What's up top 10 fam hope you’re having an awesome day, Im your host Ayman Hasan and
welcome back to another video.
Music is legit my life, i feel like i'm listening to something or the other for 90% of the day.
I listen to music while I eat breakfast, on my commute anywhere, at work when im scripting,
when i'm at the gym, basically anytime, anywhere.
And i feel like 50% of people listen to the beat more than the lyrics and than obviously
the other 50% listen to the lyrics.
Lemme know which side you fall on in the comments but also this video is good for both sides,
if you listen to the lyrics youre about to gain some more knowledge and if you listen
to beat well boy youre in for a surprise.
So with that being said, here are the Top 10 Scary Lyrics In Songs.
Starting us off with number 10 is Stan by Eminem.
The real slim shady had to be on the list I don't even care.
Rap is like 80% of the music I listen to so I have mad respect for Eminem and this song
is part masterpiece part nightmare.
So Stan came out in 2000 and was part of the Marshall Mathers LP album.
If you havent seen the video of this song i think thats the first thing you guys should
do, its vivid there are 2 versions and its extremely well done.
The song is about a guy called Stanley Stan who is Eminems biggest fan and writes him
a bunch of fan letters that he doesnt respond to.
He gets more frustrated throughout time and then at the end hes driving whilst drunk with
his tied up pregnant girlfriend in the trunk.
Hes doing a voice recording to Eminem at the time and then he drives into a river not realizing
how the hell is Eminem gonna hear this if im dead.
The lyrics are quite descriptive and theres actually a censored clean version of it that
leaves out lyrics like Hey, Slim, that's my girlfriend screamin' in the trunk.
But I didn't slit her throat, I just tied her up—See?
I ain't like you.
‘Cause if she suffocates she'll suffer more and then she'll die too.
The lyrics of the song just get progressively worse and worse as Stan gets more and more
angry and honestly not even advertising Eminem but check out the song if you havent already.
Coming in at number 9 is The Murder of the Lawson Family by Carolina Buddies.
This sounds like im about to launch into a murder story of some kind which i sort of
am but im sort of not.
In December of 1925 Charlie Lawson killed his wife and 6 of their seven children.
All the victims were shot and or bludgeoned to death and then he rested their heads on
stone rocks and then proceeded to shoot himself.
A year later the Carolina Buddies came out with this murder ballad that basically details
the whole thing.
I dont know who told them it would be a good idea but there you go.
The lyrics of the whole song are honestly disturbing, things like And the little ones
did cry "Please papa wont you spare our lives For it's so hard to die" and He killed six
children and his wife And then he tore their eyes’.
Thats just not exactly the kind of thing i wanna be jamming out to on my commute or at
home.
Bit morbid for my taste but hey thats just me.
At number 8 we have I’m on Fire by Bruce Springsteen.
So this song came out in 1985 and was part of his album Born in the USA.
now this one is interesting because the video shows Bruce flirting with a married woman
around his age but the lyrics of the song tell a different story.
It goes, Hey little girl, is your daddy home?
Did he go away and leave you all alone?
Mhmm I got a bad desire.
So hes referring to his love interest as little girl and asking about her daddy which basically
insinuates the girl he likes is underage to the point of illegality.
He goes on saying is he good to you?
And can he do to you the things that I do?
Oh no.
Implying hes clearly done some shit to this minor already so this is super problematic.
And finally they also say at night I wake up with the sheets soaking wet only you can
cool my desire.
Im not even gonna explain that, if youre old enough to get it then you know and if not
then i'm not gonna corrupt your minds.
Live by Alice Cooper.
I dont think Alice Cooper needs an introduction by any means but his 2008 album Along Came
a Spider has its fair share of creepy songs.
And thats no surprise since the whole album is about a psychopathic serial killer that
goes by the nickname Spider.
The lyrics of the song include things like “i like to watch from my car i like to make
sure you dont go far, i know the hours you sleep” so thats great.
Id love to be serenaded with those words and of course it goes further and says “he wrote
in great detail how cleverly he planned all of the killings.”
I mean at least leave something to the imagination Alice.
Like i know the serial killer isnt real but the stalking is just so detailed and honestly
the beat of the song makes you feels like Spider goes on some coke bender before killing
each person.
Like the beat is so in your face and obnoxious almost.
Now at number 6 is In The Air Tonight by Phil Collins.
Now I actually really like this song, i used to blast it all the time back in the day and
sometimes here and there when im feeling nostalgic yknow how it is.
I feel like this is quite a popular song but whenever I mention it people are like wait
what song is that?
You guys also may know it from the Cadbury ad where the gorilla is playing a drum solo
to the song.
It was quite lit.
either way the song itself has a melancholy vibe to it anyway, it is a bit of a downer
slow song but the lyrics are just malevolent to be honest.
Things like if you told me you were drowning i would not lend a hand.
You can wipe off that grin i know where youve been its all been a pack of lies.
And then the drums kick in.
apparently theres a legend surrounding the song of how someone was actually drowning
and Collins looked at the victim but was too far to actually help them.
Collins himself said that wasnt true and that he was going through a divorce at the time
and it was just angry words coming out of his mouth.
But then again why would a prominent singer admit that he watched someone die without
doing shit?
