Yeah, it sounds like he was just talking shit to be funny.
Unless “So gather up your jackets, and move it to the exits.” is really supposed to mean, “don’t leave the placenta behind.”
I still enjoy Benny Mardones’ “Into the Night” quite a bit … but I wish he’d used some other opening line in place of “She’s just sixteen years old”. Mardones has explained it away … but I dunno:
Yeah, I don’t think that explanation really cuts it either… Too bad, it was a catchy song.
Or one dick seven times.
I always thought Every Breath You Take was about dedication. Turns out it was, only it was dedication to stalking. It only changed my liking of the song a little bit though.
For me, it’s when the artist comes out of the closet and you wonder if he/she is singing the song to their lover.
Freddie Jackson’s “You Are My Lady” comes to mind…
Here’s a video of singer/guitarist Dan Wilson explaining the meaning of the song.
I don’t know if this is what the song is actually about but I can no longer listen to John Cougar Mellencamp’s “Hurts So Good” without thinking about butt sex.
“Sometimes love don’t feel like it should!”
The Beach Boys’ “Don’t Worry Baby”. I never listened too deeply to the words; on the surface it sounded like it was about a lover’s quarrel and the makeup. Then one day I really listened to the words and realized the schmuck was singing about his car being insulted and a race. Good God!
I used to laugh at the Beatles’ “Drive my Car” because it seemed like it was full of unintentional sexual innuendo. Then I figured out most of the innuendo was intentional and it was no longer as fun to laugh at.
A friend of mine made a mashup of this and the Eddie Murphy song so it literally did say “Sometimes love don’t feel like it should – IN YOUR BUTT!”
It was quite the buzzkill for me to find out that the Velvet Underground’s “I’m Waiting for My Man” was about a minster’s family adopting a kitten . . .
I still like Paul Simon’s “Mother and Child Reunion,” but somehow it seems a little less serious (though more amusing) when you find out it’s about a Chinese chicken-and-egg dish…
That’s actually pretty interesting.
And (geek moment) he is playing a very cool vintage Gibson SJ acoustic. WANT!
As a young and intolerant teen I went off Lola by The Kinks when found out it was about a transvestite.
Love the song now though!
If You Oughta Know isn’t about the Ful House guy I’m very, very glad! 
Going for the funny, eh?
Yes, sometimes songs about trying to score drugs in Harlem are about…trying to score drugs in Harlem. So it goes.
I have nothing against him writing a song about his baby being born, but Jesus, that is so lame.
That interpretaion is from the movie Reservoir Dogs, Tarentino doing the dialog. AFAIK, this is not verifiably the correct interpretation, just movie dialog. The wiki entry says the lyrics are intentionally ambiguous.
Okay, I admit it, I made part of that up . . .
Dang…I’m so old…
Now, I’ve always understood the lyrics but…
I always thought the lyrics were metaphorical and that they meant le petite mort.
I think it is. Alanis Morisette and Dave Coulier started dating when she was 19 and he was 33. It was likely her first “adult” relationship and he apparently treated her pretty shitty. She probably thought “he oughta know” better.
Of course, when the same thing happened a decade later with Ryan Reynolds, he got off pretty light. The songs on Flavors of Entanglement are obviously about him, but nothing quite so bad as “Are you thinking of me when you fuck her?”