PEDOPHILIA AND CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE IN SONGS

Pedophilia and child sexual abuse have been important themes of a number of song lyrics.
For information on the similar topic in literature i.e. works of fiction/novels; autobiographies/biographies and other non-fiction works, see Pedophilia and child sexual abuse in fiction (boys) and Pedophilia and child sexual abuse in fiction (girls), for movies/films see Pedophilia and child sexual abuse in films and for theatre/opera/musicals see Pedophilia and child sexual abuse in the theatre.

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References

Songs

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★ "12" by Jeffries Fan Club, from ''
:A song about a man who dates a 12-year-old girl at Disneyland.

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★ "Abused" by Elliott Smith

★ "After The Watershed (Early Learning The Hard Way)" by Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine, from ''Straw Donkey''

★ "Always wanted to be a Ho" by Ice-T, from ''The Seventh Deadly Sin''

★ "Ambitious Outsiders" by Morrissey, from ''Maladjusted''
:A song about child murderers scavenging suburban neighborhoods for potential victims, probably inspired by the Moors murders.

★ "Amelia" by The Mission, from ''Carved in Sand''
:A song about a girl who is molested by her father and he threatens to hit her if she tells.

★ "Amy in the White Coat" by Bright Eyes, from ''There Is No Beginning to the Story''
:A song about a father who abuses one of his three daughters.

★ "Anna Lee" by Dream Theater, from ''Falling into Infinity''
:A song about how a girl's innocence is stolen.

★ "Aqualung" by Jethro Tull, from ''Aqualung
:A song about a homeless man who looks at young girls with "bad intent" while sitting on a park bench.

★ "Ask Me" by Amy Grant, from ''Heart In Motion''
:A song about how a woman's faith helps her heal from childhood sexual abuse.

B

★ "Babysitter" by Morningwood, from ''Morningwood''
:The singer suggests that she should not be allowed to babysit because of her attraction to the child.^[1]

★ "Bad Cliché" by Cosy Sheridan, from ''Grand Design''
:A song about a girl who is sexually abused by her uncle from the age of nine to twelve.

★ "Bad Reputation" by Luke Haines from ''Off My Rocker At The Art School Bop''
:About Gary Glitter, a former pop star who was convicted of sexually abusing minors.

★ "The Ballad of Jesus" by Messiah from ''Underground''
:A song claiming that Jesus raped boys and was crucified for these crimes

★ "Barbarism Begins at Home" by The Smiths, from ''Meat Is Murder''
:An extended funk jam with lyrics about parents battering their children.

★ "Between Me, You and Liberation" by Common, from ''Electric Circus''
:A song about a woman who is emotionally distraught after sex, due to being raped by her father at the age of 8.

★ "Bottle Dreams" by Eyedea, from ''The Many Faces of Oliver Hart''
:A song about a young violin prodigy who is sexually abused by her father.

★ "Breaking Silence" by Janis Ian, from ''Breaking Silence''
:A song about breaking the silence about fathers sexually abusing their daughters.

★ "Brenda's Got a Baby" by Tupac Shakur (2pac) from ''2Pacalypse Now''
:A song about a 12-year-old girl who has a baby after having sex with her much older cousin who then abandons her.

★ "Bringer of Torture" by Kreator, from ''Extreme Aggression''
:A song about a girl abused repeatedly (nightly) by her father.

★ "Brown Shoes Don't Make It" by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention from ''Absolutely Free''
:A song about a man who dreams of sex with a 13-year-old girl and imagines she is his daughter.

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★ "Candyman" by Siouxsie and the Banshees from ''Tinderbox''
:A song about "the Candyman", who entices and sexually abuses children.

★ "Certain Things" by Jano, from ''Certain Things''
:An explicit song about sexual abuse.

★ "Cherokee Louise" by Joni Mitchell, from ''Night Ride Home''
:A song about a young girl hides from her sexually abusive stepfather.

★ "Cherry Lips" by Garbage from ''Beautiful Garbage''
:A song about a 12-year-old boy becomes a 'girl' prostitute. Inspired by the novel ''Sarah'' by JT LeRoy.

★ "The Childcatcher" by Lush, from ''Lovelife''
:A song about a girl's evolution from an adolescent sexual abuse victim to the maturity her father lacks.[1]

★ "The Childcatcher" by Patrick Wolf, from ''Lycanthropy''
:A song narrated by a teenage boy, about his experiences of being molested (and possibly raped).

