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mumpcake · Post by **mumpcake** » Fri Mar 07, 2025 2:14 am

I'm not talking "scuse me while I kiss this guy" or "hold me closer Tony Danza", but more like "You really played 'Every Breath You Take' at your wedding?"

Or how "Born in the USA" is not a patriotic song.

My favorite example of people not getting this is how everyone in sales thinks "Bright Future in Sales" by Fountains of Wayne is an inspirational song about being in sales, when it's about a guy who can't seem to figure out that he is an alcoholic.

funky lime · Post by **funky lime** » Fri Mar 07, 2025 4:30 am

Hallelujah is not a christmas song...

Bunny_boy · Post by **Bunny_boy** » Fri Mar 07, 2025 7:19 am

The One I Love by REM appeared on quite a few love song compilations

osiris · Post by **osiris** » Fri Mar 07, 2025 1:57 pm

I've known some people who think Sarah MacLachlan's Possession is a love song.

crimsonwarlock · Post by **crimsonwarlock** » Fri Mar 07, 2025 2:39 pm

Driver's Seat by Sniff 'n the Tears.

mumpcake · Post by **mumpcake** » Fri Mar 07, 2025 4:25 pm

"In The Air Tonight" is not about Phil Collins watching someone else fail to give a hand to someone drowning.

mjolnir · Post by **mjolnir** » Sat Mar 08, 2025 10:26 am

what the heck?

harryupbabble · Post by **harryupbabble** » Sat Mar 08, 2025 3:01 pm

did marijuana smokers listen to beatles music?
if they did, did they know right away that "got to get you into my life" was about weed?

i mean why would they?
that song seemed like another paul macartney song about a girl or a woman:

michelle
yesterday
she`s a woman
the long and winding road

harryupbabble · Post by **harryupbabble** » Sat Mar 08, 2025 3:07 pm

also, keith richards wrote "angie"
supposedly it`s about his love of angel dust?

and bb king`s song "lucille" is about his guitar?

led zeppelin has a song called "hot dog"
i`m guessing that it`s about robert plant`s erection(s)

mumpcake · Post by **mumpcake** » Sat Mar 08, 2025 6:41 pm

harryupbabble wrote: Sat Mar 08, 2025 3:01 pm did marijuana smokers listen to beatles music?
if they did, did they know right away that "got to get you into my life" was about weed?

i mean why would they?
that song seemed like another paul macartney song about a girl or a woman:

Good point.

On a related note I heard "There She Goes" in an ad for birth control. I guess we give Janssen Pharmaceuticals partial credit because the song is about a drug.

mumpcake · Post by **mumpcake** » Sat Mar 08, 2025 6:47 pm

harryupbabble wrote: Sat Mar 08, 2025 3:07 pm also, keith richards wrote "angie"
supposedly it`s about his love of angel dust?

and bb king`s song "lucille" is about his guitar?

led zeppelin has a song called "hot dog"
i`m guessing that it`s about robert plant`s erection(s)

Lucille is about his guitar.
For the others, there's genius.com. "Hot Dog" is an expression in the US South equivalent to "holey moley".

osiris · Post by **osiris** » Sat Mar 08, 2025 10:49 pm

I don't think they had Angel Dust back then. I've always heard it was about one of David Bowie's girlfriend who's name was Angie.
The perfect song like this is Louie, Louie.

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Sat Mar 08, 2025 11:17 pm

Bunny_boy wrote: Fri Mar 07, 2025 7:19 am The One I Love by REM appeared on quite a few love song compilations

used to enjoy watching couples dancing, while looking in to each other's eyes.
joy division, love will tear us apart also.

Constructed Identity · Sun Mar 09, 2025 2:53 am

It honestly creeps me out when I meet (on the internet or wherever) people who are 180degrees off on what I made a song about. It actually makes me physically ill. The reality I can't accept is that perception can so totally alter some people's perception that they are essentially living in their own fantasy and are unable to process reality.

osiris · Post by **osiris** » Sun Mar 09, 2025 2:19 pm

Edit: I guess they did have angel dust back then. Watched the Sly Stone doc last night and he was all about it.

Lyrics nobody gets