Who do we really trust here?
Coming in at number 5 is Pumped Up Kicks by Foster The People.
Now i feel like most people have heard of the story behind the lyrics to this song already
but this was such a popular song back in the day that i really wanted to include it.
I say back in the day like it came out in the 70s like no it came out in 2010 which
right now feels like 20 years ago honestly.
But the song is a banger im not even gonna lie.
I overplayed that shit like nobody's business and I have no regrets.
The chorus of the song goes like All the other kids with the pumped up kicks You'd better
run, better run, outrun my gun.
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks, You'd better run, better run, faster than
my bullet.
And naive little me was just singing that so loud and so was everyone else to be fair.
If we took one second to even look at the lyrics or actually be aware of what we were
singing we’d be like what the hell.
The lyrics are meant to be the inside thoughts of an isolated psychotic kid that shoots up
his school basically.
It was meant to bring awareness to gun violence amongst the youth and honestly i think it
worked.
Everyone was so shook when they found out that was what the song was actually about
that i think it stuck with people.
At number 4 is Run For Your Life by The Beatles.
So this one was part of their Rubber Soul album that came out back in 1965.
The song basically talks about the singers girlfriend that they refer to as little girl.
Which is quite creepy and paedophilic if im honest but lets just continue.
For the first ever boy band that became a massive global sensation, this song is honestly
a bit risky.
The lyrics include things like well id rather see you dead little girl than to be with another
man.
Red flag number 1.
Then it goes you know that I'm a wicked guy And I was born with a jealous mind.
Red flag number 2 for the song and any guy youre thinking of dating in real life as well
you guys.
And of course the final straw, Catch you with another man.That's the end, little girl”.
Red flag number 3.
By now you should realise this man is emotionally and probably physically abusive and you should
no longer be with him.
And we do not need him in our lives.
But also like this song is so true half the murders committed are done so out of jealousy
more than anything.
Filling our number 3 slot is 97 Bonnie and Clyde.
So this is Eminem's second appearance on the list now and this song was on the Slim Shady
EP that came out in 1998.
The song itself is about Enimem and his infant daughter Hallie dumping his ex wifes corpse
into a lake.
The beginning of the song is already creepy you can hear a body being dragged to a car
and then a car starting and going off.
The lyrics include things like Oh where's mama?
she's takin a little nap in the trunk.
Oh that smell (whew!) da-da musta runned over a skunk.
Which is just him lying to his daughter like no your mum isnt napping I bloody killed her
and that smell is the smell of rotting flesh.
Hope youre not scarred for life after this Hallie.
A few lines later he says And don't worry about that little booboo on her throat, It's
just a little scratch, it don't hurt, her was eatin'.
Dinner while you were sweepin' and spilled ketchup on her shirt.’
like the lyrics are just so manipulative since hes talking to an oblivious kid that it just
makes you think about how screwed up the person really is to be telling his daughter that
the cut that he inflicted on her mum to kill her, is a tiny scratch and the blood from
it is ketchup.
Like great.
Now at number 2 is Dont Stand So Close To Me by The Police.
Now youd think if i was gonna include the police i wouldve chosen every breath you take
as the song since that one is also pretty stalkerish and creepy but we’re gonna be
different today.
This song came out in 1980 and was part of their third album and the whole song is basically
about a students crush on her teacher which ends up in them having an affair and then
getting caught.
The song is actually kind of upbeat and fun but the lyrics are not.
It includes phrases like the girl is half his age, You know how bad girls get, Sometimes
it's not so easy To be the teacher's pet and of course He starts to shake he starts to
cough, Just like the old man in, That famous book by Nabakov.
And the book theyre referring to is Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, which is probably the
most famous novel about a pedophile.
Ive read the book and it amazed me that his writing somehow made me feel bad for the man
more so than the girl and the song kind of paints the situation the same way.
The teacher sounds like hes struggling more than the girl when we all need to remember
the victim here IS the girl.
And finally at number 1 is Hotel California by The Eagles.
And i wanted number 1 to be a song that everyone for sure knew and if you dont know it then
really you have no excuse i dont know what to say to you.
Get out from the rock youre living under.
So this song came out in 1977 and was part of their Hotel California album and despite
being a classic thats played everywhere, the lyrics are creepy.
Things like 'we are all just prisoners here, of our own device', And in the master's chambers,
They gathered for the feast, They stab it with their steely knives, But they just can't
kill the beast’ like honestly how is a song with lyrics like that played at literally
every middle aged party you go to.
Like what is up with that.
And to top it all off it ends with I was Running for the door, I had to find the passage
back to the place I was before, 'Relax' said the night man, 'We are programmed to receive.
You can check out any time you like, But you can never leave!'
So whatever this hotel is, the people there are prisoners of it and never leave.
Like are they talking about yourself and how you can never escape from yourself?
You could interpret it that way but in interviews theyve said it was about the dark side of
the American dream and the music industry at the time and how its something we cant
escape.
And thats it for todays video guys!
I know a lot of these songs are pretty old and many of you would have heard them before
but there are some newer ones in there for our millennials and generation Z kids.
Lemme know what you guys thought in the comments below and as always im your host Ayman Hasan
and ill catch you in the next one!
Byeee.