I don’t normally pay attention to lyrics of “poppish” songs, but a couple have stuck out in my head as songs that on the surface seem pretty nice, romantic, and all that hoopla, but if you were to really pay attention they’re just downright creepy and stalkerish.

First one is James Blunt - Beautiful:

I saw an angel.
Of that I’m sure.
She smiled at me on the subway.
She was with another man.
But I won’t lose no sleep on that,
‘Cause I’ve got a plan.

You’re beautiful. You’re beautiful.
You’re beautiful, it’s true.

So basically the premise is you have a guy who’s smitten not over someone he knows, has ever said a word to, or even gotten within a 3 ft radius of–but rather someone he got a glance of  on a subway, the place where the most creepozoids prey for the hunt.

Then he calls her beautiful, as if that somehow makes things nice, pure, and innocent..when what he’s really thinking is, “God you’re hot and I just want to rail you”. But in the context of a song that’s probably not so catchy.

There must be an angel with a smile on her face,
When she thought up that I should be with you.
But it’s time to face the truth,
I will never be with you.

He’s got that latter part right, but there’s only one word to describe someone who thinks that this random ass girl who probably has huge boobies is one an angel sent to him–PSYCHODELUSIONALGETAWAYFROMME

And then there’s: Plain White T’s - Hey There Delilah

I know times are getting hard
But just believe me, girl
Someday I’ll pay the bills with this guitar
We’ll have it good
We’ll have the life we knew we would

It’s a nice little message isn’t it–a guy promising him and his better half a good future via his guitar strumming. Lovely, is it not?

Except again in this case, it’s written to a girl he had just met..According to this.

A friend introduced Higgenson to his muse five years ago.

“I thought she was the most beautiful girl I had ever seen,” he says. “I told her, ‘I have a song about you already.’ Obviously, there was no song. But I thought it was smooth.”

He waited a year to write the song. Now, it’s inescapable.

Yeah that’s not creepy at all..now I’m all about confidence and being self-assured, but I’m not so sure how a line of: “Hi I’m Dave, I think “You’re Beautiful” and I just wrote a song about you” may work out in the real world..

The creepy stalker angle simply doesn’t work.

I would know..