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1* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYT6QHGOwvk "DLMD"]] by [[Music/ThreeEleven 311]] implores a girl to leave her abusive boyfriend ("DLMD" stands for "Don't let me down").
2* "Tormented Kid" by Australian rapper 360 is a story about a man who abuses his wife and son.
3* On Music/DanielAmos' album ''Music/HorrendousDisc'', the title track starts off with a musician who's "killed his wife with words, confident it's private rage". But then the song gets ''weird'', as a (seemingly magical) AccidentalPublicConfession reveals the musician's abuse for all his fans to witness.
4%%* "Call Me Names" by Joan Armatrading, a rare example where woman-on-man is not played for laughs.
5* Alec Benjamin's "Must Have Been The Wind" is about a man who hears a loud noise and crying in another apartment. He goes to investigate and the woman who answers the door says the noise was probably just the wind.
6* "[[Music/TheBeatles I used be cruel to my woman, I beat her]] and [[Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand kept her apart from the things that she loved]]/[[TheAtoner Man I was mean, but I'm changing my scene and I'm doing the best that I can.]]" This was, unfortunately, in reference to the emotionally stilted Music/JohnLennon's tendencies in his youth to hit women, a behavior he deeply regretted later in life. [[WordOfGod John claimed his feminist activism]], influenced by Music/YokoOno, was in part to to his shame at how he treated women for much of his life. He disliked the chauvinistic-sounding lyrics to "You Can't Do That"[[note]]a lyrically clumsy attempt to emulate WilsonPickett[[/note]] and "Run For Your Life" for similar reasons.
7* Music/DavidBowie's "Repetition" is about the grim routine this can fall into, with a bitter man verbally and physically abusing his wife.
8* "99 Biker Friends" by Music/BowlingForSoup is about the singer telling an abusive husband/boyfriend to knock it off on pain of the 99 bikers showing up and kicking his ass.
9* "The Thunder Rolls" by Music/GarthBrooks. Combined with a CMA-award winning video that graphically depicted a man slapping around his wife when he arrives home, she having suspected him of having an affair. The live version, featuring a third verse where [[spoiler:the wife murders the husband]], only makes it more explicit.
10* "Alyssa Lies" by Jason Michael Carroll, this time with a 7-year-old girl falling victim.
11* Music/TracyChapman's "Behind the Wall", a haunting ACappella song about a domestic abuse situation which is only heard as "loud voices behind the wall." The narrator doesn't call the police to deal with what's happening because she knows that [[PoliceAreUseless they come late if they even come at all, and are disinclined to deal with domestic situations]]. One night, a horrible silence follows the screaming, and an ambulance comes to the scene, all but confirming that [[DownerEnding the worst has happened]].
12* Music/TheChicks' song and {{music video|s}} "Goodbye Earl" has one half of a BloodSisters duo getting married and getting abused by the title character. The two of them get together and kill him.
13* In "Wee Cooper of Fife," #277 of the ''Literature/ChildBallads'', the cooper responds to his wife's refusal to perform housework by putting a sheepskin over her back.
14-->''Oh I'll no thrash your gentle kin\
15Nickety nackety noo noo noo\
16But I will thrash my ain sheepskin''
17* "Because of You" by Music/KellyClarkson speaks to the aftereffects of abuse, including a lack of self-esteem and self-confidence. The original video by Kelly Clarkson is focused mostly on the singer's fear of repeating her parents' marriage, in which her father was physically and emotionally absent for both wife and daughter. The duet with Reba [=McEntire=] portrays it as interpersonal violence, with Kelly Clarkson being the victim of an emotionally and physically abusive boyfriend. The original video ends on a hopeful note, with the singer putting a stop to the cycle and making up with her boyfriend; the second video ends more tragically as Kelly leaves with the abusive boyfriend while Reba sings the final lyrics and looks on sadly.
18* Paula Cole's "Throwing Stones" is about a couple coming to blows in their relationship, getting to the point of throwing stones at each other until both of them die.
