ArsonMurderAndJaywalking in Music.
----
->As you're sinking
->You get to thinking
->What is the worst thing that is happening:
->Asphyxiation, mutilation, and an ankle sprain?
-->-- '''Rainbowdragoneyes''', [[https://rainbowdragoneyes.bandcamp.com/track/thrashbaath "Thrashbaath"]]

* Used in the voiceover at beginning of the Music/{{Aerosmith}}'s "Legendary Child" music video:
--> "They've overcome ... divorce, drug addiction, stalkers, the music industry, rabid liars, [[EvilLawyerJoke I mean lawyers]], hung juries, ''bad sushi'' ..."
* From Creator/AllanSherman's "Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah":
-->All the counselors hate the waiters\\
And the lake has alligators\\
And our head coach wants no sissies\\
So he reads to us from something called ''Literature/{{Ulysses}}''
* Music/AliceCooper's 2011 album ''Welcome 2 My Nightmare'' has a song called "The Congregation".
* In the Arrogant Worms' song "I Ran Away," some guys start hurling insults at the narrator's girlfriend. The first insult is, "She's a fat ugly tramp!" and the last is, "She's a mediocre soccer player!"
--> ''And here in the fiery pit of boiling death, the lawyers, pimps, and [[EveryoneHatesMimes mimes]].''
* In the song "Lasse Redn", the German Punkrock band Music/DieArzte describes the tabloid ''Bild'' in this way:
-->Die meisten Leute haben ihre Bildung aus der Bild\\
Und die besteht nun mal, wer wüsste das nicht\\
Aus Angst, Hass, Titten und dem Wetterbericht\\
(Most people get their education from Bild\\
and that consists, as everyone knows,\\
of fear, hate, tits and the weather forecast)
* The Music/BarenakedLadies song "Grade 9" features this, whilst reminiscing about high school nicknames:
-->They called me chicken legs!\\
They called me four-eyes!\\
They called me fatso!\\
They called me Buckwheat!\\
They called me Eddy...
** Although a possible interpretation is that Eddy's grade 9 experience wasn't as awful as the rest of the Ladies'.
* When English band Music/TheBeautifulSouth released their debut album, Woolworths refused to stock it because of the album's cover depicting a woman with a gun in her mouth next to a man smoking. The band replied in typical sarcastic fashion by saying that the store wanted to "prevent the hoards of impressionable young fans from blowing their heads off in a gun-gobbling frenzy, ''or taking up smoking''"
* Music/BillyJoel ends "We Didn't Start the Fire" with a pair of these, back to back:
--> Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz\\
Hypodermics on the shore, China's under martial law, rock and roller cola wars...
* Music/BoBurnham uses this frequently:
** From "Oh Bo": "I feel like hip-hop used to be a voice for the voiceless, you know? And now it's become, at least in the mainstream, a symbol of misogyny, gay panic, fiscal irresponsibility."
** From "Rant": "Sadness where there should be joy; hate, and rape, and Music/SouljaBoy."
** From "Sad": "I saw a little boy drop his ice cream cone directly on his mother's corpse! I saw a kitten stuck in a tree, then the kitten jumped off, and he hung itself. I saw a boy who had [[RedheadsAreUncool red hair.]]"
* The title of the ''Music/ButtholeSurfers''' 1987 album ''Locust Abortion Technician'' is basically this.
* The ''Music/CreatureFeature'' song "Such Horrible Things" almost takes this trope literally. The narrator of the song has been doing [[TitleDrop such horrible things]] ever since he was born, doing worse and worse acts every two years until he had to be placed in a mental ward, just in time for his eighteenth birthday. When he's six years old, he murders his neighbor friend while playing hide and seek in the forest. When he's eight, he commits arson by burning down his house [[DisproportionateRetribution because he hated its color]]. When he's ten, the next incredibly evil thing he does is...pretend to drown and laugh about it.