★ "Choke" by Kittie, from ''Spit''
:A song about a girl who accuses a pedophile of ruining her life.

★ "The Confession" by Eternity X, from ''The Edge''
:A song about a father avenging his raped and killed daughter by killing priests in confession.

★ "Crack in the Mirror" by Betty Elders, from ''Peaceful Existence''; also covered by Joan Baez on ''Gone From Danger''
:A song about a girl who is sexually abused from the time she is a baby.

★ "Concrete Angel" by Martina McBride
:A song about a girl who is abused by her alcoholic mother.

★ "Cross-Eyed Mary" by Jethro Tull
:A song about a teenage prostitute who's a favorite of rich men.

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★ ''Daddy'' by Korn, from ''Korn''
:A song inspired by singer Jon Davis' sexual assault by a neighbor when he was 3 years old. He told his parents, but they didn't believe him.

★ ''Daddy's Girl'' by Scorpions, from ''Face the Heat''
:A song about a mother who denies that her daughter is being molested by her father.

★ ''Daddy's Little Girl'' by Against All Authority, from ''All Fall Down''
:A song about a girl who plans to stab her abusive father in his sleep cannot bring herself to do it. The abuse leaves her unable to enjoy close relationships.

★ ''Daddy's Song'' by Toni Childs, from ''House of Hope''
:A song about a survivor sings of sexual abuse by her father.

★ ''Dark Heart Silhouette''by Vendetta Red from ''Sisters of the Red Death''
:A song about a young girl who is raped by a priest while a young boy watches, but can't do anything about it.

★ ''Darling Mother'' by the Wicked Little dolls
:An abused girl's rage and revenge on her mother who looked the other way.

★ ''Death of Innocence'' by Dark Angel from Time Does Not Heal
:A song about a serial child molester who begs to be cured, caught or even killed.

★ ''Devil in a Midnight Mass'' by Billy Talent from ''Billy Talent II''
:About Boston priest John Geoghan who was arrested for child abuse.

★ ''Disciples Of The Lie'' by Iced Earth from ''Something Wicked This Way Comes''
:A victim of sexual abuse plans revenge against a pedophile priest.

★ ''Dr. Peter Alsop's Songs on Sex and Sexuality'' by Peter Alsop
:Alsop sings about the problems of child sexual molestation. Songs include:
::''Letter To Mr. Brown'' from ''Take Me With You''
::''My Bod'' from ''Wha'd Ya Want to Do?''
::''Don’t put your hand in my pants, Just ’cause we’re in love''
::''Look at the ceiling"
::''Back Up!''
::''Strangers''

★ ''Don't Get 2 Close (2 My Fantasy)'' by Ween, from ''Pure Guava''
:A song about a man's fantasy of abusing his son.

★ ''Don't Let Daddy Kiss Me'' by Motörhead, from ''Bastards''
:The sexual abuse of a young girl who lives alone with her father.

★ ''Don't Stand So Close to Me'' by The Police, from ''Zenyatta Mondatta''
:A student and teacher affair, inspired by Vladimir Nabokov's ''Lolita''.

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★ "Embryo" by Dir en grey, from ''KISOU''
:A song about a child who takes revenge on her sexually abusive father after her mother's suicide.

★ "Every Bit of Me" by Billy Childish with his group Thee Headcoats
:A song of self-hate by Billy Childish, who was sexually abused by a family friend when he was aged 9.
:Also "Pedophi", an instrumental by the same group.

★ "Expose yourself to kids" by GG Allin and the AIDS Brigade
:A song which recommends child sexual abuse in explicit language.

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★ "Family Business" by Fish from Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors
:A song describing the dilemma of whether to report a neighbour who physically, and possibly sexually, abuses his children.

★ "Family Tree" by Megadeth from Youthanasia
:A song about incestuous sexual abuse, in which the abuser refers to it as "their secret" to the child.

★ "Father's Wrong" by The Men They Couldn't Hang
:A Father sexually abuses both his son and daughter

★ "Father, You're Not A Father" by Immolation from ''Close to a World Below''
:A song about sexual abuse by a religious leader.

★ "Fee Fi Fo" by The Cranberries, from ''Bury the Hatchet''
:A song about the sexual abuse of a young girl.

★ "Fiddle About" by The Who from the rock opera, ''Tommy''
:A song in which Tommy is sexually abused by his "wicked Uncle Ernie".

★ "Five" by Machine Head
:A song about a man who molests a 5-year-old boy.

★ "Fixxxer" by Metallica from ReLoad
:A song describing someone who was molested as a child and who confronts his abuser, apparently his father, as an adult.

★ "Fourteen" by The Vandals from ''Look What I Almost Stepped In...''
:A man sings of his long-growing desire for a 14-year-old, but promises to restrain himself until sex with her is legal.

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★ "God Has a Plan for Us All" by Angtoria from ''God Has a Plan for Us All''
:A song about a 5 year old girl who is raped by a priest, and about religious people who talk about "God's plan" when something goes wrong.

★ "Gothic Lolita" by Emilie Autumn from ''Opheliac''
:A song from a victim's point of view.

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★ "Hands Clean" by Alanis Morissette
:Morissette sings from the man's perspective of an affair she had with an adult at fourteen.

★ "Happy As Annie" by Larrikin Love
:The song is about the discovery of a dead girl who has been sexual abused.

★ "Holy Water" by Lisa McCormick, from ''Right Now''
:A song about the sexual abuse of children by priests.

★ "Hot Child in the City" by Nick Gilder, from ''City Nights''
:The song is about a child prostitute.

★ "Howard's Tale" by Sick Puppies, from ''Dressed up as Life''
:The song is about a boy who is abused by his father from the age of 5 and, age 19, approaches a boy outside a school

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★ "I gave NAMBLA pictures of your kid" and "I made your kid get AIDS, so you could watch it die" by Anal Cunt from ''It Just Gets Worse
:Songs on child sexual abuse from a controversial album.

★ "I Will Stand Fast" by Fred Small, from ''I Will Stand Fast''
:A song about a survivor of child sexual abuse.

★ "Icy Barrel of a Loaded Gun" by Darcie Deaville, from ''Tornado In Slo Mo''
:A song describing Deaville’s experience of being molested by her grandfather.

★ "I'll Tell On You by Lenore", from ''Summer Dancing''
:A song inspired by childhood sexual abuse victims who had the courage to come forward and "tell".

★ "I Like Drugs and Child Abuse" by Anal Cunt
:A joke song lampooning child abusers.

★ "In Your Care" by Tasmin Archer
:A song about incestual child abuse.

★ "The Infant Kiss" by Kate Bush from Never For Ever''
:A song about a governess, portrayed by the singer, who develops less-than-pure feelings for a boy she is caring for; inspired by the 1961 movie ''The Innocents'' starring Deborah Kerr, which was itself based on the Henry James story, ''The Turn of the Screw''.

★ "Into The Crypt Of Rays" by Celtic Frost from Morbid Tales
:A song which refers to the sexual perversions and multiple child murders of Gilles de Rais.

★ "Islam's Not for Me" by Bom bin Yurshu
:A song which offers an anti-Islamic interpretation of the relationship between Mohammed and 9-year-old Aisha.

★ "Itty Bitty Titty Girl" by Deadsy

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★ "Janie's Got a Gun" by Aerosmith, from ''Pump''
:A song about a sexually abused little girl who gets her revenge on her father.

★ "John Wayne Gacy Jr." by Sufjan Stevens from ''Illinois/Illinoise''
:A song which tells the life story of the serial rapist and murderer John Wayne Gacy.

★ "Jonestown Tea" by Otep

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★ "KKK Bitch" by Body Count
:Singer Ice-T alludes to "[falling] in love with Tipper Gore's two 12-year-old nieces"

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★ "Lemon Incest" by Serge and Charlotte Gainsbourg from the album ''Lemon Incest''
:An ambiguous song about a father and his daughter.

★ "Letter to a John" by Ani DiFranco, from ''Out of Range''
:A song about a prostitute who was sexually abused when she was an eleven-year-old girl.

★ "Light in the Hall" by Fred Small from ''Jaguar''
:A song about child abuse as told through the eyes of the child.

★ "Lisa's Father (Waka Baby)" by Alice Donut, from a re-release of the album ''Bucketfuls of Sickness and Horror in an Otherwise Meaningless Life''
:A song about a man with an alcoholic wife and who sexually abuses his 5-year-old daughter, based on the Chick tract ''Lisa''.[[2]]

★ "Live to Tell" by Madonna, from ''True Blue'', also included on ''The Immaculate Collection'' and featured in the movie, ''At Close Range''
:This song has been interpreted as being about child molestation.

