coercion

force; the act of compelling by force of authority

Heard in 23 songs (4.3M+ combined views) — most famously in "Gotta Get A Grip" by Mick Jagger.

Updated August 3, 2026

Songs Featuring “coercion

Mick Jagger - Gotta Get A Grip

Time: 1:30

Beat it with a stick

I tried diversion and I tried coercion

Mediation and medication

Mick Jagger - Gotta Get A Grip

Spiritbox - Constance

Time: 0:29

Speaking darkness out of spite

Coercion and then caving in, wrap me in my bitterness

Give it up, I'm complacent, just enough to escape it

Spiritbox - Constance

Alanis Morissette - Sympathetic Character

Time: 1:50

I was afraid of your seduction

I was afraid of your coercion

I was afraid of your rejection

Alanis Morissette - Sympathetic Character

Gang of Four - Natural's Not in It

Time: 1:12

Coercion of the senses

We are not so gullible

Gang of Four - Natural's Not in It

Nine Inch Nails - The Greater Good

Time: 2:55

Coercion

Submission

Nine Inch Nails - The Greater Good

Cannibal Corpse - The Murderer's Pact

Time: 0:11

Coercion and threats

Made there dernans

Cannibal Corpse - The Murderer's Pact

Dying Fetus - Ethos of Coercion

Time: 1:14

Others are devoid of

Ethos of coercion

Subordinates implement, all warranted bidding

Dying Fetus - Ethos of Coercion

Darkwell - Fate Prisoner

Time: 1:02

In a mace of colder fears

Dogmatic Coercions unleashed

pathway of the crowned beast

Darkwell - Fate Prisoner

Dan Fogelberg - False Faces

Time: 1:27

And you're on the line

Gentle coercions and

Bitter desertions

Dan Fogelberg - False Faces

Porter Robinson - The State

Time: 3:06

For centuries the State has robbed people at bayonet point, and called it "taxation"

Coercion and violence by the direct threat of confiscation or imprisonment

This is taxation

Porter Robinson - The State

All That Remains - A War You Cannot Win

Time: 0:22

So you stop feeling

When violence and coercion

Are their tools, then you must stand scream

All That Remains - A War You Cannot Win

BoySetsFire - Unspoken Request

Time: 0:00

Failed coercion, leads to intrusion

And the blood forever runs in her hair into her hands

BoySetsFire - Unspoken Request

Steven Wilson - No Twilight Within The Courts Of The Sun

Time: 4:47

Instead of a person, a shadow's in the lake

Instead of coercion, she blows his hand-grenade

And I have an aversion to dying in a car

Steven Wilson - No Twilight Within The Courts Of The Sun

Against Me! - ProVision L-3

Time: 0:38

Culture of suspicion

For national security concerns of coercion

The alpha, the omega

Against Me! - ProVision L-3

Penelope Scott - Mommy Fwiend

Time: 0:52

I'm not trained for this

And I don't wanna be forced to listen, under coercion

Under the threat of your blood on my hands

Penelope Scott - Mommy Fwiend

The Intersphere - The Grand Delusion

Time: 2:32

Limited by the bottom line

If freedom means coercion

If your boundlessness is a lie

The Intersphere - The Grand Delusion

Tori Amos - Bug A Martini

Time: 0:56

Your version, coercion

My version, elixir of quietude

Tori Amos - Bug A Martini

DRAIN DK - Shadow The WikiLeak

Time: 0:22

UAV

Centerfold, bots, coercion, NPC

Adipose - pull a McVeigh, I'm like a bomb

DRAIN DK - Shadow The WikiLeak

Snapcase - Aperture

Time: 0:28

this time around

Coercion, renegades against the wall

Shaking out of anxious boredom

Snapcase - Aperture

John Wesley Harding - Humble Bee

Time: 1:19

Now I'm as good as Ebenezer after his conversion

I'd give all my goods away with no coercion

I'd give almost anything

John Wesley Harding - Humble Bee

John Roseboro - Babylon Is Fallen

Time: 1:09

No incantation for protection

No force coercion or manipulation

No meditation. No tiger's eye now

John Roseboro - Babylon Is Fallen

Lu$if - Drown In The Ocean

Time: 1:13

Don't mind my mind when I feel alive, it's a good version

Think I found my person, but it's bound coercion

Hear no sound of imbursement for the pain that she worsened

Lu$if - Drown In The Ocean

Manic Street Preachers - Love's Sweet Exile

Time: 0:38

Love's sweet exile

We blur into images of state coercion

Classified machines die misunderstood

Manic Street Preachers - Love's Sweet Exile