music

my friend emma used to think the jam's 'a town called malice' was, 'it's time for the baddies, ooooh yeah'

In the song, "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds", I thought the line went : ". . . the girl with colitis goes by." instead of the correct " . . .the girl with collidoscope eyes". I had heard of people having some kind of condition called colitis; but hadn't the slightest idea what it was. I held this belief until I was well into my teens.

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I have a friend who thought for years that the Bee Gees were singiing about a 'four legged woman' rather than 'more than a woman'

and my sister would always sing along to a paul young song, singing 'everytime you go away, you take a piece of meat with you' in stead of 'piece of me with you'.....

My friend's little sister though that the line from Ace of Base's song, "All that she wants is another baby, she's going tomorrow" was "All get your watch, it's another baby. She's going to borrow it"

When I was in the sixth grade my teacher told me that KISS (the rock band) gave money to Satan by burying it the ground. For a few years after that I was worried that when digging in the dirt I would break through to Hell.

Instead of singing "One step closer to the edge" (Linkin Park) I sang along like this:

"Cause I watched that brother to the edge, and I´m about to brake!"

What kind of english is that!? Even the songs title is "Ont step closer"

In middle school, though I was on the verge of abandoning Christianity, I still was afraid of hidden messages in heavy metal music. Consequently, I was wary when listening to White Zombie and never listened for too protracted a period, lest I be indoctrinated into whatever brand of satanism Rob Zombie and his crew were peddling.

My parents used to be thoroughly amused by my somewhat postmodern rendition of popular nursery rhyme "Baa Baa Black Sheep" when I was 3. It went a little something like this...

"Baa baa sheep,
A - wool,
Essir, essir,
Full.
A master,
A dame,
Lane."

Teeny Lynz bows, cue rapturous applause.

When I was younger, when hearing songs with part of the lyrics going "..take me higher..." (there are a lots of songs with those words), I thought they were singing "..take me hire...". I was puzzled about this for many years; here we have this romantic pop song and then she (or he) sings about being for hire... I asked a friend of mine about this strange phenomenon and she explained it to me. I was then in my early 20's.

i always thought that alanis morisette was upset about a less than perfect stuffed animal given to her by her lover:

"...of the cross-eyed bear that you gave to me..."

When I was young, I grew up in Wrexham, North Wales, where there's a district called Bersham (where the steelworks were). I used to believe that Sham 69's Hersham Boys song was in fact about a bunch of party-animal Wrexham lads from said district. How wrong I was.

When the song "Dumb" of Nirvana came out, my friend Pedro used to think that the final parts of the lyrics was Kurt Cobain repeting "Africa No", and he started to think Nirvana were racists on that song, when, actually Kurt Cobain was singing "I Think I'm Dumb".

My friends brother (being the grunge rock god that he is) thought that Nirvana sang "I'm made of lizard breath" instead of "I need an easy friend" he performed and sang that at a school concert!

I told my brother, Myles Kidd , a dumb story about how the Moody Blues all died tragically after recording 'Nights in White Satin'.
He used to cry whenever he heard it and only recently found out the truth after 20-odd years.

I used to think Boy George's Karma Chamelon went come-a come-a come-a come-a come a camelia (I thought it was weird wanting to be a flower)

A guy I work with just told me that in Madonna's La Esa Bonita that he always thought the words Young girl with eyes like the desert was Young girl with eyes like potatoes... huh?

My best friend and I always sing the Venga Boys song We like to party as Feet like to party (It makes sense!!) and also in the same song when they sing The Venga bus is coming we always thought it was The finger bus is coming.... (To join the partying feet maybe?)

Yeah I know I'm a weirdo...

I always thought Jimmy Buffett was "wasted away again in Margaritaville, searching for my lost CIRCULAR SAW". My husband laughed until he cried when he caught me singing it.