Songs you think you know the meaning to

We all have those song, songs we think we know the meaning to. Take Green Day's Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) most would think it is about the passage of time and trying to hold together a long distance relationship, when in all reality, it is Billy Joe Armstrong's way of telling off his ex-girlfriend.

There are those that seem so blatantly obvious that we actually may talk ourselves out of the right meaning, such as Good Charlotte's Hold On a song about holding on "when you feel like letting go" was actually written after several of Good Charlotte's fans wrote in to them, feeling very comfortable with the band, about contemplating suicide, which one reason there is a video on suicide featuring the band, suicide survivors and the song, a video which has become increasingly hard to find online.

There is also the R.E.M. song Losing My Religion which some know the meaning behind the phrase but most don't, members of R.E.M. said that the phrase "Losing my religion" in some area's means that one is losing his/her shit, mentally at least.

And then there are songs such as The Kill by 30 Seconds to Mars, which seems like a bunch of questions one might ask or want to ask at the end of a relationship with another person, possibly a lover, but it is said that the lead singer of the band, Jared Leto, said it was about forming personalities within yourself.

It's kind of funny because the music video slightly resembles the movie version of The Shining. But the great thing about good music, is that no matter what the true meaning behind the song, every person who listens to the song can hear the same words you do and have their own opinion as to what the song is actually about.