50 Songs With Hidden Meanings

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A lot of Beatles songs actually had dark meanings behind them, and this one is no exception. "Blackbird" isn't actually about a literal blackbird with broken wings. It's actually about the American civil rights movement. However, the band has given various interpretations of the song over the years. 

"Blackbird"—The Beatles

In 2008, Paul McCartney confirmed this in an interview with Mojo when he said: "It wasn't necessarily a black 'bird,' but it works that way, as much as then you called girls' birds'... it wasn't exactly an ornithology ditty; it was purely symbolic."

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