Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!hao!seismo!uwvax!harvard!wjh12!foxvax1!brunix!browngr!msw From: msw@browngr.UUCP (Mark Wachsler) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: The worst lyrics you've ever heard Message-ID: <1381@browngr.UUCP> Date: Wed, 3-Oct-84 01:06:55 EDT Article-I.D.: browngr.1381 Posted: Wed Oct 3 01:06:55 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Oct-84 20:22:43 EDT References: gargoyle.208 Lines: 26 [bug chow] >Any nominations for songs with bad lyrics? I'd especially like to see >songs with lyrics so bad (or pretentious) that they make you squirm just >to hear them (for example, terribly contrived rhymes). E. g.: > >"Till the stars fall from the sky > For you and I". This reminds me of one of my pet peeves about song lyrics, which I will now have to throw out to all you netters. I don't mind substandard English in songs (e.g. "I can't get no Satisfaction", etc.), but using "I" as the object of a preposition is really sick. People who do that (I would assume) think they're speaking standard English, but they're really massacring the language. One example that really bothers me is in Yes's "Changes": "One difference between you and I." Some other particularly grody lyrics are: "Baby, I'm a-want you" (Bread) "You never done me like that" (Captain and Tenille) Oh, well. That's enough for now. ----------------- I was alone, I took a ride, Mark Wachsler I did not know what I would find there. browngr!msw