Song lyrics you didn’t get as a kid…

[cheekygirl75]

I was just listening to “Feeling Groovy” by Simon & Garfunkel and thinking how I thought it was just a cute song about being in a good mood when I was a kid…

Any songs you heard as a kid with lyrics that went over your head?

 

[Ingenue844]

 

[HumpDayHoratio]

 

[ydahecnot]

I was just listening to “Feeling Groovy” by Simon & Garfunkel and thinking how I thought it was just a cute song about being in a good mood when I was a kid…

Any songs you heard as a kid with lyrics that went over your head?

It’s something other than that? (59th Street Bridge Song)

 

[cheekygirl75]

It’s something other than that? (59th Street Bridge Song)

I suppose I should say, feeling good for no chemically induced reason

 

[deesto99]

I dated a guy who is a Tool fan, and he would explain the complexities of the music, whilst we were fucking, tool would be blaring and I'd love it. Now I've taken interest in the music

 

[Mnkinkcpl]

How about Puff the Magic Dragon.

 

[cheekygirl75]

How about Puff the Magic Dragon.

Oh that always just used to make me cry

 

[Nicefella]

I was sure that this meant more than touching herself. I thought it meant that her lover “ touched “ her soul

 

[Ingenue844]

I was sure that this meant more than touching herself. I thought it meant that her lover “ touched “ her soul

That’s along the lines of what I thought too. That she was “touched” by something sweet he said/did.

 

[Ingenue844]

As a kid, I took this literally

 

[LaisDeMarieDeFrance]

I thought the guy had a medical condition that made him move slowly.

 

[Nicefella]

That’s along the lines of what I thought too. That she was “touched” by something sweet he said/did.

I love how we all immediately thought that she just rubbed one out when she thought of him.

 

[Ingenue844]

I love how we all immediately thought that she just rubbed one out when she thought of him.

Well…which was it?

 

[Nicefella]

I’d like to think it was the soul touching.

 

[Ingenue844]

See. Me too.

But everyone explained to me it was not.

 

[AnnyMouse28]

Love My Self - Hailee Steinfeld.

Except I wasn't a kid. I was 48. I only realized she was talking about masturbation last year.

Pictures in my mind on replay
I'm gonna touch the pain away
I know how to scream my own name

 

[ericrodman101]

Does anyone understand what Bridge Over Troubled Waters means?

 

[ericrodman101]

I think it’s a reference to a troubled time and the bridge is a safe place to get to.

I’ve had people tell me the silver girl in verse 3 is a heroin needle or even Robert Kennedy‘s funeral train.

 

[ericrodman101]

I would lean towards Bobby Kennedy’s train.

Which is how several people were run over and killed. Even more seriously though, if that is the case, verse 3 is dark as dark.

 

[ericrodman101]

Paul Zsigmondy was not afraid to speak about injustice/racism/politics

Is that Paul Simon’s ancestral name? Wikipedia says silver girl refers to his then wife’s grey hair, and refutes the heroin angle.

 

[Btq97]

 

[HumpDayHoratio]

 

[AlexBailey]

I’d listen to rock-n-roll in the car when my kids were little and would often play The Rolling Stones. One of the songs the kids wanted to hear over and over was Mother’s Little Helper.

I thought that was and odd choice on their part, talking about how tired and unappreciated mother can get…

The kids later told me they thought the opening line of the song was, “When a dragon is getting old.”

 

[AlexBailey]

How about Puff the Magic Dragon.

Oh that always just used to make me cry

That song always made me wonder what ‘ceiling wax’ is.

I love that song. Every time I’ve been to Hanalei on Kauai Island it’s gotten stuck in my head, especially when I pass by the oceanside caves on misty mornings.