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Do you remember when you learned the song by Peter, Paul & Mary "Puff, the Magic Dragon" was really about marijuana? If you were like most people, it blew your mind. How could a melody sound so innocent we all sang when we were kids, probably not so subtle metaphor for drugs?

Upon arrival, we were fooled. "Puff the Magic Dragon" reallywason a magic dragon, not just drug propaganda. But if we have learned nothing else from the experience was to never take a song to the face value. TheHappy tunes can hide quite disturbing words. If you're not careful, you may find yourself slowly to dance at your wedding to a song you thought was super romantic but was really about a guy seriously needs a restraining order.Here are 30 examples of beloved pop songs that are not really what you think.

If you have grown old in the 80s, there is a good chance that they playedthis song dance of your prom prom or homecoming unemployed. If you are not careful, this may seem like an ode to love without end. But listen again and you will realize that it is actually told from the perspective of a stalker. Even the bite is stunned by how his words were completely misunderstood. "I think the song is very, very grim and ugly," he said. "People have actually misinterpreted as a small sweet love song, when it's just the opposite."

We were too busy singing "shake it like a Polaroid picture" wondering whatthis song saying really, but you do not have to read between the lines to realize that this is a deeply unhappy marriage. We get our first clue when Andre 3000 begins to thank Mom and Dad "to stick together / because we do not know how." We never complete picture of why and how their relationship is so unfortunate, but there are allusions with lines such as "Separate always better" and the share to be in denial because " we know that we are not happy here. " But he or she or anyone Andre address does not want to hear because "you just want to dance."

What else could it be buta song About a closing bar at the end of the night and the bartender tells everyone out? Well, as it turns out, it really is a born baby. Singer Dan Wilson wrote this song for his daughter, who was born 3 months prematurely. Wilson tried to keep the ambiguous words, so his bandmates would not be bored playing a song about a baby. But at this point, Wilson is mostly amused that no one has understood. "Millions and millions of people have bought the song and have heard the song and have not had," he said during a broadcast. "They think it's about to be bounced a bar but it is about being bounced from the womb."

Every time we hearthe songWe automatically think of itCHEVY CHASE with VideoWhere it is hilaretement lip syncs next to a Paul Simon to the miserable looking. As it turns out, Simon gave more clues about what the song is about Chase. "Who my nights are so long," Simon sings. "Where is my wife and my family? And if I die here?" And the existential fear gets worse from there. The narrator of the song is walking in a foreign country, short of money and looking for "angels in the architecture." His wife has gone, it's amazing, it's a downward spiral. Whatever the future that takes him, it is not good.

You probably thought"Mmmbop" was just a silly song about a nonsense word. But this is perhaps one of the most deeply philosophical songs ever written and performed by children. Zac Hanson, who was only 11 years old when the song was released, explained that "MMMBop" is really the "futility of life." Say what?

"Things are going to be parties," he continued, whether your age and your youth, or maybe the money you have, or anything. "The lyrics certainly do not meet as in a fun way as the music." You have so many relationships in this life / one or two will last / you cross all the pain and the conflict / then you turn your back and they left if quickly. "Wow issad!

James Blunt did not score words when he explains his reaction to fans who think"You are beautiful"is a romantic ballad. "These people are [spoiled]," he said. So, if it's not supposed to a prean to the beauty of a woman, what exactly what happens? "It's about a guy who is high like a kite on the drug in the metro, hunting the girlfriend of someone else when this guy is here in front of him," said Blunt. "It should be locked up or put in jail for being a kind of perv."

This melody of foot tapping By Paul McCartney still seemed simple enough. "Ooh, so I suddenly see you / Ooh, I told you that I needed you / every day of my life!" It must be about a woman he fantasy, is not it? Not really. The truth was revealed in a biography of 1997 entitledPaul McCartney: many years from now, in which McCartney explains that he wrote the song "when I had been introduced for the first time to the pot. So it's really a song about it, it's not a person ... C ' is actually a pot ode. As someone else could write a chocolate ode or a good Claret. "

If you judge by the choir, this song used in the presidential campaigns of Ronald Reagan and Bob Dole is about as much patriotic as possible.

"Born in the United States! I am a Cool Rockin 'daddy in the United States!"

But the rest ofSpringsteen's Fist-Pumping Hymn Ask to differ with this optimism, which cries a Vietnam War Veterinarian "sent me to a foreign country / go and kill the yellow man." The most depressing verse tells a brother who went to fight Viet Cong. "They are always there," sings Springsteen. "He's all party."