19* Shawn Colvin's "Sunny Came Home," about an abused wife burning down the family home with her abuser inside. The lyrics and video are fairly vague, but it has been confirmed by the artist in recent years to be a murder ballad and many fans of the song assume that where Sunny had been before she "came home" was in the hospital, recovering from injuries sustained by an abusive partner.
20-->''Sunny came home with a list of names''
21-->''She didn't believe in transcendence''
22-->''It's time for a few small repairs she said''
23-->''Sunny came home with a vengeance''
24* Music/AliceCooper's "Only Women Bleed" from ''Welcome to My Nightmare'' is a ballad about a woman in an abusive marriage.
25%%* Music/TheCrystallineEffect's 'Another Rainy Day'.
26* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_Hit_Me_%28It_Felt_Like_a_Kiss%29 "He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss)"]], a 1962 single by Music/PhilSpector-produced girl group The Crystals. It's about a woman trying to justify her jealous, abusive boyfriend's behavior.
27* Music/FrancoDeVita: The theme of "Un extraño en mi bañera" (A Stranger In My Bathtub). In it, Franco roleplays as a woman who is being physically abused by her husband. The woman tells how she's unable to recognize her husband when he's in his darkest mood, yet she's unable to denounce him due to fears of being ridiculed. Near the end of the song, Franco breaks character to make a non-sung commentary on the outcome: [[spoiler:The husband ends up killing the woman and, due to the incompetence of the justice, [[KarmaHoudini he gets acquitted due to the lack of witnesses]]; everyone who hears about this news claim that people must prevent a repeat of this in the future, but even that hollow resolve won't revert what already happened.]]
28* Music/CelineDion has one obscure song, "This Time", which touches this issue.
29-->''One more hour burns\
30So scared of his return\
31That I can't sleep tonight\
32In this hospital light.''
33%%* "Facade" by Music/{{Disturbed}}. Another one that suggests the woman is getting ready to snap.
34* Music/DuranDuran's "Sin Of The City" from ''Music/TheWeddingAlbum'' begins with such a case, given its real-life setting:
35-->Coat check girl up in Happy Land
36-->Has a violent row with a Cuba man.
37-->Julio leaves in a drunken rage,
38-->He comes back with the gasoline.
39* Rapper Music/ElP draws inspiration from growing up with an abusive stepfather over the course of multiple songs:
40** "The Last Good Sleep" is harrowingly autobiographical, as he narrates the night his stepfather [[NearDeathExperience almost beat his mother to death]]. The song's title refers to how he was never able to sleep restfully afterward.
41** "Stepfather Factory" reimagines abusive stepfathers as cutting-edge robots that El is hawking to families, touting the titular factory as beneficial to the community and explaining that the alcohol-fueled stepfathers have a slight chance of malfunctioning and beating their families.
42** "For My Upstairs Neighbor (Mums the Word)" opens with El being an unhelpful police interviewee, only for its second verse to [[BackToFront rewind the clock]] and reveal that that morning he had run into a neighbor who was a victim of domestic abuse and promised he'd cover for her if she [[SympatheticMurderer killed her abuser]].
43* Music/{{Eminem}} was famously in a DestructiveRomance with his ex-wife Kim Scott. He frequently writes songs about his relationship with her, as well as about the topic in general - some autobiographical, some done from his AntiRoleModel shock comedy Slim Shady persona and/or PlayedForLaughs.
44** The Kim {{Murder Ballad}}s:
45*** "'97 Bonnie and Clyde" is the aftermath of his murder of Kim for leaving him and TakingTheKids, set while he [[TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether gets his toddler to help him dispose of the body]].
46*** Its [[SequelSong prequel]] "Kim", written after Kim had left him, dramatises the actual murder, and is much DarkerAndEdgier.
