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Zeitoujo, those happen to be my favorite lyrics not only in Defying Gravity, but from the whole musical in general! That part is so powerful, and is always song wonderfully by whomever actress is playing Elphaba. There are plenty of worse lyrics like "Would it be alright by you, if I degreenify you?" (There's you used twice for a rhyme..." and "Let's have a celebration the Glinda way!" Also, in Happy New Year from Rent "To Dogs! No, Benny, to you!" and I agree with "I'm illin' I had it when I walked in the door." And there's more I'm sure...

This is the first time I tumbled onto this message board, and I felt compelled to register just to mention the lyrics from Brooklyn. All of them. But this section, in particular, really bothered me:

Love was a song, like mist in the spring.
My fingers were young, and could dance on these strings.
And life was a dance, an endless ballet, suspended in time and then swept away.
Fate, like the wind, wild, untamed, left me with nothing but shame!

Maybe it's this section in particular just because it led up to the father using his guitar as a machine gun leading to the one and only time I've ever run out of a theater during a show. I was in the second row and felt awful that I couldn't stop laughing. Thanks the gods that I was on the aisle!

the lyrics i cringe at in spring awakening (and again, i love it!) are in Touch Me
Touch me just like that.
And that - o, yeah - now, that's heaven,
Now, that i like.
God that's so nice.
Now lower down, where the figs lie.

i just shiver a bit, and not in a good way. but then there is something awkward about any kind of dialogue or sung dialogue like that - as expressed so well in When Harry Met Sally...

I mean I love the song lyrics to "Tonight" and "Maria" from WSS, but if you analyze them a little closer and forget about the lovely music, as much as I think it is truly one of the best musicals, even THAT, alas, is a combination of good lyric writing and dumb lyric writing.

"The most beautiful sound I ever heard, Maria": Well, maybe. You'd almost make a case if you were talking about the Virgin Mary.

"All the beautiful sounds of the world in a single word...": WHAT?! NO!! That word would be "OM", not Maria.

Of course, there's "Tonight". You think we're safe now that we get to a really poignant, important part in the show. NOT A CHANCE!!!

"Only you, you're the only thing I see forever": SHE'S AS DUMB AS HE IS!!! It's even MORE confused because in real life, no one would really EVER fall in love like Tony and Maria did.

"In my eyes and my world and in everything I do. Nothing else but you, ever.": THAT'S EVEN WORSE!!!! Real love doesn't weaken a person's mind; it's supposed to add a precious seeing to the eye! It's like you're doing your normal errands for the day, and then BOOM, you're doing it for her?! I mean, COME ON!! That would never happen in real life!

"Every sight that I see is Maria": SEE AN OPTOMETRIST, WHY DON'TCHA?!

And we can't forget about the absurdly evil words like:

"For here you are, and what was just a world is a star tonight": Well, I'm glad it's still a world, because we'd all burn up if it were a star.

But seriously, I'd say those songs are two of the best songs in the world, save for those weirdly absurd lyrics.

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Oh people come on be real

I think its pretty obvious where the worst lyrics come from

Carrie The musical (had some great songs and lyrics but then some mind numbingly stupid ones)

Dont Waste The Moon
Chris Sings To Billy "i think your the victim of an active gland"

Out For Blood
Chris Sings To Billy "it's a simple little gig you help me kill a pig and ive got some plans for the blood"

Out For Blood
Chorus Sings "kill the pig pig pig kill kill kill kill and make it bleed, get the blood blood blood oh blood, kill the pig make it bleed get the blood it's all we need, for blood"

IN
Girls sing " and i worry, what if all my ends should split"

IN
Girls sing "bought the coat, did my nose, god i followed ever rule"

Dont Waste The Moon
Girls Sing To Guys "we would go bowling if you really cared"

and so on and so on

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And let's not forget...

"Blah, blah, blah blah, blah blah, blah..."

I think we all know what THAT is from.

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"who do you think you are, barging in on me and my guitar"
Practically all of roger's songs/lines are plain cheesy and or stupid.

Exactly MamawhoBoreme. "Junk" is slang for heroin. In the song, they even say "I go up to my room, turn my stereo on, shoot up some you..."

So it is like saying, "We've all got our addiction, and my addiction is you."

Also, if you listen, I don't believe the addiction is a person, but actually referring to "you" as the act of masturbation itself. Which if you think about it is kind of funny, because then becomes a love song being sung to the addictive act of self-pleasure itself.

And don't forget: "They say you go blind, maybe it's true.
We've all got our junk, and my junk is you."

I love it!

Updated On: 2/4/08 at 02:49 PM

Dancing Through Life: Listen Nessa, I have to confess a.. GAG

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BwayBaby18 ~ I thought it was "I'd sooner try defying gravity". Makes a little more sense that way...even if it's wrong. :)

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I thought it was "I'd sooner try defying gravity". Makes a little more sense that way...even if it's wrong.

"Try defying gravity" is the way it's sung the first time, for sure. It's only sung as "buy defying gravity" after the lyric "if that's love, it comes at much too high a cost". It's not entirely random, as there's a correlation between cost and buy.

Though "buy" would be used in "buy defying gravity" as "accept, believe in, ascribe to", like one would say "I just don't buy that".

Of course, it is a bad lyric. It's just not a nonsensical lyric.

Anyway. All of the really awful lyrics from Wicked are among my ironic favorites. If I had to choose a lyric I really think is awful it'd be from For Good, probably. Degreenify > Handprint on my heart any day of the week.

This may have already been mentioned, but:
"Think twice before you poo-poo it."
-Rent