluebird has flown.
Boy, when you fall you fall.
You must be accident prone.
Big "A" for effort, pal.
You overlooked one small thing;
The fickle finger of fate.

And it goes downhill from there.

[GovernorSlaton]

Posted: 7/11/04 at 8:37pm

Regarding "I'm Not Wearing Underwear Today":
I like that song because it is so random. It's only about thirty seconds, so it doesn't really bother me.

[Jamie Hat]

Posted: 7/11/04 at 8:43pm

Not sure that I would call the lyrics of Wicked.
Can you give us some examples of its amazinnng...ness...?

[Emutional]

Posted: 7/11/04 at 9:38pm

that's ok, i'm not going to post something just so it can be eagerly shot down.

[BlueWizard]

Posted: 7/11/04 at 10:38pm

"PASIONALLA: I'm Pasionalla, that's who I am.
STREETPEOPLE: That's who she am!!!!!!!!"

That's got to be the most hilariously bad lyric ever.