Re: song twists

In Todd Rundgren's We Gotta Get You A Woman where at the end, he confesses he needs one too.

Kate Bush on Hounds of Love where she sings, "There's something moving under the ice." Later, in a Twilight Zone twist, we find out that it's (drum roll) HER!!!

In Lou Reed's song Betrayed we find out that his wife's father did his duty in a most unspeakable way.

Vicki Lawrence was the killer in "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia"



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the killer in "The Nights Went Out in Georgia"

damn, this whole topic should be prefaced with SPOILER ALERT.

The woman with the personal ad about Pina Coladas was Rupert Holmes' own special lady.

Re: Vicki Lawrence:

I never knew that! That twist reminds me of Jason Voorhees's mom.



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Brilliant for me on many levels, not the least of which is the twist at the end.

The footprints outside the window were Vicki's!

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dylan has a few songs that his thoughts can be interpeted two different ways based on the wording.
example . song most of the time- most of the time she aint even in my mind , most of the time i can never be sure wether she was ever with me or i was ever with her. - this mixed message he is saying most of the time it doesnt bother him but sometimes it eats him up inside.

if you see her say hello- one killer line here. "if you think that i forgotten her, dont tell her it isnt so. leaves the listener unsure wehter it means thathe means dont tell her i still think about her or that he is denying he thinks about her.

joe jackson- fools in love. in the end he claims he is the fool thats in love.
t bone burnette- the criminal under my own hat- there is a criminal that he must prosecute that he must interrogate. the criminal is himself.

I'm glad someone brought this up because just the other day I was discussing this same topic with my friend who is writing a screenplay and I suggested, like a great song, his story needed a twist which should be revealed near the end.

I have attempted to incorporate "the twist" in many of my own recent songs one of which goes something to the effect;

"I just don't understand what I see in you, you're a force of habit."

and in the end...

"I guess it all works out cause I'm your force of habit too."

Simple but effective.



[buddylove.us]

"love vigilantes"?

begees- i started a joke
the police- wrapped around my finger

here are a few where the song doesnt twist but it kind of deals with someone being sad when seeming happy
smokey- tears of a clown n tracks of my tears which could be another question of artists with 2 songs that are kind of companion pieces.

Jimi Hendrix - Red House. At the end he's given up looking for his girl, then realizes her sister may be available.

I Know What You Did Last Summer, Chubby.

One of my favourite 'twist' songs has no twist at all: the Cowboy Junkies "Murder, Tonight, In The Trailer Park." We're given a set-up and snapshots of three possible culprits but nothing is ever resolved. Brilliant song.

I've got this friend who claims it never crossed his mind that Springsteen's "State Trooper" might have something sinister going on in it. He always thought it was just simply about a guy driving, not wanting a ticket.

In Fountains of Wayne's "Somebody to Love," the band tells the story of two lonely people in New York. The last verse has both of them in the taxi queue, trying to hail a cab ... and the woman ignores the guy, cutting in front of him in the queue and leaving him behind.

In the Police song "Message in a Bottle" 100 million bottles (presumeably with the same message in them) wash up on the shore.

Randy Newman's "Sail Away" is an attempt to get Africans to volunteer to be enslaved. The lyric "little wog" is a giveaway.