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please please me-the beatles.its about oral sex. julia-the beatles-its about johns mother and yoko ono.

Rosie by Jackson Browne : it’s about masturbation

Fixx-Saved By Zero Ode to Minimalism

Fixx-One Thing Leads To Another A rant against hypocrisy in election politics

The Clincher by Chevelle is about the hanging of Jesus on the cross from the perspective of someone who helped put him to death.

And even though Every Breath You Take is not a love song, I don’t believe it is about a stalker. I think it is about being a big-brother figure or perhaps being a parent, something to that extent.

lola, by the kinks.

What about “You’re So Vain” by Carly Simon . This is a BIG mystery.

quote - Day in the Life”-the beatles. some people say its about Paul’s death and that it described his death, “he blew his mind out in a car”,was suppose be how he died

is that supposed to be funny???

The beginning was based on 2 stories John Lennon read in the Daily Mail newspaper: Guinness heir Tara Browne dying when he smashed his lotus into a parked van, and an article in the UK Daily Express in early 1967 which told of how the Blackburn Roads Surveyor had counted 4000 holes in the roads of Blackburn and commented that the volume of material needed to fill them in was enough to fill the Albert Hall. Lennon took some liberties with the Tara Browne story - he changed it so he “Blew his mind out in the car.”

McCartney contributed the line “I’d love to turn you on.” This was a drug reference, but the BBC banned it for the line about having a smoke and going into a dream, which they thought was about marijuana.

McCartney’s middle section (Woke up, got out of bed…) was intended for another song.

um uh Ljs whatever uh um I didnt realy considering that argeing but whatever uh your wellcome ( ) and uh thanks all I guess. also lets stop talknig on this messageboard it gettingg VERY old uh see,well not really, but hear frow you l8ter I guess. yeah that was really stupid. why so glooomy? actlly i dont know may smilies.

The Coasters’ classic is about a girl with VD. Yes it is. Listen to it again.

Revol by the manic street preachers

pretty much i have no idea what it’s abou, but you could seriously wrongly interpert it

One by U2 is about a break up, as stated in the book U2 by U2.

System of a Down’s “B.Y.O.B” is a friendly invitation to a neighborly BBQ. Some people contest that it’s a political song, but the contrary is PROVEN (not just indicated) with the following lyrics:
“La la la la la la la la la la
Everybody is going to the party
Have a real good time ”

There are parallels between those lyrics and Tiny Tim’s “Living in the sunlight, dancing in the moonlight”:
“I feel happy and fine!
AHA!
Living in the sunlight,
loving in the moonlight
Having a wonderful time!”

Q.E.D.

One by U2 is actually about one calorie Diet Pepsi. Bono said so on the Don Imus show.

Paul Simon’s “You can call me Al” was his attempt at a Sitcom Jingle for “Married with children”.
Following the rejection from the Television Network’s marketing departments, he modified some of the lyrics and tried to sell it again for the show “Alf”.
Humiliation set in after the second rejection, so he decided to fully sell out and not only enlist Chevy Chase for the music video, but also added Seinfeld-esque baselines.

actually the popular belief about Growing on Me by The Darkness is that it was about STDs, when it actually was a love song, (most-likely) made to sound as though it were about STDs

DMX’s “Shorty was the bomb” is a “better-late-than-never” political endorsement song for Napoleon Bonaparte.

Evenescence’s “Bring me to Life” is actually from the perspective of a Gameboy that needs new batteries.

Anytime the music contradicts the subject it happens. When it sounds cheerful you think he must be talking about kittens. If it sounds romantic he must be talking about his girlfriend. If it sounds angry he must be talking about the government.

Good artists will use this. It shows us how easily we can be duped into thinking something like rape and murder is just fine, so long as you have a positive attitude and smile.

Beck’s “Nausea” is recalling his youthful jests about fornicating with your mother. He took this joke to a new level with subtle hints of “backdoor” activities; read the following lyrics, noting the backwards maps (getting lost), blown out speakers (implying that your mother is also flatulent - also held up with the “ship of noise” quote) and the obvious “gutter” reference:

Now I’m a seasick sailor
On a ship of noise
I got my maps all backwards
And my instincts poisoned
In a truth blown gutter
Full of wasted years
Like blown-out speakers
Ringin’ in my ears

Fatboy Slim’s “Right here, right now” is about incontenance

about the dmb comments

don’t drink the water- about the indians

cry freedom- about south africa

Stinkfist by Tool.

Or as someone mentioned earlier … every song by Tool. Too many interpretations.

d’angelo’s brown sugar is not about black chicks its about marijuana

Contrary to popular belief, Barry White’s “Can’t get enough of your love, baby” is actually about sex.

Darkness - Growing On Me. Not many people know it, but it sounds like a love song. It’s really about genital warts keeping the guy from getting laid. Check it out for a good laugh, and it actually rocks.

hey brian, sweet home alabama is NOT racist. right after the line “in birmingham they loved the governor” the background vocals go, “boo boo boo”

“Sweet Home Alabama”
While most people on here probably know the story of how this was Lynyrd Skynyrd’s reactionary song to Neil Young’s “Southern Man”, the general populus has no idea. They also have no idea how racist some of the lyrics are, like “In Birmingham they love the governor” a reference to the Birmingham church bombing in which 4 little black girls got killed and the governor supported the fire.

Misunderstood - Wilco

“Crash Into Me” by DMB. People use it as their first dance, but it’s about rape. Funny stuff… People dancing to it, that is, not rape.

I wanna know who the hell thought “betterman” was a love song in the first place? Only a total moron would think that it is.

MMM BOP by Hanson— About the Cuban Missle Crisis!

Metallica’s “Unforgiven” is actually about James Hetfeild’s experience growing up in Christian Science household, where no medicine was allowed and his mother tried unsuccessfully to cure her cancer with prayer.

Pearl Jam “Betterman.” Not a love song - it’s about abuse.

