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Worst Broadway Lyric ever?
#300Worst. Lyrics. EVER.
Posted: 2/27/06 at 12:54amI kind of like that first lyric. The second one though, ew.... moist? EW!
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Mamie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/26/04
#301Worst. Lyrics. EVER.
Posted: 2/27/06 at 12:57am
volleyballer: It's ok - it's just an expression that used to be used a lot in the old days (REALLY old days) and isn't used anymore.
Before worldwide travel became so easy, people in America used to refer to Europe as 'the Continent'. Small town folks especially thought of Europeans as being very sophisticated and stylish. So whenever they talked about someone being super sophisticated, they always said 'they're very continental'. If you ever watch any old movies (particularly from the 30's) then you'll hear that used a lot. It isn't anymore so there's no real reason why you would be familiar with it.
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#302Worst. Lyrics. EVER.
Posted: 2/27/06 at 2:14am
I don't know if anyone said this already but,
From Billy Elliot:
He could be a star, for all we know
Who knows how far he could go...
Just awful.
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.
~Leonard Bernstein~
Color and Light
Broadway Star Joined: 10/23/05
#303Worst. Lyrics. EVER.
Posted: 2/27/06 at 2:36amWe've all said that the NYTW version of Rent is just bursting to the seams with bad lyrics, but I think "Mr. Negative because he's HIV +" wins.
Stop looking at my charisma.
Josh Freilich
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/17/06
#304Worst. Lyrics. EVER.
Posted: 2/27/06 at 9:16am
Glad Larson changed it for B-way, because Jysus Chreest, the NYTW version SCHTINKS to high heaven.
I found two really dumb lyrics from "Damn Yankees", and they're in the same song:
"Two lost ships on the stormy sea
One with no sail and one with no rudder...
But ain't it just great? Ain't it just grand?
...We got each udder!"
What? You're talking about COWS now?! Jyze!!
"Two lost souls on the highway of life
And there is no one with whom we would "ruther"
Say, ain't it just great? Ain't it just grand?
...We got each other!"
Exsqueeze me? Baking powder? What in the name of SAM HILL is a "ruther"?!
Could you believe this guy?
On the other hand, thank God for creative license when it comes to lyrics!
"How could she just suddenly, completely disappear into thin water?" - The Little Mermaid
JustChillin8908
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/31/06
#305Worst. Lyrics. EVER.
Posted: 2/28/06 at 5:50pm
Sorry if this has already been posted but something that really bothers me in the song "Rent" from RENT is when they say:
"It reaches way down deep and TEARS you inside out till you're TORN apart"
They say tear and the past tense of tear in the same sentence!
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#307Worst. Lyrics. EVER.
Posted: 2/28/06 at 5:53pm
From the SF Preview of Wicked, during Something Bad:
"Rumours spread like cheese
In days like these!"
That was pure vodka, you poop!
#308Worst. Lyrics. EVER.
Posted: 2/28/06 at 5:56pm
Please tell me you're joking about the chees line from Wicked.
Haha JustChillin8908 I never noticed the tears/torn thing.
#309Worst. Lyrics. EVER.
Posted: 2/28/06 at 6:51pm
From Bare:
"Mom we both got cast, we're in the show!
I knew that you would want to know!"
"Ah, best friends playing best friends!"
It just annoys me because Peter never said what parts he and Jason got. Arrghhh.
#310Worst. Lyrics. EVER.
Posted: 2/28/06 at 7:26pm
Please tell me you're joking about the chees line from Wicked.
No, I'm not. The cheese line was really there. The friend I went with snorted really loudly right after he said that. I wonder why it got cut...
That was pure vodka, you poop!
Updated On: 2/28/06 at 07:26 PM
Josh Freilich
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/17/06
#311Worst. Lyrics. EVER.
Posted: 2/28/06 at 7:28pm
And by the way....
"Woes are fleeting...
Blows are glancing..."
WHAT'S A BLOW AND WHY DOES IT GLANCE, PEOPLE?!! HUH?!
"How could she just suddenly, completely disappear into thin water?" - The Little Mermaid
#312Worst. Lyrics. EVER.
Posted: 2/28/06 at 8:12pmThe lyric from Jekyll and Hyde that goes something along the lines of "to kill outside St. Paul's, requires a lot of balls." What is modern day slang doing in that musical?
#313Worst. Lyrics. EVER.
Posted: 2/28/06 at 8:15pm
Well, it wasn't on Broadway, but I think this lyric from the song "The World's Greatest Lover," from the concept album of Rage of the Heart, is absolutely, amazingly, astoundingly terrible:
You'll find I demand a phallus of flame,
Eternally rising that never goes lame.
