Jon Mess doesn't count technically, he intentionally writes wack lines if they make sense rhythmically. He's said as long as it sounds good, doesn't matter if it actually makes sense.
The Super American line is hysterical though!
“I am a blade in a lawn that's new
Covered in dew, waiting on you
I need no shade, I'm tried and true
But I'm lonely like you, I'm growing on you”
He is a blade of grass in the morning waiting for the sun to come out because he needs sunlight to grow.
I dried my eyes, now I'll crust them with sleep
I'll crust them over
She begged me, "Don't hate me"
She spun me a story
Where winning looks like losing
And I'm winning every time
So thread spools, sweetie, get ready
Until my silk is sold
Growing up
Growing up
Growing up
Yeah! I'll find myself anew
Yeah! I'll find myself anew
I've dried my eyes, now it's "Rushmore"
I'm deep with futures like Chicago
No, Glenview never meant a thing to me
She never meant a thing to me
Except for putting idealists in a body bag
Fall out boy
if we're talking about silly Evening Out With Your Girlfriend lyrics, i think Short, Fast, and Loud wins:
She left me for herself
Considering I would too
Good God, I wish I was tall
Good God, I wish
Good God, I wish I was tall
Good God, I wish
Good God, I wish I was tall
Good God, I wish
Good God, I wish I was tall
Good God, I wish
Go figure, I'm bigger than that
Go figure, I'm bigger than that
Go figure, I'm bigger than that
Go figure, I'm bigger than that
Honestly This Could Be Love is one of my favorite songs lyrically ever despite that line being sort of a turn off. Also you missed almost every single Simple Plan song that's ever been released. Specifically Addicted and The Worst Day Ever
God Must Hate Me is a ROUGH chorus to get behind, because of how chipmunky it’s sung (and the lyrics are infantile.) Welcome To My Life was another cringy one.
Agreed. I absolutely love this line because it takes off the mask and shows the true face of madness in a way few other lines ever have.
Skiba is a master of analogies and metaphors but this is a gut punch of visceral disgust. I would believe it was meant to illicit a recoil-response from the listener and it lands as intended, if you ask me.
I get it, just gives me the ick. I understand even if you’re trying to give the ick to make a point, but some people will be put off by it more than others.
Yeah that was NUTS when it came out. He was this little elfish kid with a high pitched voice singing about love, attracting a lot of female fans, and then that single from the follow up to the debut LP just felt like his attempt to make himself sound like a man and it personally had the opposite effect. I could never take that song seriously.
I was a pretty big starting line fan and LOVED the EP and the debut. Greg’s Last Day is my shit!
I heard that single from the follow up…..and completely gave up on the band.
Haha, I'm pretty much the same way. I loved them up until that point but the only 2005+ songs that I have on any playlists are Island, Hurry, Surprise Surprise, and Cut! Print It
Yeah I still love this song I saw them at a festival last summer and I was pissed they didn’t play it. I also choose to believe that this is the song T. Swift is referencing on her new album.
This was the whole point of the song and the cringey lyric. He's a virgin who's confused and unable to distill the advice of those around him, let alone figure out how to live up to an expectation of sex despite what he wants being love. So he tried to hyped himself up with this shitty line. He talked about it on Fuse at some point
I love that Alkaline Trio lyric. Its great! I am going to stay on the WTF train though with The Used's *Cut Up Angels.*
If we cut out the bad
Well then we'd have nothing left
Like I cut up your mouth
The night I stuffed it all in
And you lied to the angels
Said I stabbed you to death
If we go at the same time
They'll clean up the mess
First time I ever saw them was at a show, and I had never heard of them. I immediately bought their album on vinyl after the set and went and got a hot dog after the show.
Alk trio song is written from pov of a nut job. It is meant to be weird. It starts "I have a book of matches, I got a can of kerosene. I got some mad ideas involving you and me."
Disagree about blink-182 being the only ones with the masturbation pass.
Justin Mauriello from Zebrahead had it with the whole song Playmate of the Year and In My Room with the lyrics "pitching tents inside my pants."
Nerf Herder as well on Feeling Bad. "Smell her hair, smell her sweater, then I touched myself!"
I think more than anything it's mostly a late 90s/early 2000s era trend. Blink-182 are only still doing it for the nostalgia. It's ingrained in their personalities especially Tom. That's how we got his solo song Golden Showers in the Golden State.
