# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/41 "2018-03-20T04:06:43Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > In the late 1970s, there was a Bay City Rollers spinoff band called Rosetta Stone that covered “Sunshine of Your Love.” > > Let’s put it this way: HOW did the line “I’ll stay with you till my seeds are dried up” get on the radio in the late 1960s? > > 😕 _“I’ll stay with you darling now, I’ll stay with you till my seas are dried up”_ [Here’s the original by _Cream_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt51rITH3EA). Lyric at 1:34 ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/42 "2018-03-20T04:17:30Z")
Yuck! but with a giggle. Frank Zappa, **Let’s Make The Water Turn Black**. According to Frank, a song about the true story of two young creeps living in a garage, where their bohemian lifestyle included: - peeing in jars, setting the jars aside and forgetting about them indefinitely until someone noticed tiny lifeforms swimming in them. - lighting each other’s farts - wiping boogers on a window pane - leaving raisins to ferment into fine wine - Whizzing and pasting and pooting through the day Ronnie helping Kenny helping burn his poots away And all the while on a shelf in the shed Kenny’s little creatures on display Ronnie saves his numies on a window in his room A marvel to be seen, dysentery green While Kenny and his buddies had a game out in the back Let’s make the water turn black\* and **Concentration Moon** , Frank’s cynical take on the summer of love: _Wish I was back in the alley With all of my friends still running free, hair growing out every hole in me_ ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/43 "2018-03-20T04:56:11Z")
Some Nerdy Folk Duo who’s names I can’t recall has a song with the lyrics (as best I can remember); _“Sing a little song and do a little dance Shake a little turd out of the bottom of your pants”_ **Camper Van Beethoven** has a song with a line about bad breath that always makes me uncomfortable. ---
**Author:** ![Periwinkle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Periwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Periwinkle)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/44 "2018-03-20T07:36:07Z")
I remember as a kid hearing the line from Come Together by the Beatles, “hold you in his arms yeah you can feel his disease” and my stomach just turned over in nausea. I still hate that song. Also “You’re Having My Baby” by Paul Anka and “Baby Baby Don’t Get Hooked On Me” by Mac Davis. Yuck! ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/45 "2018-03-20T09:12:43Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > 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: …and as many times as you mention it, I’ll be here to observe that I think the theory’s a bunch of bollocks… Moving right along …UB40’s _Girl I’m gonna make you sweat_ _Girl, I want to make you sweat, sweat till you can’t sweat no more And if you cry out, I’m gonna push it, push it, push it some more_ Nothing much compared to some of the offerings we’ve had in this thread already, but… So. Not. Sexy. At. All. Blech. For starters, sweat is an _unfortunate side-effect_ of sex, not a _selling point_. Also, guys, I’m just not that into you personally, and really don’t need the specific mental image of the way you hump in my brain at this present point in time, kthxbai. ---
**Author:** ![Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/les_espaces_du_sommeil/32/308_2.png) [@Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Les_Espaces_Du_Sommeil)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/46 "2018-03-20T11:17:18Z")
> [@Periwinkle](#): > > I remember as a kid hearing the line from Come Together by the Beatles, “hold you in his arms yeah you can feel his disease” and my stomach just turned over in nausea. I still hate that song. I heard it this very morning and while it didn’t make me go “yuck !”, I definitely reflected that it wasn’t one of the Beatles finest lyrics. ---
**Author:** ![Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/les_espaces_du_sommeil/32/308_2.png) [@Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Les_Espaces_Du_Sommeil)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/47 "2018-03-20T11:18:57Z")
> [@Aspidistra](#): > > Moving right along …UB40’s _Girl I’m gonna make you sweat_ > > _Girl, I want to make you sweat, sweat till you can’t sweat no more > And if you cry out, I’m gonna push it, push it, push it some more_ It’s not UB40, is it ? ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/48 "2018-03-20T11:59:24Z")
> [@Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](#): > > It’s not UB40, is it ? That’s what a websearch seemed to say, but I will confess it didn’t seem right to me even as I was typing it. Because I LIKE UB40 generally ---
**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 20, 2018, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/49 "2018-03-20T12:53:43Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Great green globs of greasy, grimy gopher guts, > Mutilated monkey meat. > French fried flamingo feet. > French fried eyeballs swimming in a pool of blood > And me without my spoon Alternate version: Great green gobs of greasy, grimy gopher guts Mutilated monkey meat Itty, bitty birdy feet All mixed up with vegetated vulture vomit Swimming in eyeball soup (in eyyyyyyye balllllllllll sooooouuuuup) Weezer’s _Hash Pipe_ is pretty good, though I could live without any lyric that incorporates the word “teat”. Also, the phrase “I’ve got my ass wide” just makes me think of goatse. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/50 "2018-03-20T12:55:05Z")
> [@TRC4941](#): > > 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. No way. The guy is a working man who gets dirty at work but makes the effort to wash his hands for his lady. Porcupine Pie by Neil Diamond is just a silly bit of fluff, but the line > [@](#): > > And I do believe I’m gonna get one > And leave enough room for dessert > Chicken ripple ice cream is pretty eww-inspiring. Chicken ripple ice cream? No thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/51 "2018-03-20T13:17:55Z")
