9 Popular Songs With Disturbing Implications You Never Noticed
2. "Your Southern Can Is Mine" Is About Relentless Domestic Violence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl1iSJg3WUQUpbeat, 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 senseCheerfully, 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