‘What songs did you completely misinterpret?’ – 23 people who got dazed and confused about music

13.

‘I thought ‘You’re Gorgeous’ by Babybird was a generic, sappy, feel-good love song. It’s anything but if you actually listen to the lyrics of the verses and not just the chorus.’
–InviteAromatic6124

14.

‘As a kid I had a whole, elaborate backstory worked out for ‘Come Undone’ by Robbie Williams. The chorus goes: ‘They’re selling razor blades and mirrors in the street/I pray when I’m coming down, you’ll be asleep/Because I’m scum, and I’m your son’.

So, obviously, I assumed it was about a man who shared a basement flat with his mum and had stayed out all night, therefore needing to shave before he went home, where he was hoping to sneak in while she slept. It wasn’t until I heard it again years later that the penny dropped.’
–badonkadonked

15.

‘My generation reached adolescence realising ‘Genie in a Bottle’ is not actually about rubbing a magic bottle to get a genie out.’
–CuriousNowDead

16.

‘Blondies “Heart of Glass’. My mum pissed herself one day on the way home from school when she heard five-year-old me singing ‘Soon turned out, she had a heart attack’.’
–boompoppp

17.

‘I was embarrassingly old before I twigged what ‘Sledgehammer’ by Peter Gabriel was about. I thought it was just delightful nonsense.’
–LadyMirkwood

18.

‘When I was kid I thought ‘Get The Party Started’ by P!nk was about a party in a tree house and that’s why she was coming up.’
–helboudicca

19.

‘When I was a kid I thought the words to Fat Boy Slim’s ‘Rockafeller Skank’ were ‘Right about now, the Vauxhall brother’. I imagined that it was about two guys racing their Corsas.’
–semicombobulated

20.

‘I thought Madonna was singing ‘Last night I dreamt of some bagels’ in ‘La Isla Bonita’. I just thought she wanted to be fed.’
–thehoneybadger1223

21.

‘Eleanor Rigby’s Father Mackenzie ‘wiping the dirt from his hands as he walks from the grave… no one was saved’. In my child mind the zombie priest had clawed his way out of his own grave and gone to stalk the town. No one was saved.’
–alancake

22.

‘I thought ‘Never Had a Dream Come True’ by s club 7 was about a literal baby. I remember being generally bemused about why there were so many songs about babies and I had to ask my parents about it.’
–greenestgirl

23.

‘The Carpenters song with the line: “It’s hard to fall in love with a broken heart’.

My girlfriend thought it was: ‘It’s hard to fall in love with a broken arm’.’
–hardboard

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