What do you think is Stevie's worst lyric?
 

Hi guys,

I'm guessing that the "chimpanzee" line will listed by a lot of you and yes, it is God-awful, but the other line that I think is up there as one of her worst has to be:

"she depends on her music like a husband" from Ghosts.

I actually like The Other Side Of The Mirror if I'm in the right mood, apart from the last track, and really like Ghosts too - but just not that line...ugggghhh!

What other lines make you all cringe?

Oh god, don't let the feminists get her :shocked:

Street Angel and OSOTM are full of bad lyrics, but the one I hate the most is:

"It hurts my self esteem, it hurts my everything" - Not Make Believe

"You can't have him, I do have him" also makes me cringe.

"It hurts my self-esteem, it hurts my everything...I am reeling...oh, it hurts my feelings" is pretty bad.

Her bellowing "Operation Desert Shield! Operation Desert Storm!" on Desert Angel always made me cringe.

"Would you write this for me, he says no, you write your songs yourself" is atrocious.

"Depends on her music like a husband" always bothered me, but it's far from her worst lyric. Same w/ the chimpanzee line.

I think "Gate & Garden" is about her vagina.

Oh, and "my walls are flaming." lol

I'm sure there are others that I can't think of right now.

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"My walls are flaming"

"Well they might as well have caged her own baby" and yes, all the chimp lines make me cringe.

"Well it's better to have loved and lost, than to never have loved at all" :rolleyes:

"Immersed in a hardcore world"

"She's got a million bucks and she looks like it..."

Silver Girl is a minefield of cringes! :lol:

That said, I really love the chorus

I always forget about Silver Girl! I like to pretend that song never happened. Poor Sheryl was probably like WTF?.

I suppose the thought was there, I don't even know what was going on in her head...

But then, nobody really does :rolleyes:

'Silver Girl' and 'That Made Me Stronger' both have lyrics that I thought were so beneath her, 'girly girl' in SG and a lot of 'TMMS'. She liked the songs, though, so that's good. Sometimes, I think Stevie just has to do what Stevie thinks she has to do, whether or not the decisions make for artistically good choices.
I also hated 'Goodbye Baby' as an encore on the SYW tour, it seemed so manipulative and inappropriate, considering, as the final song of the concerts. I think it is pretty lousy on the cd also, but I know some people love the song, so no offense meant.
There's so much SN has written, recorded and performed that I do like a lot, so I focus more on that to not question my lifetime of fandom.
I agree with the thread-starter, Dodfather, that the forgetful chimpanzee will get some votes.
Uh, forgotten.

"It makes no difference at all cause I wear boots all summer long" (it's more funy than bad IMO)

"For the moment that I'm Bruce Lee, eyes all kill poor ol' lonely on the edge of 17" (I probably misheard that one badly)

"My walls are flaming"

"Lightning strikes maybe once, maybe twice" (as much as I love Gypsy, that's hilariously bad)

Oh you guys. I actually have no problem with most of those lyrics. The two I do have a problem with are:

"They may tell you that you hold the world in you hands, but they always GIVE it back."
Shouldn't it be take it back?

"Seen anything today never seen anything like you"
LOL WUT? I always felt this line should have been "Seen many things today, but I've never seen anything like you."

LOL! It does kinda sound like that! But it's "But the moment that I first laid eyes on him, all alone on the edge of seventeen."

Oh, I hadn't listened to that in so long I forgot about it. :laugh: And she sings it with such pathos, too.

"And she stares at the stairs...ooh well there are many things to stare at these days"