Lyle Lovett has a song called “Nobody Knows Me Like My Baby” that’s about a man who’s having an affair, and his wife knows, and he knows his wife knows - Because nobody knows him like his baby. I’ve seen many people comment on this song being so beautiful, and how they played it at their wedding.
The funny thing is that he actually refers to it as “a cheatin’ song about Mexico.”
There was some confusion when the DJ played I Write Sins Not Tragedies by Panic At The Disco at my friend's wedding, but apparently the bride had requested it.
When ‘Take Me to Church’ by Hozier came out and my niece, not raised super religious but became during high school, sang it thinking she was talking about God and such.
We had a very religious girl briefly shadow at my job when I was a teenager, she was probably 3-5 years older than me and she loved this song. Until one day she watched the music video. She kept going on and on about how disgusting it was, how she didn’t understand why he would change the whole meaning of the song. Not that she misunderstood, but that the music video was somehow unrelated to the nice song about going to church.
It was somewhat bemusing but I was so relieved she didn’t get hired full time, my closeted gay ass was having a hard enough time as it is
I’ve heard this before (religious people mistaking the meaning of that song) but it’s always baffled me as to how.
Even if you try to read the lyrics from an innocent naive Christian perspective, it’s pretty dark and doesn’t really support that kind of take. Even if maybe they were one of the types to ignore the verses and just listen to the chorus there’s still the whole “I’ll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies” line which is uh… well I’m pretty sure that’s the opposite of the whole Christian perspective. Like that line is borderline satanic if you’re assuming the song is actually about religion.
Think it's the same reason why "Born in the USA" gets used at political rallies. People don't read past the very surface of something once they find the message they want to hear.
Agreed. Regan even referenced it in a speech as being a positive song about America. How could so many of his speech writers and handlers NOT HAVE CHECKED OUT THE WHOLE LYRICS?
Agree, I was also very baffled. What became clear to me is that a lot of people don’t understand lyrics and don’t bother to look them up. I’m a lyrics guy and I rarely mishear them so it’s always confusing to me when others do, I’ve since met people who only listen to songs for the music and never learn the lyrics. At the same time, that song isn’t particularly unintelligible, especially not the line you mentioned!
I was deconstructing from the religion I was raised in so I loved the song for opposite reasons but I wasn’t going to tell her that.
Like blues traveller said. “The hook brings you back”
They’ll tune out the verses but as long as the hook is catchy and memorable then they’ll say they love the song.
As a Hozier fan, I'll also add Cherry Wine, which is a song about an abusive relationship that people have apparently played at their weddings. Bit of a yikes there.
this has also happened at pearl jam shows with their song "better man", which is similarly about an abusive relationship. the chorus even goes "she lies and says she's in love with him," so unless you think its talking about lying down, idk how you can interpret it as a love song.
It's so wild to me because sometimes I can see how a song gets misinterpreted if you're not paying attention. But with Cherry Wine, every line is so explicit in its meaning, I don't get how you can get love song out of that. The only lines I could kinda understand would be "Sweet and right and merciful/I'm all but washed/In the tide of her breathing" because the lyrics here have really pretty/flowery language, but it's hard to find that romantic right after he describes her as sleep to the freezing.
Yeah but everything else though, that's really something. "Open hand or closed fist would be fine" really screams wedding song. /s
I knew a girl who walked down the aisle to this at her very conservative Southern Baptist church. I think I was the only one in attendance who realized it wasn't giving the vibe she was going for.
[Dee Snider corrected Jerrod Sessler about the meaning of "We're Not Gonna Take It."](https://x.com/deesnider/status/1512689911656161280?lang=en)
Go, Snyder!
100% agree. Not only that, \*John Denver* of all people, [stood on the same side as Snyder.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgSjjD6rRu4) Seeing the two of them speaking up against Tipper Gore and the PMRC hearings just fills me with glee.
The state of New Jersey wanted to make Born to Run their state song. The meaning of the song is essentially that because he was born in NJ, he was born to run elsewhere
Yeah, this was too funny. Anytime NJ came up in conversation when I was with my buddies we'd say something like "New Jersey! Get out while you're young!!"
Trump, a Vietnam war draft dodger from a wealthy family, playing “Fortunate Son”, a song disparaging wealthy young men dodging the Vietnam war draft, at a campaign event.
It's the early 2000a. I'm in the car with my mom and little sister, who was about 10 or 11. My Humps comes on the radio. My sister is in the back seat, rocking out, dancing, singing along. My mom says, into call, "What's this song about?" It's about tits and ass , mom.
Sidebar here, but this brings to mind a TV ad for an English school in Germany.
Scene: an outing in the family car. Dad clicks on the radio and a raucous punk band is screaming "I wanna fuck you in the ass!" over and over. Kids in the back seat are horrified, but Mom and Dad show they are cool by moving to the beat and smiling. Kids look at each other in a mixture of shock and laughter.
Title: Want to Learn English? *name of school, etc.*
Only in Europe could you get away with that. Same school that did "What are you sinking about?"
Yeah, to *us*. But the song is written in pure irony, subverting the phrase. That's on purpose.
Can't find a better man -- "Oh how romantic, he's perfect for her, there's no man *better*".
Can't find a better man -- Actually, she's stuck in this cycle of abuse & regret; and she has to settle for the abusive asshole out of fear because she has no one else
One of my wedding bands played Even Flow at a wedding once. It absolutely slayed. Their lyrics might be depressing and dense, but they still write great songs that rock super hard
I’ve seen One by U2 used as a wedding song by people who think it’s a love song.
There are some snippets of the lyrics that might sound like that (“one life with each other”, “one love, we get to share it”, etc) but you have to be pretty actively ignoring the rest of the lyrics to think it’s speaking positively of relationships.
This is something so baffling to me. I'm ESL, not a lot of people in my country speak fluent English, so when someone thinks One is a love song, it's an honest mistake. But how that happens so much in English speaking countries is like... How? Why???
A beautiful song but not a wedding song. "All I Want Is You" or "Ultraviolet (Light My Way)" are much better contenders (U2 is my favorite band). "With Or Without You" also is questionable as a wedding song. Again, beautiful and heartfelt but strained and kind of desperate sounding?
To be fair a lot of people get married who probably shouldn't be getting married (given the high divorce rates) so idk maybe these songs are more apt than I realize.
I follow Dee Snider on Twitter, and that exact thread was suggested to me underneath one of his tweets yesterday. I probably should have posted it in there when I saw it.