You'll have that phallus, you'll have that rising,
You'll have that flame, if you love me.
Wow.
'"Contrairiwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."'
~Lewis Carroll
Updated On: 2/28/06 at 08:15 PM
#314Worst. Lyrics. EVER.
Posted: 2/28/06 at 8:18pm
That song is FANTASTIC just to look at, but listening to it brings it into a whole different dimension.
(And yes, I own RoTH.)
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#315Worst. Lyrics. EVER.
Posted: 2/28/06 at 8:20pm
Anything that mentions a "phallus of flame" in all seriousness, especially when set to cheery, romantic music, definitely has a special, er, dimension. 
'"Contrairiwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."'
~Lewis Carroll
#316Worst. Lyrics. EVER.
Posted: 2/28/06 at 8:23pm
The disco section in "Fire" is also extra special.
(But, of course, that's not a lyric.)
Oh! Wait!
"A whooooore, archbishop, a whoooooore, archbishop, a whoooooore!"
"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt
#317Worst. Lyrics. EVER.
Posted: 2/28/06 at 8:33pm
Oh God, it's all coming back to me. And I had blocked most of it from my memory, too. "Zero Hour!"
Now what will you do when your back is to the wall?
Now what will you do when you're pushed will you not fall?
Now what will you do when your face is to the ground?
Now what will you do when sweet comfort can't be found?
Zero hour, zero hour
Sneaks upon you like a thief
Zero hour, zero hour
Don't try to find relief
It might be faster to just link to the lyrics.
Fly though the rage, the desperate rage of the heart!
'"Contrairiwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."'
~Lewis Carroll
shortydudette
Understudy Joined: 8/12/05
#318Worst. Lyrics. EVER.
Posted: 2/28/06 at 9:31pm
Again, apologies if these have been said. There's just so many bad lyrics out there.
"Adeiu, Adieu, to yu and yu and yu" is the reason why I hate The Sound of Music.
From Bare: A Pop Opera: "Are you there? Please pick up the phone. I've never felt so all alone. Left with paper courage all alone. Crawl inside, and want to die alone." One bad rhyme is bad enough. But the same bad rhyme repeated three times should just be illegal.
A New Brain: "I feel like I'm sailing, it's insane, but I choose to live. Before was a failing of my brain, which you must forgive." Crappy rhyme, plus why does feeling like he's sailing contradict living? He feels like he's sailing BUT he chooses to live?
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Understudy Joined: 12/31/69
#320Worst. Lyrics. EVER.
Posted: 3/17/06 at 2:30pm
But Glinda... love DOES change everything... lol
I have a question... Does Steven Schwartz have some kind of cheese fetish, because at least twice have people mentioned his horrible lyrics about cheese...
Hmm...
#321Worst. Lyrics. EVER.
Posted: 3/17/06 at 2:35pmThere are bridges you crossed you didn't know you crossed until you crossed.
Don't f*ck with me fellas. This ain't my first time at the rodeo.
#322Worst. Lyrics. EVER.
Posted: 3/17/06 at 2:36pm
Why don't we just say
WICKED. All of it.
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
#323Worst. Lyrics. EVER.
Posted: 3/17/06 at 2:54pm
after some cheesy techno music and groans of sexual ecstasy:
GIRL: this is great
GAY: I'm straight!
the song goes DOWNHILL from there.
Closer to Heaven
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
#324Worst. Lyrics. EVER.
Posted: 3/17/06 at 2:56pm
Unsettled Scores is by far the worst Lloyd Webber ballad. Musically and lyrically, it is just all over the place. It sounds like three songs cut-and-pasted together (which it probably was) and thrown in at the last minute (which it probably wasn't). Most of the song is a laundry list of different kinds of people which ends in a wallow of self-pity attempting to make the audience sympathize with a murderer, again (Phantom, Sunset Boulevard).
"The betrayers, the betrayed
The abandoned, the afraid
The corrupted and the celebrated
Endlessly humiliated
Gloriously big parade"
WTF?
"An American flyer on a steep incline
The wind blowing through your hair
The trophies and the holidays, they vanished in the air
The betrayers the betrayed, the abandoned the afraid
The glorified the idolised, the bastards and their jealous eyes
An amazingly big parade"
HUH???
And the lyrics fall such that the syllable given the most emphasis in the last line of the last stanzas is "-ly".
"An amazing-LEEE big parade!"
But the real kicker is in the reprise when The Man sings:
"And all my prayers are loaded in THIS GUN!!!!!"
sheesh...
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