Results for “jealousy and suspicion”

Songs

John Lee Hooker

A slow, brooding solo blues meditation built almost entirely on repetition and a single fixed image: a man alone at a window,…

abandonment jealousy and suspicion loneliness

Chaka Khan

A meditation on jealousy and reassurance, sung by a partner who has just been told about some flirtation or attention from an…

jealousy possessiveness self-assurance

Annie Lennox

Annie Lennox's reading of this Screamin' Jay Hawkins standard, cut for her covers album Nostalgia, strips the song down to its…

possessive love jealousy desperation

Cream

This is Cream's electrified cover of a pre-war country blues (originally by Blind Joe Reynolds), turned into a slow-burning…

sexual jealousy infidelity folk wisdom/proverb

Carly Simon

A woman confronts a partner who has just confessed some flirtation or infidelity, and instead of collapsing into jealousy she…

possessiveness disguised as devotion jealousy and self-assurance confession and its fallout

Free

A blues-rock warning shot aimed at a rival encroaching on the narrator's relationship. It's less a fully worked lyric than a…

jealousy and possessiveness masculine pride confrontation

Lead Belly

An old Southern folk ballad, filtered through Lead Belly's version, that turns a simple question about infidelity into something…

betrayal and suspicion death and unexplained violence isolation/exile

Thom Yorke

A fractured, glitchy meditation on trying to erase someone from consciousness only to find them multiplying under the pressure…

denial and obsession the futility of erasure suspicion and manipulation

Pearl Jam

A song about the aftermath of a devastating breakup, built on the image of a world drained of color and identity once a lover is…

heartbreak and loss loss of identity grief's distortion of perception