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!
“Thank Heaven For Little Girls”.
“Clair,” by Gilbert O’Sullivan, always creeped me out.
Zappa’s Magdalena is one of his creepier songs.
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.
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
And “Gigi” is a terrible movie, too. Or at least I didn’t like it.
Oh, Tull definitely had some moments:
“The excrement bubbles, the century’s slime decays”
Here’s one everyone is sure to love:Gal, You Need A Whippin’.
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.
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.
Yeah, I just made a catchall Ed Sheeran post, because yeah.
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 "
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 Hasil sings it.
Just maybe.
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.
Nitpick: Wouldn’t that be consonants?
Factoid: “Blinded by the Light” was written by Bruce Springsteen. That was surprising to me.
Yep, written by Bruce Springsteen, who very distinctly says “deuce”.
The word placenta has no place in any song.
The End.
Just for proof, here’s the original version.
Who also employs an extra mid-rhyme there with “cut loose like a deuce, another runner in the night,” which makes the rhyme obvious.