47*** The unreleased "50 Ways" (which eventually found its way onto various mixtape), written during Eminem's second divorce from Kim, has the dubious distinction of being the last song in which Eminem raps about murdering Kim, as well as the one with [[MisogynySong the least artistic merit]]. It's possibly a prequel to "Kim", with the verses describing his perspective on their relationship, punching out her front teeth, throwing her in the car, and plotting to kill her in the same way as he does in the above songs. The hook is a sample of Music/PaulSimon's "50 Ways To Leave Your Lover", playing over the sound of her screams.
48** In his verse on "Watch Dees", Slim raps, "''I hate my life. That's why I degrade my wife.''"
49** Eminem also had a domestic violence charge for assaulting his abusive mother; in "Kill You", Slim raps his fantasy about killing [[ParentalIncest and raping]] her.
50** In "Can-I-Bitch", Slim assaults Canibus: "''So I stabbed him twice, kept jabbin'—Christ! He won't die! This guy's like a battered wife! He's like Kim: he keeps comin' back for more!''"
51** On "Lady", Slim warns his groupies not to toy with his emotions, because if he actually falls in love with them, he'll [[CrazyJealousGuy become obsessed with them, control them, not let them leave the house and kill them if they threaten to leave]].
52** On ''Encore'' he writes a couple of fairly light-hearted MasochismTango abusive relationship songs:
53*** In "Crazy In Love", he's in a long-term relationship with a woman who he "fistfights" and chokes.
54*** In "Love You More", the more his woman beats and emotionally abuses him, the more it makes him love her:
55---->'Cause I hate you, do you hate me?\
56Good, 'cause you're so fuckin' beautiful when you're angry\
57It makes me wanna just take you and just throw you\
58On the bed and fuck you like I don't even know you
59** In "When I'm Gone", he describes to his daughter that it wasn't him beating up her mother, [[BlatantLies it was Slim Shady]].
60** During the ''Recovery'' era in particular, he liked to write about abusive relationships with women who were {{Allegorical Character}}s for drugs and/or the rap game:
61*** "Won't Back Down" is a PlayedForLaughs BlackComedy take on this in which Shady drives around with the unfortunate girlfriend he's bullying, representing [[BoastfulRap how hard his rapping is going to overpower the listeners who lost interest in his music during his hiatus]].
62*** In "So Bad": "''I got you caught up in the rapture, make you recapture the feelings you had for your last boyfriend before he slapped ya [...] ...if I'm what you wanted, why'd you panic when I grabbed ya?''"
63*** "25 to Life" allegorises his rap career as a relationship with a controlling, abusive wife who refuses to respect him, controls how he spends his free time, who he's allowed to spend time with and how he's allowed to dress, and tearfully begs him to come back if he says he's leaving.
64*** "Space Bound" is about a toxic relationship in which Eminem loses interest in his girl once he's got her, then, once he realises she's going to leave him, [[MurderSuicide chokes her, snaps her neck, and kills himself]].
65*** "Love the Way You Lie" is about a DestructiveRomance where both are emotionally and physically abusive. The video stars Creator/MeganFox and Dominic Monaghan as a couple in a mutually abusive relationship. Music/{{Rihanna}}'s sequel "Love The Way You Like (Part II)" is from the girlfriend's POV, with an Eminem [[AWildRapperAppears guest verse]] describing his reaction as a victim of her abuse rather than the perpetrator.
66*** "So Much Better" (on ''The Marshall Mathers LP 2'') is another song about smacking around a woman representing the rap game, who's cheated on him with Music/DrDre, Music/{{Drake}} and Music/LupeFiasco and broken his heart.
67** In "Rap God", he jokes about his penchant for {{Misogyny Song}}s despite his otherwise rather sweet personality outside of [[KayfabeMusic kayfabe]] - "''but if I can't batter the women, how the fuck am I supposed to bake them a cake, then?''"
68** "Love Game" is a comedic song about Slim murdering some of his insane, slutty and clingy girlfriends, with a guest spot from Music/KendrickLamar reprising his disease-riddled Sherane character from ''good kid, m.A.A.d city'' (amusingly, [[PlayingAgainstType in a Slim Shady style]]).
