Lyrics with double entendres, metaphors, imagery & puns that tickle your fancy

"The bigger the cushion the better the pushin-most definitely!"From KISS-Spit.

 

It's definitely "Trojans and some of them used".

Another thread should by lyrics that are "snuck" in either by an odd pronunciation/attempt to somehow disguise the word or placing them in the fade. For example, the very last line of Marvin Gaye's "Sexual Healing" (which you never hear on the radio) is "Please don't procrastinate...or I will have to masturbate". .

Related to the current thread, does any genre have more double entendres than the blues? I can think of MANY examples to fit this thread from this genre from "other mules kickin' in stalls" to "lemon squeezing".

 

Country Music is the genre of all genres for play on words.

Clint Black
'Put Yourself In My Shoes'

" If you put yourself in my shoes you'd have some sympathy and if I could only put myself in your shoes I'd walk right back to me"

Garth Brooks
'Wild Horses'

A rodeo song that plays on the phrase of Wild Horses Couldn't Drag Me Away and the wining and losing at a rodeo and the taming of a wild horse called breaking it.

"Wild Horses Keep Dragging Me Away and I'll lose more than I'm gonna win someday.
Wild horses just stay wild and her heart is all I break...."

 

They stole that one. If not from Spinal Tap, then someone else. In fact, although a joke song, this one's a master class on double entendres (as is "Sex Farm")!

Gorts, if it's too PG, please delete the lyrics. Thanks.

[Verse 1]
The bigger the cushion, the sweeter the pushin'
That's what I said
The looser the waistband, the deeper the quicksand
Or so I have read

[PreChorus 1]
My baby fits me like a flesh tuxedo
I'd like to sink her with my pink torpedo

[Chorus 1]
Big bottom, big bottom
Talk about bum cakes, my girl's got 'em
Big bottom drive me out of my mind
How could I leave this behind?

[Verse 2]
I met her on Monday, 'twas my lucky bun day
You know what I mean
I love her each weekday, each velvety cheek day
You know what I mean

[PreChorus 2]
My love gun's loaded and she's in my sights
Big game is waiting there inside her tights, yeah

Big bottom, big bottom
Talk about mud flaps, my girl's got 'em
Big bottom drive me out of my mind
How could I leave this behind?

[PreChorus 1]
My baby fits me like a flesh tuxedo
I'd like to sink her with my pink torpedo

[Chorus 1]
Big bottom, big bottom
Talk about bum cakes, my girl's got 'em
Big bottom drive me out of my mind
How could I leave this behind?s

 

From the imagery category:

She came to me with a serpent's kiss,
As the Eye of the Sun rose on her lips

- Iron Maiden, 'Revelations'

 

Hmm. The drunk lady is said to be David Brigg's girlfriend.

 

ok, I'm hearing it differently and maybe other forum members can chime in here...tho admittedly I'm too lazy to look up his lyrics
30 seconds in, it sounds like 'she had a pocket full of horses, Trojans of abuse'
opinions?

 

It's definitely "some of them used." I don't have it right in front of me, but I'm 99.9% certain that's what the lyric sheet in the album itself says. It's definitely what every online source says.

 

You mean Robert Johnson.

I always liked this Leiber-Stoller ditty (Santa Claus is Back in Down) that Elvis Presley sang:
Hang up your pretty stockings
Turn out the light
Santa Claus is coming down your chimney tonight.

 

I'm not hearing that many syllables, but I guess it could be...after all we're talking Prince here.....but carrying around used condoms is beyond gross

it also begs the question 'why would -anyone- carry around used condoms?' sheesh

 

Let's credit the songwriter, Jessie Stone (aka Charles Calhoun). And Haley leaves out a lot, see Joe Turner's recording.

 

Another Santa double entendre from "Back Door Santa" by Clarence Carter:

I ain't like the old Saint Nick
He don't come but once a year
I ain't like the old Saint Nick
He don't come but once a year
I come runnin' with my presents
Every time you call me dear...

 

Jackson Browne's "Red Neck Friend":

Little one-
Come on and take my hand
I may not have the answer but I believe I got a plan

Honey you shake and I'll rattle and we'll roll on down the line
And see if we can't get in touch with a very close friend of mine
But let me clue you in, it ain't like him
To argue or pretend-
Honey let me introduce you to my redneck friend..

 

Exactly the song I was going to post, except the line that gets me is "I step on the brake/to get out of her clutches."

 

Ophelia - The Band

Ashes of laughter
The ghost is clear
Why do the best things always disappear
Like Ophelia
Please darken my door

 

XTC's "Pink Thing":

Anytime you rise, I'm here,
And I'm crazy for you pink thing.
You make me want to laugh,
You make me want to cry,
When I stroke your head I feel a hundred heartbeats high,
Pink thing.

I want to take you out and show you round the world,
Pink thing it'll be OK.
If I could only wake you from your slumber curled,
Pink thing what would straight folks say?

That man isn't fit to enter heaven.
That man is a sinner,
Ever burning in disgrace.
Pink thing, spit in my face,
I'd love you for it.

Anytime you call, I'll fall,
Into madness for you pink thing.
You make me want to live.
You make me want to die.
And when I stroke your head I feel a hundred heartbeats high,
Pink thing.

I want to take you out and show you to the girls,
Pink thing they're a whole new tribe.
If you could only see the way the way the gingham swirls,
Pink thing it's a whole new vibe.
...
I want to introduce you,
Take you to the brink thing.
I want to introduce you,
Tell me what you think thing. I want to introduce you,
Make that missing link thing.
Don't you think it's time you met some female pink thing?

You make me want to laugh,
You make me want to cry,
So why is it I'm happy when there's tears down in your eye?
Little pink thing.

 

Every AC/DC lyric ever written.

 

Not exactly "double entendre," but I've always loved the word play and double-meanings in "Surf's Up" by the Beach Boys. Some examples:

[Hand in hand some/ handome]

[Dual meaning of "canvas," i.e., to cover/search an area, as well as a painted canvas backdrop to a stage]

[...hall, a cost/holocaust]

["Port" being a type of wine; "adieu or die"/"do or die"]

 

She mentioned Kant and I was shocked, so shocked, where I come from girls don't have such foul tongues* - "Hasta Mana, Monsieur" Sparks


* properly pronounced, 'Kant' (as in Emmanuel) doesn't rhyme with 'ant.'

 

Dylan can be pretty nasty when he wants to. The whole lyric to "Ballad of a Thin Man" is a rather thinly weiled attack on some poor hapless gay guy, but this verse in particular is really hard to believe that he managed to sneak it past the censors in them olden days:

Well, the sword swallower, he comes up to you and then he kneels
He crosses himself and then he clicks his high heels
And without further notice, he asks you how it feels
And he says, "Here is your throat back, thanks for the loan"
And you know something is happening but you don't know what it is
Do you, Mr. Jones?

Edit: I was trying to find a particularly pun-some Costello song I heard the other day, but it is too late in the evening to remember anything after lunch.

 

I'm not going to type out the lyrics (or my interpretation of them) because I'm not in the right mood to discuss them...but "Bridge Over Troubled Water", when studied in-depth, seems to have (an) ambiguous meaning(s) that many S&G fans have debated for years...

 

Lil' Ed and the Blues Imperials - "Christmas Time"

 

And, that is not even the original name for the song, different color, and an "organ"

 

And, this classic.

 

And another one I love from Amos Millburn:

Let's make Chrismas merry baby
Let me be your Santa Claus
I want to slide down your chimney
Fill your stocking full of toys