Best rhyming lyrics ever

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"Idiot wind blowing like a circle around my skull
from the Grand Coulee Dam to the capitol"

--Bob Dylan, "Idiot Wind"

Tab25, Friday, 27 February 2004 18:45 (twenty-two years ago)

the amazing pubic / rubik line from "Cameltoe" still reigns supreme here.

caspar (caspar), Friday, 27 February 2004 18:48 (twenty-two years ago)

"I get stupid. I shoot an arrow like Cupid.
I use a word that don't mean nothing. Like looptid."

Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 27 February 2004 18:49 (twenty-two years ago)

"He was positively deranged-ah.
He was Kurious Oranj."

J J Dancer, Friday, 27 February 2004 20:20 (twenty-two years ago)

"I'm a man who needs no introduction / got a big tool of reproduction."

Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Friday, 27 February 2004 20:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Special Ed's "I Got It Made" to thread

chris herrington (chris herrington), Friday, 27 February 2004 20:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Last summer I swam in a public place, and a resevoir to boot.
At the latter I was informal, at the former I wore my suit.

Loud-o Blainblight "The Swimming Song"

avery schreiber, Friday, 27 February 2004 20:34 (twenty-two years ago)

*verse 1*
I'm your idol, the highest title, numero uno
I'm not a Puerto Rican, but I'm speakin so that you know
and understand I got the gift of speech
and it's a blessin,
so listen to the lesson I preach
I talk sense condensed into the form of a poem
full of knowledge from my toes to the top of my dome
I'm kinda young--but my tongue speaks maturity
I'm not a child, I don't need nothin for security
I get paid when my record is played--to put it short
I got it made

*verse 2*
I'm outspoken--
my language is broken into a slang
but it's just a dialect that I select when I hang
I play it cool--cuz coolin is all that I'm about
just foolin wit tha girlies, yes I'm bustin it out
I'm Special Ed and you can tell by the style that I use
I'm creatively superior, yo--I never lose
I never lost cuz I'm the boss
I never will cuz I'm still
the champion, chief one, won't lose until--
I choose

which I won't cuz I don't retreat
I'll run you over like a truck and leave you dead in the street
You're invitin me, a titan to a battle--why?
I don't need your respect cuz I--
got it made

*verse 3*
I'm talented, yes I'm gifted
never boosted, never shoplifted
I got the cash, but maoney ain't nothin
make a million dollars every record that I cut and--
my name is Special Ed and I'm a super-duper star
ever other week I get a brand new car

Got twenty, that's plenty yet I still want more
kinda fond of honda scooters--got seventy-four
I got the riches--to fulfill my needs
got land in the sand of the West Indies
even got a little island of my very own--
I gotta frog--a dog with a solid gold bone
An accountant to account the amount I spent
gotta treaty with Tahiti cuz I own a percent
got gear out wear--to everyday
boutiques from France to the U.S.A.
and I make all the money from the rhymes I invent
so it really doesn't matter--how much I spent, because, yo
I make fresh rhymes--daily
you burn me--really?
Think, just blink and I made--a million rhymes
just imagine if you blinked-- a million times
damn I'd be paid--
I got it made

*verse 4*
I'm kinda spoiled
cuz everything I want I got made
I wanted gear--got everything from cotton to suede
I wanted lead--I didn't beg I just got laid
My hair was growin too long, so I got me a fade
and when my dishes got dirty, I got Cascade
when the weather was hot, I got a spot in the shade
I'm wise because I rise to the top of my grade
wanted peace on Earth, so to God I prayed
Some kids across town thought I was afraid
they couldn't harm me--
I got the army brigade
I'm not a trader
if what you got is greater I'll trade
but maybe later cuz my waiter made potato -n- alligator souflee--
I got it made

chris herrington (chris herrington), Friday, 27 February 2004 20:37 (twenty-two years ago)


"I'm on the porch 'cause I lost my housekey
Pick up my book, I read Bukowski
Can I get another kiss from you
Kiss me right here, on my tattoo"

d. powers (popmatters devon), Friday, 27 February 2004 20:48 (twenty-two years ago)

So bon voyage, my darling it was real good knowing you - that's French for "have a good trip," if you didn't know
'Cos condescension is sexy, and I don't know why you wouldn't think so

Sonny A. (Keiko), Friday, 27 February 2004 21:05 (twenty-two years ago)

He asked him "Hey, where's this bus going"
and he said "well I'm really not sure"
he asked him "then how do you know where to get off"
and he said "the place with the most allure"

Sonny A. (Keiko), Friday, 27 February 2004 21:07 (twenty-two years ago)

"Oh Caroline (Caroline!) She's the reason for the word "bitch"
I hope she's speeding on the way to the club trying to hurry up to get to some baller or singer or somebody like that and try to put on her makeup in the mirror and craaaash, craaaaash, craaaaaaaash into a ditch!"

I say again, HOW FUCKING AWESOME is the new OutKast?

Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 27 February 2004 21:10 (twenty-two years ago)

black sabbath - "war pigs"

Generals gathered in their masses
just like witches at black masses

gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 27 February 2004 21:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Everybody's rappin' like it's a commercial/
Acting like life is a big commercial

J J Sexy Dancer, Friday, 27 February 2004 21:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Generals gather in their masses
Just like witches at black masses

Stupid (Stupid), Friday, 27 February 2004 22:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha, shit. I hate that. Next time I'm going to READ the thread first.

Stupid (Stupid), Friday, 27 February 2004 22:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Man, living at home is such a drag
Now your mom threw away your best porno mag (Bust it!)

Bob Six (bobbysix), Friday, 27 February 2004 23:14 (twenty-two years ago)

"Well I Think I'm Losing My Mind This Time
This Time I'm Losing My Mind
That's Right, Said I Think I'm Losing My Mind This Time
This Time I'm Losing My Mind"

Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Friday, 27 February 2004 23:20 (twenty-two years ago)

# I'm going out of my mind / oh / with a pain that stops and starts / like a corkscrew on my heart / ever since we've been apart #

Bob, If you see her, say hello

Seán (Ireland), Friday, 27 February 2004 23:28 (twenty-two years ago)

There's a bunch of other threads on this topic where I think I may have cited these same lines, but they are worth repeating:

Say the 1st one aloud -- maybe he's an annoying novelty musician or whatever, but this lyric is plain amazing!

"My dandy voice makes the most anti-choice grannies' panties moist."
~ MC Paul Barman

"Her name was Sally but they all called her Sal Mineo /
she was lit up like an arson but she burned out like Arsenio"
~ Lifter Puller

Ben Boyer (Ben Boyer), Friday, 27 February 2004 23:36 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm celebrating my love for you
with a pint of beer and a new tattoo

billy bragg

bb, Friday, 27 February 2004 23:44 (twenty-two years ago)

you can call me dirty and then lift up her skirt
you want some of this dirty GOD MADE DIRT AND DIRT BUST YA ASS

ol dirty bastard (nickalicious), Saturday, 28 February 2004 01:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I spent my last ten dollars on birth control and beer
Life was so much easier when I was sober and queer

-- Two Nice Girls

m.e.a. (m.e.a.), Saturday, 28 February 2004 01:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I used to read books and everything that was hanging about.
Now I'm livin' above some friends and just hanging out.

jim wentworth (wench), Saturday, 28 February 2004 03:22 (twenty-two years ago)

She got a light-skinned friend looks like Michael Jackson
Got a dark-skinned friend looks like Michael Jackson

m.e.a. (m.e.a.), Saturday, 28 February 2004 03:32 (twenty-two years ago)

"Son, I'm thirty,
I only went with your mother 'cos she's dirty"

alias, Saturday, 28 February 2004 08:09 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...
When you get right down to the nitty-gritty

Isn't it a pity that in this big city

Not a one a'little bitty man'll admit he

Could have been a little bit wrong

petie-b, Wednesday, 14 April 2004 18:29 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...
all the streets are cramed with things
eager to be held,
I know what hands are for,
and I'd like to help myself.

Martin H R, Tuesday, 27 September 2005 09:03 (twenty years ago)

n let's go siesta in your ford fiesta

hub, Tuesday, 27 September 2005 09:13 (twenty years ago)

i got cold and i froze,
now my, my temperatures changing
and you thawing out too girl
and i, i know what you thinking

Martin H R, Tuesday, 27 September 2005 09:15 (twenty years ago)

I drink juice by the gallon
I'm like a combination Joe Stalin
And Woody Allen

or

And A&R?
It don't spell A-R-T
Music is cheap, so mine shall be
I keep it surreal cos I don't take reality seriously
I'm serious, G
cos I can't sit still
and I can't chill
and no I can't kill
the will
to be an imbecile

Don King of the Mountain (noodle vague), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 09:23 (twenty years ago)

I don't beg cause cause I'm not at begonia
I dress warm so that I won't catch pneumonia
My rhymes are stronger than ammonia
I'm a diamond, you're a cubic zirconia

