# Creepiest rock song? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 12, 2008, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943 "2008-12-12T22:12:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Captain\_Socks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a8b319/32.png) [@Captain\_Socks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Socks)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/181 "2009-03-23T21:34:55Z")
I seem to remember reading in one of these threads that Ted Nugent wrote a song about having sex with a fifteen year old girl. What’s the story on that? ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/182 "2009-03-23T22:09:52Z")
> [@Captain\_Socks](#): > > I seem to remember reading in one of these threads that Ted Nugent wrote a song about having sex with a fifteen year old girl. What’s the story on that? I mentioned it upthread (I think it was in this thread). His song “Jailbait” says: “I don’t care if you’re just thirteen You look too good to be true I know that you’s probably clean There’s one little thing I’s gots ta do to you” What I don’t know is if the song ever appeared on a studio album, or if it was just something he did live. The only version I ever heard was live. Also, when I looked for it on various lyrics sites, they all had words to the effect of, “These lyrics have been removed at the author’s request”, though there were plenty of other Nugent lyrics that he apparently _hadn’t_ asked to have removed. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/183 "2009-03-23T23:07:55Z")
> [@BurnMeUp](#): > > Which is actually a cover of a Misfits song, who pretty much have every song full of creepy lyrics. If you want a creepy Misfits song try [Last Caress](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1wbcqY6IIs), which was also covered by Metallica. Killing babies, raping mothers, it’s all there. And “Sweet lovely death I am waiting for your breath Come sweet death, one last caress” “Bullet” was mentioned previously in the thread, it’s about Jackie O. and Kennedy. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Mondegreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/91b2a8/32.png) [@Lord\_Mondegreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Mondegreen)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/184 "2009-03-24T03:29:18Z")
> [@DellieM](#): > > Oh Carol - Smokie (‘she said I’m not 16 if you know what I mean’ but in the meantime this guy has a raging hardon for her … ergh.) (Now that this zombie thread has been revived …) “Oh Carol” gets worse, because the end of that verse is (from memory), “but when we finally kissed, you know she didn’t resist, and I must say she did it with style.” Always hated that damn song, and not just for the lyrics. ---
**Author:** ![dzeiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/46a35a/32.png) [@dzeiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dzeiger)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/185 "2009-03-24T04:29:06Z")
I see Blue Oyster Cult was mentioned upthread, but I also have to point out “Your Loving Heart” from Buck Dharma’s solo album. Nothing like a ballad about a guy with terminal heart disease who gets a new lease on life courtesy of a heart transplant from his girlfriend who was killed in a car crash after leaving his bedside. I saw the video to it a long time ago, but haven’t been able to locate it. Also, I once found a MP3 of someone who did a mix of “In the Air Tonight” from Phil Collins, “Games Without Frontiers” from Peter Gabriel, and “Closer” from Nine Inch Nails. All pretty creepy on their own, really creepy when mixed together. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2009, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/186 "2009-03-27T23:52:05Z")
> [@BurnMeUp](#): > > Which is actually a cover of a Misfits song, who pretty much have every song full of creepy lyrics. Too true. My favorite of their songs is Helena \*If I cut off your arms and cut off your legs Would you still love me anyway? If you’re bound and you’re gagged, draped and displayed Would you still love me anyway? … \* ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/187 "2009-03-28T01:09:49Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > That album also has “Family Snapshot” about the Kennedy assasination > > “I want to be somebody - you were like that too. If you don’t get given, you learn to take, and I will take you” This was actually about the assassination of[Gov. George Wallace](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Snapshot) > [@BigNik](#): > > We’ve got this far and no-one’s mentioned Pearl Jam’s _Alive_? > > The singer’s mother chooses to tell her son that his “father” isn’t actually his father, and then molests him because he looks like his (dead) real father - only he’s… uh… Alive. And then the next verse has the narrator repressing the memory. This is a commonly mis-interpreted song… Alive is part of a [trilogy of songs](http://www.fivehorizons.com/songs/dec99/index.shtml) and as I understand, there is no incest or molestation. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/188 "2009-03-28T02:13:49Z")