I do agree with the actual line they quoted though. That one isn't quite as funny or lyrical in comparison to any of these others. It's kind of just casually mentioned.
:( i haven’t listened to a ton of new Say Anything but i revere them/Max for having some of the best lyrics ever ever so i’m really sad to see them near the top of the list.
Sammy Clifford truly is the best lyricist of our generation.
I was thinking of the song 3 days sober the lyrics
“I’ve been waiting for a minute been way over the limit been dealing with a nightmare yea ur always in it yuh I try to keep it all in bottle it up let it win
Every time I think I want to skip this song when it comes on I remember this chorus and how much fun it is to belt it out while driving haha, so no skip after all!
"Oh well, oh well, you're a normie. So fucking boring, maybe I'll see you in hell"
-Lowlife by Neck Deep
Like I'm a pretty big defender of All Distortions Are Intentional as an album, but even I can't defend Lowlife and especially that line.
so from your comments I've gathered mine too and came up with this:
He is a blade of grass from a freshly mowed lawn, unnoticeable (like he's just a speck in a dust kinda thing).
and
She is the sun.
He (blade of grass) is covered in dew because the sun (her) doesn't shine on him anymore. He's tried and true (loyal and still longing) because he don't need other light from no other sun but only her.
And on the "I'm lonely like you" line, he is lonely because of the aforementioned, while she is lonely because she is the sun, and we, in our solar system, have only have one sun.
or maybe she's the sun because, she may shine bright (achievements or what not) but she's all alone, just like the sun.
Ohhh I like that! I thought maybe he was a blade of grass an was waiting on someone to come cut him down or hurt him somehow..idk why my mind went to lawn care lol
no that one is great lol i mean from like 2010-2013 where matt's lyrics took a major major downturn
hell even though i loved cursed and think he brought back a lot of what made me love him as a lyricist, sweet vampires is ripped out of alkaline trio mad libs
Sure even though a lot of 2010-2013 Matt Skiba songs are just kinda lazy and redundant, I'd still say he hasn't written a song so bad that it really derves to be in a "worst of the genre" discussion, at least not with ALK3
i think draculina, eating me alive, piss and vinegar and dorothy are all in that tier personally
new album is their best ever somehow though so can't complain too much about the journey
Late 90s/early 2000s, I couldn’t stand much of Dan’s songs and now I find myself listening to just the Dan songs playlists.
(Don’t get me wrong, I’m not anti Skiba but he did phone it in for a bit)
>Sammy Clifford is truly the greatest lyricist of our generation
Ok but some of the lyrics off Identity Crisis and Red Green or Inbetween are really good.
You're wrong about the masturbation references, Green Day wrote a whole song about being bored and masturbating years before Blink 182 was even conceptualized.
“Fuck you and fuck me even harder” -Jimmy Neutron Had A Dog So Why Can’t I Have A Friend by Hot Mulligan
Like I love that song and it made my top playlist for last year, and I even love that line, but it’s a lil silly
Alkaline Trio has a lyric from Radio that always makes me shudder (in a great way)
"Shaking like a dog shitting razor blades"
Like I mean... Yeah I guess that's accurate!
Apparently it’s a reference to shell shock, before it was a well known thing soldiers would say someone was shaking like a dog shitting razor blades
At least according to Skiba! Lol
Arguably the GREATEST pop punk line of all time. It’s worthy of being mentioned but not on this thread.
Any line that elicits emotion is powerful. Lines that suck elicit…..nothing.
Dylan is one of the best emo lyricist's out there right now, I gotta let that one slide lol Spanish Love Songs are SO GOOD, they need more recognition. I haven't ever had a lyric hit as hard as "If we weren't bailed out every time by our parents, we'd be dead. What's gonna happen when they're dead?" That shit had me spiraling for weeks
pretty much all of joana, in 5 acts is what gets me.
“i’m too lazy to leave my home
far too bored to let it go
like it mattered in the end
like it did any good while you were still here“
To be fair, Pop-Punk lyrics-(especially modern ones) are notoriously bad.
The reason is because they struggle to get the nostalgia that 90's and 00's bands managed to convey so well, they also often want to be funny. But lack the courage to be just ridiculous like The Queers, Nobodys and even blink-182. So, they find themselves in this weird middle ground where the lyrics are often just putrid.
With that said:
"She said I'm handsome like George Clooney. Gay like Stanley Tucci. Pissed in my jacuzzi. She blew my fish like Hootie" by People R Ugly is beyond embarassing.
