Songs about rape

I suppose it could be read as being about heroin, but the lyrics are pretty clearly about enslaved black women. There’s nothing particularly ambiguous about the words.

Except for Mick’s enunciation :wink:

“Cautionary Song” by The Decemberists. (Here’s Colin Meloy doing it solo.) I guess you could argue that she’s engaging in consensual prostitution, but in this case it seems like a fine hair to split.

I wish the Decemberists would just make a whole album of Songs To Scare The Hell Out Of Small Children. (see also “Shankill Butchers”)

Clarification… Alive by Pearl Jam is definitely not a song about rape, or even incest. It is actually part of a trilogy which has been discussed in detail.

Traci Lords’ song “Father’s Field” on her album 1000 Fires; it’s an autobiographical song, in the vein of “Me and a Gun.”