When Rolling Stone named the former Beatle's ubiquitous hit the third-greatest song of all time, John Lennon's hallmark lyrics were described as '22 lines of graceful, plain-spoken faith in the power of a world, united in purpose, to repair and change itself.' But the feel-good sentiments behind the song Jimmy Carter once said was 'used almost equally with national anthems' have some serious Communist underpinnings. I had birth on the brain, I was struck by what a funny pun it was to be bounced from the womb.' 2. In 2010, Wilson admitted to American Songwriter that he had babies on his mind partway through writing Semisonic's gangbuster breakout hit, stating, 'My wife and I were expecting our first kid very soon after I wrote that song.

Semisonic frontman Dan Wilson predicted the second life of the band's only big hit in 2010, Wilson told The Hollywood Reporter, 'I really thought that that was the greatest destiny for 'Closing Time,' that it would be used by all the bartenders.' But when Wilson penned lyrics like 'Time for you to go out to the places you will be from,' the song's focus was more an emphasis on the miracle of childbirth than an ode to kicking late-night barflies to the curb. Here's a look at 25 songs that got their meanings twisted and misconstrued-and the original intentions put forth by the artists who wrote them. And then you have something like The Beatles's 'I Am the Walrus.' So it's hardly surprising that once you get beyond the title, there are some song lyrics that are either open to interpretation or just downright confusing. In the history of the music industry, there are some songs that are pretty straightforward-think Color Me Badd's 'I Wanna Sex You Up,' for example (hey, we didn't say they had to be good songs).

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