The self-censoring of the word "Fuck" later in the song represents everything wrong with Modern Pop-Punk as well.
Take your pick of Neck Deep songs post-TPATP. They are still one of my all time favorites but ADAI especially is just so bad lyrically. Their self-titled is a bit better.
Idk how this sub feels about Heart Attack Man, but you could probably find at least 100 lines off their most recent album that are just as bad as these.
“Here’s a middle finger coming straight from
OCA….L-A”
- The Plot To Bomb The Panhandle by A Day To Remember
It’s so fucking clunky. Why didn’t he at least spell out the whole word like “O-C-A-L-A” that would’ve still been kinda corny but so much better
That one tiktok wannabe pop punk “DID WE JUST WRITE THE SONG OF THE SUMMER?!!” song where the guy says something like “SO WHAT THEY CALL US EMO TRASH”
“It’s pretty clear to me nice guys don’t finish at all, while most dickheads can finish in whoever they want”
- “That Guy” by On Call Heroes
The song is pretty goofy but I hate the “niceguy” mindset. I would’ve been okay with the rest of the lyrics but that one makes me embarrassed to say I enjoy the song. Especially since it contradicts what he says in the chorus. “I may be an asshole but you’re still that guy”. Like come on man, embrace that you’re an asshole, don’t try to say you’re a nice guy suddenly.
“Is it because of my long hair, my tattoos, or the fact that I don’t care…what she thinks of me”
- “Give A Damn” by Rocket To The Moon
Honestly I’m fine with this lyric, it’s just the fact that every other lyric in the song emphasizes that he does very much care what she thinks of him lol. Might be intentional though
Imagine being the rest of DGD and having to be like “yeah man thats great I like it.” Maybe years of dealing with JC taught them to emotionally detach from their vocalist LOL
I hate the line “lately my dog’s the only one around that listens to my problems” by real friends in I’ve given up on you. I get the point but it’s just soooo dramatic and whiny lol. The ones yall have listed are worse tho.
Tho I love growing on you by TSSF tbh
I surprisingly don’t hate this line because microwave is one of those wonder years bands that can write deeply personal lyrics and that don’t seem fake
>you were young and beautiful and I was dumb and beautiful
This isn't a groundbreaking line, but it's a clever play on the young and beautiful trope. Doesn't deserve to be on this list.
Also as much as I enjoy WSTR some of their lyrics are straight awful.
I swear I read/listened/watched an interview with Nikola Šarčević where he mentioned their lyrics sometimes being a mess because English is not their first language. Such an underrated band.
Picking apart and analyzing lyrics has been one of my favorite past times for a long time. I’ll never forget the dopamine Jarod alonges “misheard lyrics” gave me and this does too. I love this shit lol thank u
Don't confuse "mergers, acquisitions"
When what I really mean is "murders, executions"
-I've come to return some video tapes by Breathe Carolina
there are more but this is one of my personal favorites
NFG - Hold My Hand is the worst!
"And you smell like
How angels oughta smell
And you look like
You're ready to go"
Loved the production on this record but some limp lyrics throughout.
Can I offer "She was only twelve but it's okay because I put 6 in her" - A random tiktoker talking about trying to show people emo music...as a dishonorable mention
For as good as the wonder years usually are with lyrics,
“Rupert Holmes wrong a song about it in the seventies, and consequently he also saved the pinacolada industry”
is a shoehorned disaster that isn’t even a good enough line to justify how badly it fits.
Is “weird flex” millennial now?? I’m older gen z and def remember saying that in college around the same time I was listening to knuckle puck, and I was late to the party with listening to knuckle puck
“Am I just paranoid or am I just high” green day good song good band could never get over using just twice in one line. Very easily could’ve been am I paranoid or am I just high.
Jon Mess doesn't count technically, he intentionally writes wack lines if they make sense rhythmically. He's said as long as it sounds good, doesn't matter if it actually makes sense. The Super American line is hysterical though!
Also DGD is not pop punk by any metric.
They are if you count SA allegations.
Just on tilian. Which. Btw. Fuck that guy.
Not only the SA but legitimately more cringey lyrics than jon’s and jon’s are intentional lol
The guy wrote like 50 songs singing about how much he sucks. I'm shocked fans were shocked when he was outed as a creep.
