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Wait- OMG! The song is really about...?

Elton John's High Flying Bird is a song about.... suicide??! Thought for years it was just another song about lost love. For whatever reason the full meaning of he lyrics didn't sink in until today on the drive in to work, "The white walls of your dressing room are stained scarlet red. You bled upon the cold stone like a young man... in the foreign field of death." 

That song will never be the same for me again. Its much, much better now. Damn that Taupin was good.

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jetter
3,033 posts
 
Very sad
berner99
216 posts
 
The Song Closing Time by Semisonic is not about when the bars close, but about pregnancy.
douglas_schroeder
3,281 posts
 
"Mercy, Mercy, Me" is about overpopulation and environmental collapse. 
larryi
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Every time I hear "Santa Baby" in a shopping mall at Christmas, I wonder if people pay any attention to lyrics.  It is sung by someone offering sex for all sorts of material things from "Santa" with each stanza ending with "hurry down my chimney tonight;" anyone needs more than one guess as to what that means?

Melanie's song about rollerskates and a "Brand New Key" is a little bit more subtle, but the same subject.

Finally, I like the idea of the opposite--an innocent meaning to something that seems obviously not.  There is an obvious meaning to the Starland Vocal Band's "Afternoon Delight."  But the group insisted (probably falsely) that the reference is to the Happy Hour menu at the restaurant "Clydes" which is a local Washington DC area establishment (where the group comes from).
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millercarbon OP
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"hurry down my chimney tonight;" anyone needs more than one guess as to what that means?

Melanie's song about rollerskates and a "Brand New Key" is a little bit more subtle, but the same subject.


Someone has a dirty mind.

Next you'll be telling me there's some hidden meaning to I'm your backdoor man.
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