Songs with twist endings.

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Twist endings are common with films, but what about songs? At the moment I can only come up with "The Naughty Lady of Shady Lane" by Dean Martin, where the twist (a pretty funny one, I think) comes in the final line... Any others?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 18:53 (seventeen years ago) link

I guess "Time" by Killah Priest has sort of a twist ending too.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 18:55 (seventeen years ago) link

So, stick by his side
I know his dude's ballin', and yeah that's nice
And they gone keep on callin' and tryin'
But you stay right girl
And when you get on, he leave your ass for a white girl

― adam beales (pye poudre), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 19:10 (seventeen years ago) link

have you heard the new ghostface album? There is a song with a twist on it, the song has a good beat.

― Juan Carlos (CuriousG), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 19:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Chubby Checker

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 19:12 (seventeen years ago) link

the song is titled alex

― Juan Carlos (CuriousG), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 19:14 (seventeen years ago) link

My Biggest Fan: Loudon Wainwright III

― kornrulez6969 (kornrulez6969), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 19:18 (seventeen years ago) link

"I Cram to Understand U (Sam)" by 16 year old MC Lyte
"I Used to Love H.E.R." by Common Sense
"A Boy Named Sue" by Johnny Cash

― Matt Cibula (Formerly, the Haikunym), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Seven Curses - Bob Dylan. It's basically the plot of Measure for Measure.

― a giant mechanical ant (a giant mechanical ant), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 19:25 (seventeen years ago) link

god i sound like a dick sometimes^^

― a giant mechanical ant (a giant mechanical ant), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link

are you talking about "Big Girl" Juan? -- the song is as misogynistic and pro-blow as you could want(?), until the last verse, when his conscience kicks in and he gets all tender and tells the girls that their nose-hair is getting burnt, that they need to enroll in college and settle down. it's pretty unexpected and effective after a whole album of hard-assery.

― a giant mechanical ant (a giant mechanical ant), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link

"Save Your Kisses For Me" by Brotherhood of Man has the same "twist" as that Dean Martin one.

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 21:28 (seventeen years ago) link

that one song by sublime where the dude was a date rapist and ends up getting raped in prison, psyche!

also that track from Paul's Boutique about the chick wif a dick, whatta bummer

― grbchv! (gbx), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 21:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I'd love just once to see you
I'd love just once to see you
I'd love just once to see you
In the nude

― King-a-Ling (King-a-Ling), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 21:49 (seventeen years ago) link

The Fiery Furnaces, 'My Dog Was Lost But Now He's Found'

― Louis Jagger (Scourage), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 21:51 (seventeen years ago) link

the last song on A Grand Don't Come For Free
Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose
Harry Chapin - The Mayor of Candor Lied

country music probably owns this

― a giant mechanical ant (a giant mechanical ant), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 21:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Dylan, "Jet Pilot"
"She got all the downtown boys, all at her command
But you've got to watch her closely 'cause she ain't no woman, she's a man!"

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 21:59 (seventeen years ago) link

My world is empty without you
But I've got the time to make it up to you
If the time is right my love just might
Set you all afire

But that ain't the truth
No, no-no that ain't the truth

My world is empty without you
My world is empty without you
My whole world is empty without you, babe

But that ain't the truth

― adam beales (pye poudre), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 22:22 (seventeen years ago) link

The Secret Machines - 'Sad And Lonely'

― Louis Jagger (Scourage), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 22:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Testify - Common

also the moment of realization has to be the worst lyric ever in the history of hip-hop: "the queen pin"

― Cap'n Guthrie (retardo1), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 22:39 (seventeen years ago) link

"Buenos Tardes Amigo"

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 22:44 (seventeen years ago) link

"Stan"

― Sébastien (LeRoo), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 22:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Leonard Nimoy "The Hitchhiker"

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 22:52 (seventeen years ago) link

long black veil

― a giant mechanical ant (a giant mechanical ant), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 22:57 (seventeen years ago) link

"Buenos Tardes Amigo"

I dunno, you can kinda see that one coming from a way's off.

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 23:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Chuck Berry's "Memphis, Tennessee"

― Monty Von Bygone (Monty Von Bygone), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 23:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Phantom 309 - Red Sovine
Nice Legs, Shame About the Face - The Monks
Mr. Limpet - Thin White Rope (come to think of it, a lotta their songs have oblique little half twists at the end...)

― adam beales (pye poudre), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 23:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Chuck Berry's "Memphis, Tennessee"

-- Monty Von Bygone (sbloomfiel...), December 5th, 2006. (later)

Also see: "The Ocean" by Led Zeppelin

― PPlains (PPlains), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 23:47 (seventeen years ago) link

"Save Your Kisses For Me" and "My Sweet Rosalie" - Brotherhood of Man

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 01:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Another Memphis clone, somewhat lyrically anyhoo is Clair by Gilbert O'Sullivan
Jim Stafford's My Girl Bill should have a table for three reserved on this thread too.

