Why are so many metal/hard rock lyrics such merda?

[ubit]

Im not a big worrier about lyrics. I go for the melody and the sound of the instruments. Cheesy lyrics can get lost in the mix for all I care. As far as rock songs having cheesy lyrics. if you listen to ANY music, you will find rubbish lyrics, not just rock. As I say, if the song is catchy and got a good hook, I'm sold.

[Stub Mandrel]

On 17/10/2019 at 16:37, Leonard Smalls said:

I'd like to humbly submit some lyrics of my own to illustrate just how deep musical verse can be (imagine it intoned in a Manchester accent):

1. My mate Dave, he turned to me
With great portent and evident glee
“There’s a storm a-comin’” quoth he
“There’s thunder in them hills you’ll see

2. “There’s a rumble in the jungle, a one-gun salute
“More tea vicar? Me flatus is acute
“You thought I couldn’t play the Tibetan noseflute
“I think I’ve just spattered me 3 piece suit”

There she blows!

3. I said to him “just be direct, call a spade a spade,
“you’ll get respect.
“Don’t just blame your dialect,
“that’s an excuse that I reject
“even if your kecks are now brown-flecked,
“maybe now you’ll be more circumspect

4. He said “You can’t hold what you haven’t got in your hand
“better an empty house than a bad tenant
“get out and walk, I should be on Grandstand!
“that one’d drown out Barbara Streisand”

There she blows!

5. I heard it’d all ended in tears.
He’d done summat daft and confirmed me fears
He’d been practicing a trick to impress his mates
Showing what’d happen when his abdomen inflates
And a match is applied to the rear of his pants
However, he set fire to the curtain
And soon the whole house has gone for a burton
Now he lives in the park with a can of strong lager
And that’s the end of this sorry saga

There she blows!

🤘😀

My brother and SIL enjoyed that but said  that my best John Cooper Clarke sounded like Liverpool.