Songs With Hidden Meanings

I was listening to an old CD of mine for the first time in years and I realised that what I used to sing when I was about 9,10, 11 (not sure but around then, anyway) was actually a song about sex. I hadn't heard it in awhile and when I really listened to the lyrics, it had a different meaning to what I thought at the time.

Do you guys know any other songs like this (I'm sure there's heaps!)

-Chemistry by Stereophonics
-New Age Girl by Dead Eyed Dick
-Spice Girls Songs (lol...i was 7, I really didn't know what 2 become 1 meant!)

(I'm not sure but I read somewhere)
-Turning Japanese by The Vapors

There are countless, I am sure...

It is strange, isn`t it, finding that a song you once treasured is about something completely different than you once thought...I have experienced the very same thing, though I cannot recall the titles now...

sex on the beach
and there was me thinking the were talking about a cocktail lol

Mine is Blister in the Sun by The Violent Femmes. The sad thing about that song, is that I just heard it for the first time a few years ago and I didn't realize what it was about until a couple of weeks ago. Coincidently it is my 11 year old sister's favorite song....luckily she doesn't get it!

I'm really incredibly naive when it comes to lyrics, usually.

I don't think I know the song Blister in the Sun. I really want to hear it now! I read the discussion in songmeanings.net and it's got me intrigued. LOL. I might buy it on Itunes when I get a prepaid card.

And thanks for that website I'm gonna go check it out.

She Bop by Cyndi Lauper
Candy by Presidents of the United States

Evil masquerading as virtue:

Bridge Over Troubled Waters

Lydia, what's Bridge Over Troubled Waters really about? Drugs?

Unfortunately it is. It has a number of references to terms related to the use of heroin, such as "sail on silvergirl, your time has come to shine." There was a book called Subliminal Seduction by Wilson Bryan Key which analyzed the words of this and other songs which apparently had hidden (or not so hidden) meanings. The book is really about all the hidden ways by which people are influenced by media images and recordings, etc. It is probably out of print now but worth a look if you can find it in the library or on the shelves of a used bookstore.