Worst Broadway Lyric ever?- Page 4

[hopesanddreams]

Posted: 3/2/05 at 1:36am

I always cringe at "You're on your own; You have no friends." (Les Mis)

[phantom_tenor]

Posted: 3/2/05 at 2:35am

Where to start with phantom?

"Nothing can save you now, except perhaps Christine"

"You said yourself he was nothing but a man, but while he lives he will haunt us 'til we're dead"

"The phantom of the opera is there, deep down below"

and so on and so forth

Aspects of Love:

"Shall i get some coffee?"

is it just me, or do lots of post-rice ALW shows have really appalling lyrics?

Company

I know i'll be crucified for this, but in being alive the lyric "Somebody crowd me with love" has always really annoyed me.
I don't know why, but i always feel like an idiot singing that part.

[thawikedclown]

Posted: 3/2/05 at 3:34am

BKLYN
"but now christmas makes me cry"
"my daddy doesnt know that i was even born"
these are terrible and are made worse by the fact that they are the chorus of the worst musical theatre writing EVER.

[BreakingTheCircle07]

Posted: 3/2/05 at 3:38am

"think twice before you poo poo it." ~Rent
"you're a gentleman and a scholar!" ~Q

[musicaldude57]

Posted: 3/2/05 at 8:04am

definitely "okay, so the moon is cheese" from merrily we roll along.

[Jamie Hat]

Posted: 3/2/05 at 9:52am

I'm just going to say ALL of "Dancing Through Life"

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 3/5/05 at 10:08pm

MusicMan cites the followig lines:
"What made it so right together/
is what made it all wrong"

MusicMan, I don't understand what is wrong with those lines? They perfectly encapsulate what the character is saying.

When talking BAD lyrics I usually cite clumsy rhymes, bad syntax
and awkward phrasology.

JEKYLL & HYDE has terrible lyrics ("Murder! Murder!" is really awful.) PHANTOM is saddled with lyrics so bland ("All I ask of You") that they hardly register. SUNSET BLVD has lyrics that just restate the same idea over and over ("With One Look") to little effect, but even worse the song "Let's Have Lunch" uses expressions ("let's Have Lunch", "How's it hangin'?") that were not used at all in 1950 when the story takes place.

Then there is the wonderful informative lyric that goes: "Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats, Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats, Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats, Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats, Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats, Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats...etc" Now, boys and girls, what have we learned from this? Oh, and the reason I hated CATS so much the line in the finale "So first your memory I'll jog and say a cat is not a dog." Great! I lost 3 hours to learn that???

[Bwaybaby109]

Posted: 3/5/05 at 10:14pm

"The duckling has been sighted in the ****'s litter tray." from Honk! I'm in that show right now and we always make fun of that part when we get to it.

[Urban]

Posted: 3/5/05 at 11:01pm

"I must have her to wife" - Agony (Into the Woods).

Always been a wtf line to me.

[QtKt]

Posted: 3/5/05 at 11:28pm

"There are bridges you crossed you didn't know you crossed until you crossed."

[elphieisperky]

Posted: 3/6/05 at 8:31am

I know some people love this line on other websites, but...
"Nessa? Uh, Nessa? I've got something to confess-a..."
How stupid!

Personally, I love the bridges line. Oh, and this one, from Seussical:
"A person's a person no matter how small!"
I'm in that play, and whenever I hear that line, I want to die.
Updated On: 3/6/05 at 08:31 AM

[Falsettoland]

Posted: 3/6/05 at 9:53am

For some really petty reason I always cringe to "So the thing that I did was to make myself a list" from Baby...
LittleFish? It really says Jaded Mandarin!? I've always sung that but assumed I was wrong. I'm so glad you brought that up. What the hell does that MEAN???
I love the lyrics of Unlikely Lovers, maybe I'm just an huge dork (Maybe? Who am I kidding? Definitely a huge dork).

[Corine2]

Posted: 3/6/05 at 9:56am

The entire production of BKLYN the so called musical.

