We’ve had all kind of threads regarding songs, but I haven’t seen this one yet.
Is there a song that grosses you out, makes you say, “yuck”? It could just be a single line from the song.
Mine is “Lay Lady Lay” by Bob Dylan. The whole song creeps me out, but when I hear,
“his clothes are dirty but his hands are clean”
I want to puke. Worst lyric EVER.
The Crash Test Dummies have a song called Swimming in Your Ocean. A pleasant enough tune that I just kind of enjoyed when it played, not really paying attention until the line “I wonder if my seed will find purchase.” That was gag inducing all by itself, and then I looked up the entire lyric . That is some dreck.
Just in case that song is a little too obscure, there’s that stupid song where the guy is singing about the night he met his wife.
“We danced the night away
we drank too much
I held your hair back while you were throwing up”
Well isn’t that a lovely image. I believe he shortly thereafter " pulls her to his chest"
Blecccccch.
Ben Folds “Cologne” - Beautiful-sounding song, generally nice lyrics, drops this stinker right in the middle:
“Says here an astronaut
put on a pair of diapers
Drove sixteen hours
to kill her boyfriend.”
Also, the one song I have to turn off every time it comes on the radio is Live’s “Lightning Crashes” :
“Lightning crashes a new mother cries
Her placenta falls to the floor”
Fuck, no.
The P.E. Squad (The Doo Doo Chasers) by Funkadelic. One extended blatant toilet metaphor.
“Muskrat Love”.
'nuff said.
Plenty off-putting if you take it at face value, but the symbolism fits the song: it’s the moment that the infant becomes a truly separate being. In the context of the whole birth process, the severing of the placental connection with the mother may be as meaningful as being evicted from the uterus (if not more so).
“Lakini’s Juice” (another song by Live) has a lyric that is more inscrutable:
I rushed the ladies’ room
Took the water from the toilet
Washed her feet and blessed her name
the first commenter here seems to have a handle on the meaning, but it still is jarring every time I hear it.
On a recent documentary about Prince, someone was commenting on the lyrics to “Little Red Corvette,” specifically:
'Cause you had a pocket full of horses
Trojan and some of them used
This guy thought this lyric was disgusting, as if the woman was carrying a bunch of used condoms in her pocket (as opposed to having a box of condoms with some missing, implying that she was sexually active).
Here’s another that makes me shiver…
“Behind Closed Doors” by Charlie Rich
And when we get behind closed doors
Then she lets her hang down
And she makes me glad that I’m a man
BLECH!
Maybe if someone else was singing it I wouldn’t get the creeps. I just keep thinking of Charlied Rich with his big silver sideburns slinking towards the bed. :(:eek:
Yeah, title doesn’t leave much to the imagination!
“I wish I could eat your cancer when you turn black” from Nirvana’s ‘Heart-Shaped Box.’
Girl…You’ll be a Woman…soon
Which mean’s she ain’t one now, so HANDS OFF.
That song ruins the album for me.
“She came in through the bath room window,
Protected by a silver spoon,
Now she sucks her thumb and wanders,
By the banks of her own lagoon”
That means she pee’d her pants, to me.
I grew up with cringe-inducing lyrics.
The Ides of March: Vehicle
Hey well
I’m a friendly stranger in the black Sedan
Won’t you hop inside my car?
I got pictures, got candy
I’m a lovable man
And I can take you to the nearest star
The Buoys: Timothy
I must have blacked out just around then
'Cause the very next thing that I could see
Was the light of the day again
My stomach was full as it could be
And nobody ever got around
To finding Timothy
Bloodrock: DOA
I try to move my arm
And there’s no feeling
And when I look
I see there’s nothing there
The face beside me stopped it totally bleeding
The girl I knew has such a distant stare
Just about any song from Gary Puckett, but especially This Girl Is a Woman Now
This girl tasted love
As tender as the gentle dawn
She cried a single tear
A teardrop that was sweet and warm
Our hearts told us we were right
And on that sweet and velvet night
A child had died
A woman had been born
Any song about sex from Ed Sheeran or members of One Direction (I’ve had to listen to teenage pop music a lot at my second job), especially with weird added sound effects.
“Making love in the afternoon with Cecelia, up in my bedroom,
I get up to wash my face, when I come back to bed someone’s taken my place.”
Honestly, it’s not the bit about Cecelia banging another guy in his bed while he’s right there, his back only turned for literally a few minutes, it’s the fact that whatever they were up to meant he felt the need to get out of there and wash his face.
…
I actually like that song, but, man, that line sure does make me cringe, too.
That was inspired by a true story.
I’ve mentioned this before, but Extreme’s “More Than Words” is NOT what it seems to really be about at first listen. It’s a dude telling his girlfriend that she’s history if she doesn’t have sex with him. :smack:
Run the Jewels “Call Ticketron”
“It’s a daily lick, I slit throats with a grin that reeks of pure shit”
PJ Harvey “Rid of Me”
“I’ll make you lick my injuries”
Yes, I know what they both mean, but I can’t help but picture something else.
The (Grammy-winning) song “Battle of Kookamonga” grosses me out; it’s about horny Boy Scouts chasing after a troop of nude Girl Scouts.
“We learned to make sparks by rubbing sticks together
But if we catch the girls then we’ll set the woods ablaze”