Songs for psychopaths?

[ScarletBegonias]

Lately I have been sifting through songs looking for ones that discuss psychopaths and I think I found one from when I was a teenager! If other people think of some too and want to post them in this thread, feel free. I'm curious to find more...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7aShcmEksw&ob=av2e

Paula Abdul - "Cold Hearted Snake"

He's a cold-hearted snake
Look into his eyes
Oh ohhh
He's been tellin' lies
He's a lover boy at play
He don't play by rules
Oh oh
Girl don't play the fool--no

You're the one givin' up the love
Anytime he needs it
But you turn your back and then he's off
and runnin' with the crowd
You're the one to sacrifice
Anything to please him
Do you really think he thinks about you
when he's out

He's a cold-hearted snake
Look into his eyes
Oh ohhh
He's been tellin' lies
He's a lover boy at play
He don't play by rules
Oh oh oh
Girl don't play the fool--no

It was only late last night
He was out there sneakin'
Then he called you up to check that you
were waiting by the phone
All the world's a candy store
He's been trick or treatin'
When it comes to true love girl with him
there's no one home

He's a cold-hearted snake
Look into his eyes
Oh ohh
He's been tellin' lies
He's a lover boy at play
He don't play by rules
Oh oh oh
Girl don't play the fool--no

Rap:
How come how come he can he can tell-a tell-a you're-a you're-a
Always always number number one without a doubt
(He's he's one one cold cold snake snake)
When-a when-a he is he is always always squirmin' squirmin'
Like a little snake under-a e-ver-y-a rock
(No no give give, all all take take)
You've been you've been workin' workin' on the on the love
And he's been only only playing undercover all the while
(One one smooth smooth sharp sharp tongue tongue)
Take a take another 'nother look into his eyes
(He he just just talks)
And you will on-ly see a rep-tile

You could find somebody better girl
He could only make you cry
You deserve somebody better girl
He's c-cold as ice

He's a cold-hearted snake
Look into his eyes
Oh ohhhh
He's been tellin' lies
He's a lover boy at play
He don't play by rules
Oh oh oh
Girl don't play the fool--no

He's a cold-hearted snake
Look into his eyes
Oh ohh
He's been tellin' lies
He's a lover boy at play
He don't play by rules
Oh oh oh
Girl don't play the fool--(repeat to fade)

 

[ScarletBegonias]

Oh here we go. Dylan got it (again, IMO)!!

Bob Dylan - Masters of War
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onRobFQchS0

Come you masters of war
You that build the big guns
You that build the death planes
You that build all the bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks.

You that never done nothin'
But build to destroy
You play with my world
Like it's your little toy
You put a gun in my hand
And you hide from my eyes
And you turn and run farther
When the fast bullets fly.

Like Judas of old
You lie and deceive
A world war can be won
You want me to believe
But I see through your eyes
And I see through your brain
Like I see through the water
That runs down my drain.

You fasten all the triggers
For the others to fire
Then you set back and watch
When the death count gets higher
You hide in your mansion'
As young people's blood
Flows out of their bodies
And is buried in the mud.

You've thrown the worst fear
That can ever be hurled
Fear to bring children
Into the world
For threatening my baby
Unborn and unnamed
You ain't worth the blood
That runs in your veins.

How much do I know
To talk out of turn
You might say that I'm young
You might say I'm unlearned
But there's one thing I know
Though I'm younger than you
That even Jesus would never
Forgive what you do.

Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul.

And I hope that you die
And your death'll come soon
I will follow your casket
In the pale afternoon
And I'll watch while you're lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I'll stand over your grave
'Til I'm sure that you're dead.

 

[RyanX]

How about Pink Floyd's "The Dogs of War":

"The Dogs Of War"

Dogs of war and men of hate
With no cause, we don't discriminate
Discovery is to be disowned
Our currency is flesh and bone
Hell opened up and put on sale
Gather 'round and haggle
For hard cash, we will lie and deceive
Even our masters don't know the web we weave
One world, it's a battleground
One world, and we will smash it down
One world ... One world
Invisible transfers, long distance calls,
Hollow laughter in marble halls
Steps have been taken, a silent uproar
Has unleashed the dogs of war
You can't stop what has begun
Signed, sealed, they deliver oblivion
We all have a dark side, to say the least
And dealing in death is the nature of the beast
One world, it's a battleground
One world, and we will smash it down
One world ... One world
The dogs of war won't negotiate
The dogs of war don't capitulate,
They will take and you will give,
And you must die so that they may live
You can knock at any door,
But wherever you go, you know they've been there before
Well winners can lose and things can get strained
But whatever you change, you know the dogs remain.
One world, it's a battleground
One world, and we will smash it down
One world ... One world

Actually, a lot of Pink Floyd's songs touch on the subject of psychopathy, I think.

Also, don't you mean songs "about" psychopaths rather than "for" psychopaths? The title kind of threw me off at first...

 

[Divide by Zero]

A song that goes with "Why Women Love Psychopaths" perhaps?

Apocalyptica - S.O.S. (Anything But Love) :
[feat. Cristina Scabbia & Mats Leven]

Bound to your side and trapped in silence
Just a possession
Is the sex or only violence
That feeds your obsession

You send me to a broken state
Where I can take the pain
Just long enough
That I am numb
That I just disappear

So go on and fight me
Go on and scare me to death
Tell me I asked for it
Tell me I'll never forget
You could give me anything but love
Anything but love

Does it feel good tonight
Hurt me with nothing
Some sort of sick satisfaction
You Get from mimd -flicking-g

Oh stripped down to my naked core
The darkest corners of my mind are yours
That's where you live
That's where you breathe

So go on and fight me
Go on and scare me to death
Dare me to leave you
Tell me I'd never forget
You could give me anything but love
Anything but love

Without any faith
Without any light
Can dare me to live
Can dare me to lie
Inside I am dead

So go on and fight me
Go on and scare me to death
I'll be the victim
You'll be the voice in my head
You could give me anything but love
Anything but love
Anything but love
Anything but love
Anything but love
Anything but love

 

[ScarletBegonias]

How about Pink Floyd's "The Dogs of War":

"The Dogs Of War"

Dogs of war and men of hate
With no cause, we don't discriminate
Discovery is to be disowned
Our currency is flesh and bone
Hell opened up and put on sale
Gather 'round and haggle
For hard cash, we will lie and deceive
Even our masters don't know the web we weave
One world, it's a battleground
One world, and we will smash it down
One world ... One world
Invisible transfers, long distance calls,
Hollow laughter in marble halls
Steps have been taken, a silent uproar
Has unleashed the dogs of war
You can't stop what has begun
Signed, sealed, they deliver oblivion
We all have a dark side, to say the least
And dealing in death is the nature of the beast
One world, it's a battleground
One world, and we will smash it down
One world ... One world
The dogs of war won't negotiate
The dogs of war don't capitulate,
They will take and you will give,
And you must die so that they may live
You can knock at any door,
But wherever you go, you know they've been there before
Well winners can lose and things can get strained
But whatever you change, you know the dogs remain.
One world, it's a battleground
One world, and we will smash it down
One world ... One world

Actually, a lot of Pink Floyd's songs touch on the subject of psychopathy, I think.

Also, don't you mean songs "about" psychopaths rather than "for" psychopaths? The title kind of threw me off at first...

Oh wow, I have so much Floyd that I haven't listened to in a long time. Thanks for the reminder and good one! Yeah, I think the title could be "Songs of Psychopaths" instead, considering what's been posted...hmm, unless somebody can think of a song that they think actually could have been written FOR a psychopath...hmm...now there's a challenge! (for me:))

Edit: Oh good, Divide By Zero got one, cool!! "Anything BUT love" --yeah that sounds about right...hmm...

 

[Risen]

The Snake, Al Wilson

On her way to work one morning
down the path along side the lake
A tender hearted woman saw a poor half-frozen snake
His pretty colored skin had been all frosted with the dew
"Oh well", she cried, "I'll take you in and I'll take care of you"

Take me in oh tender woman
Take me in for Heaven's sake
Take me in oh tender woman
Sighed the snake

She wrapped him up all cozy in a coverture of silk
And then laid him by the fireside with some honey and some milk
Now she hurried home from work that night as soon as she arrived
She found that pretty snake she'd taken in had been revived

Take me in oh tender woman
Take me in for Heaven's sake
Take me in oh tender woman
Sighed the snake

Now she clutched him to her bosom, "You're so beautiful", she cried
"But if I hadn't brought you in , by now you might have died"
Now she stroked his pretty skin and then she kissed and held him tight
But instead of saying thanks that snake gave her a vicious bite

Take me in oh tender woman
Take me in for Heaven's sake
Take me in oh tender woman
Sighed the snake

"I saved you", cried the woman
"and you've bit me even , why?"
You know your bite is posionous and now I'm gonna die"
"Oh shut up, silly woman", said the reptile with a grin,
"You knew damned well I was a snake before you took me in".

Take me in oh tender woman
Take me in for Heaven's sake
Take me in oh tender woman
Sighed the snake

 

[ScarletBegonias]

A Perfect Circle- "Lets Have a War"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezSm9TLci6M

There's so many of us. There's so many Others. There's so many.
There's so many Others. There's so many Others. There's so many.
There's so many Others. There's so many Others. There's so many.
There's so many Others. There's so many Others. There's so many.
There's so many Others. There's so many Others. There's so many.
There's so many Fuckers. There's so many Others. There's so many.

Let's have a war;
So you can go and die.
Let's have a war;
We could all use the money.
Let's have a war;
We need the space.
Let's have a war;
Clean out this place.

It already started in the city.
Suburbia will be just as easy.

There's so many of us. There's so many Others. There's so many.
There's so many of us. There's so many Others. There's so many.
There's so many of us. There's so many Others. There's so many.
There's so many of us. There's so many Others. There's so many.

Let's have a war;
Jack up the Dow Jones.
Let's have a war;
It can start in New Jersey.
Let's have a war;
Blame it on the middle-class.
Let's have a war;
We're like rats in a cage.

It already started in the city.
Suburbia will be just as easy.

There's so many of us. There's so many others. There's so many.
There's so many of us. There's so many others. There's so many.
There's so many of us. There's so many others. There's so many.
There's so many of us. There's so many others. There's so many.

Let's have a war;
Sell the rights to the networks.
Let's have a war;
Let our wallets get fat like last time.
Let's have a war;
Give guns to the queers.
Let's have a war;
The enemy's within.

It already started in the city.
Suburbia will be just as easy.

A Perfect Circle- "Counting Bodies Like Sheep to the Rhythm of War Drums"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giaZnIr-faM
Note: This video is very well done, IMO!

Don't fret precious I'm here.
Step away from the window.
Go back to sleep

Safe from pain and truth and choice and other poison devils,
See, they don't give a -flick- about you, like I do.

Counting bodies like sheep
Counting bodies like sheep

Counting bodies like sheep
To the rhythm of the war drums

Counting bodies like sheep

Go back to sleep
Go back to sleep

Counting bodies like sheep
To the rhythm of the war drums

Go back to sleep
Go back to sleep

Counting bodies like sheep
To the rhythm of the war drums

Go back to sleep
Go back to sleep

Counting bodies like sheep

Go back to sleep
Go to sleep [x14]
Go back to sleep
Go back to sleep
Go back to sleep

Counting bodies like sheep

Go back to sleep
Go back to sleep

Counting bodies like sheep

Go back to sleep
Go back to sleep

Counting bodies like sheep
To the rhythm of the war drums

Go back to sleep
Go back to sleep

Counting bodies like sheep
To the rhythm of the war drums

Go back to sleep
Go back to sleep

Counting bodies like sheep
To the rhythm of the war drums [x2]

I’ll be the one to protect you from your enemies and all your demons
I'll be the one to protect you from a will to survive and a voice of reason
I'll be the one to protect you from your enemies and your choices son
They're one in the same, I must isolate you…
Isolate and save you from yourself …

 

[cubbex]

Slayer discography for sure, plus this one:

Listen, "I am the wolf and you are the sheep":

http://youtu.be/rdQOCPHJbFQ
seven days

http://youtu.be/bWEhNppy0to
Psychopath

This last one actually has on the background a real tape of a woman's murder.

 

[Turgon]

Smiling Faces Sometimes - Undisputed Truth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U84Ctl7rL34

Smiling faces sometimes pretend to be your friend
Smiling faces show no traces of the evil that lurks within
Smiling faces, smiling faces sometimes
They don't tell the truth uh
Smiling faces, smiling faces
Tell lies and I got proof

The truth is in the eyes
Cause the eyes don't lie, amen
Remember a smile is just
A frown turned upside down
My friend let me tell you
Smiling faces, smiling faces sometimes
They don't tell the truth, uh
Smiling faces, smiling faces
Tell lies and I got proof
Beware, beware of the handshake
That hides the snake
I'm telling you beware
Beware of the pat on the back
It just might hold you back
Jealousy (jealousy)
Misery (misery)
Envy

