I don’t think anyone twigged to this on their own, but Paul McCartney recently revealed that the “you” in “Got to Get You Into My Life” is marijuana.
Hmm. Perhaps I was lied to. Interesting.
For a long time, I had no idea that George Harrison’s “Crackerbox Palace” was a tribute to George’s favorite comedian, Lord Buckley by name. Lord Buckley lived in a house he referred to as Crackerbox Palace.
I’d always thought that last line about “Know that the Lord is well and inside of you” meant God or Jesus is inside us. Nope. It was Lord Buckley who was alive and well inside his house.
Wow. How Beautiful! Hearing it with three voices is stunning… (and I am the biggest S&G freak you’re likely to come across…)
What else could you have possibly thought it was about 
That was obvious to me the first time I heard it and I was in middle school when it was released.
I remember reading an interview with ZZ Top, where they stated that they write two kinds of songs - 1. songs about their dicks, and 2. songs about life, philosophy, technology, etc, and how they relate to their dicks. 
Wow, so cool!
Oh…heroin, eh? I was thinking maybe scatological.
I have heard Heart’s “Crazy On You” described as being about oral sex, and when I read the lyrics I see a few images that maybe could apply, but over all the song certainly doesn’t shout it out to me…
Well, the part I didn’t realize was that the women in question were slaves and prostitutes, not just ordinary black girls.
I didn’t know There she goesby the Las was about heroin until Colin Murray said so on Radio 1.
When I opened this thread, I was curious to see how many of the responses were going to be “Song X was about heroin!” 
On the other hand, “Heroin” by the Velvet Underground was actually about bowling.
Not buying it. Some of the La’s have either denied the rumor, or said that they were unaware of that meaning. It seems that any song with the word “vein” is susceptible to that interpretation.
You could very well be right, I’m not expert on this song by any stretch of the imagination (I just sing along to it).
I’m not sure this fits with the rest of the thread, but I get really irritated when people talk about, “No Woman No Cry” as though the message were: If you don’t have a woman in your life you will be happy.
Simply hearing to the song I thought that too, but, if you listen to the lyrics (e.g. Hey, little darlin’, don’t shed no tears.) it’s obvioulsy not misogynist.
It’s not? Gulp. I thought I was Brown Sugar… sigh.
That’s exactly what I was thinking. We must be about the same age as well. I can’t for the life of me think of a different possible meaning for “Come Out and Play”.
I’m surprised nobody has said “Afternoon Delight”. I suppose it’s obvious enough if you pay attention to the lyrics, but apparently I never did so, until the episode of Arrested Development of the same name, in which pretty much everybody makes the same realization, just not necessarily at the same time.
Of course you are, darlin’. It’s just that the Micker has…ahh…specialized tastes.
Only the good die young is about trying to talk a virgin into having sex
Sometimes I don’t mind by the Suicide Machines is about his dog
Love of my life by Erika Badu and Common is about their love for music, not a person
That’s another one I grew up with and never questioned. Of course I wasn’t familiar with the term.
My parents always worried about us asking what “Don’t go Home With Your Hard-On” means but we were little and unfamiliar with the term, and I probably thought he was saying “heart”.