In a strange sequence of songs that just randomly played in a row on my iPod, I’m wondering how many more songs out there are about creepy, fetishy, offbeat, weird types…maybe my iPod is trying to tell me something
Madness - In the Middle of the Night
Pink Floyd - Arnold Layne
The Damned - Grimly Fiendish
Oingo Boingo - Little Girls
The one by the Toadies - Possum Garden or something? - where the narrator is telling his love interest how she’ll live forever and never age - because he’ll kill her and she’ll be in his memory…beyond creepy but a great song…
“And I will treat you well, my sweet angel, so help me Jesus…” Ew.
On review - simulpost on the Toadies - is that a different song? The one I am thinking of is Possum Kingdom…
She lived on the curve in the road
In an old tar paper shack.
On the south side of the town
On the wrong side of the tracks.
Sometimes on the way into town
We’d say, “Mama can we stop and give her a ride?”
Sometimes we did
But her hands flew from her side.
Wild eyed
Crazy Mary.
*He fills the flower vases,
trims the candle bases
takes small change from the poor box.
Tyler has the key.
…
Alone in the night he mocks the arms of the preacher raised to the ceiling,
“Tell God your pain.”
To him the world’s defiled.
In Lot he sees a likeness there;
he swears this Sodom will burn down*
“Straw Hat and Dirty Old Hank” by Barenaked Ladies
It’s about a stalker, and is partially based on a stalker that **Anne Murray ** had once, even borrowing a few lines directly from some of her songs.
Also, I don’t know the name of it but I remember a novelty song back in the late 80’s/early 90’s about a pervy clown. Maybe somebody else here will remember it.
Edited to add:
Also, “Stan” by **Eminem ** is about an obsessed fan.