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Try as they might to bring out their inner poet, some lyricists just can't help dropping a clanger, inducing a cringe or, quite simply, talking complete nonsense.

Our top 50 compiles the very worst lyrical crimes of all time - so take a seat, brace yourself and get ready to look deep into the abyss of musical misery.

#1: Rhythm Is A Dancer, Snap!
"I'm as serious as cancer,
When I say rhythm is a dancer."
File under: Clanger

#2: Do They Know It's Christmas?, Band Aid
"And the Christmas bells that ring there,
Are the clanging chimes of doom,
Well tonight thank God it's them instead of you."
File under: Clanger

#3: Life, Des'ree
"I don't wanna see a ghost,
It's the sight I fear most
Rather have a piece of toast."
File under: Gobbledegook

#4: Ignition, R Kelly
"The way you do the things you do,
Reminds me of my Lexus Coupe."
File under: Cringey

#5: My Generation, Limp Bizkit
"We downloaded the Shockwave,
For all the ladies in the cave,
To getcha groove on."
File under: Gobbledegook

#6: Wash Away Those Years, Creed
"For we have crossed many oceans,
And we labour in between,
In life there are many quotients,
And I hope I find the mean."
File under: Maths analogy

#7: Better Watch Out, PJ & Duncan
"This pain won't refrain in my brain,
You don't believe that I didn't know her name."
File under: Clanger

#8: Insania, Peter Andre
"Do do do do doo,
Do do do do doo,
Do do do do doo,
This is insania."
File under: Gobbledegook

#9: Never Ever, All Saints
"Sometimes vocabulary runs through my head,
The alphabet runs right from A to Z"
File under: Gobbledegook

#10: Champagne Supernova, Oasis
"Slowly walking down the hall,
Faster than a cannonball."
File under: Gobbledegook