# Lines in songs that made you do the :eek: face the first time you hear them. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 17, 2004, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-in-songs-that-made-you-do-the-eek-face-the-first-time-you-hear-them/250821 "2004-06-17T05:37:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![stately\_plump\_buck\_mulligan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@stately\_plump\_buck\_mulligan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stately_plump_buck_mulligan)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2004, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-in-songs-that-made-you-do-the-eek-face-the-first-time-you-hear-them/250821/1 "2004-06-17T05:37:25Z")
… either from being shockingly witty, incongruous to the rest of the song, just plain unexpected, etc. For me, it was this line from the live version of The Dresden Dolls’ **[Coin-Operated Boy](http://dresdendolls.com/downloads_n_lyrics/lyrics/coinoperatedboy.htm)**, off their studio album. The lyrics on the site are different for this line, but in the live version she sings: _And if I had a star to wish on, for my life I cant imagine any flesh and blood could be his match I can even **fuck him in the ass!** _ With the song’s otherwise cutesy lyrics and cabaret-esque music, it was a rather :eek: moment, followed shortly by :D. What specific lines have shocked the pants off of you - or maybe just elicited a quiet “ohhhh my, haha!”? ---
**Author:** ![stately\_plump\_buck\_mulligan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@stately\_plump\_buck\_mulligan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stately_plump_buck_mulligan)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2004, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-in-songs-that-made-you-do-the-eek-face-the-first-time-you-hear-them/250821/2 "2004-06-17T05:38:41Z")
great. my first OP and one of my Ds got carried off by hell hornets. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2004, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-in-songs-that-made-you-do-the-eek-face-the-first-time-you-hear-them/250821/3 "2004-06-17T06:05:26Z")
> [@stately plump buck mulligan](#): > > great. my first OP and one of my Ds got carried off by hell hornets. As typos go, this is a fairly benign one. The missing letter didn’t create a nonsense word or a dirty word or anything! Yay! ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2004, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-in-songs-that-made-you-do-the-eek-face-the-first-time-you-hear-them/250821/4 "2004-06-17T06:12:24Z")
I’d crawl over fifty good pussies Just to get to one fat boy’s asshole. -Nick Cave, “Stagger Lee” ---
**Author:** ![Ross](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@Ross](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ross)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2004, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-in-songs-that-made-you-do-the-eek-face-the-first-time-you-hear-them/250821/5 "2004-06-17T10:28:14Z")
Off-topic but certainly made me go :eek: “What do you get when you kiss a guy? / You get enough germs to catch pneumonia. / After you do, he’ll never phone ya …” I mean, what the…? YOU CAN’T RHYME “PHONE YA” WITH “PNEUMONIA”, YOU CRAZY FOOL! ps I have since discoveredc that everybody else hates this line too but I hated it before it was cool. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2004, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-in-songs-that-made-you-do-the-eek-face-the-first-time-you-hear-them/250821/6 "2004-06-17T12:29:31Z")
> [@Ross](#): > > Off-topic but certainly made me go :eek: > > “What do you get when you kiss a guy? / You get enough germs to catch pneumonia. / After you do, he’ll never phone ya …” > > I mean, what the…? YOU CAN’T RHYME “PHONE YA” WITH “PNEUMONIA”, YOU CRAZY FOOL! Why not? ---
**Author:** ![Ross](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@Ross](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ross)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2004, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-in-songs-that-made-you-do-the-eek-face-the-first-time-you-hear-them/250821/7 "2004-06-17T12:40:06Z")
It’s madness. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Death](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecccb3/32.png) [@Evil\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Death)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2004, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-in-songs-that-made-you-do-the-eek-face-the-first-time-you-hear-them/250821/8 "2004-06-17T13:07:28Z")
> [@Ross](#): > > Off-topic but certainly made me go :eek: > > “What do you get when you kiss a guy? / You get enough germs to catch pneumonia. / After you do, he’ll never phone ya …” > > YOU CAN’T RHYME “PHONE YA” WITH “PNEUMONIA”, YOU CRAZY FOOL! Why not? They did and it does. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2004, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-in-songs-that-made-you-do-the-eek-face-the-first-time-you-hear-them/250821/9 "2004-06-17T13:11:46Z")
Some line about not seeing due to the intense illumination, and being rolled tightly in the manner of a liquid orifice cleanser. Even though that’s not really the line, I still went :eek: ---
**Author:** ![easy\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb8c5e/32.png) [@easy\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/easy_e)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2004, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-in-songs-that-made-you-do-the-eek-face-the-first-time-you-hear-them/250821/10 "2004-06-18T02:37:46Z")
On Lucinda Williams’s latest, **World Without Tears** , she has a song titled _Ventura_ with the lines **Lean over the toilet bowl And throw up my confession** Cleanse my soul Of this hidden obsession ---
