Asexual Songs

[Sammie]

To collect songs that are in some way asexual, or can be seen as such. If not clear at first, explain what's asexual about it.

My first one:

Words by the Bee Gees

It expresses so well the difficulty I felt trying to show my last sexual boyfriend how much I cared for him. He just didn't get that I loved him even though I didn't want him sexually.

You think that I don't even mean

a single word I say.

It's only words,

and words are all I have,

to take your heart away

[DMG]

"I would do anything for love; but I won't do that" by Meatloaf .

[KAGU143]

I touch no one and no one touches me.

I am a rock.

I am an island.

[Amcan]

"I would do anything for love; but I won't do that" by Meatloaf .

Okay that wins.

[cijay]

I think just about every song, unless it actually starts talking about gettin' jiggy with it is an asexual song because I don't pick up any sexual innuendos.

[Shockwave]

Hey, hey Julia, you're acting so peculiar

I know I'd never fool you in a million years

A horn section you resemble and your figure makes me tremble

And I sure would like to handle whats between your ears

You're a temptation to a man

I could not resist you and I won't if I can

You're so unexpected and whatever you injected made me feel how I felt when I sang

Hey, hey Julia you're acting so peculiar

I know I'd never fool you in a million years

You're a strain on my eyeses and you're full of surprises

Love materializes soon as you come near.

Theres a sensation you create,

Robs me of my sleep and I've forgotten the date

My head started spinning soon as you started singing

And like a fish I just rose to the bait.

Hey, hey Julia with your crazy sense of humor

You turn fact into rumor soon as you come near

A horn section you resemble and your figure makes me tremble

And I sure would like to handle whats between your ears

You're a temptation to a man

I could not resist you and I won't if I can.

You're so unexpected and whatever you injected made me feel how I felt when I sang

Julia, you're a danger just like giving sweets to strangers

And I think its time I took you in hand.

[Sammie]

not really getting the asexual vibe on that one...

your figure makes me tremble?

You're a temptation to a man?

Liking the Robert Palmer songs though. How about 'Didn't mean to turn you on.

When I took you out

I knew what you were all about

But when I did

I didn't mean to turn you on

Now I bring you home

You tell me the night's not enough for you

I'm sorry, baby

I didn't mean to turn you on

Woah, baby, I didn't mean to turn you on

You read me wrong

I wasn't tryin' to lead you on

Not like you think

I didn't mean to turn you on

I know you

Expected a one-night-stand when I refused

I knew you wouldn't understand

I'm sorry, baby

I didn't mean to turn you on

I told you twice

I was only tryin' to be nice

Only tryin' to be nice

Oh, I didn't mean to turn you on

Hey, now why should I

Feel guilty 'cause I won't give

Guilty 'cause I won't give in

I didn't mean to turn you on

Woah, baby, I didn't mean to turn you on

When I took you out

I knew what you were all about

But when I did

I didn't mean to turn you on

Woah, baby, I didn't mean to turn you on

[Sammie]

The Pixel Monk pointed out this one to me:

Love in the library By: jimmy buffett, mac mcanally

On the corner of government and bay avenue

The old doomsday fanatic wore a crown of kudzu

Sirens were wailing in the gulf coastal heat

And it seemed like the whole world was in forced retreat

Paid no attention, revolved through the door

Past the newspaper racks on the worn marble floor

Near civil war history my heart skipped a beat

She was standing in fiction stretched high on bare feet

Chorus:

Love in the library

Quiet and cool

Love in the library

There are no rules

Surrounded by stories

Surreal and sublime

I fell in love in the library

Once upon a time

I was the pirate, she was the queen

Sir francis and elizabeth, the best theres ever been

Then she strolled past my table and stopped at the stairs

Then sent me a smile as she reached for flaubert

Chorus:

