Songs you didn't realize at first to be fucked-up, but you really love?

[WritingIsMyReligion]

My vote's gotta go to Steely Dan's "Everyone's Gone to the Movies." It used to be played a lot as one of those 10-second promo songs for a radio station I used to listen to, and thinking about it now I just about piss my pants with laughter.

Kids if you want some fun
Mr. LaPage is your man
He's always laughing, having fun
Showing his films in the den
Come on, come on
Soon you will be eighteen
I think you know what I mean
Don't tell your mama
Your daddy or mama
They'll never know where you been

CHORUS:
Everyone's gone to the movies
Now we're alone at last

Listen to what I say
He wants to show you the way
Right down the hallway with open arms
To teach you a new game to play
Come on, come on
Soon it will be too late
Bobbing for apples can wait
We know you're used to sixteen or more
Sorry we only have eight

CHORUS

Kids if you want some fun
See what you never have seen
Take off your cheaters and sit right down
Start the projection machine

CHORUS

[SmileyBoy]

1. "Prison Sex" by Tool.

Came out when I was 12 or so. Back then, I just payed attention to the music of songs, and not the inherent meaning of the lyrics.

I read the lyrics one day, and my face turned white. Maynard James Keenan is a sick motherfucker.

It's got an awesome drum beat and bass line.

[XemaSab]

8. "I have found a kind of temporary sanity in this...."

[SmileyBoy]

11. "X Y and Z on my hands..."

And those three things are???:evilgrin:

[XemaSab]

13. precious bodily fluids

:9

[SmileyBoy]

15. They make a damn fine gravy.

OK, I need to go to sleep now.:silly:

[XemaSab]

16. eew!

x(

[liontamer]

34. i had the same reaction with stinkfist

I don't think i even knew what fisting was when that song came out and yet I loved the song. :shrug:

[XemaSab]

49. relax, turn around and take my hand...

[KitchenWitch]

2. "Every Breath You Take" by the Police.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

3. Oh yeah.

What a messed up song!

:hi:

[Glorfindel]

4. This one; I think it's probably about child enticement/molestation

Vehicle


Hey, well I'm the friendly stranger in the black sedan
Oh won't you hop inside my car
I got pictures, got candy, I am a lovable man
I'd like to take you to the nearest star

I'm your vehicle baby
I'll take you anywhere you wanna go
I'm your vehicle woman
By now I'm sure you know
That I love ya (love you)
I need ya (need you)
I want to, got to have you child
Great God in heaven, you know I love you

Well if you want to be a movie star
I got the ticket to Hollywood
Well if you want to stay just like you are
You know I think you really should

I'm your vehicle baby
I'll take you anywhere you wanna go
I'm your vehicle woman
By now I'm sure you know
That I love ya (love you)
I need ya (need you)
I want to, got to have you child
Great God in heaven, you know I love you
Oh you know I do

Well I'm the friendly stranger in the black sedan
Oh won't you hop inside my car
I got pictures, candy, I am a lovable man
I'd like to take you to the nearest star

I'm your vehicle babe
I'll take you anywhere you wanna go
I'm your vehicle woman
By now I'm sure you know
That I love ya (love you)
I need ya (need you)
I want to, I got to have ya
Great God in heaven, you know I love you
And I'm your vehicle babe

You know I love ya (love you)
I need ya (need you)
I want to, got to have you child
Great God in heaven, you know I love you

[WritingIsMyReligion]

7. Oh yeah.

Catchy song. But defintiely "twisted."

[hippywife]

66. Yeah, that's why he uses

the term "woman" in the chorus.

I hate to be the killjoy on some of these but people read way too much into some of these things.

[blondeatlast]

72. As a 12 year old, I loved that song.

Now I find it intensely creepy--but I still love it.

I really don't think it's about child molestation, though.

Surely it couldn't be.

Right?

Of course it isn't...

[ThomCat]

5. Possession by Sara McLaughlin

I have heard that every line in that song came from letters written to her by a stalker. I can't listen to that song the same way ever again.

[blonndee]

10. Oh man, now I can't either.

Dammit! I love(d) that song.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

19. Wow...didn't know that.

I love Sarah McLachlan. I wish she still did the Lilith Fair tour. I still can't believe I saw the Lilith Fair with my dad, which kind of shows how cool he could be. Big tough guy at the Lilith Fair.

[ThomCat]

22. Remind me at the picnic to tell you a funny story

about being at a Melissa Etheridge concert back before all her straight fans knew she was a lesbian. :P

[liontamer]

35. I like the song more now

it reminds me that when we're in love, we're all a couple of inches away from being insane

[nytemare]

44. Yep, and "Angel" is about a heroin addicted musician.

I didn't know that at first, either.