* "Smolik" by Diorama has these lines:
-->Elderly people\\
Nuclear warning\\
Critical values\\
Fatal drops\\
Use at your own risk\\
Don't drink the water\\
Don't feed the bears\\
Don't cuddle the puppies
* {{Music/Eminem}}:
** In "Cum on Everybody":
--> I thought I was ill, now I'm even moreso,
-->shit, I got full blown AIDS and a sore throat"
** In "Bad Guys Always Die", he describes a Wild West villain he and Dre are planning to fight:
-->He ain't got no legs, they cut them off at the stomach\\
He's got mechanical legs, he spins webs\\
Plus he's well-respected by the hip-hop heads
** In "Just Don't Give a Fuck", we learn about Shady's crimes:
-->Extortin', snortin', supportin' abortion
* The Music/{{Powerman 5000}} song "Supervillain" has:
--> "...[You would rather] abuse/ Condemn or slightly confuse..."
* The Music/WeirdAlYankovic song "One of Those Days" includes a fair handful of such examples. One set of lines that matches the trope quite closely:
-->The bank called me up and told me I'm overdrawn\\
Some freaks are burnin' crosses out on my front lawn\\
And I can't believe it, all the Cheetos are gone!
** Also, the side effects of the computer virus in "Virus Alert" alternate between threatening and ridiculous:
--->(Look out!) It's gonna melt your face right off your skull\\
(Look out!) And make your [=iPod=] only play Music/JethroTull\\
(Look out!) And tell you knock-knock jokes while you're trying to sleep\\
(Look out!) [[BestialityIsDepraved And make you physically attracted to sheep]]\\
(Look out!) Steal your identity and your credit cards\\
(Look out!) [[PinkIsForSissies Buy you a warehouse full of pink leotards]]\\
(Look out!) [[RealityWarper Then cause a major rift in time and space]]\\
And leave a bunch of Twinkie wrappers all over the place!
** He manages to shove this ''and'' BreadEggsMilkSquick into "Hardware Store" at the end of a LongList. To save you the boredom of reading the whole bridge, here's the last few lines instead
--->Trailer hitch demagnetizers, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick automatic circumcisers]]\\
Tennis rackets, angle brackets, Duracells and Energizers\\
Soffit panels, circuit breakers, vacuum cleaners, coffee makers\\
Calculators, generators, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking matching salt and pepper shakers]]
** The video for "Living with a Hernia" has Al sitting with three other patients in a waiting room at the doctor's office: A woman with her head in a vice, [[BandageMummy a woman covered head-to-toe in bandages]], and [[OffWithHisHead a man holding his decapitated head]] in his left arm. Despite having the least obvious infirmity, Al is the next one chosen to see the doctor.
** "CNR" extols the {{Memetic Badass}}itude of the late actor and frequent ''Series/MatchGame'' panellist Charles Nelson Reilly. The man's incredible feats could even give Creator/ChuckNorris a run for his money. [[BigEater He can also eat a lot of frozen waffles...]]
** [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] at one point of the song "Albuquerque":
--->You know, I'd never been on a real airplane before, and I gotta tell ya, it was really great. Except that I had to sit between two large Albanian women with excruciatingly severe body odor. And the little kid in back of me kept throwin' up the whole time. The flight attendants ran out of Dr. Pepper and salted peanuts. And the in-flight movie was ''Film/BioDome'' with Pauly Shore. And, oh yeah, three of the airplane engines burned out and we went into a tailspin and crashed into a hillside and the plane exploded in a giant fireball and everybody ''died''!
* "The Chemical Worker's Song", or "Process Man" (most famous cover probably by Newfoundland band Music/GreatBigSea), describes the horrific conditions faced in the chemical industry. It follows that the first verse uses this very dryly:
-->Well, a process man am I, and I'm tellin' you no lie\\
I work and breathe among the fumes that trail across the sky\\
There's thunder all around me and there's poison in the air\\
There's a lousy smell that smacks of Hell, and dust all in me hair!
** It's justified given that the dust in such a factory is probably just as toxic and life-shortening as anything else there, and he's covered in it.
* Psychostick's song ''We Ran Out of CD Space'' includes this, as well as BreadEggsMilkSquick in the subsequent verse.