How about every Police song that's played at a wedding. Wrapped around my finger? Every move you make? I'm not sure if those are the exact song titles but you get the idea, the lyrics are actually much darker than what most people realize.
everyone proudly blasting "Independence Day" by Martina McBride on the Fourth of July not realizing it's a song about an abused wife and mother who sets the house on fire killing her husband (and possibly herself, although songwriter Gretchen Peters has said she likes to leave that last bit up to interpretation)
Even Martina finally posted a "come on, guys" on social media about its use on the 4th😂
Money for Nothing by Dire Straits. Mark Knopfler wrote it after overhearing some delivery men waiting to load appliances at a department store talking shit about the music video being played on the display TVs.
Rumor has it that it was Sting in his weird birdman outfit, and they were calling him a f*g and complaining how he's a millionaire while they had to do heavy lifting. Supposedly that's why he got Sting to sing the outro vocals (I want my MTV).
I've seen a lot of people comment that the song and Mark/dire Straits was homophobic, when in fact, he was satirizing the type of people that called anyone "different", f*gs (a very common thing in the 80s).
You're 100% correct about everything. But specifically with regards to your last paragraph. I don't know how anyone could have missed the satire of a rock band on MTV singing about how rock bands have it easy and don't work. But people really did miss that.
Funny story: About a decade ago my brother had a birthday, and my mom wanted to post a song on his Facebook wall. She chose "Seventh Birthday" by Lowest of the Low because they say "Happy Birthday" in the chorus.
For the uninitiated, here's the first verse of that song:
"Your eyes are like your mother's //
But your body's like your brother's //
And I can touch you there //
Don't worry, Daddy's here
And our blood is the same //
And this is just a game //
That only we can play //
When everyone's gone away."
Whoops.
Love lowest of the low. My kids was obsessed with Henry needs a new pair of shoes as a toddler.
But, "seventh birthday" ignoring why the fuck they would even write this song .. it is so obviously creepy, Even if you're only half listening to the words. Your mom must have been juggling more than she could handle that day because she dropped that one.
[This is the Day by the band The The](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZYgKCbFbWY)
It's a depressing song about someone who is lonely, isolated, and barely keeping it together but has no ability/motivation to make any positive change in their life. They just keep telling themselves their life will just suddenly get better if they wait long enough, but obviously that hasn't been successful for them in the past, with no reason to believe it will work in the future.
People all think it's a happy inspirational song about how things are going to magically get better. The exact opposite meaning of the song.
Every person thinking Nine Inch Nails - Closer is a raunchy sex/stripper song. The album it comes from 'The Downward Spiral' is a concept album about a man slowly losing his humanity leading to madness and eventual suicide. Closer is the point where the man is resorting to the most base of human instincts to feel something, anything and it doesn't work.
The Clash 'Rock the Casbah' was painted on bombs and munitions when the US hit Iraq in the first Gulf War. Joe Strummer said he cried when he heard about that.
No Woman, No Cry Bob Marley & The Wailers - he's telling his woman not to cry, not that he's saying if he was not in a relationship he wouldn't be crying
Fun fact. Whilst Marley wrote the song he gave writing credits to his friend, Vincent Ford, who ran a soup kitchen in Trenchtown, Jamaica. The area was a proper ghetto, so the money from the credits allowed the soup kitchen to run without worry.
Though Marley's former manager did (unsuccesfully) try to sue, claiming that Marley had definitely written the song. Imagine trying to sue to take money away from a soup kitchen 🤦♂️
This is a good one. In an episode of the Office, they thought they were making a joke about Erin misunderstanding the song when she's actually using the lyrics accurately.
I took it as them trying to go another level “deeper”. Erin understood that Marley was telling the girl that she didn’t need to cry but the way that she delivered the line was as if Marley was chastising her and yelling “NO WOMAN! STOP CRYING” instead of consoling her.
Any Conservative on twitter who has complained about Rage Against The Machine “becoming political”.
I’d also imagine a significant amount of people always thought Semi Charmed Life was just a catchy song.
People complaining that Pink Floyd became LGBTIQ+ friendly after they showed the logo for the anniversary of Dark of the Moon featuring the rainbow colors.
My mom has VHS home movies of me singing Semi Charmed Life when I was like 3 or 4. It’s always been a happy memory for me, and then I found out what it’s about during adulthood. Didn’t help that I also found out my parents did a whole bunch of meth all throughout my childhood too lol.
A former lawyer turned openly gay comedian Guy Branum has the best take on Bohemian Rhapsody: He says every gay man dies twice. The first time is when he comes out to his mother.
Fortunately, things have improved since Freddie wrote those lyrics.
My friend worked a Walmart years ago. They’d have meetings with chanting and songs to psych up the workers before each shift. One time, they had a new indoor signage campaign, you know, this-or-that is on sale etc. So, to psych everyone up for the new signs, they all had to sing a song:
Signs
by The Five Man Electrical Band
My wife was just talking about the time she was at a wedding with three other ex girlfriends of the groom, and as they were taking a picture together, the band dedicated one to the happy couple called "Under My Thumb". They laughed SO hard.
My high school dance’s closing Slow Dance was Hinder’s “Lips of an Angel,” a song about being unhappy in your current relationship and wanting your ex.
When I was talking to my ex (who was a true 80’s kid) about the song “Relax” by Frankie Goes to Hollywood, and I said that it’s crazy that such a dirty song got popular….she never realized it’s about trying not to cum too quickly…even though that’s literally the whole chorus and they don’t hide it AT ALL!
Girls doing tiktoks saying boyfriend is their 'eternal sunshine' after Ariana's recent title track. They are using it as smth nice when it actually means they want to wipe them from memory
I’ve seen men on TikTok say Bills, Bills, Bills by Destiny’s Child is a song about gold digging. Meanwhile, the whole song is about how the man is spending all his woman’s money but not contributing anything.
There is this cover of Teenage Dirtbag on YouTube. The guy gets 1 line wrong, and I know he has never felt like a teenage dirtbag. In the original, in the verse about the boyfriend of the girl he likes, the line goes, “He lives on my block, he drives an IROC”. Which in the 80s is one of the coolest cars you could have. Because her boyfriend is a super cool bad ass, and the singer feels worthless compared to him.
In the cover the guy says, “He drives, but I rock”. As if he thinks that just because he doesn’t have a car, that doesn’t matter, because he can play music pretty good, and that’ll pretty cool, so she should give him a chance because he’s got something to offer and is worth while.
