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** "All I Need".
** "Creep" from Music/PabloHoney. According to Thom Yorke, it's about a drunk guy following around a woman he's attracted to, lacking the self-confidence to actually approach her. However, many listeners think it's a straightforward unrequited-love song from the perspective of a guy with self-esteem issues... [[DeathOfTheAuthor which is perfectly reasonable from the lyrics themselves]], ''except'' that it provides no explanation for the line "she's running out the door", making it a bit of a BreadEggsMilkSquick. In fairness, that's the least intelligible part of the song, so a lot of people probably didn't even know that's what he was saying. Going by the "unrequited love song from the POV of a guy with self-esteem issues" interpretation, "she's running out the door" could mean that the guy attempted to admit his feelings but only succeeded in scaring her or that he simply made a move far too late to do anything.
** "You", also off of "Pablo Honey", is another example.
* Music/FranzFerdinand have "This Fire" from ''Music/YouCouldHaveItSoMuchBetter''.

* "Laid" by James is about sexual obsession and someone's life spiraling out of control due to it. The last verse dives headlong into the ParanoiaFuel aspects of this trope, when the singer talks about someone cutting a hole through the wall to get around door locks, and how that person is found sleeping next to him when he was supposedly alone. The last line implies [[StockholmSyndrome that the singer is becoming too attached to the obsession as well]].

->''"This is one of those love songs that crosses that narrow divide between 'romantic' and 'deeply disturbing.' You know, the difference between 'I always want to be with you' and 'I want to wear your skin like a sweater."''

* Music/{{Blondie}}- "One Way Or Another", "Accidents Never Happen", "Hangin' On the Telephone". Debbie Harry wrote the former because of a quite insane stalker. She stated that adding a bubble gum pop added some lightness and was therapeutic for her.

* ''Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'' has "Johanna", which in the film version of the play comes off as quite stalkerish -- the guy singing it has just taken one hell of a beating at the Beadle, and the look on his bloody face as he sings is quite creepy:

** But it's nothing compared to the "Johanna" sung by Judge Turpin, which makes the above guy look positively heroic by comparison. Which may be the intention.

* The Orion Experience has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D75QjUmpDo&a=GxdCwVVULXfpkuz72AgVHhoQmMQdC7bl Obsessed With You]]

* Music/{{TallyHall}} has the song “Two Wuv” about being in love with and pursuing both of the Olsen Twins.

* Madds Buckley's "The Red Means I Love You" is inspired by [[Manga/MyHeroAcademia Himiko Toga]]. It's as obsessive as that would imply.

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEfBmXqVk1Q Senpai, Notice Me" is another ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'' inspired game about {{Yandere}}-chan's obsession with Senpai, which turns to murder at the end of the first verse and gets worse from there.

** "Stan". The lyrics are Stan's increasingly deranged letters to Eminem. The last verse is Eminem's reply, but it's cut short when Eminem realizes that Stan [[spoiler:killed himself, his girlfriend and his unborn child during the second-to-last verse]].

* 'I Touch Myself' by Divinyls. Not only is it about some, uhh, [[ADateWithRosiePalms "quality time with oneself"]], it's also about being incredibly obsessed/devoted to them.

* The Hush Sound's "Sweet Tangerine," although upbeat and catchy, has the lead singer admit that he is trying to sneak into his ex-girlfriend's home, convinced that he can reconcile their love.

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': Daniel Hart's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PuWm9t5WY8 Come to Me]]" with Sam Reid as the vocalist contains a few verses which reflect how besotted Lestat de Lioncourt is with Louis de Pointe du Lac. The TitleDrop occurs ten times in the lyrics, and it's a CallBack to the pilot where Lestat (who was in full-blown StalkerWithACrush mode) psychically called out to Louis "Come to me/''Viens à moi''" repeatedly, paying no heed to the latter's insistence that he be left alone.

* "Play With Fire" from ''Music/OutOfOurHeads'' by Music/TheRollingStones is an aggressive Obsession Song.

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[[caption-width-right:350:I ain't gonna dream about her arms no more!\\
I ain't gonna leave her alone!\\
Goin' outside\\
Git myself a bride\\
Git me a womern to call\\
My own!]]

** "Creep" from Music/PabloHoney. According to Thom Yorke, it's about a drunk guy following around a woman he's attracted to, lacking the self-confidence to actually approach her. However, many listeners think it's a straightforward unrequited-love song from the perspective of a guy with self-esteem issues... [[DeathOfTheAuthor which is perfectly reasonable from the lyrics themselves]], ''except'' that it provides no explanation for the line "she's running out the door", making it a bit of a BreadEggsMilkSquick. In fairness, that's the least intelligible part of the song, so a lot of people probably didn't even know that's what he was saying. Going by the "unrequited love song from the POV of a guy with self-esteem issues" interpretation, "she's running out the door" could mean that said guy attempted to admit his feelings but only succeeded in scaring her or that he simply made a move far too late to do anything.

* Music/SteeleyeSpan's ''Literature/{{Wintersmith}}''