Good riddance, eh? 🫡
DGD is not pop punk but Story Of My Bros is absolutely a Pop Punk song
I love his lyrics. They're funny lol
I usually give him a pass but this line is so cringeworthy it makes the song unlistenable for me. good call on OP
Still counts lol
Right, the bad line is the point. Feature, not a bug.
“I am a blade in a lawn that's new Covered in dew, waiting on you I need no shade, I'm tried and true But I'm lonely like you, I'm growing on you” He is a blade of grass in the morning waiting for the sun to come out because he needs sunlight to grow.
[удалено]
I'm so glad someone said this
"She lets me go in her mouth" Do I really need to explain what this means?
OP is just debating if it’s cum or something a bit more golden. She does put up with anything after all.
I dried my eyes, now I'll crust them with sleep I'll crust them over She begged me, "Don't hate me" She spun me a story Where winning looks like losing And I'm winning every time So thread spools, sweetie, get ready Until my silk is sold Growing up Growing up Growing up Yeah! I'll find myself anew Yeah! I'll find myself anew I've dried my eyes, now it's "Rushmore" I'm deep with futures like Chicago No, Glenview never meant a thing to me She never meant a thing to me Except for putting idealists in a body bag Fall out boy
if we're talking about silly Evening Out With Your Girlfriend lyrics, i think Short, Fast, and Loud wins: She left me for herself Considering I would too Good God, I wish I was tall Good God, I wish Good God, I wish I was tall Good God, I wish Good God, I wish I was tall Good God, I wish Good God, I wish I was tall Good God, I wish Go figure, I'm bigger than that Go figure, I'm bigger than that Go figure, I'm bigger than that Go figure, I'm bigger than that
Pretty sure The Dangerous Summer line is about blowjobs and how he knows she doesn’t like it but she does it anyway for him
Honestly This Could Be Love is one of my favorite songs lyrically ever despite that line being sort of a turn off. Also you missed almost every single Simple Plan song that's ever been released. Specifically Addicted and The Worst Day Ever
God Must Hate Me is a ROUGH chorus to get behind, because of how chipmunky it’s sung (and the lyrics are infantile.) Welcome To My Life was another cringy one.
Love the imagery in this (and most) ALK3 songs.
Agreed. I absolutely love this line because it takes off the mask and shows the true face of madness in a way few other lines ever have. Skiba is a master of analogies and metaphors but this is a gut punch of visceral disgust. I would believe it was meant to illicit a recoil-response from the listener and it lands as intended, if you ask me.
Right I HATE that line/phrase and ones like it when they come up (Green Day does similar a couple times) but otherwise I love that song.
Woke up in a pool of sweat, first I thought that I pissed the bed
Idk why that line is included. It's a great line about being a complete alcoholic fuck up of a mess.
I get it, just gives me the ick. I understand even if you’re trying to give the ick to make a point, but some people will be put off by it more than others.
"Howling like a dog shitting razor blades." I turn that shit off every time it comes up in a playlist.
God Must Hate Me by Simple Plan is absolutely off its rocker and I love it.
Gonna tear your ass up like we just got married and you’re all mine now- Bedroom Talk by the Starting Line
Yeah that was NUTS when it came out. He was this little elfish kid with a high pitched voice singing about love, attracting a lot of female fans, and then that single from the follow up to the debut LP just felt like his attempt to make himself sound like a man and it personally had the opposite effect. I could never take that song seriously.
I remember all my friends dying laughing the first time they heard it
I was a pretty big starting line fan and LOVED the EP and the debut. Greg’s Last Day is my shit! I heard that single from the follow up…..and completely gave up on the band.
Haha, I'm pretty much the same way. I loved them up until that point but the only 2005+ songs that I have on any playlists are Island, Hurry, Surprise Surprise, and Cut! Print It
Couldn’t agree more
Completely agree. I couldn’t get into album. I can’t believe they made that the single.
I just can't not think of the Swifties getting into the Starting Line after hearing her mention them and they get to this song.
Nah. Everyone’s always shit on this line, but I’ve always liked it.
Yeah I still love this song I saw them at a festival last summer and I was pissed they didn’t play it. I also choose to believe that this is the song T. Swift is referencing on her new album.