Love in the library

Quiet and cool

Love in the library

There are no rules

Surrounded by stories

Surreal and sublime

I fell in love in the library

Once upon a time

She gathered her books, walked while she read

Words never spoken, but so much was said

You can read all you want into this rendezvous

But its safer than most things that lovers can do

Well stories have endings, fantasies fade

And the guard by the door starts drawing the shade

So write your own ending and hope it comes true

For the lovers and strangers on bay avenue

Chorus:

Love in the library

Quiet and cool

Love in the library

There are no rules

Surrounded by stories

Surreal and sublime

I fell in love in the library

Once upon a time

Surrounded by stories

Surreal and sublime

I fell in love in the library

Once upon a time

[LaLunaVerde]

Sleeping Beauty

There's a rose sealed away in the winter

Fast asleep through the wind and rain and cold

Ever waiting for someone to wake her

One who'll see that she's no one's to hold

Maybe she is a spell never broken

Little girl from a world in-between

Each tomorrow a promise unspoken

And every today like a dream in a dream

She's still sleeping

She's still dreaming

She's still dreaming

She is Love - oh but never a Lover

Shrinks away from the touch of his hand

From kisses and candles that stain her affection

Her Love is a place he will not understand

There's a child inside made of flowers and stars

Lost in whispers and wings and the beauty of

Innocence cradled in moments eternal

Snow undisturbed in the glow of the morning light

And she's still sleeping

She's still dreaming

Sleeping beauty

And she's still flying

She's still singing

Can you hear her?

There is grace in the red of her twilight

There is truth in her darkness ahead

Treasure held in her eyes never open

Melody in her words never said

And she's still sleeping

She's still dreaming

She's still dreaming

-Helen Trevillion

She's a romantic asexual herself and intended this song to be an "asexual" interpretation of sleeping beauty, which is sometimes thought of as a story about sexual awakening.

[endplusone]

"How Soon is Now?" by The Smiths

I am the son

and the heir

Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar

I am the son and heir

Of nothing in particular

You shut your mouth

How can you say

I go about things the wrong way

I am Human and I need to be loved

Just like everybody else does

I am the son

and the heir

Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar

I am the son and the heir

Of nothing in particular

You shut your mouth

How can you say

I go about things the wrong way

I am Human and I need to be loved

Just like everybody else does

There's a club, if you'd like to go

You could meet somebody who really loves you

So you go, and you stand on your own

And you leave on your own

And you go home

And you cry

And you want to die

When you say it's gonna happen now,

Well, when exactly do you mean?

See I've already waited too long

And all my hope is gone

I am Human And I need to be loved

Just like everybody else does

[itsnotlucky]

I second that Smiths nomination, and propose "A Kiss is not a Contract" by the Flight of the Conchords.

Just because we've been playin' tonsil hockey

doesn't mean you get to score the goal that's in my Jockeys.

[Jordan]

Bittersweet Symphony by The Verve. It's a song about psychological suffering and no sex included.

[Næt.]

I second that Smiths nomination, and propose "A Kiss is not a Contract" by the Flight of the Conchords.

Just because we've been playin' tonsil hockey

doesn't mean you get to score the goal that's in my Jockeys.

Flight of the Conchords!

I can't believe I didn't think of them earlier!

I'm Brett

Brit?

Brett

Brit?

[Sammie]

I LOVE the sleeping beauty song.

Jazmin made a topic about this too: http://www.asexuality.org/en/index.php?sho...mp;#entry864030

and suggested Samantha Ronson's "Built this way".

