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37 : Eric Clapton Tears In Heaven Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees. "Closing Time" // SemisonicThe Best Way To Travel Thinking is the best way to travel. Catholic, Protestant, Here's a look at 25 songs that got their meanings twisted and misconstrued—and the original intentions put forth by the artists who wrote them. Printable hymns of praise and worship which are suitable for all Christian denominations.
Now I understand what you have to do—put your message across with a little honey." 3. "Imagine" // John LennonWhen Rolling Stone named the former Beatle's ubiquitous hit the third-greatest song of all time, John Lennon's hallmark lyrics were described as "22 lines of graceful, plain-spoken faith in the power of a world, united in purpose, to repair and change itself." But the feel-good sentiments behind the song Jimmy Carter once said was "used almost equally with national anthems" have some serious Communist underpinnings.Lennon called the song "virtually the Communist manifesto," and once the song became a hit, went on record saying, "Because it's sugarcoated it's accepted. I had birth on the brain, I was struck by what a funny pun it was to be bounced from the womb." 2. Semisonic frontman Dan Wilson predicted the second life of the band's only big hit in 2010, Wilson told The Hollywood Reporter, "I really thought that that was the greatest destiny for 'Closing Time,' that it would be used by all the bartenders." But when Wilson penned lyrics like "Time for you to go out to the places you will be from," the song's focus was more an emphasis on the miracle of childbirth than an ode to kicking late-night barflies to the curb.Best Romantic Love Songs With Lyrics 70s 80s 90s - Top 100 Classic Love Songs Lyrics Of All Time Follow Music For Life Subscribe for More: 2010, Wilson admitted to American Songwriter that he had babies on his mind partway through writing Semisonic's gangbuster breakout hit, stating, "My wife and I were expecting our first kid very soon after I wrote that song. 35 : U2 Zooropo Get your head out of the mud, baby.
According to the singer, the line is equal parts a reference to his affinity for performing magic tricks in his youth and "about a seduction trick, from much later in my life." 5. In a 2003 interview with Blender, Smith said "Just Like Heaven," inspired by a trip with his girlfriend to Beachy Head in southern England, was "about hyperventilating—kissing and falling to the floor."Smith's dissection of the song's opening lines ("Show me, show me, show me how you do that trick") is less obvious. "Just Like Heaven" // The CureEntertainment Weekly recognized The Cure's synth-slathered love song as the 25th greatest love song of all time, but also questioned, "Just what is this scream/laugh/hug inducing trick?" Turns out, the lyric that threw most fans of The Cure for a loop just refers to a sudden shortness of breath.The only thing that might be more oblique than the lyrics is Smith's explanation for the love song's cryptically esoteric poetry. It's all about the darkness, the power of darkness and love's place in dark." 4. If anyone listens to the lyrics, they're really like vampire lines. Its original title was 'Vampires in Love' because I was working on a musical of Nosferatu, the other great vampire story.
The song serves as a bitter indictment of music industry pressures.“That song comes sheerly from wanting to throw something," Levine said in a 2002 interview with MTV. But though the album's lead-off single sounds like a racy nod to the jilted lover Levine claimed to be his muse, "Harder to Breathe" stemmed from a different kind of suffocating relationship. "Harder to Breathe" // Maroon 5At first blush, the single off Maroon 5's debut album Songs About Jane seems to be, well, just another song about Jane, the name of a girlfriend with whom lead singer Adam Levine shared a rocky relationship. That I may not really be a virgin—I've been battered romantically and emotionally like many people—but I'm starting a new relationship and it just feels so good, it's healing all the wounds and making me feel like I've never done this before, because it's so much deeper and more profound than anything I've ever felt." 6.
It's using '69 as a sexual reference."Parts of the song are still steeped in hints of truth, though: Adams has gone on record saying that he picked up his second-ever electric guitar at a pawn shop, and that his fingers indeed bled while he was " totally submersed in practicing." Other facts are indisputably wrong Adams's first band, Shock, formed when the singer was 16, and "Summer of '69" co-writer Jim Vallance stands by the song as a wistful trip in the wayback machine. In 2008, Adams told CBS News that "a lot of people think it's about the year, but actually it's more about making love in the summertime. But "Summer of '69" isn't so much Adams waxing nostalgic over the dog days of 1969 as much as it is a reference to the sexual position of the same name. "Summer of '69" // Bryan AdamsBorn in the winter of 1959, Bryan Adams would've only been 10 during the eponymous summer of one of his best-known hits, released in 1985. I wanted to make a record and the label was applying a lot of pressure, but I’m glad they did.” 7.
"American Girl" // Tom Petty and the HeartbreakersSorry, urban legend enthusiasts. "Semi-Charmed Life" // Third Eye BlindRadio purists of the '90s probably missed out on the fact that the upbeat Third Eye Blind anthem is about a couple on a crystal meth binge—the two censor-triggering words in the line "doing crystal meth will lift you up until you break" would get backmasked in an edited version of the song played by radio stations.Why make a song about such a serious topic so light and bouncy? Lead singer Stephen Jenkins explained that the musical and lyrical juxtapositions were completely intentional: The music reflects "the bright, shiny feeling you get on speed," he told Billboard. People told me that was 'their song.' That was your song?"Singer Michael Stipe echoed Buck's emotions in a 1992 interview with Q magazine, admitting that he almost didn't even record the song, calling it "too brutal" and "really violent and awful." After five years of "The One I Love" going out to loved ones as dedications over the radio waves, Stipe took a complacent stance on his song's misconstrued fate, saying, "It's probably better that they think it's a love song at this point." 9. "I'd look into the audience and there would be couples kissing," Buck said. Unleashed their first Top 10 single in concert, the band's guitar-slinger Peter Buck felt baffled by audiences' romantic reactions.
"In the Air Tonight" // Phil CollinsIn Round Two of Song Meanings Getting Twisted By Urban Legends, Phil Collins's first solo single wasn't written about the singer's brush with a man who refused point-blank to save a drowning swimmer. To me it's just a really beautiful love song." 11. But that story really gets around." Heartbreakers' guitarist Mike Campbell has backed Petty up, stating that some interpretations of the song took the lyrics at face value: "Some people take it literally and out of context. The song has nothing to do with that. That's just not at all true. Though the song's second verse references both a girl standing "alone on her balcony" and "could hear the cars roll by out on 441" ( a highway that runs near the Gainesville campus), Petty shot down the misunderstanding on numerous occasions.In the book Conversations With Tom Petty, the lead Heartbreaker was quoted as saying, "It's become a huge urban myth down in Florida.
Collins swears by the story that he pulled together the lyrics in a snap during a studio recording session, and laughs off the rumors swirling around the origins of "In the Air Tonight.
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