Nice & Smooth - Hip Hop Junkies

hmmm (hmmm), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

Actually, those reek of rhyming dictionary.

hmmm (hmmm), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

These don't. Pop music version of Emily Dickinson's slant rhyme:

I never thought it would happen
With me and the girl from clapham
Out on a windy common
That night I ain’t forgotten
When she dealt out the rations
With some or other passions
I said you are a lady
Perhaps she said I may be
We moved into a basement
With thoughts of our engagement
We stayed in by the telly
Although the room was smelly
We spent our time just kissing
The railway arms we’re missing
But love had got us hooked up
And all our time it took up

I got a job with stanley
He said I’d come in handy
And started me on monday
So I had a bath on sunday
I worked eleven hours
And bought the girl some flowers
She said she’d seen a doctor
And nothing now could stop her

I worked all through the winter
The weather brass and bitter
I put away a tenner
Each week to make her better
And when the time was ready
We had to sell the telly
Late evenings by the fire
With little kicks inside her

This morning at 4:50
I took her rather nifty
Down to an incubator
Where thirty minutes later
She gave birth to a daughter
Within a year a walker
She looked just like her mother
If there could be another

And now she’s two years older
Her mother’s with a soldier
She left me when my drinking
Became a proper stinging
The devil came and took me
From bar to street to bookie
No more nights by the telly
No more nights nappies smelling

Alone here in the kitchen
I feel there’s something missing
I’d beg for some forgiveness
But begging’s not my business
And she won’t write a letter
Although I always tell her
And so it’s my assumption
I’m really up the junction

brianiac (briania), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

Some people like cheeba, some like brew,
I get mad lifted off four gallons of glue,
Pretty soon I spin like a top, in the middle of the room
And the shit won’t stop!
Now what I see when I triiiiippppp.......
The rats in the basement all start to flip,
All through my building, from door to door,
I swear there’s a fire, so I piss on the floor,
Now down the corridor was old fat Ned,
Schemin’ on a blowjob from a crackhead,
He was like `Hey wanna piece little man? ’
I was like `yo, I’m better off with my haaaannnndddd!!!!!!!’
Oh shit, reality returns,
I need another hit but the glue won’t burn,
I’m cuckoo and murderous, just plain nuts,
Smokin’ sodium menthol cigarette butts,
And trippin’....

gear (gear), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

Jonathan Richman is the king of a certain kind of very silly rhyme. Like this:
If I were a shopping center
I'd sure be embarrassed
I know I'd never get a date
With some cute little building
Like from Paris

k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

Fighting fires with unlit matches
From our respective trenches
No authority can clean up this mess we're in
A miracle might point the way
To solutions we're after
And avert our chronic impending disaster

yorvox, Tuesday, 27 September 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

Tea, girls, warm and sweet
Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham Suite

davidsim (davidsim), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

Hmmmm's one reminded me of:

"What do you get when you kiss a girl
You get enough germs to catch pneumonia
And when you do, she'll never phone ya"

ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

There are so many oh-so-clever examples that I'll go with a gloriously stupid one instead:

"It had to start somewhere / So it started... [beat] there."

joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

There are people wearing frowns, they'll screw you up but they would rather screw you down

kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

Jonathan Richman is the king of a certain kind of very silly rhyme.

Indeed ... and the classic near-rhyme:

"Some people try to pick up girls and get called asshole
This never happened to Pablo Picasso"

Another king of the so goofy it makes me grin rhyme is Peter Prescott (Volcano Suns, primarily, better known as drummer for Mission of Burma)

"I wanna make the whole world grow
Just like Barry Manilow" (Bumper Crop)

"Hallelujah ... a dab'll do ya!" and

"Throw your hands into the air
Make sure they don't get stranded there" (both from Testify)

there are many more ...

Declan Zimmerman (Declan Zimmerman), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 23:19 (twenty years ago)

I used to know a bitch named Eric Wright,
we used to roll around and fuck the ho's at night.
Tighter than the motherfuckin gangsta beats,
and we was born on the motherfuckin Compton streets.

(Ben Folds' version is the one)

MHR, Wednesday, 5 October 2005 07:39 (twenty years ago)

NIRVANA - HEART - SHAPED BOX LYRICS
She eyes me like a pisces when I am weak I've been
locked inside your Heart-Shaped box for weeks ...

ret, Wednesday, 5 October 2005 08:03 (twenty years ago)


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