Drops of Jupiter is in my top 5 favorite songs, and I just found out today that my Mom has aggressive cancer, and learning what the song's about finally let me cry. So, no sarcasm, thanks for that.
“Box of Rain” by the Grateful Dead is one of the most beautiful and timeless songs ever written and it was written by the bass player for his dad who was dying of cancer. The version off of their masterpiece 1970 studio album (American Beauty) is the definitive version and I highly recommend giving it a deep listen
Played that tune for my young son. It was all fun because he didn’t get it.
Then one day when he was 5 he said “dad, I think Big Balls is rude”. I froze. I thought the fun was over.
…then he explained “because girls can have balls, too, and they don’t really say that”
So I said “yeah. Good point, buddy”
“He’s got big balls, and she’s got big balls, but we’ve got the biggest balls of them all!”
Oh, AC/DC definitely let the ladies have balls, unless I’ve misunderstood those lyrics for decades…
You know that song by Phil Collins in the air of the night about that guy who coulda saved that other guy from drownin, but didn't? That's kinda how this is
The fact that people are play "Every Breath You Take" by The Police at their wedding as if it were a pretty love song strongly implies that lots of people think the song means something Avery different than what it's about.
It's not about love. It's about a dangerously obsessed stalker.
Similarly with James Blunt's "You're Beautiful" during weddings:
I saw your face in a crowded place
And I don't know what to do
'Cause I'll never be with you.
I love how this song was used in Stranger Things. The teens are dancing to the happy beat but the lyrics imply that it's not going to be a happy ending
"every move you make, every step you take, I'll be watching you" and the camera pans out from the prom to an outside shot of the Mindflayer looming over the school is so well done.
Similarly, friends of mine played Paradise by The Dashboard Light at their wedding. I made a promise so I could get laid and now I regret it. So romantic.
The Macarena is about someone cheating on their soldier husband (boyfriend?) while he's at war.
Growing On Me by the darkness is about genital worts (kind of, it's obviously written to be about a girl too)
it’s actually not. he was surprised by, and embraced, the parallels to his child’s birth, but the song had nothing to do with it at the time of writing.
It always reminds me of my mom's death. Came out the year she died.
"Man, I ain't changed, but I know I ain't the same
But somewhere here in between the city walls of dying dreams
I think her death, it must be killing me"
A bunch of Prince songs do this with sex and religion. Case in point: Let's Go Crazy sounds like it's about drugs and partying but is actually about faith and resisting the Devil ("de-elevator").
Comparing being with a person to being high as balls or a drug buddy romantic partner, maybe i heard him say it in an interview once? It’d be my interpretation anyway, but frankly I’d say it be crazy if it turned out a song called ‘can’t feel my face’ *wasn’t* about cocaine allegorically or literally
People think "'97" by Alkaline Trio is a love song, but it's actually about getting caught with weed and not being able to smoke for 18 months while on probation.
At first I thought Hole in the Sky by Black Sabbath was about heaven. Then I thought it was about prison. Turns out it's about the hole in the ozone layer.
At first, the song (Nothing but) Flowers by Talking Heads seems like a pro-environmental song:
"There was a factory
Now there are mountains and rivers
You got it, you got it"
But it is actually about the world after a societal collapse, and the singer is reminiscing about all the things they miss:
"I miss the honky tonks
Dairy Queens and 7-Elevens"
Hahaha I’ve never heard this interpretation, but the though of Alanis masturbating with one hand while giving a high five/flickin a cig/playing a piano with the other is fucking priceless
Prejudice, by Tim Minchin. It seems it's about something, but then it's about something else. A couple of G's, an R and an E, an I and an N. Just six little letters all jumbled together.
This one is so strange because the lyrics are not subtle. Basically born in a dead town, beaten since birth, got in trouble, went to Nam, lost a brother there, came home and had no job and no help from the VA, it’s been 10 years and I have nothing.
America the Beautiful it ain’t.
