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I used to believe…
Not only did I not know that Smooth Criminal was a Michael Jackson song, I also thought that the cover Alient Ant Farm did of it was actually Weezer.
Of course I also thought the lyrics were, "Andy did you turn gay?" Gave a whole new meaning to who the Smooth Criminal was. Anyway, I really missed it somewhere in there...
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I used to believe that if I sang the Diet Coke song the way Ray Charles did in his commercials, I'd get sick.
I used to mishear the Eric Clapton song "Cocaine". Listen how the meaning changes for the want of just one word: "If you want to hang out, you've got to take her out, okay/ If you want to get down, down on the ground, okay/ She don't lie, she don't lie, she don't lie... okay.
I knew about sex by then, so I thought it was about a girl, and that it was okay with her daddy to date her because "she don't lie".
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When I first heard the song "Push It" by Salt N Pepa, I thought the chorus said "Aah, bullshit".
Also, in "Sad Songs Say So Much" by Elton John : "Just feel their gentle touch"..I first thought it was "just feel their genitals"
In "Silent Night", it was a "Holy imbecile, tender and mild"
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For the longest time I thought that in Bruce Springsteen's song, "I'm on fire', where he says "Ooooh....I'm on fire", I was sure he was saying "Ooooh....I might fart".
I used to believe…
As an infant, I believed talking heads' song 'And She Was' was all about me.
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Steve Miller's "Big ole jet airliner"...i always heard "big ole J with a lighter"
I used to sing along to a song on the radio (in England) that went "something's burning ... something's burning ... something's burning ... and I think it's love." Only I thought it ended "and I think it's lunch"
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In the Beatles' song 'All My Loving' I misheard 'I'll write home every day' as I'll ride home every day'.
I thought, why's he making such a fuss about being away if he can ride home every day? I imagined a cowboy or Pony Express rider singing the song.
Later when I learned that he was expecting to WRITE home every day, I still saw him on horseback, leaning a writing pad on trees and gates as he passed while riding a horse and writing a letter home at the same time.
I misheard the line 'a come-on from the whores on Seventh Avenue' in the Simon & Garfunkel song 'The Boxer'as 'a come-on from the HORSE on Seventh Avenue'. I had seen on TV the horse-drawn carriages in Central Park and believed that the horse felt sorry for the lonely boxer and winked at him to invite him for a carriage ride!
I also heard 'Destination- Bangor, Maine' as 'Destination- back again', probably because I come from a railway town where lots of men drive trains up and down the same stretch of track every day.
I had record called which had "Along Came Jones" by The Coasters on it. There were a few parts where the guy said "If you don't give me the deed to your ranch..." I thought "Deteyor" was the name of the ranch.
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You know that TV show "Family Guy"? You know the theme song? I always thought the part where stewie say "all the things that make us laugh and cry" was actually "all th e things that make us effing cry"!
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Dirty deeds and their done dirt cheap...
wasn't it really Dirty deeds and a bumblebee?
I always thought that the lyrics were...
one flea, one flea, one flea, one flea pretty...
They were really wonderfully pretty (Cure). I guess it does make more sense!
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I used to think that in the Beatles' "lucy in the sky with diamonds" they were singing "you've seen the sky with diamonds"
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When I was in kindergarden, we sang this song, and I couldn't unterstand some lyrics. So I was singing just what I heard, but it didn't make any sense at all. A few years later someone explained it to me and it was a song about a rainbow.
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You know that old 60s song, "Secret Agent Man"? When I first heard that song as a little kid, I thought he was saying "Secret Asian Man". It still sort of sounds like that to me.
I used to think that the song "Sandra Dee" from grease went "look at me, I'm Sandra Dee, lousy whisper (with her) gin and tee" (as in gin and tonic), but come to find out just before I was 17 it was "lousy with virginity." Go figure! I thought I was right.
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My brother who was an adult was singing with me in the car one day. We were singing "big 'ol jet airliner" and out of his mouth comes "big old jello rider" I was laughing so hard I had to pull over
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My husband for the longest thought that that part of Ozzy's song, "Crazy Train", went like..'crazy, but that's how it goes, millions of people, living assholes'.
