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

Obsession by Animotion from the 80s.

You are an obsession (you are an obsession)
I cannot sleep (I cannot sleep)
I am a possession (I am your possession)
Unopened at your feet
There's no balance (there is no balance)
No equality (no equality)
Be still, I will not accept defeat (be still, I will not accept defeat)
I will have you, yes, I will have you
I will find a way, and I will have you
Like a butterfly, a wild butterfly
I will collect you and capture you
You are an obsession, you're my obsession
Who do you want me to be to make you sleep with me?
You are an obsession, you're my obsession
Who do you want me to be to make you sleep with me?
I feed you, I drink you by day and by night
I need you, I need you by sun and candlelight
You protest, you want to be
Safe, oh, there's no alternative (there's no alternative)
My fantasy has turned to madness (has turned to madness)
And all my goodness (and all my goodness)
Has turned to badness (has turned to badness)
My need to possess you has consumed my soul
My life is trembling, I have no control

Yuk!!!

This is the original version 😊

you took me down memory lane and been listening to old Therapy? songs and goodness me all the lyrics are so dark! and rapey and disturbing!

but musically they are great though and still banging... my excuse for not noticing is that i was in a foreign country, and English wasn't that strong to understand lyrics

You know I’m no Good - Amy Winehouse. I assume it was a song about a pimp?

“Meet you downstairs in the bar and hurt
Your rolled up sleeves in your skull T-shirt
You say "what did you do it with him today?"
And sniffed me out like I was Tanqueray”

Rod Stewart - Tonight’s the Night. Really, really grim. Even at the time I loathed it.

“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“

I don't mine the original It's Cold Outside. But I do quite like the new lyrics from the John legend/Kelly Clarkson version:

My mom will start to worry (I'll call the car and tell him to hurry)
My daddy will be pacing the floor (wait, what are you still livin' home for?)
So, really, I'd better scurry (your driver, his name is Murray)
But maybe just a half a drink more (oh, we're both adults, so who's keepin' score)

Creative adaptations of songs that have aged badly are very welcome, like "You scumbag, you maggot, you taped over Taggart" etc.

Dr Hook's She was Only 16 is pretty bad.
I love that song: She was too young to fall in love and I was too young to know.

He was 17 so doesn't seem so bad 😊

You're Gorgeous - Babybird

"You took me to your rented motor car
And filmed me on the bonnet
You got me to hitch my knees up
And pulled my legs apart
You took an instamatic camera
And pulled my sleeves around my heart"

"You said I wasn't cheap
You paid me 20 pounds
You promised to put me in a magazine
On every table in every lounge"

I'm pretty sure it was supposed to be highlighting the issues around the abuse of young models. It's always given me the creeps.

Enola Gay when it is cheerfully hummed by my dh... I keep telling him to stop it.

Yeah, but she's already in the process of leaving and is clearly the one with the power. Looks more like the flailing desparation of a sad loser than a real threat from a dangerous man.

But yeah, if she was on AIBU the advice would be LTB.

Not really. The lyrics make it clear that the boy was also only 16:

So why did I give my heart so fast
It never will happen again
But I was a mere child of sixteen
I've aged a year since then.

Teenage love not an old bloke perving on a young girl.

I love the Human League but ...

You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar
When I met you
I picked you out, I shook you up
And turned you around
Turned you into someone new
Now five years later on you've got the world at your feet
Success has been so easy for you
But don't forget it's me who put you where you are now
And I can put you back down too.

Don't. Don't you want me?
You know I can't believe it when I hear that you won't see me
Don't. Don't you want me?
You know I don't believe you when you say that you don't need me

It's much too late to find
When you think you've changed your mind
You'd better change it back or we will both be sorry

Don't you want me, baby?
Don't you want me? Oh!
Don't you want me, baby?
Don't you want me? Oh!

I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar
That much is true
But even then I knew I'd find a much better place
Either with or without you
The five years we have had have been such good at times
I still love you
But now I think it's time I lived my life on my own
I guess it's just what I must do

Don't. Don't you want me?
You know I can't believe it when I hear that you won't see me
Don't. Don't you want me?
You know I don't believe you when you say that you don't need me

It's much too late find
When you think you've changed your mind
You'd better change it back or we will both be sorry

Don't you want me, baby?
Don't you want me? Oh!
Don't you want me, baby?
Don't you want me? Oh!

Don't you want me, baby?
Don't you want me? Oh!
Don't you want me, baby?
Don't you want me? Oh!

Don't you want me, baby?
Don't you want me? Oh!
Don't you want me, baby?
Don't you want me? Oh

Don't you want me, baby?
Don't you want me? Oh!
Don't you want me, baby?
Don't you want me? Oh!

Not creepy as in wanting to kidnap people etc... but a funny creepy one because of its wierdness is 'If I was you mother' by Bon Jovi, just imagine a boy serinading you with that youd be like 'eh? thanks I guess please go away now' lol

"Sunday I went looking and I found her in the park.
I took out my revolver and I shot her in the heart.
She said she wanted freedom, I guess I set her free..."

Dave Vanian and the Phantom Chords. What a fabulous voice though.

