Weird Songs

[gustavo]

i know what its about im just suggesting it as a spooky song!
great video too !

[Gerrit]

Used to be Michael Jackson's theme song

*strike*

[geysir]

I know its not a wierd song but surely it's lyrics are totally incompatible with the varying circumstances in which the song has been used to pump up the patriotisn level.
Who said the americans don't get irony?

Born down in a dead man's town
The first kick i took was when i hit the ground
You end up like a dog that's been beat too much
Till you spend half your life just covering up

Born in the u.s.a., i was born in the u.s.a.
I was born in the u.s.a., born in the u.s.a.

Got in a little hometown jam
So they put a rifle in my hand
Sent me off to a foreign land
To go and kill the yellow man

Born in the u.s..a....

Come back home to the refinery
Hiring man said "son if it was up to me"
Went down to see my v.a. man
He said "son, don't you understand"

[CollegeTillIDie]

LA FOLIE by The Stranglers It's in French... but the story, which is true, behind the song makes it weird:-
Commemorates a Japanese student in Paris who murdered his girlfriend, chopped her into pieces and kept her in the fridge so he could eat her later...

[Réiteoir]

That was about the economic decimation of England North of London under Margaret Thatcher... all the clubs closed down, because nobody had a job or could afford to go out... hence Ghost Town.

it was specifically about Coventry which was where the band were from

[CollegeTillIDie]

it was specifically about Coventry which was where the band were from

but the reason it was so successful was Coventry was a case study for the entire North of London region . Hence no. 1 record

[Lionel Ritchie]

Camouflage by Stan Ridgeway.

On the one hand sounds like the type of gibberish barstool republican party songs you hear a fifty-something geezer with an acoustic guitar playing in any pub in any town in the land while accompanied by utterly horrific MIDI file backing tracks which are always too loud.

On the other -it's about a ghost GI in Vietnam. This made the top 10 back in 1986.

And it was near the riverbank when the ambush came on top of us
and I thought it was the end, we were had.
Then a bullet with my name on it came buzzing through a bush
and that big marine, he just swat it, with his hand.
Just like it was a fly.

Woohoohoohoo Camouflage,
things are never quite the way they seem.
Woohoohoohoo Camouflage,
This was an awfully strange marine.

And I knew there was something weird about him,
cus when I turned around he was pulling a big palmtree
right up out of the ground and swatting those Charlie's with it,
from here to Kingdom come