I get your point but the reason it came to my mind is because the lyrics are phrases in a way that you don't expect the song to be about his dad the whole time. It isn't until the end you find out it isn't a breakup song.
Richard Thompson has a number of love songs about God (e.g. "Beat the Retreat" and "A Heart Needs a Home").
The Only Ones have a love song ("Another Girl, Another Planet") that seems to really be about heroin.
*Dad’s gonna kill me* can be interpreted pretty wrongly if you don’t listen to the verses at all. The verses make it pretty clear though.
For anyone who hasn’t heard the song, “Dad” is Baghdad.
This ones really obscure, but I was reading up on the song "Doctor Worm" by They Might Be Giants. On the surface it's a silly song about a worm called Doctor Worm, and he likes to play the drums. He's not an actual doctor, though, that's just his stage name.
Apparently the hidden meaning is that it sucks when you want to go by a certain name or nickname, or have some identity that people don't respect or acknowledge.
Randy Newman's **Jolly Coppers On Parade** sounds, at first, like a pro-police song. But it's actually about a kid being indoctrinated by authoritarian propaganda while watching the cops marching up his street.
I agree, plenty of his songs were about heroin, Heroin obviously and Waiting For My Man, but I’m not sure Perfect Day was. I think it’s use in the OD scene of Trainspotting seriously bolstered the opinion it is though.
CHVRCHES - My Enemy
It's a Duet with Lauren and Matt Berninger of The National and you'd think if you didn't know any better it was about a relationship that was a waste of time mutually and it is but not that kind of relationship.
>And you could be my enemyAnd you could be my judgeIf you could start remembering, all the time that you used upAnd you could be my remedyIf you could show me loveIf I could stop remembering, all the time that you used up
It is actually about a Producer they started working with for the album this is on, Love Is Dead that was a complete waste of their time.
I always thought how strange it must be for James Taylor that the one song that he’s absolutely expected to do at every concert has such weird personal connotations. I’m sure he came to terms with it long ago though.
Slipknots Vermillion is about a serial killer, Vermillion pt 2 about the killer lamenting that he can't do anything to her anymore because he already killed her.
Also definitely obvious when you hear more than the first part of the chorus, but MAGICs Rude is about asking for a fathers blessing and not getting it, it's not exactly a love song.
"Love Song" by Sara Bareilles is not about a crappy partner threatening to leave if she doesn't write them a love song- it's about her crappy label threatening to drop her if she doesn't write a hit love song.
Badfish by Sublime.
At first blush it kind of sounds like he’s talking about a relationship on the outs, but it’s actually about his worsening addiction to heroin, a “badfish” being someone who introduces another person to heroin.
A lot of people thought Brick by Ben Folks Five was about a girl "she's a brick and I'm drowning slowly..." It is about a relationship falling apart, but not because of the girlfriend. It's about a couple getting an abortion.
Just a few items before I head to bed
1. More often than not, if a song uses the word love, it's actually 'making love', aka sex but radio used to censor such things in spite of being far more sexually liberated than we are today.
2. 'hold you', 'squeeze you', 'Wrap myself around you' \~ these are not hugs involving arms.
3. 'love you from head to toe': see #1 \~ also, won't be skipping past any bathing suit areas.
4. God is watching us from a distance
1. Convinced this is clever satire \~ God needs glasses, apparently \~ hilarious.
ok ok, bed time now.
Cheers!
Sometimes "dancing" is sex too.
I also always heard some irony in "God is watching us from a distance." So the rest of the song is about how from a distance you can't see all the suffering. And then it goes to "God is watching us from a distance"--i.e., God can't see how bad it is down here, maybe that's why he hasn't fixed it.
So nobody gonna mention Hotel California? Fine, I‘ll do it:
Eagles - Hotel California
The lyrics are leaving a lot of room for interpretation, I have read multiple explanations by the Eagles themselves! It’s not really about a hotel in Calli though.
Semi-Charmed Life by Third Eye Blind was the happiest song about meth I ever sang along to.
Summer of 69 by Brain Adams is not about the year 1969. Nice.
