Songs people Misunderstand

"Mother and Child Reunion" by Paul Simon is about a chicken omelette.

 
Goat Meal said:
I think "Push It" by Salt N' Peppa is widely misunderstood to be just a silly little dance song but it's really about a woman who wants a deep, loving connection with a man. This is indicated by the line "Yo baby papi you come and give me a kiss, better make it fast or else I'm going to get pissed.".
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Reminds me of "You Can Call Me Al"

One of the most upbeat songs ever, until you listen to the lyrics. Those were just depressing.

I still want to dance to it though.
 
You're gorgeous by Babybird is about an aspiring model tricked into a soft-porn photo shoot by a charming photographer.
 
Atheist said:
One of the most requested love songs of all time is a song called "The one I Love" by R.E.M. In my day people would make love compilation tapes and CD's for their significant others with this song included.

Ironically, "The One I Love" is not a love song, its a song about using others and then leaving them behind to move on to another person. The telling lyrics being "A simple prop to occupy my time" and "Another prop has occupied my time"

There was a song released in 2001 (I think) called "Follow Me" by Uncle Kracker. People would use this song for romantic purposes while missing the fact that the song was about a man encouraging a woman to have an extra-marital affair with him.

What other songs can you think of that people have obviously misunderstood.
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I always thought "Follow Me" was about heroin. "...and swim through your veins like a fish in the sea."
 
Phil Collins - In the air tonight, is actually about nothing. There is no meaning to the song.
 
gspieler said:
"Band on the Run" was about Mccartney's frustration with anti-pot laws.

Lennon claimed "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" was about a painting his son Julian made. Not sure I believe him, though.

Other than that, most the ones I could think already stated.
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This. The song letters spell LSD and all of the lyrics describe tripping out and the types of things people tend to see whilst tripping out. Even if his son did give him the idea of a lady in the sky, he still had to right all the lyrics and there's no way he wrote them not thinking of acid. Especially since, from all accounts, he was on acid about 90% of the time at that point.
 
Grrrr said:
Are you a pothead focker?
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Lol. Not even once.

Looked it up in wiki. Dang about the lose of innocence. Bummed me out

Edit just you tubed the orig. Man that song cuts deep. About growing up and not needed what was once your world.
That and Darkness my old friend and deep really cool early 60s folk songs
 
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Oogie Sharp said:
It's just like Lennon's Lucy In The Sky song. Some people just WANT it to be about drugs. Oh how cool would that be? When it's not.

I just had a listen to Puff at youtube. Heartbreaking song. I wanted to DL it to play, but christ - it's just too sad. Incredibly beautiful song though.
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Me too. Fuck man that song is way deeper than I thought
 
E-40 - White Girl


When white chicks dance to it, then you tell them its about drugs and not them, the look on their face is priceless.
 
ElKarlo said:
Explain....
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There are a few variations in the details.

Basically, Phil saw this guy either watch a kid drown and not save him, or drowned the kid.

The guy never saw Phil though.

Then several years later, Phil was performing back in a town close to where this went down. He either tracked the guy down, and sent him tickets, or just recognized him in the crowd.

So Phil has it arranged to shine a spotlight directly on the guy while performing the song. Signifying he is singing it to him. That he knows what he did.

Afterward, the guy goes home and blows his brains out, dies in a car accident, or gets arrested.


A complete and total myth, but awesome if it were true.
 
Madmick said:
Not so much misunderstood, but it never ceased to amaze me how many Tool fans never stopped to spell out the meaning of "Stinkfist" to themselves. Many of Keenan's lyrics are cryptic. I've never met a fellow APC fan in real life who I felt successfully decrypted the meaning of "The Nurse Who Loved Me", but then, I have no validation that my interpretation is correct (though I think you'd find it exceptionally difficult to argue).
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Tool is all about the butt stuff.

As far as Nurse Who Loved Me goes I thought it was about a mental patient who had delusions of being sane and having a relationship with a nurse in the institution. One of their least cryptic songs imo, especially compared to stuff like The Package.
 
Hatredcopter said:
Maybe not.
You might find these interesting reads.

http://www.cracked.com/article_19454_5-famous-hidden-song-meanings-that-are-total-b.s..html

http://www.cracked.com/article_18990_6-pieces-music-that-mean-opposite-what-you-think.html
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i think i was pretty right in what i thought it was about. I never knew some people thought it was about masturbation.

to me, i thought it was about someone who did such bad shit and had become something so different than he was or wanted to be, that he could barely recognize himself
or that he was just so messed up and different and alienated that he felt like he was turning japanese (so different than everyone he has known his whole life that he cannot even speak the same language or understand their culture anymore)

i think this is pretty close in a way to what the band thinks it is about. if not, i don't want to know.

i am kind of deep sometimes.

edit: just read what the band said so maybe a bit different. but it kind of gives it a good double meaning to me in this book i am writing (i am actually writing it not just sitting in a starbucks on a laptop for people to watch me)

:p

2 edit: ok, i just watched that video and i am pretty right about what i thought it meant being what it actually meant. now to figure out wtf is going on in a Carpathian Forest song
 
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