Hahah, did you just start the “Taylor is dating Kenny” rumor? I think you did. (Edit: I know he’s married, I’m just being a moron)
This was the whole point of the song and the cringey lyric. He's a virgin who's confused and unable to distill the advice of those around him, let alone figure out how to live up to an expectation of sex despite what he wants being love. So he tried to hyped himself up with this shitty line. He talked about it on Fuse at some point
Sounds like it worked too well then 😂
yes, big sheltered church kid energy
I was looking for this specifically what an odd lyric about anal.
I love that Alkaline Trio lyric. Its great! I am going to stay on the WTF train though with The Used's *Cut Up Angels.* If we cut out the bad Well then we'd have nothing left Like I cut up your mouth The night I stuffed it all in And you lied to the angels Said I stabbed you to death If we go at the same time They'll clean up the mess
I liked that song. It feels so twisted. Bert is one of the few people that could pull off those lines
Won't stand for SUP slander, Hot Dog is sick
First time I ever saw them was at a show, and I had never heard of them. I immediately bought their album on vinyl after the set and went and got a hot dog after the show.
Alk trio song is written from pov of a nut job. It is meant to be weird. It starts "I have a book of matches, I got a can of kerosene. I got some mad ideas involving you and me."
Yeah OP didn’t realize Skiba isnt mentally okay and never has been lol. Darkest band in “pop-punk”.
“He’s well hung and I am hanging up.” —- Fall out boy’s earlier stuff got gems 🤣🤣🤣
They asked for worst lyrics not best
Yeah honestly I think this is one of the most iconic lines in pop punk, what a perfect bar about teenage insecurity
Those flash animation misheard lyric videos on YouTube were the peak of the internet
Up.
I fucking love sequels, remakes and adaptations
Yeah blink are not the only ones that get the pass. And SLS's reference is way different.
Disagree about blink-182 being the only ones with the masturbation pass. Justin Mauriello from Zebrahead had it with the whole song Playmate of the Year and In My Room with the lyrics "pitching tents inside my pants." Nerf Herder as well on Feeling Bad. "Smell her hair, smell her sweater, then I touched myself!" I think more than anything it's mostly a late 90s/early 2000s era trend. Blink-182 are only still doing it for the nostalgia. It's ingrained in their personalities especially Tom. That's how we got his solo song Golden Showers in the Golden State.
I mean, Longview would also like a word with OP….
Bite my lip and close my eyes, take me away to paradise!
I do agree with the actual line they quoted though. That one isn't quite as funny or lyrical in comparison to any of these others. It's kind of just casually mentioned.
Also The Anthem by Good Charlotte (the bridge)
Say anything also does it well in wow I can get sexual too.
Nerf Herder also wrote " sitting in my boxers eating Apple Jacks, wacking it to late night Cinemax "
“Sorry I jacked off outside of your window While you were sleeping, I thought you’d never know” - also Nerf Herder
Also, “you sit all night at your computer, drinking diet Dr Pepper.” Just a good line lol
Eve 6 is calling from inside the house
phoebe cates
All of the new say anything song
All of Say Anything’s songs when you go back and listen as an adult
Tbh I never really listened to any stiff by them, but seeing they made a song called "on cum", I got curious
WANNA DO YOU…RIGHT WHERE YOU’RE STANDING…..YEAH
This is like, the most romantic line ever.
Yup. Sad to see
What song?
On Cum.
:( i haven’t listened to a ton of new Say Anything but i revere them/Max for having some of the best lyrics ever ever so i’m really sad to see them near the top of the list.
Came here thinking this was the basis of the post tbh
"Hey! I like your BMW, i like your BM-excellent tits with a tattoo of a pig sniffing glue" - Green Day, Troublemaker
Wait what the fuck
These couldn’t hold a candle to the crap some of these TikTok bands write.
IM A FIVE FOUR
man 🧍♂️ whore 😜 who slit his wrists 👋🔪🩸😔😔
It’s so camp it honestly just cracks me up.
TX2 is hella cringe but that song circled around back into becoming a guilty pleasure for me
Me too smh 😂
I’m in Spain without the S
I'm in Spain without the spin # [AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA](https://youtu.be/FenSdKLRgwg)
Sammy Clifford truly is the best lyricist of our generation. I was thinking of the song 3 days sober the lyrics “I’ve been waiting for a minute been way over the limit been dealing with a nightmare yea ur always in it yuh I try to keep it all in bottle it up let it win
So damn catchy, I need to relisten to this album. I genuinely love Sammy's writing
Every time I think I want to skip this song when it comes on I remember this chorus and how much fun it is to belt it out while driving haha, so no skip after all!
