10 Hard Rock Song Lyrics That Nobody Understands

The definitive foot-stomper from 2011's El Camino, Gold On The Ceiling helped push The Black Keys to new commercial heights with a glammed-up hard rock sound.

While casual listeners might interpret the central lyric, 'They wanna get my gold on the ceiling' as an aspiration for ever greater record sales, an eccentric hiding spot for the band's millions, or a new paint job for their practice room, all are way off the mark. Singer, Dan Auerbach, has confirmed that the song is actually about the 'illusory nature of material success'. The gold on the ceiling is the band's modest fortune and success, which they admit, with the current dog-eat-dog state of the music industry, could be taken from them at any time.

There is perhaps more than just a little irony then in the fact that The Black Keys engaged in a legal battle with the advertising agency representing Pizza Hut, after TV adverts went out for the restaurant chain's Cheesy Bites Pizza featuring a cheap rip-off of their track.