Most misinterpreted songs of all time?

[BrownTown]

Metallica "Fade To Black"

Alot of people think its about wanted to commit suicide, but really it is only about losing a freaking amplifer!

TBH though it seems like ALOT of songs are misinterpreted, just go to a website about song meanings and alot of times people have VERY different ideas. Even for songs where there is a clear meanign many people are waaay off base.

 

[Buck Armstrong]

Originally posted by: SirStev0

Originally posted by: Buck Armstrong
Oh, and every single song by the Misfits.

I got something to say... I killed your baby today.. and it doesn't matter that much to me as long as its deaaaaaad.

Last Caress is one of the only Misfits songs where you can actually understand all the words...great riff, too.

I was thinking more like Horror Business ("You don't go in the bathroom...with me!") and Astro-Zombies, which sounds like a punk rock love song until you listen carefully to the lyrics.

 

[SirStev0]

Originally posted by: Buck Armstrong

Originally posted by: SirStev0

Originally posted by: Buck Armstrong
Oh, and every single song by the Misfits.

I got something to say... I killed your baby today.. and it doesn't matter that much to me as long as its deaaaaaad.

Last Caress is one of the only Misfits songs where you can actually understand all the words...great riff, too.

I was thinking more like Horror Business ("You don't go in the bathroom...with me!") and Astro-Zombies, which sounds like a punk rock love song until you listen carefully to the lyrics.

Prime directive : Exterminate the human race?

 

[olds]

:music:
So pussy on a highway
And show me a sign
And take it to the limit one more time
:music:

 

[Buck Armstrong]

Originally posted by: SirStev0

Originally posted by: Buck Armstrong

Originally posted by: SirStev0

Originally posted by: Buck Armstrong
Oh, and every single song by the Misfits.

I got something to say... I killed your baby today.. and it doesn't matter that much to me as long as its deaaaaaad.

Last Caress is one of the only Misfits songs where you can actually understand all the words...great riff, too.

I was thinking more like Horror Business ("You don't go in the bathroom...with me!") and Astro-Zombies, which sounds like a punk rock love song until you listen carefully to the lyrics.

Prime directive : Exterminate the human race?

That's the one. Although now that I think about it, Skulls is an even better example. Sounds like a great punk rock love song...until you decipher the lyrics...

Now Vampira, that's just the shit.

 

[Cogman]

I always like the M*A*S*H theme song, I thought it was a catchy sixties style song. Then I had someone tell me what the title was, "Suicide is painless" and all the sudden the happy song turned into a very sad one (Especially when I later heard it with the lyrics)

 

[Syringer]

This is Our Country is the exact same as Born in the USA--it's not a patriotic song at all, and if you hear its entirety, not just what they play on the Chevy commercials, you hear a completely different twist on it.

 

[EvilYoda]

I've always liked how people think Extreme's "More Than Words" is such a romantic song when it's telling the person to show their love by having sex instead of just saying it. (I don't want to hear it...fuck me instead)

But I guess it could be romantic depending on your relationship...in which case, that's a good relationship.

 

[Dumac]

:music:If a picture paints a thousand words, then why can't I paint you???:music:

 

[XxPrOdiGyxX]

Sugar Ramen

 

[Shadow Conception]

Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds

 

[Auric]

Originally posted by: Champ
people misinterpret American Woman a lot too but its really anti-American (only a Canadian can write a song that hits #1 with so much anti-Americanism in it)

I don?t need your war machines
I don?t need your ghetto scenes
Coloured lights can hypnotize
Sparkle someone else?s eyes
Now woman, get away from me American woman, mama let me be.

listen to it as a Canadian and you'll understand

I saw Randy Bachman live and he said it was about the statue of liberty and keeping Americanism imperialism out of Canada and the rest of the world

I remember when I was in Vegas it got a group of 3 american guy so pissed (they didnt know The Guess Who was Canadian) by telling them what it was really about

Ha ha! Jinogoes pizowned by their own ignorance.

Originally posted by: Cogman
I always like the M*A*S*H theme song, I thought it was a catchy sixties style song. Then I had someone tell me what the title was, "Suicide is painless" and all the sudden the happy song turned into a very sad one (Especially when I later heard it with the lyrics)

Bridge Over Troubled Water is a bit like that in reverse in that it is very depressing sounding but with lyrics intending to be uplifting.

