What are some songs that you associate with it's original meaning than what people always associate it with?

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What are some songs that you associate with it's original meaning than what people always associate it with? - Lemmy.World

For example, I remember the time when American Idiot by Green Day came out in 2004. The song “Wake Me Up When September Ends” was everywhere on the radio. The song is about the death of the vocalist’s father dying when he was age 10. Yet, because that the song and album was released 3 years after 9/11 and 1 year since America started the War in Iraq, everyone associated that song with 9/11 more than what the song originally meant. And everytime I have listened to it, I just continue to associate that song with it’s original meaning and not because people randomly decided to make it about 9/11.

“Brown Eyed Girl” is about an inter-racial relationship, not anal sex.

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People think brown eyed girl by Van Morrison is about anal sex?? People that have heard the song or read the lyrics??
A Truth Kept Back For Far Too Long: Brown Eyed Girl - Sneer Campaign

The Van Morrison hit “Brown Eyed Girl” is just one of those songs you hear innumerable times over the course of your life. You’ve probably heard it in your home, your car radio, overhead at the gro…

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Wow. That’s does not give me any hope for humanity.

Some people are just too fast for common sense to catch up with.