Lyrics of the Lost
By Peter and Dave
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A series of unfair and wildly speculative investigations, critiques and interpretations exposing the hidden meanings of overplayed smooth radio pop songs. Featured in "Top 10 Pop Podcasts on the Planet”. Support the show at https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/peter-davis6/subscribe
Regular segments: Internet Theories, Misheard Lyrics, Listener Comments. Visit https://speakpipe.com/lyrics to record us your own voicemail hot-take on your smooth pop song of suckiness and you could be on a future episode! (you can also email sound files or text to poidadavis@gmail.com if that's easier).
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Ace of Base's ALL THAT SHE WANTS is another baby or babe or bae or gushy-bumps
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Feb 08, 2026 |
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The Proclaimers I'M GONNA BE (500 MILES) a sort-of Christmas special because of Starbucks
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Dec 27, 2025 |
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Coldplay's FIX YOU or reanimate you, jumbotron you, desex you, or laser your bones unless you're a moth
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Nov 09, 2025 |
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Psy's GANGNAM STYLE of drinking coffee and beating his beloved at everything
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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The Beach Boys' GOD ONLY KNOWS who I'd be in a music video made 55 years after the song
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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The Moody Blues' NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN or KNIGHTS or possibly both if they're in the KKK but maybe just incels or DIY handymen
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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Chappell Roan's GOOD LUCK, BABE! and her struggle in quantum physics and formal nomenclature
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May 08, 2025 |
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Duran Duran's THE REFLEX is a lonely child, a goddess or Leprechaun, a murderous conman or a wang
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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k.d. lang's CONSTANT CRAVING has always been the inspiration for naming chocolate and cake shop businesses
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Feb 23, 2025 |
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Won't you take me to FUNKYTOWN by Lipps Inc and Pseudo Echo and an energy company and others others
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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Band Aid's DO THEY KNOW IT'S CHRISTMAS? Okay, yes they did, but we didn't know they knew, we're just popstars
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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The Cars who's gonna DRIVE you home tonight if I ditch you here and your dad's not available?
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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BREAK MY STRIDE by Mattew Wilder AND Unique 2 AND Blue Lagoon AND Unique II and many more
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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SMOOTH by Santana featuring Rob Thomas of Matchbox Twenty and Rick Astley of NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP
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Jul 05, 2024 |
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Nelly Furtado's I'M LIKE A BIRD except not a penguin or emu, just the ones that can fly but I won't crap on your car or anything, that's not what this is about
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May 06, 2024 |
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Cliff Richard's WIRED FOR SOUND and for crime fighting in shopping malls, road safety and brain washing
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Mar 24, 2024 |
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Hanson's MMMBOP, scooby-di-dooby-wop, bop doo-bap, wap-baba-doo
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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Mariah Carey's ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU and cracker jokes and inoffensive MC greetings and slavery or cannibalism and fertility and revenge and demon possession or necromancy and Maslow's needs
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Nov 26, 2023 |
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Foreigner's I WANT TO KNOW WHAT LOVE IS in case I need it when I'm older, plus hiking tips, randy monks and cowboys and the tin man from Oz but the real answer is from Artificial Intelligence in song
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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Seal's KISS FROM A ROSE on the grey or gray or the grave or the greying tower which is probably a lighthouse because it's on the sea and it snows there at sea level which means it's near the arctic
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Sep 17, 2023 |
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Daft Punk's GET LUCKY with Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers - We've come too far to give up talking pop lyrics but let's not raise the bar, just lower your expectations. We raise our cups to you!
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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Cher's do you BELIEVE in life after love after autotune after denial after bribery after Candyman after 6 writers and 8 years after the AI apocalypse after Sonny Bono after happy ever after
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Jun 11, 2023 |
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Michael Bolton's HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO LIVE WITHOUT YOU when I barely know you, if you even exist, I mean, you could be Katie Couric or Lady Diana or my own mother or a figment and you're pantless?
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May 12, 2023 |
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Shania Twain's THAT DON'T IMPRESS ME MUCH but you're in with a chance - I don't ask much - a touch of a cat or the horse from the Godfather, the right car, no Brad Pitt, James Bond or Elon Musk
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Apr 01, 2023 |
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James Blunt’s YOU’RE BEAUTIFUL & possibly a ghost, a cultist, or a puppy. Premature vocalisation. Is life brilliant? What does ChatGPT AI think and can it write a better song? Posh Spice goes Gangsta!
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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A-ha’s TAKE ON ME -their sketchy video, their sketchy translations, their wrestling, their employment interview techniques, insect life cycles, and shying (shiny?) alien shape-shifting body-snatchers
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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The Beatles Christmas face-off: John Lennon’s HAPPY X-MAS (WAR IS OVER) versus Paul McCartney’s WONDERFUL CHRISTMASTIME – The guilt trip versus the Atari sound effects. Happy X-mas Kyoko & Julian!
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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Take That's BACK FOR GOOD ... or are they? Nope, just stopping by to warn us all about toxic relationships, domestic abuse, the Incredible Hulk, the Pied Piper, Gas-Lighting, and a Police siege
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Nov 27, 2022 |
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Spandau Ballet's TRUE stories of war and world domination, plus the joy of traditional dancing (if you can), pop invasions, machine guns and barbed wire, smoking too much Kemp, said or told or known?
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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TOTO's song about AFRICA and geographic uncertainties, hearts of darkness, fish, David Attenborough, Gods, Satan, verbs we never possessed, things that are just like the same thing, and racism?
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Oct 01, 2022 |
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Phil Collin's SUSSUDIO - is it a girl? Is it a drug? Is it a self-help therapy? Is it a cry for help? Is it stuttering? Is it racist or ableist? Is it pseudo? Is it Susan, Judy and Cleo? Or much more?
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Aug 08, 2022 |
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The Bee Gee's TRAGEDY of being vampires? or banshee or other soulless being, or is it the tragedy of Kevin Costner's WaterWorld? Or Steps? Or the tragedy of Cambridge university exams? Also cat vomit!
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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Charlene's I'VE NEVER BEEN TO ME but she's been to Paradise, Butte County, California and several other places including one of the thousands of islands owned by Greece. The Nice one?
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May 12, 2022 |
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Madonna's OPEN YOR HEART (if you can defeat her lock), sexy symbolism and mixed metaphors, Madge vs Cyndi Lauper, Star Trek, the romance of sexual harassment, chastity & explosives, witchcraft
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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The Crash Test Dummies' things that make them go Mmm and Ahh, minor childhood traumas and the hyper empathy of men with long hair, the Canadian connection to Alien Abduction, conspiracy, witchcraft
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Feb 27, 2022 |
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Joe Cocker's YOU ARE SO BEAUTIFUL if you're a mum, backhanded insults, qualifiers, repetition on repeat, memories from the womb, the word moist, Flight of the Conchords, needs vs wants, lighthouses
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Jan 29, 2022 |
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George Michael’s LAST CHRISTMAS I gave you my brooch, my crazy frog, my explosive device, my cheeseburger, and my cynical speech from Trainspotting. A Christmas special.
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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Carly Simon's YOU'RE SO VAIN that this song IS about YOU, plus Schrodinger's Cat, the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man, and odontophobia
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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Billy Joel's PIANO MAN and other super heroes, super egos and unconvincing bar scenes
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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Cyndi Lauper's GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN WITH RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
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Jul 31, 2021 |