BAD Song Lyrics

[sue d.]

There's been some really, really lame Christian music out there (both in the past and present), but this one takes the cake!

My son found it today.... It's SO BAD I can't stop laughing!!! I'll guarantee you'll play it more than once - just for the hilarious factor.

Scope out these lyrics:

Once I tried to run,
I tried to run and hide,
But Jesus came and found me,
And he touched me down inside,
He is like a mountie,
He always gets his man,
And he'll zap you any way he can,
Zap!


http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1829614

And then I got to thinking - Phillips Craig Dean has a song that is JUST as lame, namely - Friend of God.

Who am I that You are mindful of me?
That you hear me
When I call
Is it true that You are thinking of me?
How You love me
It's amazing
(Repeat)

~Chorus~
I am a friend of God
I am a friend of God
I am a friend of God
He calls me friend

Who am I that You are mindful of me?
That you hear me
When I call, yeah
Is it true that You are thinking of me?
How You love me
It's amazing, so amazing, it's amazing

~Chorus~

God Almighty
Lord of Glory
You have called me friend


I'm sorry, but those lyrics are so sad it makes me cringe every time I hear it on the radio. In fact, I turn it off when the song comes on.

Someone PLEASE tell me how this song got airplay!!

[Jonathan]

Personally, most P&W music can take a hike. I try to keep an open mind and heart in church and pull little things from those songs even if I don't care for the song as a whole. But In the case of this song, I love the simplicity of the message that I Can Be Friends With God. The Creator and I...a friendship. Even the great and powerful Petra has committed to vinyl some songs I just find unlistenable. Because of people's opinions, and the lessons and truths that mean something to them, its hard to declare any song universally lame.

Unless that song is "Low" by Flo-Rida. And I know I'm stepping on some toes around here with that one. Namely brothertom.

[Enosh]

Funny enough I actually saw this video today for the first time at another site... Oh by the way, Im Enosh and yes I do still exist.

Anyway, There are so many songs that are cheesy to say the least. Some get cheesy with time. What once would have been cool/fresh/far out/radical/dope/chill/kickin'/smokin'/dynomite/groovy is now mocked for it's content. I have to agree with my partner in state Jonathan on this though.

Sue you are wrong. You couldn't be more wrong if your name was Wrongy Wrongenstein!!! This song in particular isn't half as bad as many others that could be listed, yes even songs by my dear beloved Petra. I remember a well loved Christian rock band once commenting to me that If I had to die for someone was rediculous because of the age,seatbelt, and bandaid on my knee references. I disagree with that too.

Friend of God suffers from another Phenomenon different from yet many times mistaken (as in this case by Sue) for bad lyrics. What is this you ask, ah the scientific term used is "Repetative Lyric Syndrome"

Don't feel bad Sue, it has happened to best of us at times (well, not Brent because he is way too cool/fresh/far out/radical/dope/chill/kickin'/smokin'/dynomite/groovy for something like that to happen to him.) (Love ya man) Anyway, I will leave you with some lyrics Sue and I both agree are cheesy for any time frame. We actually talked about this a long time ago...

I'm not cool that's ok
My God loves me anyway
I'm not cool that's alright
I am precious in his sight
I'm not cool I don't care
How I'm s'posed to do my hair
I'm not cool that's ok
My God loves me anyway

Cool lyrics are in the eye of the writer or listener for that matter. Until next decade when I post again.....

[sue d.]

Hey.... THE MAN LIVES! Been a while, buddy!

I still say I'm RIGHTO about FRIEND OF GOD. I'm not talking about the repetitive-ness of it, I'm actually looking more at the word GOD as a friend.

It's one thing to say "I'm Jesus' friend," but GOD has become such a generic term that to use the word God in this song just makes the song even more lame.

JESUS called his disciples his friends (and us also, if you include Christians in with vs. 14):

John 15:14 You are my friends if you do what I command. 15I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.

But never is there a case where the word GOD is used to talk about having a friend -- except for Abraham specifically:

Isaiah 41:8
"But you, O Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, you descendants of Abraham my friend"

James 2:23
And the scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness," and he was called God's friend.

ABRAHAM was God's friend, but nowhere else that I can find was anyone else ever referred to as "God's friend" other than the verses by Jesus.... which you COULD interpret to mean GOD.


I forgot all about "I'm not cool that's ok ".... oh man! That IS SUCH a laaaamo tune! It's embarrassing.

Petra had some bad lyrics? They did? REALLY???

[Jonathan]

It's hard to rhyme "Jesus."

[cndfogie]

Don't blame the PC&D boys that song was written by Isreal Houghton who leads worship at Joel Osteens church.

[brent]

Friend of God suffers from another Phenomenon different from yet many times mistaken (as in this case by Sue) for bad lyrics. What is this you ask, ah the scientific term used is "Repetative Lyric Syndrome"

That's why they call 'em 7-11's.

[brent]

Don't blame the PC&D boys that song was written by Isreal Houghton who leads worship at Joel Osteens church.

He is featured. He doesn't lead. That is Cindy Cruse of the famous Cruse Family of the 80s.

[sue d.]

Don't blame the PC&D boys

Yea, but they took it and someone in their camp chose it to be a single (and it worked.... sadly).

I really try NOT to be critical of other's work, but every time I hear this song play on the radio as I'm driving, I can't help but be thankful I don't have a non-Christian in my car.