★ "Livin' Hell" by Edge of Sanity, from ''The Spectral Sorrows''
:A song which discusses a father's molestation of his daughter.

★ "Lolita" by Elefant, from ''The Black Magic Show''

★ "Lolita" by Suzanne Vega
:A song in which a woman cautions a lonely young girl against growing up too fast, as the singer did.

★ "Long Way To Happy" by P!nk, from ''I'm Not Dead''
:A song about a survivor of child sexual abuse's journey to being able to love again.

★ "Luka" by Suzanne Vega, from ''Solitude Standing''
:A song about a boy who is abused at home tries to hide it and insists that everything is really alright.

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★ "Magdalena" by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, from ''Just Another Band From L.A.''
:A song about a rural man's attempts to seduce his teenage daughter.

★ "Millie Pulled A Pistol On Santa" by De La Soul
:A tragic tale of a schoolgirl and her father, who sexually molests her.

★ "Missed Me" by The Dresden Dolls, from ''The Dresden Dolls (album)'' [3]
:A song about a girl who encourages and taunts a man. He eventually abuses her and she then tells on him, getting him arrested.

★ "Morbid Glory (Gilles De Rais 1404-1440)" by Ancient Rites, from ''The Diabolic Serenades''
:A song about the 15th-century French aristocrat and serial killer, Gilles de Rais, and his sexual abuse and murder of little boys in France during the Hundred Years War.

★ "Mr. Rogers" by Korn
:A song about a boy molested by his neighbour.

★ "Mr. Tinkertrain" by Ozzy Osbourne, from ''No More Tears''
:A song about a man who attracts a little girl with candy, toys and other childish things.

★ "Mummy's Boy" by Madness
:A song about a 30-year-old man who had a possibly unsuccessful sexual encounter with a 12-year-old girl in a hotel.

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★ "Necropedophile" by Cannibal Corpse, from ''Tomb of the Mutilated''
:A song featuring graphic details about a man who has sexual activity with dead children.

★ "Nieces' Pieces" by Xiu Xiu, from ''Fabulous Muscles''
:A song about a man who anticipates how his infant nieces will suffer from his family's legacy of sexual abuse.

★ "Nightmare" by Gaye Adegbalola, from ''Bitter Sweet Blues''
:A song about a girl molested by her father; she forgives him, but does not forget.

O

★ "Oh Father" by Madonna, from ''Like a Prayer''
:This song has been interpreted as being about child abuse, possibly inflicted by a priest.

★ "Once Like You" by Jackie Tice, from ''Blue Coyote''
:A song about child molestation.

★ "One Night in New York City" by The Horrorist
:A song about a student who drugs a 15-year-old girl and rapes her.

★ "Only Way Out" by Faster Pussycat from Whipped!
:A song about a little girl being sexually abused and tortured by her father.

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★ "Panty Shot" by Mindless Self Indulgence from Alienating Our Audience
:A song about sexual fantasies after looking at a 5-year-old child

★ "Party Time" by 45 Grave
:A song about a 5-year-old girl being tortured, raped and killed by her parents.

★ "Preschool Prostitute" by GWAR from Carnival of Chaos
:A song about a girl who was abused by her father

★ "Pre-teen Deathfuck" by Nattefrost
:A song about the anal and vaginal rape of a 7 year old girl [[4]]

★ "Pretty Babies" by Dishwalla

★ "Prison Sex" by Tool, from ''Undertow''
:A song about a child who is sexually abused and becomes an abuser himself as an adult.

★ "Polly" by Nirvana, from "Nevermind"
:A song about a 14 year old girl who was raped by her abductor.

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★ "A Question of Time" by Depeche Mode, from ''Black Celebration''
:A song about a man who promises to protect a fifteen-year-old from the attentions of men like himself.

R

★ "Raped Bodies" by Messiah, from ''Rotten Perish''
:A song about a schoolboy shunned by his peers who rapes and kills a girl.

★ "Razorblade" by Blue October from ''History for Sale''
:A song about a preacher who sexually abuses his nephew and then his own children.

★ "Redemption" by Babylon A.D.
:A song about a girl being raped by her drunk father every night.