I tell you, you can't see behind smiling faces
Smiling faces sometimes they don't tell the truth
Smiling faces, smiling faces
Tell lies and I got proof

Smiling faces, smiling faces sometimes
They don't tell the truth
Smiling faces, smiling faces
Tell lies and I got proof
(Smiling faces, smiling faces sometimes)
(Smiling faces, smiling faces sometimes)
I'm telling you beware, beware of the handshake
That hides the snake
Listen to me now, beware
Beware of that pat on the back
It just might hold you back
Smiling faces, smiling faces sometimes
They don't tell the truth
Smiling faces, smiling faces
Tell lies and I got proof

Your enemy won't do you no harm
Cause you'll know where he's coming from
Don't let the handshake and the smile fool ya
Take my advice I'm only try' to school ya

This an older song from the 70's, but definitely the idea of snakes in suits came to mind when listening to it.

 

[Risen]

......
This last one actually has on the background a real tape of a woman's murder.

Thank you for stating this because now I know and I would have been extremely upset to hear something like that.

 

[cubbex]

That's one of the most weird songs I've ever heard, don't really know why they put that tape on the background I mean.... the lyrics and the way she sings is creepy add them the tape, is not enjoyable, I got it seeing a video about jack the ripper.

 

[birk]

Jose Gonzalez: How Low

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGQDEFHYx0o

How low
are you willing to go
before you reach all
your selfish goals.
Punch line after punch line
leaving us sore,
leaving us sore.

Absorbed
in your ill hustling
you're feeding a monster,
just feeding a monster.

Invasion
after invasian,
this means war,
this means war.

Someday you'll be up to your knees
in the shit you seed.
All the gullible
that you mislead
won't be up or it.

Where to
will you relocate
now that it's war.
Now that it's war.

 

[birk]

Oh here we go. Dylan got it (again, IMO)!!

Bob Dylan - Masters of War
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onRobFQchS0

Come you masters of war
You that build the big guns
You that build the death planes
You that build all the bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks.

You that never done nothin'
But build to destroy
You play with my world
Like it's your little toy
You put a gun in my hand
And you hide from my eyes
And you turn and run farther
When the fast bullets fly.

Like Judas of old
You lie and deceive
A world war can be won
You want me to believe
But I see through your eyes
And I see through your brain
Like I see through the water
That runs down my drain.

You fasten all the triggers
For the others to fire
Then you set back and watch
When the death count gets higher
You hide in your mansion'
As young people's blood
Flows out of their bodies
And is buried in the mud.

You've thrown the worst fear
That can ever be hurled
Fear to bring children
Into the world
For threatening my baby
Unborn and unnamed
You ain't worth the blood
That runs in your veins.

How much do I know
To talk out of turn
You might say that I'm young
You might say I'm unlearned
But there's one thing I know
Though I'm younger than you
That even Jesus would never
Forgive what you do.

Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul.

And I hope that you die
And your death'll come soon
I will follow your casket
In the pale afternoon
And I'll watch while you're lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I'll stand over your grave
'Til I'm sure that you're dead.

I also think Pearl Jams version is very good: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG443N7lo4Q

 

[timmyman]

pink floyd has many of them... dogs of war is spot on, pretty much the entire final cut album;) and of course animals besides being a supper cool album it should meet your criterium

 

[Ca.]

What kind of love have you got?
You should be home, but you’re not
A room full of noise and dangerous boys
Still makes you thirsty and hot
I heard about you and that man
There’s just one thing I don’t understand
You say he’s a liar and he put out
Your fire
How come you still got his gun in your hand?
Victim of love , I see a broken heart
You got your stories to tell
Victim of love, it’s such an easy part
And you know how to play it so well

Some people never come clean
I think you know what I mean
You’re walkin’ the wire, pain and desire
Looking for love in between

Tell me your secrets, I’ll tell you mine
This ain’t no time to be cool
And tell all your girlfriends,
You ’been around the world’ friends
That talk is for losers and fools

Victim of love, I see a broken heart
I could be wrong, but I’m no
Victim of love, we’re not so far apart
Show me, what kind of love have you got?

Victim of love, you’re just a victim of love
I could be wrong , but I’m not
Victim of love, now you’re a victim of love
What kind of love have you got?
What kind of love have you got?
What kind of love have you got?

The Eagles - Victim Of Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW3QuLxpqeo&playnext=1&list=PLAB1428C9CC082AAC