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11) "I can promise you
You'll stay as beautiful
With dark hair
And soft skin, forever
Forever"


The Toadies intended "Possum Kingdom" to be a continuation of the story told in the song "I Burn". While they envisioned "I Burn" to be a story about cult members immolating themselves in order to ascend to a higher plane, "Possum Kingdom" was about one of the immolated people becoming "just smoke, and ...he goes to Possum Kingdom Lake and tries to find somebody to join him."

12) "Words are weapons sharper than knives
Makes you wonder how the other half die"


On November 22, 1997, INXS frontman Michael Hutchence surrendered to the "Devil Inside". He was found in his suite at Sydney's Ritz-Carlton hotel, suspended from a door hinge by a leather belt around his neck.

13) "I am the one hiding under your bed
Teeth ground sharp and eyes glowing red"


"This Is Halloween" is a song from the 1993 film The Nightmare Before Christmas, with music and lyrics written by Danny Elfman. In the film it is performed by the residents of the fictional "Halloween Town", introducing their Halloween-centered lifestyle.

14) "The virginal brides file past his tomb
Strewn with time's dead flowers"


"Bela Lugosi's Dead" was English post-punk band Bauhaus's first single, written more than 23 years after the death of horror film star Bela Lugosi. It is often considered the first gothic rock record.

15) "All I want is to be left alone in my average home;
But why do I always feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone"


The music video to "Somebody's Watching Me" (which uses the radio edit instead of the album version) underscores the song's paranoid tone with a haunted house-inspired theme, including imagery of floating heads, ravens, graveyards, and shower scenes referencing Psycho.

16) "Well, he went on his way, and then what do ya know?
I saw him last night on a TV show
He was blowing it out, really knockin' em dead
Playin' rock and roll music through the horn in his head"


MGM Records initially rejected "The Purple People Eater", but an acetate of the song reached MGM Records' New York office and became popular with the office's young people. Up to 50 employees would listen to the song at lunchtime. The front office noticed, reconsidered their decision, and decided to release the song.

17) "So if you meet me
Have some courtesy
Have some sympathy, and some taste
Use all your well-learned politesse
Or I'll lay your soul to waste"


In "Sympathy for the Devil", Mick Jagger sings in first person narrative as the Devil, boasting his role in each of several historical violent atrocities. The singer then ironically demands our courtesy towards him, implicitly chastising the listener for our collective culpability in the listed killings and crimes.

18) "What do you see in those yellow eyes?
'Cause I'm falling to pieces"


In an interview with Rolling Stone, Shakira said that the idea for "She Wolf" came to her "very mysteriously", revealing "I was in the studio in a bad mood that day, then I got inspired and went to a corner and I wrote the lyrics and the melody in 10 minutes. The image of the she wolf just came to my head, and when I least expected it I was howling and panting."

19) "Howling in shadows
Living in a lunar spell
He finds his heaven
Spewing from the mouth of hell"


The music video for "Bark at the Moon" borrows heavily from Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, depicting Ozzy Osbourne as a mad scientist who ingests a substance in his laboratory which causes him to transform into the werewolf.

20) "Shriveled old lady
With a tombstone mouth
Scarin' up trouble
At the haunted house"


John Fogerty takes listeners "way back in the swamp" in "Wicked Old Witch" which starts with an eerie banjo intro. The swamp rocker's baby daughter inspired this song with her fascination for the Wizard of Oz.

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