“Stars” by Allison Krauss:
[snip]
You did not see me there,
Hidden by the dark,
Beneath your window,
But I saw you.
When putting on a face for the mirror on the wall.
Dreaming that the looking glass is you.
Catching my fondest gazes;
Living through my fickle phases.
I love you.
Spend my time on ‘phones,
Tryin’ just to talk,
But you didn’t answer…
You let it ring.
[snip]
I hope that’s not too long
By the way, that line was a direct quote from Elvis’s Sun record “Baby Let’s Play House.” (There may be an earlier version; that’s the earliest I know of.)
Oddly enough, I did a thread on this over three years ago when I was working on a play about a stalker…
From the Steve Earle song “More Than I Can Do”
"Just because you won’t unlock your door
That don’t mean you don’t love me anymore
No matter what you do
Because you know it’s more than I can do
You told me that I got to stop
But it’s more than I can do
And that ain’t nothing new
'Cause we both know that I’m crazy about you
You said you’re gonna call the cops
But I ain’t gonna run
Because you’re the only one
There ain’t no way I could live without you
You left me just when I needed you
So l ain’t even close to through with you"
There is a jazz song that has lyrics that fill me with unease.
You’re Mine You
In part it’s as follows:
*You’re mine you
You belong to me you
I will never free you
*
Then it goes on to:
I own you
I don’t need to buy love
You’re a slave to my love
I cringe whenever I hear that song.
From the 60’s
Stop! Stop! Stop! (Stop all the Dancing) by the Hollies
Complete lyrics here
How about Happy Together by The Turtles.
Delilah, by Tom Jones
Well…no because I’m awesome.
[QUOTE]
Don’t Stand So Close to Me:
“Young teacher the subject of schoolgirl fantasy
She wants him so badly, knows what she wants to be
Inside her there’s longing
This girl is an open page
Book marking she’s so close now
This girl is half his age…”
The restraining order says “no no” but his eyes say “yes yes”.
The song is about an underage girl who has a crush on her teacher. Or he has a crush on her. Either way, something funny is going on.
Yeah well…neither did Travis Bickle.
I don’t think it’s necessary to split hairs over what is a stalker song and whay is simply an innappropriate relationship song.
Randy Newman’s Suzanne is one of his many, many, MANY creepy songs:
*I’m gonna wait in the shadows
For you to come by
And then I’ll jump from the shadows
And try and catch your eye
Gonna run my fingers through your hair
And love you everywhere…
Suzanne, you won’t know it but I’ll be behind you
Don’t try and run away from me, little girl
Wherever you go I’ll find you*
Brrrr.
Bob Dorough’s Right On My Way Home.
According to Storm Large, “Hopelessly Devoted” is a stalker song.
Am I the only one who reads “Alison” by Elvis Costello as a stalker song? Not only a stalker song, but a song sung by a stalker on the verge of committing homicide.
Let’s go to the lyrics:
In other words, the protagonist believes Alison isn’t fit to live in the world she has chosen.
He thinks her husband is destroying her.
Again with the ideas that Alison is being degraded, this time explicitly mentally as opposed to physically. She is implicitly compared to someone who has a terminal disease (“I can’t stand to see you this way.”).
I think the last two lines here can be taken literally as a continuation of the motif: The protagonist has a gun and can be trusted to not make a mess of things and prolong Alison’s (imagined) agony.
Following You Around - a jolly little song that the UK’s top comedy double act used as their theme song for years. You can play the song here : Songs & Lyrics
I heard one from Springsteen that struck me as creepy–“Sad Eyes” off 18 Tracks:
I know you think you’d never be mine
Well that’s okay, baby, I don’t mind
That shy smile’s sweet, that’s a fact
Go ahead, I don’t mind the act
Here you come all dressed up for a date
Well one more step and it’ll be too late
Blue blue ribbon in your hair
Like you’re so sure I’ll be standing here
Reminiscent of “I Wanna Marry You”, which takes on a creepy air:
I see you walking, baby, down the street
Pushing that baby carriage at your feet
I see the lonely ribbon in your hair
Tell me am I the man for whom you put it there
Little girl, I wanna marry you
Oh yeah, little girl, I wanna marry you
It seems as if he reads messages in the girls’ hair ribbons. And to want to marry someone you hardly know?