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nena - 99 red baloons

"It was inspired by something lead singer Gabriele Kerner witnessed at a Rolling Stones concert in West Berlin during their Tattoo You tour.

"Mick Jagger released thousands of balloons at the end of the concert," she recalled. "They were all picked up by the wind and carried in the direction of East Berlin—over the Berlin Wall. I'll never forget that image." She and guitarist-lyricist Carlo Karges imagined what might happen if the balloons were mistaken for UFOs, which led to various countries shooting missiles at each other and, inevitably, a full-on nuclear war. Yes, that's right, "99 Luftballons" is about nuclear devastation caused by a innocent bundle of balloons released into the sky by Mick Jagger."
 
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dolly parton - i will always love you

"When Parton originally wrote it in 1973, she meant it as a farewell to her mentor and longtime singing partner Porter Wagoner. She played it for him as a way of breaking the news that she was about to go solo and their professional relationship was over. Or as Parton explained it years later, "It's saying, 'Just because I'm going don't mean I wont love you. I appreciate you and I hope you do great and I appreciate everything you've done, but I'm out of here.'"
 
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Katy perry - firework

"The true meaning behind the song "Firework" is literal. Katy Perry told Billboard magazine, "Basically I have this very morbid idea… When I pass, I want to be put into a firework and shot across the sky over the Santa Barbara Ocean as my last hurrah."
 
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The verve - the drugs dont work

"While many believe this song is about his drug use, it is actually about when Ashcroft was 11 and his father died of cancer ."
 
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Gwen stefani - hollaback girl

"Gwen Stefani’s hit song “Hollaback Girl” is an undeniably catchy tune that incites dancing in all who hear it. It seems like it’s just a fun song, but it was actually written in response to Courtney Love insulting Gwen and calling her a “cheerleader.”
 
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Third eye blind - semi charmed

"Third Eye Blind scored a massive hit with their single, “Semi-Charmed Life” thanks to its popularity on the radio. However, the radio had to edit out one of the more telling lines about the song’s meaning (being about drug use), so most people don’t know the real lyrics include, “Doing crystal meth will lift you up until you break.”

"According to lead singer Stephan Jenkins's Billboard interview, "It's a dirty, filthy song about snorting speed and getting blow jobs." He explained later in another Billboard interview that the real meaning of "Semi-Charmed Life" was an audio representation of the drug speed: "The music that I wrote for it is not intended to be bright and shiny for bright and shiny's sake. It's intended to be what the seductiveness of speed is like, represented in music."
 

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beatles - lucy in the sky with diamonds

"It’s easy to think “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds” is about lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), but the truth is this song has nothing to do with drugs. John Lennon said the song’s inspiration came from a nursery school drawing by his son, Julian Lennon. The drawing depicted Julian Lennon's classmate, Lucy O' Donnell. Lennon elaborates, “My son came home with a drawing and showed me this strange-looking woman flying around. I said, ‘What is it?’ and he said, ‘It’s Lucy in the sky with diamonds,’ and I thought, ‘That’s beautiful.’ I immediately wrote a song about it. After the album had come out and the album had been published, someone noticed that the letters spelt out LSD and I had no idea about it. … But nobody believes me.”
Kept a shorty, man, find 'em much thinner
If caught, I get mad time just for touching her
Knock wood, so much for hymens
So fly, she should be in the sky with diamonds (Lucy)
Little young thing, she liked to do the tongue thing
At times she would play hard to get, fronting
Or something, she made me feel like the number one king
Run into her now, and we still catch a fun fling

Never understood this reference, now I know where it originates. ty
 
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Eric Clapton - tears in heaven

"In 1991, following the death of his son, Conor, Eric Clapton collaborated with songwriter Will Jennings to write "Tears in Heaven." The song is a memorial to Conor, who at four years old, fell 50 stories to his death from a New York City apartment building. Horribly affected by the death of his son, Clapton went into reclusion for several months before returning to work on the soundtrack to the film Rush. "
 
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Phil collins - in the air tonight

Phil Collins' first solo single, "In the Air Tonight," contains a disturbing monologue about what sounds like the singer's brush with a man who refused to save someone who was drowning. But Collins revealed his first big hit is actually about something else entirely.