Just about anything off of Nirvana In Utero with special mentions to: In Bloom “Sell the kids for food.” and Heart Shaped Box “I wish I could eat your cancer when, you turn black.” ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/189 "2009-03-28T09:57:32Z")
That link to Nick Cave’s ‘Whre the wild roses grow’ isn’t working so here it is, [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8srgfw7GDkM) One of my favourites has to be ‘I want my baby back’ - a pretty harmless title really, it could be about a lost teen love, which it is, sort of… [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xek58Z14V0) Steely Dan ‘Cousin Dupree’ I don’t know why, but this live version is probably even more creepy than just hearing it on the CD, maybe its Donald Fagan’s looks - I mean, just look at him! [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFV8ATd7pd8) ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/190 "2009-03-28T13:41:04Z")
\*Cemetary Gates \*by **Pantera**. \*Through all those complex years I thought I was alone. I didnt care to look around And make this world my own… And when she died I shouldve cried and spared myself some pain. You left me incomplete, All alone as the memories still remain. The way we were, The chance to save my soul… And my concern is now in vain. Believe the word, I will unlock my door… And pass the cemetery… gates\* Video: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyczwqRD2NI](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyczwqRD2NI) Black Sabbath’s _Black Sabbath_. Ozzy’s _Mr Crowley_. The Doors _The End_ The Nutcracker. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/191 "2009-03-28T14:51:03Z")
I nominate Alan O’Day’s _[Angie Baby](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angie_Baby)_. ---
**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/192 "2009-03-28T15:34:31Z")
I’m amazed no-one’s mentioned the Velvet Underground. There’s quite a few to choose from, but I’ll nominate The Gift from the second album. John Cale narrates a story about a man who wraps himself in cardboard box which is delivered to his girlfriend as a present. The girlfriend opens the box with a knife… ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/193 "2009-03-28T20:00:26Z")
> [@phungi](#): > > This is a commonly mis-interpreted song… Alive is part of a [trilogy of songs](http://www.fivehorizons.com/songs/dec99/index.shtml) and as I understand, there is no incest or molestation. Eddie Vedder has said himself that the mother in “Alive” has confused sexual feelings towards her son due to his resemblance to his dead father, and seems pretty clear on there being some sort of incestuous encounter. (He’s given this explanation more than once, but the [1993 _Rolling Stone_ interview](http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10560431/five_against_the_world) is probably the best source.) The young man goes on to become a serial killer (“Once”) and is eventually imprisoned and executed (“Footsteps”). Although I think “Once” is fairly clearly about a killer, or at the very least a man wrestling with temptation to kill, “Alive” and “Footsteps” can be interpreted in other ways. For instance, the woman in the young man’s bedroom in “Alive” who says “I’m ready for you” is just called “she” and so could be someone other than the mother from the first verse. And of course from very early on the chorus to “Alive” was understood by listeners as being life-affirming rather than the horrified words of someone who thinks they might be better off dead. In recent years Vedder has said that despite his much darker original idea the more uplifting interpretation has won out, to the extent that it changed the meaning of the song even for him (see [this piece in _Billboard_](http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002612367)). ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2009, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/194 "2009-03-29T00:47:56Z")
