# Very "Disturbing" Songs

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 3, 2009, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-disturbing-songs/505120 "2009-08-03T02:54:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2009, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-disturbing-songs/505120/61 "2009-08-05T04:52:10Z")

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> [@RealityChuck](#):
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> 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.

I saw Lyle Lovett a couple of weeks ago in Grand Rapids. During the middle of the show some guy started to yell at Lyle between songs about how he took his girlfriend to his show last year and this year she is there but now she is his wife. Guy was really being a bit of a twat, but Lyle humored him for a bit and then said he would play a song about a wedding for them. Yep, LA County.

It was sublime.

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**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2009, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-disturbing-songs/505120/62 "2009-08-05T04:57:47Z")

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The music we get at work often plays _I Will Possess Your Heart_ by Death Cab for Cutie. It is, IMO, a great song, but there is no doubt that it has a stalkerish quality about it.

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**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2009, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-disturbing-songs/505120/63 "2009-08-05T05:49:28Z")

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> [@Mariemarie](#):
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> 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.
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> [Sunny Came Home Lyrics](http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/colvin-shawn/sunny-came-home-10530.html)

I never even thought about a husband when listening to that song. I assumed she was going to kill her kids.

She has a LIST of names, not just one which would indicate her husband. I just assumed she got the kids, and lit the sweater on fire along with the kids.

Especially at the end it says “Light the sky and hold on tight the world is burning down, she out there on her own and she’s alright.” If she had her kids with her she wouldn’t be on her own.

I assumed she destroyed everything and now that it’s all gone she’s fine

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