Songs directly addressed to someone non-famous (a friend or lover or half-brother, perhaps) who is named in the song but not in the title

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The Cure - 'The Drowning Man': "Oh Fushia, you leave me breathing like the drowning man".

LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 12 January 2018 16:44 (six years ago) link

Laura Nyro - "Wedding Bell Blues" is addressed to Bill

justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Friday, 12 January 2018 16:54 (six years ago) link

Mansion - Stripper Vicar

“Dear Mavis, I'm compelled to write this letter...”

faust apes (NickB), Friday, 12 January 2018 16:59 (six years ago) link

lol autocorrect, that should be Mansun obv

faust apes (NickB), Friday, 12 January 2018 17:00 (six years ago) link

This is a song for Karen!

JoeStork, Friday, 12 January 2018 17:13 (six years ago) link

Don't Look Back In Anger?

Colonel Poo, Friday, 12 January 2018 17:17 (six years ago) link

or does that not count because it just mentions a random name?

Colonel Poo, Friday, 12 January 2018 17:18 (six years ago) link

"This bottle, of Stephen's" - from Weezer's 'Say It Ain't So' (Rivers' Cuomo's stepfather)

PaulTMA, Friday, 12 January 2018 17:18 (six years ago) link

yeah I think that's the same, doesn't really count because it's not addressed to Stephen?

Colonel Poo, Friday, 12 January 2018 17:19 (six years ago) link

Kurt Cobain's father in 'Serve the Servants.' Although his name isn't mentioned: "I tried hard to have a father but instead I had a dad / I just want you to know that I don't hate you anymore / There is nothing I could say that I haven't thought before."

flappy bird, Friday, 12 January 2018 18:45 (six years ago) link

on that note see "Grandma take me home" in Nirvana's "Silver".

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 12 January 2018 19:00 (six years ago) link

Future of the Left "Arming Eritrea" is directed, angrily, to someone named "Rick." I remember it getting hyped on ILM and me being totally baffled as it seemed to be the whiny screechings of a teenaged lout, grounded by his stepdad.

Righteous wax chaperone, rotating Wingdings (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 18 January 2018 16:01 (six years ago) link


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