Songs with a double meaning

[MsLisa]

Have you ever heard a song you thought meant one thing and as you grew older realised you were very, VERY wrong?

[Tom wolf]

Yeah. I'm a songwriter/singer myself and that's how i write my songs, i hide the real meaning in the song, i don't like writing songs that are too straight 'cause there's no challenge in that.

[KatSims92]

Yeah, pretty much every Death Cab for Cutie song I've heard can have multiple meanings. Plus, any Britney Spears song was much less innocent than I realized once I became an adult, haha!

[Bighuey]

Ive heard a few like that, mostly bawdy or off-color songs. I dont dare put the titles here, but one is by Bull Moose Jackson about his record of the blues and another is by Memphis Slim about a woman named Kay.

[SMwathi]

what's my name by Rihana

[imSunshine]

That is interesting question, but yes i remember i interpreted a wrong song entitled one love when i was young and i learned the actual meaning later

[Atara Miles]

It wasn't really so much an as I grew older thing as it was I begun to pay attention thing. This was with Cake by the Ocean by DNCE. I was kindly informed by an acquaintance that no, no one actually eats cake by the ocean - think again.

[Nym182]

We are going to be friends by the white stripe - it comes across as a simple song about school friends, but it is supposedly about the evolution of the earth.

Also, I read that Spaceman by the Killers has been interpreted as a song about someone surviving a suicide attempt rather than a song about a man from space

[Leyla Ann]

I think Body by SYML can be taken that way. As I scrolled down the comment section on YouTube I was amazed by how each person got a different meaning from it.

[timur777]

All of the Lady Gaga songs. Plus I was a foreigner. I didnt know Bad Romance has such a nasty lyrics. I was innocent and language ignorant. What a blissful time!