Most cliched premise for a rock/pop song?

[Beware the Beast Man]

[Magrittes Pipe]

1. Here I am, on the road again.

There I am, up on the stage.
Here I go, playing star again.
There I go, turn the page.

[Beware the Beast Man]

5. Did he just get back from the Y?

[kwassa]

17. I'm nothing without you

I don't exist

I beg and plead for your sympathy

Give just one more chance

I will die without your love, or hate, or whatever.

[Spider Jerusalem]

2. Anything having to do with travel via road, highway, etc as metaphor.

From "Lost Highway" by Hank Williams Sr to "The Road To Never" by Neil Young, and probably at least a few thousand others in between.

[Beware the Beast Man]

4. I really should add that. Thanks.

:thumbsup:

[XemaSab]

14. Life is a highway

I want to ride it
All night long

[billyskank]

3. My Girlfriend Has Left Me And I'm Really Cut Up About It

[billyskank]

18. I can't believe nobody thinks this one

Jesus, half of all pop songs are about someone who's lost their girlfriend/boyfriend and they're really cheesed off about it.

[AllegroRondo]

6. I'm a kid and my parents dont understand me

[RandomKoolzip]

7. I dunno, but here's some phrases I never want to hear in a song ever

again:

"Foolish pride"

"Knight in shining armor"

"Foolish heart"

Referring to sex as "lovin'" (the apostrophe is essential)

And no one should ever rhyme "arms" with "charms" ever again.

[fudge stripe cookays]

22. Please add...

any song calling a woman "mama" into that equation.

Thanks!
:thumbsup:

[RandomKoolzip]

29. Sure thing, mama.

:evilgrin: :bounce:

[asthmaticeog]

8. The unfailing redemptive power of romantic love.

[XNASA]

9. Purchasing a 'stairway' to someplace or another.

nt

[Richardo]

11. .

:spray:

[Beware the Beast Man]

15. Or, applying pressure to a citrus fruit until

its nectar flows along a lower extremity as a metaphor for dolphin-flogging.

[XNASA]

19. You're right. That is *way* overused.

Let's sing:

"Compress my kumquat....."

[no name no slogan]

10. I can't believe you forgot "I'm in love with a girl/boy I can't have"

Possibly the most overused hackneyed premise for a rock/pop song ever.

[antigone382]

12. I'm over you...really

That's why I spent a few hours writing these lyrics all about you, then a few days putting together this song all about you, and months recording it in a studio, so I could sing all about you over and over again at every single one of my performances...because I'm totally over you.


That and the similarly themed "ha ha, don't you wish you hadn't rejected me, now that I'm famous?"--a la Toby Keith, and Avril Lavigne (though Skater Boy of course wasn't actually about her; close enough). If anyone ever writes one of those songs about me, I'll be like "ha ha...no."

[Merrick]

13. Dietary and reproductive habits of the common earthworm

enough already with that crap.

[XemaSab]

16. I dunno if it's THE most cliched

but asking if it's really true love or the other person is "playing games."

[Lavender Brown]

20. Not really a premise

But anything about the stars refusing to shine has to be the most overused cliche in crappy pop songs. :puke:

[Mizmoon]

21. I need/want/plan to have sex n/t

[Richardo]

23. Steve Miller gets the royalties for all of them: owns 'cliched premise'

...worst lyricist EVER. When stuck for a rhyme, go to the cliche.

[fudge stripe cookays]

26. What?

I'm sorry but rhyming "Abracadabra" and "reach out and grab ya" is sheer brilliance, dude.

:P

[Richardo]

27. ...And I totally forgot about "Texas" and "facts is"

:crazy:

[fudge stripe cookays]

24. The whole "You're bad for me, but I love you anyway..."

"If Lovin You is Wrong, I don't wanna be right," "Use Me" genre.

I'm no masochist!

fsc

[WeRQ4U]

25. You coulda' had me....but you went with that other girl...now look at you

And look at how awesome I am. You're so stupid for doing that.


SOmething like that.

[Fox Mulder]

28. Whining over a lost girlfriend/boyfriend.

Like a poster said above, this premise is in about half the songs out there!