Sometimes the songs of rupture take a tears look at a relationship that collapsed, and sometimes they are not breaks at all, but really vampires. Wait What? Jim Steinman, the guy who wrote "total eclipse of the heart" for Bonnie Tyler, sayssongs The original title was "love vampires" and if you listen carefully to the lyrics, "they are really like vampire lines," he says. "Everything is on the darkness, the power of darkness and the place of love in the darkness." Give him a listening and you will see what he means. Lyrics like "and if you just tight me / we will keep forever" sound will sound like a declaration of "eternal" love vampires.

Some wild statements about what Genius Kurt Cobain tried to say with the bizarre lyrics of this song. Probably the strangest explanation came from his widow, Courtney Love, who insiststhe song is on her, uh ... private area. But in the biography of Nirvana authorizedCome as you areCobain was clear enough on the meaning of the song, explaining that it is "small children with cancer".

Apparently, he looked at the infodables who presented children in the terminal phase and found it "sadder than anything I can think."

The rumors surrounding this Phil Collins Hit are nothing less macabre. While the urban legend is, Collins wrote this song after watching a man left someone who drowns without trying to save him. There are even stories that Collins found the man in question, invited him to a show, then distinguish him before a solid audience, announcing that"In the air tonight" was upon him before breaking into a particularly vicious version.

But none of all this is true, according to Collins. As he explained in aTonightMaintenance, the song was divorced. "Sometimes it's like" I love you. Do not stack, "" "" "" Collins said. "And sometimes it's like", "Well, [forget] you." And that's where a song like [that arrives. There is obviously a lot of anger there. "

Few songs in the history of music seemed as harmless as"Jump," A song in which David Lee Roth implores us a lot of jumping. Not many layers that go there. But Roth revealed that the origins of the song are indeed much darker than anyone else could guess.

"I watched the television one night and it was the five o'clock five hours and there was a comrade standing on the Arco towers in Los Angeles," Roth reminded. "He was about to check early, he was going to do the 33 stories drops. There was a lot of people in the car park down, shouting" Do not skip, do not jump. "And I thought," Jump ". So, I wrote it and I finally brought into the record."

Wow. Like that, the song that always made us smile because it was stupid fun became the most depressing song on suicidenever recorded.

When John Hughes decided to base his film of 1986 on teenage love on a dark song of psychedelic fur, he might have been able to listen a little closer the lyrics. To be fair, we always thought that the song was about a girl who, uh ... looked pretty in pink?

Not too, says the furrier of Furs and the Lyrist Richard Butler, who explained thatthe song was "a metaphor for being naked". He continues to explain that the girl's daughter "thinks she is wanted and on demand and intelligent, but people talk about her behind her back. It was the idea of ​​the song. And John Hughes, Bless his late heart., took him completely literally and completely flew away the metaphor! "If Molly Ringwald appears in your head every time you hear this song, then you are also confused as John Hughes.

"Jack & Diane" is about as unambiguously as the songs get, except for a crucial detail. According to Mellencamp, Jack was not supposed to be a white guy.

"It's really a song about racial relationships and a white girl with a black man, and that's what the song is about the song," said Mellencamp, he explained to his record company in 1982 . The Dockencamps Expres have not been impressed and allegedly informed Mellencamp, "Whoa, you can not do something other than that?"

He finally agreed to cut the lyrics, which explains that Jack is African-American and focuses rather on him being a football star. Mellencamp's most successful singles may not be recalled as a celebration of biracal relations, but it is certainly where it started.

It wasThe first n ° 1 of Neil DiamondAnd most people have just supposed that Cracklin 'Rosie, described in the song as a "wife bought store" and "the poor woman of man", was a prostitute. Provides, Rosie was not even supposed to be a person at all. Diamond revealed in aRolling stoneMaintenance that the song was inspired by an Native American tribe in Canada, which had more men than women. "Saturday night when they come out, guys all have their daughter," Diamond said. But guys who could not find a girl "get a bottle of Cracklin 'Rosie (instead)," he said. "It's their daughter for the weekend." Some wineries have even sold brieflytheir own versionCracklin 'Rosie Wine, although it has never been so popular as the song.

It's asongThis evokes images of lazy summer days and drinking too much margaritas. But if you have already sung compared to more than "some people say there is a woman to blame", you may have noticed that lyrics break a dark picture. The narrator of the song is not on vacation, but "waste" in a community of the seaside resort, he does not remember tattoos, looking for lost salt shakers and drinking endless cocktails for "m 'Help to drag me ". Is it without purpose and depressed because of a failed relationship? It looks like this and, as the song unfolds, it will insist "it's the fault of anyone," to "hell, it could be my fault," finally "it's my own fault. "

When you think of the song of the village people"Macho Man," Two words that are probably not spring in mind are dark and serious. But it is apparently what the French composer authors had in mind, according to David Hodo, otherwise known as the building worker. "At the time, Macho had been forbidden from the English language by the feminist movement," says Hodo. We do not remember that this is the case, but no matter, some people feared that masculinity was attacked and that the world needed a deceased of men who were not afraid to dress like Indians sexy or nucid bikers.

