Some people really don't seem to get lyrics on this thread - there's no way you can say Roxy Music's lyrics were the worst ever or anywhere near - they were so arch, so conscious of what they were doing and friends with bands like Can, whose singers just made words up. You can not like it or not understand it, but the lyrics aren't 'bad'. Squeeze, like them or not, are in that great British tradition of kitchen-sink songwriting - see The Kinks, XTC (and Blur if you want okay copyists). No way near bad. And there's absolutely no way you can include all those fifties doo-wop influence numbers in which the voice is just another instrument (as someone already said). Oh, and McArthur Park is utter genius and hilarious with it - carefully crafted by one of the greatest songwriters ever (Jimmy Webb) to be that way and sung by a hamming it up actor backed by an orchestra. It's brilliant.
Pretentious public school wankery like Genesis, or Yes, or Rush et al., on the other hand... fire away!