Nappy Headed Hoes by Don Imus. Best song ever!

Betterman is “about the bastard that married [Eddie Vedder’s] momma” and she doesn’t have the willpower to leave him.

david-
sorry i didn’t get back to you sooner–i was busy reading other message boards. anyway, i responded to your comments because i thought i would do the public a service. let’s break it down: constantly checking message boards (me)=6/10 on the pathetic loser scale; checking message boards and compiling a “best of” list of shitty/not funny remarks on said message board (you)=10/10. also, i’m glad you brightened up this gloomy message board with those sweet smiley faces. i’ll argue with you any time–if you consider this arguing–as long as it brings you pleasure. later baby.

nedrow123, your john mayer post is the funniest thing i have read in a while. i read it aloud to my office mate…hilarious.

i spent years convincing high school classmates that ticket to ride by the beatles was not actually referencing our high school (people thought they were saying “she’s got a ticket to rye high”). and i was pretty shocked to learn that goo goo dolls slide was about abortion, but when you listen closely it makes a lot of sense…

Famous blue raincoat–Lenonard Cohen
Lightening Crashes–Live
Up From Under–Wallfloweres

All are ambigious, melancholic songs that could have multiple interperations

The majority of Randy Newman’s songs full under this category. Most are rife with sarcasm and irony.

I am a Rock

A mock of people who think their strong like rocks when they’re really scared and alone.

U2-Beautiful Day…Its actually a sarcastic take on how we are ignorantly raping our planet’s natural resources

I’ve heard that a lot of people think that “Every Breath You Take” is a love song but Sting on many occasions has said the song is about stalking someone…who woulda thunk it!

ryan adams sucks

“Turning Japanese” is actually about masturbation…think about it.

no matter what any1 says “Hotel California” is about a rehab center in LA called i believe “Synonon”(?)

As it has been pointed out by earlier comments pearl jam’s alive was not written to be some sort of life affirmation and the lyrics are clear evidence of that, but vedder has said the song took on new meaning to him when the crowds starting chanting and fist pumping to “i’m still alive,” - its turned into more of a “i can take your best shot and keep on living” etc type anthem.

I have to agree with Sting’s “Every Breath You Take”. Creepy.

How about “Louie Louie” by the Kingsmen? It is easily misunderstood and misperceived, unless the real lyrics actually happen to be “Louie Louie, oh baby, I’m your gigolo”.

“(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” is actually about the Cuban Embargo…

Stevie Nicks’s classic “Edge of Seventeen” is not about teen angst or drug addiction but instead about the deaths of John Lennon and Nick’s Uncle.

Cry me a River by Justin Timberlake is an allegory of the Crimean War.

“One” is about a son dying of AIDS as he talks to his father.

And supposedly Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds is about his sons drawing but I really don’t buy it.

Many people think Pictures of Lily by the Who is about first love, but it is really about a young boys obsession with a porn star in a magazine.

“Jump” by Van Halen is actually about a very small bass player called “Flea”.

Allentown by Billy Joel. Thought to be a positive song, it really talks about the economic rise and fall of the Allentown and Bethlehem, PA area. The mayor of Allentown wanted to give Joel the keys to the city for recording the song, but Joel wisely refused.

Alison — Elvis Costello (a song about murder the irony and point of which Linda Ronstadt missed)

The Beatles- Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds. To not put this under your list is just insanity.

After listening to the Only Ones “Another girl, another planet” for 30 years, I discovered that it’s not a lovesong, but about heroinaddiction.

Angels - Robbie Williams: It’s about a condom -”and through it all she offers me protection, a lot of love and affection, whether I’m right or wrong” “wherever it may take me, i know that life won’t break me when I come to call” “through the waterfall”!!!
Always something there to remind me- Burt Bacharach: It’s about herpes!!!
The she goes- The La’s - A song about heroin

I want to say again, just to make sure its heard, “New York, New York” by Ryan Adams (actually about a girl/breakup) BUT i am almost sure that i have heard from Dave Matthews own lips on a recording that “Dont drink the Water” is about American Indians and what they went through because of manifest destiny, not about Africa. If you listen to the lyrics that makes way more sense than South Africa as well.

Pennyroyal tea was actually about the disgusting tasting TEA that Kurt’s doctor told him might help with his severe stomach pain.

Today by the Smashing Pumpkins was actually written about how Today was the “great day” he would end his life and get it all over with…

“Every Breath You Take” = obvious choice… It’s a stalker song, not a love song.

I got nothing….

“Do they Know Its Christmas?” is not about helping Africa, but a taunt by the British about how the African’s are going to die because they opposed the Empire so many years ago.

Ryan Adams-New York, New York

It caught fire right around 9/11 and came to be perceived as a patriotic anthem but is actually about a break-up instead

Take me out by Franz Ferdinand IS NOT about the assassination of the arch duke … the songs about when 2 people like each other but neither of them have the guts to ask each other out. however ‘take me out’ is literal and does refer to the agony of secretly loving someone and not being able to tell them. so he rather be taken out instead.

Cheap Trick, Surrender. Not just about mommy and daddy being alright but also about STD’s.

Fergie - “My hump, my lovely lady lumps” - actually about a transvestite!

Dont Drink the Water-dave song about apartheid in south africa

What the hell IS ruby tuesday about anyway???

hey Ljs if you wrote to me with SUCH assurance that I am pathetic then SURELY you must have read my entire comment and if you read all my comment when you could have easyly stopped reading midway then that tells me something. also if I am soooo pathetic then why are you adressing a comment to me,what, am I worth YOUR time? if im so pathetic then surely I can`t be worth your time to write a comment at me i`d like to see how you respond to that and if you dont your a coward but if you do then your as pathetic as I am because your constantly checking this like an idiot~! its fun argueing with you!

Franz Ferdinand’s “Take Me Out” is actually about the assassination of Franz Ferdinand. If you listen to the lyrics and know a little about the situation, it’ll make sense.

I’ll just echo support for the two obvious ones listed
1. Lucy in the Sky Diamonds - Beatles
2. Hotel California - Eagles

One - U2.

Read the lyrics.

This is not a love song. The Edge was shocked when ‘fans’ walked up to him and said that they played it at their wedding!!

And surely - Born in the USA

Rap has not been represented at all shame on you Imus listeners.

Makavelli - Girlfriend
about his shiny new gun, a player doesn’t create odes to a love or copulate with 40 year old women.

Kash good one with “feel good inc.” very anti-war which is good seeing as i am in Iraq unjustly

Aaron couldn’t be more off with Give it away now, especially since i just read Keidis himself say it was about a girlfriend of his telling him its better to give away stuff than acquire. no gramamas in RHCP

DMB’s “Crash”: Not a love song in the traditional sense…more about voyeuristic obsession - shouldn’t be played at your wedding.

Ryan Adams’s “New York, New York”: Written wellll before 9/11. Heck, even the music video and the album cover are meant to have absolutely nothing to do with 9/11.

Alanis Morrissette’s “Ironic”: it’s just not ironic.

Neil Young’s “A Man Needs a Maid”: Not actually meant to be sexist.

“She Boy” by Cyndi Lauper. People think it is about A Woman Bopping Around but it is about Masturbation.

“Hey Jude” was written by Paul McCartney for John’s son Julian, although some people claim it’s about taking heroin.

ruby tuesday. not about rubies or tuesday or anything.

Jack, Lenny Kravitz isn’t American, he’s Canadian, he knew exactly what he was singing, the Guess Who were Canadian too, get your facts straight

wow david, i’m glad you’ve appointed yourself the great decider. the fact that you have that much time on your hands leads me to only one conclusion–you’re very pathetic.

HELLO I HAVE PUT TOGETHER THE BEST COMMENTS I HAVE SEEN so all the rest or what you willl read is copied and passed these are all of my favorite comments!:my humps- actually about cancer. I vote for Good Riddance. I went to a wedding where that was “their song.” I just about died. I’ll second Sting’s “every breath you take” as really a song about an obsessed stalker Little Red Corvette by Prince
The little red Corvette actually is a vagina! the theme song for Go Go Power Rangers was actually a song about a dominatrix. Give It Away - The Red Hot Chili Peppers. Anthony got a sweater that he didn’t like from his grandmother. He gave it away. Lol! Also Kanye West’s “Golddigger” is not, believe it or not, about someone digging for gold. NO! In fact, it is about a woman who only will associate with wealthy men - and will not, in fact, associate, with poor African American Men. Perhaps she should intern for Imus. Mr. West, you should shun this woman - Al Sharpton would not approve. Kermit the Frog’s “It’s Not Easy Being Green.” While most think this is about being a green frog, it is actually about being Mean Joe Greene, the vicious former linebacker for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Spelled differently to protect identities, it remains the truest anthem to Pro-Athlete angst. I Don’t Like Mondays” by the Boomtown Rats. This is based on the true story of a girl that went to school and shot a bunch of people. When asked why she did it, she replied “I Don’t Like Mondays.” At least she gave a reason. Shakira’s “Hips Don’t Lie,” thought to be about dancing the night away in the middle of a Colombian carnival. It’s actually about a certain talking body part that is so honest it would pass a polygraphic test 99% of the time.Pink Floyd’s “Have a cigar”
Gorrilaz’ “Feel Good Inc”. Nirvana’s “Drain You” was thought to be about heroin, but actually about a big 80s legal case where one twin baby stole all the nutrients from the other in utero and the undernourished one was stillborn. (I guess Nirvana was pretty affected by that case — look at their next album title.) hotel california is actually a place you go right befoe you die…kinda likes heaven/hells waiting room…what about U2’s “one,” thought to be a touching wedding song, actually a poignant meditation on the loneliness of the human condition? Sweet Dreams (are made of this)”- The Eurythmics: about S&M Franz Ferdinand- “Take Me Out.It sounds like a come-on (”If you’re lonely, I’ll be here waiting for you.”) but I’m convinced the song is actually about a pair of snipers stalking each other. Listen closely, you’ll hear it. -”Today” by The Smashing Pumpkins. Billy Corgan has said several times that this song was written when he was at his lowest point and was intended to be sarcastic. Imagine - john Lennon Thought to be a song about peace and love, yet it is actually a song about communism. This makes it really funny, because people were playing it after 9/11…”Well our country was just attacked, lets sing about communism!” I for one am a communist. Every time I see Betterman live, there are couples making out, dancing, and singing to one another. I mean its right in the chorus “she lies and says she’s in love with him” you don’t get more straight forward than that but people still think its a love song, it is a love song but its about love gone wrong or love that never existed in the first place. Rainy Day Women #12 & #35 - Bob Dylan
Already mentioned maybe, but it isn’t a drug song. He’s talking about being stoned (as in having rocks thrown at you) not getting stoned (as in smoking). Oh and on another note, I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For by U2 is more about finding doubt than faith I think there should be a special category for songs that were meant to be “misunderstood.” A perfect example, as has been pointed out, is “Rainy Day Women”–does anybody honestly think Dylan was stupid enough to think that wouldn’t become a drug anthem?Another, is “Born in the U.S.A.”–look at that album cover–Springsteen’s red hat, white shirt and blue jeans in front of a flag, during the Reagan era, no less. Springsteen knew damn well how that was going to be taken, and that most listeners weren’t going to carefully interpret the lyrics to “Born in the U.S.A.” and he knew that the resulting “misunderstanding” was going to make him a superstaA bunch of wilco songs from yankee hotel foxtrot were thought to be about 9/11, like “Ashes of American Flags” and the like “tall buildings shake/voices escape/singing sad sad songs….skyscrapers are scraping”… but these songs were finished in June 2001, so people were only reading into it too much.
r.

R.E.M losing my religion.