-->''What if your mouth was filled with broken glass/and fire ants/and creamy jambalaya.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfUe2eckPFQ Tsurupettan]] has the line "Curses, disappearances, sacrifices, torture, demoning away, and sneak-eating?" at some point.
** Which is actually a reference to ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'', as evident by the mention of "Oyashiro-sama" right before it.
* Billy Connolly's "Talkin' Blues" includes the lines
-->Then like Napoleon and Ghengis did in days of yore
-->They rode home on horseback and evened up the score
-->With rifles, bayonettes, screw-tops and ''swear words''
* Music/TomLehrer:
** "The Irish Ballad" is about a girl who murders her entire family, member by member (including a baby brother that she cuts in two and serves up as an Irish stew), for no particular reason. Then, when the police come by, she readily admits to the murders, for "lying, she knew, was a sin."
** In "The Hunting Song", the narrator claims that he shot, "Two game wardens, seven hunters, and a cow."
* Shoeless Joe Jackson in Music/JonathanCoulton's "Kenesaw Mountain Landis":
-->Weren't the nicest fella,\\
Cuz he drank a lot, and he beat his wife, and he always acted rude;\\
Killed and ate some babies, and he copped an attitude
* "Jesus Walks" by Music/KanyeWest: "They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus! That means guns, sex, lies, videotapes..." (Probably just a ShoutOut to Creator/StevenSoderbergh's ''Sex, Lies, and Videotape''.)
** In the same song: "To the hustlers, killers, murderers, drug dealers, ''even the strippers'', Jesus walks with them".
* "Oh Jonny" by German singer Jan Delay is about a pretty bad guy who does as diverse bad things as a) selling crack, b) calling his (the singer's) mother a dirty slut and c) doesn't use energy saving lamps.
* The Worm Quartet song [[http://www.thefump.com/fump.php?id=75 "What Your Parents Think All Your Music Sounds Like"]] mocks the MoralGuardians who protest against music by creating "the most evil song ever recorded". The lyrics tell the listener to do things like "Kill your neighbor, kill your brother, kill your sister... rape your mother, get her pregnant, kill the baby, set the church on fire and use the flames to light your crack pipe," and then finally, "put your homework off ''until the very day it's due''."
** And carve pentagrams into poodles, sacrifice their cat to Satan, kill their parents, and "Girls will fuck you if you [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys drink straight from the milk jug]]."
* Lines from the song (no, not the trope) "Science Marches On" recite names of numerous technological innovations, all of which are very new, very silly, and/or very commercialized. Well, all except one:
--> Prozac Automat, phaser in a pen, light-emitting overcoat, ''sensitive men''.
** The song is a male/female duet, and needless to say, it's the woman who sings those last two words.
* Music/RayStevens' "Moonlight Special", a parody song involving a "Creator/WolfmanJack"-like character doing a radio program, has a song by "Agnes Stupor" that begins: "Girl, flash an old lady now. Wreck the family car. Paint the living room carpet. Chop down a cherry tree and say you didn't do it."
* The musical "The last hero on Earth" has a song where different mad scientists detail their plans for defeating the superheroes, culminating in "some exposition that will bore them all to death".
* The song "My Love is Killing Me" by The Red Elvises, as heard in the movie ''Film/SixStringSamurai'':
-->[[MasochismTango I can forgive you the bruises and cuts]],
-->[[GroinAttack I can forgive you the scars on my nuts]],
-->[[BerserkButton But there is only one thing I can't stand]],
-->[[AccidentalMisnaming Don't call me Chris]].
-->[[ElvisImpersonator My name is Elvis]].
* In ''Sanagi Love Song'' by musical duo Sanagi, the singer describes all the ways she would like to torture a lover with whom she is furious, including smashing his face in with a hammer, pushing him from a mountain, pulling off his fingernails, and... [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment forcing him to listen to the Spice Girls]].
* In Elvira's ''Full Moon'', during the spoken bridge: "Rape, murder, arson and disorderly conduct (is there any other kind?) practically double during a full moon."
* From the chorus of ''God's Away on Business'' by Music/{{Tom Waits}} from ''Music/BoneMachine'':
-->Who are the ones that we kept in charge?
-->Killers, thieves and [[EvilLawyerJoke lawyers!]]
* Mew's "Sometimes Life Isn't Easy":
--->Hold my arms back when they beat me,\\
Leave me in the ditch when they kick me,\\
Sever my limbs and deceive me...
** I can handle being beat up and dismembered, but then they have to go and ''lie'' to me?
* In ''A Chainsaw For Christmas'' by Music/ZombinaAndTheSkeletones, a few other things on her list are;
--> ""I want an [[NukeEm atom bomb]], and a [[BaldOfEvil bald head wig]], the [[TomeOfEldritchLore Necronomicon]], and some sandwiches!""
* On the Group W bench in "Music/AlicesRestaurant", the ex-cons assembled there are guilty of mother-raping, father-stabbing, [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs father-raping]], and littering. (And causing a disturbance.)
* The monologue "[[http://www.neverlandhotel.dk/lyrics.php?no=92 The Want Ad]]", written by Jim Steinman for the "Pandora's Box" album, performed by Ellen Foley, is about a woman retracting her personal ad because of the long, long list of varieties of AbhorrentAdmirer she's encountered since taking it out. The monologue starts with complaints about things like "the under-eighteens and the over-sixties, the numerous ones who dialed my number and hung up as soon as I said hello, the thirty-five or forty of you who made dates with me and never showed up", and ends with her screaming about "the drunks, junkies, crack- and coke-heads, the multitude of liars, AND ESPECIALLY THE NICE ONES WHO NEVER CALLED BACK!"
* Music/EmilieAutumn's "I Know Where You Sleep" is one long TakeThat to an ex-lover. It ends with "And by the way, your poetry sucks".
* The fan-written song [[VideoGame/{{Portal2}} "Why,]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4KLv8Iuv7E Wheatley, Why?"]] has this:
-->I never called you a moron
-->I never said that you looked fat
-->I never claimed you were adopted
-->[[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 Or asked you to buy me a hat]]
* From Music/{{Weezer}}'s song ''Trainwrecks'':
-->You don't keep house and I'm a slob
-->You're freakin' out cause I can't keep a job
-->We don't update our blogs
* Music/TomPetty’s Christmas list at the end of "Christmas All Over Again": "Now let’s see, I want a new Rickenbacker guitar, two fender bassmans, a Chuck Berry songbook, a xylophone..."
* Probably what Shudder To Think were going for with the album title ''Curses, Spells, Voodoo, Mooses''.
* The revised version of Kraftwerk's "Radioactivity" begins with a short statment about the proposed Sellafield 2 nuclear plant, which states that one of the radioactive elements, Krypton-85, causes death and.... skin cancer.
* This and BreadEggsMilkSquick are seemingly Music/TheLonelyIsland's bread and butter.
** "Like a Boss" features increasingly messed-up things the titular character does:
-->Suck a dude's dick (Like a boss)\\
Score some coke (Like a boss)\\
Crash my car (Like a boss)\\
Suck my own dick (Like a boss)\\
[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Eat some chicken strips]] (Like a boss)
** "Jizz in my Pants" starts with the two jizzing in their pants when women say provocative things to them. It ends with them jizzing in response to wind blowing in through the window, the twist ending of ''Film/TheSixthSense'', and eating grapes.
** "I'm on a Boat":
--> FUCK LAND, I'M ON A BOAT, MUTHAFUCKA!\\
FUCK TREES, I CLIMB BUOYS, MUTHAFUCKA!\\
I'M ON THE DECK WITH MY BOYS, MUTHAFUCKA!\\
'''[[CaptainObvious THE BOAT ENGINE MAKES NOISE, MUTHAFUCKA!!]]'''
** "We're Back" covers, in this order: erectile dysfunction, genital odour, shitting the bed, getting hepatitis c from horses, Rule34 of Garfield and Marmaduke, and bringing lunch to homeless people.
