When I was 6 or 7 back in the early 80s, one of my very favourite songs (still is to this day!) was "One Night in Bangkok" by Murray Head. Oddly enough I knew all the words and took pains to pronounce them correctly (everything from "Tirolean spa" to "cerebral fitness")...even though I had no idea what two-thirds of them meant. I had no clue that the song was about chess, but that Bangkok must be an awful place & having to spend a night there would suck because he was always being kicked "above the waistline"...was it some sort of punishment? And if he did something worse, would they kick him BELOW the waistline? Ultimately, I concluded the song was about the horrifying night he spent in Bangkok and I told myself that I was never, ever going there for fear of having the snot kicked out of me.
A childhood belief about songs
others believed things like this
- The song 'there's a bad moon out to night.' i thought they were saying 'there's a bathroom on the right.'— kim in alabama
- I always thought the song Blinded by the light went "Wrapped up like a dousche, another runner in the night"— Dawn
- My mother didn't want me outside at night so she told me i had to come in or else 'the night air would get me'— Dan
- Right when I started school, I believed that you could get kicked out of school for chewing gum. — Rheeb
- I use to cover my head at night because I thought monsters would give me a bad hair cut while I was sleeping!— Amy
- i used to think in the song "hit me with your best shot" was really "hit me while i'm on pot" yea.... i suck!!— Donna