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A childhood belief about misheard lyrics

I used to believe…

believing that songs always had to have a sense i turned the chorus "i am blue -la da dee la da da" of the europop song "blue" that was a hit (in germany) 3 years ago or so) into "i am blue - i am the other guy" and thought it was about a guy who had just been left by his girlfriend. my singing skills being rather bad no one could recognize the song when i asked til finally i had coffee with a friend on his balcony and the wind carried the song to us from an open window. i jumped and said that's the song - we had a good laugh and a very funny afternoon. word of mouth made it that all my friends call me now "the other guy".

— jankai

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