― Wench (jim wentworth), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 03:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Tesla & M. Night Shalamar - "Signs"

― bliss (blass), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 03:48 (seventeen years ago) link

trapped in a closet - r. kelly (c'mon)
and
Man in the Mirror - Michael Jackson

― Carey (Carey), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 04:04 (seventeen years ago) link

The Playmates - Beep Beep

― Dan I. (w1nt3rmut3), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 05:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Leonard Nimoy "The Hitchhiker"

and "A Visit to a Sad Planet"

― a.b. (abanana), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 07:04 (seventeen years ago) link

gnarls barkley "the boogie monster"

ending stolen from grover's "The Monster at the End of This Book"

― a.b. (abanana), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 07:11 (seventeen years ago) link

I need this
I need love
I need you
I don't need one hearbeat
I need two

There's an emptiness I need to fill
And only one emptiness will do

Only a woman, Can brighten up my day
Only a woman, Can touch me the right way
Only a woman, Is allowed to touch me there
All I ask is that you're a woman

I like rain, I like ham, I like you
You're around, you're right here, So you'll do

I'm gonna tell you how much I love your mind
But it simply isn't true

Only a woman, Can brighten up my day
Only a woman, Can touch me the right way
Only a woman, Is allowed to do what you're doing right now
All I ask is that you're a woman

And on Saturdays when I've been partying hard
And it's 4 in the morning, and I'm on my fifth tab of E
That's the only time I don't even care if you are a woman

Right now, Only a woman
Can brighten up my day
Only a woman, Can do it just the right way
Only a woman, Should be doing that right now
I just want you to be a woman, Please just be a woman
Or a man

― a.b. (abanana), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 07:25 (seventeen years ago) link

(spoken)

I awoke in the night with a fever and the sky was the darkest blue and a still voice was calling to me
"your country is needing you" Aye just like that.
and away in the distance i can just make out this ball, coming in from the left,and i'm starting to run,
to run like hell and the voices are getting louder and louder and louder, crying, "Hey big yin, gaun yersel'"

(sung)

I have a dream (we have a dream)
If dreams come true (If dreams come true)
then bonny Scotland (then bonny Scotland)
i will play for you. (we'll play for you)
Now i hope and i pray (we hope and pray)
that if, if i do (that if we do)
Then bonny Scotland we'll play for you

(spoken)

Now the next thing i know, someones gaun and tripped me and i've fallen just inside the box (that's a penalty)
Now ref he loks to his linesman and he's pointing right at the spot! (that's brilliant)
Now John Robertson, who normally takes them, is handing the ball to me (you dont say)
and then i hear ma old lady screamin' blue murder, shes saying, "thats no the ball yer kickin' ya eejit, its me!"

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 12:12 (seventeen years ago) link

I ws going to add "My Girl Bill" as well.

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 13:01 (seventeen years ago) link

That's not really a twist, though, as it's implied in the title.

Certainly didn't become reality :-(

(xpost)

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link

We've done "Save Your Kisses For Me" but there was also a follow-up "My Sweet Rosalie"; for respective twists see "Clair" and "Get Down" by Gilbert O'Sullivan.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 14:43 (seventeen years ago) link

there's always "Cat's In The Cradle" + the number of highschool teachers who thought the twist was deeply meaningful.

― Kim (Kim), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 14:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Harry Chapin was good at that - see also the (internal) twist at the end of "Taxi."

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 14:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Kinks-"Lola"

― C. Grisso/McCain (sandglocks), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:56 (seventeen years ago) link

The Velvet Underground's 'The Gift' off of 'White Light White Heat' : seriously twisted.

― abbey braden (punkphoto), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 22:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Kinks-"Lola"

I was going to mention this, but the twist is revealed pretty early on.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 22:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Someone really ought to make a film of "The Gift."

Watching Love, Actually on TV last night (NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST IN HALF A SECOND) I thought of numerous actors I'd like to play Waldo Jeffers.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 7 December 2006 10:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Nick Cave: "The Mercy Seat".

I didn't do it, honest guv- OR DID I?

― neil stewart (nstewart), Thursday, 7 December 2006 12:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Todd Rundgren - "We Gotta Get You A Woman"
Styx - "Sail Away"

― weather1ngda1eson (Brian), Thursday, 7 December 2006 13:13 (seventeen years ago) link

er, "COME Sail Away"

― weather1ngda1eson (Brian), Thursday, 7 December 2006 13:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Several songs off Funeral by the arcade fire, what songs, I don't really remember.