Did you ever feel like you wanna be

Someone else for just one day

Did you ever feel like you wanna see

Through another pair of eyes

Did you ever think I might wanna be

with anyone else for just one day

Did you ever really think of me

when I walked away

The look, the dunks and the bottle of Jack

the smokes the slouch and my eyes down

you think you know what you think you'll find

you think you'll figure me out tonight

but you'll never know what I won't share

coz I don't care, no I don't care

you think you'll figure me out tonight

but I don't care

And I wonder, if I'm just built this way

coz every man that I know makes me feel like I'm to blame

when it's over, me and my selfish ways

go back to start again

go back to start again

Did you ever feel like you should have said

something smarter at the time

Did you ever feel like you should have kept

it all to yourself

Did you ever think it might be your fault

I never promise anymore

Did you ever think it might not be me

No it was always me

The look, the dunks and the bottle of Jack

the smokes the slouch and my eyes down

you think you know what you think you'll find

you think you'll figure me out tonight

but you'll never know what I won't share

coz I don't care, no I don't care

you think you'll figure me out tonight

but I don't care

And I wonder, if I'm just built this way

coz every man that I know makes me feel like I'm to blame

when it's over, me and my selfish ways

go back to start again

And I wonder, if I'm just built this way

coz every man that I know makes me feel like I'm to blame

when it's over, me and my selfish ways

go back to start again

go back to start again

The look, the dunks and the bottle of Jack

the smokes the slouch and my eyes down

you think you know what you think you'll find

you think you'll figure me out tonight

but you'll never know what I won't share

coz I don't care, no I don't care

you think you'll figure me out tonight

but I don't care

And I wonder, if I'm just built this way

coz every man that I know makes me feel like I'm to blame

when it's over, me and my selfish ways

go back to start again

And I wonder, if I'm just built this way

coz every man that I know makes me feel like I'm to blame

when it's over, me and my selfish ways

go back to start again

go back to start again

go back to start again

[Ellers]

I take it Closer by Nine Inch Nails wouldn't make the cut? ;-)

Funny you mentioned Meatloaf...well I guess in this case Jim Steinman, since he was the one who wrote the song. I was listening to that song and a couple others the other day and thought the same thing :).

Two out of Three Ain't Bad might qualify as "asexual" in a way.

[Avoidant]

Since someone mentioned the Smiths, there's also "Pretty Girls Make Graves."

Upon the sand, upon the bay

"There is a quick and easy way" you say

Before you illustrate

I'd rather state :

"I'm not the man you think I am

I'm not the man you think I am"

And Sorrow's native son

He will not smile for anyone

And Pretty Girls Make Graves

Oh ...

End of the pier, end of the bay

You tug my arm, and say : "Give in to lust,

Give up to lust, oh heaven knows we'll

Soon be dust ... "

Oh, I'm not the man you think I am

I'm not the man you think I am

And Sorrow's native son

He will not rise for anyone

And Pretty Girls Make Graves

Oh really ?

Oh ...

I could have been wild and I could have

Been free

But Nature played this trick on me

She wants it Now

And she will not wait

But she's too rough

And I'm too delicate

Then, on the sand

Another man, he takes her hand

A smile lights up her stupid face

(and well, it would)

I lost my faith in Womanhood

I lost my faith in Womanhood

I lost my faith ...

Oh ...

[anticulus]

I think this thread needs a little more Victoria Wood:

Now it that's not an asexual song I'd like to know what is! 8)

[Dame du Lac]

I think this thread needs a little more Victoria Wood:

Now it that's not an asexual song I'd like to know what is! 8)

:lol: :lol: :lol:

More fun though is the Let's Do It video which must be an asexual male. I remember that from when it was on her show in the 80s.

(To this day when people talk about s&m I remember the line that goes "beat me on the bottom with a Woman's Weekly. lol)

[Cicero]

Haha! I love the Victoria Wood song! Nice one!

[Lizzie]

Owner Of A Lonely Heart- Yes

[dir egal]

great big white world by marilyn manson

In space the stars are no nearer

Just glitters like a morgue

And I dreamed I was a spaceman

Burned like a moth in a flame

And our world was so fucking gone

I'm not attached to your world

Nothing heals and nothing grows

everytime i listen to the song, i feel as if i am free from my gender for a moment ^_^

[Marvin]

The Cure - Siamese Twins.

It might seem an odd suggestion, given that it is somewhat more graphic than most of the current suggestions, but the entire song is basically an expression of disgust at the act itself. I can't think what's much more asexual than that. Well, more antisexual, anyway.

