I’m down on my knees.
I wanta take you there.
I’m just guessing that it’s the “down on my knees” part. Though I’m really not seeing it. :dubious:
Didn’t see Wolfian’s post.
I did, about a mile away. <giggle> But it was very clever!
Then there’s the issue of the band’s name… 
In the 1950’s singer Ruth Wallis had a hit with “He’s Got the Cutest Little Dinghy in the Navy” It was most definitely not about her sailor boyfriend’s* boat*.
It took me a while to realize that the song Sledge Hammer was just a bunch of sex talk.
Jagged Little Pill came out when my friends and I were, oh I dunno, 12 or 13-ish. And very naive 12 and 13 year olds we were; we’d loudly sing along to lines like “Would she go down on you in a theatre?” with not a clue what they meant, while any adult in hearing distance would kind of fidget uncomfortably trying to figure out whether they should comment. Sometimes someone’s mom would be all “Honey, I don’t know if I want you singing that” and we’d giggle cuz SOME SONGS HAD SWEARS haha that must be why she didn’t want us singing it, right?
D’oh! :smack:
Heh. No worries, Guin – you weren’t the only one, so it’s a safe bet that the blame can be placed at my feet.
Still, I do find the idea that people might think that I believe Margaritaville is about a guy sinking into depression because he’s got nobody to give rim-jobs to, uh, more than a little disconcerting.
Do I really come across as that weird, most of the time? 
Nobody else sees this? Let’s break it down…
When you call my name
I think we’re all on board with this one.
it’s like a little prayer
I’m down on my knees, I want to take you there
Take me where? My guess is Orgasmville.
In the midnight hour, I can feel your power
Power of what? My guess is (edited for content).
Also, later in the song…
I hear your voice, it’s like an angel sighing
Sighing why? See above.
Conclusion: Madonna is a dirty, dirty girl. Or am I just dirty-minded?
Around this place, anything’s possible.
That line in Alanis Morisette’s “You Oughta Know” was a revelation for me too. The funny thing is that I had been familiar with the term for a couple of years at that point. In fact, it couldn’t have been more than a couple years ago - I was driving, and the radio was playing that song. I heard “Would she <silence> in a theater?” And I thought, WTF? Why on earth did they blank that line out? What could it possibly… OH.
I never mentioned this little epiphany to anyone. I wasn’t sure I could handle the mockery.
That’s how we used to figure out what the naughty parts of songs were - the parts they’d blank out on the radio. We’d then try to work backwards and figure out what the phrase meant… we were often tragically, hilariously wrong.
I didn’t get what my sister meant when she said bad things about “Squeeze Box.” “I know what it means and it’s terrible blah-blah-blah.”
To a fifth grader (me) it was just a musical instrument. My favorite song at the time.
“C’mon angel my hearts on fire
Don’t deny your man’s desire
You’d be a fool to stop this tide
Spread your wings and let me come inside”
Rod Stewart - Tonight’s the Night
I went to a private Baptist school as a kid, and we once went to an assembly about the e-e-evils of rock and roll in which Afternoon Delight was cited as a prime example. I shit you not. (A couple of others I remember being named in that assembly: Lies, by Fleetwood Mac, and My Sweet Lord, by the Beatles.) Until that day, I thought it was a song about skyrockets.
Yummy, Yummy, Yummy:
Yummy yummy yummy
I’ve got love in my tummy
and I can’t help lovin’ you
Love = semen! :eek:
I saw a VH1 special a couple of years ago, where they talked about this song and it’s hidden meaning. I kid you not, folks.
Count me as another one surpised by Brand New Key. I’m 34 and had no idea.
I can’t think of any others because I was usually pretty good at figuring out what was dirty. Although, She Bop had to be explained to me when the song came out when I was 13.
I used to work for a Presbyterian minister whose 4 year old son would sing Steve Miller’s, The Joker. Particularly the line:
I’m a joker
I’m a smoker
I’m a midnight toker
It was so cute! It was funny that his father knew exactly what “toker” means, but thought it was funny when his son sang that line.
For about ten minutes I was actually thinking,
“Biggirl was only seven when that song came out! She’s barely 18, I thought she was, like, 30. And she thought fuck meant pray? Hopw do you think that!”
:smack:
Well… it was clear as… uh…