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Right.
But. On the live version of the song, found on the Kinks’ live album The Road, Ray does say “kissing” rather than “saying goodnight.”
And at the end of the song, he says, “Every Saturday night, my sister used to go to the Palais. And she came home and say to Ray, ‘I came dancing tonight.’”
Falco’s Jeanny caused a big scandal at its time - some radio stations boycotted it, other media figures argued that the song was harmless (And the whole thing simply an attention-grabing ploy), although the spoken news in the song and the lyrics make a good reference to a serial killer (the video even more so)
I’m failing to see how any of this means the song is about “An old fart reminiscing about the days of his youth when he would fantasize about making out with his sister”. There is absolutely nothing in the song about the narrator fantasizing about making out with his sister, regardless of whether the sister kissed her boyfriends or not, or even whether she made a racy joke.
I’m almost positive that the toadies song is about a vampire trying to seduce the girl into letting him turn her into a vampire. It’s one of my favorite songs! Just saw posts 29 and 33.
Ditto to the people who don’t see anything creepy about “Come Dancing”. WTF?
My vote is for “Country Death Song” by the Violent Femmes. When I uploaded the CD that that’s on onto my iTunes, I deleted that one. Don’t want to hear it.
For the record, I’m on your side: I don’t get the “making out with his sister” part, either.
In “Come Dancing” the narrator is merely reminiscing about his childhood. Simpler times, when going out dancing was a big part of his sister’s life. When they tore down the Palais, part of his childhood died. Just like parts of our childhoods die when some institution is torn down. Then, in the end, he talks about how now there is no Palais and his sister has become a middle class, middle aged woman and he wonders if she would go dancing with him, just for old times’ sake. People who read something creepy into that are seeing things that just aren’t there. Go watch the video on youtube. It was a part of a routine in his life during his childhood that he remembers. And when they tore down the dancehall, that part of his life was over, as was his sister’s as she faded into a bourgeois, middle-class existence.
I liken it to the final scene in the pilot for Freaks and Geeks. Sam, the little brother is dancing and enjoying himself on the dancefloor and his big sister, Lindsay looks on and she is happy for him and these moments in his life.
Well, I’d rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man…
You’d better run with your life, if you can, little girl
Hide your head in the sand, little girl
I catch you with another man, that’s the end, little girl
Just a little ditty from the Beatles called Run for Your Life.
Nothing like a good song advocating murder for an unfaithful girlfriend. 
Or, in keeping with the cynical outlook of the great John Lennon, a song advocating dumping.
I suspect you were both trying to mention “Run For Your Life”, as Fiddle Peghead did, only Annie mistakenly named another Beatles song and you mistakenly named a non-existent Beatles song.
Timothy Trapped miners = eating your co-workers?
The only creepy thing about “Girl” is that it rhymes “leisure” and “pleasure.”
That reminded me of Partners by Jim Reeves. I know it’s not rock, but it IS creepy! Kinda like Miller’s Cave–gives me a shiver!
“Art Lover”, on the other hand does creep me out a bit. I think this was discussed on the Dope a few years ago.
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good grief, just read the entire thread to see if this had been mentioned.
Here’s a lyric:
Little girl dont notice me
Watching as she innocently plays.
She cant see me staring at her
Because Im always wearing shades.
She feeds the ducks, looks at the flowers.
I follow her around for hours and hours.
I’d argue this one–the guy* is such a fucking pathetic loser that it’s an upbeat song–the world is better of without him.
Same for the “Seasons In The Sun” suicidal weenie. When he FINALLY gets around to offing himself, humankind’s Maudlin-Self-Pitying-Snivel Quotient will drop by 23%.
There are songs about suicide that capture the loneliness, despair and bleak outlook about the future that would prompt one to consider suicide (Simon’s “I Am A Rock” comes right to mind for me). These two? Not as much.
What about 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
Also, that trial scene at the end of The Wall (“Good morning Worm, Your Honor”–that bit) always gave me the creeps. Especially when the judge gets to the bit about “The evidence before the court is/incontrovertable. There’s no need for the jury to retire.” Dunno what about it, but it REALLY creeps me out.
*Not Gilbert O’Sullivan per se, the ‘character’ he’s singing about.
How do you know that this a song about a suicide? The lyrics only say that the singer is about to die - it doesn’t say how or why. When I first heard it, I thought it was about a young child/teenager suffering from leukemia or another deadly illness. Browsing on the web, I found out that it’s a cover version of an older French song that’s interpreted to refer to a guy who caught his wife cheating with his friend, killed them and is now awaiting his own death (several different versions refer to Michelle as his girl/wife/daughter).
But the commonly known cover version is simply a goodbye song about how it’s hard to die, and I don’t see the reasons given.
‘Weird Al’ has some creepy ones:
She lived across the street on the fifteenth floor of the Gailmore building
I saw her in the shower reaching for some soap
I knew she had to be the girl for me
And to think I probably never would have found her
If I hadn’t bought that telescope
Do I Creep You Out:
I know that you
Don’t know me very well
We’ve barely met
But I can surely tell
No one will ever
Love you like I do
And I Remember Larry was good too. (Pointless to post partial lyrics to this one - out of context and all that.)
And of course, Good Old Days:
I can still remember good old Mr. Fender
Who ran the corner grocery store
Oh, he’d stroll down the aisle with a big friendly smile
And he’d say “Howdy” when you walked in the door
Always treated me nice, gave me kindly advice
I don’t know why I set fire to his place
Oh I’ll never forget the day I bashed in his head
Well you should’ve seen the look on his face
Imagine You Were Mine --Mitch Benn
Although it’s supposed to be creepy.