Even though he drew pictures of him on mountain tops, with dead people below?
Sonny of Sonny Came Home by Shawn Colvin seemed pretty fucking odd.
And what about that crazy bitch Luka who lived up on the second floor?
Sugar’s “A Good Idea” - sounds like a decent enough song at first, a couple in love goes down to the water, at his suggestion they lie down in it and let the water flow over them…
I thought Luka was a little boy who was a victim of child abuse…
“Janie’s Got a Gun” Aerosmith
Family Snapshot by Peter Gabriel
Backdoor Man (men don’t know but the little girls understand?!?)
Is that where it came from? Back in the late 1970s, I heard it on Dr. Demento for several years, then all of a sudden- not. I think it got to be too real.
The mention of Angie Baby reminded me- Delta Dawn. Tho she was only weird, not pervy or really creepy.
And w/o googling, I can’t recall who did the song- Helen Reddy or Anne Murray?
It was Helen Reddy for both.
Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar), on the same album, also makes a few references to finding “little girls”. Given the fact that it’s a recurring theme, I always figured “little girls” might just mean “hot coeds”. Maybe not, though.
"Red Angel Dragnet" - The Clash seems to be about a serial killer of prostitutes. It includes references to Jack the Ripper…
Personally I know the alley
Where Jack feeds on the birds of night
Not even bobbies on bicycles 2x2
Can stop the blood and feathers flying
…and the movie Taxi Driver (incorporating lines from that film):
*All the animals come out at night.
Queens, fairies, dopers, junkies, sick-- venal.
Some day a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets.
Thank god for the rain to wash the trash off the sidewalk. Listen you screwheads:
Here is a man who would not take it anymore.
A man who stood up against the scum, the filth.
Now I see clearly.*
Boomtown Rats - I don’t like Mondays based on a true story of a teenage girl’s shooting spree.
and Watch Out for the Normal People
After looking through this thread, I’m hard pressed to name songs which AREN’T about creepy/pervy/weird people.
Peter Bazooka by the Dead Milkmen:
Tuesday - yes, it was Tuesday
When I saw my congressman coming out of the titty bar
He didn’t look like my congressman, but that’s okay
Nobody really looks like themselves anymore
I think its got something to do with that crap
They’ve been pouring into the water
I decided it might be wise to follow the congressman
Just to see what he was up to.
The Characters in D.M.'s Punk Rock Girl are also kinda weird.
Alanis Morrissette – “Your House” This was mentioned earlier but it gets my vote for the all time creepiest girl song.
I went to your house
Walked up the stairs
I opened your door without ringing the bell
I walked down the hall
Into your room
Where I could smell you
And I shouldn’t be here, without permission
I shouldn’t be here
Alanis Morrissette – “You Oughta Know” A nice bitter breakup song from a psycho.
*You seem very well, things look peaceful
I’m not quite as well, I thought you should know
Did you forget about me Mr. Duplicity
I hate to bug you in the middle of dinner
It was a slap in the face how quickly I was replaced
Are you thinking of me when you fuck her
Cause the love that you gave that we made wasn’t able
To make it enough for you to be open wide, no
And every time you speak her name
Does she know how you told me you’d hold me
Until you died, til you died
But you’re still alive*
Jewel – “Adrian” A song about a brain damaged guy, creepy more for tone than lyrics.
Sign above his door says ‘Welcome Home’
But he just sits and stares
He’s awake but he’s still not there
Oh, Adrian, come out and play
She sat by his side, watched the years fly by
He looked so fragile, he looked so small
She wondered why he was still alive at all
Little Mary Epperson grew up lovely
She still comes to visit him on Sundays
He’s like an unused toy
He’s got big hands but the mind of a little boy
Oh, Adrian, come out and play
Adrian came home again last summer
Things just haven’t been the same around here
Jewel – “Daddy”
Yes, I left the refrigerator door half open, Daddy.
What’s that say about me?
Sometimes I want to rip out your throat, Daddy
For all those things you said that were mean.
Gonna make you just as vulnerable as I was, Daddy
What’s that say about me?
Sometimes I want to bash in your teeth, Daddy.
Gonna use your tongue as a stamp
Gonna rip your heart out the way you did mine, Daddy
Go ahead and psycho-analyze that.
‘Cause I’m your creation, I’m your love, Daddy.
Grew up to be and do all those sick things you said I’d do
Well last night I saw you sneak out your window
With your white hood, Daddy
What’s’ that say about you?
Wow, looking back at what I was listening to it’s no wonder the ‘90s were such a fucked up decade for me.
The ‘00s are much better, what with Nickelback’s “Figured You Out”
*I like the freckles on your chest
And I like the way you like me best
And I like the way you’re not impressed
While you put me to the test
I like the white stains on your dress
And I love the way you pass the check
And I love the good times that you wreck
And I love your lack of self-respect
While you passed out on the deck
I love my hands around your neck*
Yes, I’m feeling much better now.
I doubt anyone can listen to Goodbye Horses by Q Lazzarus without thinking of a creepy-fetish guy.
That’s not the song’s fault, though. It’s just because that’s the song that Buffalo Bill dances to after dressing up in body parts in Silence of the Lambs. Put on some thick lipstick, crank up that song, and dance around and I bet people will avoid you.
Somebody already quoted a couple of Alanis Morrissette songs, but they forgot “Uninvited”. In it, a woman addresses her stalker.
Ogden Edsl, which is not one person but a trio also famous for Dead Puppies.
If we’re talking about Alanis Morissette, we need to include Hands Clean, which certainly seems to be a young girl recounting sexual abuse and coercion…
I think you might be right. It’s still creepy though.