It happens to me all the time that I’m listening to a song and wondering what they hell the artists are going on about. Is that broken shell they’re singing about symbolic of the rough life they had growing up as teens in the USA or did they just have mishap making breakfast and felt it was traumatic enough to try and build a career out of? Well, thanks to the internet, and more specifically, SongMeanings.net, most of my questions have been answered. SongMeanings.net is a user-driven database of song lyrics, which is nothing new in itself, but this time with a twist. The goal behind SongMeanings is to allow users not only to talk about their mis-heard lyrics, but also to discuss and provide their views on the actual meanings behind their favorite songs. A lot of the times, it’s pure speculation, but, quite often we have solid sources on what exactly was going on in the artist’s head when they were singing about purple skies and raining fish.

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