Ray is glad that Ray is a man, and Lola is also glad that Ray is a man
Ray is glad to be a man and that Lola is a man
Ray is glad to be a man, and Lola is also glad to be a man
Ray is glad to be a man. Lola is also a man.
My song I didn’t get was (and I think I’ve mentioned this on the board before) “Every Breath You Take”. Except that unlike most people I didn’t think it was a sweet love song, I thought it was a father singing to a daughter, about the way that he’d be watching her grow up. His poor heart aches with every step she takes because eventually she is going to leave him, so it’s bittersweet.
I also didn’t get “Happiness is a Warm Gun”. I thought he was saying that happiness itself is comparable to a warm gun, rather than that the feeling of holding a warm gun was a perfectly happy feeling. Either way, that song made me uncomfortable.
Oh, and Stevie Nicks’ fantasy hit, “Stop, Dragon! My heart around.” I thought ‘my heart around’ was some sort of phrase used to express emphasis, like “My stars!” or “My goodness!” or something.
I didn’t get Cher’s Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves till I was older. However this was due to the fact, I couldn’t understand Cher well. Like the phrase, “Three months later,” sounds like “dream moz-a-lear” which if you don’t understand doesn’t help the overall understanding of the song
You know which one was even worse? “Don’t Come Around Here No More.” Whoa, what the hell was that?! Petty’s wearing an oversized Mad Hatter outfit, cutting pieces of cake out of Alice’s body? “WTF” hadn’t been coined back then in the 80’s but my reaction to that video most have been something like a primitive “WTF,” I think. That video used to scare the shit out of me.
“Deuce” is also slang for a two-dollar bill. This is what I always thought the song referred to (and I’m still not convinced otherwise, Wikipedia aside).
It took me a while to realize that the woman with whom Rupert Holmes arranged a secret rendez-vous in “Escape (The Pina Colada Song)” was his own wife.
I misunderstood the context of the first line and had a very specific idea of what he was singing about.
I heard “Something in the way(,) she moves”, and I had an image of a woman in a Volkswagen Bug trying to park her car in the driveway, but the garbage men had been sloppy with the empty cans and had thrown them into the driveway. So she has to get out of the car and move the cans (something in the way).
The fact that the speaker was a rock star completely escaped me – possibly because the life of zillionaire rock stars was so far removed from anything I’d ever experienced. I thought he was a mentally ill homeless person who was hallucinating about having a mansion, accountants, a limo, etc.
Ok, here I am just merrily reading along in this thread, and this line just stopped me cold for a good solid minute and had me absolutely doubled over. Tears. Convulsions. Strange looks from the cat. My heart around, this is the funniest thing I’ve read in months.
Yeah, Stevie Nicks does that to a person. Ever since Edge of Seventeen was released (I was about 14 or so, which I guess qualifies for this thread) I sang the song incorrectly, until I was corrected a couple of years ago (with much laughter and tears of amusement coming from my wife’s eyes) that the lyric was
And not
My pride may be shattered but at least the bird is OK!
Oh yeah, I remember another one. I said this in another thread, but it fits this thread too. The Hall and Oats song “One on One”. Again, I didn’t realize the song was about sex.
Stones’ “Honky Tonk Women”: She blew my nose and then she blew my mind.. When you’re seven years old, it’s perfectly understandable that your mother or your teacher would hold the kleenex for you!
(Apparently, a recent female American Idol contestant didn’t get it either – she altered some of the lyrics to make it female-perspective, but kept this line as is.)
I think this is universally misunderstood. This came up in a thread pretty recently. Although I heard the song recently and realized what I originally thought I heard was “Just like the one-winged gull”.
I could just imagine this poor seagull flying around in circles.
