# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/61 "2008-12-13T05:58:16Z")
> [@Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](#): > > It’s the spoken part, when he’s reminiscing about watching her kiss some guy by ‘the garden gate’… and then he notes how he wishes he could ‘go dancing’ with her. Am I reading to much into it? Maybe. But it _is_ a Kinks song… He says that they’re “two silhouettes saying goodnight by the garden gate” and previously states that her boyfriends would be frustrated to learn that they’d spent their week’s wages “all for a cuddle and a peck on the cheek”. She doesn’t sound like she was making out with anyone. Just having innocent fun late into the night. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/62 "2008-12-13T06:14:34Z")
I have always had a bit of a problem with “The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia”. To whit: (I love that archaic English shit! :D) I have always understood that “the lights went out” meant the guy was executed. (As in the way the lights used to do dim in those old B&W gangster films when the con would ride “Ol Sparky”). So to me it doesn’t make any sense to follow that with, “That’s the night they hung an innocent man.” But I might be confusing the metaphor? Anyone? Thanks Q ---
**Author:** ![kitemaker\_chuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a88e4f/32.png) [@kitemaker\_chuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitemaker_chuck)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/63 "2008-12-13T06:24:16Z")
Here’s another vote for Alice Cooper (the band), specifically… **I Love the Dead** **Dead Babies** ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tao_s_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/64 "2008-12-13T06:30:54Z")
I humbly submit [Sting: I’ll be watching you](http://sting.lyrics-text.com/i-ll-be-watching-you-lyrics.html) snip > [@](#): > > Every breath you take > And every move you make > Every bond you break > Every step you take > Ill be watching you It’s like the stalkers theme song. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/65 "2008-12-13T06:48:04Z")
What does that say about the people who want that damn thing played at their weddings? :eek: Q ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/66 "2008-12-13T06:49:18Z")
No one’s mentioned The Police’s “Don’t Stand so Close to me”? > [@](#): > > Young teacher the subject > Of schoolgirl fantasy > She wants him so badly > Knows what she wants to be > Inside her there’s longing > This girl’s an open page > Book marking She’s so close now > This girl is half his age How about Warren Zevon’s excitable boy? > [@](#): > > Well, he went down to dinner in his Sunday best > Excitable boy, they all said > And he rubbed the pot roast all over his chest > Excitable boy, they all said ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/67 "2008-12-13T06:49:40Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] **Donovan’s** \* Mellow Yellow\* has some skeevy lyrics _I’m just mad about Fourteen. Fourteen’s mad about me. I’m-a just mad about-a Fourteen. She’s just mad about me._ [/QUOTE] Another rock hymn to the underaged - _She’s Just 14_\* by Locomotiv GT: _Her mother calls her Jean Her papa treats me mean And she’s 14 14 Only 14_ Good song, and it never struck me as creepy, maybe because Jerry Lee Lewis had set the bar so low by marrying his 13-year-old cousin when he was 22. \*a better song than their one hit, _Rock Yourself_. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/68 "2008-12-13T07:07:44Z")
Motley Crue’s “You’re All I Need” is about killing a girlfriend with a knife. [Full lyrics here](http://www.metrolyrics.com/youre-all-i-need-lyrics-motley-crue.html). (scroll down slightly) Some excerpts from the lyrics: /I took your breath Sometimes love’s better off dead /You’re all I need, make you only mine I love you so I set you free I had to take your life /But killing you helped me keep you home I guess it was bad Cause love can be sad But we finally make the news ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/69 "2008-12-13T07:13:51Z")
And for anyone who wonders why **Zager and Evans** were one hit wonders with _In The Year 2525_ here is their followup _Mr Turnkey_, a thoughtful ditty about a convicted rapist: \*Mr Turnkey, it’s 10 pm in Wichita Falls August 16, 1969 and I’m in some bar Mr Turnkey, I need a woman and I ain’t getting far I never was the kind of man a woman looked for. But Mr Turnkey, she looked at me with flirting eyes Mr Turnkey, she was lovelier than oil lights Mr Turnkey, she led me on, she led me on, She knew she wasn’t going to let love her. Mr Turnkey, there’s been a rape in Wichita Falls Mr Turnkey, I’m sitting here crying in my coveralls … … Mr Turnkey, you ain’t never seen nothing like this before Mr Turnkey, I nailed my wrist to your wall, I’m going home … … Mr Turnkey, I’m crying, hanging here dying Tell her I’m sorry\* Beautiful stuff. ---