 

[Daverino]

I'd got with "Every Breath You Take" by The Police. It is NOT a love song:

Every breath you take
Every move you make
Every bond you break
Every step you take
Ill be watching you

Every single day
Every word you say
Every game you play
Every night you stay
Ill be watching you

Oh, cant you see
You belong to me
How my poor heart aches
With every step you take

Every move you make
Every vow you break
Every smile you fake
Every claim you stake
Ill be watching you

Since youve gone I been lost without a trace
I dream at night I can only see your face
I look around but its you I cant replace
I feel so cold and I long for your embrace
I keep crying baby, baby, please...

Oh, cant you see
You belong to me
How my poor heart aches
With every breath you take

Every move you make
Every vow you break
Every smile you fake
Every claim you stake
Ill be watching you

Every move you make
Every step you take
Ill be watching you

Ill be watching you
Ill be watching you
Ill be watching you
Ill be watching you...

 

[montanafan]

"Time of Your Life" - Green Day

 

[SlitheryDee]

Originally posted by: Daverino
I'd got with "Every Breath You Take" by The Police. It is NOT a love song:

Every breath you take
Every move you make
Every bond you break
Every step you take
Ill be watching you

Every single day
Every word you say
Every game you play
Every night you stay
Ill be watching you

Oh, cant you see
You belong to me
How my poor heart aches
With every step you take

Every move you make
Every vow you break
Every smile you fake
Every claim you stake
Ill be watching you

Since youve gone I been lost without a trace
I dream at night I can only see your face
I look around but its you I cant replace
I feel so cold and I long for your embrace
I keep crying baby, baby, please...

Oh, cant you see
You belong to me
How my poor heart aches
With every breath you take

Every move you make
Every vow you break
Every smile you fake
Every claim you stake
Ill be watching you

Every move you make
Every step you take
Ill be watching you

Ill be watching you
Ill be watching you
Ill be watching you
Ill be watching you...

Shit. Reading the lyrics kinda creeps me out...

 

[manowar821]

"Science" by System Of A Down. It's not being critical of science and reason, it's a song about how out of control faith and circular logic is.

It's sarcasm.

 

[AstroManLuca]

I heard "Fortunate Son" by CCR played on commercials a lot to try to give them a patriotic vibe. But like "Born in the U.S.A.," it only has a few patriotic-sounding lines, but most are highly critical of the U.S.

You only hear "Some folks are born made to wave the flag, ooh that red white and blue." Conveniently leaving out the very next line, "And when the band plays 'Hail to the Chief,' they point the cannon at you." It speaks directly to the "with us or against us" philosophy that is so against what our country is about.

Other than that, a non-political song that is almost always misinterpreted based on a single line is "I Will Always Love You." It's about a couple that's breaking up, yet I have heard this song played several times at weddings. What a bad way to start a marriage.

 

[Saint Nick]

probably YMCA

 

[Auric]

Originally posted by: SlitheryDee

Originally posted by: Daverino
I'd got with "Every Breath You Take" by The Police. It is NOT a love song:

Every breath you take
Every move you make
Every bond you break
Every step you take
Ill be watching you

Every single day
Every word you say
Every game you play
Every night you stay
Ill be watching you

Oh, cant you see
You belong to me
How my poor heart aches
With every step you take

Every move you make
Every vow you break
Every smile you fake
Every claim you stake
Ill be watching you

Since youve gone I been lost without a trace
I dream at night I can only see your face
I look around but its you I cant replace
I feel so cold and I long for your embrace
I keep crying baby, baby, please...

Oh, cant you see
You belong to me
How my poor heart aches
With every breath you take

Every move you make
Every vow you break
Every smile you fake
Every claim you stake
Ill be watching you

Every move you make
Every step you take
Ill be watching you

Ill be watching you
Ill be watching you
Ill be watching you
Ill be watching you...

Shit. Reading the lyrics kinda creeps me out...

Let us call it an "as yet nonreciprocal love song" then. It is a fine line between courting and stalking, after all.

Is that generally misinterpreted though? I figgered it was pretty clear from the first listen.

 

[Unmoosical]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfXke_z6t3I

Only because I don't know what he's saying.

 

[Mardeth]

Nightwish - Wishmaster

 

[Colt45]

This Land Is Your Land

 

[Kadarin]

Pictures of You, by The Cure. I remember seeing it in a camera/film commercial where its meaning was distorted..

 

[ed21x]

Rock a by baby = song wishing for the death of the heir to throne of England.

Ring around the rosey = song describing the suffering of those under the black plague.

 

[illusion88]

:music: Excuse me while I kiss this guy :music: