9 Popular Songs With Disturbing Implications You Never Noticed

By Brian Wilson / January 25, 2020

2. "Your Southern Can Is Mine" Is About Relentless Domestic Violence

Upbeat, uptempo and super catchy, "Your Southern Can Is Mine" sounds like a fun, folksy chant-along song, but it's actually about domestic violence.

Released on The White Stripe's second album De Stijl (as a cover of an old Blind Willie song) the track closes the record in a surprisingly sombre manner, even if it's masked by a completely different aural tone:

When I hit you, momma, then you feel my hand Give you a punch through that barbed wire fence When I hit you, baby, you know I make no sense

Cheerfully, the singer is so desperate to beat his wife that he even vows that he'll do it again once he serves his time for doing it initially:

You might go uptown, have me arrested put in jail Some hotshots got money gonna pull my bail Soon as I get out, hit the ground