I agree with Sting: Every Breath You Take should not be played at weddings. Or anywhere else. It’s a song about a _stalker_. Oh, can’t you see You belong to me. My poor heart aches With every breath you take. ---
**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 20, 2018, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/52 "2018-03-20T13:39:18Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > No way. The guy is a working man who gets dirty at work but makes the effort to wash his hands for his lady. > > Porcupine Pie by Neil Diamond is just a silly bit of fluff, but the line is pretty eww-inspiring. > > Chicken ripple ice cream? No thanks. Sorry, when I hear “his clothes are dirty, but his hands are clean” I think of a bum. If he was a working man, he’d wash his hands AND change his clothes for his lady. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/53 "2018-03-20T13:50:27Z")
> [@TRC4941](#): > > Sorry, when I hear “his clothes are dirty, but his hands are clean” I think of a bum. If he was a working man, he’d wash his hands AND change his clothes for his lady. Bums aren’t known for handwashing. Maybe he doesn’t have any clean clothes or just got off work. The impression I get from the song is that of a man being quite taken by this lady and maybe he doesn’t have the nicest or cleanest clothes, but his intentions are good and his hands are clean. One could also interpret "his hands are clean"as being an honorable guy who works all day but is honest, as compared to the guy in the Brooks Brothers suit who just swindled someone out of his paycheck. ---
**Author:** ![yellow\_sausage\_bandit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yellow_sausage_bandit/32/394_2.png) [@yellow\_sausage\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellow_sausage_bandit)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/54 "2018-03-20T14:08:52Z")
It’s not the song’s fault, but: _You spin me right round, baby Right round like a record, baby Right round round round_ ---
**Author:** ![SykoSkotty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SykoSkotty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SykoSkotty)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/55 "2018-03-20T14:19:21Z")
I’ve posted about this one before, but it’s worth mentioning again: Bruce Springsteen’s “I’m On Fire.” Perhaps I’m in the minority here but I find the lyrics reeking of pedophilia; totally creeps me out. \*Hey little girl is your daddy home? Did he go away and leave you all alone? mmm mmm I got a bad desire Oh, oh, oh, I’m on fire Tell me now baby is he good to you? And can he do to you the things that I do? oh no I can take you higher Oh, oh, oh, I’m on fire\* _shudder_ ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/56 "2018-03-20T14:55:23Z")
> [@TRC4941](#): > > Sorry, when I hear “his clothes are dirty, but his hands are clean” I think of a bum. If he was a working man, he’d wash his hands AND change his clothes for his lady. The real reason that song makes my skin crawl is thinking about lying with Bob Dylan in a big brass bed. Sorry Bob! ---
**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 20, 2018, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/57 "2018-03-20T14:59:08Z")
> [@CaptMurdock](#): > > Gary Puckett definitely had issues along these lines. Between “Young Girl, Get Out Of My Mind” and “This Girl Is a Woman Now” it’s amazing he didn’t get a restraining order in with his record contract. Oh yeah - “Young Girl” is really creepy. I was going to type out some of the creepiest lines here but after reading through the lyrics I find that I would have to type out the entire song! YUCK-O ---
**Author:** ![DrCube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@DrCube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrCube)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/58 "2018-03-20T15:36:55Z")
I always cringed at the Ani DiFranco line “my cunt is built like a wound that won’t heal”. ---
**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 20, 2018, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/59 "2018-03-20T15:38:11Z")
> [@SykoSkotty](#): > > I’ve posted about this one before, but it’s worth mentioning again: > > Bruce Springsteen’s “I’m On Fire.” > > Perhaps I’m in the minority here but I find the lyrics reeking of pedophilia; totally creeps me out. > > \*Hey little girl is your daddy home? > Did he go away and leave you all alone? mmm mmm > I got a bad desire > Oh, oh, oh, I’m on fire > > Tell me now baby is he good to you? > And can he do to you the things that I do? oh no > I can take you higher > Oh, oh, oh, I’m on fire\* > _shudder_ Hee. I was 17 when this song came out, so kinda , sorta still a “girl”, and at the time I thought(wished)he was singing it just for me 😛 I just took “little girl” as some kind of term of endearment used by . . .whatever kind of dude also uses the term “daddy”. So, not literally a “little girl”; more like a 17 year old one ;). I can totally get the skeevyness now though. Recently there was a thread (a resurrected zombie, IIRC)about Bob Seger’s \*Night Moves \*. I admitted that I never really understood the words (though I got the basic gist) and I was a bit icked to learn “points all her own, sitting way up high” refers to the girl’s breasts. I don’t know how to describe it but something about that description disgusts me just a little bit. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/60 "2018-03-20T15:45:20Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > Recently there was a thread (a resurrected zombie, IIRC)about Bob Seger’s \*Night Moves \*. I admitted that I never really understood the words (though I got the basic gist) and I was a bit icked to learn “points all her own, sitting way up high” refers to the girl’s breasts. I don’t know how to describe it but something about that description disgusts me just a little bit. Me too, **WOOKIN**. Again, I think I have an issue with hearing it from that particular singer. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827.md?page=4)