[tinfoil tiaras]

6. Binky The Doormat by R.E.M.

Yeah, it's a lesser known song...& it's my R.E.M. guilty pleasure! :)

This is horror movie stuff
The muffin is peach, you're "makin" love'
You mean this opera involves handcuffs?
I lay defeated
Yeah, sour milk mouth, horseradish sweet
She's a girl and she's loving me
But distance is my tendency
I am defeated

(chorus)
Have you lost your place? (go away, go away)
I wore my doormat face (go away, go away, go away, go, go, go)
I hung my this or that (go away, go away, go away, go away)
I laid my welcome mat (go away, go away)

If I'm your oyster, where's the war?
You leave me gasping, tattered and torn
I know you can't find a fork
I am just a little acorn
Well, acorns grow to mighty trees
You've got sauce, but you don't have knees
Now look who's asking pretty please
I lay defeated

(repeat chorus)

Call your bathroom friends around
I will fake a little frown
I will be your little clown,
Easily defeated
Yeah, shut the door and open wide
Seconal and astroglide
Fuck with me and traumatize
Don't you see I love your hide?
All the beauty that's trapped inside
Can't you see I love your hide?
Can't you see I love your hide?
Can't you see it?

Have you lost your place? (go away, go away)
I wore my doormat face (go away, go away, go away, go, go, go)
I hung my this or that (go away, go away, go away, go away)
I laid my welcome mat (go away, go away, go away, go, go, go)
I hung my this or that (go away, go away, go away, go away)
I laid my welcome mat (go away, go away, go away, go, go, go)
Go away, go away, go away
Go away, go away, go away

Pretty f*cked up, but I still LOVE it...

[peekaloo]

24. I love that song, especially the "go away" chorus at the end.

I always thought it was Michael's "trophy fuck" song.

oh and it rawks!

[tinfoil tiaras]

31. Oh, I know

"trophy fuck" song...:rofl:

Oh God, I have 666 posts!! :evilgrin:

[NNadir]

9. Nothing could be creepier than the Beatles "Run For Your Life."

Well I'd rather see you dead, little girl
Than to be with another man
You better keep your head, little girl
Or I won't know where I am

You better run for your life if you can, little girl
Hide your head in the sand little girl
Catch you with another man
That's the end'a little girl

Well you know that I'm a wicked guy
And I was born with a jealous mind
And I can't spend my whole life
Trying just to make you toe the line

You better run for your life if you can, little girl
Hide your head in the sand little girl
Catch you with another man
That's the end'a little girl

Let this be a sermon
I mean everything I've said
Baby, I'm determined
And I'd rather see you dead

You better run for your life if you can, little girl
Hide your head in the sand little girl
Catch you with another man
That's the end'a little girl

I'd rather see you dead, little girl
Than to be with another man
You better keep your head, little girl
Or you won't know where I am

You better run for your life if you can, little girl
Hide your head in the sand little girl
Catch you with another man
That's the end'a little girl
Na, na, na
Na, na, na
Na, na, na
Na, na, na


That is majorly fucked up, sick really. But before I realized what the lyrics were about, I thought the tune was catchy.

[WindRavenX]

14. I grew up with that song playing

And I ALWAYS thought it was FUCKED UP

[NNadir]

28. I often listen to music without really realizing what the lyrics are about

But the moment you stop and really listen, it's pretty clear that this song is very sick.

I think John Lennon had some real issues.

In the song Getting Better, he sang,

"I used to be mean to my woman, I beat her and kept her apart from the things that she loved. Man, I was mean, but I'm changing my scene..."

One hopes he changed his scene.

[rug]

12. Gilbert O'Sullivan

CLAIR



Clair, the moment I met you I swear

I felt as if something somewhere

Had happened to me

Which I couldn't see

And then

The moment I met you again

I knew in my heart that we were friends

It had to be so

It couldn't be no

But try as hard as I might do I don't know why

You get to me in a way I can't describe

Words mean so little when you look up and smile

I don't care what people say

To me you're more than a child

Oh Clair, Clair



Clair, if ever a moment so rare

Was captured for all to compare

That moment is you

In all that you do

But why in spite of our age difference do I cry

Each time I leave you I feel I could die

Nothing means more to me than hearing you say

"I'm going to marry you

Will you marry me Uncle Ray?"

Oh Clair, Clair



Clair, I've told you before

Don't you dare

Get back into bed

Can't you see that it's late

No you can't have a drink

Oh, all right then but wait just a bit

While I, in an effort to baby sit

Catch of my breath what there is left of it

You can be murder at this hour of the day

But in the morning this hour

Will seem a lifetime away

Oh Clair, Clair

[NMMNG]

17. Lullaby, by The Cure

on candystripe legs the spiderman comes
softly through the shadow of the evening sun
stealing past the windows of the blissfully dead
looking for the victim shivering in bed
searching out fear in the gathering gloom and
suddenly!
a movement in the corner of the room!
and there is nothing i can do
when i realise with fright
that the spiderman is having me for dinner tonight!

quietly he laughs and shaking his head
creeps closer now
closer to the foot of the bed
and softer than shadow and quicker than flies
his arms are all around me and his tongue in my eyes
"be still be calm be quiet now my precious boy
don't struggle like that or i will only love you more
for it's much too late to get away or turn on the light
the spiderman is having you for dinner tonight"

and i feel like i'm being eaten
by a thousand million shivering furry holes
and i know that in the morning i will wake up
in the shivering cold

and the spiderman is always hungry...

