Do you have any popular lyrics or sayings that you always thought were something else, but recently discovered the true meaning or real lyrics?

Do you have any popular lyrics or sayings that you always thought were something else, but recently discovered the true meaning or real lyrics?
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I often wondered who Miss.Miller was in the lyrics to Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody. Oh & why does she not want to let him go? A schoolteacher perhaps giving him detention.
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