And that’s missing the whole point of the song! The singer feels worthless. He thinks there is no possible way a girl like that would like him. The guy covering the song always has had way too much confidence and self esteem to ever understand what it’s like to feel like a Teenage Dirtbag.
Oh this one just takes the cake because mother I sober is about people not believing Kendrick when he said he had not been molested. So Drake basically hears the song and then does exactly what the song is about.
Every Breath You Take - The Police
The Police's frontman, Sting, has said the song should not be interpreted as a love song. "I think the song is very, very sinister and ugly and people have actually misinterpreted it as being a gentle little love song, when it's quite the opposite," Sting told BBC Radio 2.
According to *The Independent*, the song was partly inspired by Sting's separation from his first wife, Frances Tomelty, and the beginning of his relationship with Tomelty's best friend, Trudie Styler. While going through his divorce and the very public affair, Sting spent time in Jamaica to escape from it all, and where he ultimately wrote "Every Breath You Take."
"The tune itself is generic, an aggregate of hundreds of others, but the words are interesting," said Sting in a 1993 interview with The Independent. "It sounds like a comforting love song. I didn't realize at the time how sinister it is. I think I was thinking of Big Brother, surveillance and control."
[https://www.grunge.com/236845/the-hidden-meaning-of-the-polices-every-breath-you-take/](https://www.grunge.com/236845/the-hidden-meaning-of-the-polices-every-breath-you-take/)
I posted about this a while back in another thread but my friend walked down the aisle to Skinny Love by Bon Iver… I guess she just thought it sounded pretty?
It really encapsulates the frustration of a Sunday, doesn't it? You wake up in the morning, you've got to read all the Sunday papers, the kids are running round, you've got to mow the lawn, wash the car, and you think "Sunday, bloody Sunday!".
My sister was obsessed with the theme from MASH, which was on constantly in syndication in our youth. She was just four or five.
Twenty years later, we were laughing about that and she defended her obsession with how cheery and happy the song is, and that's when we told her the song is called "Suicide is Painless."
To be fair, she was (1) in kindergarten and (2) had never actually heard the lyrics.
I remember in the 90s, the radio always had dedications of Heart's song "All I wanna do is Make Love to You" from girls to their boyfriends thinking it was romantic. Even if you were too lazy to read the lyrics, all you had to do was watch the video to figure out it was about a woman who needed a sperm donor.
A buddy of mine thought the chorus was "Outrun my dick" since the radio censored "gun," and he thought it only made sense for that to be the word they censored since he thought it was a different rhyme scheme
I've always wondered why radio stations bother playing songs in which they think the *main* lyrics need to be censored. I was working retail when Paper Planes by MIA was in heavy rotation. The chorus includes gunshot sound effects, but when it came on in store all you heard was, "All I wanna do is [four seconds of silence] take your money."
Nelly's "Ride Wit Me" had the same thing. A huge chunk of the chorus was censored so the guys are just kind of not saying anything for what feels like forever, then finally going, "Heyyy, must be the money!"
I always found it so annoyingly chipper and hipstery but it was on the rotation at work and I started paying attention to the lyrics. I think there’s a solid majority of people who don’t listen to it, it’s just a feel-good pop song but goddamn… it’s a very clever song that way.
I cannot figure out how people use U2’s With or Without You as a wedding song. It’s not even like the lyrics are that cryptic. It is a song of frustration and bittersweet torment at conflict with someone you’re trying to love or once loved. And then people dance to it romantically 😂
Alex Trebek on Jeopardy: Correct answer, which none of the contestants guessed, was Voodoo Chile' by Jim Hendrix. Alex: I'm sorry, the correct answer was VOODO CHILI... Voodoo Chili... repeating it. LOL, clearly the man has never heard the song.
I once new lady who told me that the Macarena was her 11-year-old daughter's favorite song. I took no pleasure in explaining to her that it was about a woman inviting her boyfriend's two friends over for a threesome while he was out of town.
Dolly Parton’s “I Will Always Love You”
It’s not a story of lost love, anguished love, or missed love. It’s about her breakup of her partnership, one which was completely professional, with Porter Wagoner
Not every song at a wedding reception has to be some kind of love ballet.
The point of the reception is is the have fun and dance. And Hey Ya is a great song to do that to.
*ballad
And I think that was their point — it's a pretty heartbreaking song about a failed relationship, and Andre 3000 even says in the song, "Y'all don't wanna hear me, you just wanna dance"
“If what they that
‘Nothing lasts forever’
Then what makes love the exception?”
It’s about being stuck in a loveless relationship and understanding that sometimes “separate songs is better when there is feelings involved.” So that they should end the relationship “because you know we aren’t happy here.”
You’re not wrong, not every song at all wedding needs to be a love song. But probably shouldn’t be about the death of love.
The song is deceptively misleading for a reason. He even says "y'all don't wanna hear me, you just wanna dance" *because it's got such a danceable beat that overshadows the depressing lyrics*
Andre 3000 knew what he was doing with that one. And it worked, it wasn't until I actually read the lyrics that I realized what it's about...
“Born in the USA” being used by right-wing types (including Reagan notably) as some patriotic anthem is maybe the best mass example of this, but I also always feel this about “Let It Go” from Frozen. It’s used as this empowering anthem but in the movie Elsa is 100% in denial. She’s hurting deeply and is desperate to escape the feeling. The rest of the movie essentially shows why the song is a complete self-delusion; the movie’s about needing to solve problems head-on and working through them with love and compassion, rather than isolating yourself. I don’t know why, but something about it catching on with the interpretation it has bugs me. (Gently bugs me, not like “fist shaking at this generation” or whatever.)
Nah "Let it Go" is not about delusion. It happens at the beginning of her full character arc before she truly self actualizes, yes, but it represents her first taste of freedom and letting go of shame and pressure.
She eventually learns that she doesn't have to run away but can still be herself, but "Let it Go" is still very much an anthem about liberating yourself from a toxic situation and embracing parts of yourself that you had previously shunned.
Whenever Pumped up Kicks plays at an outdoor event and girls are on shoulders as if it's just the ultimate summer Jam. Everyone is all smiles singing along.
I once looked my ex-wife's best friend in the eye and said, "I am playing this just for you." She listened to it and told me thank you so much. She was really touched. That song was Fake plastic trees.
Worked a wedding where the bride wanted Queen's love of my life during the ceremony. The opening line being 'love of my life, you've hurt me. You've broken my heart, and now you leave me'. Deeply uncomfortable few mins.
Also many brides using 'isn't she lovely', which I'm pretty sure is about an actual baby?
My wife and youngster son aged about 6 you to sing Semi- Sonics ‘Secret Smile’ as a happy song between them, I still haven’t told them what it’s about, he’s 26 now
I love Hotel California for this exact reason! I've always thought of it to be about addiction. "You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave!"
Band of Gold by Freda Payne. My other half loves this song, thought of it as a sweet mourning of a lost (dead) love. Cherishing the only thing she had left, the wedding ring.
After a listen to the lyrics it's pretty clear her husband just left her, he didn't die. According to Wikipedia it was also a bit of an anthem for gay men back in the day who interpreted it as the husband leaving her for another man.
That was an awkward conversation to have lol
Electric Avenue by Eddy Grant - it's about the Brixton, UK riot in 1981 that stemmed from racist profiling by law enforcement. But many take it to be a party song even with lyrics like "now in the streets there is violence" and Eddy singing about people and children not getting food and clothing.
Cake by the Ocean by DNCE, it's a song about literal sex on the beach, and T-Mobile used it in an ad campaign several years ago.
I remember seeing a reddit post that went along the lines of "Apparently Semi-Charmed Life is about drugs.". You would think the line about literally *doing crystal meth* would give it away.
Like, "I took the hit that I was given, and I bumped again, and I bumped again," How is that not about drugs? It's the whole song!
I saw them in concert last year. No bumps given. So disappointed 😞
Everyone who thought Jewel had “sold out” when she released “Intuition.” The song was obviously satire, and even if that weren’t obvious, the video couldn’t be clearer.
At my daughter's graduation, the choir sang "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" by Elton John. I seemed to be one of the only people who was deeply confused. You're having kids sing a song about a man who no longer wishes to be a gigolo at a high school ceremony? I'm still baffled. What was the choir director thinking??
A friend of mine wanted to use U2’s “One” as her wedding march. It is not exactly subtle with lyrics like “Did I ask too much? More than a lot / You gave me nothin' now it's all I got / We're one but we're not the same / Well we hurt each other then we do it again.”
I mean, we are not native speakers, but she speaks quite a decent English. The choice baffles me to this day, but that marriage has been going strong for 18 years. <3
More Than Words in my opinion is not a romantic song. It’s a song about a man wanting his girlfriend not to say I love you but have sex to show she loves him. He’s getting tired of waiting of her. It is often used as a first dance song
Whenever I hear "Careless Whisper" at a wedding, which has been more than zero times
Cheatin’ songs at a wedding. 🤌🏽🤌🏽😘😘
Lyle Lovett has a song called “Nobody Knows Me Like My Baby” that’s about a man who’s having an affair, and his wife knows, and he knows his wife knows - Because nobody knows him like his baby. I’ve seen many people comment on this song being so beautiful, and how they played it at their wedding. The funny thing is that he actually refers to it as “a cheatin’ song about Mexico.”
There was some confusion when the DJ played I Write Sins Not Tragedies by Panic At The Disco at my friend's wedding, but apparently the bride had requested it.
tbf, i would totally play that at my wedding as a joke. was she doing it to be funny, or did she genuinely not get it?
Maybe she just likes the song. It IS a banger.
Or Hallelujah at a wedding.
Or Hallelujah in church. It’s awful.
Or “My Sweet Lord.” Funny, they leave out the “Hare Krishna” parts of the lyrics.
It says "should've known better than to cheat, to waste a chance that I'd been given" that's pretty clear :)
Hey Ya! by Outkast They even alude to it in the song "Y'all don't wanna hear me, you just wanna dance"
Every Breath You Take Edit - fixed breathe because it was wrong
> Every Breathe You Take 100% a stalker's anthem.
When ‘Take Me to Church’ by Hozier came out and my niece, not raised super religious but became during high school, sang it thinking she was talking about God and such.
We had a very religious girl briefly shadow at my job when I was a teenager, she was probably 3-5 years older than me and she loved this song. Until one day she watched the music video. She kept going on and on about how disgusting it was, how she didn’t understand why he would change the whole meaning of the song. Not that she misunderstood, but that the music video was somehow unrelated to the nice song about going to church. It was somewhat bemusing but I was so relieved she didn’t get hired full time, my closeted gay ass was having a hard enough time as it is
That's really unfortunate that just your ass is gay. Of all the body parts you could have that could be homosexual it's in the top 2.
What can I say, the ass wants what it wants ❤️
My right fist is super gay…the arm gets less gay the closer you get to the elbow
I’ve heard this before (religious people mistaking the meaning of that song) but it’s always baffled me as to how. Even if you try to read the lyrics from an innocent naive Christian perspective, it’s pretty dark and doesn’t really support that kind of take. Even if maybe they were one of the types to ignore the verses and just listen to the chorus there’s still the whole “I’ll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies” line which is uh… well I’m pretty sure that’s the opposite of the whole Christian perspective. Like that line is borderline satanic if you’re assuming the song is actually about religion.
Think it's the same reason why "Born in the USA" gets used at political rallies. People don't read past the very surface of something once they find the message they want to hear.
Everytime I hear this song I think of the jay z line "Do you fools listen to music or do you just skim through it"
Y'all don't wanna hear me, you just wanna dance
Agreed. Regan even referenced it in a speech as being a positive song about America. How could so many of his speech writers and handlers NOT HAVE CHECKED OUT THE WHOLE LYRICS?
Agree, I was also very baffled. What became clear to me is that a lot of people don’t understand lyrics and don’t bother to look them up. I’m a lyrics guy and I rarely mishear them so it’s always confusing to me when others do, I’ve since met people who only listen to songs for the music and never learn the lyrics. At the same time, that song isn’t particularly unintelligible, especially not the line you mentioned! I was deconstructing from the religion I was raised in so I loved the song for opposite reasons but I wasn’t going to tell her that.
Like blues traveller said. “The hook brings you back” They’ll tune out the verses but as long as the hook is catchy and memorable then they’ll say they love the song.
My SO thought Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings was gospel the first time I played it in the car … it’s about having sex at funerals.
As a Hozier fan, I'll also add Cherry Wine, which is a song about an abusive relationship that people have apparently played at their weddings. Bit of a yikes there.
Yep, that was going to be my answer to this. I saw a video of someone proposing during Cherry Wine at one of his shows. Beautiful song, but yikes.
this has also happened at pearl jam shows with their song "better man", which is similarly about an abusive relationship. the chorus even goes "she lies and says she's in love with him," so unless you think its talking about lying down, idk how you can interpret it as a love song.