Has nothing to do religion it’s actually a break up song

Aqua - Barbie Girl
A damning critique on our sexist and materialistic society.

my humps- actually about cancer.

Sorry for the typing I know it’s President “Reagan”.

I think “Born in the USA” is the most misunderstood song ever. I remember being a young guy at the time it came out. And even Ronald Regan used it after speeches. Listening to or reading the lyrics first is a good idea.

A bunch of wilco songs from yankee hotel foxtrot were thought to be about 9/11, like “Ashes of American Flags” and the like “tall buildings shake/voices escape/singing sad sad songs….skyscrapers are scraping”… but these songs were finished in June 2001, so people were only reading into it too much.

By the way, do you really think songwriters should automatically trusted about what they say their songs are (or or not) about? Sure, Dylan, Lennon, and Peter, Paul & Mary say “Rainy Day Women,” “Lucy in the Sky” and “Puff the Magic Dragon” have nothing to do with drugs and Clapton (who didn’t even write it) says “Cocaine” is anti-drug. Might they be more concerned with keeping respectible folk playing and buying their music than getting the truth out there?

I think there should be a special category for songs that were meant to be “misunderstood.” A perfect example, as has been pointed out, is “Rainy Day Women”–does anybody honestly think Dylan was stupid enough to think that wouldn’t become a drug anthem?
Another, is “Born in the U.S.A.”–look at that album cover–Springsteen’s red hat, white shirt and blue jeans in front of a flag, during the Reagan era, no less. Springsteen knew damn well how that was going to be taken, and that most listeners weren’t going to carefully interpret the lyrics to “Born in the U.S.A.” and he knew that the resulting “misunderstanding” was going to make him a superstar.

Casual listeners rarely actually pay attention to the sordid lyrics of Steely Dan songs, which is why they’re so popular. “Black Friday” is about an economic crash, “Time Out of Mind” is about heroin, “Kid Charlemagne” is about a dethroned acid-dealer kingpin, and some have suggested “Pretzel Logic” is about Adolf Hitler. All these songs got on the radio for their slick, fusoid L.A. jazz-rock musical backing and platinum-plated hooks, and I imagine the lyrics went over the heads of most top-40 fans when they weren’t ignored altogether. What a neat trick.

Anybody who doesn’t write lyrics in a literal and direct fashion is bound to be misinterpreted. You think Dylan paid no mind to the double-entendres of “Rainy Day Women” as he was writing it? Gimme a break. Sure, the song is about persecution at its core, but I think Dylan purposely designed it to come across as a drug-song throwaway. What I don’t understand is why so many rock critics, who are usually pretty bright when it comes to interpreting lyrics, just write this one off as a joke. I mean, it’s pretty easy to grasp the double meaning.

CCR’s “Fortunate Son” was re-edited in a Tommy Hilfiger commercial as a patriotic anthem. They used the lines, “some folks were born to wave the flag/ ooh, they’re red white and blue”, but carefully omitted any part of the song that criticizes rich draft dodgers. Weak!

“Turning Japanese” by the Vapors

I agree with
One by U2
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds by The Beatles
Let It Be by The Beatles

Oh and on another note, I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For by U2 is more about finding doubt than faith

Seriously, has nobody mentioned New York, New York by Ryan Adams, taken as an anthem for New york after 9/11, actually just about a girl

hotel california by the eagles.
not about a hotel or the church of satan

I thought “Lust for Life” by Iggy Pop was about being a yuppie in the 80s, with the lyrics “here comes Johnny in again, with his Luther Vandross and his fax machine…”
Apparently those are not the correct lyrics at all.

“sweet cherry pie” not actually about pie to my surprise…. u know those hair metal bands and their deep song meanings

turning japanise is not really about masturbation

“Day in the Life”-the beatles. some people say its about Paul’s death and that it described his death, “he blew his mind out in a car”,was suppose be how he died

Radiohead deserves a space of their own.
What’s the pyramid in pyramid song? The Panic, the vomit? Ideoteque?

Talk amongst yourselves.

I Hate Myself and Want To Die …it was just irony, right?

Crystal Blue Persuasion -Tommy James & The Shondells
Nixon said it was about making meth but the lyrics were actually taken from a description of Heaven in the Book of Revelation. How’s that for irony?

Rainy Day Women #12 & #35 - Bob Dylan
Already mentioned maybe, but it isn’t a drug song. He’s talking about being stoned (as in having rocks thrown at you) not getting stoned (as in smoking).

Terraplane Blues by Robert Johnson…pretty sure he has a bunch of other songs that could fit this category

Born in The USA- Al Sharpton

everytime I see Betterman live, there are couple making out, dancing, and singing to one another. I mean its right in the chorus “she lies and says she’s in love with him” you don’t get more straight forward than that but people still think its a love song, it is a love song but its about love gone wrong or love that never existed in the first place.

Betterman - Pearl Jam

Imagine - john lennon

Thought to be a song about peace and love, yet it is actually a song about communism. This makes it really funny, because people were playing it after 9/11…”Well our country was just attacked, lets sing about communism!” I for one, am a communist.

KASH, where was I wrong? Ike started US involvement in Vietnem. JFK and LBJ did escalate it (quite a bit).

-it’s been mentioned a few times already, but “American Woman” is obviously one of the first songs that comes to mind. It was written by a Canadian band, The Guess Who, after having returned home from a tour of American cities, and having been exposed to their big city problems and the unpopularity of the Vietnam war. Jim Kale, the group’s bassist, said it was about how refreshing it was to come home to a country that didn’t have the draft and to see the simple girl’s they’d grown up with.

-Sarah McLaughlin’s “I Will Remember You”…I always find it ackward when this song is misused and played as a sappy, emotional tribute at funerals, graduations or even retirements (Wayne Gretsky). People hear the words “I will remember you” and the rest of the song’s lyrics suddenly go out the window. As Sarah herself said, it was intended to be a bittersweet song about being afraid of love and commitment and ultimately breaking up…but at the same time worrying about one day looking back with regret. How is this a funeral song?

