[SuperNothing]

There is this song 'Gotta Eat' off of the new Lupe Fiasco album and it is probably my favorite song on the album. The coolest part of the song is that depending on the way you interpret the lyrics it could either be a song about a drug dealer or a cheeseburger. I think it is really clever that he was able to do this. Anyone know of any other songs that do this?

 

[GlendaleViper]

People have written academic theses trying to decipher the true meanings behind Don McLean's American Pie. Good luck with that one.

 

[goldenratiophi]

Hardly any of Guided By Voices' songs have any meaning, which really means that they have infinity meanings.

 

[Rise To The Top]

Faraway by Jay Chou and Fei Yu-Chin can be interperted as a girl leaving her boyfriend because he tells her to pursue her dreams or it can be interperted as a father sending his son off to the military waiting for his son to come home.

 

[FalconP]

I may think of others later, but the first that comes to mind is Suzanne Vega's "The Queen and the Soldier". I've read a Jungian interpretation of the lyrics that I think makes a lot of sense, but my own is quite different.

 

[MoodySteve]

Tool - Stinkfist. There's a more metaphysical interpretation related to breaking boundaries...and then there's what the song actually describes.

 

[mwallace573]

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Originally Posted by MoodySteve /img/forum/go_quote.gif Tool - Stinkfist. There's a more metaphysical interpretation related to breaking boundaries...and then there's what the song actually describes.

That's the very song I was thinking of when I read the thread title. Good call.

 

[Lazarus Short]

Sometimes, it's simply because you don't hear it quite right, often by having inferior playback gear. For a long time I could not decide how this song went, and someone please clue me in - I thought it was a Donovan song, but I can't find the song on any lyric lists.

"That's your lot in life, Lalenya."
or
"That's your rotten life, Lalenya."

Laz

 

[GlendaleViper]

Laz, that is indeed Donovan (self-professed fanatic, checking in), and the song is simply "Laleña" from HMS Donovan.

The lyric is "That's your lot in life, Laleña".

 

[Rempert]

The first thing that comes to mind is Tom Petty: "Mary Jane's Last Dance". Although drug and sex metaphors are a dime a dozen in popular music.

 

[jonnywolfet]

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Originally Posted by mwallace573 /img/forum/go_quote.gif That's the very song I was thinking of when I read the thread title. Good call.

yeah me too, glad i didn't have to describe it though...

 

[omegaman]

I supose it all started with Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.