# Songs that are just plain wrong **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 22, 2004, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-just-plain-wrong/270580 "2004-10-22T11:50:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2004, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-just-plain-wrong/270580/221 "2004-10-29T03:11:23Z")
Another ‘deliberately creepy’ set… HIM’s _Join Me_ and \*Gone With The Sin \* Join Me > [@](#): > > We are so young, our lives have just begun > But already, we are considering > Escape from this world > And we’ve waited for so long > For this moment to come > We’re so anxious to be together > Together in death > > Won’t you die tonight for love (Baby join me in death) > Wont you die (baby join me in death) > Won’t you die tonight for love (Baby join me in death) Gone With The Sin > [@](#): > > I adore the despair in your eyes > I worship your lips once red as wine > And I crave for your scent sending shivers down my spine > And I just love the way you’re running out of life ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2004, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-just-plain-wrong/270580/222 "2004-10-29T03:19:14Z")
> [@Sample\_the\_Dog](#): > > Ok, this is gonna drive me crazy. > > A male singer-songwriter did a great tune simply called “Wrong”, in which he sings about all these things he used to believe, follwed by a pause, then “Wrong!” > > It’s a great song, and I can hear parts of it in my head, but can’t summon up enough of the lyrics to find it on a Web search. It’s got a country kind of feel to it. There are so many songs with “wrong” in the titles that Googling doesn’t help. > > Any dopers out there can save me? **Sample** , that is indeed a country song, but I also can’t remember the title. Can you remember any of the lyrics at all? All I can bring to mind is the melody and the _Wrong!_. If you can jumpstart my memory with a line, I might be able to help. ---
**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:** [October 29, 2004, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-just-plain-wrong/270580/223 "2004-10-29T03:23:41Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally Posted by Sample\_the\_Dog > Ok, this is gonna drive me crazy. > > A male singer-songwriter did a great tune simply called “Wrong”, in which he sings about all these things he used to believe, follwed by a pause, then “Wrong!” > > It’s a great song, and I can hear parts of it in my head, but can’t summon up enough of the lyrics to find it on a Web search. It’s got a country kind of feel to it. There are so many songs with “wrong” in the titles that Googling doesn’t help. > > Any dopers out there can save me? > [@Kat](#): > > **Sample** , that is indeed a country song, but I also can’t remember the title. Can you remember any of the lyrics at all? All I can bring to mind is the melody and the _Wrong!_. If you can jumpstart my memory with a line, I might be able to help. I’m fairly sure “Wrong” was done by Waylon Jennings sometime in the late 80’s or early 90’s. ---
**Author:** ![Sample\_the\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Sample\_the\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sample_the_Dog)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2004, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-just-plain-wrong/270580/224 "2004-10-29T23:03:24Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > I’m fairly sure “Wrong” was done by Waylon Jennings sometime in the late 80’s or early 90’s. Thank you, masked man! Yup, it was Waylon. He wrote it, too. Appeared on his 1990 record “The Eagle”. Now that song is just “Wrong”! ---
**Author:** ![Sample\_the\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Sample\_the\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sample_the_Dog)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2004, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-just-plain-wrong/270580/225 "2004-10-29T23:08:17Z")
“Don’t Fear the Reaper” is wrong on a couple of levels. First, there’s the, “suicide is cool” theme. Second, there’s the fact that you can’t turn the frikkin radio dial half a spin without hearing some lame-ass station playing the damn thing! Enough, already!!! Its only redeeming feature is it made great fodder for one of the all-time classic Christopher Walken [SNL skits](http://snltranscripts.jt.org/99/99pcowbell.phtml). ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2004, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-just-plain-wrong/270580/226 "2004-10-29T23:21:17Z")
> [@Sample\_the\_Dog](#): > > “Don’t Fear the Reaper” is wrong on a couple of levels. > > First, there’s the, “suicide is cool” theme. Second, there’s the fact that you can’t turn the frikkin radio dial half a spin without hearing some lame-ass station playing the damn thing! Enough, already!!! > > Its only redeeming feature is it made great fodder for one of the all-time classic Christopher Walken [SNL skits](http://snltranscripts.jt.org/99/99pcowbell.phtml). I read an interview with Buck Dharma, the guy who wrote the song. He says the song is NOT about suicide. It’s about the inevitability of death and how we should not be afraid of it. The “40,000 men and women” was a number he pulled out of the air to represent the number of people who die everyday. This [cite](http://www.wpe.com/~musici/Don'tfear.html) has part of the original interview I read. I only wish I could find the original. ---
**Author:** ![Sample\_the\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Sample\_the\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sample_the_Dog)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2004, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-just-plain-wrong/270580/227 "2004-10-29T23:37:20Z")
Kinda hard to credit Mr. Dharma, though, given the references to Romeo and Juliet and lines like: _Came the last night of sadness And it was clear she couldn’t go on._ The whole song pushes the theme of moving into death voluntarily, rather than simply accepting it when it arrives – “we can be like they are”, “she ran to him”, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Prize](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d2c977/32.png) [@Sir\_Prize](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Prize)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2004, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-just-plain-wrong/270580/228 "2004-10-29T23:55:49Z")
\*Sunday afternoon there’s something special It’s just like another world. Jogging in the park is my excuse To look at all the little girls. \* – Kinks, Art Lover ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2004, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-just-plain-wrong/270580/229 "2004-10-30T00:22:58Z")
Another scary-wrong song: Thee from M_A_S\*H aka _Suicide is Painless._ Written by a boy who was about 15 or 16 years old. Creepy. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2004, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-just-plain-wrong/270580/230 "2004-10-30T00:40:07Z")
> [@Peter Morris](#): > > Another scary-wrong song: Thee from M_A_S\*H aka _Suicide is Painless._ > Written by a boy who was about 15 or 16 years old. Creepy. 1. Robert Altman’s son. ---
**Author:** ![capacitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@capacitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capacitor)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2004, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-just-plain-wrong/270580/231 "2004-10-30T02:29:38Z")
At least he talked about it before he reached the brink, unlike Pearl Jam’s “Jeremy”. ---
**Author:** ![capacitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@capacitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capacitor)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2004, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-just-plain-wrong/270580/232 "2004-10-30T02:34:06Z")
Also, a message Yo, Elton John, you keep on telling us that “Somebody Saved My Life Tonight”: I’m not going to ‘listen to’ you ‘good’ at ‘4 o’clock in the morning, dammit!’ I’m going to sleep! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-just-plain-wrong/270580.md?page=11)