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or should the female in "Baby it's Cold Outside" actually run a mile at all the red flags?

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JustAWaterForMePlease · 03/12/2013 16:13

I really can't stay - Baby it's cold outside
I've got to go away - Baby it's cold outside
This evening has been - Been hoping that you'd drop in
So very nice - I'll hold your hands, they're just like ice
My mother will start to worry - Beautiful, what's your hurry?
My father will be pacing the floor - Listen to the fireplace roar
So really I'd better scurry - Beautiful, please don't hurry
Maybe just a half a drink more - Put some records on while I pour

The neighbors might think - Baby, it's bad out there
Say, what's in this drink? - No cabs to be had out there
I wish I knew how - Your eyes are like starlight now
To break this spell - I'll take your hat, your hair looks swell
I ought to say no, no, no - Mind if I move in closer?
At least I'm gonna say that I tried - What's the sense in hurting my pride?
I really can't stay - Baby don't hold out
Ah, but it's cold outside

I've got to go home - Oh, baby, you'll freeze out there
Say, lend me your coat - It's up to your knees out there
You've really been grand - Thrill when you touch my hair
But don't you see - How can you do this thing to me?
There's bound to be talk tomorrow - Think of my life long sorrow
At least there will be plenty implied - If you caught pneumonia and died
I really can't stay - Get over that hold out
Ah, but it's cold outside
Oh, baby, it's cold outside
Oh, baby, it's cold outside

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Heartbrokenmum73 · 03/12/2013 16:56

It's meant to be a cat and a mouse!

So my music teacher told me at school - I may have been duped...Grin

MumofYuck · 03/12/2013 16:57

I have always thought this!!

And the madeira song is AWFUL. My grandfather had a book where it had 'amusing' cartoons to go with the song. They weren't Hmm

MrsDeVere · 03/12/2013 16:59

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MoominMammasHandbag · 03/12/2013 17:01

You mean with the man singing the woman's part? Still a bit creepy though.

sparklysilversequins · 03/12/2013 17:02

That Dido one is "Don't leave home" I think.

"I've been here for just one day, you'll already miss me if I go away
So close the blinds and shut the door you won't need other friends anymore".

MissMarplesBloomers · 03/12/2013 17:04

Def red flaggy!

I have been meaning to do a thread of

" Favourite Songs that MN has ruined for you!" Grin

Will do it after supper....have loads I've noticed just recently!!

AnnieJanuary · 03/12/2013 17:04

I hate that song... so rapey.

"Say, what's in this drink?"

Rohypnol.

Titsalinabumsquash · 03/12/2013 17:05

It's also been sung quiet nicely by a gay couple (on Glee Blush)

MoominMammasHandbag · 03/12/2013 17:05

Just googled the Madeira song. It's pretty horrid.

Binkyridesagain · 03/12/2013 17:05

Chris Rea - Heaven

I have heard that played as a compilation of love songs, chosen by the bride, at a wedding. I don't think she listened to the lyrics.

The little girl she said to me
What are these things that I can see
Each night when I come home from school
And mama calls me in for tea

Oh every night a baby dies
And every night a mama cries
What makes those men do what they do
To make that person black and blue

Grandpa says their happy now
They sit with God in paradise
With angels' wings and still somehow
It makes me feel like ice

Tell me there's a heaven
Tell me that it's true
Tell me there's a reason
Why I'm seeing what I do

Tell me there's a heaven
Where all those people go
Tell me they're all happy now
Papa tell me that it's so

So do I tell her that it's true
That there's a place for me and you
Where hungry children smile and say
We wouldn't have no other way

That every painful crack of bones
Is a step along the way
Every wrong done is a game plan
To that great and joyful day

And I'm looking at the father and the son
And I'm looking at the mother and the daughter
And I'm watching them in tears of pain
And I'm watching them suffer

Don't tell that little girl
Tell me
Tell me there's a heaven
Tell me that it's true
Tell me there's a reason
Why I'm seeing what I do

Tell me there's a heaven
Where all those people go
Tell me they're all happy now
Papa tell me that it's so

PenguinsDontEatPancakes · 03/12/2013 17:07

I think the Dido White Flag one is creepy - Basically it's "I know you've said it is over, but I am in love forever and will never give up".

The ultimate creepy song has to be that Roy Orbison "I drove all night". If DH drove through the night and then woke me up to try and have sex with me I would be most, most unimpressed. You're visiting as a surprise, lovely, now get into bed and go to sleep.

PenguinsDontEatPancakes · 03/12/2013 17:08

Binky Shock. That's about his son's death isn't it?

My cousin had every breath you take. I was Hmm

lola0106 · 03/12/2013 17:09

She and Him sing this with the parts reversed, I love it. Still a bit creepy though!

Binkyridesagain · 03/12/2013 17:10

I don't know penguin just had a quick google, and someone has suggestd it was a way of explaining war to his daughter.

MoominMammasHandbag · 03/12/2013 17:11

Reminds me of a conversation I had with DFiL a few years ago. He was appalled by some news item about women being drink spiked, then filmed being raped.
But, he was only appalled by the filming part. He genuinely couldn't see a problem with slipping a woman something "To make her feel sexy".
I see him in a completely different light now.

Bogeyface · 03/12/2013 17:14

I have always thought this song was wrong I wouldnt have got half way through the first verse before macing him while screaming "Just FUCK OFF you CREEP!"

And as for Tom Jones holding my hand? Eurgh....[shivers] :o

I always Dido's White Flag was very stalkerish too!

MoominMammasHandbag · 03/12/2013 17:14

That Adele "Someone Like You" is another stalker one isn't it? It's over love, get off the poor bloke's doorstep and leave him be.

Whatnamenext · 03/12/2013 17:14

Christ - although Eartha Kitt in "Santa baby" sounds like an entitled bitch.

MoominMammasHandbag · 03/12/2013 17:16

Bogey, that would make a great comedy sketch.

Binkyridesagain · 03/12/2013 17:17

Pink - Just give me a reason.

Hey love he's gaslighting you, stop cuddling the teddy and pack your bags!

PenguinsDontEatPancakes · 03/12/2013 17:20

Binky - you are right, I'm mixing it up with Eric Clapton and Tears in Heaven.

MrsDeVere · 03/12/2013 17:21

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Bogeyface · 03/12/2013 17:21

I like the Eartha Kitt version Whatname she has such a great voice and you can just imagine her seducing Santa! But other version are terrible, Madonnas was bad but Kylie sounds like a spoilt brat!

MmeLindor · 03/12/2013 17:22

I have lots of songs that MN has ruined for me.

This one makes me think, 'Oh, do fuck off dear'.

You see, man made the cars to take us over the road
Man made the trains to carry heavy loads
Man made electric light to take us out of the dark
Man made the boat for the water, like Noah made the ark

This is a man's, a man's, a man's world
But it wouldn't be nothing, nothing without a woman or a girl

Man thinks about a little baby girls and a baby boys
Man makes then happy 'cause man makes them toys
And after man has made everything, everything he can
You know that man makes money to buy from other man

Binkyridesagain · 03/12/2013 17:25

MmeLindor Keira Knightley and that perfume advert that appears to be on repeat has completely wrecked that song for me