# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-rape/488339/21 "2009-03-05T03:28:58Z")
“It Depends on What You Pay” from **The Fantastiks** > [@](#): > > You can get the rape emphatic. > You can get the rape polite. > You can get the rape with Indians: > A very charming sight. > You can get the rape on horseback; > They’ll all say it’s new and gay. > So you see the sort of rape > Depends on what you pay. > It depends on what you Pay. ---
**Author:** ![Valgard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Valgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valgard)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-rape/488339/22 "2009-03-05T03:31:21Z")
“All In The Name Of…” by Motley Crue is about (consensual) (statutory) rape - written when Nikki Sixx was about 29 it’s about getting hit on by a 15 year old sexpot who is definitely the agressor. I charitably assume it’s memories of being an 18 year old rock star in the LA club scene. “Eat Me Alive” by Judas Priest is basically about some pretty wild sex but you could read it as cannibalism or rape - there’s a line “Gut-wrenching frenzy that deranges every joint, I’m going to force you at gunpoint, to eat me alive.” The liner notes for “Metal Works” had Rob Halford saying something like “We got a lot of trouble from the PMRC about that”. ---
**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, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-rape/488339/23 "2009-03-05T03:40:47Z")
And for a twist, try Slayer’s **Necrophiliac.** ---
**Author:** ![seodoa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@seodoa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seodoa)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-rape/488339/24 "2009-03-05T04:07:34Z")
For another twist: Gwar’s **Fucking an Animal**. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-rape/488339/25 "2009-03-05T04:50:32Z")
“Mr. Turnkey” by Zager and Evans ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-rape/488339/26 "2009-03-05T05:54:43Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Natalie Imbruglia’s “Torn” would seem to qualify. I really can’t fit the lyrics into a rape scenario, except for the “I’m cold and I’m ashamed, lying naked on the floor” part. The rest of it just sounds like she was in love with some guy and he changed and it’s left her adrift. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-rape/488339/27 "2009-03-05T05:55:38Z")
[Prison Bitch](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrLRe6bpMfU) ---
**Author:** ![tim314](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim314/32/3468_2.png) [@tim314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim314)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-rape/488339/28 "2009-03-05T05:59:13Z")
> [@Jihi](#): > > 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: Apparently the story behind Alive is that the boy’s father wasn’t who he thought he was, and as the boy gets older he looks more and more like his true father, causing the mother to feel a growing attraction to him . . . They have other songs about rape as well. E.g., I think “Animal” is about gang rape. > [@](#): > > One, two, three, four, five against one > Five, five, five, five, five against one > > Torture from you to me > Abducted from the street The last verse of “Deep” is pretty clearly about rape > [@](#): > > On the edge of a Christmas clean love > Young virgin from heaven…visiting Hell > To the man above her, she just ain’t nothin’ > And she doesn’t like the view > She doesn’t like the view > She doesn’t like the view > But he sinks himself deep ---
**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, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-rape/488339/29 "2009-03-05T06:00:11Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > I really can’t fit the lyrics into a rape scenario, except for the “I’m cold and I’m ashamed, lying naked on the floor” part. The rest of it just sounds like she was in love with some guy and he changed and it’s left her adrift. I thought so, too. That’s what the music video seems to be, too. In fact, I think I remember reading somewhere that she said it was about a really bad breakup situation she had. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-rape/488339/30 "2009-03-05T06:38:49Z")
Technically it’s about stalking but the bit in Sarah McLachlan’s “Possession” where the stalker says: > [@](#): > > And I would be the one to hold you down > Kiss you so hard; I’ll take your breath away > And after, I’d wipe away the tears > Just close your eyes, dear Seems to qualify given the context. ---
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-rape/488339/31 "2009-03-05T07:01:43Z")
How about Aerosmith’s “Janie’s Got A Gun” ? ---
**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, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-rape/488339/32 "2009-03-05T07:03:29Z")
> [@tim314](#): > > Apparently the story behind Alive is that the boy’s father wasn’t who he thought he was, and as the boy gets older he looks more and more like his true father, causing the mother to feel a growing attraction to him . . . Wow. I never realized all that. Some versions of “Mack the Knife” have references to him committing rape–“the child bride”? Though it’s not like the whole song is about it. ---
**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, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-rape/488339/33 "2009-03-05T07:47:29Z")
To add even more to it, it’s based on what actually happened to Eddie Vedder (_not_ the incest part). His mother told him when he was a teenager that the man he thought was his father was not his biological father. He had met his father, but she did not tell him until after his father died. [cite here, quoted from a book about 1/3 of the way down.](http://www.korat.co.il/pearljam/Ibook/Ten/ev_bio.html) **Tamerlane** ’s post reminds me that there are probably a number of old bawdy songs with rape in them. “Barnacle Bill the Sailor” is another traditional one. I don’t know if any popular recordings exist. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-rape/488339/34 "2009-03-05T07:56:03Z")
While not about rape, _Gimme Shelter_ by the Rolling Stones has the like “Rape and murder, it’s just a kiss away” _Magdalena_ by Frank Zappa deals with a father raping his daughter in Montreal. ---
**Author:** ![mr.jp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@mr.jp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr.jp)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-rape/488339/35 "2009-03-05T10:05:56Z")
Brown Sugar ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-rape/488339/36 "2009-03-05T10:58:31Z")
> [@Juliette\_Culture\_Junkie](#): > > Rape Me/ Nirvana It’s been speculated that that song is not about rape, except in a metaphorical way; it’s about the press intruding into the Cobains’ private lives. Nirvana’s Polly, on the other hand, is undisputably about rape, as another poster pointed out. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-rape/488339/37 "2009-03-05T11:14:49Z")
More Nick Cave - _The Kindness Of Strangers_, and he’s also performed an [alternative version](http://www.bad-seed.org/~cave/lyrics/mb.lyrics2.html) of _O’Malley’s Bar_, with lyrics which probably were considered a bit much for the album: _And her nerdy little daughter Siobhan Well, who we’d all had a bit of fun with It seemed a bit unfair that she had to be there So I thought I’d get her over and done with_ ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-rape/488339/38 "2009-03-05T11:34:32Z")
_Excitable Boy_, Warren Zevon ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-rape/488339/39 "2009-03-05T12:29:36Z")
Parking Lot, by Emmet Swimming. Not that anyone but me has ever heard of them, it seems. ---
**Author:** ![Gus\_Gusterson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85f322/32.png) [@Gus\_Gusterson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gus_Gusterson)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-rape/488339/40 "2009-03-05T14:15:56Z")
“A Dame With A Rod” by Juliana Hatfield > [@](#): > > Give me your hand, > Get in the van, > Do you understand?, > Act like a man. > He got a room for one night, > So don’t try to fight. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-rape/488339.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-rape/488339.md?page=3)