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Re: Awful Lines

MacPhistoPT said:
"Well you stole it because I needed the cash, and you killed it because I wanted revenge"

I actually like this lyric.

The others you listed are pretty lame admittedly.
 
Re: Awful Lines

MacPhistoPT said:
"Miami my mammy..." and probably all the song

the whole song? :angry:

MacPhistoPT said:

"You've got yourself stuck in a moment and you can't get out of it"

"All because of you. AaAaaAaAll because of you. All because of you I am."

Agreed there! :up:

MacPhistoPT said:

"The whole world could just dissolve into a glass of water"

What's wrong with that one? It's a sexy line from possibly the sexiest U2 song ever!

MacPhistoPT said:

"Some days you wake up in the army and some days it's the enemy"

Agree with most of Some Days actually. :tsk:
 
I like Some Days....... :madspit: :wink:


The winner for me is the line from Big Girls Are Best.

"I'm gonna change like the weather, hot to cold."

:lmao:
It just makes me laugh every time. Its so stupid!
If anyone's seen the movie, "Kung Pow - Enter the Fist," it reminds me of when Chosen One and Wimp Lo are having a fight, and Chosen One kicks him really hard in the head, and Wimp Lo says, "Face to foot style! How do you like it?"
And then when the fight ends, he goes, "I'm bleeding. That means I win."


And overall worst lyrically goes to Fire.
"Calling, calling...." :yuck:
There's nothing to like about that song.
 
Re: Re: Awful Lines

Zootlesque said:


the whole song? :angry:



What's wrong with that one? It's a sexy line from possibly the sexiest U2 song ever!



Agree with most of Some Days actually. :tsk:

Yeah... Miami is the only song on Pop that I never got into and the lyrics are really strange.

I like Velvet Dress... it's completely different from everything. But I never liked that line, sounds like a cheap metaphor.

And Some Days... the song is cool, has a good mood, but the lyrics are too much stupid in some parts, and that line shows everything.
 
"Some days are slippy, other days sloppy
Some days you can't stand the sight of a puppy"

(The things that will be done for a rhyme -- but, sadly, it doesn't rhyme at all, really!)

I like the lyrics to this song, but this line bugs me:

"Grace... It's a name for a girl " (Gee...)

There are more - but many of them have already been posted... :)
 
U2girl said:
Numb/Miami/Some days are better than others.

Take your pick

COME ON!!

Numb rocks your world.
Don't theorize, realise, polarise, chance, dance, dismiss, apologise...

And honestly, this is pure beauty:
Some days you feel ahead - You're making sense of what she said
 
Re: Re: Awful Lines

BonoVoxSupastar said:


That's one of my fave lines on AB.

That line is not very very bad, but in a song that has lines like...

"Took a drive in the dirty rain
To a place where the wind calls your name
Under the trees, the river laughing at you and me.
Hallelujah! Heaven's white rose
The doors you open I just can't close"

...that one has to be considered as a weak line.
 
Re: Re: Re: Awful Lines

MacPhistoPT said:


That line is not very very bad, but in a song that has lines like...

"Took a drive in the dirty rain
To a place where the wind calls your name
Under the trees, the river laughing at you and me.
Hallelujah! Heaven's white rose
The doors you open I just can't close"

...that one has to be considered as a weak line.

Well the song is one of my top 5, so I like the whole lyric, but I always liked that one paticular line because it summed up how in control the singer is in this relationship in just one line.
 
:) well, BEVERLY56, if so, we have to had also

"who-hoo, who-ho-hooooooooooo"
"aha, sha-la"
"it's alright, it's alright, alright"
"ah la la la de day"
"boom cha"
"wham bam"

I wouldn't consider them as lyrics... they're just for fun or to fill the music :wink:
 
"i'm 'round the corner from anything that's real
i'm across the road from hope"

that's about as far as i can get with this song before i skip it.
 
to me the "boom cha" is what makes discotaque complete, it doesn't mean anything but somehow the song just lost its magic with out those two little words (or whatever it is):happy:
 
No one's really posted here in a while, but I'm new, and I really enjoyed reading this topic and just had a small comment...

Not that I think it's a bad line, but what about uno,dos,tres,catorce...now U2 fans KNOW he meant to say catorce, but to everyone else in the world it just makes Bono sound stupid because it sounds like he can't even count to four in spanish...

Anyway, just my two cents.
 
starvinmarvin said:
If you have any kids, or especially have witnessed the birth of your children, you will know what the lyric means. I bet if we did a poll about whether or not people like the lyric, you would find a correllation there.