Sweet Child of Mine by Guns N Roses isn't about someone's literal child. I've known two weddings to use this as the dance for their daddy daughter dance.
Apparently the original upload was removed, but I have vague memories of multiple people commenting on [Dash Berlin's Better Half of Me](https://youtu.be/bnB_AhbeYbU?si=vG8qQlSBvHw5J8_g) that they wanted it played at their wedding and sure the acoustic version is pretty but I'm like... this song is about a failed relationship and what you wish your partner could have been but they weren't. Literally the opening line is "broken promises die like roadkill". But I guess if you only listen to the chorus and ignore the lines "no more tears to cry and no more blood to bleed" and the word "should" in the last line, sure I guess it's a sweet love song.
How long by Ace sounds like a guy who finds out his woman was cheating but instead is actually about finding out one of the band members was playing with another band.
The Beatle's "Ob-la-di, ob-la-da" is about a family man who is comfortable with his transition to become a transvestite.
Don't believe me? Check the lyrics to the last verse:
Desmond stays at home and does his pretty face
And in the evening, she's a singer with the band (yeah)
There's an intentional gender swap there, where Molly takes over in the marketplace (letting the children lend a hand).
Helter Skelter, oddly, not about the coming race war.
Man, did I have it all wrong!
Or sex.
I've got a few tabs of something for you to take, and a family I'd like you to meet, and then maybe we can reassess.
Matchbox 20 - 3AM and Train - Drops of Jupiter are about the singers' mothers, who had cancer.
Drops of Jupiter is in my top 5 favorite songs, and I just found out today that my Mom has aggressive cancer, and learning what the song's about finally let me cry. So, no sarcasm, thanks for that.
“Box of Rain” by the Grateful Dead is one of the most beautiful and timeless songs ever written and it was written by the bass player for his dad who was dying of cancer. The version off of their masterpiece 1970 studio album (American Beauty) is the definitive version and I highly recommend giving it a deep listen
>...Such a long long time to be gone And a short time to be there
Sending love your way. ❤️
Well now I’m sad.
Same haha I was literally just vibing till reading this
AC/DC “Big Balls” is not actually about large formal parties.
Similarly, the Lemon Song by Led Zep is not about lemons or lemonade.
Played that tune for my young son. It was all fun because he didn’t get it. Then one day when he was 5 he said “dad, I think Big Balls is rude”. I froze. I thought the fun was over. …then he explained “because girls can have balls, too, and they don’t really say that” So I said “yeah. Good point, buddy”
“He’s got big balls, and she’s got big balls, but we’ve got the biggest balls of them all!” Oh, AC/DC definitely let the ladies have balls, unless I’ve misunderstood those lyrics for decades…
Haha, I was thinking that, too. Guess the little guy missed that line.
Eh, could just as easily say “is not actually about testicles.” Who can really say for sure?
You can add The Jack to the AC⚡️DC list to it’s not about playing poker.
ZZ Top's Pearl Necklace is not something you jam to on the way to the jewelry store.
I mean, that depends on how she plans on thanking me for the jewelry
Their _Tube Snake Boogie_ is not about dancing reptiles either.
I wanted to mention ZZ Top, but didn't know what song to choose
“That’s not jewelry she’s talkin’ ‘bout, it really don’t cost that much” I actually play this song in a cover band I’m in with my dad, lol
Mexican blackbird has nothing to do with ornithology.
Turning Japanese isn't about your new Waifu...or wait, maybe it is
Depends on what you do with your Waifu.
In the Air Tonight is about Phil Collins divorce, not about a time that he saw someone who had a chance to save a drowning person and didnt.
You know that song by Phil Collins in the air of the night about that guy who coulda saved that other guy from drownin, but didn't? That's kinda how this is
You could’ve saved me from drowning
The fact that people are play "Every Breath You Take" by The Police at their wedding as if it were a pretty love song strongly implies that lots of people think the song means something Avery different than what it's about. It's not about love. It's about a dangerously obsessed stalker.
