If you're looking for bad lyrics, the New Order back catalogue provides much fertile ground. However, the following timeless couplet from Sooner Than You Think from the Low Life album must take the chocolate Hob Nob:

Your country is a wonderful place, it pales my England into disgrace,
To Buy a drink there is so much more reasonable, I think I'll go there when it gets seasonable

In fairness to Noel, the line you quote is taken directly from what his Mum used to say when the brothers G lined up for a family photo. I don't think it is bad actually - I personally like lyrics which are actual quotes from people the writer has known.

I find 99% of the Manics' lyrics derisible at best, often laughable, cos it just sounds like a man trying ever so hard.

The much-derided "Slowly walking down the hall, faster than a cannonball" line isn't as bad as it's made out to be. If we assume there is a "drugs dimension" to the lyric (not a huge assumption with this band I suppose), then the slowness of the walking and the speed of the cannonball presumably refers to his physical and mental state respectively (although it is unilkely that this singer's mental agility would ever approach cannonball speed, even with excessive chemical assistance).

A much bigger offender is their album title "Standing on the Shoulder of Giants". What, all these giants with only one shoulder between them?

"I'm leaning on the handrail just to watch the phosphoresence / Honey I was just the midwife of your adolesence". Ithangyew.
However, if we're referring to things you actually may have heard in polite company, Stipey's "Feathers hit the ground before the weight can leave the air" is wonderful. Not so inspirational is Neil Young's epochal "Got mashed potato / Ain't got no T-bone" (repeat ad nauseam).

"As I ventured in the slipstream, between the viaducts of your dreams..." go figure - but it has always inspired me. I'm still a shite lyricist though!

...Lloyd Cole writing "She looks like eva marie saint in on the waterfront
As she reads simone de beauvoir in her american circumstance"

My, aren't we clever?

A review I once read of his stuff said that "he flatters his audience with in-jokes", which I thought summed it up very neatly

Oh dear, do we have to look forward to lines like "there'll be no pocket money for you if you don't take those bins out, my lad", or "and it wouldn't hurt to run a comb through your hair now and again either"?

 I'm a huge admirer of anyone who manages to elegantly accommodate a load of syllables in one lines. "They had a hifi phono, boy did they let it blast/seven hundred little records/ All rocking rhythm and jazz" from Chuck Berry's "You Never Can Tell" which, as any fule no, is the greatest record ever made, is a classic in this respect.The best polysyllabic opening line is Brian Wilson's "Don't Worry Baby" which begins "well, it's been building inside of me for oh I don't know how long".I make that 16 syllables. Respect. 

ABC spring to mind. That Was Then But This Is Now, methinks; with the classic "Can't complain, mustn't grumble. Help yourself to another slice of apple crumble..."

"The Day Before You Came" by Abba - tho it was Blancmange that alerted me to the horror of "There's not, I think, a single episode of Dallas that I didnt see." Who cares?

Surely there can't be as bad a verse for bad songwriting ever as "Life" by Des'ree?

"I'm afraid of the dark
Especially when I'm in a park
And there's no one else around,
Oh I get the shivers.
I don't want to see a ghost,
It's the sight that I fear most
I'd rather have a piece of toast
And watch the evening news".

Bad in so many ways....................

This sort of list never used to be complete without
"Beelzebub is aching in my belly-o.
My feet are heavy and I'm rooted in my wellios"
"Kite" by Kate Bush from "The Kick Inside"