[philosophie_en_rose]

18. Nine In Nails - Closer

.

[NMMNG]

51. I. LOVE. That. Song.

:evilgrin:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

20. "Mary Kay" by Jill Sobule

Actually, everything by Jill Sobule (of "I Kissed a Girl" fame) is fucked up, but I think she's fun as hell.

Mary Kay, she's got it bad
Thinks no one understands
You can't keep a good man down
You can't stop when loves around
You can't close your lonely eyes
Though he's way too young to drive
But he's old enough to please you

Love-me-nots and daisies, Mary Kay
Spin the bottle crazy, Mary Kay

Little John Doe's got it bad
When he first walked in her class
He never had a crush like this
Except for Susie's mother
She wasn't like the other girls
In their stuck up silly world
He's never seen someone so beautiful

Second base and better, Mary Kay
In her soft blue sweater, Mary Kay, Mary Kay
Under the bleachers
Deeper and deeper
Oh teacher

Mary Kay was on the run
With the father of her son
She didn't know she was a star
As she was steaming up the car

Now in your orange jail jumpsuit
I wish the best for you
You were in my heart and living room

Seven years and counting, Mary Kay
And all the inmates wanting Mary Kay
Second base and better, Mary Kay
Where's the soft blue sweater, Mary Kay
Love-me-nots and daisies, Mary Kay
Spin the bottle crazy, Mary Kay
Love can be amazing, Mary Kay

[last_texas_dem]

21. "Thinking About You" by Radiohead

Although I'm not into post-Bends Radiohead I always loved this song off of their debut. I used to think it was just this beautiful song about someone feeling hopeless over unrequited love. The more I thought about the lyrics, though, and what it could be about, it started to seem more and more like a creepy song about obsession, stalking, whatever. (Also, although the lyrics I'm posting from online say the lyrics are "but I'm playing with myself" I think it sounds like he may be saying "when I'm playing with myself", and some of the lyrics surrounding that line would support that... however, I may just have a dirty mind!)

Been thinking about you
Your records are here
Your eyes are on my wall
Your teeth are over there
But I'm still no one
And you're my star
What do you care?

Been thinking about you
And there's no rest
Should I still love you
Still see you in bed
But I'm playing with myself
What do you care?
When the other men are far far better

All the things you've got
All the things you need
Who bought you cigarettes
Who bribed the company to come and see you honey?

I've been thinking about you
So how can you sleep
These people aren't your friends
They're paid to kiss your feet
They don't know what I know
And why should you care
When I'm not there

Been thinking about you
And there's no rest
Should I still love you
Still see you in bed
But I'm playing with myself
What do you care?
When I'm not there.

All the things you've got
She'll never need
All the things you've got
I've bled and I'd bleed to please you

Been thinking about you..

[querelle]

23. Oh Yeah.........

Check it out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnd2ZqloBQM&search=shaun%20cassidy

Q

[jus_the_facts]

25. Angel Is A Centerfold ~ J. Giles Band

....it had a good beat and was easy to dance to...how'd I know it was about porn when I was in 7th grade?! :D

[Orrex]

26. My mom loved "Take a Walk on the Wild Side" until...

she actually listened to the lyrics. Not at all the song she thought it was!

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

36. This is my verse in it...

Jackie is just speeding away
Thought she was James Dean for a day
Then I guess she had to crash
Valium would have helped that bash
Said, Hey babe,
Take a walk on the wild side
I said, Hey honey,
Take a walk on the wild side
and the coloured girls say,
doo do doo do doo do do doo

[Pale Blue Dot]

27. "Don't Want to Wait Anymore" by the Tubes

Sounds sappy and sentimental, until you pay attention to the lyrics.

We could be the last two on earth
to start a new world
Just you and me girl
Try and you can almost see
how it could be
Just you and me
Lost trapped in the freezing cold
Barely alive
Have to make love to survive
I’ll show you it’s done
We’ll take it as it comes
A rocket to the sun

I don’t want to wait anymore
I just don’t think I have the strength
The strength to carry on
Oh, I don’t want to wait anymore
I waited so long, forgot what I’m waiting for

Stranded on a desert isle
with no one around
for thousands of miles
Imagine anyplace
This is what it takes
But don’t tell me to wait

I don’t want to wait anymore
I just don’t think I have the strength
The strength to carry on
Oh, I don’t want to wait anymore
I waited so long, forgot what I’m waiting for

[Bridget Burke]

29. Several Richard Thompson tunes are "odd" at first hearing....

But, the longer you listen, the more you realize their depths. Here's a little lullaby called "End of the Rainbow."

