10 "Innocent" Songs You Didn't Realise Were Filthy As A Kid

3. Little Red Corvette - Prince

"I guess I must be dumb'Cause you had a pocket full of horsesTrojan and some of them used." It's safe to say that any Prince song is about sex, but this one went way over our heads. He's not singing about a sports car - he's referring to a promiscuous woman with a dang bad attitude, which is pretty obvious from the line: "I guess I should've known by the way you parked your car sideways". He knows she's been around the block a few times, but he's still gonna give her a go, despite knowing it's not gonna work out (not to mention the empty condom wrappers in her pocket) - pretty complicated stuff for a kid to fully come to grips with.

 
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