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I used to believe…

Destiny's Child - I Depend On Me

"The shoes on my feet
Alf Garnett
The clothes I'm wearing
Alf Garnett
The rock I'm rocking
Alf Garnett
Coz I depend on meat
If I want it
The watch I'm wearing
Alf Garnett
The house I live in
Alf Garnett
The car I'm driving
Alf Garnett
I depend on meat
I depend on meat..."

i used to think the song 'living on a prayer' was actually 'living on a stair.' after a while it changed to 'living on a prarie' in fact i only just figured out what the real lyrics were when i read it on this site!

I used to believe…

As a child, I was for a long time perplexed by the reference to "the land of the free and the home of the brave" in the last line of the U.S. national anthem (The Srar Spangled Banner). I thought it referred to two separate parts of the U.S. I tried for awhile drawing maps, coloring states two separate colors, trying to figure out correctly which states made up the land of the free and which ones made up the home of the brave.

I used to believe…

There was a girl that used to come over and play with me and my sister and we would listen to Blackstreet "No Diggity" all the time. She picked up on some of the lyrics and would sing "I like the way you work here, no diggity, I like the way you bag it up" Instead of "I like the way you work it, no diggity, I like the way you back it up"
It was the cutest thing.

I used to believe…

My parents listened to country a lot and there was a song by Garth Brooks called "I'm Shameless" and I thought he was saying "I'm shavin"

I used to believe…

Remember the song "Love stinks" By J. Geils... My cousin used to think it said Elastics..yeah yeah...Elastics...We used to laugh so hard, we never told her what it really said.

I used to believe…

The song "America The Beautiful" with its last line "From sea to shining sea" had me perplexed for quite some time. I puzzled arduously over which, of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, was shining and which was not.

I used to believe…

Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit

"Turn the light on
You potato!
Here we are now
You potato!"

And at the end:

"Bloody nail
Bloody nail
Bloody nail
Bloody nail
Bloody nail
Bloody nail
Bloody nail
Bloody nail
Bloody nail!"

I used to believe…

As a school kid growing up in the U.S. I was always quite disturbed when we sang "My country 'tis of thee". The line "Land where my fathers died" really perplexed me because I and my classmates mostly had fathers who were still alive.

I used to believe…

Actual lyrics: "I've never been your beast of burden"
My lyrics: "I've never been your big suburban"

I always got the pop groups OMC and OMD mixed up.

I used to believe that the song by Fatboy Slim that goes "Right about now, funk soul brother, check it out now, the funk soul brother" went "Right about now, funk short rubber, check it out now, the funk short rubber". I loved that song in like third grade and would sing it on the way home from swimming lessons, but could never figure out why Mom would laugh at me...

I used to believe…

My friend and I were singing our favorite song "You're So Vain" and when the line "You're where you should be all the time, and when you're not you're with someone like the wife of a close friend, wife of a close friend and" or something like that. My friend turned to me and my other friend and said, "See this is the part I don't get. What's a ploseman?" So then we contemplated and thought it must be postman. So we would always sing "wife of a postman, wife of a postman and..." until my friend's mom said it was close friend.LOL!

I used to believe…

Last month I heard the song "Living on a Prayer" (I'm 15), and I thought it was "Living on a Brayer," as in a donkey ('cause they bray). I was convinced it was about a guy riding cross-country on a donkey: "We're halfway there," meant they were near Oklahoma.

I used to believe…

remember the Queen song "I want to break free". For a long time I used to think it was "i cant seem to lidbidah lidbidah you" instead of "I cant seem to live without live without you". happens when english is not your first language

I used to believe…

The line in Jamiroquai's 'Canned heat' that goes "I've got so much canned heat in my heels" used to sound to me like "I've got so much candy in my ears". It wasn't until a few years ago (when I was 15) that somebody pointed out this schoolboy error vwhen I was singing along to it. Well.... half right's not too bad....