I feel for you, you little horror
Safe at your mother’s breast
No lucky break for you around the corner
‘Cos your father is a bully
And he thinks that you’re a pest
And your sister, she’s no better than a whore

Life seems so rosy in the cradle
but I’ll be a friend, I’ll tell you what’s in store
There’s nothing at the end of the rainbow
There’s nothing to grow up for anymore

www.richardthompson-music.com/song_o_matic.asp?id=52

Then there's "Withered & Died," "Down Where the Drunkards Roll," "Never Again," "The Sun Never Shines on the Poor," "Hard Luck Stories" & (of course) "Did She Jump or Was She Pushed?"

Thompson is delightful in person--solo or (if you're lucky) with a band. Sly wit & killer guitar with a lilting Scottish touch. But sometimes I wonder that one of my favorite songwriters writes so many disturbing songs.

[Squeech]

30. Yup

I used to play "The Sun Never Shines on the Poor" in my singer/songwriter days. And "Pavanne"--

At the Presidential Palace, a thousand people saw
His Excellency leave his car, and never make the door.
The blood runs through his fingers as he clutches at the stain
He staggers like a drunken man, lies twisted in the rain

And they say she grew up well provided for.
Her mother used to keep her boys for sure,
And father's close attentions led to talk,
She learned to stab her food with a silver fork.

Pavanne, cold steel woman, Pavanne,
How do you love a woman
With eyes cold as the barrel of her gun
Who never missed her mark on anyone
Pavanne, Pavanne, Pavanne.

http://www.richardthompson-music.com/song_o_matic.asp?id=26

[wildhorses]

32. Rosie~Jackson Browne

She was standing at the load-in
When the trucks rolled up
She was sniffing all around
Like a half grown female pup
She wasn’t hard to talk to
Looked like she had nowhere to go
So I gave her my pass
So she could get in and see the show

Well I sat her down right next to me
And I got her a beer
While I mixed that sound on stage
So the band could hear
The more I watched her watch them play
The less I could think of to say
And when they walked off stage
The drummer swept that girl away

But rosie you’re all right -- you wear my ring
When you hold me tight -- rosie that’s my thing
When you turn out the light -- I’ve got to hand it to me
Looks like it’s me and you again tonight rosie

Well I guess I might have known from the start
She’d come for a star
Might have told my imagination not to run too far
Of all the times that I’ve been burned
By now you’d think I’d have learned
That it’s who you look like
Not who you are

But rosie you’re all right -- you wear my ring
When you hold me tight -- rosie that’s my thing
When you turn out the light -- I’ve got to hand it to me
Looks like it’s me and you again tonight rosie

[querelle]

33. Thanks For That Memory!

Rosie was the one song I played over and over from the "Running On Empty" album. Now I have to go dig it out from the depths of my basement to play it again. Gotta find my old turntable (Dual 10 10) while I'm at it.

Q

[Elidor]

37. In a similar vein-Janie Runaway

It must have been my lucky Thursday
Your dad went on that spree
Before the crew could put out the fires
You hopped a bus for NYC
Down in Tampa the future looked desperate and dark
Now you're the wonderwaif of Gramercy Park

Who makes the morning fabulous
Who says today's a fun day
Why do I feel like sailing again
Honey it's you - Janie Runaway

Let's grab some takeout from Dean and Deluca
A hearty gulping wine
You be the showgirl and I'll be Sinatra
Way back in '59
Sweetness in heels - look at you - in long black gloves
Come to old blue eyes tell me - who do you love

Who makes the traffic interesting
Rescues a dreary Sunday
Who makes me feel like painting again
Honey it's you - Janie Runaway

Let's plan a weekend alone together
Drive out to Binky's place
The sugar shack in Pennsylvania
Or would that be a federal case?
We'll take the Big Red - the Blazer - it's nice inside
And guess who's coming along for the ride

Who has a friend named Melanie
Who's not afraid to try new things
Who gets to spend her birthday in Spain
Possibly you - Janie Runaway

[WritingIsMyReligion]

39. Or "Cousin Dupree."

Well I've kicked around a lot since high school
I've worked a lot of nowhere gigs
From keyboard man in a rock'n ska band
To haulin' boss crude in the big rigs
Now I've come back home to plan my next move
From the comfort of my Aunt Faye's couch
When I see my little cousin Janine walk in
All I could say was ow-ow-ouch

CHORUS:
Honey how you've grown
Like a rose
Well we used to play
When we were three
How about a kiss for your cousin Dupree

She turned my life into a living hell
In those little tops and tight capris
I pretended to be readin' the National Probe
As I was watchin' her wax her skis
On Saturday night she walked in with her date
And backs him up against the wall
I tumbled off the couch and heard myself sing
In a voice I never knew I had before

CHORUS

I'll teach you everything I know
If you teach me how to do that dance
Life is short and quid pro quo
And what's so strange about a down-home family romance?