** "Spring Break Anthem" juxtaposes spring break debauchery with a very wholesome depiction of gay marriage - it could be read as a satire of how one of these things tends to be celebrated in American popular culture, while the other is seen as taboo:
-->Trashing hotel rooms, clogging up toilets
-->{{Beer goggles}} if she's a hag
-->Planning the menu, picking out flowers
-->Nailing sluts and writing our vows!
* The Music/{{NOFX}} short song "Instant Crassic":
-->''[[ToiletHumor I'm swimming in a sea of pee,\\
I'm hiking up a big mountain of poo.]]\\
I feel like rolling in glass when I'm without you.\\
[[{{Squick}} I'm diving in a pool of puke,\\
I'm fly fishing a stream of pus,]]\\
that's how I feel when something separates us.\\
[[TakeThat I'm living in Bakersfield,\\
I'm at a month long hip-hop festival]]--''
* Political hardcore band Propaghandi uses this beautifully in the song "The Only Good Fascist is A Very Dead Fascist" from the Less Talk, More Rock album:
--> ''What exactly are the great accomplishments of your race that make you proud to be white? Capitalism? Slavery? Genocide? [[TakeThat Sitcoms]]?''
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sEIiWKSzJA "Tribute To Kent Hovind"]] spends the song dropping f-bombs to call Kent Hovind names but ends with the far milder "Kent, you're a dick."
* This line from the chorus of [[Music/EgoLikeness Burn Witch Burn]]:
--> "You've connived and deceived and you've learned how to read."
* Nanci Griffith's has this Irish lament: "I am guilty, I am war, I am the root of all evil; Lord, and I can't drive on the left side of the road!"
* [[http://roughstock.com/news/2013/07/14820-bobbys-one-hit-wonders-volume-20-jessica-andrews-who-i-am/ This article]] on CountryMusic singer Jessica Andrews discusses her only big hit, "Who I Am", in which the first line of the chorus is "I am Rosemary's granddaughter." After spending most of a paragraph discussing what he thinks is wrong with its lyrics, production, and Jessica's singing style, the author finishes up with "Also, she's even admitted that Rosemary isn't her grandmother's name."
** From the same writer: "[[http://www.roughstock.com/reviews/album-review-keith-urban-fuse It's not like]] [Music/KeithUrban]'s venturing into death metal, electronica, or CCM…"
* Music/UnknownHinson was sent to prison for 3 counts of murder, grave-robbing, vampirism...and 19 paternity suits.
* [=Y&T=]'s video for "Summertime Girls" is set at a beach. At the start, there is a sign on the bulletin board reading "No Smoking No Drinking No Loitering No Accordion Solos."
* The bridge of Music/TheyMightBeGiants’ “They'll Need a Crane”:
-->Don’t call me at work again, no, no, the boss still hates me
-->I’m just tired and I don't love you anymore
-->And there’s a restaurant we should check out
** And “Someone Keeps Moving My Chair”, which bugs him more than all the other stuff they put him through:
--> Would you mind if we balance this glass of milk\\
Where your visiting friend accidentally was killed?\\
Would it be okay with you if we wrote a reminder\\
Of things we'll forget to do today otherwise,\\
Using a green magic marker, if it's all right,\\
On the back of your head?
* "Politics, Religion, and Her" by Music/SammyKershaw. According to the song, those are the only things he won't talk about to a friend ("her" being a lost lover).
* "I Might Even Quit Lovin' You" by Music/MarkChesnutt:
-->Gonna reach way down inside and find a brand new will to live\\
Got plans to forget about the way you made me feel\\
Gonna walk outside one night and turn your memory loose\\
And when I do, I might even quit lovin' you\\
And when I do, I might even quit lovin' you
* The 1983 UsefulNotes/{{Estonia}}n patriotic song "Ärkamise aeg" ("Time of Awakening"), popular in the [[VelvetRevolution Singing Revolution]] which lead to the restoration of Estonian independence after half a century of Soviet rule, lists the crimes of foreign invaders in Estonia as follows:
--> Tulega, mõõgaga tuli võõras mees, | With fire, with a sword, came a strange man,\\
Häda tõi, valu tõi, ''võõrast leiba sõi''. | He brought distress, he brougth pain, ''he ate strange bread''.\\
Langes taat, memmeke, lapseeas vennake,| Old men fell, old women, baby brother\\
Pisaraist märjaks sai kogu maa. | The land was drenched in tears.
