Jo Dee Messina - Bye Bye
Time: 1:40
Well, I'm through watchin' you just skate around the truth
And I know it sounds trite, I've seen the light
Bye-bye love, I'll catch you later

overused; repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
Heard in 48 songs (30M+ combined views) — most famously in "Bye Bye" by Jo Dee Messina.
Updated August 20, 2026
Time: 1:40
Well, I'm through watchin' you just skate around the truth
And I know it sounds trite, I've seen the light
Bye-bye love, I'll catch you later

Time: 1:09
We don't want nothin', not a thing from you
Your life is trite and jaded
Boring and confiscated

Time: 1:18
But your friends' pretty lips were sealed
I wrote a letter full of trite confessions
About wounds that heal

Time: 1:18
Makin' choices on my own
Don't buy their trite or drone'
Grow up and be a man

Time: 0:19
My eyes roll around like dice on the felt
My mind turns to something useless and trite
My uneasiness, materialize

Time: 0:56
♪
At the risk of sounding trite
Just why the fuck do you think you're right

Time: 1:44
Oops, I mean delivers like the Hudson River
Styles be trite, trife like a thief in the night
I be that sneaky-ass nigga bustin' nuts in your wife

Time: 1:23
♪
Words I write, cheap and trite
But they're drawn on the back of your door (Lips are cold)

Time: 1:05
Just one missing piece and everyone's made a liar
Nothing will change if we hang to the same simple trite state of mind
And every voice stokes the fire

Time: 2:51
I'm not one for sporting laurels
I find honor rather trite
Never let a sense of morals

Time: 0:47
See through device and incompetence
Suspect and trite, don't empower them
The earth shall quake and moan with thunder

Time: 3:18
Cause I can't, no I can't, take it home anyway
Never trite when I write 'cause the Lord is my light
And His Word is my bond so ya know, (know, know, know, know...) He's alright

Time: 8:19
They're turning in their graves
War hawks and senators they sit tight, so trite
Never their sons will know what it's like to fight

Time: 0:43
Love at first sight
May sound trite
But it's true, you know

Time: 0:36
There's no parade
It may be trite
And I know it's clichéd

Time: 0:59
Don't you get that, King of fools
We don't mind your life is trite
You are the King of Fools

Time: 4:44
And I'm never real, it's just a sketch of me
And everything I've made is trite and cheap and a waste
Of paint, of tape, of time

Time: 1:01
Agents to the numb
The pain of a trite empty existence
We lift your spirits converge in flame

Time: 3:17
Truth obscured with stall tactic motions
Trite protection of the guilty
Rats on the grift, indecent intention

Time: 0:46
Maybe lovers have to fuss and fight
And the things they do can be so trite
Round and round we go

Time: 0:45
And I think you were born so you could prove me wrong
I think that you will point out how these notes are trite
And ill concede because the critics always right

Time: 0:49
Uh huh
And I know the concept's muddy and trite
That all that is large and all that is slight

Time: 1:56
But you don't want to sing along
Maybe it's trite but I can always, always, always be wrong
It's just like you to contest

Time: 0:20
Some folks like to talk about the things they have, the things they love
But things are that just things, and I don't give a damn, I must seem trite
I'm not that old, I'm not too young

Time: 1:17
and bottles full of love are drunken
by a tricky trite and thirsty hungry bird
Blooming tips on tulip cones that

Time: 0:37
All the wisdom that they bring
Cause I used to think that they were trite
It turns out they're mostly right

Time: 1:28
If you exaggerate their facts, if you perpetuate their myths
They made activism trite
They made honor optional

Time: 1:25
What once brought fright
Now seems oh so trite and I'm scared
Catastrophe and calamity

Time: 0:59
Transparently Obvious, tactless and trite!
You give up on life mate, your not worth the fight!

Time: 0:50
To control your own direction choose to be free
And I reserve the right to be as trite as i want
And you can lick but don't bite

Time: 0:19
Days of omission
I feel broken down inside because my words seem to be trite
Adding to the overwhelming

Time: 0:59
And all the, the money's worthless
The talent's trite and exaggerated
The food is turning

Time: 3:34
What does Webster say about soul?
I say you, silly trite motherfucker
Your great-grandfather tied a ball and chain to my balls

Time: 3:27
So darlin' don't, don't give me anything of any kind
Your trite donation, commercialization
Is just wasted time

Time: 1:53
Which incidentally made Gray feel inane,
so he set off to find a less trite identity,
One as stunning and bold as Scarlet used to be.

Time: 1:02
To tell of yesterday
Some trivial, some trite
Some ooh-la-la's with bite

Time: 0:28
'Cause I think of you often and smile
Hey, it's alright if you find me trite
The lines on my face are clear and in sight

Time: 1:16
Oh no, your heart is broken
Don't you think that's a little trite?
I climb where I can see

Time: 2:39
She doesn't even like that song
the chords are trite, the words are wrong
♪

Time: 0:09
Adieu, my little ballyhoo, you broke my heart in two
And now I haunt the bars and scent those trite affairs
She went home to gather a comb and caught him unawares

Time: 1:26
Old I guess, what should I expect
What trite line will you give me next
But I dont wanna break your heart

Time: 0:15
Hold your breath through late breaking disasters
Next to news of the trite
The codes and the feelings that meant to be global

Time: 1:35
Clearly punctuated by some bloody falls
What used to seem so magical now seems so trite
So one more time let's go and get so high tonight

Time: 1:14
Can we incite?
Can we make a difference with lyrics oh so trite?
With lyrics oh so trite?

Time: 2:03
The worlds not ours, these ancient scars do not show anything, but
This is trite, it is our right to live that full, we possess
No one owns what nature's grown, this truth they must confess

Time: 1:41
When I speak of that wonderful guy
I'm as trite and as gay as a daisy in May
A cliche comin' true

Time: 1:57
Ese caramelo que me da
Me pone dulce hasta la más trite navidad
Lo pruebo y me sube la felicidad

Time: 1:09
Get me started today
Such trite
Uptight
