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

I think as a few pp have said, there's a difference between songs which are SUPPOSED to be about troubling situations - 'Every Breath You Take' is supposed to be about a stalker; 'Fairytale of New York' is supposed to be about two destructive and self-destructive people living a very un-fairytale life - and those which treat nasty attitudes and behaviour as rather romantic.

I agree about 'Save Your Kisses for Me'- especially as the child is presumably his small daughter; really creepy!

Another really creepy one is 'Clair' by Gilbert O'Sullivan. I like Gilbert O'Sullivan in general, but that one-ARGH.

In spite of our age difference do I cry
Each time I leave you I feel I could die
Nothing means more to me than hearing you say
"I'm going to marry you, will you marry me, Uncle Ray?"

Haven't been able to read the whole lot, but Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen by Neil Sedaka has to be the worst 😕

Daphne and Celeste - U.G.L.Y.

U.G.L.Y.
You ain't got no alibi you ugly! Eh! Hey! You ugly [X4]
I saw you walking down the street just the other day
[C] I didn't see your damage from that far away
[C] I should have got a clue when the kids started screaming
[C] You walked up to me with your buck teeth a gleaming
[C] Your hair is all frizzy and your face is a mess
[C] I thought it was a sack but it's your favorite dress
[C] You hurt the trees feelings and the birds all flew
[C] I don't mean to insult you
[C] Oh wait! Yes I do.
Your teeth are yellow, they're covered in mould
[D] You're only fourteen you look a hundred years old
[C] When looks were handed out you were last in line
[C] Your face looks like where the sun don't shine
[D] Did you fall off a building and land on your head?
[D) Or did a truck run over your face instead?
[C] There ain't no pill, cause you ain't ill
[D&C] You're ugly!
U.G.L.Y
You ain't got no alibi you ugly eh! Hey! You ugly [X2]
[D] What you really need is to wear a mask
[D] And book that plastic surgeon fast - (Girl)
[C] You're scary - You're hairy I heard about you
[C] You're the main attraction at the city zoo
[D] You're so fat and ugly with a belly full of flab
[D] When you wear a yellow coat people shout out cab
[C] (Heh You're funny)
[D] (I Know)
You got eyes like a pig and your nose is big
[D] And with hair like that you should be wearin' a wig
[C] Uncle Fester remember him? I never knew that you had a twin!
[D] You can't disguise your googly eyes
[D] In the Miss Ugly pageant you win first prize
[C] Yo mama say you ugly
[D&C] You ugly!
U.G.L.Y
You ain't got no alibi you ugly! Eh! Hey! You ugly [X2]
U.G.L.Y [X7]
[D]Get busy [X9]
[C] Yo mama says your ugly
[D] Get busy
[C] Yo mama says your ugly
[D] Get busy
[C] Yo mama says your ugly
[D] Get busy
[D&C] Your ugly!
U.U.U.U.
[D] Now I feel like blondie
U.G.L.Y
You ain't got no alibi you ugly! Eh! Hey! You ugly [X2]
Quasimodo
[C] Camel breath
[D] Squarehead
[D&C] Ugly!
Chicken legs
[D] Pig face
[C] Chin like bubba
[D&C] Ugly!
Fish lips
[C] Toad licker
[D] Poindexter
[D&C] Ugly!
Spaghetti arms
[D] Limp butt
[D&C] Freak show... ugly!
U.G.L.Y
You ain't got no alibi you ugly!
Eh! Hey! You ugly [X1]
U.G.L.Y
[C] You could make an onion cry
U.G.L.Y
[D] Like an alien chased by the F.B.I.
U.G.L.Y [X7]
U ain't got no alibi
Ugly!

R.E.M.'s 'the one I love' is pretty dark. He's basically calling both the woman he's just ditched and the woman he ditched her for 'simple props' to occupy his time.

This one goes out to the one I love
This one goes out to the one I've left behind
A simple prop to occupy my time
This one goes out to the one I love

This one goes out to the one I love
This one goes out to the one I've left behind
Another prop has occupied my time
This one goes out to the one I love

You can’t beat “Come Outside” which was the late Wendy Richard of Eastenders fame and a guy I can’t remember the name of.
It was Mike Sarne.

I've always thought that old song, 'I'll Strong Along With You' was so rude!

"You may not be an angel
'Cause angels are so few
But until the day that one comes along
I'll string along with you…"

Charming!!

*String 🙄

If you can't be with the one you love, honey, love the one you're with....

Bollocks to that! Awful!!!

Baby bird, You're Gorgeous

"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

"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"

Bruce Springsteen's I'm on Fire meant "Daddy" as in male partner (old american slang)... not her Dad!

Young girl get out of my mind and all of the lyrics to Blurred Lines are pretty awful.

But that is the whole point of the song.

In defence of "I drove all night", not only was it first released by Cyndi Lauper (i.e. a woman!) the very next line after "to make love to you", is

"Is that alright?"

Seeking consent, agreement, approval.
This line is used many times throughout the song.

And a later verse mentions the mutual lust and attraction between the pair.

If her daddy is rich take her out for a meal, if her daddy’s poor you can do what you feel.

The whole of ‘young girl’ and ‘Baby Jane’ 🤮

I agree @IAcceptCookies I would really appreciate those actions actually :)

Let me see you stripped
Down to the bone
(Let me hear you
Speaking just for me)
Let me see you stripped
Down to the bone
(Let me hear you crying
Just for me)

Depeche Mode have a few that are a bit 🤨

I think the point, though, was that no one is an angel, so it's a bit like saying 'I will love you till all the seas run dry'.

@SoupDragon agree, although a lot of people (in the 90s at least) sang it as if it was a 'love song'!

Diane is a song by Hüsker Dü written about a real-life murder & sung from the p.o.v. of the murderer. It is in no way pro-rape / murder!
Agreed that Therapy?'s version is shite dubious though.

A lot of Little Mix are surprisingly graphic given their target market.

See the pyramids along the Nile,
Watch the sunrise on a tropic isle,
Just remember darling, all the while
You belong to me.

It's actually a lovely melody, but does sound... slightly possessive if you want to take it that way (it was originally written as "hurry home to me" during wartime, but changed because it was released later). Having said that, there are loads of those around from the 50s/60s.

Me too!

Oh just realised! Love the way you lie seriously fucked up, but in the charts so commented on. But worse than that is Spacebound, from the same album.
I'll forgive him because I know he does it for the shock valve.

This. One of my friends really likes Roy Orbison so it was always a running joke when this song came on that I would be there going no, nope, no these lyrics are mega mega creepy I hate it.

‘I drove all night crept in your room woke you from your sleep to make love to you ‘
breaking and entering and rape !- Not classy

In addition to the previous defences of the song (that the 'driver' repeatedly seeks for consent!) there's no suggestion of breaking and entering!