Catchy Songs We Didn't Realize Have Creepy Lyrics

1. Sam Smith's "Leave Your Lover" might be super catchy, but if you really think about it, it's obviously much deeper.

"Just leave your lover, leave him for me" is just a song about encouraging cheating or breaking up, which is just sad.

2. Magic's "Rude" is about a boyfriend asking his girlfriend's father for permission to marry her, and her father refuses.

As if that isn't incredibly patriarchal, nobody is even ASKING this girl what she wants, and the boyfriend just assumes they'll run away and elope and the whole song is kind of weird that way.

3. A lot of people praised Andy Grammer's "Honey I'm Good" because he stays faithful to his girlfriend despite temptation.

The thing is, he totally admits that if he has another drink, he'd cheat. "I might not leave alone" is just too close cheating and it makes us all uncomfortable.

4.Okay, Maroon 5's "Animals" is about a girl who tries to leave a man she's been hooking up with, but he won't leave her alone. It's creepy AF.

"Baby, I'm preying on you tonight, hunt you down, eat you alive, just like animals, animals / Maybe you think that you can hide, I can smell your scent for miles, just like animals, animals"

5. Ed Sheeran is a super talented lyricist.

So much so that most people don't realize that his song, "The A Team," is actually about a girl with an addiction to cocaine and how she sells her body to pay for drugs.

"White lips, pale face, breathing in snowflakes. Burnt lungs, sour taste, Light's gone, day's end, struggling to pay rent. Long nights, strange men." The snowflakes being cocaine, of course.

6. "Little Talks" by Of Monsters And Men is a really great song.

But it becomes depressing when you realize it's about an elderly lady who lost her husband and is waiting to die so she can see him again.

"You're gone, gone, gone away, I watched you disappear / All that's left is a ghost of you / Now we're torn, torn, torn apart, there's nothing we can do / Just let me go, we'll meet again soon"

7. "Blurred Lines" was a highly controversial song when it came out because it promotes rape culture.

"I hate these blurred lines, I know you want it" pretty much says it all.

8. "Black Widow" is a pretty catchy song, but a lot of people don't realize that female black widows kill their mates.

So when the song says, "You should've known better, then to mess with me harder, I'm gonna love you, I'm gonna love you / like a black widow, baby," she's actually talking about killing the guy who messed with her.

Who knew?

9. Fun's hit song, "We Are Young" is actually about an abusive man.

The meaning is right in the lyrics but very few people stop and think about it.

"My lover she's waiting for me just across the bar, my seat's been taken by some sunglasses asking 'bout a scar, and I know I gave it to you months ago, I know you're trying to forget, but between the drinks and subtle things, the holes in my apologies, you know I'm trying hard to take it back".

10. For anybody really into Christmas songs, "Baby It's Cold Outside" is one that really sends the wrong message.

The female singing really wants to leave and says it MANY times, but the man just won't listen and basically forces her to stay, despite the trouble she might be in later.

Oh, and the "say, what's in this drink?" lyric is kind of sketchy.

11. Outkast's "Hey Ya!" is almost always played at parties, and people love it.

The thing is, it's actually really sad. The lyrics go on about how he's in a relationship with a woman and he knows it won't last, and knows that she's not really happy.

12. Screaming "I'm gonna swing from the chandelier" at the top of your lungs is REALLY fun.

But a lot of people don't know that it's lyrics are much darker.

"Chandelier" is really a song about substance abuse. "1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3 drink, throw 'em back till I lose count" should be your first hint. "Keep my glass full until morning light, 'cause I'm just holding on for tonight" are more hints that are huge red flags about what the song really means.

13. Sarah McLachlan's "Angel" is known to be a really sad song, and it's actually played at funerals a lot.

The thing is, it's really about addictions. Sarah herself admitted that she wrote the song about "the Smashing Pumpkins keyboard player who had OD'ed in a hotel room."

14. It's pretty obvious what "Pumped Up Kicks" is about, but a lot of people still sing along like a school shooting is no big deal

"Yeah he found a six-shooter gun, in his dad's closet, in the box of fun things, I don't even know what, but he's coming for you, yeah he's coming for you"

15. "Call Me Maybe" may have been the catchiest song of 2012, but the lyrics are actually kind of weird.

This girl is SO in love with this guy she barely knows and it's to the point where it's creepy.

"Before you came into my life I missed you so bad, and you should know that, I missed you so so bad, bad, bad, bad..."

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