My bad, I thought the entire post was just a setup for the butt joke. (maybe it was!
) Either way, yes - I'm sure the intention was missed on a lot of his songs - it's impossible to say what they're really about, since we didn't write them. For example, according to
Eltonlinks.com, the song "Daniel" has a meaning I never would have figured out:
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Daniel is the fictional story of a blinded Vietnam veteran who comes home after the war and everybody wants him to be a hero, but all he wants is to be left alone. So he takes off for Spain to get away from it all. The story is told from the point of view of his younger brother, who misses him and would like him to come back home. It's not a true story, just an account of what crippled Vietnam veterans had to go through when they came home from the war. It is inspired by news coverage of the war that Bernie (Elton's lyricist) watched in the early 70s."
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Apparently there was a third verse that explained most of this, or at least the Vietnam connection, but it was deleted from the song.
Interesting, huh?