I skimmed the thread, didn’t see any mention of \*Tomorrow, Wendy \*by **Concrete Blonde**. It’s about a girl that’s going to commit suicide, apparently at the suggestion of some voices in her head, at least that’s how I interpret it. \*It is complete now the two ends of time are neatly tied. A one-way street, she’s walking to the end of the line. And there she meets the faces she keeps in her heart and mind. They say ‘good bye’ Tomorrow, Wendy, you’re going to die. They say ‘good bye’ Tomorrow, Wendy, you’re going to die.\* [Lyrics](http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Tomorrow-Wendy-lyrics-Concrete-Blonde/A7A91FDA7769FA3C48256AFE00056373) Also, \*More Than I Can Do \*by **Steve Earle**. Classic stalker stuff. Earle has many songs with creepy lyrics. _You told me that I got to stop But it’s more than I can do And that ain’t nothing new 'Cause we both know that I’m crazy about you You said you’re gonna call the cops But I ain’t gonna run Because you’re the only one There ain’t no way I could live without you_ [Lyrics](http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/More-Than-I-Can-Do-lyrics-Steve-Earle/0B20D8BA1B9F1E8048256AB60039063A) ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2009, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/195 "2009-03-29T02:03:57Z")
> [@phungi](#): > > This is a commonly mis-interpreted song… Alive is part of a [trilogy of songs](http://www.fivehorizons.com/songs/dec99/index.shtml) and as I understand, there is no incest or molestation. Did you read what you linked to? The first sentence is a quote from Eddie Vedder: > [@link](#): > > It’s about incest; and it’s about murder; and you know all those good things. And if you can picture it in your mind, the third song takes place in a jail cell. So this is our own little mini-opera here." --EV, 6/18/92 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2009, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/196 "2009-03-29T04:58:35Z")
I am surprised no one mention the [Doors](http://www.lyricsfreak.com/d/doors/the+end_20042686.html), _The End._ If I may include the Blues, there is [Billie Holiday’s](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Fruit) _Strange Fruit_ and _I’m Gonna Murder My Baby._ [Auburn Hare.](http://www.rockabilly.nl/references/messages/pat_hare.htm) (In real life, he did.) ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2009, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/197 "2009-03-29T09:07:34Z")
> [@Pushkin](#): > > There’s a German group with a song about “my girlfriend’s best friend” or something like that. The video of the song ends with one of the band walking off with the two women in question, but (as I remember it) the size of this fellow and way the scene was shot just makes it look like a creepy paedo scenario. Oh, if we can drag German into this: ![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/E-11HOPpdyc/maxresdefault.jpg)https://www.youtube.com/embed/E-11HOPpdyc?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque It’s like Noah’s Arc… During Nazi Germany After the apocalypse. During a REALLY bad drug experience. Seriously, I understand enough German to be able to interpret that song and I still have no idea what the hell just happened whenever I watch that. Also, White Wedding by Billy Idol just… squicks me. I’m not sure why, if I look at the lyrics it’s not that bad, there may be some paedophilic/incestuous overtones, but not enough to call the song as being about that (and it required some mental gymnastics to even get that far in “interpreting” it), but SOMETHING about that song just seriously weirds me out. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2009, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/198 "2009-03-29T09:41:58Z")
> [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](#): > > “I Put a Spell on you” is creepy as well. Kind of off topic but the song “I Put A What” is pretty cool. It uses the vamp (I think that’s the right term) from “I Put A Spell On You” and it’s a fun song. It’s sung by a German vocalist named Valeska Jakobowicz. I heard this song and, after finding her email address online, wrote and told her I liked her voice and asked if she had any other work I could find or buy somewhere. She sent me an album’s worth of songs for free (with the proviso that I not put them on the Internet or do anything with them other than put them on my iPod), so I thought I’d give her a shout out. Anyone interested can find “I Put A What” plus a few of her other songs [here](http://www.myspace.com/valeskajakobowicz). (If you happen upon this post **Wordman** , I’d be interested in knowing your take on both “I Put A What” and Jakobowicz herself as a vocalist. I like to test my taste sometimes and I’d be interested to know your opinion.) ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2009, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/199 "2009-03-29T13:46:30Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I am surprised no one mention the [Doors](http://www.lyricsfreak.com/d/doors/the+end_20042686.html), _The End._ Well, except for posts #147, 166, and 190. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2009, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/200 "2009-03-29T13:52:04Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > Well, except for posts #147, 166, and 190. Thanks. :smack: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943.md?page=11)