Worst Broadway Lyric ever?- Page 3

[DestinyBeckoned]

Posted: 3/1/05 at 9:48pm

oh god, now that you've brought up "the world has gone insane" I can't stop laughing. Oh lord...

his voice in that song is funny enough without the lyrics.

a pack of wolves is howling at my door! muahahaha!

[InfiniteTheaterFrenzy]

Posted: 3/1/05 at 9:55pm

"Keep young and beautiful
It's your duty to be beautiful
Keep young and beautiful IF YOU WANT TO BE LOVED."

Oh, 42nd Street. The lyrics are good because they do actually fit the mind- set at the time, toward showgirls, but bad because.... OH MY GOD! WHO WANTS TO SEND THAT MESSAGE?

[InfiniteTheaterFrenzy]

Posted: 3/1/05 at 9:58pm

"Keep young and beautiful
It's your duty to be beautiful
Keep young and beautiful IF YOU WANT TO BE LOVED."

Oh, 42nd Street. The lyrics are good because they do actually fit the mind- set at the time, toward showgirls, but bad because.... OH MY GOD! WHO WANTS TO SEND THAT MESSAGE?

[Steve2]

Posted: 3/1/05 at 10:03pm

"don't be offended by my frank analysis, think of it as personality dialysis"

[Chlydomnestra]

Posted: 3/1/05 at 10:15pm

I absolutely adore Rent (seen it 3 times) but,
"Excuse me, if I'm off track, but if your so wise then tell me, why do you need smack?"

[Rose_MacShane]

Posted: 3/1/05 at 10:16pm

"42nd Street" is full of painful lyrics. Urgh...

[InfiniteTheaterFrenzy]

Posted: 3/1/05 at 10:20pm

I WIN I WIN I WIN! I remembered this...

Bring him back, oh boy!
Bring back Birdie! Bring back Birdie!
That's my plan... it's what I live for!
Hear my cry
You know I will go where you lead
I will always follow you
You are what I need more than life itself
Bring back Birdie please, or I'll diiiiieeeeeeee!

[Derek]

Posted: 3/1/05 at 10:24pm

I too really love the music from Brooklyn. I feel like it could have been much better with a different lyric writer. Well at least the music is good (in my opinion)

[Over_the_Moon]

Posted: 3/1/05 at 10:28pm

The dentist's song from Little Shop of Horrors... ugh. Hate it. That show has such great music too, it's a pity, in my humble opinion.

[iwearshoes]

Posted: 3/1/05 at 10:41pm

Good lord, i noticed after i started this board how many are from rent....that just saddens me because i know how true it is even though i love the show half of the lyrics are just so random!!


In regards to the dentist song-"i'd poison guppies and when i was done, i take a **** cat and bash in his head, thats when my momma said *what did she say* she said my boy i think someday, you'll find a way, to make your natural tendencies pay.....

oh sheer brilliance

[renthead2005z]

Posted: 3/1/05 at 10:44pm

i like the famous bare line: "you look great/ don't feel great/ in know" line it just sounds so bad in the music

[Rose_MacShane]

Posted: 3/1/05 at 10:47pm

*GASP* InfiniteTheaterFrenzy, you know lyrics from "Bring Back Birdie"??

[MusicMan]

Posted: 3/1/05 at 10:47pm

"What made it so right together/
is what made it all wrong"

ugga wugga meatball Updated On: 3/2/05 at 10:47 PM

[Rose_MacShane]

Posted: 3/1/05 at 10:53pm

Ooh! Ooh! Let's not forget "Carrie!!" The show that brought us such gems as:

"Doesn't anybody ever get it right?
Carrie!
Why don't they remember that I'm Carrie White?
Carrie!
Is it any harder to say than g*ddamn toad and crazy
And weirdo and dumb b*tch and
Doesn't anybody think that I can hear?
I hear!
'Specially when I got 'em screaming in my ear!
I hear!
When did everybody decide I'm the one who's the flop?
If I had a wish, God, I wish they'd stop!"

And this song goes on for four more minutes...

[iwearshoes]

Posted: 3/1/05 at 10:53pm

ouch that was a little rough mm don't ya think?

[Rose_MacShane]

Posted: 3/1/05 at 10:54pm

Ooh...Priest ain't gonna like that...

[Over_the_Moon]

Posted: 3/1/05 at 10:56pm

Eh. Never was a fan of that dentist. Nor his song.

[InfiniteTheaterFrenzy]

Posted: 3/1/05 at 11:01pm

Rose, I have the Bring Back Birdie CD! It's hilariously awful... I'm sure a few members of this board own it as well...

Carrie has some of the worst lyrics ever, but i LOVE them! Come on, how can you not love:
"All we ever do is park
Then for hours, you grope me in the dark!
We would go bowling
If you really cared!!!"

[Rose_MacShane]

Posted: 3/1/05 at 11:06pm

Oh, I do love "Carrie!" My personal favorite lyric from "Don't Waste The Moon" is:

"Good girls go to heaven, so they say
But bad girls, they go everywhere!"

There's a "Bring Back Birdie" CD? Where?? And does it have Donald O'Connor's "You sing it! I hate this song anyway!" outburst?

[StickToPriest]

Posted: 3/1/05 at 11:14pm

It doesn't even slightly upset me even slightly, Rose.
Consider the source (MusicMan).
I have probably agreed with him once out of every post I've ever read of his, and that's a lot more than most people agree with him. I, like most people, have just stopped paying attention to his bitterness.

I just feel bad he cannot see the brilliance of that song and that lyric.

[InfiniteTheaterFrenzy]

Posted: 3/1/05 at 11:17pm

You can find the Bring Back Birdie CD on amazon.com, used.
It doesn't have his outburst, unfortunately... but it does have the song that caused the outburst!

[Rose_MacShane]

Posted: 3/1/05 at 11:24pm

Priest: Ah. I see.
ITF: Squee! I have to check that out!

[InfiniteTheaterFrenzy]

Posted: 3/1/05 at 11:28pm

Rose, you definitely should!
I love me some glorious flops!

[Mr. TN]

Posted: 3/2/05 at 1:11am

Over_the_Moon...Just for accuracy: Webber did not write the lyrics to Phantom. Charles Hart and Richard Stillgoe (sorry for butchering that spelling) wrote the lyrics. =)

[Justice]

Posted: 3/2/05 at 1:30am

Many lyrics from Falsettos - but the ones that stick out at this moment are the lyrics to Unlikely Lovers. Who would have thought that such a beautiful melody, with beautiful harmonies, could have the worst lyrics, ever...