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?

Oh 🥺

I didn’t know that, that’s awful.

Thankyou for telling me

Yes. It’s something to brag about.

I think it's aged badly because of lines like 'I don't care what people say, to me you're more than a child' that are obviously going to land differently nowadays. A pity, though, because the song was obviously meant to depict a very innocent, avuncular (Clair calls him 'Uncle Ray') fondness for the child. Simpler times.

Yep, that. It stands out in my memory as at the time I was starting to realise I needed to split from my partner, and some of the lyrics landed a little too close for comfort. It got played to death on the radio at the time, too, so I couldn't get away from it!

Wet Leg, Wet Dream

I was in your wet dream, driving in my car
What makes you think you're good enough
To think about me when you're touching yourself

😩

Oh for goodness sake, can we not sing kids' nursery rhymes any more? Let's just ban Ring o' Roses then, and Oranges and Lemons!

If you look closely enough you could be offended by everything though. This song is just a relationship from another point of view.

My mum died when I was 18 but I'm not going to be offended by Mama by the Spice Girls or anything similar

It was light hearted. Relax

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

Peaches the stranglers

Nothing in your post says it was lighthearted
But I'm fully relaxed anyway

I’d be concerned for anyone raging about nursery rhymes but I appreciate tone can be interpreted.

Love the name Connie

Slow hands.. like sweat dripping down our dirty laundry

I have no idea what this song is about. I can only presume they changed a lyric to make is less offensive or sexual and allowed it make no sense. I think a lot of songs do this.

I love the dead before they're cold
Their bluing flesh for me to hold
Cadaver eyes upon me see
Nothing

Alice Cooper, I love the dead.

The second verse is worse

Why are you focusing on song lyrics? Why not censor (or ban) books, plays and films which feature any suggestion of sexuality or wrongdoing?

(That's the bible fucked then!!)

I don't think anyone is suggesting censorship just discussing lyrics. Songs are a bit different to literature because lyrics are deliberately obscure and often have hidden meaning. I love lyrics personally, what I really miss is the school canteen or pub debate about lyrics. Debating what the lyrics actually were and then debating the meaning. These days we Google and get someones interpretation and accept it.

Actually speaking of debating. I think I may have spent a considerable time of my early teens debating 'Whole of the Moon'. People often said its 'about drugs' but that still makes no sense.

I mean at least he was reluctantly resisting the lure of his teenage pupil, it could be worse!!!

I love that song. Never crossed my mind it was about drugs. I always heard it as the despair and frustration of someone who tried so hard and wanted to achieve so much but knew he would never be as good as the other person who was naturally gifted and could do all of it and more and didn’t even have to try.

Another very dodgy one is Centerfold. Basically it's totally fine and normal for him to be looking at a porn magazine. But he's appalled to discover that the girl he had a crush on in school is the centerfold. Double standards much. She should be pure as snowflakes but it's fine for him to wank over those hussies in the magazine.

This disturbs me because I think he was a teacher in his previous life...

Does he resist though? I've always thought the end of the song implies he eventually crosses a line by picking her up when it's raining. It's ambiguous though - it doesn't explicitly say that. I've always assumed (hoped) it's a story rather thaj autobiographical though 😬

It's just a song. As I've said a few times on this thread it's not autobiographical. It may well have been something the writer witnessed as a teacher as the singer is singing "he" not "I". I don't care. Fictional authors make up stories, so do songwriters. Just because Sting also wrote Every Breath You Take, doesn't mean he's a stalker!

I like the song and of course it's basically fictional.

Sting's given slightly varying stories about its inspiration...

I hear Boom! Boom! Boom!, and i can’t stop myself saying: Let me hear you say way-oh!