music

I used to believe…

The song "Where is the Love?" by the Black Eyed Peas and Justin Timberlake. My sister to think it said, "People killing people tryin childrens hurting and in trying once you practice what you preach then you turn your other cheek. Father father father help us send some violence full of love cause peoples got me got me questioning where is above? above. above where is above, above, above???"

I used to believe…

Not about me, it's about my kids actually.

They sing "My Darling Clementine" and at the part where it goes, "dreadful sorrow" the sing "Drink The Soil"

ALSO: That song Daisy, Daisy give me your answer true. The next line is supposed to be I'm HALF crazy but they hear it as Im ASS crazy and they love to sing at the top of their lungs in the supermarket. Gets me lots of looks.

I used to believe…

When my sister and I were in the car the song, "How Bizzare" came on. We thought it was saying, "Help is on." It wasn't until a couple weeks later I called her and let her know I found out the real words.

I had a roommate who thought that Celine Dion's song "Next Plane Out" said "let's make out." She didn't make the connection between the song's title and the words to the chorus....

I lived near the Illinois Central train in Chicago, which we called the IC. Every morning in school I sang, "My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of the IC."

I used to believe…

My friend's mum likes Bruce Springsteen a fair bit, and she recently got his latest album. Over dinner one night when I was there, she professed her confusion as to why he was talking about a "muffin man", before we all pointed out to her that it was actually "nuthin man"

I used to believe…

When I was 6 or 7, I really liked the duet "Perhaps Love" by John Denver and Placido Domingo, just that at that time, I didn't know it was Denver and Domingo. I used to think a) it was 3 people singing and b) that those were the 3 knights from the "Neverending Story" by Michael Ende (which was also among my favorite books at that time). I always imagined how they would ride around all day fighting enemies and at night sit at the campfire to sing this song together. Those were the days. ;)

I used to believe…

Do you remember "The look" by Roxette? I think it was popular around 1990, when I was 10 years old, and I really loved this song. I had just learned english in school for a year, but I tried to understand and translate the lyrics, looking up words in the dictionary and stuff (well most of the time the lines didn't make that much sense to me, I know now over 10 years later that they REALLY don't make that much sense).

Anyways there is this line where I always heard "kissing like a ramrod" and associated it to that big spaceship-transforming-robot from Saber Rider (anyone knows that series?) which was called Ramrod. I tried to look that word up, but I couldn't find it, most likely because I misspelled it "Ramrott" or something like that.

So, I went to my english teacher (an elderly man) and asked him what a ramrod was. He looked a bit puzzled, so I provided him the context and said the line in the song was "kissing like a ramrod", which made him look even more puzzled. He then muttered something about how lyrics in songs are sometimes no correct english and went on with his english lesson.

Years later, I stumbled by conincidence over the lyrics to "The Look" printed out somewhere... which solved the ramrod puzzle, since the original lyrics were "tasty like a raindrop". ^_^;

I thought the song Secret Agent man was
Secret Asian Man
My mom had two she thought hang on sloopy was hang on stupid
and Theres a bad moon on the rise was theres a bathroom on the right

I used to believe…

A friend of mine was singing the song by Gabrielle from the Bridget Jones film, except she was merrily singing away 'Valerieeeee' instead of 'Out of reach', i don't know if she thought that was what Bridget liked to be called at the weekend.

I used to believe…

From the 9 inch Nails album Pretty Hate Machine:
I tought "Terrible lie" was "Terrible Eye."
I also thought "I was up above it" was "I was f**kin Bubba."

9 inch nails is still weird though.

I used to believe…

When Kula Shaker released that song called 'Gurvinder' or something, my dad used to sing the names of our next door neighbours. I used to believe they were the real lyrics and was really surprised a really famous band had made a song up about my next door neighbours!

I used to believe…

The real chorus to Smooth Criminal is "Annie you ok, your ok, your ok Annie"

What I heard: "Annie rogaine, rogaine, rogaine Annie."

I was thinking he was tactfully trying to tell the girl that she had a bald spot. Age was a smooth criminal and had stolen her hair.

I used to believe…

Until I saw this site, I thought the Blind Melon verse "You know I like to keep my cheeks dry today" was "You know I like to keep my cheating strategy, so stick with me and I'll have it made."

When my sister was really little in the 1960s, she thought that the superhero Hercules was called "Hurt your knees."

Maybe there was something in the water?

I used to believe…

These Days by Bon Jovi: I got a couple of things wrong..and I sang it that way until I looked up the lyrics (I'm 20)

"These days the stars hang out of reach instead, These days there ain't a light up on the streets" instead of
"These days the stars seem out of reach, These days there ain't a ladder on these streets"

"his momma said he was crazy, he said: Momma I've got a child"..the right lyrics are
"momma I've got to try"

I have always heard two lines in Green Day's "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" as the following:

"...Tounge grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go..."
-(TIME grabs you by the wrist...)

"...Hang it on the shelf with good old fingered time..."
-(hang it on the shelf IN good HEALTH and GOOD TIME)

I recently learned how to play this song on guitar, and it wasn't until I looked up the lyrics online that I realized I had been singing the song wrong for years