# Eerie and Creepy Moments in Songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 3, 2017, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234 "2017-01-03T16:31:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dante\_G](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@Dante\_G](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante_G)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2017, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234/1 "2017-01-03T16:31:26Z")
Not looking for scary songs, but more like songs that have a spooky moment or eerie part of the song. First example I can think of is in _Silent Lucidity_ by Queensryche. During the electric guitar solo towards the end of it when the distorted voice is talking about “dream control,” at the end of the solo is a creepy voice that says “Help me” and then the songs kicks back in. From what I’ve read that whole part is a lot of reference to _Hellraiser_. Interesting and still creepy. ---
**Author:** ![Vicsage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e68b1a/32.png) [@Vicsage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vicsage)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2017, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234/2 "2017-01-03T16:47:45Z")
Timothy by the Buoys. Fire by Arthur Brown. And I’ve found Riders on the Storm by the Doors a bit spooky. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2017, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234/3 "2017-01-03T16:53:09Z")
Ditto on Riders on the Storm. Used to creep me right the fuck out. ---
**Author:** ![Vicsage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e68b1a/32.png) [@Vicsage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vicsage)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2017, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234/4 "2017-01-03T17:13:25Z")
I forgot. The beginning of Fire On High by ELO. Backward talking at its best. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2017, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234/5 "2017-01-03T18:21:32Z")
I still have a hard time listening to the organ intro to Elton John’s _Funeral for a Friend._. Well, I guess the organ part \*is \*FfaF and the song itself is _Love Lies Bleeding._. Anyway, luckily it wasn’t apt to pop up on the radio often but when my brother would play it, knowing full well it freaked me out, just . . .no. I know someone else will bring up Eleanor Rigby and her damned face that she keeps in a jar by the door. Damn that song is depressing. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2017, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234/6 "2017-01-03T18:49:06Z")
Maybe kind of lame and cliche now, but when I was a young teen, these lyrics seemed creepy: \*They never found Hattie, an they never found her shack an they never made a trip back in 'cause a parchment note they found tacked to a stump said “Don’t come looking again” \* ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2017, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234/7 "2017-01-03T19:27:24Z")
The whole song “Sheep” by Pink Floyd is creepy, but the creepiest part is the recitation of a perverted version of the Lord’s Prayer by an electronic voice. _The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want He makes me down to lie Through pastures green he leadeth me the silent waters by With bright knives he releaseth my soul He maketh me to hang on hooks in high places He converteth me to lamb cutlets_ ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2017, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234/8 "2017-01-03T19:31:52Z")
The discordant piano ending of Bowie’s _Aladdin Sane_ used to creep me out, especially the “David Live” version. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2017, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234/9 "2017-01-03T19:59:52Z")
“A Child Is Coming” from **Blows Against the Empire** by Paul Kantner (RIP) and the original Jefferson Starship. The first half of the song is a bright, upbeat, guitar-strumming ode to fornication and makin’ babies. The second half of the song becomes inexplicably ominous as it details something “growing in the dark”. I have always assumed it was influenced by the famous Life magazine photos of a fetus developing (from 1970, same year as the “Blows” album.) But the effect is somewhat…disquieting. Apparently, in the 1980s, some evangelical group accused the band of satanism and said this song was ‘celebrating the birth of the anti-christ’ or some such nonsense. (But in a way, I could see their point. Lol.) ---
**Author:** ![Cartoonacy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/848f3c/32.png) [@Cartoonacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartoonacy)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2017, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234/10 "2017-01-03T20:06:09Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > I know someone else will bring up Eleanor Rigby and her damned face that she keeps in a jar by the door. Damn that song is depressing. I agree. But [here’s the antidote](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6CPFUhw1QY). ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2017, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234/11 "2017-01-03T20:08:05Z")
“She was screaming as she fell. But I never heard her hit.” ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2017, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234/12 "2017-01-03T22:35:04Z")
I think the “Piltdown Man” section of Mike Oldfield’s _Tubular Bells_ fits the bill. That kind of freaked me out the first time I heard it. (I gather most people have the same reaction.) ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2017, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234/13 "2017-01-03T22:52:00Z")
“Grandma got run over by a reindeer.” I mean, _think_ about it. ---
**Author:** ![stosh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@stosh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stosh)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2017, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234/14 "2017-01-03T23:50:44Z")
Laurie ( strange things happen) by Dickey Lee ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2017, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234/15 "2017-01-04T01:17:51Z")
Space Oddity. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2017, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234/16 "2017-01-04T02:15:03Z")
The little whisper at the end of “Strawberry Fields Forever” that’s either “Cranberry Sauce” or “I Buried Paul” depending on whether you think Lizard people run the world creeped me out as a kid. The whole song really but that in particular. ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2017, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234/17 "2017-01-04T03:26:21Z")
The Doors: “Oh show me…the way…to the next **LITTLE GIRL** …oh, don’t ask why…” The holiday song “Baby It’s cold outside” has a line which _may_ imply slipping her a micky/roofie. [http://www.metrolyrics.com/baby-its-cold-outside-lyrics-dean-martin.html](http://www.metrolyrics.com/baby-its-cold-outside-lyrics-dean-martin.html) ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2017, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234/18 "2017-01-04T03:29:00Z")
A lotta Beatles songs freaked me out as a kid, probably because of the “Paul is Dead” thing, which happened when I was eight – “Strawberry Fields,” “I Am the Walrus,” “Come Together.” I grew out of it, though. But I still hate “Come Together,” and am surprised when it turns up on peoples’ “Fave Beatles Songs” lists. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2017, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234/19 "2017-01-04T05:11:09Z")
> [@AncientHumanoid](#): > > Maybe kind of lame and cliche now, but when I was a young teen, these lyrics seemed creepy: > > \*They never found Hattie, an they never found her shack > > an they never made a trip back in > > 'cause a parchment note they found tacked to a stump > > said “Don’t come looking again” > \* I still find that song (Swamp Witch) a bit creepy. The song “Werewolf” by the Five Man Electrical Band is mostly silly, but I find it a bit creepy how casually the father talks about how he has to kill his son with a single shot. ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2017, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234/20 "2017-01-04T06:29:52Z")
The album [Murder Ballards](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_Ballads)by Nick Cave. Nuff said. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234.md?page=2)