10 Song Meanings EVERYONE Gets Wrong

10. Semi Charmed Life - Third Eye Blind

For a decade as desolate as the '90s were in its midperiod, Semi-Charmed Life by Third Eye Blind stood out like a ray of sunshine.

Even with the death of Kurt Cobain still afflicting everyone in the alternative community, this was the kind of fun in the sun sounding pick me up that we all really wanted to hear. Catchy stuff...as long as you ignore literally every other line in this song.

As much as this song has more hooks than 12 pop songs combined, Stephen Jenkins probably did that on purpose to hide just how dark the lyrics were. Across his pseudo hip hop vocal delivery, the entire story behind our protagonist's semi charmed life has to do with his seedy amusements while living in California.

When not talking about the gang-banging that he's involved, he's going on and on about the beauties of crystal meth. Yeah... instead of being an adrenaline rush, this is a man feigning for his next fix.

It also re-contextualizes a lot of the lyrics once you start to train your ears to hear it that way, with having a belly face down on the mattress potentially hinting at him overdosing. Even though he claims to need something else to get him through, here's hoping there's at least a detox centre in his future to keep him running.