Re: my previous post mentioning America’s “Horse With No Name:” if you google “worst rock lyrics” this song will probably be cited. A possible explanation from Wikipedia states why the lyrics are so lame:
“The song has also been ridiculed for its banal, oddly phrased lyrics, including “The heat was hot”; “There were plants, and birds, and rocks, and things”; and “‘Cause there ain’t no one for to give you no pain.” Penn Jillette asked the band about their lyric, “there were plants, and birds, and rocks, and thi ngs” … According to Jillette, their explanation for the lyric was that they were intoxicated with cannabis while writing it.“
I never had a problem with the “heat was hot” or “plants and things” lines, probably because while they were using cannabis when they wrote it, I was using cannabis when I listened to it. Made sense to me.
However, every time I heard the “ain’t no one for to give you no pain” line and regardless what state of mind I was or wasn’t in, I cringed and thought of Sister Gregory. She was my 7th grade English teacher and that association alone was enough to ruin the song for me.
America’s Ventura Highway on the other hand, even with “alligator lizards in the air” isn’t so dumb. Nice video too: