Oh yeah, I remember when I first really listened to the lyrics. I was at a Heart concert and knew the song, liked it, but had never really listened to it. Instantly turned me off the song when I realized what it was about.
Wow, I was certain that someone would have mentioned The Police’s “Every Step You Take” before I got in here. Sting has expressed astonishment at how often it gets played at weddings: it’s supposed to be creepy and disturbing, not romantic.
Oh good lord yes. I heard this recently (for the first time) on a tape that my niece listens to, and I nearly spit out my non-alcoholic kid’s-birthday-party-appropriate beverage.
Femininity
Let him do the talking
Med adore good listeners
Laugh, but not too loudly (Haha)
If he should choose to tell a joke
Be radiant, but delicate
Memorize the rules of etiquette
Be demure, sweet and pure
Hide the real you
Clearly ironic, but I doubt that’s apparent to your average five year old.
Miller, see post 4 above 
Wow, really upbeat Google ads. :rolleyes:
Thanks guys! I have new material for my “Songs that are played in Feminist Hell” list.
I’m pretty sure when Air Supply sings it, they aren’t singing because their girl left… 
Check post #4.
Isn’t that Eric Carmen?
My vote is for another perennial wedding favorite: Clapton’s “Wonderful Tonight” which is about how freakin’ long it takes his wife to get ready and how he has to keep telling her how wonderful she looks. (Guess he should have left her with George after all.)
Well, she does drive him home that night, with his “aching head” and all, and then “puts him to bed.” Too much coke again, eh Eric?
You’re thinking of “All By Myself”. “Without You” was originally (I think) sung by Nilsson, then covered by Mariah Carey and apparently Air Supply as well.
Actually I believe “Without You” was written by two of the guys in Badfinger, and topped the charts first by Nilsson and then by Mariah Carey. And since both of the writers later committed suicide, albeit for different reasons, it makes the psychological aspect of the OP sort of interesting.
I believe the theory about “Wonderful Tonight” was first posited by critic Dave Marsh, and it is one of the things I find infuriating about critics like him. Dave Marsh comes up with the brilliantly “insightful” interpretation, and then proclaims it as fact. Did Clapton ever state this is what this song is about? No. So Dave Marsh is telling us what a songwriter “really” meant without verification from the writer? Bullshit I say. It is a simple love song, no more, no less, until Clapton says otherwise.
I freaking HATE “Anything for You” by Gloria Estefan. Give me a BREAK.
"Anything for you
Though you’re not here
Since you said we’re through
It seems like years
Time keeps draggin on and on
And forever’s been and gone
Still I can’t figure what went wrong
I’d still do anything for you
I’ll play your game
You hurt me through and through
But you can have your way
I can pretend each time I see you
That I don’t care and I don’t need you
And though you’ll never see me cryin’
You know inside I feel like dying
And I’d do anything for you
In spite of it all"
WHAT??
My favorite was mentioned already:
He hit me and it felt like a kiss
He hit me but it didn’t hurt me
He couldn’t stand to hear me say
That I’d been with someone new
And when I told him I had been untrue
He hit me and it felt like a kiss
He hit me and I knew he loved me
'Cause if he didn’t care for me
I could have never made him mad
He hit me and I was glad
I’m with you.
Wonderful Tonight is pretty free of irony, at least in my opinion.
I think Bloodrock’s “DOA” fits the bill, too. About a guy in a plane crash, dying.
Here’s one stanza for an instance:
You seem to have omitted the most disturbing word in the song: Fire! (song as Fie-ahhhhhhh). I always assumed the prop in question wasn’t employed by the songwriter - so perhaps he’s implying he’s going out ‘hunting’ with his rifle.
Oh good, maybe somebody who can tell me who sings that song that goes “…LIEEEE to me, I promise I’ll believe. LIEEEE to me, but please don’t lee-ee-eeave”?
I really like that song.
OK, so you’re in a great mood, driving along the highway on a sunny, warm day, full of light and love for everything, and suddenly you hear James Blunt’s plaintive, longing voice singing “Goodbye My Lover” on your CD mix…NOTHING reminds you more forcefully of love’s misery and utter despair than Blunt wailing:
I still hold your hand in mine, in mine when I’m asleep.
And I will bear my soul in time, when I’m kneeling at your feet.
Goodbye my lover, goodbye my friend.
You have been the one, you have been the one for me.
I’m so hollow, baby, I’m so hollow.
I’m so, I’m so, I’m so hollow.
Makes me want a triple dose of Welbutrin just to make it thru the end of the song. I can’t really recall hearing so much hurt and pain in one voice before this, tho “I Can’t Live” as done by Harry Nillson (or any of the more recent covers) is a close contender, as others have pointed out. It CANNOT be good for anyone to listen to this song too often!
–Beck
That’s “Strong Enough,” by Sheryl Crow.
I have issues with the Celine Dion song that contains the lyrics “I’m everything I am because you loved me.” It’s full of lovely sentiments about her loving sticking by her through the bad times but it just ooks me the hell out. What, none of what you are is you? Bleh bleh.
Love You Inside and Out which was originally by the BeeGees but was covered by Feist, and I’ve only heard the cover, is just plain stalkery. Maybe it’s meant to be disturbing.
Don’t try to tell me it’s all over
I can’t hear a word I can’t hear a line
No man could love you more
And that’s what I’m cryin’ for
You can’t change the way I feel inside
You’re the reason for my laughter and my sorrow
Blow out the candle I will burn again tomorrow
No man on earth can stand
between my love and I
And no matter how you hurt me
I will love you till I die
Curse you, Lightray!