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

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

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

Chubby Checker

the song is titled alex

My Biggest Fan: Loudon Wainwright III

“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

Seven Curses—Bob Dylan. It’s basically the plot of Measure for Measure.

god i sound like a dick sometimes^^

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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!”

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

The Secret Machines—‘Sad And Lonely’

Testify—Common

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

“Buenos Tardes Amigo”

“Stan”

Leonard Nimoy “The Hitchhiker”

long black veil

“Buenos Tardes Amigo”

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

Chuck Berry’s “Memphis, Tennessee”

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...)

Chuck Berry’s “Memphis, Tennessee”

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

Also see: “The Ocean” by Led Zeppelin

“Save Your Kisses For Me” and “My Sweet Rosalie”—Brotherhood of Man

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.

Tesla & M. Night Shalamar—“Signs”

trapped in a closet—r. kelly (c’mon)

and

Man in the Mirror—Michael Jackson

The Playmates—Beep Beep

Leonard Nimoy “The Hitchhiker”

and “A Visit to a Sad Planet”

gnarls barkley “the boogie monster”

ending stolen from grover’s “The Monster at the End of This Book”

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

(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!”

I ws going to add “My Girl Bill” as well.

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

Certainly didn’t become reality :-(

(xpost)

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.

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

Harry Chapin was good at that—see also the (internal) twist at the end of “Taxi.”

Kinks-“Lola”

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

Kinks-“Lola”

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

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.

Nick Cave: “The Mercy Seat”.

I didn’t do it, honest guv- OR DID I?

Todd Rundgren—“We Gotta Get You A Woman”

Styx—“Sail Away”

er, “COME Sail Away”

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

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.

Human—Human League

Like A Motorway—St Etienne

papa was a rodeo—magnetic fields ... maybe

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

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.

“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.

I’ll take back “Lola” and replace it w/“All She Wrote” from the Ray Davies album.

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

big—me and my bitch

hello saferide: long lost penpal

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.

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

“My Mind Playing Tricks On Me” by Geto Boys

Awesome.

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.

Tom Waits—First Kiss

from the new album.

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

“Love Vigilantes” by New Order is an

hilariously bad example of this.

Wow, zing!

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

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!

Robyn Hitchcock—Lady Waters and the Hooded One