69** "Bad Husband" is an apology to Kim for the way he treated her.
70* The Music/{{Eve|Rapper}} song "Love is Blind" is about a woman whose friend was in an abusive relationship with a man who beat and raped her. It ends in a DownerEnding where the friend is beaten to death by her ex-boyfriend. In revenge, the singer kills the man and ends up arrested.
71* "Pick Up The Phone" by Music/FallingInReverse is about an abusive and jealous boyfriend.
72* "Working My Way Back To You" by The Four Seasons (later [[CoverVersion covered]] as a {{medley}} by the Spinners with "Forgive Me, Girl" added) is about an apparently reformed abuser trying to win back the girl who dumped him for being an abusive jerk.
73* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CeUKqDfR6U Bad Boy]]" by Israeli singer Riki Gal is about a girl in love with an abusive and, it seems, rather disturbed boy. [[PuppyLove She is a few days short of ten, and he is even younger]].
74* Andy Griggs' "Waitin' on Sundown" is about a man named Jimmy who helps a woman named Shelby make her escape from an abusive relationship.
75* "Pulling Teeth" by Music/GreenDay is a female-on-male example.
76--> Is she ultra-violent, is she disturbed? I better tell her that I love her\
77Before she does it all over again, oh God she's killing me
78* {{Music/Halsey}}: Her character in "If I Can't Have Love I Want Power", Queen Lila, is treated very badly by the king, her husband, to the point that [[spoiler:she ends up poisoning him to escape]].
79* "Louisville Slugger" by The Have Nots is another song where the narrator implores a girl to leave her abusive relationship -- the title refers to the weapon the narrator wishes to use to threaten the abusing boyfriend with ("I got a Louisville slugger in the back of my ride / make the call and I'll be there by your side")
80* "Run Rabbit Run" by Music/TheHoosiers uses animal allegories to describe a person in a dangerous relationship. The singer warns them to leave it.
81-->''I saw a fox by the rabbit hole\
82You saw a prince from a fairy-tale\
83He promised that he'd look over you\
84Turned out to be the fox we all knew\
85Too good to be true\
86What chance did you stand?'\
87Take flight, turn tail\
88Get out while you can\
89Run, rabbit, run, as fast as you can\
90Don't look back''
91* In Lightin' Hopkins' "Bring Me My Shotgun," a man calls for his shotgun, proclaiming that he's going to shoot his wife and hide her body for cheating on him. His wife stands firm and dares him to do it. The man then admits that his shotgun doesn't actually fire. It was all an empty threat.
92* The Music/{{Hozier}} song "Cherry Wine" also features a rare example of female-on-male emotional and physical abuse. The music video shows male-on-female domestic abuse. The song is about a man who is in love with a woman who fights with him, beats him, and likely cheats on him as well. He's scared of his lover, and his mother doesn't like their relationship, but he refuses to leave her.
93-->''Way she tells me I'm hers and she's mine\
94Open hand or closed fist would be fine\
95The blood is rare and sweet as cherry wine''
96* The video of Music/SamHunt's "Take Your Time," a massive country hit in 2015. Instead of playing on the storyline of a young man just honestly wanting to get to know an attractive woman at the local college bar (rather than someone looking for sex with one), this bar story takes a much darker turn. Indeed, a good chunk of the video is set in a bar and one of the central characters is indeed a young woman, but this woman is constantly berated and/or slapped around by the no-good SOB of her tattooed, drunken boyfriend ... sometimes at the bar, sometimes at the local coin-op laundry, sometimes at their home, often with their baby in sight. Hunt, meanwhile, often witnesses this and is seething angry every time he witnesses the guy's actions, but butts out. Until one day, he's walking along the street. He sees the woman try to make her getaway, suitcase and baby in hand. With suitcase and baby (barely) in the truck, the boyfriend tries to grab the woman and plans to brutally beat her to death. Hunt sees what's about to happen and can take no more ... and rushes up to beat the boyfriend up, giving the young woman the opening she needs to make her getaway. Hunt has a bloody lip at the end -- heck, he doesn't even really win the fight -- but he has held the punk back long enough for the woman to drive out of sight, and presumably out of her now ex-boyfriend's life forever. The moral in the end, of course, was that Hunt wasn't looking for a relationship with a woman or steal someone's girl ... it was that he was doing the right thing.