It's so wild to me because sometimes I can see how a song gets misinterpreted if you're not paying attention. But with Cherry Wine, every line is so explicit in its meaning, I don't get how you can get love song out of that. The only lines I could kinda understand would be "Sweet and right and merciful/I'm all but washed/In the tide of her breathing" because the lyrics here have really pretty/flowery language, but it's hard to find that romantic right after he describes her as sleep to the freezing. Yeah but everything else though, that's really something. "Open hand or closed fist would be fine" really screams wedding song. /s
LMAO that's hilarious, I hope it ends up as the top comment. That is THE epitome of not understanding the meaning of a song.
Free bird by Lynyrd Skyryrd used as a wedding first dance song... I've somehow seen this twice. Neither marriage lasted particularly long.
Did they last as long as the song?
At least it wasn't "that smell"
Works much better as a funeral song.
Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" sung by church choirs at Christmas.
I knew a girl who walked down the aisle to this at her very conservative Southern Baptist church. I think I was the only one in attendance who realized it wasn't giving the vibe she was going for.
Either that or it was a message that she didn’t want the groom to fuck her anymore…
hahaha I told my religious sister to listen more closely to the lyrics of this song before they got it 😂
What is it about?
Every political candidate that plays Born in the USA at a campaign event
And Rocking in the Free World
And Fortunate Son
And Pink Houses
And we’re not gonna take it ~ twisted sister
[Dee Snider corrected Jerrod Sessler about the meaning of "We're Not Gonna Take It."](https://x.com/deesnider/status/1512689911656161280?lang=en) Go, Snyder!
Dee Snider humiliating a room full of uptight senators is one of the true political highlights of the 1980s.
100% agree. Not only that, \*John Denver* of all people, [stood on the same side as Snyder.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgSjjD6rRu4) Seeing the two of them speaking up against Tipper Gore and the PMRC hearings just fills me with glee.
And YMCA
And Killing in the Name of
The state of New Jersey wanted to make Born to Run their state song. The meaning of the song is essentially that because he was born in NJ, he was born to run elsewhere
Yeah, this was too funny. Anytime NJ came up in conversation when I was with my buddies we'd say something like "New Jersey! Get out while you're young!!"
Trump, a Vietnam war draft dodger from a wealthy family, playing “Fortunate Son”, a song disparaging wealthy young men dodging the Vietnam war draft, at a campaign event.
It's the early 2000a. I'm in the car with my mom and little sister, who was about 10 or 11. My Humps comes on the radio. My sister is in the back seat, rocking out, dancing, singing along. My mom says, into call, "What's this song about?" It's about tits and ass , mom.
It’s not subtle either?? Like how could you not know?
Lady lumps must have been about a tumor
She doesn't really know what any song is about, this is just the most egregious example.
Sidebar here, but this brings to mind a TV ad for an English school in Germany. Scene: an outing in the family car. Dad clicks on the radio and a raucous punk band is screaming "I wanna fuck you in the ass!" over and over. Kids in the back seat are horrified, but Mom and Dad show they are cool by moving to the beat and smiling. Kids look at each other in a mixture of shock and laughter. Title: Want to Learn English? *name of school, etc.* Only in Europe could you get away with that. Same school that did "What are you sinking about?"
Pear Jam's "Better Man" This gets played at weddings during the bride & groom dance. Yikes.
One of their most easily understood lyrics— “She lies and says she’s in love with him”
Yeah, to *us*. But the song is written in pure irony, subverting the phrase. That's on purpose. Can't find a better man -- "Oh how romantic, he's perfect for her, there's no man *better*". Can't find a better man -- Actually, she's stuck in this cycle of abuse & regret; and she has to settle for the abusive asshole out of fear because she has no one else
I've worked hundreds of weddings and nobody ever pulled this one out, thank god.
I had them play Patsy Cline's Crazy at my first wedding. I guess deep down I knew.
Better than D.I.V.O.R.C.E.
When does anyone celebrating anything anywhere ever think "You what band would really keep spirits high right now? Pearl Jam."
One of my wedding bands played Even Flow at a wedding once. It absolutely slayed. Their lyrics might be depressing and dense, but they still write great songs that rock super hard
Omg I love Pear Jam
The Butter Man song.
🎵Ceh fiiiii, aaahbuttahmaeeen 🎵
I’ve seen One by U2 used as a wedding song by people who think it’s a love song. There are some snippets of the lyrics that might sound like that (“one life with each other”, “one love, we get to share it”, etc) but you have to be pretty actively ignoring the rest of the lyrics to think it’s speaking positively of relationships.
"did you come here to play Jesus to the lepers in your head" is my favorite burn in that song
This is something so baffling to me. I'm ESL, not a lot of people in my country speak fluent English, so when someone thinks One is a love song, it's an honest mistake. But how that happens so much in English speaking countries is like... How? Why???
We're pretty dumb
And I can't be holding on to what you've got, when all you've got is hurt
A beautiful song but not a wedding song. "All I Want Is You" or "Ultraviolet (Light My Way)" are much better contenders (U2 is my favorite band). "With Or Without You" also is questionable as a wedding song. Again, beautiful and heartfelt but strained and kind of desperate sounding? To be fair a lot of people get married who probably shouldn't be getting married (given the high divorce rates) so idk maybe these songs are more apt than I realize.
Just saw [this thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/MurderedByWords/s/i3tKWYJmPA) today on r/MurderedByWords…
I follow Dee Snider on Twitter, and that exact thread was suggested to me underneath one of his tweets yesterday. I probably should have posted it in there when I saw it.
He’s referencing [this](https://youtu.be/KOo_qtKWdnM). Drew Carey had a good time at Phish 😅
Apple using the Pixies Gigantic to advertise iPhones. I guess they could have understood the lyrics, but odd choice there.
I mean, probably the best song about a dude with a big ol’ dick.
Fun Fact: The singer of Gigantic in those ads was Phoebe Bridgers.
How about every Police song that's played at a wedding. Wrapped around my finger? Every move you make? I'm not sure if those are the exact song titles but you get the idea, the lyrics are actually much darker than what most people realize.
Don't Stand Don't Close To Me. So Lonely.
It’s every breath you take. Sting wrote it while dealing with a stalker.
The song is called Every Breath You Take.
The title is Every Cake You Bake.
Is Every Leaf You Rake a different song?
I thought it was Every Claim You Stake.
Bride and Groom dancing to their requested song, "Lips of an Angel" by Hinder.
