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Songs that must have been written under the influence

26 replies

WithAllIntenseAndPurposes · 11/05/2019 23:59

Just listening to fools gold lemon tree
It makes no sense at all...I don't get it
Serious drug use at time of writing?

OP posts:
Squiff70 · 12/05/2019 00:02

Yellow Ledbetter - Pearl Jam. Under the influence of what, I'm not sure. The misheard lyrics videos on YT are pretty funny though.

Also, pretty much everything by The Beatles.

Gingernaut · 12/05/2019 00:05

Whiter Shade of Pale - Procol Harum

Something In the Air - Thunderclap Newman

MacArthur Park - Richard Harris

Original poster
WithAllIntenseAndPurposes · 12/05/2019 00:08

I bloody love that song about the cake in the rain! But yes someone was badly tripping when they wrote it

OP posts:
pearldeodorant · 12/05/2019 00:10

Wisemen by James blunt. Zero sense

SummersB · 12/05/2019 00:17

Cornflake Girl by Tori Amos. Love the song but no idea WTAF she’s on about!

ItsInTheSpoon · 12/05/2019 00:26

Candy by Robbie Williams

SrSteveOskowski · 12/05/2019 00:49

Desree - Life

"I don't want to see a ghost. It's a sight that I fear most. Rather have a piece of toast. Watch the evening news" ConfusedConfusedConfused

LaLaLamp · 12/05/2019 01:03

Different Place - ride

RomanyQueen1 · 12/05/2019 01:05

It's such a perfect day.

RomanyQueen1 · 12/05/2019 01:06

Golden Brown

EdtheBear · 12/05/2019 01:46

I used to think Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds but actually it was based on a drawing that a child drew. Lucy being a small friend.

ILoveMaxiBondi · 12/05/2019 01:48

“Stick stick stick stick stick stick stick stick stick”

That^ one.

Giggorata · 12/05/2019 07:01

Cirrus Minor

StealthPolarBear · 12/05/2019 07:02

I am the walrus, of course

Outoutout · 12/05/2019 08:27

Beck, he sang the song "loser".

RomanyQueen1 · 12/05/2019 16:16

Edthebear

PM said that Stella made it up when she was little, because the Beatles were being charged with possession of drugs.

It's LSD the initials.

Lou0390 · 12/05/2019 16:24

Gold Dust Woman- Fleetwood Mac

Wonkybanana · 12/05/2019 16:27

Bohemian Rhapsody.

I've never managed to work it out.

Plump82 · 12/05/2019 16:28

ItsInTheSpoon - Gary Barlow also wrote Candy and im pretty sure he wouldn't have been under the influence.

Bravelurker · 12/05/2019 17:40

Watching the detectives by Elvis Costello. Lyrics are next level and as for the meaning Confused.
Brilliant though

ShahOfSplosh · 12/05/2019 17:47

"hole in my shoe" by Traffic

CigarsofthePharoahs · 12/05/2019 18:18

Ebenezer Goode by The Shamen.

SimonJT · 12/05/2019 18:22

Rendezvous by years and years definitely was but doesn’t sound it.

RedHatsDoNotSuitMe · 12/05/2019 18:26

I came on to say Whiter Shade @Gingernaut. But most of the lyrics in the late 1960s

FurrySlipperBoots · 12/05/2019 18:31

That fireflies song.

Also, I don't actually know what the lyrics are, but does that 'Land down under/Vegemite sandwich' one mean anything? It was on in the car earlier and I was thinking I don't know what the hell it's on about.

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