Odd song lyrics
I mean ones where you thought nothing of at first and then listened to again and thought "uh-oh...where the hell is this going?".
Exhibit A:
Red Barchetta - Rush.
The opening lyrics, innocuous at first, but after a few listens: -
"My uncle has a country place
That no one knows about"
That's a "uh-oh...where the hell is this going?" lyric if ever I head one. All is good though since it turns out that his uncle lets him joyride in his old sports car and stuff. This is why his uncle keeps it all secret see, so that there's no comeback on him.
Exhibit B:
Little Girls - Extreme
"There must be some logical
Answers why I rob the cradle
Can this be love or just infatuation"
This sounds like a song that should be banned right off...but it's all OK though since in the next verse all is explained: -
"Little girl come out and play
I got some candy for my baby
It's your sweet sixteenth birthday celebration"
Turns out he just likes 'em young but legal...only just.
Any more like this?
Exhibit A:
Red Barchetta - Rush.
The opening lyrics, innocuous at first, but after a few listens: -
"My uncle has a country place
That no one knows about"
That's a "uh-oh...where the hell is this going?" lyric if ever I head one. All is good though since it turns out that his uncle lets him joyride in his old sports car and stuff. This is why his uncle keeps it all secret see, so that there's no comeback on him.
Exhibit B:
Little Girls - Extreme
"There must be some logical
Answers why I rob the cradle
Can this be love or just infatuation"
This sounds like a song that should be banned right off...but it's all OK though since in the next verse all is explained: -
"Little girl come out and play
I got some candy for my baby
It's your sweet sixteenth birthday celebration"
Turns out he just likes 'em young but legal...only just.
Any more like this?
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Start Me Up by the Rolling Stones, as used in the ad campaign for Windows 95 features the line: "You, you make a dead man come."
I think they edited that out of the ad though:
http://videosift.com/video/Windows-95-Start-Me-Up-Commercial-1995
Apparently Sharona (her real name) was 17 at the time she started going out with the Knack's 25-year-old lead singer. So that's alright then. Probably. Erm.
I must've heard that song hundreds of times and never realised that was the lyric at the end. Pinched off Lucille Bogan, of course.
Now I'm singing all my songs to the girl who won my heart
She is only three years old and it's a real fine way to start.
- even more suspect when you consider the album cover (houses of the holy)
Hey baby you're a sweet young thing
Still tied to Mommy's apron strings
I don't even dare to ask your age
It's enough to know you're here backstage
When I first heard it I didn't understand the meaning of the song title though.
Walk away if you want to
it's ok, if you need to
you can run, but you can never hide
From the shadow that's creeping up beside you
There's a magic running through your soul
But you can't have it all
(Whatever you do)
I'll be two steps behind you
(Wherever you go)
and I'll be there to remind you
that it only takes a minute of your precious time
to turn around and I'll be two steps behind.
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/defleppard/twostepsbehindacousticversion.html
An ex loved this song, because it was sung in a style that was oh-so romantic.
I read it as if the singer was a creepy stalker. Then had the wonderful idea of reading aloud the lyrics in an evil nasty style to the ex. That was fun. She's an ex for many reasons.
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And who knew what Gary Glitter's Gang was until years later?
Perhaps the 'what's been taken from me' bit could mean a lot of things, the protagonists child or childhood? But that doesn't really fit with the art lover and wanting to paint them, or does it?
The girls are fifteen, sexually knowing.
Considering what happened to Pete Townsend years later makes the lyric even worse.
Basically saying the slave owners were having a good time with all those pliable black women
:o
It's a historical fact....but the song kinda celebrates it.
Demarera...what's naughty about that?
Help me, information, more than that I cannot add
Only that I miss her and all the fun we had
But we were pulled apart because her mom did not agree
And tore apart our happy home in Memphis Tennessee
Last time I saw Marie she's waving me good-bye
With hurry home drops on her cheek that trickled from her eye
Marie is only six years old, information please
Try to put me through to her in Memphis Tennessee
But could even only be a song about the difficulty of seeing your own daughter after a divorce.
edit: And there's a follow-up song that indicates that, now I see.
Little Marie by Chuck Berry
I guess I should stop talking; after all you placed the call
But anyway that I can help, you know Il help you all
Then she spoke and asked me to come back and see Marie
And live together in our home in Memphis, Tennessee.
Never actually heard it but the lyrics certainly look dodgy to me! Ray Davies has captured the essence of pervert there... "Come to Daddy and I'll give you some Spangles" :lol:
Whereas this (and the Chuck Berry song above) are about the singer's daughter I reckon:
Can't see anything dodgy in that song, it's about Robert Plant's three-year-old daughter (or at least it says so on Wikipedia so it must be true). I know Led Zep liked them young, but not that young...
First time I heard it was an excellent cover by Lambchop. I originally thought the lyric you mentioned was '...and I'll give you some pringles', which is not much safer!
Or was it Spaniels? "Do you want to see my puppies...?"
'She's a Lady, She is mine. Brush back your hair and let me get to know your face.
She's a Lady, She is mine. Brush back your hair and let me get to know your flesh.'
From the sleeve notes and Gabriel's live performance of it in the seventies, the song is about the ghost of an old man attempting to rape a ten year old girl.
I'll lock her up in truck, so no big hunk can steal her away from me.....
Uhm. I don't think it's like that.
fair enough. tbh I didn't really think it was as nonce-tastic as I made out, it just fit the thread...
if anyone's interested here's a list of all the Beatles lyrics from the White Album that Charles Manson (mis)interpreted before doing the whole Manson Family stuff. I'd heard he was inspired by the tracks Helter Skelter and Piggies but you see how bonkers he really was from some of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helter_Skelter_(Manson_scenario)#References_to_the_Beatles_and_the_Book_of_Revelation
"I Stand Up Next to a Mountain and Chop it Down With the Ledge of my Hand..."
WTF is the ledge of your hand?
Anyone would think he was off his nuts on drugs!
I've always thought this one has a slightly sinister undertone.
"Please don't bother trying to find her She's not there"
Hmmm? I think we will bother trying to find her and I think we will start by looking under that new patio.
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Nope. I always thought its was 'edge' but when I bought the 12" re-release in the '90's it had the lyrics and it said 'ledge of my hand'
Pretty sure its on YouTube somewhere...
Not heard that but "So What" is pretty dodgy... if you're a sheep, goat or a schoolgirl anyway :lol:
The same lyric is printed on the original release too: http://www.discogs.com/Jimi-Hendrix-Experience-Voodoo-Chile/release/5006633
I've always found Des'ree lyrics a bit odd...
"I don't want to see a ghost,
It's the sight that I fear most,
Rather have a piece of toast,
Sit and watch the evening news."
:confused: