you think you coulda done better!?

[Shpoop]

im sure we've all listened to songs and thought you had some lyrics that fit better in a certain song...not much, and doesnt change the meaning, but just seems to flow better.

ive got a thousand, but i can only remember a couple at the moment.

green day - boulevard of broken dreams

...My shadow's the only one that walks beside me,
My shallow heart's the only thing that guides me,
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me...

ok so i can only remember one, but ive thought of tons

anyone else got any?

[K-Wise]

A million but I can't remember any of em right now. More often times it's not so much I would have worded it different but I would have sung it different.

Asta!!

[Lover's Spit]

I think what Bright Eyes is doing just rocks, I love the way Conor Oberst writes and records music, the raw aspect to it. I just wish I could edit the shit out of the lyrics on the new record, and take out all the cliches... seriously, it's almost sickening how predictable the lyrics get. Not to concepts so much being predictable, but once he's said a word it's really easy to think what he'll rhyme it with.

Rhyme bothers me like that sometimes, but I'm not gonna be one of those toocoolforschool types who complain about it.

[Halx]

Every time I listen to a song from Funker Vogt, I think I could do better. Germans writing English lyrics is not good.

[ravenradiodj]

I agree, Halx. I still listen to them, though, lol.

[guy44]

Germans can write some damn fine lyrics - The Notwist, for example, don't seem to have a problem.

Ben Gibbard, for me, is a huge conundrum (the guy from Death Cab for Cutie and a billion other things). His lyrics can be simply masterful, and far more imaginative than a 100 other bands put together. They can also be cheesy and painful to listen to.

Like from Such Great Heights, a Postal Service song:

I am thinking it's a sign/ That the freckles in our eyes are mirror images/ And when we kiss they're perfectly aligned

Blech. But then, the song before it on the album, The District Sleeps Alone Tonight, is perfectly written. Go figure.

[high_jinx]

duran duran. they were great musicians, but they had absolutely nothing to say.

[1slOwCD8]

I dont know if i could of done better, but i think that Puddle on Mudd have horibble lyrics. "Everything's so blurry and everyone's so fake and everybody's empty and everything is so messed up," cmon, that just plain sucks.

[anleja]

That Chad Kroeger song from the Spiderman soundtrack, "Hero."

"Someone told me that love would all save us."

Is that even grammatically correct?

oh, if I had to change it, how about...

"someone told me that love will save all of us
but how can that be if I can't even afford to ride the bus."

Okay, maybe it's not that easy.

[K-Wise]

Being an emcee myself often times I hear a rap song and think of little spaces where I would have worded it better. And not that I just THINK it would be better I know what I'm talking about. Sometimes just adding 1 single word can mean all the difference to the flow of a bar.

Asta!!

[Shpoop]

i know what u mean k-wise...and i was listening to a song today and remembered another one i thought of a long time ago. I know im playing with fire, critiqueing an all time great, but here goes

in Elton John's Candle in the Wind for Diana near the end, it goes "Who'll miss the wings of your compassion, more than you'll ever know"...i think it would flow much better if he said
"Who'll miss the wings of your compassion, more than you could ever know"

listen to the song, i think youll see what im talking about


and most of you missed the point, its not which bands have shitty lyrics (oh there are plenty) its which one or two lines of a song you think you could have worded better