# Songs you insist have a different meaning than the writer claims

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** music\
**Created:** [November 26, 2023, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-insist-have-a-different-meaning-than-the-writer-claims/993725 "2023-11-26T16:49:34Z")\
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**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:** [November 27, 2023, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-insist-have-a-different-meaning-than-the-writer-claims/993725/9 "2023-11-27T15:41:42Z")

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> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#):
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> Well, he’s wrong.

I thought about what I posted and remembered, “Didn’t I post on this subject before”? yes I did! In 2019.

> [@Listening to old songs only serves to cause confusion.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/listening-to-old-songs-only-serves-to-cause-confusion/842702/18):
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> I love Angie Baby.
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> Did she really have magical powers and shrink that neighbor boy and hide him in the radio, or did she just murder him and keep his dead body in her room? I like it either way.

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