Song lyrics are a funny thing. Most people have a hard time remembering what they ate for lunch yesterday, yet somehow have the ability to retain lyrics from decades past with ease.
Some are poetic, others are provocative, and some are so utterly ridiculous that you'd swear they were made up. With that in mind, have a look below at these 15+ lyrics that sound fake but are very real.
Lil Wayne is easily one of the greatest wordsmiths to ever pick up a mic — but then he goes and makes songs like "IANAHB" and he makes you question everything you ever thought you knew about him.
Back in the late '90s, this song was inescapable. It infiltrated the airwaves and simply refused to die — no matter how badly music fans wished it would.
Don't hear what I'm not saying — "Song 2" is one of the most iconic '90s anthems. But there's no escaping the fact that the lyrics are completely nonsensical.
Limp Bizkit was one of the biggest bands on earth in the early '00s, and as much as I'm embarrassed to admit it — I still own all their albums.
Bryan Adams is a Canadian rock legend who boasts a musical catalog bursting with #1 hits. But could he really not come up with another word to rhyme with love other than love?
It's not that the lyrics are altogether preposterous or bad in any way. Rather, it's that this song was being sung by legions of preteen girls all over the planet in the mid-90s, without even a glint of irony.
Most people are absolutely shocked when they realize that one of the most-played songs on the radio back in the '90s is all about having sex and doing chemical drugs.
I understand that this is a parody song, but the amount of radio play that it received was absolutely mind-boggling.
If there's one thing I love about Gen Z, it's how intent they seem on bringing Emo music and Pop Punk back into the fold. If that's what you're after, kids, look no further than Hawthorne Heights.
The overt sexual undertones of this song are almost too much to bear. Although I must admit, it was a great choice for the Peacemaker TV show intro.
My goodness, I'd forgotten just how badly Blink 182 got once the wheels had begun to fall off. If you ask me, I blame Tom Delonge.
Of all the godawful one-hit wonders to come out of the '90s, and there were a lot of them, none was more reprehensible than Chumbawumba's impossibly catchy earworm, "Tubthumping."
Once again, I'm not hating on Aesop Rock. In fact, I firmly believe he may just be one of the greatest poets of his age. However, even diehard fans need to be able to call a spade a spade.
"Of course, we would — we'd just eat more!" Oh, Steven Page, how I do miss you so...
You can try and deny it all you want, but if you were born anywhere between 1986 to 1992, then you most definitely listened to Kid Rock.
Without a doubt, "Yellow Ledbetter" is the most beautiful song that 99.9% of Pearl Jam fans will never truly understand or know the lyrics to.
Believe it or not, those are the actual lyrics to Beck's immortal '90s anthem "Loser." I can't believe that I've been singing it incorrectly for nearly 30 years...
This may just very well be the most emo lyrics ever written in the history of music.
For as long as I live, I will forever defend Green Day as being the greatest pop punk band that ever was or ever will be.
I never understood the appeal of Beastie Boys in my youth and I still don't to this day. How they ever became hailed as artists or innovators is totally beyond me. Truly, the emperor has no clothes.
There's very little middle ground when it comes to Red Hot Chili Peppers. Frankly, you either love them or you hate them — I just happen to fall on the latter side of the coin.
