Worst Broadway Lyric ever?- Page 2

[LaeloftheLakes]

Posted: 3/1/05 at 7:56pm

Rent is my favorite show, but...

"Happy spring!"


It's pointless, and just makes me cringe every time.

[thebestshowshavetransvestites]

Posted: 3/1/05 at 7:58pm

"Put away your swords, don't you know that it's all over?
It was nice, but now it's gone,
Why are you obsessed with fighting?
Stick to fishing from now on."
~Jesus Christ Superstar

I cannot be the only one that finds that stupidly hilarious... in a... loving way?

[Jwei123]

Posted: 3/1/05 at 8:02pm

in 'good bye love' from rent

"ill call. I hate the fall"

...why is he all of the sudden expressing his hate for a season? haha

[Rose_MacShane]

Posted: 3/1/05 at 8:07pm

I nominate the whole of "June Is Bustin' Out All Over." Let this excerpt represent the whole song:

June in bustin' out all over
To ladies and men are payin' court
Lotsa ships are kept at anchor
Jest because the captains hanker
Fer the comfort they ken only get in port!

That song makes me want to claw my own eyes out.

[Joshua488]

Posted: 3/1/05 at 8:07pm

With regards to the WICKED line "I'd sooner buy defying gravity," I'm wondering if you think that it is meant like "I'd sooner purchase defying gravity."

I think it is meant as "I'd sooner believe defying gravity." At least that's what I inferred.

Maybe you knew this and still thought it was stupid, but I don't think it's that dumb.

[IMsooHyprToday]

Posted: 3/1/05 at 8:12pm

<-- loves Rent, BUT...

"goodbye love, disease."

kills me every time.

[courtneyanne]

Posted: 3/1/05 at 8:14pm

Yea, IMsooHyprToday, I'm not too crazy about that line either.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 3/1/05 at 8:16pm

"You can love to hate me, but it's still love."

Or something like that, from BROOKLYN.

[cathywellerstein]

Posted: 3/1/05 at 8:19pm

i don't like the fact that i know the correct lyric...but it's "I'll make you love to hate me, but it's still love..."

[Testing1232]

Posted: 3/1/05 at 8:28pm

Every single word of "Brooklyn" !!!

[suchclumsytime]

Posted: 3/1/05 at 8:29pm

What's the one from Milk and Honey...Let's Not Waste A Moment...it goes something like this:

Let's not waste a moment
Let's not lose a day
There's a short forever...

The line after that is the one that drives me nuts...but I seem to have banished it from my brain. Don't get me wrong, I think it's a beauitful song, but that last line makes me crazy!

[CurtainUp]

Posted: 3/1/05 at 8:29pm

Nessa, confess-a! Eesh!

Oh, and I think "dinosaurs surviving the crunch" is a great metaphor!

[Over_the_Moon]

Posted: 3/1/05 at 8:32pm

I might be flogged for this one... but the line from Phantom,
"Sing once again with me, a strange duet.
My power over you grows stronger yet."

It's kind of cheesy to me... like you can see Webber sitting there, "Hmmm, what rhymes with duet...?"

[LittleFish8386]

Posted: 3/1/05 at 8:34pm

When I was in Footloose, I would cringe everytime I sang

"I've got the motor, he's got the key..."

It's just a disgutsing line, more then it is stupid.

[suchclumsytime]

Posted: 3/1/05 at 8:34pm

Hehe, true, OTM, very true. It's sort of like...where'd that come from?

[LittleFish8386]

Posted: 3/1/05 at 8:37pm

Bythesword and I were talking about the other night; what's with th jaded mandarin line in JCS? I never got that...


Also in Avenue Q, they rhyme "sitting on/in the quad" with God twice, and it always really bugs me... Updated On: 3/1/05 at 08:37 PM

[DestinyBeckoned]

Posted: 3/1/05 at 8:38pm

the only line I didn't like from avenue q is the line "watching actors never reach the ending of their oscar speech!" in Schadenfreude. They say it like its a big punch line, but its not really funny or anything.

[La Vie Boheme]

Posted: 3/1/05 at 8:52pm

"Without You" from Rent

Love the show, hate that song

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 3/1/05 at 9:04pm

The erection song in FAME (I think it's called "I just Can't Keep it down") sung by a teen boy. What did THAT have to with the plot??

And then there's the embarassingly amateurish lyrics in PHANTOM OF THE OPERA.

[PleaseChangeMe]

Posted: 3/1/05 at 9:12pm

<"goodbye love, disease.">

I would have sworn the line was "Goodbye love. Hello disease."

[DestinyBeckoned]

Posted: 3/1/05 at 9:13pm

I think you're right. I don't mind that line...I thought it was more sad than cheesy.

[StickToPriest]

Posted: 3/1/05 at 9:14pm

"Kid, my heart ain't made of marble
But your rhythm's really horrible"~
'If A Girl Isn't Pretty' from Funny Girl

[Caleb]

Posted: 3/1/05 at 9:28pm

I think a lot of people are demonstrating personal biases instead of responding to what the post actually asked for: the worst lyric from a musical, EVER. Schwartz, Sondheim, and Rice have all written bad lyrics, but all three of them are too good with words to qualify for the worst lyric EVER.

Let's focus on efforts that are wholly disastrous. Say what you will, but seventy percent of the lyrics in Rent are, in my opinion, bordering on unlistenable. The rhymes are desperate and clunky, and don't begin to approach the poetry of really fine lyrics. I don't listen to the show often (guess why) so I don't have the libretto in front of me, and I can't recall a specific example, but there would be too many to choose from.

This song wasn't in the Broadway version of the show, but The World Has Gone Insane from Jekyll and Hyde is laughable. One memorable line: The world has gone insane/ And parasites are eating at my brain.

Come on. The bridges line from Wicked is Shakespeare next to that dreck (and I actually think the bridge line is beautiful if you take two seconds to understand what it means).

"You are my wife,
My second self,
Come be my wife,
My little elf"

-Jane Eyre

Ooo, who in that production heard that lyric and said "Go ahead, leave it in!" That's the kind of lyric I wouldn't allow onstage if I were the director of the show.

Also, most of Starlight Express.

Come on, people, come up with truly bad lyrics, not lines from shows with which you have an ax to grind.

[suchclumsytime]

Posted: 3/1/05 at 9:32pm

Oooh, MOST of Jane Eyre!

But I must admit, World That's Gone Insane is almost a guilty pleasure of mine, teehehe. It (apparently) makes me giggle profusely.

Posted: 3/1/05 at 9:35pm

Dancing doesn't always make you do nasties
Just look in the book of Ecclesiaties