20 Weirdest Song Lyrics of All Time that’ll make you cringe
Lyrics can make or break a song. But sometimes even when listening to hit songs, we come across lyrics that make us go “Wait, what did they just say?” The ever increasing competition in the music industry has forced many artists to try new things and well, we can say that not all of that has gone too well.
Here are 20 weirdest song lyrics of all time:
1) Eminem – Love The Way You Lie
“Now you get to watch her leave out the window,
Guess that’s why they call it window pane”
Eminem was trying to make a clever pun: attributing window panes being named that way with the ‘pain’ you feel your lover leaves through one, but it really just raises the question of why anyone would ever leave through a window when doors exist?
2) Rihanna – What’s My Name?
“The square root of 69 is 8 something, right?
Cause I’ve been tryna work it out”
Rihanna makes it obvious that she dropped out of high school.
3) Oasis – Champagne Supernova
“Slowly walking down the hall,
faster than a cannonball”
Songwriter Noel Gallagher admitted that the reason this contradictory line even existed was that ‘cannonball’ was the only word he could think of that rhymed with ‘hall’ at that moment.
4) Ke$ha – Blah Blah Blah
“Zip your lips like a padlock”
Ke$ha clearly has no idea how padlocks operate.
5) The Clash – Should I Stay Or Should I Go?
“If I go there will be trouble, if I stay it will be double”
In this 1982 hit song, lead singer Mick Jones repeatedly questions whether he should stay or go, when the answer is clearly to go as it will amount to only half of the trouble that staying will cause.
6) The Beatles – I Am The Walrus
“I am the eggman, they are the eggmen,
I am the walrus, goo goo g’joob”
This song has no rhyme or reason, and was actually written in three parts: two of which were written by John Lennon during an acid trip – and the lyrics are reflective of that.
John later said, “What does it really mean, ‘I am the Eggman?’ It could have been ‘The pudding Basin’ for all I care. It’s not that serious.”
Indeed, it’s definitely not serious.
7) David Guetta ft. Akon – Sexy Bitch
“I’m trying to find the words to describe this girl without being disrespectful,
Damn, you’se a sexy bitch.”
If the objective was to be respectful, Akon fails to reach it immediately by calling the girl a ‘sexy bitch’. To be fair, he did say he was ‘trying’ – success was not guaranteed.
8) Fergie – Fergalicious
“T to the A to the S T E Y, girl you tasty”
Hey Fergie! Next time, run the lyrics through a spell checker before releasing them.
9) Black Eyed Peas – Boom Boom Pow
“Beats so big I’m stepping on leprechauns”
We’re not sure what this line means, and doubt the Black Eyed Peas know either.
10) Bruno Mars – Grenade
“Should’ve known you was trouble
From the first kiss
Had your eyes wide open
Why were they open?”
The only way Bruno could’ve known her eyes were open would be if his own eyes were open.
11) Hilary Duff – So Yesterday
“If the light is off, then it isn’t on”
Thank you, Captain Obvious.
12) Puff Daddy – Can’t Nobody Hold Me Down
“Young, black, and famous, with money hangin’ out the anus”
Perhaps we should’ve expected such a lyric by someone named ‘Puff Daddy’. He really needs to go see a doctor, though.
13) Carly Rae Jepsen – Call Me Maybe
“Before you came into my life, I missed you so damn much”
How can one miss someone they never even knew before?
14) Jessie J – Wild
“Am I asleep? No, I’m alive”
Jessie missed the memo that to be asleep, one needs to be alive.
The song also features Big Sean, who raps this line:
“Today I woke up, feelin’ like a mirror”
We weren’t aware mirrors were sentient beings with emotions one could relate to.
15) Razorlight – Somewhere Else
“I met a girl. She asked me my name. I told her what it was.”
Oh come on, you can do better than that. Have a little imagination.
16) Live – Lightning Crashes
“Lightning crashes, a new mother cries,
Her placenta falls to the floor”
The band could’ve afforded to be a little less graphic with this strange line.
17) REM – You Are The Everything
“Late spring and you’re drifting off to sleep, with your teeth in your mouth.”
It would be quite alarming if your teeth were anywhere else.
18) Thin Lizzy – Jailbreak
“Tonight there’s going to be a jailbreak, somewhere in this town.”
Not to assume, but it’s probably going to happen at… the jail?
19) Taylor Henderson – Borrow My Heart
“Love is a feeling that you feel”
Feelings are generally felt, yes.
20) J. Dash – WOP
“Hotta’ than a baby in a microwave”
Out of all the analogies possible in the world, he chose to say this? Attaboy Dash!