"Tonight's the night, I've waited for, because you're not a baby anymore....."
(Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen, Neil Sedaka)

"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.....you've led me to believe, you're old enough to give me love,...that come-on look is in your eyes.......get out of here before I have the time, to change my mind, 'cause I'm afraid we'll go too far"....
(Young Girl, Gary Puckett and Union Gap)

"Get out of my dreams, get into my car, get in the back seat Baby"
Get out of my Dreams, Billy Ocean

"Tell me more, tell me more, was it love at first sight? Tell me more, tell me more, did she put up a fight?"
Summer Nights from "Grease"

"Hey little girl is your daddy home
Did he go and leave you all allone mmmmmh ive got a bad desire"

Me too- best laugh I’ve had in days!

”All you Hoes are the Motherfucking Same” by the Ying Yang Twins. DH used to play it until I banned it. Life’s hard enough without having to listen to misogynistic crap.

@Azerothi I immediately had the same thought. I was even thinking of the same version. Great song though!

You were the first girl at school to get breasts
And Martyn said that you were the best
Oh, the boys all loved you, but I was a mess
I had to watch them try and get you undressed

Disco 2000. The whole song is Jarvis Cocker pitying himself because Deborah didn’t notice him. But I doubt Deborah was having the great time he seems to think she was poor girl

Thank Heaven for Little Girls, from Gigi sung by Maurice Chevalier

Each time I see a little girl
Of five or six or seven
I can't resist a joyous urge
To smile and say
Thank heaven for little girls
For little girls get
Bigger every day

Thank heaven for little girls
They grow up in
The most delightful way.
Those little eyes
So helpless and appealing
When they were flashing
Send you crashing
Through the ceiling
Thank heaven for little girls
Thank heaven for them all
No matter where,
No matter who
Without them
What would little boys do
Thank heaven

Thank heaven
Thank heaven for little girls.

The creepiest to me may be the old song, sung at various times by Emile Ford, Shakin' Stevens, and probably others earlier:

What do you wanna make those eyes at me for
If they don't mean what they say
Ooh, they make me glad, they make me sad
They make me want a lot of things that I never had
You're fooling around with me now
Oh, you lead me on and then you run away
Oh, that's alright
I'll get you alone some night
And baby you'll find you're messing with dynamite
So what do you wanna make those eyes at me for
If they don't mean what they say

There's also the awful one by the Crystals, fortunately rarely heard these days:

He hit me and it felt like a kiss
He hit me but it didn't hurt me
He couldn't stand to hear me say
That I'd been with someone new
And when I told him I had been untrue

He hit me and it felt like a kiss
He hit me and I knew he loved me
If he didn't care for me
I could have never made him mad
But he hit me and I was glad

Save your Kisses for Me by Brotherhood of Man has always given me the yuck factor. It gives the impression it’s a love song to a woman till you realise it’s a child (but not an ‘adult’ love song).

You’re sixteen you’re beautiful and you’re Mine - sung by a grown man - yuck.

Does your Mother Know by ABBA has always made me cringe.

No it doesn't. I see it as being about someone who doesn't think she is the most beautiful woman alive and doesn't act like a primadonna. Not arrogant about their beauty.

I’m fond of Bruce Springsteen but …..

Bruce Springsteen - I'm On Fire Lyrics

Hey little girl, is your daddy home?
Did he go and leave you all alone? Mhmm

I got a bad desire
Oh, oh, oh, I'm on fire
Tell me now, baby, is he good to you?
And can he do to you the things that I do? Oh no
I can take you higher
Oh, oh, oh, I'm on fire

Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby
Edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley
Through the middle of my skull

At night I wake up with the sheets soaking wet
And a freight train running through the middle of my head
Only you can cool my desire
Oh, oh, oh, I'm on fire
Oh, oh, oh, I'm on fire
Oh, oh, oh, I'm on fire
Woo-ooh-ooh
Woo-ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh-ooh
Woo-ooh-ooh
Woo-ooh-ooh

Only found out very recently, this is about a boyfriend wanting a blowie.

Saying "I love you"
Is not the words I want to hear from you
It's not that I want you
Not to say but if you only knew

How easy, it would be to show me how you feel
More than words is all you have to do to make it real
Then you wouldn't have to say that you love me
'Cause I'd already know

What would you do
If my heart was torn in two?
More than words to show you feel
That your love for me is real
What would you say
If I took those words away?
Then you couldn't make things new
Just by saying "I love you"

La-di-da, da-di-da
Di-dai-dai-da
More than words
La-di-da, da-di-da

Now that I've tried to
Talk to you and make you understand
All you have to do is close your eyes
And just reach out your hands and touch me

Hold me close, don't ever let me go
More than words is all I ever needed you to show
Then you wouldn't have to say that you love me
'Cause I'd already know

What would you do
If my heart was torn in two?
More than words to show you feel
That your love for me is real
What would you say
If I took those words away?
Then you couldn't make things new
Just by saying "I love you"

Exactly.

And Baby it’s cold outside is about a man trying to persuade his girlfriend to stay when she thinks she ought to leave but actually doesn’t really want to.

Some of these songs are awful but a lot of posters are trying to be offended.

Thread is meant to be lighthearted. I like the pp who claimed to be freaked out by “I took your arm”