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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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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.
;)
larryi
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Yes, the Blues are an endless source of pretty interesting references--backdoor man means the guy who leaves through the backdoor when the husband comes in through the front door; I suppose it could have another obvious meaning. . .

Some other blues songs of interest:

"Shake Your Moneymaker" 

"Dust  My Broom"


larryi
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For me, one the the creepiest songs is Sonny  Boy Williamson's:

"Good Morning, Little School Girl"

Look up the lyrics, they are so much worse than one can conger up in casual imagining.
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