-”Today” by The Smashing Pumpkins. Billy Corgan has said several times that this song was written when he was at his lowest point and was intended to be sarcastic.

B. adam’s “run to you”.. is often interpreted as a song about adultery, unless one actually sees the video. and realises what’s it about.

Bob Dylan’s “Mr. Tambourineman” — again, not a drug song but about dylan’s amusement with the session man who had one of those wagon-wheel tambourine’s

REM’s Shiny Happy People, is often dismissed as a plastic piece of pop crap, (possibly because it features the B52s) it is actually supposed to be ironic. As in, those shiny happy people arent really all that happy on the inside, possibly its about celibrities.

Also The Animals - House Of The Rising Sun
not really that misunderstood, the only question is which is it about - a brothel, a gambling house, or a prison ?

Franz Ferdinand- “Take Me Out.”

It sounds like a a come-on (”If you’re lonely, I’ll be here waiting for you.”) but I’m convinced the song is actually about a pair of snipers stalking each other. Listen closely, you’ll hear it.

Puff the Magic Dragon isn’t really about a magic dragon? How can that be? My childhood illusions are shattered. Shadoobie.

Simon and Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence. I believe many people took this to be a typical 1960s Vietnam era anti-war song. They say that it was written to capture the trauma of the assassination of JFK.

When Dylan sings “everybody must get stoned”…it ain’t about drugs. It’s about persecution. Listen closely next time.

Ex-Monkee Michael Nesmith had a hit with Joanne in the early 70’s.

It was a love song to a Cow.

I second street fighting man - not about a street fighter, but a man who just wants to play in a band.

Also one - I’ve read that Bono wrote it about The Edge’s marriage, which was falling apart at the time.

Hey Pammydq,

the most misunderstood thing about that Who song is that people think it’s called “Teenage Wasteland.” Its title is “Baba O’Riley.”

“Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”-The Beatles: Not about LSD, but his son’s drawing

“Cocaine”- Eric Clapton: An anti-drug song.

“Livin’ in the USA”- Steve Miller Band: anti-American song like “Born in the USA”.

“Blinded by the Light”- Mannfred Mann’s version: It is not “like a douche”, but “revved up like a deuce”.

“Saturday Night Special”- Lynyrd Skynyrd: Anti-gun song. The lyrics are really obvious, too.

“Louie, Louie”- The Kingsmen: FBI investigated thinking it was obscene, but is not obscene, but about a man being drunk needing to leave a bar, to meet a girl.

“Sweet Dreams (are made of this)”- The Eurythmics: about S&M

“Sledgehammer”- Peter Gabriel: about… uh… little Peter Gabriel

The Reflex by Duran Duran. People think “The Reflex = Sex” But “The Reflex = Sex + Love”. It’s a song about “the caste system.” Hey Jude people think it’s about Julian Lennion but it’s really about “nothing.”

When Lenny Kravitz covered “American Woman” by the Guess Who he obviously thought it was patriotic when actually it’s anti-american and was banned when it came out.

Keep on rockin in the free world bye neil young has been mentioned a few times but I have to again. It’s rediculous when someone brings it out at a party and everyone gets all patriotic and screams the chorus which probably makes it even more ironic than the song already is.

“Blister in the Sun” by the Violent Femmes is often thought to be about masturbation, but is really about one of the band member’s insecurity about his small hands.

what about U2’s “one,” thought to be a touching wedding song, actually a poignant meditation on the loneliness of the human condition?

I’d say “Losing My Religion” would be a big one to mention…

Weren’t R.E.M. smited by some Catholic leauge for it or something?

And ‘losing my religion’ is just saying in Athens, Georgia that yer gunna lose yer cool.

hmph

How about The Who’s “Teenage Wasteland”, that song is frequently misunderstood…

U2’s “one”

Fortunate Son-CCR

“The Last Of The Famous International Playboys” - Morrissey

Dylan’s *A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall* isn’t an abstract protest song; it was a song Dylan said he wrote in a basement during the Cuban Missile Crisis. He said that he tried to fit a song he’d always wanted to write into each line, because he thought he wouldn’t have time to write the songs before the world blew up.

*Sympathy for the Devil* isn’t.

‘Mandy’ sung by Barry Manilow I think. Is it about a lost love or a dog?

I thought I remember Billy Jo saying “Good Riddance” was what he wrote in regards to the accusations he had sold out. As much as he tried to stay credible to the underground, he ended up saying “Good Riddance (Hope you had the time of your life)” and did his own thing, saying goodbye to the old punk days

If you listen to any of the lyrics of “Born in the USA” it’s not hard to tell it is social comment about Vietnam. Most songs about America do this very thing.

Haha Nedrow is funny. I like the Bruce Sprinsteen comment. Good stuff

My list:

Rockin’ In The Free World/Fortunate Son/American Woman/Born In The USA-You can almost do a whole list of misused patriotic anthems that are actually subversive, harsh social and political criticisms.

Wonderful Tonight-I didn’t know about Wonderful Tonight’s true meaning but that’s hilarious.

Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)-Billie Joe was pretty open about it being a breakup song, but then it got used during the final episode of Seinfeld’s clip show, and it’s still being used today (the Celtics used it during a recent tribute to late forward Dennis Johnson in addition to many weddings/graduations/birthdays /funerals.) I know there’s some people who still didn’t know it was called “Good Riddance”.

Every Breath You Take-The voyeuristic elements are quite obvious, but just another example of a song being interpreted whatever way you want. This one, along with the above 2, could also be part of their own list: Wedding songs that really shouldn’t be.

Harder To Breathe by Maroon 5-Originally interpreted as a song about a struggling relationship that was falling apart, or the much darker interpretation that included rape and battery. Some found the song misogynistic until Adam Levine cleared it up by saying it was actually about the pressure from their record label to create hit singles.

American Girl-I’d heard the U of Florida suicide rumor too, about the popular girl who takes drugs for the first time and jumps from Beatty Towers thinking she could fly (Petty was born and raised in Gainesville right near the university), but Petty himself said he wrote it in California listening to the waves on the beach and cars driving by and wrote a story about a girl wanting something more in life and trying to move on from her past (aren’t the urban myths that are started about songs always more interesting than what the writer says it’s actually about?)

Hey Man, Nice Shot-I read that Richard Patrick said it was actually about Pennsylvania treasurer Budd Dwyer’s suicide, but the Kurt Cobain rumor was the first one I heard.

Here’s To The Night-Yeah that was used at prom for me as well, never liked it, was so happy to hear that it was being used out of context.

Nirvana’s “Polly” – misunderstood by frat boys to glorify rape, was actually inspired by a true story in which a rape victim escaped from her captor.

Pearl Jam fans may find this interesting if they don’t already know..
“Alive” (Ten), “Once” (Ten), and “Footsteps” (Lost Dogs) by Pearl Jam are actually part of the “Mamasan Trilogy,” starting with “Alive.” The song is actually about a mother falling in love with her son, bearing an uncanny resemblance to her deceased husband. “Once” is about the son’s frustration with his situation, and as a result, he becomes a serial killer. In “Footsteps,” he gets executed for his murders.

im on fire- bruce sprinsteen
imagine-john lennon

Bob Dylans Rainy Day Women is about the civil rights movement and not about drugs.

Crash Into Me - Dave Matthews Band- Though this song eludes to two lovers passionately “crash[ing]” into each other, the encounter never actually happens. It is all merely a fantasy played out in the imagination of a boy watching the girl from his window.

Hey Man Nice Shot - Filter. Is it about Kurt Cobain or just some guy none of us have heard of.

“Girl” by Beck. People think it’s about a girl. It’s actually about murder.

One by U2.

Keep on Rockin’ in the Free World - how many of us free-worlders scream that song in praise of our great life without realizing it’s about the degradation of American society?

American Woman - chicks love this song about them, they just don’t know it’s telling the American government of the time to go to hell.

any Fall Out Boy song is very misunderstood cause know one can understand

Green Day’s “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)” – misperceived as a love song, but it’s really about a bitterness-filled breakup.

hell yeah!
one of the most popular wedding songs of the 90’s

To clarify the meaning of “Purple Haze” by the Jimi Hendrix Experience - there are many intrepretations of it, and Jimi himself never gave a definitive answer to what it was really all. Upon returning to Seattle for the first time in years, Jimi was commissioned to give a speech at his former high-school (which he dropped out of), and said that the song was about the school’s color - purple, and gold respectively. He offered up another explination that he had gotten it from a vision about a book he had read, but there is no way of knowing whether it was some strange trip, or if it was just random poetry.

Keep on Rockin in the Free World

“Prison Sex”-Tool. For that matter, any song by Tool.

John Mayer’s “Your Body is a Wonderland” was initially titled “Your Body is a Blubberland”. He presented it to his then-girlfriend to see what she thought. She knocked out all of his teeth.

After getting dental implants, he changed the lyric, and the rest is history.

I think people often assume Dylan’s “Shelter From the Storm” is a sweet love song, because of it’s refrain “come in, she said I’ll give you/Shelter from the storm”…but if you listen past the first few verses it’s actually quite dark.

Rattinnacage- it’s “kiss the sky” not “kiss this guy”.

Horse With No Name–America

People seem to think this song is about heroin…please explain.

Maybe a bit mainstream…but friends tell me that “Purple Haze” is about an a drug trip, but it was actually about a dream Jimmmy had in which he was walking under the ocean…

-Drain you is about draining the life from someone else…
-pennyroyal tea actually is about abortion…read heavier than heaven, come as you are: the story of nirvana and it’ll tell you…pennyroyal tea was an herbal remedy that assisted with such things
-hotel california is actually a place you go right befoe you die…kinda likes heaven/hells waiting room

“Bom Bom Bom” by Living Things. Intended to be anti-war, but it doesn’t necessarily come across that way.

How about every Mars Volta song.

One that comes to mind for me personally is “Youth of the Nation” by POD. I recall people when I was in high school singing along mindlessly to the chorus without listening to any of the verses at all and realizing it’s about disaffected young people and school shootings. “Instead of takin’ a test she took two in the chest.” If the children are the future, the future is bleak.

I remember seeing Aerosmith’s “Behind the Music” and Steven Tyler saying that the title line of “Walk This Way” was taken from “Young Frankenstein” in a scene where a servant is leading people into a house and says that and the people following him start actually walking exactly like him. And it’s about sex, also. “One” is basically about a failing relationship. When it was written for “Achtung Baby” the band was basically falling apart. “We hurt each other and we do it again”- what a romantic note, eh? Finally, for people talking about REM, Stipe said in an interview on this very website that the lyrics from their first two albums were “non-sense” and written because of how “words sounded.” Cobain said this about his songs too, but that’s probably only partially true. “On A Plain” reveals a lot of his inner turmoil about his life, but it was written pretty much as filler at the end of the “Nevermind” sessions so he started ad libbing, hence the final line “One more special message to go. Then I’m done and I can go home.” I’m done now…

“The Future’s So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades” by Timbuk 3. Very popular on pop playlists in the late 80’s, but definitely not rooted in an optimistic view of the future, as commonly perceived.

Nirvana’s “Drain You” was thought to be about heroin, but actually about a big 80s legal case where one twin baby stole all the nutrients from the other in utero and the undernourished one was stillborn. (I guess Nirvana was pretty affected by that case — look at their next album title.)

Girl - The Beatles is actually about the catolicism.

Two Of Us - The Beatles is actually about Bonnie And Clyde.

Btw, Jake burns is an idiot. Vietnam was Kennedy’s war.

