Song lyrics sometimes just don’t make sense.

Our youngest son Paul is a singer, songwriter and guitar player. He’s had many bands over the years and has written some great songs (a future blog posting will be about the song he wrote for his dad’s surprise 60th birthday party).

While I think I’ve understood all of his lyrics in the past, I remember one time when he was in a cover band (a band that plays someone else’s music, not original) and they sang “Take a load off, Fannie (Which I always thought was "Annie” and wondered if there was a comma before ‘Annie’) .

I told him I always wondered what that meant. His reply was, “I don’t know, Mom. Songwriters often don’t know what their lyrics mean.”

I thought that quite strange until I heard David Bowie say the same thing in an interview. “Come on now, what the hell did you think I meant by ‘Ground Control to Major Tom?’

Paul, you’re in pretty good company!

Other than “Louie, Louie,” what song lyrics have you always wondered about?