Songs You Did NOT Understand until Much Later

Oh that is a really good point. I posted a song trying to be nice... I guess I was completely wrong! What a shame that I misunderstood. So I would say maybe some of Erasures songs which are difficult to understand... I still don't get it... they are so complex.

You’re So Vain by Carly Simon. I think it was about me.

As a little kid hearing my dad’s CDs I thought Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 was about the biblical punishment. “Everybody must get stoned.”

Never heard a song I didn't get. Can't see that happening.

Really hard trying to get what he's saying. But in the blues workd he is the King of the Mississippi Delta Blues. He's like beer it took awhile.

Poker Face by Lady Gaga

Deno you must be smarter than me. What is this song about?

It's hard for me to make out lyrics for seemingly most songs out there (a lot of vocals aren't clear like in many older eras), and I don't bother to look up lyrics for most things I hear on the radio. So in the rare cases that I do look up lyrics, I usually understand it vs not understand it.

Maneater by Hall and Oates apparently it’s about New York at night not a woman.

Example - ZZ Top, I couldn't make out the lyrics, and didn't know until maybe decades later it wasn't "every girl crazy about a shy guy's hand"

Although thought this was about a father trying to get his child to eat his fruits and vegetables

"Mr. Tambourine Man" by Dylan. It took me a few years to realize it was about a heroin pusher.

Same thing with "Absolutely, Sweet Marie." Another song by Dylan about a heroin dealer.

It took me a while to realize that Dylan was singing both the males lines and the female lines in "Boots of Spanish Leather."

These were the first three that popped into my head.

Who would’ve thought that Puff the Magic Dragon wasn’t really about a dragon?

Everything is Alright by Motion City Soundtrack.

Are you sure about that? In his 1985 Biograph compilation album, he claimed that "Mr. Tambourine Man" is not about drugs, and was inspired by a folk musician named Bruce Langhorne. Dylan seldom made any revealing comments about the meaning of his lyrics and many can be interpreted to have multiple meanings.

Blinded by the Light - you got me, what's it about? I have some hunches but not all the lyrics line up to fit one interpretation, at least not one i can feel confident of.

Winging it here- I'm going with a song about a groupie. I could explain at length but suffice it to say, blinded by the light is a reference to her being starstruck by the band in the spotlights, and just a ton of references to a rock band, adolescent desire, and sexuality. And the fact that the subject is female. And after all, "she got down, but she never got tight".