Lyrics that make you cringe

[Chris S]

See also: a number of Bat out of Hell [the album] lyrics.
In both cases they're written from the POV of horny teenagers. Not a 40yo man. CASE DISMISSED 🔨 !

Hopefully this was as well. It got to No:44 in the UK charts for The Yardbirds.

Good morning, little schoolgirl
Good morning, little schoolgirl
Can I go home with you?
Won't you let me go home with you?

 

[matticus]

Hopefully this was as well. It got to No:44 in the UK charts for The Yardbirds.

Good morning, little schoolgirl
Good morning, little schoolgirl
Can I go home with you?
Won't you let me go home with you?

I did not know this song! But google tells me it was Rod Stewart's first single, recorded age 17 (seventeen).
(A cover of a blues standard from at least 1938. )

 

[Chris S]

I did not know this song! But google tells me it was Rod Stewart's first single, recorded age 17 (seventeen).
(A cover of a blues standard from at least 1938. )

Sonny Boy Williamson wrote it when he was 24.

 

[matticus]

Sonny Boy Williamson wrote it when he was 24.

... and we're still talking about him. Legend.

 

[Venod]

The song really is disturbing.
ARTIST: Warren Zevon
TITLE: Excitable Boy

Well, he went down to dinner in his Sunday best
Excitable boy, they all said
And he rubbed the pot roast all over his chest
Excitable boy, they all said
Well, he's just an exciexcital boy

He took in the four a.m. show at the Clark
Excitable boy, they all said
And he bit the usherette's leg in the dark
Excitable boy, they all said
Well, he's just an excitable boy

Ooh, wa-ooh, oo-ooh, excitable boy
Ooh, wa-ooh, oo-ooh, excitable boy

He took little Susie to the Junior Prom
Ooh, wa-ooh
Excitable boy, they all said
Oo-ooh, excitable boy
And he raped her and killed her, then he took her home
Ooh, wa-ooh
Excitable boy, they all said
Oo-ooh, excitable boy
Well, he's just an excitable boy

After ten long years they let him out of the home
Excitable boy, they all said
Oo-ooh, excitable boy
And he dug up her grave and built a cage with her bones
Excitable boy, they all said
Oo-ooh, excitable boy
Well, he's just an excitable boy

Ooh, wa-ooh, oo-ooh, excitable boy
Ooh, wa-ooh, oo-ooh, excitable boy

 

[Chris S]

Julio Iglesias - To all the girls I've loved before

The whole song is pretty awful but these lines make me cringe the most:
To all the girls who shared my life
Who now are someone else's wife

 

[Chris S]

The Turtles - Elenore

You're my pride and joy etc
(that's what they actually sang)

 

[Gwylan]

Hopefully this was as well. It got to No:44 in the UK charts for The Yardbirds.

Good morning, little schoolgirl
Good morning, little schoolgirl
Can I go home with you?
Won't you let me go home with you?

How times change....

 

[Gwylan]

The song really is disturbing.
ARTIST: Warren Zevon
TITLE: Excitable Boy

Well, he went down to dinner in his Sunday best
Excitable boy, they all said
And he rubbed the pot roast all over his chest
Excitable boy, they all said
Well, he's just an exciexcital boy

He took in the four a.m. show at the Clark
Excitable boy, they all said
And he bit the usherette's leg in the dark
Excitable boy, they all said
Well, he's just an excitable boy

Ooh, wa-ooh, oo-ooh, excitable boy
Ooh, wa-ooh, oo-ooh, excitable boy

He took little Susie to the Junior Prom
Ooh, wa-ooh
Excitable boy, they all said
Oo-ooh, excitable boy
And he raped her and killed her, then he took her home
Ooh, wa-ooh
Excitable boy, they all said
Oo-ooh, excitable boy
Well, he's just an excitable boy

After ten long years they let him out of the home
Excitable boy, they all said
Oo-ooh, excitable boy
And he dug up her grave and built a cage with her bones
Excitable boy, they all said
Oo-ooh, excitable boy
Well, he's just an excitable boy

Ooh, wa-ooh, oo-ooh, excitable boy
Ooh, wa-ooh, oo-ooh, excitable boy

Always wondered about that Zevon boy.

 

[Beebo]

The song really is disturbing.
ARTIST: Warren Zevon
TITLE: Excitable Boy

Well, he went down to dinner in his Sunday best
Excitable boy, they all said
And he rubbed the pot roast all over his chest
Excitable boy, they all said
Well, he's just an exciexcital boy

He took in the four a.m. show at the Clark
Excitable boy, they all said
And he bit the usherette's leg in the dark
Excitable boy, they all said
Well, he's just an excitable boy

Ooh, wa-ooh, oo-ooh, excitable boy
Ooh, wa-ooh, oo-ooh, excitable boy

He took little Susie to the Junior Prom
Ooh, wa-ooh
Excitable boy, they all said
Oo-ooh, excitable boy
And he raped her and killed her, then he took her home
Ooh, wa-ooh
Excitable boy, they all said
Oo-ooh, excitable boy
Well, he's just an excitable boy

After ten long years they let him out of the home
Excitable boy, they all said
Oo-ooh, excitable boy
And he dug up her grave and built a cage with her bones
Excitable boy, they all said
Oo-ooh, excitable boy
Well, he's just an excitable boy

Ooh, wa-ooh, oo-ooh, excitable boy
Ooh, wa-ooh, oo-ooh, excitable boy

I don’t think it’s meant to be taken seriously. But the subject matter is a little odd!

His most famous song is about a werewolf eating a dish of beef chow mein. So
He did write some weird stuff.
Ahh Wooow.

 

[winjim]

What's the song that rhymes motor-cycle with pickle? {Possibly by Guthrie older/younger?)

Anthony Hopkins pronounces motorcycle as motor-sickle in The World's Fastest Indian. I think he's portraying a New Zealander.

 

[winjim]

"Four am in the morning
Carried away by a moonlight shadow"

Could have used four o'clock in the morning and it would have scanned just as well without the tautology.

Yazoo: "came in from the city, walked into the door"
*Bang* ouch!

Jane's Addiction: "I walk right, through the door. Walk right through the door"
Dematerialising doors aid in shoplifting

 

[Legs]

I don’t think it’s meant to be taken seriously. But the subject matter is a little odd!

His most famous song is about a werewolf eating a dish of beef chow mein. So
He did write some weird stuff.
Ahh Wooow.

Not to mention the one about the air conditioner!

I love Excitable Boy’s cheerful yakkety-sax juxtaposed with the grim subject matter. It reminds me of so many Steely Dan songs which have seedy subtexts (Hey Nineteen, Everyone’s Gone to the Movies, Peg, Josie, Gaucho,…)

 

[Drago]

Wham. Bam. I am a man.

Positively Shakespearean!

 

[Chris S]

I found Jane Birkin's heavy breathing on Je t'aime embarrassing rather than erotic.