# 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:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**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 24, 2004, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-just-plain-wrong/270580/141 "2004-10-24T20:01:43Z")
Yeah, yeah, young girls… let’s just cut to the chase, shall we? “Some little girl’s got a hold on me. She’s only 13, but oh, so sweet. Got me down on my knees. She’s got a stranglehold on me. Puts her arms around me like a vise. It’s oh, so painful, but nice.” UK Subs "Blinded by the Light’ is an early Springsteen song made famous by Manfred Mann’s Earth Band. Bruce’s line is “Cut loose like a deuce, another runner in the night”. Manfred changed it for reasons known only to him. It’s a playful song, half nursery rhyme, half sexual innuendo, half Dylan-Lennon-style nonsense. 😉 “It don’t rain in Indianapolis” is part of a list of admittedly false statements – listen to the song if you can stand it. As for “never sinned”, John Mellencamp sings pretty much the same thing in “Crumblin’ Down”: “I never was a sinner.” Never could figure out why he put that line in there. For a pretty dang funny list of “wrong” rock lyrics, check out this thread: [Worst Rock&Roll Lyrics?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=251856) ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-just-plain-wrong/270580/142 "2004-10-24T20:18:10Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > Well, yeah, that _would_ be gross, if that were the way the lyircs went. But the lyrics are “Dressed up like a deuce” (A Duece coup) Springsteen wrote the song, and the lyrics are “Cut loose like a deuce”, as in a hotrodded 1932 Ford coupe or roadster. ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-just-plain-wrong/270580/143 "2004-10-24T20:25:56Z")
I never like Jimmy Buffett, but > [@](#): > > Hittin’ on the honeys right out of high school. > Yeah, fifteen will get you twenty, > but that’s all right, > "Cause they’re rockin and a rollin’ on a > Livingston Saturday Night …is just plain wrong. ---
**Author:** ![jujuju](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7993a0/32.png) [@jujuju](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jujuju)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-just-plain-wrong/270580/144 "2004-10-24T20:37:23Z")
> [@britney spears](#): > > My loneliness is killing me (and i) > I must confess I still believe (still believe) > When I’m not with you i lose my mind > give me a sign > hit me baby one more time ooookay. ---
**Author:** ![LadySybil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c89c15/32.png) [@LadySybil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LadySybil)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-just-plain-wrong/270580/145 "2004-10-24T20:53:19Z")
In a word, whoops. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-just-plain-wrong/270580/146 "2004-10-24T21:19:55Z")
Well if we’re going for child-molestation wrong, nothing tops **Oingo Boingo** ’s song **“Little Girls”** : \*I, I, I love little girls They make me feel so good I love, little girls They make me feel so bad When they’re around They make me feel Like I’m the only guy in town … They don’t care if I’m a one-way mirror They’re not frightened by my cold exterior They don’t, ask me questions They don’t, want to scold me They don’t, look for answers They just, want to hold me\* […etc.] I hope, in the name of all that is holy, that Danny Elfman intended this song as an ironic criticism of pedophilia. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Death](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecccb3/32.png) [@Evil\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Death)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-just-plain-wrong/270580/147 "2004-10-24T21:20:46Z")
> [@jujuju](#): > > ooookay. I agree. Who could stop at hitting Britney just once more? ---
**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 24, 2004, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-just-plain-wrong/270580/148 "2004-10-24T21:39:51Z")
In the summertime when the weather is hot You can stretch right up and touch the sky When the weather’s fine You got women, you got women on your mind **Have a drink, have a drive** Go out and see what you can find Used in the UK as the theme song of a road safety campaign. ---
**Author:** ![Talon\_Karrde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Talon\_Karrde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talon_Karrde)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-just-plain-wrong/270580/149 "2004-10-24T21:43:10Z")
If we’re talking about stuff that’s intentionally wrong, I guess I should go back to The Smiths, like I mentioned earlier… \*Poor old man had an accident In a three bar fire But that’s okay because he wasn’t very happy anway Poor woman Strangled in her very own bed as she read But that’s okay, she was old and she would have died anyway Don’t blame the sweet and tender hooligan, hooligan Because he swore that he’ll never never never never never never do it again No, not until the next time\* ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-just-plain-wrong/270580/150 "2004-10-24T22:37:02Z")
> [@spoke-](#): > > Well if we’re going for child-molestation wrong Hell, for that matter, we could include _Country Death Song_ by Violent Femmes. Well, I’m thinkin’ and I’m thinkin’ Till there’s nothing I ain’t thunk Breathin’ in the stink Till finally I stunk It was about this time I swear I lost my mind Started makin’ plans to kill my own kind" From there, he kills his youngest daughter, then, gets so overcome with remorse and guilt that he goes out the the barn and hangs himself. ---