"In an interview with the BBC, Collins confessed that the 1981 song is an introspective look at his divorce from his first wife. "It's obviously in anger. It's the angry side, or the bitter side of a separation," he said. "What makes it even more comical is when I hear these stories which started many years ago, particularly in America, of someone coming up to me and saying, 'Did you really see someone drowning?' I said, 'No, wrong.'""
 
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Kept a shorty, man, find 'em much thinner
If caught, I get mad time justice should point out that I found this too :
for touching her
Knock wood, so much for hymens
So fly, she should be in the sky with diamonds (Lucy)
Little young thing, she liked to do the tongue thing
At times she would play hard to get, fronting
Or something, she made me feel like the number one king
Run into her now, and we still catch a fun fling

Never understood this reference, now I know where it originates. ty
Kept a shorty, man, find 'em much thinner
If caught, I get mad time just for touching her
Knock wood, so much for hymens
So fly, she should be in the sky with diamonds (Lucy)
Little young thing, she liked to do the tongue thing
At times she would play hard to get, fronting
Or something, she made me feel like the number one king
Run into her now, and we still catch a fun fling

Never understood this reference, now I know where it originates. ty

I should point out that is what Lennon said, i found this too :

"Even though the first letter of each word in the song spells out "LSD," John Lennon repeated denied claims that The Beatles' 1967 hit "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" was about the drug.


But decades later, Paul McCartney set the story straight in a 2004 interview with Uncut magazine. "'Lucy in the Sky,' that's pretty obvious," he said. "There's others that make subtle hints about drugs, but, you know, it's easy to overestimate the influence of drugs on the Beatles' music.""
 
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Kings of leon - sex is on fire

"Nathan Followill explained that the band never intended the song to be named “Sex on Fire”, and that it was not intended to be about sexuality, he said: “They were totally different lyrics. Depending on whether a song starts with a melody or starts with lyrics, you know if it starts with a melody you just keep playing the melody over and over until you get it down and just throw in any lyrics that fit the verbal flow. It was actually going to be “Set Us on Fire”, but one of the sound mixers in the studio walked in as we were playing and said, “Sex on Fire”, huh?” And it just kind of became a running joke, and we stuck with it.”
Caleb was uncertain to whom the lyrics were directed to, because he wrote the song while using painkillers due to a a shoulder injury following a fight with one of his brothers."
 
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The plain white t's - hey there delilah

"Hey There Delilah" would be really cute if The Plain White T's frontman Tom Higgenson actually knew her. The famous "Delilah," nationally ranked runner and one-time Olympic hopeful Delilah DiCrescenzo told Today she doesn't mind that Tom wrote a song about her despite the fact that they never dated. Actually, Tom wrote "Hey There Delilah" after the first time he met Delilah and she had a boyfriend at the time. The pair never dated, but casually kept in touch enough for Delilah to platonically attend the 2008 Grammys with the band. Still, this makes the song a little less "Photograph" and a little more "Creep."
 
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Nirvana - polly

"It's obvious that Nirvana's "Polly" is about some pretty dark stuff, but Kurt Cobain's inspiration was pulled from national headlines rather than his messed-up personal life. Serial rapist Gerald Friend was originally condemned in 1960 to 75 years in Washington State Prison for the rape and torture of a 12-year old girl, but was released in 1980, only to repeat the same crime in 1987. Nirvana's song rhapsodizes about the dark thoughts of Friend during his second known abduction. Thankfully, both of Friend's victims escaped, and Friend will remain in prison for the rest of his life."
 
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Guns n Rose's- sweet child o mine

"Guns N’ Roses modeled the music for the band’s only No. 1 hit on Lynyrd Skynyrd. But when it came time for the lyrics for this 1988 head-banger, frontman Axl Rose looked no further for inspiration than his then-girlfriend, the model Erin Everly, the daughter of Don Everly of one of the world’s greatest harmony duos, the Everly Brothers."
 
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R.E.M.’s “Man on the Moon”

"R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe penned the lyrics to this 1992 single about the performance artist/comedian Andy Kaufman. In it, he alluded to the star’s consciously bad Elvis impersonation, as well as the rumors that he had faked his death in 1984. Later, film director Milos Forman used the song’s name as the title of a movie based on Kaufman’s life."
 