★ "Rock And Roll Never Felt So Good" by Gwar from America Must Be Destroyed
:A song about a man raping a 13-year-old quadriplegic.

★ "Runaway Love" by Ludacris featuring Mary J. Blige, from ''Release Therapy''
:A song with several stories in it, including one about child sexual abuse.

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★ "Scandalous Scholastics" by Gym Class Heroes
:A song about a 15-year-old boy who has sex with his female teacher, his best friend's mother.

★ "She's Losing It" by Belle and Sebastian, from ''Tigermilk''
:A song about a teenage survivor of sexual abuse who struggles with depression and takes comfort in a lesbian romance.

★ "Sleep" by Stabbing Westward, from ''Wither Blister Burn & Peel''
:A song about the despair felt by a child who is a victim of sexual abuse from her father and subsequently becomes withdrawn from reality.

★ "Speak" by Greg Winkler, from ''Laugh a Little Larger''
:A song about overcoming childhood sexual abuse.

★ "The Story of Beauty" by Destiny's Child from ''Survivor''
:A song about a young girl who is abused by her step-father.

★ "Suffer Little Children" by The Smiths, from ''The Smiths''
:A song about the Moors murders, an infamous case from the 1960s in which three children and two teenagers from the Greater Manchester area were abducted and then sexually abused, tortured and murdered.

★ "Sullen Girl" by Fiona Apple, from ''Tidal''
:A song which describes the feelings that follow rape; "but he washed me ashore, and he took my pearl and left an empty shell of me..."

★ "Slide" by The Dresden Dolls from The Dresden Dolls (album)
:A song about an old man who accosts a child in a playground.

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★ "Teenage Twats" by GG Allin
:A song about an adult's sexual attraction to teenage/under age girls described in explicit language.

★ "Ten-Year-Old Fuck" by GG Allin
:A song about sexual desire for a ten-year-old girl described in explicit language.

★ "Thru These Walls" by Phil Collins
:Makes reference to watching children from a window and fantasizing about them, later offering the compromise of promising 'not to touch, to just be a friend'.

★ "Tier", (German for ''Animal''), by Rammstein from ''Sehnsucht''
:A song about father/daughter abuse.

★ ''Tommy'' by The Who, lyrics by Pete Townshend and John Entwistle.
:A rock opera detailing the journey of an abused deaf, dumb and blind boy toward eventual redemption.
:A song about the process of healing from child sexual abuse.

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★ "Until You Can Forgive" by Chuck Brodsky, from ''Letters in the Dirt''

★ "Uncle Jack" by Mötley Crüe from ''Mötley Crüe
:Semi-autobiographical song from John Corabi whose uncle was convicted of child molestation.

★ "Uncle Knobby" by The Macc Lads, from ''Bitter, Fit Crack''

★ "Uncle Salty" by Aerosmith from ''Toys in the Attic''
:A song about a man’s sexual partner, who was sexually abused by her uncle as a child.

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★ "(The) Virgin and the nightingale : medieval Latin poems" translated by Fleur Adcock
:An eye opening collection, explicit and light hearted. In latin and english.

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★ "Watch Me Bleed" by Tears for Fears, from ''The Hurting''
:A song about childhood abuse from the eyes of an adult survivor.

★ "Wednesday's Child" by Leslie Smith, from ''These Things Wrapped''
:A song which paints a portrait of an abused daughter.

★ "Well Fancy That" by Fun Boy Three from "Waiting"
:A song about a British boy being molested by (presumably) a teacher on a school trip to france, told from the point of view of the same boy much later.

★ "Where Are You?" by Wilson Philips, from ''Shadows & Light''
:A song which describes the recollections of a man abused as a six-year-old boy.

★ "Who Will Hold Me?" by Amy Fix, from ''Spoon''
:A song about a mother who molests her child.

★ "Wizard of Oz" by Toy-Box, from ''Toy Ride''
:A song about a man who touches a little girl, pretending to be the Wizard of Oz

★ "Wrong Way" by Sublime
:Lyrics: ''"Annie is twelve years old, in two more she'll be a whore, nobody ever told her it's the wrong way".''

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Y

★ "Young Boys", by Lords of Acid, from ''Voodoo-U''
:A song about a woman who lusts after adolescent boys.

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References

1. Cacace, Kathy. "Chantal Claret of Morningwood". JunkMag. Retrieved February 26, 2007.