Innuendo

Length of Shower: it's not the length but what I mean by the length that matters --So many things have other meanings to them.  Sometimes we say one thing but are really trying to express something else.  That is called "innuendo." When we speak in a code where we are saying something but communicating something else, that is innuendo.  It happens, and we see it, all the time.  Candy cigarettes. The Washington Monument.  And the greatest SNL skit of all time, "Schwetty Balls."  But of all the places and ways innuendo is used, song lyrics use it the most.

Song writers like Bob Dylan, Rod Stewart, Billy Joel and even the Beatles were rarely meaning the literal words they were singing.  Songs by these artists and many more are lots of times about drugs or sex or both.  Think about songs like, "Rainy Day Woman" or "Captain Jack" or "Pink Cadillac."  Those were not about Women, or Cadillacs or a Captain named Jack.  They were about drugs and sex.  And if you still think Prince is really talking about rain that is a slight purple color in his song "Purple Rain" than you are largely mistaken.

The one genre that seems to have very little of this going on would be country music.  At least that is what I thought until I heard a song today on the radio and almost choked on my gum at how full of sexual innuendo it was.  Not only the lyrics but the title is full of a hidden message.  Check out these lyrics to just the chorus and try to tell me he isn't talking pretty directly about sex.

My Big Green Tractor

Chorus: And I can take you for a ride on my big green tractor
We can go slow or make it go faster
Down through the woods and out to the pasture
'Long as I'm with you it really don't matter

Climb up in my lap and drive if you want to
Girl, you know you got me to hold on to
We can go to town, but baby if you'd rather
I'll take you for a ride on my big green tractor


Holy cow!  I guess country music is no longer exempt from innuendo, at least not in my mind.  Maybe it never was, but whether it was or wasn't it definitely is full of innuendo now.  Come to think of it there is also that other country song, "Save a horse, Ride a Cowboy."  Man, that is sexual innuendo if I've ever heard it, too!


Do you think I could use that as a pick up line, by the way?  "Hey girl, you wanna take a ride on my big green tractor?"  LOL.