A friend heard 'Come on Eileen' for the first time in early 2021, and thought it was about the key preoccupation of that time: 'Covid 19'.
Another friend, as a child, thought that the song line 'You don't have to say you love me; just be close at hand' was 'You don't have to say I'm lovely, just because I am!' I still prefer her version.
As a teenager, I thought that the chorus of Mud's 'Tiger Feet'
'Alright, that's right, that's right, that's right
That's right, I really love your tiger light
And that's neat, that's neat, that's neat, that's neat
I really love your tiger feet, I really love your tiger feet'
was
'Alright, that's right, that's right, that's right
That's right, I know your dire life.
And not me, not me, not me, not me,
I know your diary, I know your diary'
which I interpreted as meaning that her diary was full of dates with other men.