97%%* Music/{{Hurt}} plays it chillingly straight with "Abuse of SID".
98* Inna's "Endless" video starts with her boyfriend verbally abusing her while she sings calmly, intercut with their happier times, escalating to physical fighting near the end, at which point she finally gets rid of him. However, the actual lyrics [[LyricsVideoMismatch don't quite match the video]].
99* Touched on in Stan Kenton's "And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine".
100-->And when his wife said "Hey now!\
101What did you get for me?"\
102He socked her in the choppers\
103Such a sweet, sweet guy was he!
104* Russian band Kis-Kis's music video for their song "Molchi" ("Be Quiet") is about this and [[AbusiveParents child abuse]]. [[note]]The song itself seems to be more about [[BystanderSyndrome Bystander Syndrome]], and the video has shades of this as well.[[/note]]
105* "If I Were Your Woman" by Gladys Knight is about a woman trying to convince a man to breakup with his emotionally abusive girlfriend/wife and be with her instead.
106%%* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s3iGpDqQpQ Falling Away From Me]]" by Music/{{Korn}}.
107* The Mercedes Lackey song "It Was A Dark And Stormy Night" featured a Countess who was verbally abusive to her husband, and not particularly pleasant to everyone else in the household. When she suddenly died (by having the lute she played while forcing people to listen to her awful singing every night shoved down her throat), the investigators found that everyone in the household had their every action accounted for, and were forced to call the death 'suicide'.
108* Pretty much ''all'' of the work made by {{Industrial}}[=/=]neoclassical musician Lingua Ignota is about domestic abuse. This is also a case of WriteWhatYouKnow, as she has been in numerous abusive relationships and intends to exorcise her traumatic experiences with her harsh, nightmarish body of work.
109* "Earthquake" by Little Boots is a classic case of suffering an abusive relationship and keeping quiet about it.
110* Music/LoversAndLiars' song "I'm Not Him" is about a man who is in love with someone who is still haunted by a past abusive relationship.
111* "'Til Death Do Us Part" and "Oh Father" from {{Music/Madonna}}'s ''Music/LikeAPrayer'' album both deal with abuse, first husband/wife, and second parent/child. The video for the latter song incorporates both types of abuse into its imagery, suggesting that people who grew up in abusive homes end up in abusive relationships of their own.
112* The song "Tainted Love" could be seen in this light, especially when listening to Music/MarilynManson's cover.
113* "Push" by Music/MatchboxTwenty is one of the few songs that deals with female on male domestic abuse. The male singer is being abused by his girlfriend, emotionally and possibly physically.
114* "Gunpowder & Lead" by Music/MirandaLambert. Actually, the reason the male antagonist went to jail, because he "''slapped my face and shook me like a rag doll''."
115* "Teddy Bear" by Music/MelanieMartinez is about a woman whose sweet 'teddy bear' of a boyfriend suddenly turns dark on her. When she begins finding knives under the bed, and crumbled photographs of herself, she starts getting worried. He then tries to kill her and she kicks him out. Afterwards he begins stalking her and calling her but only breathing into the phone. That's when she really becomes terrified.
116* Music/MartinaMcBride had several songs addressing the topic, at least two involving adults and the other a young girl:
117** "Independence Day," an empowering ballad of a woman freeing herself from her abusive, alcoholic husband, told from the point of view of her 8-year-old daughter. As the title suggests, it takes place on the Fourth of July, giving the song a double meaning. The song and video, which came out in 1994, were controversial for its graphic depiction of a man beating his wife and destroying their possessions, as well as just how the mother puts an end to the abuse; the video ends with both the victim and abuser dying in a house fire set by the abused wife. The little girl returns from a town parade to find her home engulfed in flames and police surrounding it; she is sent to the "county home". The song is also noticeable for its condemnation of a town that knew about the abuse, but "everybody looked the other way" and its non-condemnation of the mother's actions in killing herself and her husband.
