What do you think is Stevie's worst lyric?

[MissLadyLoki]

Originally Posted by APerfectLie

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."

I knew I made a mistake. Then again, i thought she said "Like a weirdo I can bend" in Stand Back (it's really willow, but still)

[vivfox]

Originally Posted by Sanne2

"You can ride high atop your pony
I know you won't fall...
'Cause the whole thing's phoney"

I love these words because they were so pivitol of her career at that moment in time. Great way to begin her first solo album, if you ask moi.

You can ride high atop your pony--Stevie can be on top of the world, a big time rock and roll star flying on private planes, riding in expensive cars

I know you won't fall--very confident in who she is, an accomplished, famous star still rising

'Cause the whole thing's phony"--the entertainment business is sorta fake-players only love you when they're playing-sheltered from the real world

[vivfox]

Originally Posted by equeen102289

"The sky is not crying, the sky is blue. "

Most awful thing she has ever written.

The song sucks but I like these words.
The sky is not crying, the sky is blue. "--nobody is crying, everything is great, blue skies baby

[BellaDonna93]

Originally Posted by markolas

"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.

Well, I can't say that I "hate" or "dislike" any of her lyrics actually. Of course, there's some much better songs and lyrics she has written but I really can't say right now which one I dislike most...

That line, the bolded one, is actually the line that made me write my own songs basicly...so no, that's a good line ^^ I think, if you are a singer/writer, write your own songs!

[Dowie100]

Originally Posted by GypsySorcerer

"It's like a river, it's never ending" -- Illume

Yeah that one always bugs me, every single river in the world ends lol!

[Dodfather]

Woah - this thread has run and run! Great stuff guys. I had mercifully forgotten about That Made Me Stronger (the worst track on Trouble In Shangri-La) and Silver Girl (ditto for Say You Will)...BAD lyrics!

[blinker12]

LOVE this thread, especially markolas' post on Page 1! Hilarious.

Here are a couple that haven't been mentioned yet:

"I should have turned away and ran" ("Smile at You")
It should be "run"!! Hearing that is like having a stone in my shoe.

"Some carry a stiletto in their garter/Along with everything else/That they carry" ("Alice")
This makes me laugh. It's really funny.

"So she stood there in the hallway frozen/In the dark/And her heart broke down/She cried/She fell to the floor/One tear..." etc. etc. ("Love Is")
This language is purpler than purple.

I also second the lines mentioned from "Jane," "Silver Girl," "Not Make Believe" and others. "Not Make Believe" is tragic because I love the music/arrangement for that song, but the words are a string of botched cliches ("They both rush by/Like a thief in the night" - should be thieVES! Another grammar fail!)

[SapphireSister]

Originally Posted by Dowie100

Yeah that one always bugs me, every single river in the world ends lol!

In Stevie's defense, no it doesn't. Haven't you ever been to a water park where they have the circle river and you can put your raft in and float round and round for hours? That's what she's talking about people, a circular river! Man-made or not it's still a river that's never ending. Go on with your bad self, Stevie!

[markolas]

Originally Posted by holidayroad

'Ooh, you're consistent. Hey, and that's good' (Love Is Like a River)

That whole song is a lyrical clusterf*ck.

[APerfectLie]

Originally Posted by Dowie100

Yeah that one always bugs me, every single river in the world ends lol!

But as Hermann Hesse once said, "The river is everywhere." "...at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the rapids, in the sea, in the mountains, everywhere at once" but it is constantly flowing, never ending.

[cliffdweller]

Originally Posted by MissLadyLoki

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

I really like this lyric because it immortalizes one of her most iconic features. I also like the sentiment, it's like she's saying, I do what I want and I'm unique and I don't care what anyone thinks. Rock on gold dust woman...

[michelej1]

I agree with most of these, but I actually like "the sky is not crying, the sky is blue." I think it captures how everything goes black for you when you're down. Because of what's inside, you see a storm, even on a clear day. Misery loves company, so you imagine the sky is crying with you. Cerebrally, you know better.
It's not crying. It's indifferent. Nature is impervious to your pain. Life goes on for the world around you, even if it's ending in your heart.

Michele

[equeen102289]

I am amazed that so many of you like "the sky is not crying" line. I cringe every time I hear it.

I agree with whoever mentioned the opening of Bella Donna. If the vocal and track weren't so good, I don't know if I could get over her use of the pony and phoney rhyme.

[GypsySorcerer]

Originally Posted by SapphireSister

In Stevie's defense, no it doesn't. Haven't you ever been to a water park where they have the circle river and you can put your raft in and float round and round for hours? That's what she's talking about people, a circular river! Man-made or not it's still a river that's never ending. Go on with your bad self, Stevie!

I think you're giving her too much credit.

Seriously, though, I think the river line is a lazy metaphor (or is it simile?)

[Silver Springs]

Originally Posted by GypsySorcerer

I think you're giving her too much credit.

Seriously, though, I think the river line is a lazy metaphor (or is it simile?)

She's saying it's like, so that's a simile