Popular song lyrics that would be a red flag in real life - light hearted

[Unglamorousgranny]

Watched Cliff Richard singing Livin' Doll on MTV at the weekend. "Got a rovin' eye & that is why she satisfies my soul" "gonna lock her up in a trunk so no big hunk can steal her away"
So he's a cheat & a kidnapper!

Can you think of any others? There's no reason what so ever for this post, other than a change from all the worries we are all facing

And I'd rather see you dead
You better run for your life if you can, little girl
Hide your head in the sand, little girl
Catch you with another man
That's the end, little girl
I'd rather see you dead, little girl
Than to be with another man
You better keep your head, little girl
Or you won't know where I am

Have we had this one? By the Beatles

@MarianneOnAMotorcycle @sentientpuddle maybe you both need to grow up ffs.

Yes to so many of these, so many questionable songs!

Beat again by JLS gives me a bit of an ick too, trying to guilt the woman back in to the relationship ...

If I died,
Yeah would you come
To my funeral
Would you cry?
Would you feel some regret
That we didn't try?
Or would you fall apart
The same as I, I, I, I

Oh,
And would it always
Haunt you baby?
That you missed your chance
To save me?
'Cause you know its not
Too late
Hey, hey ,hey

Let's just get back together,
We should've never broke up
They're telling me
That my heart won't beat again
We should've stayed together
'Cause when you left me it stopped
They're telling me
That my heart won't beat again

Light-hearted? He burns her house down because she doesn't shag him!!

He doesn't definitely burn the house down only probably

I'm finding some of these objections really odd - are people now just naming songs they just don't like? The lyrics quoted for Mellow Yellow don't actually exist whilst Say Hello Wave Goodbye is a classic torch song about a doomed love affair. Weird!

I think it is very strongly implied!

@lollipoprainbow @MarianneOnAMotorcycle 🤔Errr, ok then!😆

I'll be sure to do that. 😆

Only recently saw the lyrics to Killer on the Loose by Thin Lizzy. WOW!

I heard Mr. Big's To Be With You yesterday and thought that's actually a bit dodgy

Just looked them up - OMG, utterly horrific

My baby takes the morning train
He works from nine to five and then
He takes another home again to find me waitin' for him

Seriously, please - never let your baby take a train alone to a place of work. It’s simply bad parenting.

Michael Stipe is gay, he might not be talking about a woman here

Whenever I find myself singing along to Don’t stand so close to me by the Police on the radio I think why is this still allowed to be played?
That's like saying why do the still show thrillers on TV.
It's not real life!.

Kasabian’s You’re in love with a psycho wasn’t well received
I thought that was because it is an absolute shit song. It sounded awful and was just lazy.

Baby it's cold outside.
I've read so many times that it was a song if it's time, where the woman does want ro go backnwith him but it wasn't the right thing to di in that era. It is, I've read, meant to be playful with her co.ing out with retorts to his suggestions.

Elvis Costello seems slightly obsessed here…

Oh my baby, baby
I love you more than I can tell
I don't think I can live without you
And I know that I never will
Oh my baby, baby
I want you so it scares me to death
I can't say anymore than "I love you"
Everything else is a waste of breath
I want you
You've had your fun, you don't get well no more
I want you
Your fingernails go dragging down the wall
Be careful darling, you might fall
I want you
I woke up and one of us was crying
I want you
You said "young man I do believe you're dying"
I want you
If you need a second opinion as you seem to do these days
I want you
You can look in my eyes and you can count the ways
I want you
Did you mean to tell me but seem to forget?
I want you
Since when were you so generous and inarticulate?
I want you
It's the stupid details that my heart is breaking for
It's the way your shoulders shake and what they're shaking for
I want you
It's knowing that he knows you now after only guessing
It's the thought of him undressing you or you undressing
I want you
He tossed some tattered compliment your way
I want you
And you were fool enough to love it when he said
"I want you"
I want you
The truth can't hurt you, it's just like the dark
It scares you witless
But in time you see things clear and stark
I want you
Go on and hurt me then we'll let it drop
I want you
I'm afraid I won't know where to stop
I want you
I'm not ashamed to say I cried for you
I want you
I want to know the things you did that we do too
I want you
I want to hear he pleases you more than I do
I want you
I might as well be useless for all it means to you
I want you
Did you call his name out as he held you down?
I want you
Oh no my darling, not with that clown
I want you
I want you
You've had your fun, you don't get well no more
I want you
No one who wants you could want you more
I want you
I want you
I want you
Every night when I go off to bed and when I wake up
I want you
I'm going to say it again 'til I instill it
I know I'm going to feel this way until you kill it
I want you
I want you
I want you

Yeah but that’s literally a song about a man being a nut job. It’s in the title.

Its not something purporting to be a love song and then going on about being your dad figure or something equally grim.

And then the drink driving too...just for good measure

Have a drink, have a drive
Go out and see what you can find

Squeeze "Cool for Cats is grim.
Give the dog a bone!