One night we're playin' gin by a cracklin' fire
And I decided to make my play
I said babe with my boyish charm and good looks
How can you stand it for one more day
She said maybe its the skeevy look in your eyes
Or that your mind has turned to applesauce
The dreary architecture of your soul
I said - but what is it exactly turns you off?

CHORUS

Many things by the 'Dan qualify. :D

[AngryAmish]

38. Walk This Way by Run-DMC

[thefool_wa]

41. Don't you mean Aerosmith?

they did write the song and record it first.

[thefool_wa]

40. "Bed of Roses" by Statler Brothers

I LOVED this song as a child and listened to it over and over and over again.

Recently it appeared on the GTA: San Aandreas soundtrack and I listened to the lyrics real good. OMG!

I'm fairly certain my mother knew the lyrical content, guess she just figured I wouldn't figure it out till I was an adult (she was right).

[idgiehkt]

43. 'Lola' by the Kinks

didn't know much more than the chorus when I was younger but then later on I realized it was more than just a song to learn to spell by.

[nosillies]

42. I listened to the Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album non-stop

and people would roll their eyes when a seven-year-old sang "All the Girls Love Alice." Now I know why.

Raised to be a lady by the golden rule
Alice was the spawn of a public school
With a double barrel name in the back of her brain
And a simple case of Mummy-doesn't-love-me blues

Reality it seems was just a dream
She couldn't get it on with the boys on the scene
But what do you expect from a chick who's just sixteen
And hey, hey, hey, you know what I mean

All the young girls love Alice
Tender young Alice they say
Come over and see me
Come over and please me
Alice it's my turn today

All the young girls love Alice
Tender young Alice they say
If I give you my number
Will you promise to call me
Wait till my husband's away

Poor little darling with a chip out of her heart
It's like acting in a movie when you got the wrong part
Getting your kicks in another girl's bed
And it was only last Tuesday they found you in the subway
dead

And who could you call your friends down in Soho
One or two middle-aged dykes in a Go-Go
And what do you expect from a sixteen year old yo-yo
And hey, hey, hey, oh don't you know

[6000eliot]

50. I wonder how proud he is of the misogyny and homophobia

in that song now?

[WritingIsMyReligion]

55. Could it be tongue in cheek?

I doubt Sir Elton is one for loading up his songs with sexism and homophobia, all things considered.

[6000eliot]

59. I don't think so.

Take a look at "Dirty Little Girl" and "Sweet Painted Lady" on the same album.

[last_texas_dem]

84. Side 3 of _Goodbye Yellow Brick Road_

does seem to really drip with misogyny. I wonder if Bernie had had some sort of really negative experience with a woman around the time he was writing those lyrics? I still like most of the songs, but there's definitely a dark vibe going through some of them.

[Heddi]

45. Lifeguard Sleeping, Girl Drowning by Morrissey

Always looking for attention
always needs to be mentioned
who does she think she should be?

a shrill cry through darkening air
doesn't she know
he's had such a busy day?

tell her "ssshhhh"
somebody tell her "shhhhhhh"

It was only a test
but she swam too far against the tide
she deserves all she gets

the sky became mad with stars
as an outstretched arm
slowly disappears

hooray
oh hooray!
No, oh, oh, woh, there's no movement
No, oh, hooray
Oh, hooray

Please don't worry
there'll be no fuss
she was
nobody's nothing

and when he awoke
the sea was calm
and another day passes like a dream
---

I mean, I guess the title should give it away, as should being very VERY familiar with Morrissey and his, er, oft off lyrics. But I'd heard this song for YEARS and never once paid attention to one lick of the lyrics. Then one day I did. And I just sat there and cried and cried and cried. "She was nobody's nothing". :cries:

[billyskank]

46. I liked "Amelia" by The Mission

(You might know them as Mission UK). Then one day I listened to the lyrics, and realised it was about child molestation.