118** "Concrete Angel," where an omniscient observer feels sympathy for a little girl whose mother had killed her.
119** "A Broken Wing" is about emotional/psychological abuse. A woman stays with a man who constantly belittles her and witholds affection. The last verse leaves the ending to the story ambiguous...the man sees his wife/girlfriend is not in church and finds a note and an open window. It's unclear on whether she simply left or committed suicide.
120* Mark [=McGuinn=], a country singer from the early 2000s, had his first – and [[OneHitWonder only hit]] – with "Mrs. Steven Rudy," a song about a young man who lives next door to a young couple who constantly fight. The song's lyrics, ''That wedding ring's as ugly as your husband is to you'' and ''Sometimes Mrs. Rudy calls cryin' late at night/'Cause her and Mr. Ugly have had another fight'' imply that not all is well in their relationship, and the young man knows that he can provide a far better relationship for her than "Mr. Ugly" could.
121* "Your Southern Can is Mine" by Blind Willie [=McTell=] is sung by a domestic abuser telling his woman that she cannot escape him. Music/TheWhiteStripes have recorded a version.
122-->''Now, looky here, momma, let me explain you this\
123You wanna get crooked, I'll even give you my fist\
124You might read from Revelation back to Genesee\
125You get crooked, your southern can belongs to me''
126* Music/MariaMena:
127** "He's Hurting Me" is about an emotionally, and possibly physically, abusive relationship. The protagonist is begging someone to come over and help her deal with her angry boyfriend who thinks she's lying about something. She's also is in denial about it.
128-->''It's not his fault I made him lose his temper\
129I should know better not to talk too loud\
130There's no one who can love me better\
131I'm not like you--you are too proud''
132** "It Took Me By Surprise" is a rare example being from the POV of the female abuser. It's about a woman who emotionally abuses and manipulates her boyfriend until he begins to hate and fear her.
133-->''Now he's afraid of me\
134It took me by surprise\
135The hatred in his eyes\
136I pushed this man as far as he could go\
137But he lacked the words to let me know\
138He acted out\
139Now I can see it is my fault''
140* The music video for Shawn Mendes' "Treat You Better", where Mendes is portrayed trying to convince a girl to build up the strength to leave her abusive boyfriend -- the video ends with the number for the National Abuse Hotline appearing on the screen. It's ambiguous as to whether the song itself is meant to portray abuse too: The narrator doesn't like how the subject's boyfriend treats her and thinks she'd be better off leaving with him, but the lyrics don't really mention why, other than the fact that he's not "a gentleman" and causes her to cry on a regular basis.
141%%* The subject of Music/GeorgeMichael's "Look At Your Hands" from his debut solo album ''Faith''.
142* "Not to Blame" by Music/JoniMitchell is about a serial abuser who always avoids responsibility for his actions, even when it drives his partners to suicide. The song is alleged to be about Mitchell's ex-boyfriend Music/JacksonBrowne, who was [[OvershadowedByControversy facing down well-publicized allegations that]] he physically abused his then-girlfriend DarylHannah when the song was released. Mitchell denies this, but the similarities between the song's lyrics and known events in Browne's personal life have not gone unnoticed, and even garnered an angry response from Browne in the media.
143* "The Little Girl" by Music/JohnMichaelMontgomery, where the title character -- a young girl -- witnesses increasingly violent confrontations between her father and mother, culminating in a murder-suicide.
144%%* "Stockholm Syndrome" by Music/{{Muse}}, sung from the POV of the perpetrator.
145%%* Music/{{Nickelback}}'s "Never Again."
