Song lyrics that make you think what the hell?

[WhenTheDustSettles]

Hey, Mister DJ (oh-oh-oh)
Play a song for this pretty little lady (oh-oh-oh)
'Cause if she dance as good as she look right now (oh-oh-oh)
I just might, I just might make her my baby
I just might make her my baby, hey

Really Bruno? In 2026? Or have you sneaked into Doc Brown's De Lorean?

And is there a single person who can sing along to the "Boom Boom Boom" lyric without doing it in the style of Baldrick's War Poem?

My teen was humming Le Weeknd One of the Girls the other day.

This sort of shit should not be allowed:

Tell nobody I control you
I broke you just to own you
They can't tell that I love you'Cause you're loyal, baby
I love when you're submissive
You love it when I break skin
You feel pain without flinchin'
So say it

Give me tough love
Leave me with nothin' when I come down
My kind of love
Push me and choke me till I pass out

Push me down, hold me down
Spit in my mouth while you turn me out
I wanna take your light inside
Tear me down, snuff me out
Hands on my neck while you push it up
And I'm screamin' out

Especially when you think Sting was a teacher...

pineapple shake the tree, pineapple grind coffee ... hula melody

What the hell?

😂I really didn't get this 😂

I genuinely thought it meant "She's a size 10, but she wears a 12".

I feel like a right dick now.

Not just the message is horrible, and the fact the guy has not given consent, the whole song is maudlin and horrible. And how can you 'make love' to someone you don't know from Adam? Maybe he was called Adam!

Then why the "but"?

Is he saying she's perfect despite being a size 12? Like there's something wrong with being a size 12?

Mungo Jerry song ‘In the summertime’

“If her daddy's rich, take her out for a meal
If her daddy's poor, just do what you feel‘ These are weird lyrics to me and blurred lines by robin thicke. I remember that song being everywhere.

Aw, sorry😬 At least you know now. And I got a right laugh imagining some eejit squeezing into clothes that were too small for her😂

I’ve misunderstood loads of lyrics tbf. There have been quite a few threads on here, so it’s pretty common!

I don’t think it’s that deep!

'String' is loathsome 🤢

Two of the most enigmatic lyrics of all time. Pop music historians will be pondering their meaning for centuries to come!
Also, there is a certain melancholy quality to MacArthur Park, both because of the tragic demise of the cake and the doubly bad luck of subsequently mislaying the recipe for said cake.
I have often questioned the priorities of Busted when, gifted with the ability to travel to the year 3000, the most important fact they felt the need to communicate was that the person they were addressing's 'great great great granddaughter is pretty fine. The fact that humans are now apparently a sub-aquatic race, and have vastly increased life-spans barely get a look in! Mind you, given that after nearly a millennium Busted have apparently only just released their seventh album by the year 3000 proves they must be a pretty lazy bunch!

Gary Puckett & The Union Gap Lyrics

"Young Girl"

Young girl
Get out of my mind
My love for you is way out of line
Better run, girl
You're much too young, girl

With all the charms of a woman
You've kept the secret of your youth
You led me to believe you're old enough
To give me Love
And now it hurts to know the truth

Whoa, oh, oh, young girl
Get out of my mind
My love for you is way out of line
Better run, girl
You're much too young, girl

Beneath your perfume and make-up
You're just a baby in disguise
And though you know that it's wrong to be
Alone with me
That come on look is in your eyes

Whoa, oh, oh, young girl
Get out of my mind
My love for you is way out of line
Better run, girl
You're much too young, girl

So hurry home to your mama
I'm sure she wonders where you are
Get out of here before I have the time
To change my mind
'Cause I'm afraid we'll go too far

Whoa, oh, oh, young girl
Get out of my mind
My love for you is way out of line
Better run, girl
You're much too young, girl

Young girl
Get out of my mind
My love for you is way out of line
Better run, girl
You're much too young, girl

Young girl
Get out of my mind
My love for you

Agree with the Mungo Jerry one.

"Have a drink, have a drive
Go out and see what you can find" were two lines in that one, swiftly followed by "Speed along the lane, do a ton or a ton and twenty-five"

I think I saw an interview with the original Mungo (one of the I Love 1970s programmes) where he said those lyrics were a bit regrettable. I believe the song was even used in an anti-drink-driving campaign a few years ago. Family doing just what the lyrics were saying; cut to wrecked and bloodstained crashed car in a ditch. Some of those 1970s and 80s ads were very chilling, but made their points. Anyone remember Apaches (farm safety one. One of the poor sods drowned in a slurry pit.)?

Having three tits would be an extra layer of admin I could do without, thanks Busted.

But that's the entire point of the song. That, despite the societal expected standards, there isn't anything wrong with being a 12, or a 16, which is the next line.

The only people that need to be offended by that song are skinny people! As a lifelong fatty I've always quite liked it!

Bloody hell, how has this not been banned. Horrific.

For about 30 years I thought it was “strombolese”, which I decided was some kind of Italian food like a Stromboli.

I've been getting 'All I Want to Do Is Make Love To You' confused with 'I Just Want To Make Love To You' by Etta James... was wondering how you were getting such an elaborate story from the lyrics!

Simply Red, Right Thing. Awful lyrics but these are the worse.

Feelin’ hot, I ain’t never gonna stop
To get what you got, you better take what I bring
Feel it now, much harder now
More than any old how, say you feel the pain

No Roy, it's really not alright.
Also, Under my Thumb by the Rolling Stones.

🤑

Rod Stewart - Tonight’s the Night. It always made me feel so deeply uncomfortable, even at the time, let alone nowadays where we are so much more aware about grooming and exploitation by more powerful/older individuals.
Unbelievably creepy and pervy.

Come on angel my hearts on fire
Don't deny your man's desire
You'd be a fool to stop this tide
Spread your wings and let me come inside, 'cause

Tonight's the night
It's gonna be alright
'Cause I love you girl
Ain't nobody gonna stop us now

Don't say a word my virgin child
Just let your inhibitions run wild
The secret is about to unfold
Upstairs before the night's too old

Been around the world and I I I, I can't find my baby

If that's the case, then he's obviously hiding from you, stop stalking him.

Not quite.
The lyrics actually go:
"Woke you from your sleep to make love to you"
so the partner was woken up, then, crucially,
"Is that alright?" - a line repeated throughout the song.
Consent and agreement very much being sought

The song was also recorded by Cyndi Lauper and Celine Dion.