# The "What the hell is this song about?" thread. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 10, 2003, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-what-the-hell-is-this-song-about-thread/147775 "2003-01-10T17:25:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 4
**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:** [January 13, 2003, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-what-the-hell-is-this-song-about-thread/147775/61 "2003-01-13T19:17:15Z")
True by Spandau Ballet perplexed me so much I started a thread about it a few months ago. I mean, really-- what in the hell are “sea-side arms”? Where can you buy a ticket to the world and when would you come back again? How can you find it hard to write the next line when all the other lines before are sorta just, well, nonsense sentences? ---
**Author:** ![ceyjen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3bc359/32.png) [@ceyjen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ceyjen)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2003, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-what-the-hell-is-this-song-about-thread/147775/62 "2003-01-13T20:17:53Z")
> [@](#): > > I’m listening to Filter’s “Take a Picture” right now and I still don’t get it, after many listenings. > > “Wake-oh my airpleen, wake-oh my airpleen, my skin is bare, my skin is theirs.” > > Is that what I heard?? It’s _where go my airplane?/where go my airplane?..etc._. (Not that this clears it up any.) I don’t know what it means either, but whenever I’m not sure what a song means, I just assume it has something to do with drug use or abuse. I can usually make the drug thing fit right into virtually any song. ---
**Author:** ![dwmacg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwmacg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwmacg)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2003, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-what-the-hell-is-this-song-about-thread/147775/63 "2003-01-13T20:40:47Z")
> [@](#): > > The second verse is about drugs of some kind, presumably Valium. “…It’s a little secret just the Robinsons will bear. Most of all you’ve got to hide it from your kids.” The lyric is “It’s a little secret, just the Robinsons’ affair Most of all you’ve got to hide it from the kids.” It all makes sense in the context of the movie. ---
**Author:** ![NE\_Texan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e99b99/32.png) [@NE\_Texan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NE_Texan)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2003, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-what-the-hell-is-this-song-about-thread/147775/64 "2003-01-13T20:57:37Z")
Having just received U2’s greatest hits (1990-2000) for Christmas, and of course listening to it constantly, the one that’s been bugging me is U2’s “Electrical Storm”. It’s very pretty - and haunting - but I can’t make out what the chorus is about: > [@](#): > > But in my mind, all of the time > I know it’s not enough. > > Well if the sky can crack, > there must be some way back > to love and all we lost _(Really uncertain about this line -NE)_ I always get this image of some science fiction story where the characters are trying to find their way back to a different world, but there is not much in the song to support that (mostly from the colors mentioned in the 3rd verse). P.S. It just occurred to me - **gatopescado** , is this the song you thought was “Electric Toaster”? It doesn’t sound like that to me, but I can’t think of another song it would be either, so I’m curious. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-what-the-hell-is-this-song-about-thread/147775.md?page=3)