Pedophilia and child sexual abuse in songs
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Pedophilia, romantic or sexual relations between adults and children, 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, 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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- Ask Me by Amy Grant, from Heart In Motion
- A woman's faith helps her to heal from childhood sexual abuse
- Bad Cliché by Cosy Sheridan, from Grand Design
- A girl is sexually abused by her uncle from the age of nine to twelve
- Breaking Silence by Janis Ian, from Breaking Silence
- Breaking the silence about fathers sexually abusing their daughters
- Beyond the Cemetery by Cannibal Corpse, from Tomb of the Mutilated
- Graphic details of a mans relationship with his daughter[1]
- The Candyman is a pedophile
- Certain Things by Jano, from Certain Things
- Explicit songs about sexual abuse
- Cherokee Louise by Joni Mitchell, from Night Ride Home
- A young girl hides from her sexually abusive stepfather.
- The Childcatcher by Lush, from Lovelife
- A girl's evolution from an adolescent sexual abuse victim to the maturity her father lacks.
- Crack in the Mirror by Betty Elders, from Peaceful Existence; also covered by Joan Baez on Gone From Danger
- A girl is sexually abused from the time she is a baby
- Daddy's Girl by Scorpions, from Face the Heat
- A mother denies that her daughter is being molested by her father
- Daddy's Song by Toni Childs, from House of Hope
- A survivor sings of sexual abuse by her father
- 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 Body 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
- Embryo by Dir en grey, from KISOU
- A child takes revenge on their sexually abusive father after their mother's suicide
- Fee Fi Fo by The Cranberries, from Bury the Hatchet
- The sexual abuse of a young girl
- Fiddle About by The Who from the Rock Opera Tommy
- a short song where Tommy is sexually abused by his "wicked Uncle Earnie"
- 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
- Morrisette sings from the man's perspective of an affair she had with an adult at fourteen
- Holy Water by Lisa McCormick, from Right Now
- The sexual abuse of children by priests
- I Will Stand Fast by Fred Small, from I Will Stand Fast
- A survivor of child sexual abuse
- Icy Barrel of a Loaded Gun by Darcie Deaville, from Tornado In Slo Mo
- Deaville’s experience of being molested by her grandfather
- I'll Tell On You by Lenore, from Summer Dancing
- Inspired by childhood sexual abuse victims who had the courage to come forward and "tell"
- Janie's Got a Gun by Aerosmith, from Pump
- A sexually abused little girl gets her revenge on her father
- John Wayne Gacy Jr. by Sufjan Stevens from Illinois/Illinoise
- Tells the life story of the serial rapist and murderer John Wayne Gacy
- Lemon Incest by Serge and Charlotte Gainsbourg from the album Lemon Incest
- Ambiguous song between a father and his daughter
- Letter to a John by Ani DiFranco, from Out of Range
- A prostitute who was sexually abused when she was an eleven-year-old girl
- Light in the Hall by Fred Small from Jaguar
- Child abuse as told through the eyes of the child
- Little Girls by Oingo Boingo from Only a Lad
- A man sings of the simplicity of romance with little girls, who don't ask difficult questions like older women
- Little Mary Phagan
- A true story of an eleven-year-old girl who is molested and murdered
- Live to Tell by Madonna, from True Blue, also included on The Immaculate Collection
- This can be interpreted as being about child molestation
- Lolita by Elefant, from The Black Magic Show
- Lolita by Suzanne Vega
- 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 survivor of child sexual abuse's journey to being able to love again
- Necropedophile by Cannibal Corpse, from Tomb of the Mutilated
- Graphic details about a 'necropedophile', who has sexual activity with dead children.[2]
- Nieces' Pieces by Xiu Xiu, from Fabulous Muscles
- A man anticipates how his infant nieces will suffer from his family's legacy of sexual abuse
- Nightmare by Gaye Adegbalola, from Bitter Sweet Blues
- A girl molested by her father forgives, but does not forget
- A man promises to protect a fifteen-year-old from the attentions of men like himself
- Once Like You by Jackie Tice, from Blue Coyote
- A song about child molestation
- Prison Sex by Tool, from Undertow
- A child who is sexually abused becomes an abuser himself as an adult.
- She's Losing It by Belle and Sebastian, from Tigermilk
- A teenage survivor of sexual abuse struggles with depression and takes comfort in a lesbian romance
- Sleep by Stabbing Westward, from Wither Blister Burn & Peel
- The despair felt by a child who is a victim of incest, and her withdrawal from reality
- Speak by Greg Winkler, from Laugh a Little Larger
- Overcoming childhood sexual abuse
- The Story of Beauty by Destiny's Child from Survivor
- A young girl is abused by her step-father
- Father/daughter abuse
- Truth and the Lie by Susan Herrick
- The process of healing from child sexual abuse
- Until You Can Forgive by Chuck Brodsky, from Letters in the Dirt
- A man’s partner was sexually abused as a child
- Watch Me Bleed by Tears for Fears, from The Hurting
- Childhood abuse from the eyes of an adult survivor
- Wednesday's Child by Leslie Smith, from These Things Wrapped
- A portrait of an abused daughter
- Where Are You? by Wilson Philips, from Shadows & Light
- Recollections of a man abused as a six-year-old boy
- Who Will Hold Me? by Amy Fix, from Spoon
- A mother who molests her child
Jonathan King, composer of "Everyone's Gone to the Moon" received a seven-year prison sentence for indecent assaults and other sexual offences involving boys aged 14 and 15.
The singer Gary Glitter (Paul Gadd) was convicted of child pornography charges.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Beyond the Cemetery lyrics at DarkLyrics.com (Explicit lyrics with graphic imagery)
- ^ Necropedophile lyrics, at DarkLyrics.com (Explicit lyrics with graphic imagery)
