# 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:** 8\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2009, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/201 "2009-03-29T14:55:36Z")
> [@Jragon](#): > > 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. A few different times here in CS I’ve seen people ask about “White Wedding”, and there are apparently some people who interpret the song in a much…bloodier way than Idol intended. They take the sneering references to a “white wedding” and the reference to a shotgun to mean that the narrator intends to shoot up the wedding party. ---
**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, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/202 "2009-03-29T16:56:44Z")
\*Dead Flowers \*by the **Stones** strikes me as creepy-sad. _Well, when youre sitting back In your rose pink cadillac Making bets on kentucky derby day Ill be in my basement room With a needle and a spoon And another girl to take my pain away_ ---
**Author:** ![Cosmopolitan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/94ad74/32.png) [@Cosmopolitan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cosmopolitan)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2009, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/203 "2009-03-29T18:10:28Z")
_One_, by Metallica, strikes me as rather creepy. It’s inspired by Johnny Got His Gun, a disturbing film in its own right. Sure, it’s not sexually creepy, but I feel that the imagery can rightly be filed under “Creepy”: _Darkness imprisoning me All that I see Absolute horror I cannot live I cannot die Trapped in myself Body my holding cell_ ---
**Author:** ![Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boulter_s_Canary)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2009, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/204 "2009-03-29T23:44:10Z")
Richard Thompson specialises in creepy. \*\* I feel so good I’m going to break somebody’s heart tonight I feel so good I’m going to take someone apart tonight\*\* (‘Feel so Good’) **I didn’t do it, it wasn’t me I was right at the back, invisible, see? I’m 100 per cent, and that’s a fact You can ask Diz , I’ll be right back** (‘I’ll Tag Along’) **I took my darling down, I took my darling down To that big grey house down the lane And then the doctor said, he said “It’s in her head She’s never going to be right again” I kissed my love goodbye, she didn’t blink an eye They took her down the hall, she never looked back at all** (‘Grey Walls’) **And sometimes when the night is still I can feel the gathering of his will I can feel him flex the strings of power And grope to his appointed hour** (‘When We Were Boys at School’) **Always make your best moves late at night Always keep your tools well out of sight It never pays to work the same town twice It never hurts to be a little nice That’s the way we make love** (‘Love in a Faithless Country’) There are plenty more… ---
**Author:** ![C.Montgomery\_Burns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecd19e/32.png) [@C.Montgomery\_Burns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C.Montgomery_Burns)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/205 "2009-03-30T23:00:39Z")
It’s not a rock song, but “Knoxville Girl” by the Blue Sky Boys (a much older song, but theirs is the most well known) is about a guy who murders his bride-to-be in graphic detail. ---
**Author:** ![pythonzzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9e8a1a/32.png) [@pythonzzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pythonzzz)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2009, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/206 "2009-04-02T05:32:25Z")
Better late than never…don’t think this one made the list yet. The Australian singer-songwriter Paul Kelly has a song called “God Told Me To” - that’s told from a condemed killer’s perspective at his execution. The video is really creepy too: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ptzrY7JuG_4/hqdefault.jpg "Paul Kelly - God Told Me To") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptzrY7JuG_4) ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2009, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/207 "2009-04-02T05:36:11Z")
I used to think “Jenny (867-5309)” was a sweet song, then I learned the lyrics. But I’m sure I’ve heard creepier. Much creepier. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2009, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/208 "2009-04-02T06:31:53Z")
Mother on The Wall, by Pink Floyd Honorable mention is the obscure Timothy by Rupert Holmes of Pina Colada Song fame. [TIMOTHY - Lyrics - International Lyrics Playground](http://lyricsplayground.com/alpha/songs/t/timothy.shtml) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943.md?page=10)