# Very "Disturbing" Songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 3, 2009, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-disturbing-songs/505120 "2009-08-03T02:54:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-disturbing-songs/505120/1 "2009-08-03T02:54:41Z")
The one that comes to mind right off the bat is Shawn Colvin’s _Sunny Came Home_. Rosanne Cash tends to excel at righting these (Of course I’m way biased as I’m a huge fan of Rosanne Cash) who had two excellent “disturbing songs” on her _Interiors_ CD: The first appropriately titled _Living In The Land Of Nightmares_, and _This World_. Let’s face it not a lot of other artists are gonna be able to get away with writing a song with the lyrics: (From _This World_) > [@](#): > > _She may have been learning how to crawl and he put a fist in her face_ So what other songs have you heard that are profoundly disturbing to you? ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-disturbing-songs/505120/2 "2009-08-03T03:08:34Z")
Entrails Ripped From a Virgin’s Cunt by Cannibal Corpse. That band has issues. I’ll spoiler the lyrics as they are NSFW “Tied to my mattress Legs spread wide Ruptured bowel, yanked From her insides Devirginized with my knife Internally bleeding Vagina, secreting her blood-wet pussy I am eating” ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Hen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@Small\_Hen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Hen)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-disturbing-songs/505120/3 "2009-08-03T03:24:15Z")
“Prison Sex” by Tool. I loved it until I realized what the lyrics were, and now I can’t listen to it. ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-disturbing-songs/505120/4 "2009-08-03T03:30:49Z")
Everyone knows The Police’s creepy stalker song, “Every Breath You Take,” so… “Once Upon A Daydream” by The Police. Narrator knocks up his girlfriend, her dad finds out, beats the shit out of her, and kills the baby. Narrator blows dad’s head off. Cheery stuff! The Police also have “A Kind of Loving,” which is cacophony set to the sound of Sting’s character in _Brimstone and Treacle_ raping a retarded girl. Sting continued the creepy stuff into his solo career. “I Hung My Head” is a song about a kid who accidentally shoots a horseman and is sentenced to death. “Love Is Stronger Than Justice” is about a band of brothers who courageously save a damsel in distress, thinking that there are seven. So Sting’s character kills his brothers for the girl. Talking Heads have “Psycho Killer,” which is from the POV of a… psycho killer. Squeeze’s “Last Time Forever” could either be about a bad break up, or the narrator killing his girlfriend. It’s vague, which makes it creepy. The Smiths’ “Meat Is Murder” has a creepy intro. Abattoir noise with the random cow mooing, and piano stabs. I couldn’t listen to that record at night when I was younger, what with Morrissey reminding that I was a murderer for having a McDonald’s. Another disturbing Smiths track is “Death at One’s Elbow,” with the classic lines: “Oh Glen, don’t come to the house tonight/Because there’s somebody here that’ll take a hatchet to your ear.” ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-disturbing-songs/505120/5 "2009-08-03T03:33:30Z")
> [@Small\_Hen](#): > > “Prison Sex” by Tool. I loved it until I realized what the lyrics were, and now I can’t listen to it. Fill us in. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![pythonzzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9e8a1a/32.png) [@pythonzzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pythonzzz)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-disturbing-songs/505120/6 "2009-08-03T03:39:51Z")
Most anything from Nick Cave. One album has the title “Murder Ballads” as the songs are all about murder and death. “Lightning Crashes” from Live and “Possum Kingdom” from Toadies. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-disturbing-songs/505120/7 "2009-08-03T04:10:28Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Fill us in. > > 😕 [http://www.lyricsfreak.com/t/tool/prison+sex\_20139421.html](http://www.lyricsfreak.com/t/tool/prison+sex_20139421.html) It’s about child abuse. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-disturbing-songs/505120/8 "2009-08-03T04:20:59Z")
The inestimable [Johnny Dowd](http://www.johnnydowd.com/) was nearly fifty years old when he released his second country-tinged honky-tonkish album, **Pictures From Life’s Other Side**. There’s a song called called _Hope You Don’t Mind_ on it. > [@](#): > > I think about you every day > > I hope you don’t mind > > I dream about you every night > > I hope you don’t mind > > I hope you don’t mind It’s a sweet, simple melody, with sparse instrumentation; a real ballad. Until he let’s loose with the next line: > [@](#): > > I followed you home from school > > I hope you don’t mind > > I looked in your window last night > > I hope you don’t mind > > I hope you don’t mind The rest of the song is him detailing his obsession and stalking of this schoolgirl and pledging to love her forever. Creepy. Or there’s _No Woman’s Flesh But Hers_, a monologue by a man who was so intoxicated he ran his car off the road, putting his wife/GF in a coma from which she will never wake. He visits her every day, and pledges that he will have no woman’s flesh, but hers, as pennance for his sins. In fact, the guys a brilliant walking cupboard full of creepiness. I have most of his albums. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-disturbing-songs/505120/9 "2009-08-03T04:23:38Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Entrails Ripped From a Virgin’s Cunt by Cannibal Corpse. > > That band has issues. I’ll spoiler the lyrics as they are NSFW > > “Tied to my mattress > Legs spread wide > Ruptured bowel, yanked > From her insides > Devirginized with my knife > Internally bleeding > Vagina, secreting > her blood-wet pussy > I am eating” Woot! for Cannibal Corpse! ---
