# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-disturbing-songs/505120/41 "2009-08-03T17:27:30Z")
Assemblage 23’s “[Let Me Be Your Armor](http://assemblage23.com/addlyr.html#armor).” It starts out like the typical fluffy love song: “Let me take the fall Let me take the blame Let me carry you from hell To home again.” But as it goes on, it gets…darker: "Let me keep you from Experience you need Let me bind you with my selfishness And greed Let me stifle you Let me have control Let me smother Every aspect of your soul." BTW, is anyone else a little leery of visiting some of the “all lyrics” sites that folks post here? I remember I used to hunt for lyrics on some of these sites until I started getting the feeling (from the page layouts, popups, and so forth) that they were making quiet little assaults on my computer. Nowadays I try to find lyrics on the artist’s own site or else a fansite whenever possible, and won’t go near those “get all your lyrics here!” compendiums. Maybe I’m overly paranoid, but better safe than sorry. ---
**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, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-disturbing-songs/505120/42 "2009-08-03T18:10:23Z")
> [@Mojo\_Pin](#): > > More specifically I think it’s from the pov of the child grown up and doing the same things to another kid. It wouldn’t bother me half as much if it weren’t sung from the POV of the rapist. Mid act. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-disturbing-songs/505120/43 "2009-08-03T18:13:45Z")
Another ‘down by the river’ goodie from 80s hair god Richard Marx: [Hazard](http://www.lyrics007.com/Richard%20Marx%20Lyrics/Hazard%20Lyrics.html) ---
**Author:** ![Jettboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85e7bf/32.png) [@Jettboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jettboy)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-disturbing-songs/505120/44 "2009-08-03T18:17:58Z")
_The Old Main Drag_ by the Pogues is disturbing and tragic. Young wanderer in the big city ends up in the worst area with the sleaziest people, trading sex for money or drugs, being beaten by the police, watching his life slowly circle the drain… _And now Im lying here I’ve had too much booze I’ve been shat on, and spat on, and raped and abused I know that I’m dying and I wish I could beg For some money to take me from the old main drag_ ---
**Author:** ![whole\_bean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@whole\_bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whole_bean)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-disturbing-songs/505120/45 "2009-08-03T19:01:29Z")
I’ve got something to say . . . . I killed your baby today It doesn’t matter much to me as long as its dead. [Last Caress](http://www.lyricsfreak.com/m/misfits/last+caress_20094072.html) - Misfits ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-disturbing-songs/505120/46 "2009-08-03T20:10:20Z")
“Timothy” by The Buoys. It’s about three people trapped in a mine, told from the point of view of one of those trapped. They were out of food and running out of time. The narrator says that he blacked out, but when he awoke and got rescued, he says his stomach was as full is it could be, and nobody ever got around to finding Timothy. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-disturbing-songs/505120/47 "2009-08-03T20:17:14Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Lyle Lovett’s **L.A. County**. On first listen, it sounds like a love song (and some people have even used it as music at their weddings). But if you pay attention, it’s about someone who murders a bride and groom at the altar, then kneels down and prays next to their corpses. Alright, that does it. I demand to know how folks come up with these 133+ fucking song interpretation $x!11z. I only read the lyrics to mean that the man fell to his knees in dispair. How did you come up with praying over the corpses. And Prison Sex is described right in the song title. How did you all come up with child abuse? Isn’t it about young adults entering the prison system and being raped by the more seasoned inmates? I have always been in awe of folks that could ‘interpret’ stuff. I can sit and listen to Sister Wendy interpret art all day. Amazing stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Mariemarie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/58f4c7/32.png) [@Mariemarie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mariemarie)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-disturbing-songs/505120/48 "2009-08-03T20:19:48Z")
> [@Markxxx](#): > > The one that comes to mind right off the bat is Shawn Colvin’s _Sunny Came Home_. What do you find disturbing about _Sunny Came Home_? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-disturbing-songs/505120/49 "2009-08-03T20:28:00Z")
> [@Mariemarie](#): > > What do you find disturbing about _Sunny Came Home_? 😕 Not to speak for **Markxxx** but it’s a song about an unbalanced woman who plans to kill . . .someone (Sunny cam home with a list of names") and ends up burning down her house, with, I presume her huband still in it. The song doesn’t explicitly say that part, but that how I always think of it. Plus the music is quite haunting. Definitely a favorite of mine. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-disturbing-songs/505120/50 "2009-08-03T20:35:05Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > I only read the lyrics to mean that the man fell to his knees in dispair. How did you come up with praying over the corpses. Googled and found this verse, followed immediately by the “kneeling at the altar” variation on the chorus: > [@](#): > > And they kissed each other > And they turned around > And they saw me standing in the aisle > Well I did not say much > I just stood there watching > As that .45 told them goodbye ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-disturbing-songs/505120/51 "2009-08-03T20:35:09Z")
