Creepy songs

[Xicrog]

Inspired by an AVEN thread. What song lyrics weird you out, and why?

1. Wish I Had An Angel, Nightwish.
...it's about date rape. Srsly.

I'm going down, so frail and cruel
Drunken disguise changes all of the rules
Old loves they die hard
Old lies they die harder
I wish I had an angel for one moment of love
I wish I had your angel, your Virgin Mary undone
I'm in love with my lust, burning angel wings to dust
I wish I had your angel tonight.

When I first saw the title, I thought it was one of their love ballads. I was wrong. The fact that I associate this song with a rapist character due to an iAudio coincidence (chronicled on this forum) makes it even worse.

2. Too Old to Rock and Roll (Too Young to Die), Jethro Tull

So the old Rocker gets out his bike
to make a ton before he takes his leave.
Up on the A1 by Scotch Corner
just like it used to be.
And as he flies
tears in his eyes
his wind-whipped words echo the final take
and he hits the trunk road doing around 120
with no room left to brake.
And he was too old to Rock'n'Roll but he was too young to die.
And he was too old to Rock'n'Roll but he was too young to die.


This is just one of many songs like this where some old dude gets on a motorcycle and commits suicide. I don't know why they're so popular, but this one creeps me out the most because of the repeating "too old to rock and roll, too young to die" repeating through the entire song.

3. Shy, Sonata Arctica

Obsessed by you, your looks, well, anyway I would any day die for you,
I write on paper and erased away
Still I sit in diner Citylite, drinking coffee or reading lies
Turn my head and I can see you, could that really be you

Sometimes I'm wondering why you look me and you blink your eye
You can't be acting like my Dana
I see your beautiful smile and I would like to run away from
Reflections of me in your eyes, oh please

Talk to me, show some pity
You touch me in many, many ways
But I'm shy can't you see


Why can't this band write a power ballad that's not incredibly stalker-ish?

Discuss, please. I'm sure I can think of more later.

EDIT: Welcome to the Department of Redundancy Department, located in scenic Comments on Song Two. Keeping that because quite frankly, I find it funny for some reason.

[Zylaa]

In a response to "To old to Rock and Roll:" Was this man older than Mick Jagger? I doubt it.

Songs that creep me out? That song "I'll be watching you." Honestly, is there anything more stalkerish?

Every move you make,
Every smile you fake,
I'll be watching you...

There was this song our student teacher made us listen to in 10th grade while we were studying Things Fall Apart... Dave Matthews band, "Don't Drink the Water" I think it's called. Basically it's a song about slaughtering native people and conquering and blood in the water, and I found that song creepy as well, though thankfully it doesn't come on the radio and get passed off as a sweet song.

[Xicrog]

Possibly. A lot of people think the guy in the song was a self-insert of Ian Anderson (frontman of Jethro Tull), and he is older than Mick Jagger, and he's been in a band longer.

The sad thing about I'll Be Watching You is that they play it on soft rock stations all the time. So if you're like me and that's what you tend to listen to, the song starts stalking you. It's so wrong.

[Zylaa]

Wow. That is a long, long time.

Exactly, and they play it on that Delilah show, and she's all sweet and "Oh let me play a sappy song for you," and then it's the stalker song. It's just odd. How did it become popular without people noticing this?

[Xicrog]

Billy Idol's White Wedding scares me witless for reasons I can't quite figure out.

IT'S NOT A NICE DAY FOR A WHITE WEDDING. IN FACT, IT IS A VERY BAD TIME TO START AGAIN. STOPITSTOPITSTOPIT.

[Zylaa]

You get a new quote in my signature for that. XD

I never really figured that song out.

[Xicrog]

lulz!

Or something.

[Xicrog]

Blind Guardian's Mr. Sandman gives me more nightmares than anything else, partially due to the music video which must be seen to be believed. Dangit, BG, you're supposed to be an innocent-ish Christian Melodic Metal band who write songs about LotR, not Metallica.

And I can't believe I forgot about Sonata's Don't Say A Word. Tony, I can't decide whether you're a hopeless romantic or a stalker or frickin' nuts. So I'll just say you're all of the above.

Lyrics if you demand so. But Mr. Sandman's not going to make much sense unless you have the music video to go with it. And I don't want to look up Don't Say A Word unless I have to, the song is so...I don't know...skeezy. Best adjective I have right now, that.

[Xicrog]

I Am I by Queensryche is...incredibly unsettling, but it's more of an atmospheric thing than anything else. The lyrics aren't scary, but there's a lot of distortion, feedback, random audio clips, and Geoff does just wails out "Not that! I am not that!" in this...indescribable tone of voice unexpectedly during the middle of a solo.

I swear Blind Guardian/Beej/BG is not that creepy of a band, but Lionheart weirds me out because it clips along like one of their normal anthems...and then you hear...

Pick up my bones and tell me
Is this the lake of fire?
Help, please!

Anything with the phrase "Pick up my bones..." can't possibly be good.