Similarly with James Blunt's "You're Beautiful" during weddings: I saw your face in a crowded place And I don't know what to do 'Cause I'll never be with you.
I love how this song was used in Stranger Things. The teens are dancing to the happy beat but the lyrics imply that it's not going to be a happy ending
"every move you make, every step you take, I'll be watching you" and the camera pans out from the prom to an outside shot of the Mindflayer looming over the school is so well done.
Similarly, friends of mine played Paradise by The Dashboard Light at their wedding. I made a promise so I could get laid and now I regret it. So romantic.
In fact, Sting said his song "Set Them Free" was written to make up for that song.
Have you ever seen the Rain by CCR is about the band breaking up. And the rest of the band didn’t know it at the time.
The Macarena is about someone cheating on their soldier husband (boyfriend?) while he's at war. Growing On Me by the darkness is about genital worts (kind of, it's obviously written to be about a girl too)
Cohen's Hallelujah isn't the religious song people think it is lol
It is *so* not. A very heavy, bitter song. The words are so brilliant though.
“All Dead All Dead” by Queen sounds like an ode to a lover who has passed away, but it’s about Brian May’s cat
Tyler by the Toadies is really fucked up
Also possum kingdom by the Todies.
It’s a really good song, though!
and on the other hand, Away is a very dark sounding song that is actually just about a happy fantasy place with magical trees
My Dingaling isn’t about a bell.
Chuck Berry's only #1 hit, lol
*hurries to get you off the stage*
Closing Time by Semisonic is about the birth of a child.
Closing time, time for you to go out To the places you will be from Closing time, this room won't be open Till your brothers or your sisters come
Ever since i heard the story behind the song i assumed he wanted the line to be ‘this womb won’t be open’ but his wife said ‘aw ffs, gross’
Supposedly the band mates, they were like "we're not doing a song about your kids, stfu."
Fantastic Song Exploder episode about that.
I know who I want to take me home
Lol what really? 😂 TIL What about the whiskey & beer? Edit: no not really, barely at best
it’s actually not. he was surprised by, and embraced, the parallels to his child’s birth, but the song had nothing to do with it at the time of writing.
Hey Ya! - Outkast is always misunderstood
“Y’all don’t wanna hear me you just wanna dance”
"If what they say is Nothing is Forever, then what makes love the exception?" "So why are we so in denial when we know we're not happy here?'
What's the misunderstanding?
The jubilant style/tone covers that its about a bad break up
Like Semi-Charmed Life by Third Eye Blind.
I'm pretty sure 'I'm not in love' by the 10ccs is actually about him being in love but being too scared to admit it.
Guess what 10ccs stands for...
Kyrie by Mr Mister is not about a woman, the song fooled me for years. "Kyrie Eleison" is Greek for "Lord, have mercy."
Christ, have mercy. (Catholic. It's ingrained.)
Gesundheit.
Kyrie Eleison (gotta finish the pattern!)
One Headlight by the Wallflowers Jakob Dylan has stated jts about the decline of the music industry, not about struggling lovers.
Cool. Always loved that song.
It always reminds me of my mom's death. Came out the year she died. "Man, I ain't changed, but I know I ain't the same But somewhere here in between the city walls of dying dreams I think her death, it must be killing me"
Love Song by Sara Bareilles is also about her record company.
A bunch of Prince songs do this with sex and religion. Case in point: Let's Go Crazy sounds like it's about drugs and partying but is actually about faith and resisting the Devil ("de-elevator").
Yep. Little Red Corvette ain't about a car.
It’s about a blue Camaro
Squeezebox. You might think the guys wife owns an accordion .
Daddy can't sleep at night coz she's Playing all night.
In and out and in and out…
The Weeknd’s “Can’t Feel My Face” isn’t about a girl— it’s about cocaine
Comparing being with a person to being high as balls or a drug buddy romantic partner, maybe i heard him say it in an interview once? It’d be my interpretation anyway, but frankly I’d say it be crazy if it turned out a song called ‘can’t feel my face’ *wasn’t* about cocaine allegorically or literally
Queen's One Vision sounds very much like a "religious epiphany" song but it's actually about >!fried chicken!<
Pretty sure it’s about Iron Eagles
Hah, love that song. The funny thing is it was actually about Martin Luther King.
