A condition that effectsvictims by making them think they know the lyrics to popular songs, completely unaware, that they are completely clueless.
A: *sings the lyrics “bring me a higher love from “Higher Love” by Steve Winwood, as “bring me an iron lung”.
B: I’m really worried that you might have Chronic Lyricosis.
A: Why, what makes you say that? I’m singing it correctly aren’t I?
AND
-osis: "a disorder or abnormal state"
to mean when a person is singing and doesn't know or forgets the words to a song so they proceed to make up sounds and grunts to cover the fact that they sound like an idiot.
My sister and I got drunk last night and were singing Billy Jean loudly when I realized the bitch was suffering from lyricosis, she had no idea what the words were.
I love laughing at that dude that always sings for Karaoke even though he has such a severe case of lyricosis.
I don't care if I don't know the words to the song, a little lyricosis usually hides the mistakes.
When you're too fucking tired to speak english and keep forgetting that the language doesn't have fancy word for poet like german does (which it totally should, by the way).