**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 24, 2004, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-just-plain-wrong/270580/151 "2004-10-24T22:50:23Z")
Since the recent unpleasantness involving Pete Townshend, I’ve heard the theory that “Behind Blue Eyes” is an expression of his anger toward the person who molested him as a child, of his shame for his own paedophilic tendencies (I should state here that he asserts he has none), and of his frustration over being able to express none of this to anyone. \*No one knows what it’s like to be the bad man… behind blue eyes. No one knows what it’s like… to be fated to telling only lies. No one knows what it’s like to feel these feelings… and I blame you. No one bites back as hard on their anger… …my dreams aren’t as empty as my conscience seems to be… My love is vengeance that’s never free.\* Maybe true, maybe not. But now I can’t hear that song any other way. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-just-plain-wrong/270580/152 "2004-10-24T22:56:12Z")
For deliberately wrong, there is always Alice Cooper - I love the dead, before they’re cold. Eeeewww ---
**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 24, 2004, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-just-plain-wrong/270580/153 "2004-10-24T23:28:15Z")
And let’s not forget Lowell George: _I’ve driven every kind of rig that’s ever been made. Driven the back roads so I wouldn’t get weighed. And if you give me weed, whites, and wine and you show me a sign I’ll be willin’ to be movin’._ (from “Willin” by Little Feat) Ah yes, loaded and overloaded truckers. On that same note, howsabout a little ZZ for the ride… _Now just the other night with nothin’ to do and a case of proof 102 I started itchin’ for that wonderful feel of rollin’ in an automobile. Now you could say we were out of our minds. Let me tell you, we were flying while blind._ (from “Arrested For Driving While Blind” by ZZ Top) Who was it who said “I miss Little Feat more than I miss being 16”? ---
**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 25, 2004, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-just-plain-wrong/270580/154 "2004-10-25T00:00:27Z")
The loaded trucker theme goes back even further: David Dudley’s “Six Days on the Road” (1963): \*I got ten forward gears, And a Georgia overdrive. I’m taking little white pills, And my eyes are open wide. I just passed a ‘Jimmy’ and a ‘White’: I’ve been passin’ everything in sight. Six days on the road and I’m gonna make it home tonight. \* ---
**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 25, 2004, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-just-plain-wrong/270580/155 "2004-10-25T00:15:45Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > The loaded trucker theme goes back even further: > > David Dudley’s “Six Days on the Road” (1963) Oh, yes indeed – what a classic! Add another week and you get this gem from Mr. JJ Cale: \*Thirteen days on a gig down South. We got enough dope to keep ourselves alive. Birmingham to Mobile, then on to Baton Rouge. We’re smoking cigarettes and reefer, drinking coffee and booze. See the sun come up in Georgia and go down in New Orleans. Never get to know a woman except to get in her jeans.\* from “Thirteen Days” (Hats off the “The Grapes”, who covered both these tunes so excellently!) ---
**Author:** ![Liz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/liz/32/17737_2.png) [@Liz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liz)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-just-plain-wrong/270580/156 "2004-10-25T00:31:09Z")
I’ve got to throw an Ozzy tune in just because. “Devil’s Daughter” from No Rest For The Wicked: \*I’ll feel your creeping flesh if you’re to be possesed, then I will desecrate what you’ve become I see through what’s inside you, I’ll make you break down and cry Break down, break down, break down and cry Devil’s daughter, you don’t want a holy war\* That’s one way to score the girls, Oz. :rolleyes: Also, “Mr. Tinkertrain” from No More Tears: _Close the curtains and turn out the lights beneath my wing it’s gonna be all right a little secret just for you and me, oh baby I’ve got the kind of toys you’ve never seen manmade and a bit obscene little angle come and sit up on my knee_ Uh… huh. ---
**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-just-plain-wrong/270580/157 "2004-10-25T05:03:54Z")
Ladies and gentlemen, Ms. Whitney Houston has a question: Oh tell me: How will I know? (Girl trust your feelings - . . .) How will I know if he really loves me? . . . If he loves me - if he loves me not - If he loves me - if he loves me not - How will I know? How will I know? How will I know? How will I know? How will I know if he really loves me? . . . How will I know? How will I know? How will I know? How will I know? - I say a prayer - How will I know? How will I know? - I fall in love - How will I know? How will I know? - I’m asking you - How will I know? ---
**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 25, 2004, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-just-plain-wrong/270580/158 "2004-10-25T05:23:01Z")
> [@moriah](#): > > Ladies and gentlemen, Ms. Whitney Houston has a question: Maybe Bill Withers could tell her: _I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, hey, I ought to leave the young thing alone._ (Oops, young girls again…) ---
**Author:** ![Talon\_Karrde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Talon\_Karrde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talon_Karrde)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-just-plain-wrong/270580/159 "2004-10-25T05:50:03Z")
I just remembered another one. I don’t know who it’s by, but I think it’s some boy band. _I don’t care who you are What you’ve done Where you’ve been As long as you love me_ :dubious: A little desperate, are we? I’m sorry, but I have no intentions of loving you. ---
**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-just-plain-wrong/270580/160 "2004-10-25T06:50:10Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > For deliberately wrong, there is always Alice Cooper - > I love the dead, before they’re cold. > > Eeeewww I knew he’d pop up in here! 😉 What, no Sick Things? No Cold Ethyl? No Fresh Blood?! The man is a veritable poster boy for Necrophylia and other assorted oddities. That’s why he’s my all time favorite! 😉😃 (zoogirl, dedicated Doper and happy little Sickthing. ) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-just-plain-wrong/270580.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-just-plain-wrong/270580.md?page=9)