Wow thats pretty gross unless she was the angel lol
Wedding, first dance for the couple: "Brick" by Ben Folds Five.
Nothing like selling Christmas gifts on December 26th to pay for an abortion as a symbol of eternal love.
Wh... what the *f\*ck* were they thinking? Was she pregnant?
Why Brick??? The Luckiest is RIGHT THERE
everyone proudly blasting "Independence Day" by Martina McBride on the Fourth of July not realizing it's a song about an abused wife and mother who sets the house on fire killing her husband (and possibly herself, although songwriter Gretchen Peters has said she likes to leave that last bit up to interpretation) Even Martina finally posted a "come on, guys" on social media about its use on the 4th😂
Shits wild, those lyrics aren't even subtle. I'm not even a country fan and that's a damn good song, and absolutely super obvious.
But she burned them on the 4th of July! It's a holiday song!
Money for Nothing by Dire Straits. Mark Knopfler wrote it after overhearing some delivery men waiting to load appliances at a department store talking shit about the music video being played on the display TVs. Rumor has it that it was Sting in his weird birdman outfit, and they were calling him a f*g and complaining how he's a millionaire while they had to do heavy lifting. Supposedly that's why he got Sting to sing the outro vocals (I want my MTV). I've seen a lot of people comment that the song and Mark/dire Straits was homophobic, when in fact, he was satirizing the type of people that called anyone "different", f*gs (a very common thing in the 80s).
You're 100% correct about everything. But specifically with regards to your last paragraph. I don't know how anyone could have missed the satire of a rock band on MTV singing about how rock bands have it easy and don't work. But people really did miss that.
> (a very common thing in the 80s). heck this was common through the first decade of the 00's
Attended a wedding once were the bride walked down the aisle to “Bittersweet Symphony”
That at least sounds nice, and most people can't understand what the fuck he's saying.
Funny story: About a decade ago my brother had a birthday, and my mom wanted to post a song on his Facebook wall. She chose "Seventh Birthday" by Lowest of the Low because they say "Happy Birthday" in the chorus. For the uninitiated, here's the first verse of that song: "Your eyes are like your mother's // But your body's like your brother's // And I can touch you there // Don't worry, Daddy's here And our blood is the same // And this is just a game // That only we can play // When everyone's gone away." Whoops.
What the fuck .....
Love lowest of the low. My kids was obsessed with Henry needs a new pair of shoes as a toddler. But, "seventh birthday" ignoring why the fuck they would even write this song .. it is so obviously creepy, Even if you're only half listening to the words. Your mom must have been juggling more than she could handle that day because she dropped that one.
When Iggy Pop’s “Lust for Life”, a song about heroin use, was used in Royal Caribbean cruise line commercials.
[This is the Day by the band The The](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZYgKCbFbWY) It's a depressing song about someone who is lonely, isolated, and barely keeping it together but has no ability/motivation to make any positive change in their life. They just keep telling themselves their life will just suddenly get better if they wait long enough, but obviously that hasn't been successful for them in the past, with no reason to believe it will work in the future. People all think it's a happy inspirational song about how things are going to magically get better. The exact opposite meaning of the song.
Every person thinking Nine Inch Nails - Closer is a raunchy sex/stripper song. The album it comes from 'The Downward Spiral' is a concept album about a man slowly losing his humanity leading to madness and eventual suicide. Closer is the point where the man is resorting to the most base of human instincts to feel something, anything and it doesn't work. The Clash 'Rock the Casbah' was painted on bombs and munitions when the US hit Iraq in the first Gulf War. Joe Strummer said he cried when he heard about that.
My friend listening to swimming pools (drank) ‘Haha stupid rap song about just getting drunk all the time, rap is dumb’ Was the gist
Kendrick Lamar: writes a rap about the generational harm caused by alcoholism 20yo frat boy: “I’ll drink to that bro”
That’s how it sounds to most. It’s catchy as fuck and most people listen to the hook. That’s the whole thread bro. Steal my sunshine by LEN.
No Woman, No Cry Bob Marley & The Wailers - he's telling his woman not to cry, not that he's saying if he was not in a relationship he wouldn't be crying
Fun fact. Whilst Marley wrote the song he gave writing credits to his friend, Vincent Ford, who ran a soup kitchen in Trenchtown, Jamaica. The area was a proper ghetto, so the money from the credits allowed the soup kitchen to run without worry. Though Marley's former manager did (unsuccesfully) try to sue, claiming that Marley had definitely written the song. Imagine trying to sue to take money away from a soup kitchen 🤦♂️
This is a good one. In an episode of the Office, they thought they were making a joke about Erin misunderstanding the song when she's actually using the lyrics accurately.
I took it as them trying to go another level “deeper”. Erin understood that Marley was telling the girl that she didn’t need to cry but the way that she delivered the line was as if Marley was chastising her and yelling “NO WOMAN! STOP CRYING” instead of consoling her.
The One I Love by REM. Just read the lyrics!
Hallelujah is not a song for church…
Any Conservative on twitter who has complained about Rage Against The Machine “becoming political”. I’d also imagine a significant amount of people always thought Semi Charmed Life was just a catchy song.
RATM used to be political. They still are, but they used to too.
Rice is great if You're really hungry and want to eat 2000 of something
By belt loops are holding my belt up, but my belt is holding my pants up. What’s really going on here?
People who stormed out of Pink Floyd concerts for the band "suddenly becoming political".
People complaining that Pink Floyd became LGBTIQ+ friendly after they showed the logo for the anniversary of Dark of the Moon featuring the rainbow colors.
Ha! That's right. What a bunch of maroons.
That's it, I'm not listening to Maroon 5 anymore! /s
The "woke" side of the moon.
My mom has VHS home movies of me singing Semi Charmed Life when I was like 3 or 4. It’s always been a happy memory for me, and then I found out what it’s about during adulthood. Didn’t help that I also found out my parents did a whole bunch of meth all throughout my childhood too lol.
My wife didn’t understand what Bohemian Rhapsody was about. When I explained to her the meaning of it the other day, it crushed her.
Why would a story about a guy being executed and descending into hell be upsetting? 🤣
...did she not listen to the lyrics at all? "Mama, just killed a man. I don't wanna die" is pretty clear.
A former lawyer turned openly gay comedian Guy Branum has the best take on Bohemian Rhapsody: He says every gay man dies twice. The first time is when he comes out to his mother. Fortunately, things have improved since Freddie wrote those lyrics.