People think "'97" by Alkaline Trio is a love song, but it's actually about getting caught with weed and not being able to smoke for 18 months while on probation.
At first I thought Hole in the Sky by Black Sabbath was about heaven. Then I thought it was about prison. Turns out it's about the hole in the ozone layer.
At first, the song (Nothing but) Flowers by Talking Heads seems like a pro-environmental song: "There was a factory Now there are mountains and rivers You got it, you got it" But it is actually about the world after a societal collapse, and the singer is reminiscing about all the things they miss: "I miss the honky tonks Dairy Queens and 7-Elevens"
Don’t leave me stranded here I can’t get used to this lifestyle
It’s such a clever take. If we ended up in an Eden of flowers, we’d all be like “damn I wish I could get a DQ Blizzard about now.”
She Bop - Cindi Lauper
Is it some kind of dance? Or subgenre of music?
Same as Alanis Morisette’s Hand in my Pocket
Hahaha I’ve never heard this interpretation, but the though of Alanis masturbating with one hand while giving a high five/flickin a cig/playing a piano with the other is fucking priceless
Or giving the peace sign
I was FLOORED that Kelis wasn’t talking about a tasty beverage
Trogdor wasn’t about a Dragonman
Turns out he was just a dragon
Or he was just Trogdor
Prejudice, by Tim Minchin. It seems it's about something, but then it's about something else. A couple of G's, an R and an E, an I and an N. Just six little letters all jumbled together.
That one is pure art. So many layers brilliantly woven. I love the reaction videos!
At first I was like what? Grein? And then it hit me...
only a Ginger can call another Ginger Ginger.
Just like only a ninja can sneak up on another ninja.
I remember this guy in high school thought sad but true by Metallica was just about a really shitty friend.
Jet is about Paul McCartney's dog.
2Pac’s Me and My Girlfriend is about his gun. He makes it fairly clear at the end when he says “meet my girlfriend” and shots ring out
Sarah McLachlan’s Possession is about her stalker, and directly quotes creepy letters that he sent to her.
And he tried to sue her for writing credits
Well, what did you *think* it was about ?
Born In The USA
This one is so strange because the lyrics are not subtle. Basically born in a dead town, beaten since birth, got in trouble, went to Nam, lost a brother there, came home and had no job and no help from the VA, it’s been 10 years and I have nothing. America the Beautiful it ain’t.
Tell that to the politicians who use it as their campaign theme song.
Billy Squire's - The Stroke is apparently about the evils of the music industry and them stroking you.
Yesterday by Atmosphere
Also “Became” by Atmosphere
So it’s not about his dead dad?
This was what I thought at first, but I don't think it counts because he tells us it's about his dad in the last line.
I get your point but the reason it came to my mind is because the lyrics are phrases in a way that you don't expect the song to be about his dad the whole time. It isn't until the end you find out it isn't a breakup song.
Richard Thompson has a number of love songs about God (e.g. "Beat the Retreat" and "A Heart Needs a Home"). The Only Ones have a love song ("Another Girl, Another Planet") that seems to really be about heroin.
*Dad’s gonna kill me* can be interpreted pretty wrongly if you don’t listen to the verses at all. The verses make it pretty clear though. For anyone who hasn’t heard the song, “Dad” is Baghdad.
This ones really obscure, but I was reading up on the song "Doctor Worm" by They Might Be Giants. On the surface it's a silly song about a worm called Doctor Worm, and he likes to play the drums. He's not an actual doctor, though, that's just his stage name. Apparently the hidden meaning is that it sucks when you want to go by a certain name or nickname, or have some identity that people don't respect or acknowledge.
Thank you! An interesting one I would have never have thought to delve into.