**Author:** ![BigBertha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@BigBertha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigBertha)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/70 "2008-12-13T08:30:44Z")
> [@5\_time\_champ](#): > > **Bloodrock’s** _D.O.A._ is so creepy I don’t even listen to it anymore. > > .\* I run yelling out of the room.:eek: ---
**Author:** ![BigBertha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@BigBertha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigBertha)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/71 "2008-12-13T08:33:19Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > So my vote goes to “My Sharona”. Always get it up for the touch of the younger kind, uh ? > > . Its refreshingly honest! ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/72 "2008-12-13T09:26:14Z")
**The Tao’s Revenge** and **Quasimodum** : you read the OP but didn’t scroll as far as post #2? ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/73 "2008-12-13T09:39:15Z")
Arrrrr!!! Ya **got** me, **pseudotriton ruber ruber**!!!:smack: Guilty as charged!:eek: No excuse I know, but I think my eyes were focusing on the bolding, and missed your entry. Apologies, you had the first mention. Can I add the song **Ben** to the mix while I’m here? A love song to a rat, right? Q ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/74 "2008-12-13T09:54:22Z")
> [@neutron\_star](#): > > There’s also some '70s song about a dying baby, the title and artist of which escapes me, that is infinitely creepy. Anyone know what I’m talking about? All I remember was that the song was pretty short - less than two minutes. **neutron star** , I don’t know how long this song is and it’s a reverse of what you’re talking about (a dying mother and then the tale of her baby girl), but it’s from '76 and hella creepy. So try _Spring_ by, of all people, Cher. And since there’s quite a bit of AC songs listed, I’ll add a few more… [Cold Ethel](http://www.sickthingsuk.co.uk/lyrics/wtmn.php#8) is about a bit of cold lovin’ and [Former Lee Warmer](http://www.sickthingsuk.co.uk/lyrics/dada.php#3), the singer’s brother who lives in the attic and oversees unsightly horrors. \*In an upstairs room, under lock and key It’s my brother, Former Lee All the mops and brooms keep him company Misconceived of the family Former Lee Warmer pulls up the covers to hide in his wrinkled bed No dreams go in, no dreams go out of the hole in his wrinkled head\* ---
**Author:** ![Carmady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f04885/32.png) [@Carmady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carmady)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/75 "2008-12-13T10:21:08Z")
Elvis Costello - I Want You “I don’t think I can live without you… and I know that I never will” "I want you You’ve had your fun you don’t get well no more I want you Your fingernails go dragging down the wall be careful darling you might fall" ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/76 "2008-12-13T10:40:32Z")
“Werewolf” by **The 5 Man Electrical Band** Mama said, there’s Something weird 'bout Billy I looked in his room, his bed Wasn’t slept in at all last night ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/77 "2008-12-13T11:59:38Z")
“We used to Know” by Jethro Tull which is about basically the futility of everything we do because sooner or later we’re all going to die and whatever we have achieved is pretty much pointless. "This is the last time "by Keane, which is about a bloke whos been in love with a girl for a long time but his feelings are not and never will be reciprocated so he’s going to off himself. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stafford\_Cripps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stafford_cripps/32/7167_2.png) [@The\_Stafford\_Cripps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stafford_Cripps)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/78 "2008-12-13T12:37:56Z")
> [@Quasimodem](#): > > To whit: (I love that archaic English shit! :D) Soft, it is ‘to wit’, not ‘to whit’. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/79 "2008-12-13T12:48:13Z")
Thanks for the correction, **G. Odoreida**!🙂 Q ---
**Author:** ![Promethea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Promethea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Promethea)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/80 "2008-12-13T13:06:25Z")
“What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For?” by Emile Ford Has ALWAYS creeped me out, being apparently all about promising to teach a cocktease (in his eyes) a lesson by raping her: _You’re fooling around with me now, You lead me on and then you run away. Well that’s all right, I’ll get you alone tonight And baby you’ll find, You’re messing with dynamite So what do you want to make those eyes at me for If they don’t mean what they say?_ Urrgh. I promise this isn’t selecting a bit out of context to make it sound worse than it is either. The worse part is it is an awesome tune. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943.md?page=5)