[I saw your Mommy](http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/suicidaltendencies/suicidaltendencies.html#3), by Suicidal Tendencies. More graphic than disturbing. And [The Rake Song](http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/The-Rake's-Song-lyrics-The-Decemberists/E96435878B3E01AD4825752A000E50D7), by The Decemberists. More disturbing than graphic. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-disturbing-songs/505120/52 "2009-08-03T20:46:29Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > Googled and found this verse, followed immediately by the “kneeling at the altar” variation on the chorus: Sigh. I am starting to annoy myself in that way that I do when I keep making my husband explain movies to me over and over. But, I want to know how RealityChuck read that as him kneeling to pray over the corpses. I took it to mean he shot them and then sank to his knees in dispair. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-disturbing-songs/505120/53 "2009-08-03T20:51:03Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > But, I want to know how RealityChuck read that as him kneeling to pray over the corpses. I took it to mean he shot them and then sank to his knees in dispair. I can get behind that interpretation. He seems to call the .45 his “friend” throughout the song, and refers to it as being by his side, so he’s not really talking about the couple in that last chorus. Inadvertently praying next to the bodies, sure. ---
**Author:** ![Mariemarie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/58f4c7/32.png) [@Mariemarie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mariemarie)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-disturbing-songs/505120/54 "2009-08-03T20:52:08Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > Not to speak for **Markxxx** but it’s a song about an unbalanced woman who plans to kill . . .someone (Sunny cam home with a list of names") and ends up burning down her house, with, I presume her huband still in it. The song doesn’t explicitly say that part, but that how I always think of it. Plus the music is quite haunting. Definitely a favorite of mine. Huh. That’s certainly disturbing. I’ve always heard it as a hopeful song about a woman who’s getting her life back together after some ordeals and trials. I guess incinerating her (presumably)abusive husband is one way to get on with it. [Sunny Came Home Lyrics](http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/colvin-shawn/sunny-came-home-10530.html) ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aca169/32.png) [@Red\_Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-disturbing-songs/505120/55 "2009-08-04T01:49:08Z")
Here’s a Couple [QUOTE= Suicide is Painless - Alman,Mandel] The only way to win is cheat And lay it down before I’m beat and to another give my seat for that’s the only painless feat. That suicide is painless It brings on many changes and I can take or leave it if I please. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE= Dead Kennedys - California Uber Alles] Come quietly to the camp You’d look nice as a drawstring lamp Don’t you worry, it’s only a shower For your clothes here’s a pretty flower. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE= Misfits - Halloween] candy apples and razor blades little dead are soon in graves i remember Halloween this day anything goes burning bodies hanging from poles i remember Halloween [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![yoyodyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a9a28c/32.png) [@yoyodyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yoyodyne)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-disturbing-songs/505120/56 "2009-08-04T03:43:02Z")
Bloodrock - [D.O.A](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzUpVyOdXek). ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-disturbing-songs/505120/57 "2009-08-04T15:38:21Z")
> [@yoyodyne](#): > > Bloodrock - [D.O.A](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzUpVyOdXek). Seconded. Another one that I found very intense the first time was “Family Snapshot” by Peter Gabriel, from the POV of an assassin. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-disturbing-songs/505120/58 "2009-08-04T16:48:48Z")
Rhihanna’s _Disturbia_ is, needless to say, disturbing. I love that song, but it’s creepy as anything. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-disturbing-songs/505120/59 "2009-08-04T20:55:55Z")
> [@bramma23](#): > > Weezer - Butterfly > > Lyrics suggest it could be about rape. It’s ambiguous though. I think it could more easily be interpreted as a song about a man who has a tendency to sleep with women and lead them on because he gets caught up in an idealized notion of them, but in the harsh glare of day he realizes he doesn’t really love them. The song addresses the guilt he feels as a result of a specific incident, wherein he rather bluntly acknowledges that he has a problem with objectifying women. This interpretation is reinforced by the ending lines, > [@](#): > > I told you I would return > When the robin builds his nest > But I ain’t ever coming back > I’m sorry > I’m sorry > I’m sorry… I read that as, ‘‘I know I told you I’d come visit you this Spring, but I’m really not that into you. Sorry.’’ And it fits the overall relationship angst of the album much better than a song about rape. Though I will admit certain lines in the song do trigger that line of thought, I’m not even a little bit creeped out by the song’s meaning. I think it’s just very honest. ---
**Author:** ![Ferd\_Burfel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@Ferd\_Burfel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferd_Burfel)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-disturbing-songs/505120/60 "2009-08-04T23:26:06Z")
Alice Cooper’s paen to necrophilia… **I Love The Dead** > [@](#): > > I love the dead before they’re cold, > Their blueing flesh for me to hold. Harry Chapin’s semi-sympathetic treatment of Texas Tower sniper Charles Whitman… **The Sniper** > [@](#): > > The first words he spoke took the town by surprise. > One got Mrs. Gibbons above her right eye. > It blew her through the window wedged her against the door. > Reality poured from her face, staining the floor. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-disturbing-songs/505120.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-disturbing-songs/505120.md?page=4)