Meanings behind songs that people don't seem to know...

[Arlanymor]

Do you remember the Real Fires advert with the dog kissing the cat and the cat kissing a mouse? My mum brought it up the other day as one of their neighbours has just got a dog that looks identical to the one in the advertisement. Awww!

I couldn't quite remember the song that was the soundtrack so I looked it up later... it's Will You Love Me Tomorrow by The Shirelles and I brought it up on YouTube to listen to it. It's about a one night stand isn't it? I had no idea until now... there I was thinking it was a lovely warm anthem for chaste kisses between pets!

By the way, not remotely making a judgement about the topic, I've a had a few 'Shirelles' nights of my own in the past... I just never knew what it was about before. Have you had any similar revelations?!

That's funny! She might quite like a new version of the song.

Oh I thought it was about DV against a woman, not a child!

Absolutely no drug education for me either! School in the 70’s for me too 🤷🏼‍♀️

Yes. Hey little baby, shotgun!
It’s about a shotgun wedding.

Me too!

There's even some dodgy lyrics in jailhouse rock. It would be fine today but there's a line which definitely has homosexual overtones. Can't remember it exactly but it say number something to number different you're the cutest jailbird I ever did see.

Mine is "there's a bathroom on the right" from Bad Moon Rising.
(There's a bad moon on the rise)

Number 47 said to number three
"You're the cutest jailbird I ever did see
I sure would be delighted with your company
Come on and do the Jailhouse Rock with me"

I always thought that Pinball Wizard lyrics were "That deaf double blanket sure plays a mean pinball" instead of "deaf dumb and blind kid"
😅😅😅

Also in Jailhouse Rock: if you can’t find a partner use a wooden chair 😂

I recall teaching in a Catholic High School overseas, there were a number of nuns teaching and one was Head of the Sixth form. She did the sex ed talk with these 17/18 year olds, sex was allowed as long as you were married, one wit asked her if the sex had to be with the person you're married to and she almost exploded. The girls obviously thought the whole thing was hilarious, nothing about what 'sex' involved and certainly no mention of the evil contraception.

You're gorgeous by baby bird got played on Sunday lovesongs last week and I was absolutely incredulous! Listen to the lyrics radio 2! Not a lovesong!

Easy by the Sugababes has very overt lyrics.

Engine's running high baby, can you come and check it?
Got such a pretty kitty, boy I know you want to pet it
The weather's nice and wet just south of the border

In the 50s people would practice the jive at home using a chair as their 'partner'.

Tell me a single lyric in thst song that says otherwise

But "Pictures of Lily" by the Who definitely is...

Possibly not explicit from the lyrics, but Bryan Adams was only about 10 in 1969 - and he and his friends were driving and getting married in the song!

Plus BA has come right out and admitted it!

Daytripper by the Beatles - it’s not about a day at the seaside

I have vivid recollections of sitting in the school sixth-form common room with my friends after listening to this song on the radio, and coming to this exact same conclusion... nice to know I was right after all these years! 😄

I'm really missing the laugh reaction on this thread! 😄

Me and my baby in a 69?

Sad to relate that the earliest version of that song is from the late 18th century, it's nothing to do with the plague.

Brotherhood of Man won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1976 with 'Save All Your Kisses for Me'.

You assume the song is for a lover until the very last line...

'Won't you save them for me even though you're only 3?'

It's a father singing to his daughter.

I just replied to you as well, it's okay. 😊 I thought it for ages too! Until someone told me otherwise.

The Wiggles Rocket Ship is about the existential dread regarding the eventual heat death of the universe