**Author:** ![Ross](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@Ross](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ross)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2004, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-in-songs-that-made-you-do-the-eek-face-the-first-time-you-hear-them/250821/11 "2004-06-18T10:26:48Z")
> [@Evil Death](#): > > Why not? They did and it does. it’s just _wrong._ It’s _sick_ and it’s _wrong_ and I’m not at all sure it isn’t a sign of the apocalypse. It’s the most painfully contrived rhyme in all of explored space. It makes me vomit blood. BLAAAARCHHH. There I go again. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2004, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-in-songs-that-made-you-do-the-eek-face-the-first-time-you-hear-them/250821/12 "2004-06-18T11:03:29Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > I’d crawl over fifty good pussies > Just to get to one fat boy’s asshole. > -Nick Cave, “Stagger Lee” :eek: No kidding. In fact, that song got me to go research the whole Stagger Lee thing, and I found the version Nick used…which was exactly the same as his, except :eek: that line :eek: :eek: . Which make me wonder…where exaxctly did Mr. Cave come up with that line :eek: :eek: :eek: ? ---
**Author:** ![Granuaile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecccb3/32.png) [@Granuaile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Granuaile)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2004, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-in-songs-that-made-you-do-the-eek-face-the-first-time-you-hear-them/250821/13 "2004-06-18T11:27:07Z")
“H.W.C” off of Liz Phair’s latest. It’s a happy, poppy tune who’s chorus includes the phrase “…give me your hot, white cum.” :eek: Needless to say, I quickly changed over to “Woody’s Roundup” for the G rated audience in the back of the mini van. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2004, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-in-songs-that-made-you-do-the-eek-face-the-first-time-you-hear-them/250821/14 "2004-06-18T11:37:33Z")
> [@](#): > > Quote: > Originally Posted by Evil Death > Why not? They did and it does. > > it’s just wrong. It’s sick and it’s wrong and I’m not at all sure it isn’t a sign of the apocalypse. It’s the most painfully contrived rhyme in all of explored space. It makes me vomit blood. > > BLAAAARCHHH. > > There I go again. No it’s not. Wrong is Kid Rock taking lines that _do_ rhyme in “Big Yellow Taxi”: We’ll take all the trees Put 'em in a tree museum And make the people pay a buck and a half Just to see 'em and sing them so they _don’t_ rhyme: And make the people pay a buck and a half Just to see _them_ Drives me nuts. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2004, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-in-songs-that-made-you-do-the-eek-face-the-first-time-you-hear-them/250821/15 "2004-06-18T11:55:37Z")
> [@](#): > > Off-topic but certainly made me go > > “What do you get when you kiss a guy? / You get enough germs to catch pneumonia. / After you do, he’ll never phone ya …” > > I mean, what the…? YOU CAN’T RHYME “PHONE YA” WITH “PNEUMONIA”, YOU CRAZY FOOL! > > ps I have since discoveredc that everybody else hates this line too but I hated it before it was cool. Actually, I kinda like it. Hal David lyrics, IIRC. Clever, but not as clever as Tom Lehrer rhyming “Oedipus” and “duck-billed platypus” in _Oedipus Rex_. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Death](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecccb3/32.png) [@Evil\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Death)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2004, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-in-songs-that-made-you-do-the-eek-face-the-first-time-you-hear-them/250821/16 "2004-06-18T12:35:19Z")
> [@Ross](#): > > It’s the most painfully contrived rhyme in all of explored space. No, the most painfully contrived rhymes in all of explored space are the ones where the second line is overrun to make a rhyme on the last syllable that scans. Particular credit for this goes to Eminem, who managed to do it at least 12 times in “Lose Yourself”. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2004, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-in-songs-that-made-you-do-the-eek-face-the-first-time-you-hear-them/250821/17 "2004-06-18T12:39:32Z")
Wait a second … did he _really_ just say “Have another Ding Dong / You’re fatter than fat now”? ( **Hate Dept.** “Kick You”) ---
**Author:** ![slu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@slu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slu)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2004, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-in-songs-that-made-you-do-the-eek-face-the-first-time-you-hear-them/250821/18 "2004-06-18T12:55:05Z")
Bon Jovi has a song with the line, “With an iron clad fist,I wake up and french kiss the morning.” I forget the name of the song, but that line has always stuck with me as some of the most rediculous crap ever recorded. What does this even mean!?!?!? ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2004, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-in-songs-that-made-you-do-the-eek-face-the-first-time-you-hear-them/250821/19 "2004-06-18T12:55:20Z")
“Pneumonia/phone ya” is pretty well contrived (i.e., created). As **CalMeachem** points out, it’s not up to the level of Tom Lehrer (“funeral/sooner’ll”) or Cole Porter (“de trop/top” “diveen/Ovaltine” “Ambessida/Cressida,” “ravin’/Stratford on Avon” “Othella/fella,” and just about every rhyme in “[Brush up your Shakespeare](http://www.guntheranderson.com/v/data/brushupy.htm)”), but there’s nothing wrong with it. On other matters, I never understood why Joan Baez changed “Stoneman’s Cavalry” to “So Much Cavalry” when she recorded “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.” There’s also the chorus to “The Gambler.” ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2004, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-in-songs-that-made-you-do-the-eek-face-the-first-time-you-hear-them/250821/20 "2004-06-18T14:02:43Z")
The new Modest Mouse song, _Float On_: I swear the second line sounds like “I went from my mouth to my dick…” huh? and of course, Pete Townsend’s _Rough Boys_: “I wanna get inside you/get inside yoooooooooo…” Hear it on classic rock stations everywhere. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-in-songs-that-made-you-do-the-eek-face-the-first-time-you-hear-them/250821.md?page=2)