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Hugh Freaking DillonHugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
edited July 2010 in The Porch
that makes you cringe. There are very few, as I love Ed's lyrics, but one that I sort of laugh at every time I hear:

"it's like she lost her invitation to the party on Earth"

It actually sounds like something I would write. :lol:
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  • FrankieGFrankieG Abingdon MD Posts: 9,100
    I like that lyric 100 times more than any lyric in The Fixer... :?
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  • Dead Man WalkingDead Man Walking Toronto-ish Posts: 2,762
    Paul David wrote:
    that makes you cringe. There are very few, as I love Ed's lyrics, but one that I sort of laugh at every time I hear:
    "it's like she lost her invitation to the party on Earth"
    It actually sounds like something I would write. :lol:

    Well, when you just take one line and and place it out of context it does sound pretty silly. But then again, take "I got bugs" as a lyric on it's own and it sounds dumber than the I Love Turtles Kid.
  • teemanteeman Posts: 337
    FrankieG wrote:
    I like that lyric 100 times more than any lyric in The Fixer... :?

    +1
  • BinauralJamBinauralJam Posts: 14,158
    "On a rocking horse of time", otherwise brillant song.
  • Hugh Freaking DillonHugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
    totally! that's' another one I forgot about!
    KOYOURASS wrote:
    "On a rocking horse of time", otherwise brillant song.
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    Fargo 2003
    Winnipeg 2005
    Winnipeg 2011
    St. Paul 2014
  • geckogecko Posts: 1,712
    Make me fries.

    But seriously, if I am going to nitpick, then a few lines in Undone.
  • TheVan218TheVan218 Posts: 302
    Ask, I'm an ear.

    (cringe)
  • geckogecko Posts: 1,712
    :lol::lol:
  • Hugh Freaking DillonHugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
    :lol: I can't get enough of that video.
    gecko wrote:
    Make me fries.
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  • mysticweedmysticweed Posts: 3,710
    FrankieG wrote:
    I like that lyric 100 times more than any lyric in The Fixer... :?

    ESPECIALLY johnny guitar
    fuck 'em if they can't take a joke

    "what a long, strange trip it's been"
  • pandorapandora Posts: 21,855
    "She loved him, yeah...she don't want to leave this way
    She needs him, yeah...that's why she'll be back again
    Can't find a better man (can't find a better man)"

    I realize his meaning here behind the words but they still make me cringe,

    never ever settle on love
  • UpSideDownUpSideDown Posts: 1,966
    "When the gas in my tank, feels like money in the bank"
  • FenwayFaithfulFenwayFaithful Posts: 8,626
    There are a few that always bothered me, although just like the OP, I love 99.9% of Ed's lyrics:

    "Trying to shake the cancer off? Stupid human beings."

    "I'll be.... playing with my magazine, Using up my Listerine, Like Ovaltine." -- Come on Stone, you can come up with something better than that.

    "I'll never suck Satan's dick..."
    "FF, I've heard the droning about the Sawx being the baby dolls. Yeah, I get it, you guys invented baseball and suffered forever. I get it." -JearlPam0925
  • teemanteeman Posts: 337
    FenwayFaithful wrote:
    There are a few that always bothered me, although just like the OP, I love 99.9% of Ed's lyrics:

    "Trying to shake the cancer off? Stupid human beings."

    "I'll be.... playing with my magazine, Using up my Listerine, Like Ovaltine." -- Come on Stone, you can come up with something better than that.

    "I'll never suck Satan's dick..."