[playbill_signer_05]

Posted: 3/6/05 at 10:27am

You... hate... the... dentist... song? *sniffle sniffle*
I love that song!!!
But yeah, as much as I love RENT (it's my favorite show), I agree that one strange lyric (not the worst ever) is "I'll call. I hate the fall." It doesn't make sense to me.

[leefowler]

Posted: 3/6/05 at 10:33am

I thought this was a great lyric, but I'm not sure now.

I was lucky enough to be talking to Stephen Sondheim, and the subject of Carolyn Leigh came up. I mentioned I loved her lyrics, and Mr. Sondheim agreed. I then recited my all time favorite Carolyn Leigh lyric, from "Little Me,"

No man's a real pariah deep down inside...
rhyming with:
No man's a real Uriah Heep down inside.

I expected Steve to compliment me on my good taste, but he said, "No, that's a terrible rhyme! Pariah and Uriah don't rhyme at all. I'm surprised that Carolyn would write something like that." Oh well.

So what was formerly my favorite lyric I now submit to the worst Broadway lyric thread.

[sassypanz]

Posted: 3/6/05 at 1:18pm

"Its the best state fair in our state." From State Fair

[eatlasagna]

Posted: 3/6/05 at 2:58pm

i second everything you RENT people say... i had always wished they changed that poo poo line...

although I loves me some Miss Saigon... there are some lyrics that are stupid:

"This little girl we could be in a sack, for what it costs me to buy a Big Mac" eeek... what the heck???

"I'll stretch a couple rules to issue you her pass, that's it you're ready nice ass..." that line comes out of left field

"chris don't be a schmuck the Ambassador is leaving now" now i know that change it in America but the London version kept it... who uses schmuck anymore, really?

[EponineThenardier]

Posted: 3/6/05 at 3:29pm

I was very excited to hear schmuck used in a musical, but its the completely wrong place for it. I started giggling in the theater when I heard that line, and the scene it's in is the worst place to laugh.


*cracks knuckles* Lets see...

Any line in "Clambake" hate that song.

The "You have no friends.. give up your guns etc" doesn't bother so much as "The People of Paris sleep in their beds" WTF?

A lot of On My Own is really crapola lyrics, Considering it was transfered from French to English, I wonder what the REAL lyrics are.

Just about anything from Cats, uuuggg. Jellicles do and Jellicles can, Jellicles can and Jellicles do. DO WHAT? WTF can they do?

[leefowler]

Posted: 3/6/05 at 3:34pm

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You're right, that T.S.Eliot couldn't write a Broadway lyric to save his life.

[MagicToDo82]

Posted: 3/6/05 at 5:43pm

"You can't bury truth in silence, like a tree its gonna rise."

[Bwaybaby109]

Posted: 3/6/05 at 9:43pm

wow i can't believe my post got edited! I was only referencing a cat! ^_^

[phantom_tenor]

Posted: 3/7/05 at 1:20am

omg, how could i have forgotten this one?!

ALL the lyrics from Bui Doi from Miss Saigon. It's the only saigon song i like, but god, it's got some BAD words.

"Like all surviors i once thought
once i get home i won't give a damn
But now i'm caught
I'll never leave Vietnam"]

"These kids hit walls on every side
They don't belong in any place
Their secret they can't hide
It's written on their face.
I never thought i'd plead
for half breeds from a land that's torn
But then i saw a camp for children
Whose crime was being born"

"We owe them fathers, and a family,
and loving homes they never knew"

"Help me TRYYYYYYYYY!"

wtf is that?

sorry for reciting basically the entire song, but the lyrics are just too awful!!!!!

[chickenlover]

Posted: 3/7/05 at 2:41am

All the lyrics in Rent.

[wickedfiyeroofoz]

Posted: 3/7/05 at 10:10am

"Poor Galinda forcced to reside with (whatever they say here) disgustingdefied? lol i love wicked but wow...and the nessa "confessa" is pretty bad to!

[DivaMommy]

Posted: 3/7/05 at 2:04pm

The line that bugs me the most is from Beauty and the Beast -

"No pain could be deeper, no life could be cheaper"

It's such a climactic part and I just cringe!!