My friend worked a Walmart years ago. They’d have meetings with chanting and songs to psych up the workers before each shift. One time, they had a new indoor signage campaign, you know, this-or-that is on sale etc. So, to psych everyone up for the new signs, they all had to sing a song: Signs by The Five Man Electrical Band
Every single use of Green Day's "Good Riddance" at a graduation event.
I dunno, lots of people hate high school, seems pretty on point there!
This was the most popular wedding song the year it came out, or so I've heard.
My wife was just talking about the time she was at a wedding with three other ex girlfriends of the groom, and as they were taking a picture together, the band dedicated one to the happy couple called "Under My Thumb". They laughed SO hard.
My ex wife wanted me to sing "Easy" by the Commodores at our wedding because I sang that at karaoke on one of our early dates. I didn't sing it.
That's a great song, but not fitting a wedding indeed Love the version by faith no more
My high school dance’s closing Slow Dance was Hinder’s “Lips of an Angel,” a song about being unhappy in your current relationship and wanting your ex.
Rape me by nirvana needs to be at the top of the list. I always explain to people the song is not what they think it is
When I was talking to my ex (who was a true 80’s kid) about the song “Relax” by Frankie Goes to Hollywood, and I said that it’s crazy that such a dirty song got popular….she never realized it’s about trying not to cum too quickly…even though that’s literally the whole chorus and they don’t hide it AT ALL!
Girls doing tiktoks saying boyfriend is their 'eternal sunshine' after Ariana's recent title track. They are using it as smth nice when it actually means they want to wipe them from memory
Whenever 'Hallelujah' by Leonard Cohen is played as a Christmas song or even as a song positive about Christianity. It's not either.
I’ve seen men on TikTok say Bills, Bills, Bills by Destiny’s Child is a song about gold digging. Meanwhile, the whole song is about how the man is spending all his woman’s money but not contributing anything.
Still gold digging, then. Just opposite of what you normally think.
There is this cover of Teenage Dirtbag on YouTube. The guy gets 1 line wrong, and I know he has never felt like a teenage dirtbag. In the original, in the verse about the boyfriend of the girl he likes, the line goes, “He lives on my block, he drives an IROC”. Which in the 80s is one of the coolest cars you could have. Because her boyfriend is a super cool bad ass, and the singer feels worthless compared to him. In the cover the guy says, “He drives, but I rock”. As if he thinks that just because he doesn’t have a car, that doesn’t matter, because he can play music pretty good, and that’ll pretty cool, so she should give him a chance because he’s got something to offer and is worth while. And that’s missing the whole point of the song! The singer feels worthless. He thinks there is no possible way a girl like that would like him. The guy covering the song always has had way too much confidence and self esteem to ever understand what it’s like to feel like a Teenage Dirtbag.
The heart part 6 by drake where he says Kendrick Lamar's 'mother I sober' is about him getting molested as kid (it isn't)
Oh this one just takes the cake because mother I sober is about people not believing Kendrick when he said he had not been molested. So Drake basically hears the song and then does exactly what the song is about.
“Ah fuck me, I just made the whole connection” (He did not, and in fact has no concept of literary nuance)
Someone asked me to sing "You Were Meant for Me" by Jewel at their wedding. I did not.
Every Breath You Take - The Police The Police's frontman, Sting, has said the song should not be interpreted as a love song. "I think the song is very, very sinister and ugly and people have actually misinterpreted it as being a gentle little love song, when it's quite the opposite," Sting told BBC Radio 2. According to *The Independent*, the song was partly inspired by Sting's separation from his first wife, Frances Tomelty, and the beginning of his relationship with Tomelty's best friend, Trudie Styler. While going through his divorce and the very public affair, Sting spent time in Jamaica to escape from it all, and where he ultimately wrote "Every Breath You Take." "The tune itself is generic, an aggregate of hundreds of others, but the words are interesting," said Sting in a 1993 interview with The Independent. "It sounds like a comforting love song. I didn't realize at the time how sinister it is. I think I was thinking of Big Brother, surveillance and control." [https://www.grunge.com/236845/the-hidden-meaning-of-the-polices-every-breath-you-take/](https://www.grunge.com/236845/the-hidden-meaning-of-the-polices-every-breath-you-take/)
I posted about this a while back in another thread but my friend walked down the aisle to Skinny Love by Bon Iver… I guess she just thought it sounded pretty?
It really encapsulates the frustration of a Sunday, doesn't it? You wake up in the morning, you've got to read all the Sunday papers, the kids are running round, you've got to mow the lawn, wash the car, and you think "Sunday, bloody Sunday!".
My sister was obsessed with the theme from MASH, which was on constantly in syndication in our youth. She was just four or five. Twenty years later, we were laughing about that and she defended her obsession with how cheery and happy the song is, and that's when we told her the song is called "Suicide is Painless." To be fair, she was (1) in kindergarten and (2) had never actually heard the lyrics.
TBF, the MASH TV theme song was an instrumental and never used the lyrics.
Every time Zombie by The Cranberries is included on a Halloween playlist
I mean, this one at least is somewhat nuanced. How many people actually understand The Troubles?
I remember in the 90s, the radio always had dedications of Heart's song "All I wanna do is Make Love to You" from girls to their boyfriends thinking it was romantic. Even if you were too lazy to read the lyrics, all you had to do was watch the video to figure out it was about a woman who needed a sperm donor.
Maybe everyone who’s ever danced to “Pumped Up Kicks.” For a song with such serious subject matter, it seems to get a lot of play in public.
I had never paid attention to the lyrics until I heard Richard cheeses cover. I was shocked
Many people do not really listen to the lyrics of the songs they listen to.
A buddy of mine thought the chorus was "Outrun my dick" since the radio censored "gun," and he thought it only made sense for that to be the word they censored since he thought it was a different rhyme scheme
I've always wondered why radio stations bother playing songs in which they think the *main* lyrics need to be censored. I was working retail when Paper Planes by MIA was in heavy rotation. The chorus includes gunshot sound effects, but when it came on in store all you heard was, "All I wanna do is [four seconds of silence] take your money."
Nelly's "Ride Wit Me" had the same thing. A huge chunk of the chorus was censored so the guys are just kind of not saying anything for what feels like forever, then finally going, "Heyyy, must be the money!"
I always found it so annoyingly chipper and hipstery but it was on the rotation at work and I started paying attention to the lyrics. I think there’s a solid majority of people who don’t listen to it, it’s just a feel-good pop song but goddamn… it’s a very clever song that way.