Jimi’s comes out of the closet: “S’cuse me while i kiss this guy”

Pink Floyd’s “Have a cigar”

Gorrilaz’ “Feel Good Inc”

Rush’s “Working Man”

Every ACDC song has been grossly simplified: there are anti-gravity device plans encoded within “Have a drink on me”…I swear.

The song “Give Peace a Chance” is actually about a double-headed dildo which was found in the bed shared by Marty Robbins and Andy Warhol right before Yohn and Joko rented the room for their world famous Bed-In which really wasn’t about beds at all, but in fact was a thinly veiled reference to a furniture sale that George Martin was attending in Luxemborg that very weekend.

def every breath you take

I’m still working on a theory that “I Want to Hold Your Hand” is about smoking pot. Passing the joint your hands touch. Oh yeah, “Hey Jude” isn’t about Julian or Jesus. It’s an open letter to Bob Dylan a jew to get off the smack. I wonder what it’s like in the back of your Pink Cadillac. Gotta love that line! We just need a few more inches Bruce…

Pearl Jam Alive is only part truth, after the first verse it is made up. Eddie talked about it in a interview.

Eric Clapton- Wonderful Tonight is about hating his woman because she takes too long getting ready and it late for stuff. Funny it is used alot as a wedding song

“penelope” by pinback…is about a gold fish dying.

Someone needs to bitchslap Nedrow123.

The Violent Femmes “Blister in the Sun” is about masturbation, which is quite interesting now that its used to sell fast food…

Almost every Beatles song once Sgt. Pepper happened.

Lucy In The Sky-LSD
Yellow Submarine-drugs
Happiness is A Warm Gun-drugs
Helter Skelter-Charles Manson thinks it says to kill

Who knows if the above three are true or not but they definitely have double meanings.

This Monkey’s Gone To Heaven by THE PIXIES is about hot underage girls with tasty buttholes.

Won’t Get Fooled Again. People always think it’s about a revolution or something but it’s really about…well i’m not sure because i’ve heard lots of different things that were all really complicated and confusing. but whatever it’s about the best part will always be the “YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH HHHHH!!!!!!!!”

to everyone talking about hotel california…its about drug addiction

Shakira’s “Hips Don’t Lie,” thought to be about dancing the night away in the middle of a Colombian carnival. It’s actually about a certain talking body part that is so honest it would pass a polygraphic test 99% of the time.

Newdro, wasn’t the Vietnam War started by Eisenhower by sending in advisors? And we know what party Eisenhower was.

Madonna - Material Girl. So like…only five people on Earth get that it’s tongue in cheek. And the name has stuck since 1984.

“Guilty of Being White” by Minor Threat (misunderstood by white power idiots) and “Six Pack” by Black Flag (everyone thinks it’s a pro drinking song and doesn’t see the irony).

U2’s ‘Sweetest Thing’ is not about true, beautiful love - if you listen closely - this relationship is sick!! Love that song.

In “Rain” The Beatles dos’nt sing about when life work against you, it’s actually about rain. You know water falling from det sky…

Life on Mars - David Bowie.
It’s not about Mars or about travelling into space, but about a girl who goes to the movies after a fight with her parents.

Screw this misunderstood lyrics crap. What about the lyrics you can’t understand in the first place?

For instance I for one am sick of pretending that I totally understand what the hell Maggie’s Farm is about. He puts his cigar out where? Then kick that mofo in the sack and be gone!

Here’s one: Pearl Jam’s ‘Alive’ is often used as some sort of arena hype song. In actuality, it is about Eddie Vedder’s sick relationship with his in mother in which she ostensibly molested him because he so closely resembled his absentee father. Therein lies ‘I’m still alive, but do I deserve to be?’ Pete Sampras used to listen to this song before matches, I wonder if he knew it was really about a twisted incestual relationship?…

nedrow123, just reading your comments and you strike me as a lonely, talentless, passionless, sad person. You’re so unaffected and hip, you’ve probably contributed less than zero to society in any way, shape or form. Spare us from your anger, masquerading as insight, and piss off!

Nedrow…great posts by the way

The Righteous Brothers “You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling.” It seems absolutely obvious what they are singing about: Someone losing their feeling of love for another. Yet, according to the last will and testament of Bobby Hatfield, it was about Bowling.

“I Don’t Like Mondays” by the Boomtown Rats. This is based on the true story of a girl that went to school and shot a bunch of people. When asked why she did it, she replied “I Don’t Like Mondays.” At least she gave a reason.

“Some people” say that vague sources are a sympton of ignorance. They also say that the Beatles “Happiness is a warm gun”, written by John Lennon, did not originally start out with this title. John intended “Happiness is warm gum”, but Paul, feeling that title was silly, and also feeling a bit militaristic, told John to change it. On the same day, he wrote the first verse to “Live and Let Die.”

regarding Strait to Hell by Clash i believe it’s more specific than “the Vietnam war”. its’ about amerasian war babies left behind in a hostile country while the soldier daddy disappears back to his life in the U.S.A

John Mayer’s “Your Body Is A Wonderland”, originally thought to be about sexual exploration, is actually about a necrophiliac mortician.

Phil Collins’ song “Sussudio”, while thought to be about a girl that had been on his mind, is actually about lepers.

Van Halen’s 1984 anthem, “Jump” is not actually about jumping. Truth be told, it is about sitting very still and doing nothing. Asked why anyone should sit very still, David Lee Roth replied “Might as well.”

More history: “Fortunate Son” was written in 1969 when Nixon was president.

It was released in October of 69, not quite 10 months after Nixon was first sworn in as President… yet 4 years after the start of the Vietnam War - a war started by the administration of Lyndon Johnson. Hmm…

almost every songs by us that are believed to be about humanity or things like that are not………………….

U 2, most of the time use YOU, instead of any name. so that makes it more suspicious. ONE and WALK ON are two of the songs that are believed to be about humanity and so,but many claim otherwise

Kermit the Frog’s “It’s Not Easy Being Green.” While most think this is about being a green frog, it is actually about being Mean Joe Greene, the vicious former linebacker for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Spelled differently to protect identities, it remains the truest anthem to Pro-Athlete angst.

