music

I used to think that Bob Dylan's "Chimes of Freedom" went, "with signs of neon flashing." Never did understand what soldiers had to do with that.

I used to believe…

When I was young, naive, and didn't know every rock band smoked something I thought "Don't fear the reaper" was "Don't feel the reefer."

I used to believe…

One of our neighbor kids was learning songs in first grade. I over heard her singing "Land where the pigeons flied ..... from every mountain slide, let freedom ring." Somehow, her version makes more sense today.

I used to believe…

Sophie B. Hawkins song "As I lay Me down" I hear the background singers singing - "you're an asswhole"... I still swear that is what they are singing! Set me straight..

I used to believe…

My friend Shane use to sing at the top of his lungs, Guns & Roses "Take me down to the very last city", only to have us laugh hysterically at him and tell him it is "Take me down to the Paradise City"!!

I used to believe…

In the Green Day song Extrordinary Girl there is a line where they sing, 'the regrets are useless in my mind' and i thought it was 'the raindrops are useless in my mind'

I used to believe…

In the Green Day song Extraordinary Girl, one line goes 'like a pet left in the rain'. i thought it was 'like a pig left in the rain,' which isn't much different but it sounds much weirder!

I used to think that in the song Spanish Train, Chris de Burgh said, His family were dying, melting prayers before he died.

I knew this didn't make sense, but I had no clue what else it might be, certainly not, knelt in prayer.

I used to believe…

My father listened to a lot of Queen. Whenever I'd hear the song "Another One Bites the Dust" I wondered why people would bite on tables covered in dust. I tested that out once, and bit the end table at my grandma's house. Now, when ever I hear that song, I can taste lemon Pledge, and feel wood under my teeth. There are still some teeth marks on my grandmothers end table!

I used to believe…

When I was young my parents used to "force" me to listen to the Beatles. One of my favorites was the one entitled, "Can't Buy Me Love" but it was my favorite because I thought they were saying "(why) can't bobby love?"

I used to believe…

on ashanti's song "whats love" it says "whats love, got to do, got to do". I always said " whats ma, dr. doo, dr. doo".

I used to believe…

See how it says "hello wisconson" at the end of the that 70s show theme song. I always thought said hello Ms johnson

I used to believe…

When I was little I heard "The 12 Days of Christmas" and I thougt the line,"a partridge in a pear tree" was, "a partra jennapear tree". I always wanted to know what kind of tree that was. Also, when my mother was little she heard "who wrote the book of love" as, "who wroter the moo cow now".

It's weird how it makes sense at the time and only seems silly in retrospect

I thought for about 15 years that the Tina Turner song "What's Love Got to Do With It?" said:
"What's love but a second hand in motion?
and then "What's love but a second handy notion?"

I used to believe…

When I was younger, I used to watch music videos, which were typically just spliced together concert footage. Eventually I saw one with a story and they had a dramatic shot where the lyrics kept going but the singer stopped singing, and then for a while I was convinced that singers had to be ventriloquists and they only moved their mouths to help everyone else learn the words, too. Then I saw a video where there were a bunch of jump cuts where the singer had on different outfits (so the singer was in a new outfit every two seconds but you never saw them change). That one had me stumped for weeks.

I used to believe…

My buddy and I used to believe that the National Anthem asked "Jose, can you see?" They sang it at baseball games so we thought it was about the baseball player Jose Conseco. And yes, we thought Jose Conseco was blind.