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On the original question of songs where you didn't realise the true meaning at first - Lola by the Kinks took me by surprise when I actually read/sang the lyrics properly.

on misheard lyrics, a song by a comic here in the UK called Ken Dodd called Happiness.  A couple of verses:

Happiness, happiness
The greatest gift that I posess.
I thank the Lord that I posess
More than my share of Happiness.

A wise old man told me one time
Happiness is a frame of mind
When you go measuring a man’s success
Don’t count money, count happiness, oh

A perfectly innocent song, until you drop the "h" off Hapiness, and it comes out as a tribute to the male appendage.

I couldn't possibly comment on whether I sing it that way on purpose <grin>

Misheard lyrics?  They're a RIOT!!

A friend of mine years ago thought this was how Hotel California opened:

On a dark, desert highway
Cool wind in my hair
Warm smell of POLICE DUST
Rising up through the air

I asked him to repeat it about four times before I caught what he was saying  

WTF is police dust?  ROFL

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how about

"i'll never be your pizza burnin'" (beast of burden)

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Sounds Like The NAMBLA Theme Song

you mean the NAMBLA from the tv show southpark or is there a REAL  N.A.M.B.L.A.?  if there is, that's disgusting!  if there's not, maybe it's a grounp of North American Marlon Brando Look Alikes.

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Gross But True  Extreemely Sick

Elton John sings:


Hold me closer Tony Danza

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Didn't think I would start a thread this interesting.  Lots of good perspectives from you all.   Anyway...

As noted above, I too tend not to focus on the lyrics first.  And if I decide to sing it or beocme interested in the lyrics, then delve into them.  I think you then get a different "take" on the song.  Kind of like watching a movie w/out the backround (mood) music and sound effects-- totally different experience.

There are few songs that are killer songs and then I really digest the lyrics and think-- man this is strange/lame.  Well I thought I had more examples when I strated this but here's just one...

Rush - Red Barchetta - Ok, song about a Ferrari some buy gets from his Uncle.  Fantastic music/lyrical combination (long too-- 6 minutes I think).  some of the lyric/music combinations give me goose bumps-- the adrenaline/excitment kind (those bits are in the middle)  But some of the lyrics are just -- odd-- I guess.

First Verse----
My uncle has a country place
That no one knows about.
He says it used to be a farm
Before the Motor Law.                            (what's the motor law-- in Canada eh?)
And on Sundays I elude the Eyes,           (I like this one-- sneaking out)
And hop the Turbine Freight
To far outside the Wire
Where my white-haired uncle waits.        (ok, now we've got more sneaking around)

-- Last Verse ---
Drive like the wind
Straining the limits of machine and man.
Laughing out loud with fear and hope
I've got a desperate plan.
At the one-lane bridge
I leave the giants stranded at the riverside.    (Giants??? huh)
Race back to the farm
To dream with my uncle at the fireside.    (this one seems odd)

i always too "the giants" to be cops or something chasing him.  as for the line about his uncle, i figger he feels like his uncle is with him when he drives the car.  just my thoughts, but that song is EXCELLENT!

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kind of gives new meaning to the expression "eat me".