Freudian Excuse/Music

Examples of Freudian Excuses in Music include:

In West Side Story The Jets playfully make a song, "Gee, Officer Krupke" out of this.

My daddy beats my mommy
My mommy clobbers me
My grandpa is a commie
My grandma pushes tea
My sister wears a moustache
My brother wears a dress
Goodness gracious, that's why I'm a mess!

- Or, in the alternate lyric from the stage play:

My father is a bastard
My ma's an SOB
My grandpa's always plastered
My grandma pushes tea
My sister wears a moustache
My brother wears a dress
Goodness gracious, that's why I'm a mess!

As quoted above, John Flansburgh (of They Might Be Giants fame) has recorded a song called "It Never Fails", about cops manipulating the psychological problems of criminals in order to keep their arrest quotas up.
Anna Russell's song "Jolly Old Sigmund Freud."

At three I had a feeling of ambivalence towards my brothers,
And so it follows naturally I've poisoned all my lovers,
But I am happy now I've learned the lesson this has taught,
That everything I do that's wrong is someone else's fault!

A particularly Anvilicious case is Harry Chapin's "Sniper," about a boy whose mother never makes time for him, so he grows up to be a deranged mass murderer who explicitly voices his hatred for her at the climax. Can be considered a darker version of Chapin's "Cats in the Cradle."
The person the singer is singing to in "Numb" by Linkin Park has one, apparently ("but I know you were just like me with someone disappointed in you").
- Same in "Points of Authority":

You want someone to hurt like you (you live what you've learned)
You want to share what you've been through (you live what you've learned)

The Sara Bareilles song "Machine Gun," about the jerk whose sole purpose in life is to aggravate those around him:

Maybe nobody loved you when you were young
Maybe boy when you cried nobody'd ever come
Will you try it once? Give up the machine gun...

The Wound that Never Heals by Jim White, is about a Black Widow. It has this to say about her backstory:

She runs from devils, she runs from angels
She runs from the ghost of her father and five different uncles.
Blinded by their memory, seared by their pain
She'd like to kill 'em all, yeah, kill 'em all again
She don't think much about what she's done, or the funny way she feels (No she don't)
To her it's just a condition she picked up as a child
A little thing she calls "The Wound that Never Heals".

Pseudothyrum Song by The Mountain Goats

I think someone was mean to you, when you were little
That's what I think
I think someone was mean to you

Had Enough by Breaking Benjamin may be an example of this trope, as it could be about an Omnicidal Maniac who is motivated by hatred for someone, possibly his father.

You should have learned by now, I'll burn this whole world down
I need some peace of mind, no fear of what's behind
You think you've won this fight, you've only lost your mind
You had to have it all, well have you had enough?
You greedy little bastard, you will get what you deserve
When all is said and done, I will be the one
To leave you in your misery and hate what you've become

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