Doon frae Troon
Ryder Cup Winner
Paul Simons 'Mother and Child Reunion' song title came from a Chinese menu for a chicken and egg dish.
Songs With a Different Meaning To What Is Commonly Believed
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Crow
Crow Person
The Rolling Stones Paint it Black came about after Mick Jagger saw into the future and watched Johnny Nice on The Fast Show.
(This is true)
(This is true)
Tashyboy
Please don’t ask to see my tatts 👍
Angels by Robbie Williams is a classic song that means different things to different people. I was on a course about death and how our senses are trigger points for our emotions both good, bad, happy, sad etc. hearing “Angels” played reminds people of hatches, matches and dispatches. Basically, christenings, weddings and funerals.
The words to songs do have meanings but to some people they interpret it differently.
The words to songs do have meanings but to some people they interpret it differently.
Fade and Die
Medal Winner
Best not mention Brown Sugar!
HeftyHacker
Well-known member
First one that came into my head as well - I was singing it in the kitchen the other day and the missus said "they can't possibly be the lyrics?!" She'd just never heard them like that before (butchered by me).
"There was a time you let me know
What's really going on below
But now you never show it to me, do you?
And I remember when I moved in you
And the holy dove she was moving too
And every single breath we drew was Hallelujah"
sunshine
Well-known member
Not sure that is a Song With a Different Meaning To What Is Commonly Believed!Eeezer Good, Eeezer Good, it's Ebeneezer Good. It's saying 'E's are good'. Naughty, naughty.
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
Except I have never twigged and have ‘listened in innocence’
Really? Genuinely?Except I have never twigged and have ‘listened in innocence’
I didn't think it could be much clearer. What did you think it was about?
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
I didn’t. I listened to the music. I don’t always listen to the words of a song…often it’s simply the emotion or pleasure the music invokes that matters to me more than the lyric.Really? Genuinely?
I didn't think it could be much clearer. What did you think it was about?
Voyager EMH
Slipper Wearing Plucker of Pheasants
10cc might be singing, "Art for art's sake, money for God's sake."
But I think that they are actually singing, "Art for a***-ache, money for guts-ache."
Phew, just edited in time before another quite justifiable Fraggerring.
But I think that they are actually singing, "Art for a***-ache, money for guts-ache."
Phew, just edited in time before another quite justifiable Fraggerring.
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rudebhoy
Q-School Graduate
REM's The One I Love is a most definitely not a love song. 'This one goes out to the one I love, this one goes out to the one I left behind. A simple prop to occupy my time.' The band have been quoted as being shocked/amused by couples telling them it's their special song, and smooching away to it when they played it live.
Blondie's One Way or Another is not about someone desiring another person, it's actually about a stalker.
Total Eclipse of the Heart was written for a musical about vampires.
Blondie's One Way or Another is not about someone desiring another person, it's actually about a stalker.
Total Eclipse of the Heart was written for a musical about vampires.
Patster1969
Assistant Pro
We play that it our covers band and the singer's wife is constantly telling him that we shouldn't be playing it - 5 years on, still in the set list
KenL
Tour Rookie
Golden Brown by the Stranglers is about heroin.
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
Sundown by Gordon Lightfoot…
Again not one I previously listened to the words too closely to, so assumed it be a simple love song, well it is, kind of, though his girl is not really behaving herself very well. And I’m not sure how I’d explain to a child what his girl was up to.
Again not one I previously listened to the words too closely to, so assumed it be a simple love song, well it is, kind of, though his girl is not really behaving herself very well. And I’m not sure how I’d explain to a child what his girl was up to.
rudebhoy
Q-School Graduate
As is Another Girl Another Planet by The Only Ones.
KenL
Tour Rookie
I love that song..
Crow
Crow Person
The Day Before You Came by ABBA is about cocaine.
All Kinds of Everything by Dana is about LSD.
All Kinds of Everything by Dana is about LSD.
YandaB
Newbie
And Peaches is not a set of fruit based lyrics
Sid Rixon IV
Head Pro
I apologise for resurrecting this. I was browsing "Celebs who've passed" and it was listed as similar threads.
Back in '84 my Dad was terminally ill and failing. I lived several hours away with a wife and 18mth baby. I went "home" every weekend.
Then one day I got a call "You need to come home". The reason, of course, unspoken.
Several hours later, just a few miles away from home, the radio played "Everything I own" by David Gates (Bread). At the time everyone knew the song and it was taken to be about a lost love or romantic break up.
I'd happened to learn some months before it was about losing his father. It was like a lightning bolt hit me.
(And, yes, I got home to find Dad had passed an hour or so.)
Back in '84 my Dad was terminally ill and failing. I lived several hours away with a wife and 18mth baby. I went "home" every weekend.
Then one day I got a call "You need to come home". The reason, of course, unspoken.
Several hours later, just a few miles away from home, the radio played "Everything I own" by David Gates (Bread). At the time everyone knew the song and it was taken to be about a lost love or romantic break up.
I'd happened to learn some months before it was about losing his father. It was like a lightning bolt hit me.
(And, yes, I got home to find Dad had passed an hour or so.)
SteveJay
Head Pro
Wow, heard that Abba song today when my iTunes was on shuffle. I had no idea!
