Favorite brilliant dumb lyrics

"You were distant....now you're nearer...I can see you face inside the mirror....the lights are out, and I can feel ya, baby, with my hand"

-- just two brief excerpts from "C'mon & Love Me" by Kiss.

"Everybody rapping like it's a commercial
Acting like life is a big commercial."

You watch me beatin' my drum,
and you KNOW what my hands can do,
and you wish you were the one,
that I was doing it to..."

- KISS, "Great Expectations"

But the funny thing is what happened to her nose
It grew until it reached all of her toes
Now when people say her feet they mean her nose"
-Lou Reed

Two alone in a sack of skin
playing the role of slave master of war
that is my lot

Separated but still united
Bound to emptiness, bound to flesh
that is my hell

[...]

Two alone in a sack of skin
playing the role of slave master of war
that is my lot

Separated but still united
Bound to emptiness, bound to flesh
Captured and tortured
I don't want this, I want to leave

It took me three readings to realise this song is actually about testicles!

The best dumb couplet of all time. Can anyone name the song?

The line is "Now when people say her feet smell they mean her nose." Which is even more brilliant and dumb.

I was a hippie
I was a burnout
I was a dropout
I was out of my head
I was a surfer
I had skateboard
I was so heavy, man
I lived on the strand

I was so wasted

I was so fucked up
I was so macked up
I was so screwed up
I was out of my head
I was so jacked up
I was so drugged up
I was so nebbed out
I was out of my head

I was so wasted
I was wasted

"wasted" with black flag, 53 seconds of pure fun

Good catch. I just pasted it from some random lyric site without double-checking it, and you pinpointed my very (least) favorite line.

Isn't this a Circle Jerks song, or did Keith Morris do it with Black Flag too?

The best dumb lyric:
'I see you on the bus / You make me nauseous' - from 'Sick To Death by. the one and only SUPERCHARGER, on 'Supercharger goes way out' , which was the best thing that came out of that neo-garage four - track thing that gave us sych bands as The Mummies, who get so many dumb genius prizes it's obscene. What a band; every one needs some records by them. But get '... goes way out' first.

you can't use the family feud

you can run it on the COO COO

i have no clue what the guy means, or if i'm even hearing it right, but its just ridiculous as hell and a fun listen.

brighten the corners is full of this

met her at a dance
it was romance
took her by the hand
it was romance
gave her my drink
it was romance
i told her i loved her
it waaas
romaaaance

kissed her lips
it was romance
touched her hips
it was romance
asked her outside
it was romance
i told her i loved her
it waaaaas
romaaaaance

i'm a frantic romantic
i like to have nice girls
i'm a frantic romantic
in a romantic wooorllld

fell for her eyes
it was romance
stars in the sky
it was romance
she was so kind
it was romance
i told her i love her
it waaass
romaaance

i'm a frantic romantic
i like to have nice girls
i'm a frantic romantic
in a romantic wooorllld

"YOU'RE DEAD MEAT MOTHERFUCKER!! YOU DON'T TRY TO RAPE A GODDESS!!!!" --Babes in Toyland, "Bluebell"

Looks like "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" just got itself a brand new theme song...

now you are gone forever
shot by your uncle trevor
my story seems so tragic
ali bongo's good at contortionism...

slowly i picked my life up
now i go and pick my wife up
she works at marks and spencers
la la la lech walesa's

hmm...

great to see the scientists on this thread too.
what a god-awesome band!

ODB - Got Your Money

"You're the plug, I'm the socket."

Either the kid needs to get his birds & bees straightened out, or else he's set a new standard for sexual adventure in chart radio. Either way, ewww.

"And she's loving him with that body I just know it" - Rick Springfield

The entire KLF singles output.

Hawkwind, with the, uh, rather literal 'Space is Deep'. love it.

it's in the way that she poses
it's in the things that she puts in my hair
her stories are boring and stuff
she’s always calling my bluff

TMFTML
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- Daniel Johnston

saying, basically, "see, you can have your xmas tree and eat it too", which appears dumb-ish t'me (tho funnily so);
on the other hand i sort of like the song itself, if only for the fact that it somehow manages to out-Oasis Oasis (and not in the dumbest manner imaginable)

The best part about that lyric is that it has absolutely NOTHING to do w/ the song it introduces. Said song also includes this choice (& flat-out brilliant) set of lines:

Your rotted-out cathedral porn
Greets me on the bus each morn
But with my open eyes, I see the world that my parents blew

- Hawksley Workman ("Don't Be Crushed")

"Standing on a highway
Pants around my knees
I’d write her name out on the road
But I can’t piss 'Denise'"

Ass Ponys, "Grim"

I really like the line in Three Dog Night's "Joy to the World", where he says he wants to "throw away the cars and the bars and the wars and make sweet love to you."

I once saw this raucous punk goth band in the mid-Eighties at the Cat Club in New York who performed this ridiculous shouty song that went "I got a dick! I got a cunt! One in the back! One in the front!" I wish I could remember what they were called.

I don't know where it comes from by Ride.

"There's a hole in the sky.
Don't ask me why.
Because I don't know."

- Yngwie Malmsteen

turin brakes, future boy

woody guthrie

r kelly, i put it to you that you don't even HAVE a 'fro.

this thread is brilliant dumb more please.

Every single lyric mentioned in this thread to thread.