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?

"New York to East California, there's a new wave coming I warn ya" from Kids in America by Kim Wilde. Only east California? Did the new wave dry up in the Death Valley?

On a similar note "coast to coast, LA to Chicago" in Smooth Operator. I suppose Sade might have been thinking of Lake Michigan as one of the coasts but seems a bit strange.

(Love both those songs though)

I genuinly thought it was 'he has a strong release '.

Or Cartmans song about Kyle's mum..Oh she's a bitch🤣

Please please please not this subject again! Same old songs dragged out for a kicking using today's moral and social code. It is so boring and smug as posters whip each other into a frenzy of misinterpretation.

Yep, all the old (un)favourites being wheeled out here: I drove all night, Clair, Young Girl, My Sharona.... must have been at least two weeks since the last thread!

I love James' Laid, but the lyrics are so weird especially the second half:

Caught your hand inside the till
Slammed your fingers in the door
Fought with kitchen knives and skewers
Dressed me up in women's clothes
Messed around with gender roles
Line my eyes and call me pretty

Moved out of the house so you moved next door
I locked you out, you cut a hole in the wall
I found you sleeping next to me, I thought I was alone
You're driving me crazy
When are you coming home

Nobody is forcing you to waste your time in clicking on it, reading and then choosing to engage and contribute!

If you see a thread with a title that doesn't interest you, there's nothing whatsoever making you click on it and participate!

I find lots of threads are clearly not for me from the titles... so I ignore them and leave them for the people who do find them interesting and want to participate in them!

Heart are my favourite band of all time. But I do hate this song, as do the band by all accounts. Luckily it's not representative of their other stuff

That is a song about a stalker though, so it's meant to be creepy.

I thought the OP meant more like "is creepy when you actually think about it but that's not the intention of the song" although I may be wrong.

The whole of “does your mother know” by abba. Can’t imagine the reaction it would get if it were released now😩😂

"Girl I'm gonna make you sweat,
Sweat till you can't sweat no more,
And if you cry out, I'm gonna push it some more"
😳😳

And 3am is also quite stalky 🙈

I don't give a damn what you do
I'm gonna get with you
Again
And that's the way this night is gonna end
You said you need some time
How long does it take to see
That we are more than meant to be
And now you're driving in your car
But you won't get far

“How my poo hole aches with every breath you take” - Every Breath You Take by The Police

This is not the place for misheard lyrics

There's nothing wrong with these lyrics imo. He's telling her she's too young. Nothing more

This is well strange:
You take my name, and you scandalize it in the street (ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
Oh, anything you wanna do I say it's alright by me (ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
You turned right around and make sweet love to me (ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
Ooh, easy, baby, sho 'nuff good for me
[Pre-Chorus 2]
′Cause, baby (baby), these things you're doing, believe me
It hurt so bad, but it′s worth all the misery
[Chorus]
'Cause don′t you know that it (hurts so good)?
Don't you know that it (hurts so good)?
Don't you know that it (hurts so good)?
It hurts so good
Ooh, baby
Ooh, baby, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh
[Verse 3]
Ooh, boy, please don′t ever take the hurt off me (ooh, boy)
′Cause it would hurt even more if you ever, ever leave (oh yes, it would)
Even though sometimes it′s hard for me to bear (it's hard but still I bear)
Well, I′ll make myself hold out, 'cause if it kills me I don′t care
[Pre-Chorus]
'Cause, baby (baby), I don't want you to ever quit
It ain′t no good ′til it hurts a little bit

I agree, ABBA's Does Your Mother Know is a rare example of a jaunty song where a male vocalist is advising restraint and caution in a light-hearted but respectful way. He does tell the song's subject that she's hot, but is unambiguous about it being wrong and "something I couldn't do". Good on you, Björn.

Oh, I dunno, I rather enjoyed that one…

It has to be the Rolling Stones, Under my Thumb from 1966. I know, different times and all that, but it's horribly misogynistic, reeks of control and contempt and is a difficult listen nowadays.

Under my thumb
The girl who once had me down
Under my thumb
The girl who once pushed me around

It's down to me
The difference in the clothes she wears
Down to me, the change has come
She's under my thumb

And ain't it the truth babe?

Under my thumb
Is a squirmin' dog who's just had her day
Under my thumb
A girl who has just changed her ways

It's down to me, yes it is
The way she does just what she's told
Down to me, the change has come
She's under my thumb
Ah, ah, say it's alright

Under my thumb
Is a Siamese cat of a girl
Under my thumb
She's the sweetest, hmmm, pet in the world

It's down to me
The way she talks when she's spoken to
Down to me, the change has come
She's under my thumb
Ah, take it easy babe
Yeah

It's down to me, oh yeah
The way she talks when she's spoken to
Down to me, the change has come
She's under my thumb
Yeah, it feels alright

Under my thumb
Her eyes are just kept to herself
Under my thumb, well I
I can still look at someone else

It's down to me, oh that's what I said
The way she talks when she's spoken to
Down to me, the change has come
She's under my thumb
Say, it's alright

Say it's all
Say it's all

Take it easy babe
Take it easy babe
Feels alright
Take it, take it easy babe

'......tearing off tights with my teeth'
This line just makes me cringe and ruins an otherwise flawless song 🤮

Frank Zappa Joe’s Garage - genius but…

Grim - and not too dissimilar to the Dr Hook song (not the schoolboy "Huh, huh, you give me a hard-on" one):

And when your body's had enough of me
And I'm layin' flat out on the floor
When you think I've loved you all I can
I'm gonna love you a little bit more

That's one of my favourites too... along with Let's Hang On by The Four Seasons, where Frankie very clearly sings "Give me a feckin' turnip!"
If anybody doubts me, listen for yourself - start from 1:57 !

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The link doesn't want to work, but it's the top hit on YouTube.