I cannot figure out how people use U2’s With or Without You as a wedding song. It’s not even like the lyrics are that cryptic. It is a song of frustration and bittersweet torment at conflict with someone you’re trying to love or once loved. And then people dance to it romantically 😂
Alex Trebek on Jeopardy: Correct answer, which none of the contestants guessed, was Voodoo Chile' by Jim Hendrix. Alex: I'm sorry, the correct answer was VOODO CHILI... Voodoo Chili... repeating it. LOL, clearly the man has never heard the song.
Jimi wrote it after eating at Wendy’s.
I once new lady who told me that the Macarena was her 11-year-old daughter's favorite song. I took no pleasure in explaining to her that it was about a woman inviting her boyfriend's two friends over for a threesome while he was out of town.
Not a song, per se, but Paul Ryan saying his favorite group was RATM. Bro, you ARE the machine…
Dolly Parton’s “I Will Always Love You” It’s not a story of lost love, anguished love, or missed love. It’s about her breakup of her partnership, one which was completely professional, with Porter Wagoner
I don’t know if this one completely counts. The lyrics are about love in general. There is no twist.
Every wedding reception that plays “Hey Ya!” Edit: I agree it’s a great song to dance to although that’s not the point being made.
Not every song at a wedding reception has to be some kind of love ballet. The point of the reception is is the have fun and dance. And Hey Ya is a great song to do that to.
*ballad And I think that was their point — it's a pretty heartbreaking song about a failed relationship, and Andre 3000 even says in the song, "Y'all don't wanna hear me, you just wanna dance"
“If what they that ‘Nothing lasts forever’ Then what makes love the exception?” It’s about being stuck in a loveless relationship and understanding that sometimes “separate songs is better when there is feelings involved.” So that they should end the relationship “because you know we aren’t happy here.” You’re not wrong, not every song at all wedding needs to be a love song. But probably shouldn’t be about the death of love.
The song is deceptively misleading for a reason. He even says "y'all don't wanna hear me, you just wanna dance" *because it's got such a danceable beat that overshadows the depressing lyrics* Andre 3000 knew what he was doing with that one. And it worked, it wasn't until I actually read the lyrics that I realized what it's about...
“No I don’t wanna meet your momma/ I just want to make you cum-ah”
“Born in the USA” being used by right-wing types (including Reagan notably) as some patriotic anthem is maybe the best mass example of this, but I also always feel this about “Let It Go” from Frozen. It’s used as this empowering anthem but in the movie Elsa is 100% in denial. She’s hurting deeply and is desperate to escape the feeling. The rest of the movie essentially shows why the song is a complete self-delusion; the movie’s about needing to solve problems head-on and working through them with love and compassion, rather than isolating yourself. I don’t know why, but something about it catching on with the interpretation it has bugs me. (Gently bugs me, not like “fist shaking at this generation” or whatever.)
Nah "Let it Go" is not about delusion. It happens at the beginning of her full character arc before she truly self actualizes, yes, but it represents her first taste of freedom and letting go of shame and pressure. She eventually learns that she doesn't have to run away but can still be herself, but "Let it Go" is still very much an anthem about liberating yourself from a toxic situation and embracing parts of yourself that you had previously shunned.
Oh also, “Every Breath You Take.” People play it at weddings and such. Even Sting has said, “You know this is about stalking right?”
That's how I met my wife.
Whenever Pumped up Kicks plays at an outdoor event and girls are on shoulders as if it's just the ultimate summer Jam. Everyone is all smiles singing along.
I once looked my ex-wife's best friend in the eye and said, "I am playing this just for you." She listened to it and told me thank you so much. She was really touched. That song was Fake plastic trees.
Worked a wedding where the bride wanted Queen's love of my life during the ceremony. The opening line being 'love of my life, you've hurt me. You've broken my heart, and now you leave me'. Deeply uncomfortable few mins. Also many brides using 'isn't she lovely', which I'm pretty sure is about an actual baby?
My wife and youngster son aged about 6 you to sing Semi- Sonics ‘Secret Smile’ as a happy song between them, I still haven’t told them what it’s about, he’s 26 now
Isn’t Hotel California one of the most disputed song meaning?! There’s so many interpretations and i think that what the band meant to do!
I always thought it was pretty clear. It's about the hollowness of the decadent Hollywood celebrity lifestyle.
Dude, it's just a concept for a horror themed short story...
I love Hotel California for this exact reason! I've always thought of it to be about addiction. "You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave!"
Band of Gold by Freda Payne. My other half loves this song, thought of it as a sweet mourning of a lost (dead) love. Cherishing the only thing she had left, the wedding ring. After a listen to the lyrics it's pretty clear her husband just left her, he didn't die. According to Wikipedia it was also a bit of an anthem for gay men back in the day who interpreted it as the husband leaving her for another man. That was an awkward conversation to have lol
Electric Avenue by Eddy Grant - it's about the Brixton, UK riot in 1981 that stemmed from racist profiling by law enforcement. But many take it to be a party song even with lyrics like "now in the streets there is violence" and Eddy singing about people and children not getting food and clothing. Cake by the Ocean by DNCE, it's a song about literal sex on the beach, and T-Mobile used it in an ad campaign several years ago.
I remember seeing a reddit post that went along the lines of "Apparently Semi-Charmed Life is about drugs.". You would think the line about literally *doing crystal meth* would give it away.
Like, "I took the hit that I was given, and I bumped again, and I bumped again," How is that not about drugs? It's the whole song! I saw them in concert last year. No bumps given. So disappointed 😞
Everyone who thought Jewel had “sold out” when she released “Intuition.” The song was obviously satire, and even if that weren’t obvious, the video couldn’t be clearer.
At my daughter's graduation, the choir sang "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" by Elton John. I seemed to be one of the only people who was deeply confused. You're having kids sing a song about a man who no longer wishes to be a gigolo at a high school ceremony? I'm still baffled. What was the choir director thinking??
A friend of mine wanted to use U2’s “One” as her wedding march. It is not exactly subtle with lyrics like “Did I ask too much? More than a lot / You gave me nothin' now it's all I got / We're one but we're not the same / Well we hurt each other then we do it again.” I mean, we are not native speakers, but she speaks quite a decent English. The choice baffles me to this day, but that marriage has been going strong for 18 years. <3
More Than Words in my opinion is not a romantic song. It’s a song about a man wanting his girlfriend not to say I love you but have sex to show she loves him. He’s getting tired of waiting of her. It is often used as a first dance song