[epdc]

JONATHAN AND ENOSH, YOU ARE HILARIOUS LOLOL.


MMMMAbout if I had to die for someone, I think it all dependes if the listener´s perspective (yes, when you study literature for 4 years like Idid they brainwash you to think that LOLOL just kidding).

Personally, I hate songs that keep repeating the same phrase over and over again, I would understand if it were a child song.

For me, the key to a good lyric is to find the way to express the same (or main) idea in different ways. For example, that one "I a friend of Jesus", the one you just mentioned, instead of repeating that it would be great if the person were able to express in each verse an image of what a friend is.

For example, to the top of my head mmmmmm

"I am Jesus friend

When I am walking to school He is walking with me
we talk about everything
He always listens to me"

Yeah is lame too HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA but you know what I mean, instead of repeating "friend, friend friend friend" the writer could have said "friend" one or two times and then make verses where he would give power to the word "friend", where he would describe what a friend is. After repeating something a lot of time the word lses its meaning.


what I liked about "If I had to die for someone" is how simple is it, it talks about everyday´s life situations, a band aid, a seat belt, the singer is saying the things the listener thinks, I mean, all of us have thought at least once "man, Jesus died for me, I don´t think I could die for another person, I love my life" and the singer is using little details of life to express that idea "I love my life, I don´t think I could do what Jesus did".

PS.- I´m alive too

[epdc]

Do you remember the song "God" by Rebbecca Saint James?

The reason I think the lyrics are great (in my opinion) is because she only says the word "God" in the chorus. On all the verses what she does is to describe the word "God", she describes who is "God".

All she does is describing so by the time you get to the chorus when she says "GOD" you can feel the power in that word, the word gets like a higher meaning ya know. Because she, as a writer , prepared the path for that.

[Enosh]

Oh Ok Sue...

Let me preface this list with the fact that I recognize that I too have written my share of cheesy lyrics over time. There are songs you write that really come out your heart and have substance, and then there are times when you are trying to rhyme. These are some Petra lyrics I find amusing. I'm not saying I don't agree with ideas behind them, I just don't think you can have over 30 years of songs and not have some that just sound funny. Even it's just because they were written in a different time.

Get Back to the Bible
I don't know what I've been told
Joe Smith has seen Moroni
It's getting so a man can't tell
Who's real and who's a phony

Hare Krishna" may be fun to sing
But it ain't gonna get you to heaven
The only one who's gonna get you there
His number is a perfect seven

Satan worship may be cool and hip (Really?)
But when are you gonna learn?
There's a place that's set for you and him
Man, you know you're gonna burn


Gonna Fly Away
Dreamin' about flyin' since I was a boy
Never thought I'd see the real mccoy
I think it's safe to say
I finally found a way

Gonna fly away
Gonna fly away

Every day I've been looking in the sky
Hope it's not raining when I start to fly
I bet you think I'm strange
Wait until I'm changed


You remember Sally, used to be so happy
Walkin' down that street with a smile upon her face
Never had a worry, she never had a care
And when she came to see me she would brighten up my face
Sally was that kind of girl, sure would like to know
And everywhere that Sally went the lamb was sure to go

Somebody said they saw her on the other side of town
Said she was smokin' weed and drinkin', probably foolin' 'round
That's too bad about Sally because she was so nice
The next time that I see that girl, I'll give her my advice

Why would she want to run away from God and all His love
And go back in that world and live so hard and rough

You know that I don't feel too bad, Sally moved away
'Cause everytime I'd look at her she set my mind astray
Now Sally was that kind of girl, I wish that she was mine
Just to know that she was there, even that was fine

Everything that you do and see, one more event in your memory
Every bit takes another bite without control over wrong or right
You must screen every entry made,
the consequences must be weighed
The only way to security is every thought in captivity

(Chorus)
Computer brains, put garbage in
Computer brains, get garbage out
Computer brains, programming you
Computer brains, what can you do?
Break out

Are you a user or being used, has your memory been abused?
Take random samples from your mind and analyze what you may find

You can clear all your memory and be transformed when you find the key
Think on the things that will bring you peace,
confusing data soon will cease

This is pretty much all I would call the funny lyrics Petra has put out. Most of everything else is pretty strong. I love D&K but don't get me started on some of those funny Lyrics...

When WE use the "J" word!!

[gman]

Regarding D&K, as the Newsboys once sang, "I agree we ought to boycott hell, but we ought to boycott dumb lyrics as well."

GMan

[Jonathan]

We exalt thee.
We exalt thee.
We exalt thee.
Oh Lord.

[yamasaaaki har har]

Some of the dumbest lyrics in all of worship music, I think, are:

"Yes Lord, yes Lord, yes yes Lord
Yes Lord, yes Lord, yes yes Lord
Yes Lord, yes Lord, yes yes Lord, amen"

Only Daffy Duck could sing that and make it sound good.

I cringed when I heard John sing that on Vertical Expressions. I was about to gag. By the way I once listened to clips from all the songs on that album and I was not too impressed. (well, maybe with the exception of "Judas Kiss") I don't plan on buying Vertical Expressions anytime soon. I don't even know if I want to listen to the whole thing either. What I heard sounded so redundant, like any other run-of-the-mill pop worship band.