* The chorus for Raymond & Maria's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCBvg071F3s No One Notices Your Brand New T-shirt]]":
--> No one will miss you when you die
--> No one will think of you and cry
--> No one notices your brand new t-shirt
* From "People II: The Reckoning" by Music/AndrewJacksonJihad:
--> But there's a bad man in everyone, no matter who we are
--> There's a rapist and a Nazi living in our tiny hearts
--> Child pornographers and cannibals and [[CorruptPolitician politicians]] too
* Music/MiracleOfSound indulges in this occasionally; a prime example is the ContentWarning at the beginning of the "[[VideoGame/Doom2016 Hell to Pay]]" video:
-->''WARNING: This music video contains images of extreme violence, gore, metal, awesomeness, chainsaws, and a severe lack of diplomatic solutions to interpersonal conflicts. Viewer discretion is advised. ''
* Music/SteelPanther has a song called "Ten Strikes You're Out", where the narrator puts up with his girlfriend cheating, mistrusting him, and giving his dog VD, but when he finds out she drank his last beer, that's when he dumps her.
* The chorus to "[[BreakupSong All Your Favorite Bands]]" by Dawes:
-->I hope that life without a chaperone is what you thought it'd be\\
I hope your brother's El Camino runs forever\\
I hope the world sees the same person that you always were to me\\
And may all your favorite bands stay together.
* The title song for ''Series/WhereInTheWorldIsCarmenSandiego'' lists many of Carmen's crimes, which include looting, running scams, armed robbery, pick-pocketing ... and stealing legumes.
-->She put the Miss in misdemeanor when she stole the beans from Lima.
* Horrorcore artist Sutter Kain's song, "August Underground":
--> I'm so twisted, I leave your chest leakin'\\
Shit on the ground, make your mother eat the feces\\
Hacksaw and chop all you niggas up to pieces\\
[[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments And burn any pic]] [[EvilIsPetty that depicts a white Jesus.]]
* In "Space Oddity" by Music/DavidBowie, after the astronaut character Major Tom has lifted off into space:
--> This is Ground Control to Major Tom, you've really made the grade, and the papers want to know whose shirts you wear.
* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuDo2DrLPYA The Beverley Sisters]]'' song "It's Illegal, It's Immoral Or It Makes You Fat"
* "Bad Day to Let You Go" by Bryan White:
-->Got a hole in my shoe\\
And a bad case of the blues\\
On top of that, it's raining too...
* ''Music/KidsPraise'': This was likely done just for rhyming, but Risky Rat's Villain Song in the tenth album has him describing himself as, and we quote: ''clever, conniving, a spiritual gangster, a trickster, a charmer, a conman, a [[PokeThePoodle prankster]]!''
* "We Care A Lot" by Music/FaithNoMore:
-->We care a lot about disasters, fires, floods, and killer bees
* The Music/{{Vocaloid}} track "Ever∞Lasting∞Night" has a subverted example. [[spoiler:For context, the ''Night ∞'' series is about the servants of a manor suffering what appears to be a StableTimeLoop centered around a guest that arrives in the dead of night. Thus, the "jaywalking" in question is much more sinister than it appears.]] (lyrics below are translated without regard for melody)
-->'''Meiko:''' In the glow of an eerie red full moon, a storm brews this night...
-->'''Luka:''' On such a night, on such a night...
-->'''Gumi:''' An incident is sure to occur!
-->'''Kaito:''' A vampire out for blood?
-->'''Rin:''' A werewolf baring his fangs?
-->'''Len:''' A Frankenstein's monster?
-->'''Gakupo:''' An uninvited guest?