[Sammie]

I think this thread needs a little more Victoria Wood:

Now it that's not an asexual song I'd like to know what is! 8)

[ProdeFemme]

I take it Closer by Nine Inch Nails wouldn't make the cut? ;-)

Hahahaha! Doesn't look good

I cast my vote with 'I would do anything for love (but I won't do that)'

Thats why metal works for me, no fluff about sex or love in most of it :lol:

[Haunter]

Why do I have the feeling that we've had this thread before? I remember posting about this subject a few months ago...

[MetroChumpy]

I Want To Hold Your Hand - The Beatles

Oh yeah, I'll tell you something,

I think you'll understand.

When I'll say that something

I want to hold your hand,

I want to hold your hand,

I want to hold your hand.

Oh please, say to me

You'll let me be your man

And please, say to me

You'll let me hold your hand.

Now let me hold your hand,

I want to hold your hand.

And when I touch you I feel happy inside.

It's such a feeling that my love

I can't hide, I can't hide, I can't hide.

Yeah, you've got that something,

I think you'll understand.

When I'll say that something

I want to hold your hand,

I want to hold your hand,

I want to hold your hand.

And when I touch you I feel happy inside.

It's such a feeling that my love

I can't hide, I can't hide, I can't hide.

Yeh, you've got that something,

I think you'll understand.

When I'll feel that something

I want to hold your hand,

I want to hold your hand,

I want to hold your hand.

[Xombium]

Flying High - Jem

Feel so nice,

oh yeah you feel so nice.

Wish I could spend the night,

but I can’t pay the price,

oh no, no.

[ily]

Oh goodness, this is totally my hobby, as you can see here:

http://theonepercentclub.blogspot.com/sear...l/Song%20Review

[Tethys]

Nude - Radiohead

Don't get any big ideas

they're not gonna happen

You paint yourself white

and feel up with noise

but there'll be something missing

Now that you've found it, it's gone

Now that you feel it, you don't

You've gone off the rails

So don't get any big ideas

they're not going to happen

You'll go to hell for what your dirty mind is thinking

Maybe kind of antisexual...

[Brienne]

The guy in the song "One Night in Bangkok" sounds Asexual. The song is from Chess the musical, and from what I've heard the character is not asexual in the play. However, I like to imagine the guy is when I listen to the song. "I get my kicks above the waistline sunshine"---one of the best lines ever! :P

Bangkok, Oriental setting

And the city don't know that the city is getting

The creme de la creme of the chess world in a

Show with everything but Yul Brynner

Time flies -- doesn't seem a minute

Since the Tirolean spa had the chess boys in it

All change -- don't you know that when you

Play at this level there's no ordinary venue

It's Iceland -- or the Philippines -- or Hastings -- or --

or this place!

One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster

The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free

You'll find a god in every golden cloister

And if you're lucky then the god's a she

I can feel an angel sliding up to me

One town's very like another

When your head's down over your pieces, brother

It's a drag, it's a bore, it's really such a pity

To be looking at the board, not looking at the city

Whaddya mean? Ya seen one crowded, polluted, stinking town --

Tea, girls, warm, sweet

Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham suite

Get Thai'd! You're talking to a tourist

Whose every move's among the purest

I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine

One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble

Not much between despair and ecstasy

One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble

Can't be too careful with your company

I can feel the devil walking next to me

Siam's gonna be the witness

To the ultimate test of cerebral fitness

This grips me more than would a

Muddy old river or reclining Buddha

And thank God I'm only watching the game -- controlling it --

I don't see you guys rating

The kind of mate I'm contemplating

I'd let you watch, I would invite you

But the queens we use would not excite you

So you better go back to your bars, your temples, your massage

parlours --

One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster

The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free

You'll find a god in every golden cloister

A little flesh, a little history

I can feel an angel sliding up to me

One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble

Not much between despair and ecstasy

One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble

Can't be too careful with your company

I can feel the devil walking next to me