# Songs about rape **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 5, 2009, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-rape/488339 "2009-03-05T00:17:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Juliette\_Culture\_Junkie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5fc32e/32.png) [@Juliette\_Culture\_Junkie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Juliette_Culture_Junkie)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-rape/488339/1 "2009-03-05T00:17:32Z")
What are some songs that discuss rape or sexual assault? I’m not looking so much for songs about child molestation or pedophilia, but feel free to add them if you wish. Sorry if this has been done before. Some basics: Date Rape/ Sublime Me and a Gun/ Tori Amos Rape Me/ Nirvana Anything by Anal Cunt ---
**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:** [March 5, 2009, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-rape/488339/2 "2009-03-05T00:25:45Z")
Nirvana’s Polly is about the rape/torture/murder of a girl. Prison Sex is about the vicious cycle of child molestation, which you said you specifically didn’t want, but the sex there is non consensual, so…I figured I’d add it. ---
**Author:** ![gurujulp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ba9def/32.png) [@gurujulp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gurujulp)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-rape/488339/3 "2009-03-05T00:29:58Z")
One Last Caress- Misfits ---
**Author:** ![planetcory](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/planetcory/32/1032_2.png) [@planetcory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/planetcory)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-rape/488339/4 "2009-03-05T00:35:07Z")
Coward of the County - Kenny Rogers ---
**Author:** ![HongKongFooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c4cdca/32.png) [@HongKongFooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HongKongFooey)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-rape/488339/5 "2009-03-05T00:35:35Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > Prison Sex is about the vicious cycle of child molestation, which you said you specifically didn’t want, but the sex there is non consensual, so…I figured I’d add it. OT, the video’s hella disturbing too, one of the few I’ve seen that creeped me out. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-rape/488339/6 "2009-03-05T00:35:39Z")
“Hold Her Down” - Toad the Wet Sprocket ---
**Author:** ![Moscow\_Discow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Moscow\_Discow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moscow_Discow)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-rape/488339/7 "2009-03-05T00:38:18Z")
White Boy by Bikini Kill. Also, Every State Line by Ani Difranco. ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-rape/488339/8 "2009-03-05T00:38:50Z")
**Raped by the Beast** - Cannibal Corpse Nightwish’s **Dark Passion Play** has this lovely passage: _"I’m afraid, I’m so afraid. being raped, again and again, and again I know I will die alone but loved._ ---
**Author:** ![TooSchoolforCool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tooschoolforcool/32/19621_2.png) [@TooSchoolforCool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TooSchoolforCool)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-rape/488339/9 "2009-03-05T00:42:02Z")
John Wayne Gacy Jr. by Sufjan Stevens… rather obviously. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-rape/488339/10 "2009-03-05T00:46:30Z")
Stone Temple Pilots “Sex Type Thing” Korn “Daddy” Maybe?: Bat For Lashes “Trophy” Marry Me Jane “Faithless” (it’s hard to tell if it was consensual) ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-rape/488339/11 "2009-03-05T00:57:39Z")
“Fire Down Below”, the [Nick Cave version](http://www.lyricszoo.com/various-artists/fire-down-below-nick-cave/) of the old sea chantey. ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-rape/488339/12 "2009-03-05T00:58:32Z")
**Before You Were Born** by Toad the Wet Sprocket - although it’s a bit vague, it’s not about a rape exactly, but a child born of rape. Pearl Jam’s **Alive** maybe has non-consensual sex in it, although it’s a mother with her child. At the very least, she exposes herself to him; he says he can’t remember what happened. ---
**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:** [March 5, 2009, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-rape/488339/13 "2009-03-05T01:07:07Z")
> [@panamajack](#): > > \*\*Pearl Jam’s **Alive** maybe has non-consensual sex in it, although it’s a mother with her child. At the very least, she exposes herself to him; he says he can’t remember what happened. Good god. You miss a lot when you can’t understand the lead singer. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-rape/488339/14 "2009-03-05T01:12:50Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > Good god. You miss a lot when you can’t understand the lead singer. The first verse of the song is the guy’s mother casually dropping the news on him that oh hey, the man you thought was your dad really isn’t, and the real father died when you were 13. Second half includes these lyrics: > [@](#): > > She walks slowly > Across a young man’s room > She said I’m ready for you > I can’t remember anything > To this very day > Except the look…the look… Cheery song, eh? ---
**Author:** ![The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_wind_of_my_soul)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-rape/488339/15 "2009-03-05T01:55:45Z")
“Wounded” Third Eye Blind _The guy who put his hands on you Has got nothing to do with me And the bruises that you feel will heal And I hope you come around Cause we’re missing you_ ---
**Author:** ![Jihi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jihi/32/17768_2.png) [@Jihi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jihi)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-rape/488339/16 "2009-03-05T02:27:16Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > Good god. You miss a lot when you can’t understand the lead singer. I’ve been listening to Pearl Jam since the early 90’s and I never knew this. It makes me wonder how many other songs I’m completely ignorant about. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-rape/488339/17 "2009-03-05T02:37:30Z")
Natalie Imbruglia’s “Torn” would seem to qualify. ---
**Author:** ![madrabbitwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@madrabbitwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madrabbitwoman)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-rape/488339/18 "2009-03-05T02:50:28Z")
I know this is more about pedophilia but this song made me want to bathe for a long looong time: The Childcatcher by Patrick Wolf “well I’ve got no time for victims and I don’t think it was all that bad and if you can’t run to save yourself well then you deserve to be had this is the age of constipation, this is the age of martyrdom I think you even enjoyed it, I think I even saw you come” Shudder ---
**Author:** ![Pitter\_Patter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/90db22/32.png) [@Pitter\_Patter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pitter_Patter)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-rape/488339/19 "2009-03-05T03:17:04Z")
Raped and Freezing-Alice Cooper ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-rape/488339/20 "2009-03-05T03:28:31Z")
[The Chalet Lines](http://www.belleandsebastian.com/recordings.php?release=5&view=lyrics&lyrics=48) - Belle & Sebastian [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-rape/488339.md?page=2)