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?

Surely the line “Respectfully I say to thee, I’m aware that you’re cheating” was a clue? 😁

I just don't get any of these supposed drugs references at all but then I'm not familiar with much drug terminology.

Golden Brown was deliberately written to be ambiguous, so unless somebody happens to have told you in your travels, why would an average person who's never taken anything more than an antibiotic or pethidine know that it was about hard illegal drugs?

It was also released in 1982 - 44 years ago - so it's hardly contemporary for a great many not-particularly-young adults.

And even if something is widely known by the vast majority of people, we're all constantly learning throughout life, and I really admire people who don't know something and who have the confidence to ask the question and increase their own personal scope of knowledge.

I always get irrationally irritated by her mixing 'thee' and 'you', just for the rhyme. By all means use either archaic pronouns or modern ones, but choose one of them and stick to it!!

It's not really terminology, at least with Golden Brown; it's the feeling the drug gives you, plus a bit of its history. I'm not au fait with heroin myself, but lyrics like
'Lays me down… No need to fight…Never a frown with golden brown' and
'Through the ages she's heading west' just require a bit of understanding/imagination about the effect of opiates/sedatives and an awareness of where it came from and global trade routes.

Yes but if you don't know anything about drugs, as @Politicians247UnderwearExtinguishingService said, you wouldn't know how the words correlate to drug use.

If you've had a prescription painkiller, sedative or a sleeping pill or anything, surely you'd recognise the feelings?

Well I've never had any of those apart from painkillers for arthritis which never affected me in any particular way.

You may be missing out! I once took some of a mate's prescription painkillers for especially bad period pain (I know, I know) and even that was absolute bliss. I can totally see why a person would get hooked on opioids (I think 'opiates' is wrong now I read my last post back).

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Gordon Brown, with texture like sun?

Some people thought he was a decent politician, but that's going a bit far!

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (LSD) is about drugs.

Also White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane and Itchy Coo Park by the Small Faces

What Made Milwaukee Famous (has made a loser out of me) by Rod Stewart is about beer - it's the slogan used by Schlitz beer

I love the three degrees 😍 so does King Charles 🤴 well, one of them anyway 😊😆

I think most people (me included) don't necessarily take time to think about the specific sensations - we're just happy that we were in pain before and now we've taken something that means the pain is gone/severely reduced.

Anyway, there must surely be a massive difference in the sensations and feelings when taking illegal drugs over ordinary ones. If not, why would anybody go to all of the huge risk, effort and expense - and possible prosecution - to buy heroin, if they could get pretty much the same hit by popping down to Asda and spending a few quid on a bottle of Night Nurse?!

Does anybody know the actual meaning of MacArthur Park?

Because if you do, you must be a far wiser person than I am!!

Someone left the cake out in the rain
I havent got a clue 😁

Exactly 😂

And that it was used as a children in need song in 1997

Like 'a thousand trees' by the stereophonic... a song about an allegation of pedophilia.
In a small town

Not wanting to quibble your very good point, but wasn't it just recorded as a self-aggrandising advert for the BBC itself rather than as a CIN song? Or was it for both?

I don't recall if it was 'the' official CIN song; but I distinctly remember one year when the whole show opened with One Direction singing a song exhorting people to 'live while we're young', which apparently meant having sex with people you've only just met and not thinking or caring about any responsibilities or consequences.

Ohh interesting it was released as a bbc promo and later used as a charity single

Their decorator. Hence the tin of paint on show.

That's just because it rhymes. See also Marc Bolan - Oh Debora you always look like a zebra 🦓

Not happy with this one either Luther Vandross

The time is right, you hold me tight
And love's got me high
Please tell me, 'Yes' and don't say, 'No'
Honey, not tonight
Move a little close to me, you owe it to yourself
And I will selfishly take a little for myself
And it's because of you
That love won't let me wait