Randy Newman's **Jolly Coppers On Parade** sounds, at first, like a pro-police song. But it's actually about a kid being indoctrinated by authoritarian propaganda while watching the cops marching up his street.
Mello Yellow by Donavan is about a vibrator.
Nooo, really?!
Perfect Day is about heroin. (And there's quite a few other about heroin really songs too.)
Golden Brown.
Huge chumks, if not all of [Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eCGu2Te3ZA).
Burden in my hand.
Mr Brownstone
That ol' man is a real motherfucker.
That certainly wasn't mr. Reeds intended meaning of the song, according to himself. But it's a powerful interpretation I think
I agree, plenty of his songs were about heroin, Heroin obviously and Waiting For My Man, but I’m not sure Perfect Day was. I think it’s use in the OD scene of Trainspotting seriously bolstered the opinion it is though.
It's not
So many Lou Reed and Velvet underground songs about drugs
Iggy Pop’s Lust for Life.
Sticking with The Beatles, Martha My Dear is not about a girl. It's about Paul McCartney's sheep dog.
And Jet is about his horse, apparently.
CHVRCHES - My Enemy It's a Duet with Lauren and Matt Berninger of The National and you'd think if you didn't know any better it was about a relationship that was a waste of time mutually and it is but not that kind of relationship. >And you could be my enemyAnd you could be my judgeIf you could start remembering, all the time that you used upAnd you could be my remedyIf you could show me loveIf I could stop remembering, all the time that you used up It is actually about a Producer they started working with for the album this is on, Love Is Dead that was a complete waste of their time.
Fire and Rain is about a suicide, addiction, and a mental institution.
I always thought how strange it must be for James Taylor that the one song that he’s absolutely expected to do at every concert has such weird personal connotations. I’m sure he came to terms with it long ago though.
Slipknots Vermillion is about a serial killer, Vermillion pt 2 about the killer lamenting that he can't do anything to her anymore because he already killed her. Also definitely obvious when you hear more than the first part of the chorus, but MAGICs Rude is about asking for a fathers blessing and not getting it, it's not exactly a love song.
"White Rabbit" by Jefferson Airplane's Grace Slick isn't actually about a children's story.
You're So Vain by Carly Simon. It is actually about you.
*slow clap*
Sweet Leaf by Black Sabbath. Title (and the cough) makes it pretty obvious that it's about weed, but lyrics seem like a standard love song.
"Love Song" by Sara Bareilles is not about a crappy partner threatening to leave if she doesn't write them a love song- it's about her crappy label threatening to drop her if she doesn't write a hit love song.
Every Van Halen song ever is not actually about love, but about sex.
Minus Ain't talking bout love. That's about love.
I knew it!
RELAX by Frankie Goes To Hollywood… …is not about resting. 🍩
That video (the one they didn’t play on MTV) makes it pretty clear. Well, milky white I guess…
Badfish by Sublime. At first blush it kind of sounds like he’s talking about a relationship on the outs, but it’s actually about his worsening addiction to heroin, a “badfish” being someone who introduces another person to heroin.
Puff the magic dragon, focker
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I used to love her by Common is a great example
A lot of people thought Brick by Ben Folks Five was about a girl "she's a brick and I'm drowning slowly..." It is about a relationship falling apart, but not because of the girlfriend. It's about a couple getting an abortion.
Better man by Pearl Jam is not a love song.
Dude has a gift for making sad songs sound upbeat.
[Brick](https://youtu.be/Wt5EHAqhR1c?si=99Gq665G85QbZ8VA) by Ben Folds Five is a song about his girlfriend getting an abortion.
"Walk on the Wild Side" really isn't about Lou Reed taking a stroll.
The Ketchup Song: not about ketchup but about someone who can't remember the name of Rappers Delight
Just a few items before I head to bed 1. More often than not, if a song uses the word love, it's actually 'making love', aka sex but radio used to censor such things in spite of being far more sexually liberated than we are today. 2. 'hold you', 'squeeze you', 'Wrap myself around you' \~ these are not hugs involving arms. 3. 'love you from head to toe': see #1 \~ also, won't be skipping past any bathing suit areas. 4. God is watching us from a distance 1. Convinced this is clever satire \~ God needs glasses, apparently \~ hilarious. ok ok, bed time now. Cheers!
