A random post, as I'm just searching for something online, but ...
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=og1HAkjOuL0 The above link is to New Order's "True Faith", released in the 80's over here and still sometimes played on the radio. I always loved this song, and now I find - in my elder wisdom and all that - that the lyrics are referring to heroin additiction. The older you are, the more you learn, or something like that - hell, everyone loved this song when I was a kid and no-one questioned the lyrics.
!And the funniest thing about this? Looking at the video, I think the people that thought of it must have been on SOME substance or another!
Classic 80's music strangeness .. you can't beat it.