:yoiks:

[hyphenate]

47. Mine is an oldie

25 or 6 to 4 by Chicago

Let's just say the drug overtones never came into my mind as I was oblivious to the references. Of course, the band has continuously said that the song isn't about drugs, so whether it is or isn't, I don't care. :)

Waiting for the break of day
Searching for something to say
Flashing lights against the sky
Giving up I close my eyes
Sitting cross-legged on the floor
25 or 6 to 4

Staring blindly into space
Getting up to splash my face
Wanting just to stay awake
Wondering how much I can take
Should I try to do some more
25 or 6 to 4

Feeling like I ought to sleep
Spinning room is sinking deep
Searching for something to say
Waiting for the break of day
25 or 6 to 4
25 or 6 to 4

[last_texas_dem]

53. You know, I never thought

about "25 or 6 to 4" being a song about drugs, but reading the lyrics with that in mind, it does look like it could be, especially in the second verse. I have read an interview (with Robert Lamm, I think) saying that the song was actually written about trying to write a song, which could also make sense with the lyrics, though it's fairly vague either way. Chicago don't seem like a very "druggy" band, but I wouldn't be surprised if some of that was going on. One thing I've never understood, though, is that I think Lamm said the "25 or 6 to 4" bit is supposed to be about the time he was writing the song. Now, I get how it could be 6 (minutes) to 4, but what would the 25 mean? Just a number thrown in to add mystery (or just to give him enough words to sing during the chorus)? I don't know; I do like that song, though.

[hyphenate]

54. My understanding

in respect to the song was that "25 or 6 to 4" was a code name for a specific drug. This is what I was told, but considering I never got into the drug scene, I'm only relying on second hand info.

[sendero]

73. LSD-25....

... or another day at work.

They can say whatever they want, just like Lennon with that absurd story about Lucy - no artist wants to be honest about anything like that.

[hyphenate]

77. Ah!

Thanks! :)

[ok_cpu]

76. I always took the time thing

as 25 or 26 to 4:00.

Like you're under the influence of whatever drug they're not writing about and someone asks the time. "It's twenty-five or six to four..."

[last_texas_dem]

83. Cool, that makes sense

I guess it would have been too many syllables for them to have tried to cram in "twenty-five or twenty-six to four." Thanks!

[hyphenate]

48. You all reminded me of another

really fucked up song. If you're old enough to remember the Monkees in the 60s, you'll remember that Davy Jones was THE romantic that teenage girls went completely over the edge for. And one of the songs that became a "love ballad" was I Wanna Be Free. Which, if you listen to the actual lyrics, are the rantings of a control freak:

By tommy boyce and bobby hart

I wanna be free,
Like the bluebirds flying by me
Like the waves out on the blue sea.
If your love has to tie me, don't try me,
Say good-bye.

I wanna be free,
Don't say you love me say you like me,
But when I need you beside me,
Stay close enough to guide me, confide in me,
Oh-oh-oh

I wanna hold yur hand,
Walk along the sand
Laughing in the sun,
Always having fun
Doing all those things
Without any strings
To tie me down.

I wanna be free,
Like the warm september wind, babe,
Say you'll always be my friend, babe.
We can make it to the end, babe,
Again, babe, I gotta say:
I wanna be free
I wanna be free

[REP]

52. Another Fucked-Up Monkees Song

I *still* don't know what it means. It's from "Head," and I've always liked it:

Daddy's Song

Years ago I knew a man
He was my mother's biggest fan
We used to walk beside the sea
And he'd tell how my life would be
When I grew up to be a man
Years ago we used to play
He used to laugh when I ran away
But when I fell and hurt my knee
He used to come and comfort me
And the pain would go away

Years ago I knew a boy
He was his daddy's pride and joy
But when the daddy went away
It was such a rainy day
That he brought out all his toys
Now the momma did explain
Trying to take away the pain
He just couldn't understand
That his father was not a man
And it all was just a game

Years have passed and so have I
Making it hard to cry
And if and when I have a son
Let it all be said and done
Let all that sadness pass him by

[Deja Q]

56. 'Two Heads' by Jefferson Airplane

:hide::hide:

[speedoo]

57. "American Badass" by Kid Rock

I love tunes like this for the sound, it really has some cool stops and starts, and the video is also well done.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=1TLr3xqIsmI&search=American%20Badass

I just pretend not to understand the vile lyrics, and I never listen to it when anyone else is around.

[NewJeffCT]

58. Puff the Magic Dragon

I was way too young for the drug references when I first heard this song.

[hippywife]

63. Probably because they didn't exist

except in the minds of those involved in the drug culture. And I was one of them at the time so I'm not casting a bad light on anyone.

http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/puff.htm

Same with 25 or 6 to 4. If something didn't make immediate sense then people were inclined to think there was some hidden meaning in them and reflected their own influences onto them.

[NewJeffCT]

64. what about "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"

Which I remember everybody saying was a code for" LSD"?

[hippywife]

65. Not according to Lennon

http://www.snopes.com/music/hidden/lucysky.htm

[struggle4progress]

60. The Who: Behind Blue Eyes

... But my dreams they aren't as empty
as my conscience seems to be

I have hours, only lonely

My love is vengeance that's never free

No one knows what it's like to feel these feelings like I do
and I blame you ...