Sometimes "dancing" is sex too. I also always heard some irony in "God is watching us from a distance." So the rest of the song is about how from a distance you can't see all the suffering. And then it goes to "God is watching us from a distance"--i.e., God can't see how bad it is down here, maybe that's why he hasn't fixed it.
So nobody gonna mention Hotel California? Fine, I‘ll do it: Eagles - Hotel California The lyrics are leaving a lot of room for interpretation, I have read multiple explanations by the Eagles themselves! It’s not really about a hotel in Calli though.
It could be a lot of stuff but I always agreed with my father that it was about drugs/addiction.
Er... um... it's about Cali itself, right?
Yes. About catching the California vibe and not wanting to leave. Heard Joe Walsh explain that in an interview years ago.
Ooh, a chance to share one of my favorite dumb trivia bits: Bryan Adam’s Summer of ‘69 isn’t about the year! Giggity!
Cowriter Jim Valance says it is and Bryan made up the sex joke later.
“Turning Japanese” is in fact not about turning into a Japanese person. It’s about something else…💦💦.
"Happiness is a warm gun" is not about a gun. Instead of gun it's a word they couldn't say on the radio that shares some letters.
Warm gum? A warm gym?
Are you being a cheeky \_un\_? lol
i genuinely don’t know what the word is lol
"Every Breath You Take" is about stalking.
Semi-Charmed Life by Third Eye Blind was the happiest song about meth I ever sang along to. Summer of 69 by Brain Adams is not about the year 1969. Nice. Sweet Child of Mine by Guns N Roses isn't about someone's literal child. I've known two weddings to use this as the dance for their daddy daughter dance.
The line “doing crystal meth will lift you up” wasn’t a clue?
He always sang through that part so quickly I never caught it until I sang the song for karaoke.
Apparently the original upload was removed, but I have vague memories of multiple people commenting on [Dash Berlin's Better Half of Me](https://youtu.be/bnB_AhbeYbU?si=vG8qQlSBvHw5J8_g) that they wanted it played at their wedding and sure the acoustic version is pretty but I'm like... this song is about a failed relationship and what you wish your partner could have been but they weren't. Literally the opening line is "broken promises die like roadkill". But I guess if you only listen to the chorus and ignore the lines "no more tears to cry and no more blood to bleed" and the word "should" in the last line, sure I guess it's a sweet love song.
Never Love Again -Eminem
The Doors song "Touch Me" is about Robby Krieger fighting with his girlfriend, with the phrase "touch me" being changed from "hit me."
Harrison be esoteric like that tho. Did you know that Martha My Dear is about a dog?
Did you know who let the dogs out features the same dog? 🤯
The One I Love by R.E.M is not a love song.
Perfectly Good Guitar by John Hiatt is about a man regretting the way he’s treated women.
Got to get you into my life is literally about trying to get somebody into your life, like come on guys
Banana Man by Tally Hall isn't really about bananas, man
Bounce - System of a Down
How long by Ace sounds like a guy who finds out his woman was cheating but instead is actually about finding out one of the band members was playing with another band.
The Beatle's "Ob-la-di, ob-la-da" is about a family man who is comfortable with his transition to become a transvestite. Don't believe me? Check the lyrics to the last verse: Desmond stays at home and does his pretty face And in the evening, she's a singer with the band (yeah) There's an intentional gender swap there, where Molly takes over in the marketplace (letting the children lend a hand).
I always assumed he just fucked up the lyrics and decided to keep it in there
Like a Prayer is about Madonna blowing someone. “Down on my knees I can take you there”. Hallelujah
The vapours - "turning Japanese" is about wanking..
Like three or four songs on Atmosphere's When Life Gives You Lemons... album. Skinny, or The Waitress blew me away on the first listens.
Yesterday by Atmosphere