146* Though the song focuses on lead singer Jacoby Shaddix's childhood, Music/PapaRoach's "Broken Home" has shades of this. The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yERDDbP53Sw music video]] lampshades this. The guy (Jacoby's father) verbally abuses his wife and even rapes her.
147-->I'm crying day and night now, what is wrong with me?\
148I cannot fight now, I feel like a weak link
149%%* "Better Man" by Music/PearlJam:
150%%-->"She lies and says she's in love with him... Can't find a better man."
151* Music/PetShopBoys:
152** "Only The Wind". (WordOfGod says it is indeed about domestic abuse and not AIDS, as commonly believed.) "There's nobody hiding behind a locked door/And no one's been lying 'cause we don't lie anymore." The abused lover says "I'm sorry..." at the end and is implied to have either left or killed the abuser.
153** "One More Chance" may also be about this: "Chained, framed, you know what I mean. Push me in the corner and I'll scream." On the other hand, it may be interpreted as an ObligatoryBondageSong.
154* The music video for [[Music/{{Pink}} P!nk's]] "Please Don't Leave Me" is about a batshit insane {{Yandere}} who abuses her husband. Thankfully, she's portrayed as the crazy woman she is, and she doesn't get away with it.
155* Finnish band PMMP's "Joku Raja" is about a woman fed up with being physically abused and threatening to kill her abuser if he hits her again.
156* Music/ThePretenders:
157** "The Phone Call" where some unknown benefactor tries to get the victim out of the circumstances.
158** Even more known: "Thin Line Between Love and Hate", where the obedient wife suddenly goes berserk.
159* Rachel Proctor's song "Me and Emily" tells the story of a woman who packs up her daughter to escape a physically abusive husband.
160* "Face Down" by Music/TheRedJumpsuitApparatus. In the music video, the wife is shown collecting her things from the house in preparation for leaving the abuser. As she walks through it, certain items shatter or explode, representing when her abuser destroyed them in his anger.
161-->"Face down in the dirt," she said, "This doesn't hurt," she said, "I've finally had enough."
162* There are the truly grim recordings on Music/LouReed's ''Berlin'' album, including "Caroline Says" ''(as she gets up off the floor/You can hit me all you want to/But I don't love you anymore)'' and the coda "Sad Song" ''(I'm going to stop wasting my time/Somebody else would have broken both of her arms)''
163* "Two Beds And A Coffee Machine" by Music/SavageGarden is about a woman and her child dealing with the aftermath of domestic abuse.
164* Music/JessicaSimpson's "Remember That" is about a woman giving advice to another woman who is in an abusive relationship.
165* Music/TheStatlerBrothers: Their 1977 hit "I Was There" has lyrics that could imply that a young man's former childhood crush is being abused by the man she married, particularly with the dark lyric "I loved her first, but he loved her worse ... ."
166* The ([[RealitySubtext apparently autobiographical]]) "Drawn to the Blood" by Music/SufjanStevens:
167-->''The strength of his arm,\
168My lover caught me off-guard.''
169* "Animal Nitrate" by {{Music/Suede}}, in which the protagonist falls victim to the charms of an abusive boyfriend.
170* The Jazmine Sullivan song "Call Me Guilty". But she gets revenge by [[spoiler: murdering him]].
171* Music/TaylorSwift's song "Dear John," from the album ''Music/SpeakNow'', never explicitly calls the narrator's ex abusive, but the description of his behavior that eventually led to her breaking up with him is ''textbook'' emotional abuse in a lot of ways. Given that most of her {{Breakup Song}}s are simply "we weren't right for each other" or "we fought all the time," this one is shockingly dark, with her realizing in hindsight how toxic the relationship was.
172** Alternating between sweetness and cruelty at the drop of a hat? Check, she describes "wondering which version of you I might get on the phone." She also says that the instability of their relationship made left her "praying the floor won't fall through... again."
