The story of the lyrics say what?!

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I was today years old when I realised Upside Down by Diana Ross is her singing about a man who's cheating on her.

And the bottom line is that because she likes the way he makes her feel, there'll always be a place in her heart for him.

I'd never actually heard that in the song before! Shocked in the shower!

I informed my friend yesterday that Watermelon Sugar is about cunnilingus.

Pina Colada - was always a favourite with the boyfriend and I, until i looked up the lyrics during a long car journey 😳 The song's story is that I'm bored with my partner, so I look for a new one in the personal ads. I meet them, and it turns out it was my partner who placed the ad. Essentially, they're both looking to cheat on each other. Very unexpected story for such a breezy song!

We all know Every Breath you take is actually a stalker song.

Any other stories in songs that are really not what you expected?

I thought another day in paradise was pretty obvious, you know...from the lyrics?

Next you’ll be telling me that Don’t You Want Me is about someone who used to work as a waitress in a cocktail bar.

Or maybe the person who wrote the lyrics?

Was thinking that too! 😅

Pina Colada is like a perky Babooshka.

I always thought "Because You Loved Me" was just a heinous, saccharine, bland Celine Dion love song to a stupid ex-boyfriend.

I actually loved the song once I found out she was singing it to her dad.

@Laiste Yes I think it is - as is The 1975 song "Chocolate"!

I'm usually fairly savvy about lyrics.

If you want another 'catchy' stalker song then "Obsession" by Animotion is a good one.

😲 Wash your mouth and say ten Hail Mary's, five Our Father's and Three Glory Be's immediately, you abominable child! 😡

It was written by Nile Rodgers (says Google) so he be more likely to know I guess

I find some song lyrics are so difficult to hear clearly, I end up putting my own lyrics to the tune 😂

I've seen him a few times. I'll ask him next time I see him 😁

I'm down on my knees, im going to take you there.....

Childhood ruined 😆

😂😂😂

Yes of a similar theme

Britney Spears 'toxic' is rumoured to be about N0el Fitzpatr!ck (the super vet guy). Apparently the songwriter was in a relationship with him, broke up and then wrote the song about him.

Lyrics that seemed innocent or had a 'different ' meaning when I was a kid, I realised as an adult and see entirely different are the ones I think of with this thread.
Some Dr Hook songs seem quite sleazy to me now.

Ha yes I used to think it was about a sun tan till I found out.

'There was an old lady who swallowed a fly' is about an old lady who swallows a fly and tells the tale of her various attempts to get rid of it by swallowing larger and larger animals. She ultmately dies.

(I don't know why she swallowed a fly.)

I had a conversation recently about school shootings in the USA. I referenced 'I Don't Like Mondays' which I thought was fairly explicit and blew the mind of the other person.

But I think OP means the kind of relationship you have with a song where you are not that bothered by it but catch it on the radio every now and then, enough for the chorus to embed itself in your memory and a few of the lyrics, but not enough for you to listen to the lyrics properly. So it is not about a song that is ambiguous or metaphorical, it is a song where if you listen to the lyrics it becomes clear that it is not what you thought it was about at all.

For example I thought Murder on the Dance Floor was about a murderous wedding (partly due to mishearing the lyrics as "better not kill the groom" but also due to not paying any attention to the verses).

Are you very young OP?

Literally everyone knows that about Golden Brown.

A lot of these are fairly obvious surely?

One I find particularly creepy is Police’s Don’t Stand So Close to Me. Especially as Sting actually was a teacher 🤢

Again, surely everyone knows that? It’s like common lore! Maybe I’m just from a family where we talk a lot about music etc.. 🤷‍♀️

The A team by Ed Sheeran is about a class drugs, not being in the "A Team"

I thought it was about a former Prime Minister