[Squeech]

62. After Tommy

Pete Townshend was working on another large-scale work called Lifehouse. The Who's management told Pete he couldn't do it, that it would take too long and cost too much to record it and stage it the way Pete wanted to. They convinced him to just record the best songs he had ready as the next album, and that became Who's Next. "Behind Blue Eyes" is a soliloquy/apology by the bad guy in Lifehouse, claiming he's just misunderstood, and that he really doesn't want to be the bad guy: "When my fist clenches, crack it open / before I use it and lose my cool."

On edit: and actually there's much worse in Tommy: "Cousin Kevin," "The Acid Queen," "Fiddle About," "Sally Simpson"...

[struggle4progress]

70. That's interesting. I'd never looked into it.

The song remains psychologically credible under this interpretation.

[Tenseiga]

61. A lot of Rammstein songs...

I love Rammstein, my German isn't so great, but when you look at the translations of some of the songs... *shudders*

[ForrestGump]

67. The Star Spangled Banner. No...actually, I STILL think it's messed up

I mean, fine with all the good stuff over the circumstances allegedly surrounding its conception, and the whole ramparts and rockets stuff with the world's latest tricolor flying in all its battered glory over the red glare and all, but the song is just terrible. In my opinion, anyway. For a start, nobody can sing it -- nobody normal, anyway, and even a lot of the pros resort to vocal tricks to get around the 18-octave range that the thing boasts. Does anyone actually know the words to the US national anthem, anyway? If I didn't think it so ponderous a theme I might actually bother to get the lyrics right, but as it is now my attempts at it pretty much mirror those of Lieutenant Frank Drebbin's take on it in The Naked Gun. Home of the land and the brave of the free, you know. "America, The Beautiful" is also not the easiest song to handle, but it flows a lot better, includes some more constructive imagery, and it would have -- all around -- been a far better choice than the current anthem. It's a much nicer song, and still suitably anthemic. Either that or just borrow The Marseillaise, to go along with the Statue of Liberty (soon to renamed the Statue of Tyranny).

When I become President, Elvis' version of "American Trilogy" (for formal State events) and Ray Charles' take on "America, The Beautiful" (for everything else) will be official co-anthems and "Leader Of The Pack" will replace "Hail To The Chief."

[Benfea]

68. I love the song (the notes part)

The lyrics of course come from Francis Scott Key's poem, but few know that the music comes from an old British drinking song. That's why it's so hard to sing. The whole point to a drinking song is that it is at least somewhat hard to sing, which underscores the drunkenness of those singing it.

I think the fact that that particular song was chosen for our national anthem shows a good sense of humor on the part of our founding fathers.

[Benfea]

69. Queensryche's "Operation: Mindcrime"

I long ago made a habit of not listening to lyrics. The incoherent screaming makes it hard to work out the lyrics and when you do, they're mostly a huge disappointment. That's how I never noticed that Operation: Mindcrime was a concept album detailing a fairly disturbing story.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation:_Mindcrime

The album begins with the protagonist, Nikki, lying in a hospital bed, having a flashback about his past. He remembers how, as a heroin addict, he was mesmerized to join a secret network of rebels who work for a person named Doctor X. As he joins the coup, he becomes hypnotized into a state where when Doctor X says the word "mindcrime", Nikki becomes a puppet on a string (akin to The Manchurian Candidate) to commit any murder Doctor X assigns him to do. Doctor X offers a return to Nikki: through one of his friends, a priest called Father William, he offers Nikki the services of a hooker-turned-nun called Sister Mary. (Details are vague whether these services are sexual or simply emotional.) However, through Sister Mary, Nikki begins to turn back to an emotional human being. Doctor X notices this and, seeing a potential threat in Mary, he orders him to kill her and the priest. Nikki visits Mary, he kills the priest, but fails to comply the orders to murder Mary; he decides to quit the operation and goes back to Doctor X to tell him. X, however, reminds Nikki that he's a drug addict and X is the only one who can provide his daily fix. Nikki returns to Mary, only to find her dead. He can't cope with the loss and succumbs to insanity. The police, arriving on the scene, find him with the body and arrest him. Since he's in a near-catatonic state, he's put into a hospital, where he starts to remember...

[Tenseiga]

71. this album made me think

about politics, religion, self-determination, love, and just life in general. It's a little disturbing (I'm not the easiest person to shake), but that's what opened my eyes.

By the way, on its musical merits alone I reccomend this album.

[xmas74]

79. I loved Operation Mindcrime when it came out.

I remember a group of friends who were fascinated w/ the concept of the album.

[catbert836]

74. "In the Flesh" by Pink Floyd

So, you thought you might like to go to the show
To feel that warm thrill of confusion and space cadet glow
I've got some bad news for you, Sunshine: Pink isn't well, he stayed back in the hotel
And they've sent us along as a surrogate band
We're gonna find out where you fans really stand!