* The song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z_XlKiO3E8 "Bad Decisions"]] by {{Music/Grottomatic}} is written from the perspective of a man who is trying to ditch a friend whose idea of fun mostly involves extremely dangerous and foolish activities. One of the things involves a hookup between the singer and his friend's sister.
-->You even set me up with your Trekkie sister when you know that I like Doctor Who!
* The chorus of the popular Swedish drinking song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JlXoWRhFbg Härjarvisan]] (Reaver's Song) translates to: "Now we're going out to reave, drink and fight and swear, burn red houses, hit small kids and say bad words!"
* On Music/{{Rihanna}}'s episode of the Fuse TV series ''Loaded'', the host is talking about the different personae she portrayed in her videos, including a soldier[[note]]"Hard"[[/note]], a rock star[[note]]"Rockstar 101"[[/note]], a murderer[[note]]"Man Down"[[/note]] "and a car mechanic, just to name a few."[[note]]"Shut Up and Drive."[[/note]] Justified, since it was setting up the video for "Stay," where she is herself.
* A German oldie, probably already from the 50s, laments for a little DKW car which had a breakdown: motor defect, [[BellisariosMaxim gasoline tank lost]]...and a dirty exhaust.
* ''Musician'' Magazine's review of Music/{{MC Hammer}}'s ''Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em'' lists the album's messages as "DrugsAreBad. Save The Children. I Can Dance."
* The rapper Canibus, in Lost @ C has the following line: "My bloodstream's been, contaminated for eons. I got cast out of Heaven for treason. Got cast out of the Garden of Eden for letting the reptilian beast in. Got locked up for a DUI and speedin"
* [=EMI=] Music Canada's 1993 "Eat the Music" sampler consists of several songs such as Music/GarthBrooks' "Ain't Going Down (Til The Sun Comes Up)", Music/PetShopBoys' "Go West", Music/StompinTomConnors' "Blue Berets", Music/{{Radiohead}}'s "3:53", Music/TheBeatles' "Hello Goodbye", Music/KateBush's "Rubber Band Girl"... and [[Series/BarneyAndFriends Barney the Dinosaur]]'s "I Love You"
* The Niko B song "Who's That What's That" sees him meeting a girl and lists her transgressions, with an actual case of arson, as being:
--> She stole like half my jumpers (thief)
--> Took her to meet my family and she squared up to my cousin (bow)
--> Yeah she's mad (she's mad)
--> She'll try to fight my dad
--> Got her a taxi from the airport and she tried to bump the cab (bump)
--> And she stole, my cat (my cat)
--> She burnt down my flat (no way)
--> She went to the club and put her drinks on my tab
* Music/JimmyBuffett does this three times in the chorus of "Vampires, Mummies, and the Holy Ghost":
-->Vampires, mummies and the Holy Ghost
-->These are the things that terrify me the most
-->No alien, psychopath or MTV host
-->Scares me like vampires, mummies and the Holy Ghost
* In Music/FlightOfTheConchords' song "Think About It":
-->There's children on the street using guns and knives
-->They're taking drugs and each other's lives
-->Killing each other with knives and forks
-->And calling each other names like 'dork'
* Seen in the music video for Music/TheChalkeaters' [[https://youtu.be/XAqq5yqR-T4 "Breathtaking"]], after the flying puppies convert various game companies, causing their leaders to retract their previous controversial stances. The head of EA denounces their "surprise mechanics" lootbox system, the head of Blizzard holds up a sign that says "Free Hong Kong", and Gabe Newell decides to make ''Half-Life 3''.
* Music/{{Qbomb}}: In "A Minor Apocalypse", the singer's breakdown involves him describing two aggressive actions and then an [[PokeThePoodle incredibly mundane one]].
-->''I am the human anathema\\
The lack of logic\\
Sometimes I put recyclables\\
Into the wrong garbage''
* Music/PetShopBoys: The verses of "You Know Where You Went Wrong" are glimpses into three tales of people whose lives took undesired turns - the first concerns two homeless men, the second is about an old man who provided "security, bombs, and colour TV" now being shunned for the fatal consequences of his accomplishments... and the last verse is about a girl regretting her decision to not date a boy.
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