I disagree. I have given birth to a few sprogs myself and I cringe at that lyric. :puke:
 
:drool: vertigo:

I can't stand the beat
I'm askin' for the cheque
Girl with crimson nails
Has Jesus 'round the neck
Swinging to the music
Swinging to the music
Woooao

i think this is the worst u2 lyric in the last 10 years.
I love boooooooom cha boooooom, discòtheque without this boom cha wouldn't be so good to dance!! :dance:
 
For all the bad comments the Spanish lines in Vertigo or Elevation took, there ought to be novels written about "Miami my mammy" and boom chas.
 
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Skip city names

BluRmGrl said:


:hmm: Maybe the guys just need to stay away from "place" songs... :giggle:


I totally agree on the Miami, New York thing

I think there lyrics are better if they don't name the city in the song like City of Blinding Lights
 
In defense of the often beaten up Miami on this forum of Elevationites:

Miami is an ode to beat poetry, it's not supposed to conform to your classic pop song routine. It's not a great line, it's not a clever line, it's not a hook, it's not even a chorus, it's not supposed to be. It's observation, stream of conscious, random, intenionally done so.

Maybe you think it's crap, that's fine, I think the line is pretty ridiculous myself but the manner of that song is to set a mood, not change the world, make a statement or to get on the fucking top 40. The poetry or seemingly nonsensical observation is just a vehicle for the music. It's a mood piece, on a moody languished album. It' s an ode to confusion. "My mammy" is indeed the worst line in the song, but is it given more weight than the "do-do-do-do or the yeah-yeah-yeah-yeahs" in other songs???

It's the same fucking thing, nonsensical fill-in's. At least "Miami, my mammy" contains the name of the song. But when Bono hits the "who-hoo's" in Pride or Elevation or COBL, now that is lyrical genius. Why aren't those mentioned? Because you get those?
My mammy is the same thing, if it's not then explain why.

In fact, is the omission of the "ba-pa-da da-da-ta-da-da" before Miami a signal that it doesn't count?? Inconsistent at best.

Again that particular line is pretty trite and pretty crap but to hold it to the same fire that other terrible lines are is dealing with apples and oranges.

Catorce, y'all!!!

:wink:
 
Did I waste it?
Not so much I couldn't taste it
Life should be fragrant
Roof top to the basement
The last of the rocks stars
When hip-hop drove the big cars
In the time when new media
Was the big idea
What was the big idea



Way to kill a fuckin great song
 
inmyplace13 said:
Did I waste it?
Not so much I couldn't taste it
Life should be fragrant
Roof top to the basement
The last of the rocks stars
When hip-hop drove the big cars
In the time when new media
Was the big idea
What was the big idea



Way to kill a fuckin great song

Word.
 
BluRmGrl said:


I used to think that, as well - until I saw it performed live at Charlotte during Elevation. It's not one of my favorites now, but I don't hate it near as much as I used to. :)


When the album first came album, New York didn't do anything for me at all,

But hearing it live at the astoria was brilliant - really rocked.

Not sure it's a song that would last the distance though - at the bigger concerts I went to, it didn't seem to keep the attention of the non-addicted U2 fans - much like Miracle drug has on the vertigo tour.
 
Also add -

'I know a girl, a girl called Party Girl
But she wants more than a party, party girl'

'I know a boy, a boy called Trash, Trash Can
He does all that he can, wham bam'
 
COBL_04 said:
Also add -

'I know a girl, a girl called Party Girl
But she wants more than a party, party girl'

'I know a boy, a boy called Trash, Trash Can
He does all that he can, wham bam'

shit lyrics indeed but don't forget that Bono does tell us on the Red Rocks vid that it's a "silly song".

so he probably knows they're bad :wink:
 
Re: Awful Lines

MacPhistoPT said:
I know there has been much topics with this subject although I did a list of the lines I hate :rolleyes:



"You set my desire, I trip through your wires"


that line from through your wires is hot. I love it

I like a lot of the lines here that people hate though :rolleyes:
 
1stepcloser said:


shit lyrics indeed but don't forget that Bono does tell us on the Red Rocks vid that it's a "silly song".

so he probably knows they're bad :wink:

They are pretty shit, but being a 15 year old male, I do reckon they are pretty funny. I mean - he does all that he can, 'wham bam'. I do love that line.
 
bonosgirl84 said:
"i'm 'round the corner from anything that's real
i'm across the road from hope"

that's about as far as i can get with this song before i skip it.

:sad:

I love that song. :D

"No I could never take a chance of losing love to find romance, in the mysterious distance between a man and a woman..." :huh:

Maybe the idea is ok but as a lyric that does NOT work for me.
 
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