# Misinterpreted lyrics **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [March 9, 2022, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-lyrics/960771 "2022-03-09T19:20:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2022, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-lyrics/960771/1 "2022-03-09T19:20:53Z")
Kinda like misheard lyrics but your got the words right and the meaning wrong. Thought about this after hearing some elementary school kids singing WAP. I’m not sure they knew what a WAP actually is. I remember thinking Afternoon Delight was about eating candy in the middle of the day (still love this song-- those harmonies are slammin’!). Michael Jackson singing Got To Be There? He loved the girl so much he had to rush to her house before she woke up, he loved her so much. Didn’t hear it wrong-- thought it wrong! ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2022, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-lyrics/960771/2 "2022-03-09T19:24:54Z")
Do nursery rhymes count as lyrics? I was well into adulthood before I realized that “This little piggy went to market” didn’t mean the pig went on a shopping trip. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2022, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-lyrics/960771/3 "2022-03-09T19:26:57Z")
Wait, what? Holy shit! The other piggy should have been rejoicing all the way home. He probably knew better than I did what happened to his piggy brother. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2022, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-lyrics/960771/4 "2022-03-09T19:32:53Z")
Paul Simon song Couple in the next room bound to win a prize _They’ve been going at it all night long_ Well, I’m trying to get some sleep But these motel walls are cheap Lincoln Duncan is my name and here’s my song Here’s my song I thought the couple was fighting all night. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2022, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-lyrics/960771/5 "2022-03-09T19:35:57Z")
As a young teenager listening to the song “Life in the Fast Lane”, I interpreted the lyrics… _There were lines on the mirror_ _Lines on her face_ …as meaning ‘she’ was looking in a mirror, thinking “what are those lines on the mirror?” and then realizing the lines were actually wrinkles on her face. Years later I realized the lyric meant doing lines of coke off a horizontal mirror. > [@Biggirl](#): > > Afternoon Delight… (still love this song-- those harmonies are slammin’!). Yeah, I know, right? I do not understand why that song gets so much hate, often ending up on “worst songs of the 70s” lists. It’s pure harmonic joy. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2022, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-lyrics/960771/6 "2022-03-09T19:53:35Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > I was well into adulthood before I realized that “This little piggy went to market” didn’t mean the pig went on a shopping trip. I still think that. And I’ll continue to. It’s a nursery rhyme after all. Of course the pig wasn’t butchered. And you can’t tell me different. PS Afternoon Delight sucks. Always has, always will. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2022, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-lyrics/960771/7 "2022-03-09T19:58:22Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > PS Afternoon Delight sucks. Always has, always will. You are entitled to your own wrong opinion. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2022, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-lyrics/960771/8 "2022-03-09T19:59:36Z")
> [@solost](#): > > As a young teenager listening to the song “Life in the Fast Lane”, I interpreted the lyrics… > > _There were lines on the mirror_ > _Lines on her face_ > > …as meaning ‘she’ was looking in a mirror, thinking “what are those lines on the mirror?” and then realizing the lines were actually wrinkles on her face. Years later I realized the lyric meant doing lines of coke off a horizontal mirror. Similarly, Billy Joel’s _Big Shot_. “You had the Dom Perignon in your hand and a spoon up your nose.” I had a vision of someone sticking a big spoon like a soup spoon up their nose. I later learned about coke spoons and…yeah, that makes more sense. ---
**Author:** ![themapleleaf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/themapleleaf/32/14349_2.png) [@themapleleaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/themapleleaf)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2022, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-lyrics/960771/9 "2022-03-09T20:00:32Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > > [@WildaBeast](#): > > > > I was well into adulthood before I realized that “This little piggy went to market” didn’t mean the pig went on a shopping trip. > > I still think that. And I’ll continue to. > > It’s a nursery rhyme after all. Of course the pig wasn’t butchered. And you can’t tell me different. > > PS Afternoon Delight sucks. Always has, always will. 🙂 Given that one of the piggies had roast beef, I would agree that the first one likely wasn’t butchered but went on a shopping trip; however, I suspect that this was still meant to be a double entendre joke. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2022, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-lyrics/960771/10 "2022-03-09T20:08:06Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > I was well into adulthood before I realized that “This little piggy went to market” didn’t mean the pig went on a shopping trip. (blinks) And I am one of today’s 10,000. > **[Ten Thousand](https://xkcd.com/1053/)** > > Saying 'what kind of an idiot doesn't know about the Yellowstone supervolcano' is so much more boring than telling someone about the Yellowstone supervolcano for the first time. > [@solost](#): > > I do not understand why that song gets so much hate, often ending up on “worst songs of the 70s” lists. It’s pure harmonic joy. “Muskrat Love” on the other hand… ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2022, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-lyrics/960771/11 "2022-03-09T20:11:55Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > I’m not sure they knew what a WAP actually is. Wireless Access Point. Our betters at state IT agencies have begun calling it an “AP”. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2022, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-lyrics/960771/12 "2022-03-09T23:23:01Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Wireless Access Point. > Our betters at state IT agencies have begun calling it an “AP”. It’s a song by Cardi B. It means (and I’m going to spoiler it, and why did I even Google it? ) Wet Ass Pussy. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2022, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-lyrics/960771/13 "2022-03-09T23:56:25Z")
Listening to _“Killer Queen”_ as a kid, I always just assumed I’d never understand the lyrics: > She keeps her _no way in shondin_ in a pretty cabinet. > ‘Let them eat cake’ she says, just like Marie Antoinette… Then, thirty years later, I saw a huge bottle of… [![](https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best/newscms/2016_05/1398796/160201-moet-chandon-closeup-yh-1139p.jpg) ](https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best/newscms/2016_05/1398796/160201-moet-chandon-closeup-yh-1139p.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2022, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-lyrics/960771/14 "2022-03-11T17:25:02Z")
You and Crowley. _The only reference to Moët & Chandon in Good Omens is an indirect one. “Admittedly_ _[[Crowley](https://goodomenslexicon.org/articles/crowley/)] was listening to a Best of [Queen](https://goodomenslexicon.org/articles/queen/) tape, but no conclusions should be drawn from this because all tapes left in a car for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into Best of Queen albums. No particularly demonic thoughts were going through his head. In fact, he was currently wondering vaguely who Moey and Chandon were” (6)._ ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2022, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-lyrics/960771/15 "2022-03-11T20:35:29Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Thought about this after hearing some elementary school kids singing WAP. I’m not sure they knew what a WAP actually is Meaning they thought it was about a poor little kitten??