# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2018, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/101 "2018-03-22T14:21:24Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > What, then, do you suppose he means by the words, “Tell me, baby, is your daddy home, can he do to you the things that I do, mhmm?”? I always heard it as “can he do to you the things that I’ll do?” meaning he wants to but hasn’t. I will have to crank it up in the car and see what I thought I was hearing! ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2018, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/102 "2018-03-22T14:32:44Z")
“Thank Heaven For Little Girls”. ---
**Author:** ![Chicken\_Fingers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Chicken\_Fingers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicken_Fingers)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2018, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/103 "2018-03-22T20:37:48Z")
“Clair,” by Gilbert O’Sullivan, always creeped me out. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2018, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/104 "2018-03-22T20:45:01Z")
Zappa’s _Magdalena_ is one of his creepier songs. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2018, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/105 "2018-03-22T21:07:03Z")
> [@TRC4941](#): > > 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. Wow. The one song he ever sang where you could understand the words. I’ll nominate “Honey” by Bobby Goldsboro. A real button-pusher back in the day, in that I couldn’t push the button and change the channel fast enough when it came on. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2018, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/106 "2018-03-22T22:06:27Z")
I haven’t seen this one in this thread yet. Ed Sheeran’s _Thinking Out Loud_ “Will your mouth still remember the taste of my love” ewww ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2018, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/107 "2018-03-23T02:19:12Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > “Thank Heaven For Little Girls”. And “Gigi” is a terrible movie, too. Or at least I didn’t like it. ---
**Author:** ![Moris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moris/32/2846_2.png) [@Moris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moris)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2018, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/108 "2018-03-24T04:34:50Z")
> [@GargoyleWB](#): > > More Jethro Tull… > > Thick as a Brick: “Your sperm’s in the gutter, your love’s in the sink” > Baker St Muse: The whole prostitute section, such as “Proposition deal. Fly button feel. Testicle testing, wallet ever bulging” and “Shedding bell-end tears into the pocket of her resistance” Oh, Tull definitely had some moments: “The excrement bubbles, the century’s slime decays” ---
**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2018, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/109 "2018-03-24T13:31:34Z")
Here’s one everyone is sure to love:[Gal, You Need A Whippin’.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es7kAncbxh4) ---
**Author:** ![actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2018, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/110 "2018-03-25T01:55:52Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > For many, many, many years I heard Blinded by the lightRevved up like a douche in the night. > > I nearly wrecked my car the first time it blared on the radio. WTF? Next time I heard it played. Yep, douche. I always cringe when it plays. Crap song even without the misheard word. > > Decades later the web says deuce but I still hear douche and that’s just gross. I vividly remember those bags hanging in my parents shower. > > That singer needs to pronounce his vowels correctly. This is one of the most common “misheard lyrics” songs, but I agree with you that he might be saying “deuce” but it is definitely pronounced “douche.” I heard it on the radio recently and paid careful attention just to make sure I wasn’t listening closely enough. I don’t know if there is an accent or common regional pronunciation of “ce” as “che/sh” but it’s there. ---
**Author:** ![actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2018, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/111 "2018-03-25T02:16:49Z")
> [@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_ Normally I hate literal song lyrics and Springsteen is one of the biggest offenders but this is obviously not a child and her father. I get it. When I was a kid, grown men referring to their spouse/partners as “my old lady” always bothered me, but I knew what they meant. I wish grown women wouldn’t call me “Daddy,” either. So I understand personal tastes making it cringe, but I think it’s obvious there is no implied pedophilia. ---
**Author:** ![actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2018, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/112 "2018-03-25T02:17:51Z")
> [@xizor](#): > > I haven’t seen this one in this thread yet. > > Ed Sheeran’s _Thinking Out Loud_ > “Will your mouth still remember the taste of my love” > > ewww Yeah, I just made a catchall Ed Sheeran post, because yeah. ---
**Author:** ![actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2018, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/113 "2018-03-25T02:29:20Z")
If you were alive in the late 1990s and aware of hip-hop music, you’ll remember this one and I think it remains my all the time WTF, but maybe give him props for having the balls to say such a lyric in hip-hop pre- the “pause/no homo” era? Canibus was an up and coming rapper with the most hype of anyone I can recall and got in a beef with LL Cool J while he was actually making a guest appearance on his song. They had followup mix-tape and freestyle radio appearance “battle” raps, with Canibus releasing a commercial single complete with Wyclef Jean on the production and Mike Tyson doing some lisping attack on LL Cool J. From “Second Round K.O,” a Billboard #28 single: "Well, lemme tell you somethin: you might got more cash than me But you ain’t got the skills to eat a n\*gga’s ass like me " ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2018, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/114 "2018-03-25T03:13:42Z")
I like to think I’m somewhat yuck-proof. Then again, any of that crap from those fucking idiots Screwdriver can go take a flying leap. And the refrain in Scratch Acid’s _Lay Screaming_ is beyond yuck and I won’t even bother linking it. Great band, big mistake Yow made, there. Hasil Adkins’s _We Got a Date_\* has some interesting lyrics: “Hey I told you already I’m gonna hold you with all my grave digger fingers” and then a bit later, imparts: “Baby now don’t you be late Cause ah, he ha ha You know that we got a date” It’s possible these lyrics are just a _ **LITTLE** _ bit more interesting by the [way](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ2BJo4wzkE) Hasil sings it. Just _maybe_. > [@buddha\_david](#): > > There’s a grindcore band called **Carcass** whose entire oeuvre seems to be songs about medical pathology. And there’s a grindcore subgenre - goregrind - with bands that deal only with that icky stuff, and nothing else. \*It’s possible that he also sings “I got a date to, uuuuuuuuuh, cut your head off” but his enunciation makes it tricky to tell. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2018, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/115 "2018-03-25T04:05:11Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > For many, many, many years I heard Blinded by the lightRevved up like a douche in the night. > > I nearly wrecked my car the first time it blared on the radio. WTF? Next time I heard it played. Yep, douche. I always cringe when it plays. Crap song even without the misheard word. > > Decades later the web says deuce but I still hear douche and that’s just gross. I vividly remember those bags hanging in my parents shower. > > That singer needs to pronounce his vowels correctly. Nitpick: Wouldn’t that be consonants? ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2018, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/116 "2018-03-25T04:33:20Z")
Factoid: “Blinded by the Light” was written by Bruce Springsteen. That was surprising to me. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2018, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/117 "2018-03-25T20:36:53Z")
Yep, written by Bruce Springsteen, who very distinctly says “deuce”. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2018, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/118 "2018-03-25T20:38:21Z")
> [@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.” > > 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 word _placenta_ has no place in any song. The End. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2018, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/119 "2018-03-25T23:16:46Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > Yep, written by Bruce Springsteen, who very distinctly says “deuce”. Just for proof, [here’s the original version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPy82OO6vRg). ---
**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 26, 2018, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/120 "2018-03-26T00:06:06Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > Yep, written by Bruce Springsteen, who very distinctly says “deuce”. Who also employs an extra mid-rhyme there with “cut loose like a deuce, another runner in the night,” which makes the rhyme obvious. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827.md?page=7)