Songs With "Twist Endings"

This is the king of songs with MUSICAL twist endings.

And it's very, very, very, very creepy/scary.

Seriously. Listen to it.

But do yourself a favor, and don't listen to this song near water, 'kay?

Almost thought that would be a Suzanne Vega cover, but that's "Luka". Anyway, I've heard of Brand New but haven't ever heard them. That was pretty good.

One of the weirder musical twist endings I've encountered recently is this:

It's kind of tame as far as Last Note Nightmare stuff goes, it's just the fact that it's two full minutes of it after a two minute surf-punk song

Oh, and it's hard to find a Mr. Bungle song that doesn't have some kind of musical twist, but the end of "Pink Cigarette" is pretty creepy and catches you off guard. Kind of a funny story, the first time I heard California, it was on a discman that always started beeping exactly like that when it's low on power. Since I also wasn't really paying attention to the lyrics, instead of being creeped out by a heart monitor slowly flatlining as the narrator counts down to the time you'll find him dead, I was just annoyed because I thought I was running out of batteries already.

edited 27th Jun '11 6:57:08 PM by MikeK

How did I forget about the Beach Boys’ “I’d Love Just Once To See You” in the nude?

edited 27th Jun '11 11:02:58 PM by Bananaquit

"One Last Time" by Dusty Drake. At first, it just sounds like any other "we're breaking up" song, until you get to the line about the pilot trying and failing to pull the plane out of a dive.

There's also "Raymond" by Brett Eldredge. The narrator's tending to an elderly Alzheimer's patient who thinks he's her son, Raymond. The third verse reveals that Raymond died in Vietnam.

"Live, Laugh, Love," from the musical Follies. It's towards the end of the show, where the wealthy Benjamin Stone sings a song in the style of one sung by Fred Astaire, with a happy devil-may-care attitude.

"Me, I like to live, Me, I like to laugh, Me, I like to love!"

However, throughout the song, he slips up and forgets his lyrics, and at the end he's stammering: "Me I like to love, Me, I... Me, I like - Me, I love - Me..."

"I don't love me."

clever song

Rammstein have "Wo bist du" which sounds like a song of lost love, until the last lines of the last verse, when it is revealed he sleeps with a knife every night, and it is implied he would use it

"Come Sail Away". The gathering of angels is actually a gathering of aliens who kidnap the singer on their ship.

Chris de Burgh's "Spanish Train." A man dies. God and Satan play poker for his soul, using more souls as chips for the pot. Satan cheats, naturally... and God doesn't notice. Satan wins, and they all go to Hell. The end.

edited 23rd Jul '11 5:20:33 PM by apocalemur

Ed Sheehan's Small Bump. A father singing about how excited he is to meet his unborn child? How sweet! And then the last verse comes... [[spoiler: 'Cause you were just a small bump unborn for four months then torn from life. Maybe you were needed up there but we're still unaware as why.]] ...OH. WOW. Took me a couple of listens to actually realize what he meant at the end.

A lot of songs by the California rockabilly group The Blasters have twists in them.

"Help You Dream" sounds like a series of sleazy, almost silly-over-the-top come-ons, but it backfires on the person giving them, when it's revealed that all he has going for him is a collection of pick up lines.