Are there any queers in the theater tonight? Get 'em up against the wall!
And there's one in the spotlight, he don't look right to me. Get him up against the wall!
And that one looks Jewish, and that one's a coon!
Who let all this riffraff into the room?
There's one smoking a joint, and another with spots
If I had my way, I'd have all of you shot!

[sendero]

75. Pearl Necklace - ZZ Top n/t

[Burma Jones]

78. The Beatles' Eight Days a Week

"Hold Me, Love Me, Hold Me Love Me"

John Lennon really had abandonment issues..........

[electron_blue]

80. Sugar: Good idea (he drowns her)

What a great, terrific, exciting song. I loved it and loved it and then the words sunk in (Mould can be hard to understand sometimes) and I thought 'wtf?'

"Good Idea"

They went down to the river
On a warm summer night
The air was think with the
Smell of temptation
He said why don't we lay in the water
Let the water run over me
And she grinned and she said
Now she said now she said

Now that's a good idea
She said she said
Now that's a good idea
She said she said
Now that's a good idea
She said she said
Now that's a good idea
She said she said

He held her head high in his hands
He held her down deep in the stream
He saw the bubbles and matted hair
Mixed in with seaweed
She started to scream
Was it something i said
Was it something i said
And she said and she said
And she said she said

Now that's a good idea she said she said
To be alone with you she said she said
I've been waiting for years
And i'd rather be dead

That's a good idea he said he said

He held her down in the river
He held her down in the water
Another river of mud
Wash away those tears
He said and he said
Now that's a good idea
He said now that's a good idea
He said now that's a good idea
He said now that's a good idea

I saw them from the ocean


She didn't seem to mind
Didn't fight at all
She didn't fight it at all
Some things are best left alone
Sometimes i'm best left alone
And sometimes i see you in the water
At night at night at night

That's a good idea she said she said
I wanna feel you in the water
With your hands on my head
Push you down into the water
She said she said
Now that's a good idea she said she said
Now that's a good idea that's a good idea
She said she said
Now she said now she said
That's a good idea that's a good idea
That's a good idea
She said she said
That's a good idea
She said she said
I want to feel you in the water
With your hands on my head
Push you down into the water
She said she said

That's a good idea
She said she said
That's a good idea
She said she said
That's a good idea
She said she said
That's a good idea
She said she said

That's a good idea
She said she said
That's a good idea
She said
That's a good idea
She said she said
That's a good idea
She said she said
That's a good idea
She said she said
That's a good idea

[oberliner]

81. Young Girl - Gary Puckett and the Union Gap

Huge hit in the late 60s and still gets play on oldies stations today.

HOW CREEPY ARE THESE LYRICS:

Young girl, get out of my mind
My love for you is way out of line
Better run, girl
You're much too young, girl

With all the charms of a woman
You've kept the secret of your youth
You led me to believe
You're old enough
To give me Love
And now it hurts to know the truth

Whaoo-oh-oh
Young girl, get out of my mind
My love for you is way out of line
Better run, girl
You're much too young, girl

Beneath your perfume and make-up
You're just a baby in disguise
And though you know
That it's wrong to be
Alone with me
That come on look is in your eyes

Whaoo-oh-oh
Young girl, get out of my mind
My love for you is way out of line
Better run, girl
You're much too young, girl

So hurry home to your Mama
I'm sure she wonders where you are
Get out of here
Before I have the time
To change my mind
'Cause I'm afraid we'll go too far

Whaoo-oh-oh
Young girl, get out of my mind
My love for you is way out of line
Better run, girl
You're much too young, girl

Young girl, get out of my mind
My love for you is way out of line
Better run, girl
You're much too young, girl

[electron_blue]

82. Yeah, I switch the dial asap if that comes on the radio.

[Bassic]

85. Santeria, by Sublime

I don't practice Santeria
I ain't got no crystal ball
Well I had a million dollars but I, I'd spend it all
If I could find that heina and that sancho that she'd found
Well I'd pop a cap in sancho and I'd slap her down
What I really wanna know (my baby)
What I really wanna say, I can't define
Well it's love that I neeeeeed
My soul will have to wait till I get back
Find a heina of my own
Daddy's gonna love one and all
I feel the break, feel the break, feel the break
And I gotta live it out
Oh yeah un-huh
Well I swear that I, what I really wanna know (my baby)
What I really wanna say, I can't define
Got love! Make it go
My soul will have to...
What I really wanna say (my baby)
What I really wanna say, is I've got mine
And I'll make it
Yes, I'm going up
Tell sanchito that if he knows what is good for him
He best go run and hide
Daddy's got a new .45
And I won't think twice
To stick that barrel straight down sancho's throat
Believe me when I say that I got something for his punk-ass
What I really wanna know (my baby)
What I really wanna say, is there's just one way back
And I'll make it
My soul will have to wait