‘Poker Face’ – Lady Gaga

While it’s obvious on even the first listen that Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face” is filled with sexual innuendo, it’s initially not quite as clear that the song describes a specific sexual experience Lady Gaga had.

According to the singer, the song’s lyrics detail a time she fantasized about a woman while being intimate with a man, the “poker face” in question being her expression to not allow her male lover to realize what she was really thinking about.

Wake Me Up When September Ends – Green Day

Green Day’s “Wake Me Up When September Ends” was a an ode to singer Billie Joe Armstrong’s father, who passed when the singer was seven years old – hence the song’s opening line.

However due to it’s placement as the eleventh track on the band’s heavily 9/11-influenced American Idiot album plus the Iraq War-themed video continues to lead many to believe that the song is political in meaning to this day.