what songs do you relate to?

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Some I like are:

The Smiths: How Soon Is Now
3 Doors Down: Be Like That
Bruce Cockburn: If I Had A Rocket Launcher
Genesis: Land Of Confusion
Pat Benetar: Invincible

will try to think of more

p.s how do you put you tube link in your post?

Well, this is going to sound really depressing (!) but when I was a little kid, my older sister played the Beatles a lot in our house, and Eleanor Rigby stood out to me as being about someone I related to.

"All the lonely people, where do they all belong?" stood out painfully to me. And the lyrics about how she died and was buried and "nobody came" -- I was only five years old, yet already I thought "That's going to happen to me...." I just remember feeling profoundly alone and separate and friendless even when I was very young.

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yep... "Eleanor Rigby" was written during the Beatles' introspective period, probably the most creative period of their existence. After "Magical Mystery Tour," they were more into "going back into their roots," so their rock-n-roll became "harder" again.

I love the Beatles -- I always say I was practically "breast fed" their music, haha!

Eleanor Rigby is a great song, but it's awfully sad that a five year old kid thought "yep, that's me"!

A sad 5-year-old, but a very INTELLIGENT 5-year-old.

I don't believe I would have had the sophistication to understand the song well until my adolescence.

I wasn't a very smart kid, really--except in terms of facts and figures.

Aw, I'm sure you were very smart -- facts-and-figures-smart is smart!

Thanks for the kind words, but really I just heard "lonely people" and questions of not belonging in the lyrics and I related -- even though I wouldn't have been thinking the words "I relate" at that time, just felt the feeling.

LOL....at age 5, I couldn't even UNDERSTAND lyrics...at all...as they were played on the radio. I only understood the music.

I would hear words sometimes---but I couldn't understand what was being said. Weird, huh? LOL

I only understood words, at that time, within my immediate context (when somebody spoke to me directly). Or when I was watching TV. I couldn't understand people when they were talking away from me. I still have a bit of trouble understanding people on the phone, and understanding lyrics on the radio; it takes at least a bit of effort for me to understand all but the most evident lyrics.

My auditory processing is still rather poor. People have to repeat themselves sometimes.

Actually, it's funny you should mention not understanding words in songs as a kid, because I formed a theory about that when I was a kid! I, too, mostly didn't catch what a singer was saying, except when something stood out very clearly, like the Eleanor Rigby words about loneliness.

But mostly I too had trouble comprehending words in pop songs, and I marvelled at my older sister for seeming to know exactly what was being sung (long before internet look-up of course, too). My mother got lyrics wrong too, like me, and I vividly remember telling my mum that I think understanding what a pop singer is singing has a pattern --- you're bad at it when a child, get better and get good at it when a young person/teen, then get bad at it again as you "get old"!

I don't think my mum appreciated being told she was getting old, hahahahh!

Looking back, I think the concept I was putting together was that the target audience is culturally on the same wavelength as the pop or rock artist singing to them, so they more easily catch onto the words, while little kids and oldsters are clueless -- but again, I didn't formulate it in those exact terms in my head, I just had that concept in there.

Yes, I was a pretty weird kid, lol!

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Remember that song about the Oriole: "Rockin' Robin?" Did you like bird songs when you were a kid?

I heard the Jackson 5 version before the 1958 version.

I also remember thinking the song "Ticket to Ride" was about going on an amusement park ride.

I also thought "Joy to the World" by Three Dog Night was about "Jeremiah, the Bullfrog." I even thought that was the song's name.

I loved Jackson Five's Rockin' Robin! I too heard their version first. I was really into Motown and I made my mum buy the single "I'll Be There" and a few others.

When I was a little kid I heard all kinds of misheard lyrics, it was pretty comical! When I heard Creedence Clearwater Revival's Proud Mary, I thought the chorus "Rolling on the river" was "Roll it on the millstone"! I was always singing around the house, and I would sing all my wrong lyrics at the top of my voice, unaware that all the words were way off!

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I think there's a website devoted to "misheard lyrics."

"Louie Louie" by the Kingsmen (and many others) is probably the most "misheard" song of all time. The FBI even investigated it! It was supposed to be all dirty and raunchy--about cunnilingus, especially. The FBI attempted to listen to the lyrics (of the Kingsmen version)--but they couldn't comprehend them. The finding, as far as its obscenity was concerned, was inconclusive; nothing was done to prevent the song from being played on the radio, or to the Kingsmen.

All "Louie Louie" is about is some guy in the Caribbean who misses some girl on another island. He's relating this fact to a bartender named Louie (in a bar by a marina, I suppose) He plans on getting on a boat to get to that other island and meet that girl. The song ends..."And away I go now......" with some screaming. He was getting on the boat for the overnight trip to the other island. Maybe part of the reason for its incomprehensibility was that the song was sung in a West Indian accent, with West Indian syntax.

Louie Louie indeed must be the most misunderstood song of all time! The singer's pronunciations certainly didn't help!

That website is "Kiss This Guy" -- named for Jimi Hendrix's Kiss the Sky (with a chorus that sounds like...."excuse me, while I kiss this guy"!)KissThisGuy.com

That website has given me many a belly-laugh; it's truly hilarious.

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I hope you sleep well tonight, Birdie.

You folks in England had a pretty warm summer--but now it's nice and cool. When it's about 25 or so Celsius, you can't really smell Nature in the air. Now you could--I think you're at about 10 Celsius for a low temperature now.

Some day, I'd like to buy a house and experience the Pine Tree smell.

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How about "Subterranean Homesick Blues"?