# Love songs that are really Lust songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 24, 2007, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-songs-that-are-really-lust-songs/416788 "2007-08-24T17:32:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2007, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-songs-that-are-really-lust-songs/416788/21 "2007-08-24T20:01:11Z")
[I Love My Dog](http://www.lyricsfreak.com/c/cat+stevens/i+love+my+dog_20028133.html) is also an exception. ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2007, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-songs-that-are-really-lust-songs/416788/22 "2007-08-24T20:02:19Z")
Hopefully. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2007, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-songs-that-are-really-lust-songs/416788/23 "2007-08-24T20:25:54Z")
“Fuck a Dog” by Blink182. Yeah it’s pretty much what you’d expect. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2007, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-songs-that-are-really-lust-songs/416788/24 "2007-08-24T20:25:59Z")
[QUOTE=An Arky] _Crimson and Clover_ by **Tommy James & the Shondells** , perhaps. [/QUOTE] Oh, that’s a good one. “Baby Baby” by the Vibrators. ---
**Author:** ![Khampelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Khampelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khampelf)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2007, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-songs-that-are-really-lust-songs/416788/25 "2007-08-24T20:47:47Z")
Closer, by Nine Inch Nails. - If you listen closely to the lyrics, is mostly about sex. ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2007, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-songs-that-are-really-lust-songs/416788/26 "2007-08-24T20:49:08Z")
Wasn’t there a 70s single called “Telephone Man” where a girl jumps the bones of the guy from the telephone company who comes to hook up her service. Oh, and **Sampiro** > [@](#): > > and even Jimmy Carter had lust in his heart (how could he not with his political heyday coming so soon after Maude was on the air? thanks for ruining my weekend with that image. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2007, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-songs-that-are-really-lust-songs/416788/27 "2007-08-24T21:39:22Z")
[QUOTE=The Sonoran Lizard King] Closer, by Nine Inch Nails. - If you listen closely to the lyrics, is mostly about sex. [/QUOTE] And even then, it’s more about laying himself bare and offering himself up for any way to escape his own mind. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2007, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-songs-that-are-really-lust-songs/416788/28 "2007-08-24T21:53:27Z")
[QUOTE=simster] Of the six exceptions : Amanda - Boston Beth - KISS [/QUOTE] Funny I was thinking of _Beth_ as an exception as well. Songs about pain in love are most likely about romantic love, like _Love Hurts_ by Nazareth, although I think that _Pain_ by Three Days Grace is intentionally ambiguous. ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2007, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-songs-that-are-really-lust-songs/416788/29 "2007-08-25T03:18:06Z")
_Sister Golden Hair_ by America. _Say You Love Me_ by Fleetwood Mac. ---
**Author:** ![Gail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Gail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gail)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2007, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-songs-that-are-really-lust-songs/416788/30 "2007-08-25T03:22:43Z")
Stroke 9’s [_Do it Again_…](http://http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/stroke9/doitagain.html)I still think the lyrics are sweet. ---
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2007, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-songs-that-are-really-lust-songs/416788/31 "2007-08-25T04:19:33Z")
[QUOTE=interface2x] And even then, it’s more about laying himself bare and offering himself up for any way to escape his own mind. [/QUOTE] Still, that song makes me want to beat my head on the wall and howl like a rabid doggie. Holy crap…and he’s bloody sexy in the video. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2007, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-songs-that-are-really-lust-songs/416788/32 "2007-08-25T04:26:42Z")
“Swamp Snake” by the Sensational Alex Harvey Band “Let Me Stand Next To Your Fire” by Jimi Hendrix “Cat Scratch Fever” by Ted Nugent “Midnight At The Oasis” by Maria Muldaur “Brand New Roller Skates” by (IIRC) Melanie “Baby Love” by Chaka Khan And two about women and Onan “I Touch Myself” by I forget who and “She-Bop” by Cindy Lauper ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2007, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-songs-that-are-really-lust-songs/416788/33 "2007-08-25T05:25:40Z")
“Keep On Loving You” by REO Speedwagon. When I first heard the chorus, I was like, in my grand existential tradition, “What’s stopping you from staying in love with someone?” Gaaah I hate euphemistic double-entredre wishy-washy type lyrics. Just come out and say “I just want to keep on banging your brains out…”, just once (and screw the censors). It doesn’t help that the arrangement is very syrupy and romantic sounding. Yes all reasons why I loathe this band… ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2007, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-songs-that-are-really-lust-songs/416788/34 "2007-08-25T06:49:51Z")
I recently had a thread about Liz Phair’s [Why Can’t I](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4QiSL4V0sE). It sounds like a fairly innocent song about falling in love. But then when you listen to all the lyrics you realize it’s about the excitement of cheating on your steady partner. ---
**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2007, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-songs-that-are-really-lust-songs/416788/35 "2007-08-25T12:00:14Z")
Teenage Kicks- The Undertones Obviously. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2007, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-songs-that-are-really-lust-songs/416788/36 "2007-08-25T12:41:03Z")
**Amoreena** - Elton John and Bernie Taupin _I can see you sitting eating apples in the evening The fruit juice flowing slowly, slowly, slowly Down the bronze of your body_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-songs-that-are-really-lust-songs/416788.md?page=1)