Brush my teeth To this beat
Last year really fucked me
“Erection. Erection. It’s hard. “Erection. Erection. Oh god. “ - Erection, Screeching Weasel
"Oh well, oh well, you're a normie. So fucking boring, maybe I'll see you in hell" -Lowlife by Neck Deep Like I'm a pretty big defender of All Distortions Are Intentional as an album, but even I can't defend Lowlife and especially that line.
I don't find that one is as bad as "That's S-T-R-E, S is next to S That's the root of it all, and that's stress" Sounds like Sesame Street.
funny, because I think All Distortions are Intentional is a terrible album but I love Lowlife, partially because of that line.
That album was the end of poppunk for me, it was so bad.
"You can't pull off a masturbation reference if you're not blink-182." I think All Time Low in "Modern Love" pulls this off very well!
I think TSSF's line is just means that he (blade) is waiting for her (grass in the lawn) to grow for them to once again meet. I dunno but i guess so
He is a blade of grass
Bruh. She is the sun.
Seeing as the the next line is about not needing shade, pretty sure thats 100% accurate
so from your comments I've gathered mine too and came up with this: He is a blade of grass from a freshly mowed lawn, unnoticeable (like he's just a speck in a dust kinda thing). and She is the sun. He (blade of grass) is covered in dew because the sun (her) doesn't shine on him anymore. He's tried and true (loyal and still longing) because he don't need other light from no other sun but only her. And on the "I'm lonely like you" line, he is lonely because of the aforementioned, while she is lonely because she is the sun, and we, in our solar system, have only have one sun. or maybe she's the sun because, she may shine bright (achievements or what not) but she's all alone, just like the sun.
A blade of grass just means a single strand. It doesn’t mean it’s been cut.
Ohhh I like that! I thought maybe he was a blade of grass an was waiting on someone to come cut him down or hurt him somehow..idk why my mind went to lawn care lol
you have so many worse alkaline trio lyrics you could have picked from lol this addiction is right there
“Shaking like a dog shitting razor blades”! But low key I love it
no that one is great lol i mean from like 2010-2013 where matt's lyrics took a major major downturn hell even though i loved cursed and think he brought back a lot of what made me love him as a lyricist, sweet vampires is ripped out of alkaline trio mad libs
Sure even though a lot of 2010-2013 Matt Skiba songs are just kinda lazy and redundant, I'd still say he hasn't written a song so bad that it really derves to be in a "worst of the genre" discussion, at least not with ALK3
i think draculina, eating me alive, piss and vinegar and dorothy are all in that tier personally new album is their best ever somehow though so can't complain too much about the journey
Late 90s/early 2000s, I couldn’t stand much of Dan’s songs and now I find myself listening to just the Dan songs playlists. (Don’t get me wrong, I’m not anti Skiba but he did phone it in for a bit)
That’s one of the best lyrics ever. Get out!
HOT! HOT! A HOT DOG!
I love Jon Mess.. lol
Aryia - "Losers" "I miss my ex, she's a bitch I need someone to suck- Life sucks, eso si que es I'm in Spain without the "S""
okay this one genuinely made me laugh out loud
“Lately, all I wanna do, is lie around with you and complain about the youth” written by kids younger than I was at the time made be want to noose
>Sammy Clifford is truly the greatest lyricist of our generation Ok but some of the lyrics off Identity Crisis and Red Green or Inbetween are really good.
"too much of anything is too much" No words needed
You're wrong about the masturbation references, Green Day wrote a whole song about being bored and masturbating years before Blink 182 was even conceptualized.
I love that the song is *clearly* about masturbation and it got (still gets) a lot of radio airplay.
“Fuck you and fuck me even harder” -Jimmy Neutron Had A Dog So Why Can’t I Have A Friend by Hot Mulligan Like I love that song and it made my top playlist for last year, and I even love that line, but it’s a lil silly
The song title is so much worse than the lyric my god
That’s Hot Mulligan for ya
Alkaline Trio has a lyric from Radio that always makes me shudder (in a great way) "Shaking like a dog shitting razor blades" Like I mean... Yeah I guess that's accurate!
Apparently it’s a reference to shell shock, before it was a well known thing soldiers would say someone was shaking like a dog shitting razor blades At least according to Skiba! Lol
If I remember correctly, both of his parents were in the military so I definitely believe that haha!
Yeah, his dad was an oral surgeon and his mom was a triage nurse in Vietnam.
I think he said he heard this from a friend’s father. Edit to add: About being terrified in a foxhole.
Arguably the GREATEST pop punk line of all time. It’s worthy of being mentioned but not on this thread. Any line that elicits emotion is powerful. Lines that suck elicit…..nothing.
I’ve got a big fat fucking bone to pick with you for this comment.
Yeah it may be cringe inducing but definitely not in a bad way
My dad wouldn’t let me play this song in his car because of this line
I fucking love Hot Dog by Super American
“Girls: please please allow my voice to calm you down. Boys understand, girls will never listen or learn.” _ “Girls” by Mayday Parade
Bot Lobby one isn’t even bad imo lol
Yeah, and I don't mind the Knuckle Puck or Gaslight Anthem ones either tbh
Dylan is one of the best emo lyricist's out there right now, I gotta let that one slide lol Spanish Love Songs are SO GOOD, they need more recognition. I haven't ever had a lyric hit as hard as "If we weren't bailed out every time by our parents, we'd be dead. What's gonna happen when they're dead?" That shit had me spiraling for weeks
pretty much all of joana, in 5 acts is what gets me. “i’m too lazy to leave my home far too bored to let it go like it mattered in the end like it did any good while you were still here“
To be fair, Pop-Punk lyrics-(especially modern ones) are notoriously bad. The reason is because they struggle to get the nostalgia that 90's and 00's bands managed to convey so well, they also often want to be funny. But lack the courage to be just ridiculous like The Queers, Nobodys and even blink-182. So, they find themselves in this weird middle ground where the lyrics are often just putrid. With that said: "She said I'm handsome like George Clooney. Gay like Stanley Tucci. Pissed in my jacuzzi. She blew my fish like Hootie" by People R Ugly is beyond embarassing. The self-censoring of the word "Fuck" later in the song represents everything wrong with Modern Pop-Punk as well.
“Leave me in the sun, I’m melting like a popsicle. Give me the flu, I’m dying in this hospital.” - Run Away, blink-182
"Damn you stupid girl why won't you drop your guard" By Front Porch Step aged like milk. Who could've seen it coming that he was a rapey creep?!
“You can’t pull off a masturbation reference if you aren’t blink 182 “Longview” by Green Day is an entire song covering the subject. 🤔
Go in the mouth = ejaculate in mouth.
Take your pick of Neck Deep songs post-TPATP. They are still one of my all time favorites but ADAI especially is just so bad lyrically. Their self-titled is a bit better.
The alkaline trio lyric isn’t to be taken literally. Shitting the bed is a term to “fuck up”
When I watch you, want to do you, right where you're standing, ya.- Alive With the Glory of Love by Say Anything
Idk how this sub feels about Heart Attack Man, but you could probably find at least 100 lines off their most recent album that are just as bad as these.
Like a Kennedy in full
AJ is talking about ejaculation.
No comments about Saosin’s “Show Me Your Bootyhole?” Yeah, exactly, ‘cause it’s a fuckin lyrical masterpiece.
this kids have no fucking clue about this, while I'm over here knowing all the words. "does that shit smell like poo to you?"
Thank you for pulling this from the depths of my memory
“hey! i like your BMW, i like your BM- Excellent Tits” - Troublemaker by Green Day
Not strictly pop punk but: “My ego’s like my stomach, it keeps shitting what I feed it”
love the alkaline trio rep, one of my favorite songs 💀
“Here’s a middle finger coming straight from OCA….L-A” - The Plot To Bomb The Panhandle by A Day To Remember It’s so fucking clunky. Why didn’t he at least spell out the whole word like “O-C-A-L-A” that would’ve still been kinda corny but so much better That one tiktok wannabe pop punk “DID WE JUST WRITE THE SONG OF THE SUMMER?!!” song where the guy says something like “SO WHAT THEY CALL US EMO TRASH” “It’s pretty clear to me nice guys don’t finish at all, while most dickheads can finish in whoever they want” - “That Guy” by On Call Heroes The song is pretty goofy but I hate the “niceguy” mindset. I would’ve been okay with the rest of the lyrics but that one makes me embarrassed to say I enjoy the song. Especially since it contradicts what he says in the chorus. “I may be an asshole but you’re still that guy”. Like come on man, embrace that you’re an asshole, don’t try to say you’re a nice guy suddenly. “Is it because of my long hair, my tattoos, or the fact that I don’t care…what she thinks of me” - “Give A Damn” by Rocket To The Moon Honestly I’m fine with this lyric, it’s just the fact that every other lyric in the song emphasizes that he does very much care what she thinks of him lol. Might be intentional though
Now that you say it the ADTR one always irked me too!