173** Being inconsistent about what his expectations from her and their relationship are? ''Big'' check, she comments on this in several lines, accusing him of "keeping lines blurry, never impressed by me acing your tests" and "[changing] the rules every day."
174** For that matter, the implication that he would "test" her love and loyalty is also a hallmark of an abusive (or at least unhealthy) relationship.
175** She repeatedly emphasizes that she was barely nineteen when they dated, implying that he was ''much'' older and was taking advantage of her naivete and driving her to tears. (The song is almost certainly about John Mayer, who dated Taylor when he was thirty-one and she was nineteen.)
176** Isolating her from family and loved ones? This one's implied; she describes that her "days once revolved around you," and mentions that her mother expressed concern about the relationship, but she brushed her off.
177** It's made clear that his behavior is a pattern; the narrator describes his past girlfriends with "tired, lifeless eyes, 'cause you burned them out" and deeply regrets not listening to the people that tried to warn her about him.
178* Elvira T:
179** The music video for her song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6b-tzSBmh8 "Nevynosimo" ("Unbearably")]] is about this. The video begins with Elvira being intimidated by her boyfriend, who has her backed against the way in a threatening manner. As the video goes on, it becomes more graphic, and Elvira is shown bleeding from the mouth at several points and is even shown [[spoiler:being brutally choked by him at one point]]. It all comes to a head when the abusive boyfriend [[spoiler:forces her to the ground and holds her head down with his boot, with the scene gradually becoming bloodier. The video ends with a disturbing scene of her choking on her own blood before finally closing her eyes and going limp, possibly having died.]]
180** Her other song "Moy Paren Psikh" ("My Boyfriend Is Psycho") is also about this.
181* "Back For Good" by Music/TakeThat seems to imply that an abusive relationship is taking place between the singer and his loved one.
182-->''We'll be fighting, and forever we will be''
183-->''So complete in our love''
184-->''We will never be uncovered again.''
185* Music/RichardThompson's "She Twists The Knife Again" is sung from the perspective of a man being emotionally and physically abused by his partner.
186* "Voices Carry" by 'Til Tuesday is about a woman in an abusive relationship who fears expressing her emotions about what she feels about her lover.
187* The Music/ShaniaTwain song "Black Eyes, Blue Tears" is an empowerment anthem about a woman attempting to break free from an abusive relationship.
188* Music/CarrieUnderwood:
189** "Blown Away": The central character is a teenaged girl who is abused by her father. She gets her escape when a storm destroys their house and kills the father in the process.
190** "Church Bells": A young country girl marries into money...but the rich guy gets drunk and beats her. She retaliates by poisoning his alcohol with something "no lawman was ever gonna find."
191--->''And how he died remains a mystery\
192But he hit a woman for the very last time''
193* Music/SuzanneVega's smash hit "Luka" is about a boy who gets beaten at home, but constantly denies it to avoid unwanted attention.
194-->Yes, I think I'm okay\
195I walked into the door again\
196If you ask, that's what I'll say\
197And it's not your business anyway
198* Music/WallOfVoodoo's "Factory" is about a factory worker whose dangerous, monotonous, and stressful job has caused him physical and mental harm - one sign of the latter is when, near the end of the song, he casually admits "just lately when my wife talks back to me, I smack her around".
199* A Jimmy Wayne song, "The Rabbit". It ends with the wife [[spoiler:being acquitted of her husband's murder]].
200* Betty Wright's "Go!" is about a woman in an abusive relationship finally finding the strength to leave.
201* "I Know I'm A Wolf" by Young Heretics uses animal symbolism. The protagonist is a "wolf" who wants to denounce his previous ways and be kind to the "rabbit" he's talking to.
202* PlayedForLaughs in Jerry Colonna's rendition of "(Why Oh Why Did I Ever Leave) Wyoming".
203-->Oh give me back my prairie and my saddle and wild game\
204Where the hills are nice and curvy and the women are the same\
205Where skies are always bluer and the cowboys' songs are sad\
206Where men are punchin' cattle and mother's punchin' dad

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