The 20 Worst Lyrics Ever: No. 15

Nope. Love "Leaving NY Was Never My Proud." Total Stipean genius there!

The WORST lyrics of all time? In my humble opinion it's:
"The best soy latte that you ever had," from Drops of Jupiter by Train.

"When you breathe, I want to breathe the air for you" - Bon Jovi. Cheese.

REM are THE best band in the world and if sonof... knew anything about them he would know Orange Crush is about agent orange that was used in the Vietman war and has caused birth defects in as may as 500,000 children.

Have you idiots ever read poetry?

Shania Twains "who's bed have your boots been under?" who kicks their boots under a bed and the line "come on boots" friggin makes me cringe.

During the last decade, I have noted a growing tendency among Americans further to butcher The Queen's English by converting nouns to verbs, usually transitive. I think it started with that old recently deceased career military bureaucrat, Alexander Haig, telling a congressional committee, "I'll have to caveat my response." A more recent but equally ghastly example: "Pimp my [insert noun]." But Mr. Stipe managed to convert an adjective into a "noun." I must confess that this is a new one on me.

I love that line. Maybe 'proud' isn't ususally used as a noun, but it works here and you know what Michael means.

'50 Pennies'...lmfao !!

If all songwriters only followed correct grammar and standard forms of words, then there would be a hell of a lot less creativity in music. To be original, which I consider tons more valuable in music than proper grammar, you've got to break the rules a little. Do things your own way, as R.E.M. has done here. We understand what he means by this line, so he's successfully conveyed his message. Is that not enough?