― mehlt (mehlt), Thursday, 7 December 2006 22:17 (seventeen years ago) link

OH MAN!

I just remembered my fav twist ending...on "Midnight" by Ice-T (off the OG album)...he has a big adventure all night where dudes try to kill him, he escapes etc etc...then the last line, he gets home and says "I walked inside it was SIX IN THE MORNIN'! [big echo]"...basically meaning that this song had been the prequel to the events of his earlier his "6 in the Mornin" which starts "6 in the mornin, police at my door, fresh addidas squeak across the livin' room floor"....thought that was super clever and both songs are great.

― M@tt He1ges0n (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 7 December 2006 22:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Human - Human League
Like A Motorway - St Etienne

― Kim (Kim), Friday, 8 December 2006 03:57 (seventeen years ago) link

papa was a rodeo - magnetic fields ... maybe

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Friday, 8 December 2006 07:35 (seventeen years ago) link

The Coup- Fat Cats, Bigga Fish & Me and Jesus the Pimp in a '79 Granada Last Night

― ramon fernandez (ramon fernandez), Friday, 8 December 2006 22:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I think The Smiths' "Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others" qualifies. Just the weird way the sound drops out, making you think it's over.

― Bimbler (Sourkraut), Saturday, 9 December 2006 13:24 (seventeen years ago) link

"My Mind Playing Tricks On Me" by Geto Boys. Yes, the title kinda gives it away, but not specifically.

Also, whatever that Biggie song was where he comes out of the place after pulling some gangster shit and his car has been towed because it was double-parked.

― PPlains (PPlains), Saturday, 9 December 2006 15:13 (seventeen years ago) link

I'll take back "Lola" and replace it w/"All She Wrote" from the Ray Davies album.

― Outcast Lemon Mode (sandglocks), Saturday, 9 December 2006 17:14 (seventeen years ago) link

When you found somebody new I thought I never would
Forget you for I thought then I never could
But time has taken all the pains away until now I'm down to hurtin' once a day...

Once a day all day long and once a night from dusk till dawn
The only time I wish you weren't gone is once a day every day all day long

I'm so glad that I'm not like a girl I knew one time
She lost the one she loved then slowly lost her mind
She sat around and cried her life away oh lucky me I'm only cryin' once a day...

Once a day all day long...
Once a day every day all day long

― bidfurd (bidfurd), Sunday, 10 December 2006 18:20 (seventeen years ago) link

big - me and my bitch

― rio natsume (rio natsume), Sunday, 10 December 2006 21:16 (seventeen years ago) link

hello saferide: long lost penpal

― Marc Hogan (marc h.), Sunday, 10 December 2006 22:26 (seventeen years ago) link

That Cunninlinguists song (Appreciate?) where two characters are leaving home for the airport--one's in a fight with his wife, the other off to reunite with his troubled brother--and at the end we find out they're boarding the planes that hit the Twin Towers.

― ramon fernandez (ramon fernandez), Monday, 11 December 2006 00:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I got it, I got it!
I got your number on the wall!
I got it, I got it!
For a good time, for a good time call....

Also, "Girl in the Mirror" by Britney Spears. Twist revealed: THE GIRL IS BRITNEY

― musically (musically), Monday, 11 December 2006 09:04 (seventeen years ago) link

"My Mind Playing Tricks On Me" by Geto Boys

Awesome.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 11 December 2006 09:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Haydn - Symphony No.94 (also called the 'Surprise Symphony' funnily enough)

Actually scrub that - it's not at the end...it's is surprising though.

― Ned T.Rifle (Ned T.Rifle), Monday, 11 December 2006 09:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Tom Waits - First Kiss

from the new album.

― wogan lenin (doglatin), Monday, 11 December 2006 10:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Can't believe no one has mentioned this before, but "Love Vigilantes" by New Order is an excellent example of this.

― neil stewart (nstewart), Monday, 11 December 2006 13:31 (seventeen years ago) link

"Love Vigilantes" by New Order is an ~~excellent~~hilariously bad example of this.

― ledge (ledge), Monday, 11 December 2006 13:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Wow, zing!

― neil stewart (nstewart), Monday, 11 December 2006 13:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Ah c'mon, it is the nadir of Barney's career of comedically awful lyrics.

― ledge (ledge), Monday, 11 December 2006 14:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Hmmm, maybe. I think it tells a good story, myself, and the Barney Sumner = bad lyricist thing is a bit tired, but each to their own!

― neil stewart (nstewart), Monday, 11 December 2006 14:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Robyn Hitchcock - Lady Waters and the Hooded One

― clotpoll (clotpoll), Monday, 11 December 2006 15:31 (seventeen years ago) link

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