**Author:** ![picker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/picker/32/13969_2.png) [@picker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picker)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-disturbing-songs/505120/10 "2009-08-03T04:30:23Z")
> [@pythonzzz](#): > > Most anything from Nick Cave. One album has the title “Murder Ballads” as the songs are all about murder and death. Not a bad album, IMHO. But I did want to point that the [Murder Ballad](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_ballad) is a longstanding element of the American folk tradition. So it’s only shocking in the sense that he released an entire album consisting only of them, which is an artistic choice of its own, I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![SSG\_Schwartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-disturbing-songs/505120/11 "2009-08-03T04:32:42Z")
Dusty Drake [One Last Time](http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/dusty-drake/one-last-time-2050.html).(lyrics) Really disturbing when he gets to the end. SSG Schwartz ---
**Author:** ![bramma23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@bramma23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bramma23)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-disturbing-songs/505120/12 "2009-08-03T04:34:52Z")
Weezer - Butterfly Lyrics suggest it could be about rape. It’s ambiguous though. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-disturbing-songs/505120/13 "2009-08-03T04:36:41Z")
“Megalomaniacal” and “Anarchy” by KMFDM…one of the bands Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold enjoyed listening to… ---
**Author:** ![jasonh300](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/46a35a/32.png) [@jasonh300](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasonh300)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-disturbing-songs/505120/14 "2009-08-03T04:42:21Z")
> [@pythonzzz](#): > > “Possum Kingdom” from Toadies. I never gave that song much thought, but I just looked up the lyrics and it is pretty creepy. Look up the lyrics to **Sugar** ’s “A Good Idea”. It’s far more distubing. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-disturbing-songs/505120/15 "2009-08-03T04:43:00Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > “Megalomaniacal” and “Anarchy” by KMFDM…one of the bands Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold enjoyed listening to… From “Megalomaniac”: \*Refuse is our inspiration, terrorism our trade, sabotage and piracy, chaos our mental state… - From “Anarchy”: \*I made a god out of blood Not superiority I killed the king of deceit Now I sleep in anarchy … \* ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-disturbing-songs/505120/16 "2009-08-03T05:20:48Z")
[John Wayne Gacy Jr. by Sufjan Stevens](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otx49Ko3fxw) ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-disturbing-songs/505120/17 "2009-08-03T05:36:52Z")
Songs about murder/dumping bodies in the river/lake/swamp (a partial list, feel free to enhance): Jayhawks _Sixteen Down_ Seven Mary Three _Water’s Edge_ “Some Hair Band” _Uncle Tom’s Cabin_ ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-disturbing-songs/505120/18 "2009-08-03T05:42:29Z")
[Country Death Song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwj5_SNWYc8) by the Violent Femmes. ---
**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-disturbing-songs/505120/19 "2009-08-03T05:47:52Z")
“Delilah” or as I like to call it “The Ballad of OJ” > [@](#): > > At break of day when that man drove away, I was waiting > I cross the street to her house and she opened the door > She stood there laughing > I felt the knife in my hand and she laughed no more I prefer the [Flogging Molly cover](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSmHEwwA3NQ). ---
**Author:** ![madrabbitwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@madrabbitwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madrabbitwoman)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-disturbing-songs/505120/20 "2009-08-03T06:33:00Z")
The Childcatcher - Patrick Wolf - Gahhhhhhhh Pedophilia from the child’s and perpetrator’s pov > **[Patrick Wolf - The Childcatcher Lyrics](https://www.lyricsmania.com/the_childcatcher_lyrics_patrick_wolf.html)** > > Patrick Wolf The Childcatcher Lyrics. The Childcatcher lyrics performed by Patrick Wolf: I was still a child when you caught me and tied me to your bed > you gave me shoes and pretty clothes, and i gave you what i had between my legs > Just a rite of... [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-disturbing-songs/505120.md?page=2)