Songs about secrets, hiding, concealment

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Hey all,
Working on a playlist...any other ideas?

Hey You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
Do You Want To Know A Secret?
Private Eyes
I Always Feel Like Somebody's Watching Me
Who Can It Be Now?

― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 22 March 2014 13:07 (eleven years ago)

Secret Lovers - Atlantic Starr
first thing that came to mind

― jetfan, Saturday, 22 March 2014 13:08 (eleven years ago)

Thanks

― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 22 March 2014 13:10 (eleven years ago)

Floyd Tillman - Slippin' Around

― coops all on coops tbh (crüt), Saturday, 22 March 2014 13:10 (eleven years ago)

Slapp Happy - The Secret

Would Pulp's 'Babies' count? "I hid inside her wardrobe" etc etc?

― emil.y, Saturday, 22 March 2014 13:13 (eleven years ago)

The Happy Family - Innermost Thoughts

― soref, Saturday, 22 March 2014 13:17 (eleven years ago)

yes, definitely, emil.y--thanks and thanks everyone, these are awesome

― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 22 March 2014 13:21 (eleven years ago)

Frida - I Know There's Something Going On

― めんどくさい (Matt #2), Saturday, 22 March 2014 13:24 (eleven years ago)

'Someone's Coming', The Who

― an office job is as secure as a Weetabix padlock (snoball), Saturday, 22 March 2014 13:26 (eleven years ago)

Now I've just got Leoncie singing "killer in the park, hiding in the dark" going round and round in my head.

― emil.y, Saturday, 22 March 2014 13:28 (eleven years ago)

Soft Cell - My Secret Life
Hey! Elastica - This Town

― soref, Saturday, 22 March 2014 13:28 (eleven years ago)

Occasional Keepers - Leave the Secret there Forever

― austinato (Austin), Saturday, 22 March 2014 13:32 (eleven years ago)

Comet Gain - You Can Hide Your Love Forever

― emil.y, Saturday, 22 March 2014 13:36 (eleven years ago)

this thread is making me realise that about half of my favourite songs concern these themes

― soref, Saturday, 22 March 2014 13:41 (eleven years ago)

Songdog – On Porthcawl Sands

Days spent talking in your room,
The smell of freshly blow-dried hair,
And when I got my first guitar
You sang along to "Reach Out, I'll Be There"
I stole a hairgrip from your bag
And hid it safe in a dry-stone wall,
When you fell for Joe McGrath it broke my heart,
He told me all he wanted was your coochie, that's all

― Ludo, Saturday, 22 March 2014 13:42 (eleven years ago)

XTC - Let's Make a Den

― MaresNest, Saturday, 22 March 2014 13:45 (eleven years ago)

The Chills - Hidden Bay

― emil.y, Saturday, 22 March 2014 13:53 (eleven years ago)

Pete Townshend - Hiding Out

― Mark, Saturday, 22 March 2014 13:58 (eleven years ago)

The Cure - Secrets

― ∞, Saturday, 22 March 2014 14:00 (eleven years ago)

Elvis Costello - Sneaky Feelings

― ∞, Saturday, 22 March 2014 14:01 (eleven years ago)

'Running Scared', Roy Orbison

― an office job is as secure as a Weetabix padlock (snoball), Saturday, 22 March 2014 14:04 (eleven years ago)

Chic "My Forbidden Lover"

― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Saturday, 22 March 2014 14:08 (eleven years ago)

Bangles - "He's Got A Secret"

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 22 March 2014 14:14 (eleven years ago)

BARBARA MANDRELL - THE MIDNIGHT OIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― marcos, Saturday, 22 March 2014 14:15 (eleven years ago)

Sally Go Round the Roses

― JoeStork, Saturday, 22 March 2014 14:16 (eleven years ago)

Pet Shop Boys - We All Feel Better in the Dark

― jmm, Saturday, 22 March 2014 14:18 (eleven years ago)

Afghan Whigs - I Know Your Little Secret
Not sure if this fits or not, but The Foggy Dew is definitely about concealment

― we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Saturday, 22 March 2014 14:38 (eleven years ago)

The Primitives - Secrets

― Frontier Psychiatrist, Saturday, 22 March 2014 14:42 (eleven years ago)

Styx - Mr Roboto

"Secret secret, I've got a secret"

― emil.y, Saturday, 22 March 2014 14:53 (eleven years ago)

Richard Thompson, "Cold Kisses":

Here I am in your room going through your stuff
Said you'd be gone five minutes, that's time enough
Here in your drawer there's lacy things
Old credit cards and beads and bangles and rings
Well I think I've found what I'm looking for
Hidden away at the back of the drawer
Here's the life that you led before

― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Saturday, 22 March 2014 17:36 (eleven years ago)

Madonna, "Live to Tell"

― horseshoe, Saturday, 22 March 2014 17:44 (eleven years ago)

James Carr's "Dark End of the Street" unsurpassable

― one way street, Saturday, 22 March 2014 17:58 (eleven years ago)

James Carr, "The Dark End of the Street"

ha, xp

Leroy Van Dyke, "Walk On By"

― Brad C., Saturday, 22 March 2014 17:58 (eleven years ago)

the clean - secret place
beach boys - in my room
the carpenters - (a place to) hideaway
karen o - hideaway

― fact checking cuz, Saturday, 22 March 2014 17:59 (eleven years ago)

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - "Ease Down the Road"

― one way street, Saturday, 22 March 2014 18:00 (eleven years ago)

(Smog) - "Truth Serum"
Bruce Springsteen - "Two Faces"
The Platters - "The Great Pretender"
The Miracles - "Tracks of my Tears"

― one way street, Saturday, 22 March 2014 18:08 (eleven years ago)

The Springsteen song more about opacity-to-self than willful concealment, perhaps

― one way street, Saturday, 22 March 2014 18:12 (eleven years ago)

billy joel - the stranger

― niels, Saturday, 22 March 2014 18:15 (eleven years ago)

B-side of rare pre-Zep single from 1967:

Robert Plant - I've Got a Secret

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZZJSLT2EUE

― Lee626, Saturday, 22 March 2014 18:15 (eleven years ago)

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - "Jubilee Street" (secrecy in the mode of hypocrisy)

― one way street, Saturday, 22 March 2014 18:22 (eleven years ago)

Duran - Please Please Tell Me Now
Tom T. Hall - Sneaky Snake
Nick Drake - Know

― bodacious ignoramus, Saturday, 22 March 2014 18:30 (eleven years ago)

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