# 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:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2004, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-in-songs-that-made-you-do-the-eek-face-the-first-time-you-hear-them/250821/21 "2004-06-18T15:53:11Z")
NIN “I want to fuck you like an animal” Made me cringe the first time I heard it since we were using it as a demo cd in our speaker room at BestBuy in the middle of the day. ---
**Author:** ![lachesis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@lachesis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lachesis)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2004, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-in-songs-that-made-you-do-the-eek-face-the-first-time-you-hear-them/250821/22 "2004-06-18T18:14:05Z")
**RealityChuck** , can i ask what in the chorus of “The Gambler” could possibly give you an :eek: ? i mean, i could easily not be “up” (heh heh) on all possible double-entendres that are out there, but if there’s something i’m missing in _You got to know when to hold ‘em Know when to fold ‘em Know when to walk away And know when to run You never count your money When you’re sittin’ at the table There’ll be time enough for countin’ When the dealin’s done_ then it’s so subtle that it’s completely off my radar. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2004, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-in-songs-that-made-you-do-the-eek-face-the-first-time-you-hear-them/250821/23 "2004-06-18T18:29:26Z")
How about _anything_ from Lucille Bogan’s _Shave 'em Dry_? Recorded (IIRC) in 1934, and the whole song’s one long :eek:. To wit, she starts off with: _I got nipples on my titties big as the end of my thumb… I got somethin’ between my legs that’ll make a dead man come._ It just gets raunchier from there. Classic stuff. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2004, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-in-songs-that-made-you-do-the-eek-face-the-first-time-you-hear-them/250821/24 "2004-06-18T18:39:24Z")
Regarding The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, I have no idea why the Baez version ever gets played. Listen to The Band’s version, particularly the Last Waltz CD, where Levon Helm gives a great performance. I’m surprised nobody has mentioned: “We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun but the stars we could reach were just starfish on the beach” ---
**Author:** ![pesch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pesch/32/4925_2.png) [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2004, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-in-songs-that-made-you-do-the-eek-face-the-first-time-you-hear-them/250821/25 "2004-06-18T23:42:29Z")
Seeing “make a dead man come” reminds me of when Mick sang that at the end of “Start Me Up.” I remember when years before there was a to-do over “Who the fuck are you” in “Who Are You” and you had to really pay attention to hear that line. Then Jagger lets loose with that and no one says a word! This is why any attempt at censorship drives me up a tree. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2004, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-in-songs-that-made-you-do-the-eek-face-the-first-time-you-hear-them/250821/26 "2004-06-18T23:52:19Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Regarding The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, I have no idea why the Baez version ever gets played. Listen to The Band’s version, particularly the Last Waltz CD, where Levon Helm gives a great performance. I don’t recall ever hearing any other version then The Band’s. I guess I’m just lucky. One that still gets me to this day is The Who’s _Who are You_. Near the end of the song, Roger Daltrey clearly says “Who the fuck are you!?!” at least twice. It’s on classic rock stations every day, and I don’t think a censored version even exists. ---
**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 19, 2004, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-in-songs-that-made-you-do-the-eek-face-the-first-time-you-hear-them/250821/27 "2004-06-19T00:41:22Z")
> [@lachesis](#): > > **RealityChuck** , can i ask what in the chorus of “The Gambler” could possibly give you an :eek: ? > > i mean, i could easily not be “up” (heh heh) on all possible double-entendres that are out there, but if there’s something i’m missing in > > _You got to know when to hold ‘em > Know when to fold ‘em > Know when to walk away > And know when to run > You never count your money > When you’re sittin’ at the table > There’ll be time enough for countin’ > When the dealin’s done_ > > then it’s so subtle that it’s completely off my radar. Because it’s absolutely meaningless, yet is presented as deep philosophy. Though, admittedly, it isn’t as egregiously disgusting as Rogers’s “Coward of the County.” :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2004, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-in-songs-that-made-you-do-the-eek-face-the-first-time-you-hear-them/250821/28 "2004-06-19T02:01:52Z")
I don’t remember the song or who sang it, (it was years ago). But it was a ballady/folksy little number, with a female singer. “I want to fuck 'til there’s blood on the walls”. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2004, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-in-songs-that-made-you-do-the-eek-face-the-first-time-you-hear-them/250821/29 "2004-06-19T05:03:48Z")
> [@Knowed Out](#): > > The new Modest Mouse song, _Float On_: > > I swear the second line sounds like “I went from my mouth to my dick…” It’s actually “I ran my mouth off a bit too much.” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 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/250821/30 "2004-06-19T06:05:54Z")
L’America, by the Doors: “C’mon people don’t you look so down you know, the rainman’s comin’ to town he’ll change your weather, change your luck, and then he’ll teach you how to… find yourself” Not dirty in and of itself, but the pause in the last line gives you just long enough to wonder whether he’s going to sing a certain other word that starts with F and rhymes with luck. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2004, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-in-songs-that-made-you-do-the-eek-face-the-first-time-you-hear-them/250821/31 "2004-06-19T06:22:46Z")
> [@](#): > > Seeing “make a dead man come” reminds me of when Mick sang that at the end of “Start Me Up.” I remember when years before there was a to-do over “Who the fuck are you” in “Who Are You” and you had to really pay attention to hear that line. Then Jagger lets loose with that and no one says a word! Yeah, I remember first noticing that in high school. “WHAT the heck did he just say?!” But he lifted it from Bogan. Huge blues fan. 🙂 ---
**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 19, 2004, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-in-songs-that-made-you-do-the-eek-face-the-first-time-you-hear-them/250821/32 "2004-06-19T11:57:19Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Because it’s absolutely meaningless, You _do_ know he’s describing how to play poker, don’t you? It’s far from meaningless. ---
**Author:** ![Thirty-Nine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f0a364/32.png) [@Thirty-Nine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thirty-Nine)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2004, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-in-songs-that-made-you-do-the-eek-face-the-first-time-you-hear-them/250821/33 "2004-06-19T16:19:59Z")
_“Promises me I’m as safe as houses As long as I remember who’s wearing the trousers”_ (Depeche Mode, Never Let Me Down Again) Not only is ridiculously contrived, but also lacking rhyme in any accent I’m familiar with. I actually found this mentioned in the liner notes for the Singles collection! ---
**Author:** ![aurelian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f4b2a3/32.png) [@aurelian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurelian)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2004, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-in-songs-that-made-you-do-the-eek-face-the-first-time-you-hear-them/250821/34 "2004-06-19T17:50:14Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally Posted by Ross > > It’s madness. No way!! The best weird rhyme is from Leonard Cohen, who manages to rhyme “Hallelujah” with “what’s it to ya” 🆒 That’s such a great line! And for cringing…that Live song from the early nineties, with “her placenta falls to the floor…” Yeech. [Previous 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=1)