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Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline”

"The greatest sing-along chorus in the Neil Diamond catalog found inspiration in tragedy. Diamond began writing this piece after seeing a picture of young Caroline Kennedy, daughter of the late President John F. Kennedy. He completed the song in 1969, six years after the president’s assassination, when Caroline was 11. It is an eighth-inning staple at Boston Red Sox games."
 
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Aerosmith - walk this way

"inspired by the Mel Brooks film "Young Frankenstein" . The title comes from a scene in the movie where Igor asks Dr. Frankenstein to "walk this way," and the doctor, played by Gene Wilder, complies by imitating Igor's iconic limp
 
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Eric clapton - Layla

"Layla is a ballad inspired heavily by Clapton’s unrequited love for his friend George Harrison’s wife pattie boyd. the idea for the track initially came from a love story by 12th century Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi, entitled The Story of Layla and Majnun. The book tells the tale of a young man who goes crazy after falling hopelessly in love with an enchanting young woman whom he cannot marry. Clapton eventually married pattie after Harrison died."
 
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Beatles - hey jude

"Feeling paternal, McCartney wrote this song of comfort for John Lennon’s son Julian, who was then just 5, after his father divorced his mother, Cynthia. The song, released as a “non-album single” in 1968, was the first release on the Beatles’ new Apple label."
 
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billie eilish - bad guy

"“It’s basically making fun of everyone and their personas of themselves. Even mine,” Billie explained while chatting in the interview below. “The initial idea for the song is, like, people who have to tell everybody that they are a certain way all the time? They’re not that certain way....In general, I feel like you will never catch a bad bitch telling everyone she’s a bad bitch. It’s on—it’s you. If you’re going around all the time saying, like, ‘Yeah, I’m bad, I’m always breaking rules and doing this and doing that.’ You’re not. I know that because I used to say that and I wasn’t. Bad kids, bad boys, bad bitches, whatever, they do that sh*t and they don’t even know.”
 

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korn - faget

""'faget's about when i was in high school. i was a dirty looking kid, i wasn't in the in crowd, and all the jocks picked on me and called me a big meanie. now all these jocks are coming to our shows and i get to call them big meanies. i get a kick out of it..." "everyone thinks i'm bashing gay people in this song, and i'm not. it's really about me going through high school being called 'pussy', 'queer', and all that stuff, about getting picked on by all these jocks." "when i was at high school i was kind of a nerdy looking kid, cuz i wasn't in the cool crowd with all the jocks i got called a big meanie a lot. if you're not in the cool crowd you get picked on, so that song is my revenge song - cos now all those jocks who used to call me big meanie come to our shows and jump up and down to 'faget' and i just laugh at them." "that was me being picked on at school. yes, being called a queer and a big meanie. 'coz i was the new wave kid who would go around wearing make-up and ruffled shirts and shit, and the kids didn't like that too much. they used to beat my ass and call me a big meanie. now all of those kids come to my shows, and i got the sickest revenge, 'cuz i wrote 'faget' and they wanna be my friends now." the hiv tattoo is really a "fuck you" to all the people who made fun of him."


Ha

The dipshit got a HIV tattoo?

What a fag meanie
 

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korn - faget

""'faget's about when i was in high school. i was a dirty looking kid, i wasn't in the in crowd, and all the jocks picked on me and called me a big meanie. now all these jocks are coming to our shows and i get to call them big meanies. i get a kick out of it..." "everyone thinks i'm bashing gay people in this song, and i'm not. it's really about me going through high school being called 'pussy', 'queer', and all that stuff, about getting picked on by all these jocks." "when i was at high school i was kind of a nerdy looking kid, cuz i wasn't in the cool crowd with all the jocks i got called a big meanie a lot. if you're not in the cool crowd you get picked on, so that song is my revenge song - cos now all those jocks who used to call me big meanie come to our shows and jump up and down to 'faget' and i just laugh at them." "that was me being picked on at school. yes, being called a queer and a big meanie. 'coz i was the new wave kid who would go around wearing make-up and ruffled shirts and shit, and the kids didn't like that too much. they used to beat my ass and call me a big meanie. now all of those kids come to my shows, and i got the sickest revenge, 'cuz i wrote 'faget' and they wanna be my friends now." the hiv tattoo is really a "fuck you" to all the people who made fun of him."


I think I caught 6 “big meanies” in there lol