Suggestive (But Not Explicit) Lyrics

These are some of my favorite kinds of lyrics, and of course they were the ones that flew right over my head when I was kid. Now I go back and I'm like "Hey! Wait a minute..."

TONS of these in early blues and r'n'r, but my pick:

Jerry Lee Lewis "Big Legged Woman"

...let me, let me tell ya somethin'
what I'm talkin' about
I bet my bottom dollar
there ain't a cherry in this house..."

reach down between my legs
(eternity passes)
ease the seat back - Panama/Van Halen
when i was a kid i thought that was the filthiest thing i had ever heard!

Heh. But that's pretty explicit! What I'm talking about is lyrics that sound like they're talking about something innocent, but aren't. Y'know? Like AC/DC in "(You) Shook Me All Night Long":

"...she told me to come, but I was already there..."

Sledgehammer, man. I never realised until this year that it was dirty!

you could have a steam train
if you'd just lay down your tracks
you could have an aeroplane flying
if you bring your blue sky back

all you do is call me
I'll be anything you need

you could have a big dipper
going up and down, all around the bends
you could have a bumper car, bumping
this amusement never ends

I want to be your sledgehammer
why don't you call my name
oh let me be your sledgehammer
this will be my testimony
show me round your fruitcage
'cos I will be your honey bee
open up your fruitcage
where the fruit is as sweet as can be

I want to be your sledgehammer
why don't you call my name
you'd better call the sledgehammer
put your mind at rest
I'm going to be-the sledgehammer
this can be my testimony
I'm your sledgehammer
let there be no doubt about it

sledge sledge sledgehammer

I've kicked the habit
shed my skin
this is the new stuff
I go dancing in, we go dancing in
oh won't you show for me
and I will show for you
show for me, I will show for you
yea, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I do mean you
only you
you've been coming through
going to build that power
build, build up that power, hey
I've been feeding the rhythm
I've been feeding the rhythm
going to feel that power, build in you
come on, come on, help me do
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you
I've been feeding the rhythm
I've been feeding the rhythm
it's what we're doing, doing
all day and night
~Peter Gabriel~

If you've got the cravin' for some jelly roll, you've got to have it right now, I'm your jellyroll man, I've got to have it right now
- Neil Young "Jelly Roll Man"

"paradise by the dashboard light" by meatloaf...

i'd be driving in the car with my dad/mom and that song would come on. i'd always be like
"why is there a baseball game going on in the middle of the song??"

guess i wasn't a bright kid...

Well this car is automatic, it's systematic, it's hydromatic
Why it's greased lightnin'!




We'll get some overhead lifters, and four barrel quads, oh yeah
Keep talkin', whoah keep talkin'
Fuel injection cut off, and chrome plated rods, oh yeah
I'll get the money, I'll see you get the money
With a four-speed on the floor, they'll be waitin' at the door
You know that ain't shit when we'll be gettin' lots of tit in greased lightnin'



Chorus:



Go, greased lightnin', you're burnin' up the quarter mile
Greased lightnin', go greased lightnin'
Go, greased lightnin', you're coastin' through the heat lap trials
Greased lightnin', go greased lightnin'
You are supreme, the chicks'll cream for greased lightnin'




We'll get some purple French tail lights and thirty-inch fins, oh yeah
A palomino dashboard and duel muffler twins, oh yeah
With new pistons, plugs, and shocks, I can get off my rocks
You know that I ain't braggin', she's a real pussy wagon - greased lightnin'


my favorite is Sixty Minute Man by Billy Ward and his Dominoes

Look a here girls I'm telling you now
They call me "Lovin' Dan"
I rock 'em, roll 'em all night long
I'm a sixty-minute man

If you don't believe I'm all that I say
Come up and take my hand
When I let you go you'll cry "Oh yes,"
"He's a sixty-minute man

There'll be 15 minutes of kissing
Then you'll holler "please don't stop"
There'll be 15 minutes of teasing
And 15 minutes of squeezing
And 15 minutes of blowing my top

If your man ain't treating you right
Come up and see ol' Dan
I rock 'em, roll 'em all night long
I'm a sixty-minute man

Sixty-minute man
They call me Lovin' Dan
I rock 'em, roll 'em all night long
I'm a sixty-minute man

aerosmith's "big ten inch..." hahaha, what a classic.

i don't know how suggestive the blood brothers actually are, but for some reason i feel sexy when i'm listening to them.

