Songs You Did NOT Understand until Much Later

I always heard, since the 80s, it was about shooting the bishop, as my Jamaican teammate called it, like A Blister in the Sun…enjoying pleasure by oneself

That one is about waking up to deal with a feminine product n the middle of the night and having the bathroom light hurt your eyes. Awful song.

Fastball’s The Way. Turns out to be a pretty depressing song about an older couple who leave home to drive off a cliff.

Lola by The Kinks, the trans stuff went completely over my head for the longest time

Bruce breaks down this whole song in his Broadway show (deuce/douche and all), which is available for streaming on netflix.

Crazy Beach by Buckcherry.

Some sort of Jimmy Buffet nostalgia song i guess?

"Brown Sugar" by the Rolling Stones. First off, I couldn't understand the words for literally decades. Then when I read the correct lyrics, it was a YIKES moment. On the music side, that opening guitar duel of Keith Richards and Mick Taylor is about as classic as you can get.

Everything But The Girl.

Always thought it was " And I miss you like a devil's mystery"

instead off "And I miss you like the deserts miss the rain" which makes much more sense.

Baby Got Back isn't about babies or backs. It's about butts.

Afternoon Delight

Big Bottom.

Talk about mud flaps, my girls got 'em.

Big Bottom drive me out of my mind

How can I leave this behind?

'rock' in lyrics is code for f*ck. Never knew that.

Well, there's at least a couple:

The things that pass for knowledge I can't understand - the weekend at the college didn't turn out like you planned.

And In all the time I've known you I still don't know what you mean: You've been telling me you're a genius since you were seventeen.

Dylan's 'Jack of Hearts' - who done it? Who killed Big Jim?

Right up there with the great unsolved mysteries, at least for me.