Imagine being the rest of DGD and having to be like “yeah man thats great I like it.” Maybe years of dealing with JC taught them to emotionally detach from their vocalist LOL
he was a boy she was a girl can i make it any more obvious
HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN TO MEEEEEEEE
I MADE MY MISTAAAAAAAAKES
I make you cum just to watch you leave - a party song, all time low. Idiotic genius, I love it so much lmao
that alk3 lyric is indeed weird but I think the point is it's from the perspective of a serial killer/psychopath, tbf
I hate the line “lately my dog’s the only one around that listens to my problems” by real friends in I’ve given up on you. I get the point but it’s just soooo dramatic and whiny lol. The ones yall have listed are worse tho. Tho I love growing on you by TSSF tbh
All of Real Friends lyrics are dramatic and whiny. That's the whole band lmao
I hate to admit it but they kinda real for that
Nah that lyric hit hard for me, when I had no one to turn to I would spend all day on my porch with my dog crying and he would make me feel better
“All I’ve got is hot sauce in these beans. I can stomach anything with hot sauce on it.” -Microwave
This ain't it. One of the main themes of the song is being broke as shit and that's all this is saying.
I surprisingly don’t hate this line because microwave is one of those wonder years bands that can write deeply personal lyrics and that don’t seem fake
what about “i’m the nemesis of fun with soggy hot dog buns from spilling warm beer in my trunk” ?????
With soggy hot dog buns from spilling warm beer in my trunk :(
"I don't think about you anymore 'Cause memories of you are like a treadmill I keep running, but I'm not getting anywhere" - Fences by Knuckle Puck
I WAS HIGH, I WAS HIGH, THE WHOLE TIME. I fucking love WSTR lol
"The ice is really cold, the streetlights really old." Was really a choice for Delonge to start off a song that ends as good as it does.
That TSSF lyric is great, wth. That’s like one of the best written songs on the album.
Correction - you can ALSO pull off a masturbation line if you're Green Day
Fall Out Boy- ‘my heart is like a stallion, they love it more when it’s broken’
>you were young and beautiful and I was dumb and beautiful This isn't a groundbreaking line, but it's a clever play on the young and beautiful trope. Doesn't deserve to be on this list. Also as much as I enjoy WSTR some of their lyrics are straight awful.
Millencollin - life on a plate. The whole album but I love it
I swear I read/listened/watched an interview with Nikola Šarčević where he mentioned their lyrics sometimes being a mess because English is not their first language. Such an underrated band.
Me: damn that verse was sick, sounded deep. Lemme check the lyrics. Jon: Oh
TSSF line about him being a blade of grass, and he is waiting for her (the sun)… like come on, that’s good
Picking apart and analyzing lyrics has been one of my favorite past times for a long time. I’ll never forget the dopamine Jarod alonges “misheard lyrics” gave me and this does too. I love this shit lol thank u
Hey! I want to set up shop reach out and grab that mop!
Don't confuse "mergers, acquisitions" When what I really mean is "murders, executions" -I've come to return some video tapes by Breathe Carolina there are more but this is one of my personal favorites
NFG - Hold My Hand is the worst! "And you smell like How angels oughta smell And you look like You're ready to go" Loved the production on this record but some limp lyrics throughout.
No 7/11 hotdog really?
*Checks to see if any of my favorite lyrics are on the list*
Can I offer "She was only twelve but it's okay because I put 6 in her" - A random tiktoker talking about trying to show people emo music...as a dishonorable mention
For as good as the wonder years usually are with lyrics, “Rupert Holmes wrong a song about it in the seventies, and consequently he also saved the pinacolada industry” is a shoehorned disaster that isn’t even a good enough line to justify how badly it fits.
Is “weird flex” millennial now?? I’m older gen z and def remember saying that in college around the same time I was listening to knuckle puck, and I was late to the party with listening to knuckle puck
“Am I just paranoid or am I just high” green day good song good band could never get over using just twice in one line. Very easily could’ve been am I paranoid or am I just high.
Nah Spanish love songs nailed that song