"Food Innuendo Guy" - Adam Sandler

Placebo "Pure Morning"

Elvis Presely's "Jail House Rock" (is about homosexual prison relationships) (think about that the next time you hear him sing about "...little Joe...playin' on the slide trombone...")

...and "...(You ain't nuthin' but a) HoundDog" is about a free loading jigilo who "...ain't never caught a rabbit...." (you figure it out)

X "Universal Corner"

Led Zepplin "Whole Lotta' Love"

Hank Williams, Sr. "Hey, Good Lookin' "

"Cocoon" by Bjork. That song is just too sexy. And I'm not a Bjork fan but that song is just way too sexually charged for it's own good.

Squeeze Me Macaroni, by Mr. Bungle.

http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Arena/8930/LyricsBungle1.html#squ

Sneaker Pimps: Becoming X

Roll on, these doors are open.
Roll off, you can come next time.
I'm in love with your confusion, on your knees. Breathing through your elbows, down on me.
Down on me.

and of course, sung by Kelli and her sexy voice

"Gonna wash that man right outta my hair/Gonna take my hips to a man who cares!" - PJ Harvey

yeah that whole vespetine album is the damned sexiest album that was ever made. it is funny cause it sounds sooooo innocent. but so suggestive. bjork rules!

Led Zeppelin – Whole Lotta Love
“I'd like to give ya every inch of my love
I'd like to give everybody my love”

“Shake for me girl
I wanna be your backdoor man”

Not subtle but not exactly explicit in the PMRC sense of the word.

aerosmith? tsk tsk tsk...

...Congragulations, your fucking's greatest hits

More from the Obscure Classic Rock department...

In the big lite-FM sapfest "Miracles" by Jefferson Starship, Marty Balin sings "I got a taste of the real world, when I went down on you girl." I've sat in doctor's offices hearing this line over the airwaves of Wonder Bread radio.

Yet another from the Jefferson Airplane/Starship family... from the 1972 side-project album called "Baron Von Tollbooth and the Chrome Nun" is a song by Grace Slick called "Across the Board"...

Somebody aimed you when you were young
But nobody ever fired
Now you just sit there inside the gun
Bullet you`re getting old and tired

If you want out - get out and get it all
I mean a fair trial is no trial at all
You`re not guilty you can`t even move without
A human hand
You can`t cock yourself woman

You need a man

All the way you need him
All the way
All the way across the floor
Across the board

The man`s only got one finger
He doesn`t need anymore
He makes his way one prong down

All the way
All the way
All the way across the floor

Seven inches of pleasure
Seven inches going home
Somebody must have measured
All the way down the old bone

All the way
All the way
All the way
Down the old bone

i remember an inxs song that has some sexy lyrics... something like:

So slide over here
And give me a moment
Your moves are so raw
I've got to let you know
You're one of my kind

I need you tonight
'Cause I'm not sleeping
There's something about you girl
That makes me sweat

or it could have just been that michael hutchence was screaming sex anyway.

also this song by jeff buckley "everybody here wants you"

Such a thing of wonder in this crowd
I’m a stranger in this town
You’re free with me
And our eyes locked in downcast love
I sit here proud
Even now you’re undressed in your dreams with me

alright maybe i missed the point but it's fun remembering these songs. gotta go put on some jeff buckley now.

"Baby's Arm" by Belly

Slow down.
Slow down.
Arms too tired to take up.
Baby takes up arms.
Arms too tired to reach my face
And break it.
Baby tags along, along.
Lips too wide to preach about it.
Hips too wide to reach around it.
Arms too tired to reach my face
And break it.
Baby tag along, along.
Honey ride with me,
Be my company.
Honey ride and let some good thing
Come and rip me through my jeans (honey ride with me),
Rip me through my jeans (honey ride with me).
Slow down.
Slow down.
Slow down.
I'm allowed to take this shit and blow it.
I'm allowed a quiet type, know it.
I'm too tired to reach my face and break it.
Honey tag along, along.
Honey ride with me.
Be my company.
Honey ride and let some thing
Come and rip me through my jeans (honey ride with me),
Rip me through my jeans (honey ride with me).
Honey ride with me.
Honey ride with me.
Honey ride with me.
Be my company.
Please baby, please baby, please