Oh, and how about Abba's Chiquitita: "You were always sure of yourself, Now I see you’ve broken a feather, I hope we can patch it up together"

Jim, Cape Town,

Who devised this list? Yes, most of those lyrics are bad, but there are worse. Anyway, pop music never aspired to be poetic ( except may be when The Beatles were together).

rutabaga, Endsville, USA

10. The Black Sabbath is not only a perfect metaphor but also misquoted: It should be: Generals gathered on their fat asses
Just like witches gather at blac masses

It should not be on the list

Shopin McGruder, Lake of Bays, Canada

neil diamond:

"I am," I said
To no one there
An no one heard at all
Not even the chair

Baluga Brothers, paradise, ca

No, it's this ridiculous non-sequitor:

So you think you're a romeo?
Playing a part in a picture show?
Take the long way home.

Or,
In and around the lake
Mountains come out of the sky and they stand there
One mile over, we'll be there and we'll see you
Ten true summers we'll be there and laughing, too.

MIke, Belvidere, NJ

Surely MacArthur's Park must find a place on lists such as this...cakes left out in the rain, and such like

Nelson, London, Ontario, Canada

"Unskinny Bop. Nothing more to say."

Worst lyric *ever*! I win. Go home now.

Michael Hirtes, Council Bluffs, USA

"Smoke on the Water" is a treasure trove of rubbishy lyrics.

We all came out to montreux
On the lake Geneva shore
To make a record with a mobile
We didnt have much time
Frank zappa and the Mothers
Were at the best place around
But some stupid with a flare gun
Burned the place to the ground

Greg Mills, Berkeley, CA, USA

Where do I start? How about America's "Horse with No Name"?: "In the desert, they don't remember your name / For there ain't no one for to give you no pain." Or Neil Diamond's "September Morn": "Look at what you've done / Why you've become a grown-up girl"? And just the whole treacly mess that is Dan Hill's "Sometimes When We Touch"? I've been groaning over rock lyrics for fifty years now.

Alan Hickman, White Hall, Arkansas, USA

How could you miss the worst lyricist in rock history, Steve Miller? You could start with "Abacadabra, I want to reach out & grag you". But nothing tops this sequence:

Billy Joe was a detective down in Texas
Don't you know that he knows just exactly what the facts is?
He ain't going to let those two escape justice
He makes his living off other people's taxes.

Mark Brown, Frisco, TX