# Songs or Lyrics That Make You Say "Yuck" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 19, 2018, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827 "2018-03-19T15:21:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2018, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/1 "2018-03-19T15:21:58Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2018, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/2 "2018-03-19T15:38:09Z")
[_Screamin’ Jay Hawkins_ song **Constipation Blues**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAzSvhioo34). Yuck. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2018, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/3 "2018-03-19T16:04:58Z")
_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](https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/crashtestdummies/swimminginyourocean.html) . 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. ---
**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 19, 2018, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/4 "2018-03-19T16:12:28Z")
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. ---
**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 19, 2018, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/5 "2018-03-19T16:23:56Z")
_The P.E. Squad (The Doo Doo Chasers)_ by Funkadelic. One extended blatant toilet metaphor. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2018, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/6 "2018-03-19T17:32:02Z")
“Muskrat Love”. 'nuff said. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2018, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/7 "2018-03-19T17:34:31Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > 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. 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](http://songmeanings.com/songs/view/40933/) 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). ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2018, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/8 "2018-03-19T18:24:48Z")
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: ---
**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 19, 2018, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/9 "2018-03-19T18:45:55Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > _The P.E. Squad (The Doo Doo Chasers)_ by Funkadelic. One extended blatant toilet metaphor. 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.’](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6P0SitRwy8) ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2018, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/10 "2018-03-19T19:52:40Z")
_Girl…You’ll be a Woman…soon_ Which mean’s she ain’t one now, so HANDS OFF. ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2018, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/11 "2018-03-19T20:01:25Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > _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](https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/crashtestdummies/swimminginyourocean.html) . That is some dreck. That song ruins the album for me. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2018, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/12 "2018-03-19T20:06:02Z")
“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. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2018, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/13 "2018-03-19T20:27:02Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2018, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/14 "2018-03-19T20:37:40Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Yorkshire\_Pudding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/59ef9b/32.png) [@Yorkshire\_Pudding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorkshire_Pudding)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2018, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/15 "2018-03-19T21:08:23Z")
“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. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2018, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/16 "2018-03-19T21:22:02Z")
> [@Aqualung by Jethro Tull](#): > > Sitting on a park bench > Eying little girls with bad intent > Snots running down his nose > Greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes, hey, Aqualung … ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2018, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/17 "2018-03-19T22:26:58Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > 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. I actually like that song, but, man, that line sure does make me cringe, too. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2018, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/18 "2018-03-19T22:37:24Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > 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.” That was inspired by a true story. > **[Astronaut Charged With Attempted Murder (Published 2007)](https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/06/us/06cnd-astronaut.html)** > > Authorities say Capt. Lisa Marie Nowak, a NASA astronaut, attacked a rival for another astronaut’s affection at Orlando International Airport on Monday. 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: ---
**Author:** ![Wolf333](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf333/32/3460_2.png) [@Wolf333](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolf333)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2018, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/19 "2018-03-19T22:37:28Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2018, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/20 "2018-03-19T23:05:28Z")
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” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827.md?page=2)