10 Famous Songs With Creepy Undertones You Totally Missed

5. Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen/Jeff Buckley

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8AWFf7EAc4 Hallelujah is a truly beautiful song which is done justice by both Leonard Cohen and Jeff Buckley, and nobody can take that away from it. But it is a little creepy with regards to its poetic use of words that conceal the true essence of the track. The real underlying meanings of this song are far less biblical and a lot more sexual:

There was a time when you let me know, What's really going on below, But now you never show it to me, do you? And remember when I moved in you, The holy dove was moving too, And every breath we drew was Hallelujah.

This is the verse that most blatantly explores the issue, making use of euphemisms like "holy dove" as not to be gratuitous and maintain its usage of holy verbal-imagery. The song is addressing the hallelujah of the orgasm rather than of the "praising" variety. Keep in mind that this is one of the most popular choices of music for funerals, and suddenly things start to become less creepy and a little more comical. Not to disrespect your dead grandfather's ceremony or anything, but that is pretty funny when you think about it.