"When the producers gathered us to do it, they wanted all that is very serious," says Hodo. "It was very dark and very serious." Fortunately, the village people have decided that there was "no way we can do it seriously" and finished by registering the Campy, Lightic version. But when you listen to the song again, remember that lyrics like "every man should be a machine macho / to live a life of freedom, machos make a stand" were destined without an irony.

Prog-rock Legends Rush fans might be tempted too much to analyze a song like"Trees." This story of "forest disorders", with maple trees and anthropomorphic oak beaten for sunlight, certainly feel like an allegory for civil rights, or an argument of libertarian policy, or perhaps a narrative of the claim for the futility of the war. But when Rush Drummer and Lyricton Neil Peart were laid during an interview withModern drummermagazine to explain the song, he said it was a lot, a lot,a lot Simpler than all theories. "I saw a cartoon image of these trees bearing like fools," said Peart. "I thought if the trees acted like people?" "Uh ... that's it?

Everything aboutThis wonder catchy a shot Sounds like '80s Fluff synthesizer. Come on, it's a song on the balloons ...Ninety-nineBalloons! Has he ever had a more without consequence? Well, if you think, you may want to listen to it again. There is a larger story that occurred in this melody than a group of balloons taking flight. It has been inspired by something that the main singer Gabriele Kerner witnessed a local stone concert in West Berlin during theirTattooto visit.

"Mick Jagger has published thousands of balloons at the end of the concert," she says. "They were all picked up by the wind and wore in the direction of Berlin-Est - on the Berlin Wall. I will never forget this picture." She and the guitarist-parolyrist Carlo Karges imagined what could happen if the balloons were mistaken for UFOs, who led to various countries pulling missiles from one to the other and, inevitably, a complete nuclear war. Yes, it's true, "99 Luftballons" is the nuclear devastation caused by an innocent package of balloons released in the sky by Mick Jagger.

It was called aAnthema for Millennials, a generative rejection of consumerism and materialism. "We will never be royal," she sings. "It does not happen in our blood / that kind of lux, it's just not for us / we want another kind of buzz." Seems pretty cut and dried. But when the pop-Zealand pop singer explained the origins of the song, the message was a little more ... literal.

She had apparently not stolen through an old question ofNational GeographicAnd arrived on a picture of "this guy signing baseball bullets," said Lord at VH1. "He was a baseball player and his shirt said Royals. I was like, I really like this word, because I am a big fetishist. I will choose a word and I will spinch an idea to that." That "guy"turned out to beGeorge Brett, former third fucked for Kansas City Royals.

The part that most people rememberthis song Are the "sweet dreams and flying machines into pieces on the floor", which sounds like a fatal plane accident. Taylor refers to a woman named Suzanne, mentioned earlier in the song of plans that "end to (she)"? Everything was very mysterious, but it seemed to be a love story with an unfortunate end, thanks to an aircraft that crashed and killed Taylor's conditions. Well, you can relax, because none of all is true. The Suzanne that Taylor sings about Suzanne Schnerr, a childhood friend of Taylor who committed suicide while he recorded his first album. As for the flying machine in pieces, it has nothing to do with an airplane. Taylor was named - dropping his old group, flying machines, which ended less than amicably. There was no plane crash, nor at least there was not in this James Taylor Classic.

It's probably impossible to hear this song more and not to think ofShrekor one of his suites. But believe it or not,"ALL STAR" Really had nothing to do with lovely green love ogres expressed by Mike Myers. There have been a lot of theories that the Mouth-Hit Smash Mouth was a warning on climate change. The lyrics take care of this claim, with lines like "it's a cool place and they say it's getting colder / you're packed now, wait until you're old" and "water Hot hot so that you can also swim / my world fire. How about you? "Greg camp, the guitarist of the group and the composer, insisted that the song is not" completely "of climate change but admitted" he has elements "and address directly" a hole in the ozone layer and the global warming ".

