Dirty Lyrics/Double Entendres In Songs That You Didn't Get As A Kid, But Then Suddenly Understand As An Adult

Warrant - "Cherry Pie"
"Think about baseball and swing all night"
This just hit me, 20 years later

Beastie Boys - "She's Crafty"
"I think her name was Lucy, but they all called her loose"
Bonus: The line about seeing her on "8th and 40-deuce" I didn't understand until I was 22 and moved to New York.

Ray Parker Jr. - "Ghostbusters"
"Bustin makes me feel good"
Was this intentional?

T-La Rock - "Tudy Fruity Judy"
I thought the line about "busting a nut" was about humping a girl so hard you broke your testicle.

Kid me: "Why don't we do what in the road? What's he talking about?"
Dad: "Ummm... I guess that's up to you."

1983. "Relax, don't do it / When you wanna come". It's been banned by the BBC, so it must be naughty... but what on earth are the Frankies going on about?

1989. By now, I understand exactly what Relax is about. I also now understand the reference to "fish and finger pie" in Penny Lane. (I have to say that while I will always regard it as one of the most beautiful songs ever written, the schoolboy smuttiness cheapens it a little bit for me.)

"Afternoon Delight" to thread!

Not a lyric, but... "If I said you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me?"

AC/DC's "You shook me all night long" - "she told me to come but I was already there"
The gun references in "Regulate" i.e. "handy with the steel," "18 in the clip and one in the hole"-I remember a friend's uncle explaining that one.

Great thread idea, btw.

Never had to, knock on wood.

Kiss' "Nothing to Lose"

Before I had a baby
I didn't care anyway
I thought about the back door
I didn't know what to say
But once I got a baby
I, I tried every way
She didn't wanna do it
But she did anyway

But baby please don't refuse
You know you got nothin' to lose

Contrary to my youthful first impression, this song is decidedly not about entering/exiting one's home through the service door.

I'm gonna get up in the mornin'
I believe I'll dust my broom

Wynonie Harris' "Keep On Churnin' `Til the Butter Comes" is surprisingly not about manufacturing dairy products.

Did you really think that at one point?

"let's go upstairs and put our things together" thought this was about puzzles or legos or something.

"Tootsee Roll" was big when I was 10 and I remember thinking why are they called 69 Boyz, it's only like 4 dudes.

thats how you post in this thread. ^^^

LOL I fell trap to the 69 Boyz conundrum too!

holy fuck that makes me feel old

Not a lyric, but... "If I said you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me?"

Not a lyric?

"I'm invited in for coffee & I give the dog a bone."

"You are supreme/The chicks'll cream/For Greased Lightning"

References to jelly rolls. "These blues musicians sure had a thing for pastries."

Just a one-eyed cat, peepin' in the sea food store.

well shut my mouth

Last line of Start Me Up...

You make a dead man come

"These blues musicians sure had a thing for pastries."

And lemons.

References to jelly rolls. "These blues musicians sure had a thing for pastries."

― dad a, Wednesday, May 13, 2009 11:03 AM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark

can't believe i'm just realizing this

"Were you down upon your knees/ Beating around the bush?"

Well into adulthood - I guess it was just hardwired into my brain - I assumed Bon Scott was wondering if someone had been looking for something in the undergrowth.

One that fooled nobody when it came out: Sugar Walls. To this day that song is pretty shocking.

You mean Sugar Walls isn't about the witch's house in Hansel and Gretel?

Driving around with my daughter when she was five, she told me she really liked the album playing. It was T. Rex's Futuristic Dragon. I asked her why, and she said, "He likes to sing about little girls!" She was quite flattered.

LOOOL

that's hilarious. aaaand creepy.

"I'm invited in for coffee & I give the dog a bone."

― harveyw, Wednesday, May 13, 2009 10:26 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

Never occurred to me until just now but then again, I never reallu thought about it either!

OK THAT IS SO FUNNY x-posts

1983. "Relax, don't do it / When you wanna come". It's been banned by the BBC, so it must be naughty... but what on earth are the Frankies going on about?

in primary school we used to sing "relax, don't do it, pick your nose and chew it" and think we were *making* it rude. don't remember being aware of any controversy / banning at the time (I was five).

Is this song the basis for suicide (don't do it) in heathers?

Deadeye Dick- New Age Girl=== "She don't eat meat/but she sho' like to bone." i knew it was dirty when i was 10, but not exactly why.

also the entirety of Mellow Gold to thread-- only when i was 18 and re-purchased that album did i understand what the fuck was going on. also, how that album is unbelievably brilliant.

the entirety of Mellow Gold is a double entendre that I'm not getting?

Like its a concept album about piss?

"... i understand what the fuck was going on. also, how that album is unbelievably brilliant."
maybe let us in on it?

well, i just meant that the album is so full of double-entendres that it might as well be one big double entendre.

for example?

This "Mellow Gold is a concept album devoted to piss" makes a lot more sense to me than Kid A's about 9/11 or something.

I mean I would call a lyric like "a giant dildo crushing the sun" a single entendre

the dildo represents a penis?

sorry.