Some people say that the Monkees “Last Train to Clarksville” is about somebody being sent to Vietnam.

And “Fortunate Son” was written in 1969 when Nixon was president.

Bobby McFerrin’s “Don’t Worry, Be Happy.” Stolen from Meher Baba’s slogan, this song meant only one thing in 1988 - War and Recession are soon to come. Strangely enough, they did.

Nirvana’s “Polly” is not actually about a rape victim. It is about a self-obsessed, chronically depressed songwriter that was looking for an overly sympathetic character to write a song about. That songwriter chose a female rape victim. How brave. He later killed himself.

Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA” - thought to be about a dark, post-Vietnam life, is actually about a guy that never went to Vietnam, grew up in Jersey, and struck it rich as a Rock and Roll star at an early age. He later started lecturing his fans, but that wasn’t mentioned in this particular song.

Jennifer Lopez’ “Jenny from the Block” is actually not about a girl from the neighborhood “block”, but is actually a social comment on not judging people from former Soviet Block countries because of the “rocks” that they have, meaning baggage that they carry.

Oh wait… I am talking about J-Lo… sorry, she is just talking about herself being rich. Sorry.

definitely “every breath you take” but the one guy is wrong. the lyrics are from the point of view of the monster from frankenstein, when he says he will follow dr. frankenstein till he dies.

hotel california by the eagles
i too had a day long debate on what its all about…..
……………… …
we concluded, it was about,………………….?? ???

Kanye West’s “Golddigger” is not, believe it or not, about someone digging for gold. NO! In fact, it is about a woman who only will associate with wealthy men - and will not, in fact, associate, with poor African American Men. Perhaps she should intern for Imus. Mr. West, you should shun this woman - Al Sharpton would not approve.

in the book Many Years From Now, McCartney said that Helter Skelter refers to playground slides found at schools in England.as in when i get to the bottom i go back to the top etc.

Yeah.. Fortunate Son by CCR (John Fogerty) was about those hypocrites sending other people’s sons to war… who was President then? Oh, yeah.. Lyndon Johnson. What party was he in?

Yeah.. Fortunate Son by CCR (John Fogerty) was about those hypocrites sending other people’s son’s to war… who was President then? Oh, yeah.. Lyndon Johnson. What party was he in?

Glad someone mentioned “Here’s To The Night”. This was beaten to death around prom/graduation at my high school while no one realized this song wasn’t a reflection on cherished memories from lost youth.

I’ll add American Woman to the list. It seems any song with USA/America in the lyrics is immediately deemed patriotic without even looking at the lyrics (in this case, dealing with Vietnam-era tension directed at the U.S.’s imperialistic military policy)

“Here’s to the Night”, by Eve 6, a song that was taken by many about the close of an era. In this case it was high school or college graduation. The song is really a bitter ode about a one night stand.

Some seem to think “The Boys of Summer”, by Don Henley, is about baseball. It has nothing to do with sports! Its an expression from a middle aged person looking back on a past relationship and summerizing his feelings regarding that now past love.

“Candle in the Wind” was about the time Elton got burned lighting his farts on fire. I think I read that on wiki, so it has to be true. ‘Norma Jean’ sounded better than anus, but yeah, it’s pretty self-explanatory.

ok definatly “won’t get fooled again” by the who. It’s always been taking a song about violent revolution…but it’s actually about how pete townsend DIDN’T want to be in any more revolutions because he didn’t like the outcome of the ones he’d been in, he observed that nothing had changed. Basically the song was taken exactly in the oppisite way as it was intended.sorry pete:S

Richard Thompson’s “Wall of Death” and McCartney’s “Helter Skelter”. Both about carnival rides…

“Let the Eagle Soar” by John Ashcroft is really about the government taking away your rights.

Pictures of Lilly by The Who.

“Rosie”, by Jackson Browne. The jilted roadie is not talking about his wife that “holds him tight.”

The entire “In the Areoplane Over the Sea” album by Neutral Milk Hotel.

“Rosie”, by Jackson Browne. The jilted roadie is not talking about his wife that holds him tight.

captain fantastic and the brown dirt cowboy is about…well…umm…

Eight Miles High and Street Fighting Man

hotel california. i had a week-long debate in high school about what it was about. obviously not a hotel. my high school class concluded either hell or a whore house.

“Lit Up” - Buckcherry; pretty sure it’s about cocaine

Iggy Pop’s “Lust For Life” is surprisingly not about cruise ships.

ZZ Top- Pearl Necklace

Give It Away - The Red Hot Chili Peppers. Anthony got a sweater that he didn’t like from his grandmother. He gave it away.

“Hey Jude” by The Beatles not about Jesus as originally thought. It’s about John Lennon’s son Julian (Paul McCartney changed “Julian” to “Jude”).

“Lola” by The Kinks is not about a gorgeous fantasy woman. It’s about a naive young man who is seduced by a transexual.

Britney Spear’s “Oops! I Did It Again” is pretty much self-explanatory.

the theme song for Go Go Power Rangers was actually a song about a domomatrix.

I’ve actually come to understand that “Every Breath You Take” was not about love or obsession, but was a very Orwellian themed song about a big brother type government.

“my humps- actually about cancer.”

now that was funny.

Smashing Pumpkins - Today
It wasn’t the greatest day of ever when Billy Corgan wrote ‘Today’ from 1993 Siamese Dream. If i remeber correctly, he was depressed and considering sucidie. Obviously most who loved the song didn’t know that..

Little Red Corvette by Prince
The little red Corvette actually is ap***Y

Crazy Bitch - Buckcherry

Actually about Al Sharpton

I’ll second Sting’s “every breath you take” as really a song about an obsessed stalker

I’ll put in another vote for “Good Riddance.” It’s the song of my graduating class, which technically is appro