The first song onDestructive, Enchantment, the Best Embrach album is widely regarded as aParty Anthemand a tribute to the city of Detroit. But it is also a tragic tale of a teen fan who has learned too late that there are worse things than being late with an embrace concert. The main singer Paul Stanley admitted that the song was not the celebration of rock fist-cogning, but was in fact inspired by a real died kiss fan in a car accident, striking a truck in a collision in mind. -Text while accelerating for it to speed a show on time. "I thought, how much and how much the juxtaposition and juxtaposition of someone comes to a kiss concert, which celebrates being alive, to lose your life," said Stanley. "It was the torsion of" Detroit Rock City "." That this mythical of the death of the mythical fan has indeed been the subject of many debates anda devoted sub-waterAlways try to identify the accident that could have inspired the song.

Clapton has never been as selective as in this love ballad to his future Pattie Boyd wife, also known as the former Mme. George Harrison and the woman who had once Clapton "on his knees" in "Layla".

But while this melody does not seem to be anything other than non-fabulous adoration - Clapton makes something other than saying to his lady that she looks wonderful and she is wonderful and he loves him so much? - Boyd has already claimed that listening to this song could be "torture".

What does it mean? The rumor that"Beautiful tonight"Was written when Boyd and Clapton were preparing to attend a party organized by friends Paul and Linda McCartney, a celebration of Buddy Holly's birthday. Boyd was taken longer than usual to prepare and whenever she tried on a new outfit, Clapton said, "You're beautiful. Can we please leave now?" He finally gone bored to wait and picked up a guitar and wrote "wonderful tonight" on the spot, as a sarcastic Pyan at the inability of Boyd to make a decision.

It's hard to listen to thatClassical Parton-Made famous by Whitney Houston in the early 90s - and do not think it's about a romantic relationship that ends. But when Parton originally wrote it in 1973, she swallowed her as a goodbye to her mentor and her long-standing singing partner wearing wagoner. She played it for him as a way to break the news that she was about to go solo and that their professional relationship was over. Or as explained that the Parton explained it years later, "it says," Just because I'm going to say that I do not love you. I appreciate you and I hope you're fine and I appreciate everything you did, but I'm outside here. '"

You would think that a song with a title like"Losing my Religion" would be at least tangentially on religion. But R.E.M. Singer Michael Stipe saidThe New York TimesThat the song had nothing to do with the loss of faith in its spiritual beliefs. It was a former southern saying, "he said," The same thing as being at the end of your rope or reach the final straw and sleeping. " He compared it to something that a waitress could say when it was boring customers: "I almost lost my religion on this table, they are such jerks." It still does not explain why he thought he heard us laugh, then thought he heard us sing. Is it also a former southern saying? We are afraid to ask. All we know is that we will never be able to hear this song without thinking of a very annoyed waitress.

This can be the most shocking revelation of this list. The rich girl in the song Hall & Oates"Rich girl" Was in fact ... are you sure you want to know? ... a man.

That's right, it was "writing about a guy who was the heir to a Fast Food fortune," said Totes several years ago. "Obviously, because Daryl is really smart, he realized that" a rich girl "sounded better than" rich guys ".

The subject of the flesh and blood "of" rich girl "was a guy named Victor Walker, an ex-boyfriend of a friend of Hall and Oates, whose father owned fifteen KFC franchises. We do not know you, but it will take time for us to digest. It would be like to know that Prince Song "Darling Nikki" is really about a guy named Nicholas.

It was the first great success for Paul Simon as a solo artist, and the title came, as he admitted in aRolling stoneMaintenance, from a menu. "I ate in a Chinese restaurant in the city center," said Simon. "There was a dish called 'Mother and child meeting. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, 'Oh, I like this title. I have to use that one. '"We do not know that this gives a new meaning to the line" only a motion far ", but we are no longer sure to think more.

Whatever your interpretation ofTHIS SONG OF U2He is probably wrong. There have been all kinds of explanations, offered by fans and group, and they have all been extremely different. Some suggested that it was the band that feel fractured, or the marital problems of the edge, or the souvenirs of Bono of his troubled relationship with his father after the death of his mother. The only thing Bono will say with some certainty on the song is that it is "a little twisted, that's why I could never understand why people want them to their weddings. I certainly met a hundred people who have gone to their weddings. I tell them, 'Are youcrazy? It's about dividing! '

Nobody seems to remember that the song is actually called"Good riddance"And that the "time of your life" part is actually in parentheses. As Singer / Composer Billie Joe Armstrong explained, it's a bad break. His girlfriend was moving to Ecuador and he was not really happy with that. "In the song, I tried to be at the head of his departure, even if I was completely angry," Armstrong explained. And yet, for the end of time, this song will be included in the montages that attempt to be nostalgic and romantic metal, in which the "good riddance" will be ignored and "I hope you had the time of your life" line being repeated without bitterness.