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Friday, May 3, 2013

Top Ten Misinterpreted Song Meanings

June 13, 2010, Listverse.

10-  MR. TAMBOURINE MAN-- BOB DYLAN--  (Also Byrds)--  Song about drugs.
9.  SUMMER OF 69--  BRYAN ADAMS--  Autobiographical sketch.

8.  BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY--  QUEEN--  Describes frintman Freddie mercury's battle with AIDs.
7.  EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE--  POLICE--  Sweet love song

6.  CRASH INTO ME--  DAVE MATTHEWS BAND--  Sexy love song.
5.  HOTEL CALIFORNIA--  EAGLES--  Song about devil worship.

4.  BORN IN THE USA--  BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN--  Patriotic song.
3.  AMERICAN GIRL--  TOM PETTY--  Song about suicide.

2.  IN THE AIR TONIGHT--  PHIL COLLINS--  Witnessed a preventable death.
1.  FIRE AND RAIN--  JAMES TAYLOR--  Girlfriend died in a plane crash.

BONUS:  LUCY IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS--  BEATLES--  Song about LSD.

How about Aliotto, Haynes & Jeremiah's "Cruising down LSD?"


TOO PUNNY:  The fattest knight at King Arthur's Round Table was Sir Cumference.  He got that way by eating too much pi.

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