Both of these songs creep me out. We had to sing “Eleanor Rigby” in music class (it was the 70s) which left me with a lifetime aversion. And as far as “Run for Your Life” goes - check out Nancy Sinatra’s version! It turns into a Russ Meyer flick.
If you see Tom Jones live, he acts out the stabbing of Delilah!
Steely Dan is notorious for sunny, upbeat pop songs with a hint or more of menace in the lyrics.
some of my favorites include:
‘King of the World’, about a post-nuclear-holocaust America
‘Charlie Freak’ about a heroin addict
‘Everyone’s Gone to the Movies’ this one appears to be about a pedophile
‘Josie’, which seems to be about the most violent female in town
‘The Glamour Profession’ about a coke dealer
That didn’t quite make it clear that Fritz Lang’s M (1931) was inspired (if you can call it that) by the Peter Kurten story.
And here’s an earlier analysis from our own mod Ukulele Ike on this chap, from an earlier thread:
I don’t get it. They’re describing their idea of the perfect country girl, which is pretty darn close to mine.
I guess I can start writing my personal ads “Hillbilly seeks little C*nt”.
No, it’s not because the song is about sex–if that were my problem, about 99.999% of songs would shock me. It’s because the song is about a girl who’s screwing her teacher to get good grades, and the tone of the song is praising this behavior.
So she got an A in math without opening the book to study. She could be screwing the teahcer or she could be a math genius.
“Acts like Madonna”? Hmmm…I’m gonna go with “screwing the teacher”.
Sorry if it’s been done already, but I don’t have time to go over the whole thread again…I’m reminded of a party I went to long long ago where some guy admitted to the assorted stoners that his favorite song was Heart’s “All I Want to Do Is Make Love To You”.
We were like, “No, man! That sucks!”
And he was all, “Hey man! It’s like, a good love song, okay?”
And we were like, “No it’s not! It’s about a woman cheating on her husband so she can have a baby!”
And he was all, “Bullshit!”
So the assorted stoners played the song for him, pointing out the meaningful parts:
And in the morning when he woke all
I left him was a note
I told him
“i am the flower you are the seed” ("Dude! He’s the SEED!)
We walked in the garden
We planted a tree (“She’s knocked up, man!”)
…
Then it happened one day,
We came round the same way
You can imagine his surprise
When he saw his own eyes (“The kid looked like him!”)
I said “please, please understand
I’m in love with another man
And what he couldn’t give me
Was the one little thing that you can” (“SPERM!”)
When it was over, the guy said, “Well, you guys just ruined my favorite song!” So we all felt pretty good about that.
No, she’s not some genius who didn’t have to study, though taken out of context, I can see how it might look that way. If you listen to the entire song, you realize it ain’t brain power getting her through school! 
I’ll never forget a friend’s reaction when we had to explain to him that Weezer’s “Hashpipe” was really about male prostitution. 
http://www.geocities.com/islandlyrics/brooksdunn/bnd06.txt
Here’s the lyrics. This looks like it’s about a teenage slut. She’s not doing a teacher, but it does look like an older man is chasing her, and she doesn’t seem to mind. The first verse is the only place where school is mentioned.
I think Six Days on the Road is possibly the best amped up truck driver song ever written. However I don’t think the bit about “little white pills” is wrong, it’s a pretty accurate description of some truck drivers. The line that always bothered my dad:
My rig’s a little old,
But that don’t mean she’s slow
There’s a flame from the stack
and the smoke’s blowin’ black as coal
Buddy, you need to get those injectors adjusted, running a little rich.
Creeeeeepy
I’m glad someone else has resurrected this thread, so that I can add a few more:
“Edge of the World” by Faith No More. Another pedophile song, with wonderful lyrics such as:
“You can trust me, I’m no criminal
But I’d kill my mother to be with you be with you be with you”
-and-
“Lay your head on my shoulder
It’s not the point that I’m forty years older”
Speaking of Faith No More, that album (The Real Thing) had all sorts of lyrics like that, though.
For instance, from Underwater Love: “Liquid seeps into your lungs, but your eyes look so serene/it’s wonderful how the surface ripples/but you’re perfect, and I cannot breathe”
And from The Morning After:
“If I am dead, how can I feel such love?
If I am dead, why am I dreaming?
If I am dead, where do I go from here?
If I am dead, why does this pain feel so good?”
As someone else in this thread has mentioned this is a song about a persons relationship with God. Also the band is Evanescence and the song is “Bring Me to Life”.
Strangely enough I was in studio in the 90’s when another DJ was interviewing the Toadies and at least two members of the band said that "Possum Kingdom" was indeed about vampires. However I suppose its the artists peragative to change their story.
Finally I always thought that the “Josie” reffered to in the Outfield’s song was a guy:
Josies on a vacation far away,
come around and talk it over.
So many things that I wann say,
you know I like my girls a little bit older.
As is - “hey your boyfriends far away, lets get together and see if I can help you not miss him”. I guess that all depends on whether you’ve known more male Josies or female ones.
~NM. . . who is still a radio jock
the song Seventeen by Winger is very creepy. He’s a 30 year old hitting on a 17 year old!
One that I listened to for years until the lyrics ‘re-clicked’ in my head was Duke of Earl.
I’m gonna love you
Nothing can stop me now
'Cause I’m the Duke of Earl
Love (which could include the physical expression thereof) that no one can stop - not even the lovee, presumably - certainly does a little more than raise an eyebrow, from where I’m standing.
How about when a creepy geezer like Maurice Chevalier sings “Thank Heavens For Little Girls”?
I may have missed this in the thread, but how about Elvis Costello’s “Allison”. It sounds like a love song with a rejected lover wishing his ex well, but is really about a bitter stalker planning on hunting her down and shooting her. The line “My aim is* true*” is meant to strike terror.