    Didn't realize Stone was fair game! "Don't Gimme No Lip" x20...
  • geckogecko Posts: 1,712
    Mike, too? :twisted:
  • Lone Drawn MeteorLone Drawn Meteor Posts: 1,230
    Eddie Vedder wrote:
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    :roll: Getting to heaven. You're doing it wrong.
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  • Empty GlassEmpty Glass In Rob's shed Posts: 12,329
    I understand what he's getting at within the context of the song, but the single lyric makes me laugh

    "I never knew soap made you taller"
    I've met Rob

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    This place is dead

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  • edvedderrocksedvedderrocks Posts: 1,001
    KOYOURASS wrote:
    "On a rocking horse of time", otherwise brillant song.

    always thought they said "On a rocking horse at times" - which would to me meant seeing the world through the eyes of a child sometimes. I like that better and I'm sticking with it :D still an amazing song though...
    "I knew all the rules, but the rules did not know me. Guaranteed."

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  • StoneAmentStoneAment Posts: 393
    Fucked 5 virgins and pelican

    and a +1 for the fixer
    Mike McCready makes the energizer bunny look tired.
  • BinauralJamBinauralJam Posts: 14,158
    edvedderrocks wrote:
    KOYOURASS wrote:
    "On a rocking horse of time", otherwise brillant song.

    always thought they said "On a rocking horse at times" - which would to me meant seeing the world through the eyes of a child sometimes. I like that better and I'm sticking with it :D still an amazing song though...


    i like that to! well that helps.
  • mookeywrenchmookeywrench Posts: 6,019
    Love boat captain take the reigns....
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  • brolocobroloco Posts: 1,237
    like pilate i have a dog.

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  • dpmaydpmay Posts: 643
    his face seems pulled and tense...
    Like he's riding on a motorbike... in the strongest winds



    i dunno, always kinda rubbed me the wrong way. just don't like the metaphor. or fuck, is it simile?
  • wolfamongwolveswolfamongwolves Posts: 2,414
    Drop the leash, drop the leash - get out of my fucking face


    dumb



    Plus, every single lyric of both Sweet Lew and Whale Song makes me squirm violently
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    96: Cork, Dublin
    00: Dublin
    06: London, Dublin
    07: London, Copenhagen, Nijmegen
    09: Manchester, London
    10: Dublin, Belfast, London & Berlin
    11: San José
    12: Isle of Wight, Copenhagen, Ed in Manchester & London x2
  • topaztopaz Posts: 301
    FenwayFaithful wrote:
    There are a few that always bothered me, although just like the OP, I love 99.9% of Ed's lyrics:

    "Trying to shake the cancer off? Stupid human beings."

    "I'll be.... playing with my magazine, Using up my Listerine, Like Ovaltine." -- Come on Stone, you can come up with something better than that.

    "I'll never suck Satan's dick..."

    Agreed 100%. In fact when I play LBC I change that particular line to suit myself. Funnily enough though it's all subjective ain't it, cause I like some of the other lines people have listed on here, such as 'ask, I'm an ear', and even the OP's breakerfall one

    But top of the list of rub-me-the-wrong-way is definitely the ovaltine line. No offence Stone. It just irks me!
  • pj.uw.laurapj.uw.laura Posts: 553
    OK, I hesitated to even post this because I so deeply appreciate all of PJ's music, and I think Ed is one of the best writer's of all time. But I have to see if anyone agrees.

    I love "Just Breathe," but I feel like he's reaching a bit when he sings...

    "Some folks just have one, others they got none."

    I feel like that's too easy! The same guy that writes the lines in "Black" should not be writing a line that *I* could come up with. I couldn't write Black. I could write that line in Just Breathe. The line just seems like he was quickly trying to force something to rhyme.
  • Hugh Freaking DillonHugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
    I personally love that one because of its raw intensity.
    wolfamongwolves wrote:
    Drop the leash, drop the leash - get out of my fucking face


    dumb



    Plus, every single lyric of both Sweet Lew and Whale Song makes me squirm violently
    Gimli 1993
    Fargo 2003
    Winnipeg 2005
    Winnipeg 2011
    St. Paul 2014
  • mrshock13mrshock13 Posts: 472
    I would have to say pretty much all of Mankind...the whole vibe from that song rubs me that way.
  • DS1119DS1119 Posts: 33,497
    Glorified G gives me the heebie jeebies.
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