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I used to believe…

For a long time I thought that 'Milk is silly in Rock and Roll"

I used to think that the lyrics "Hitch a ride" in the "Superman" song were "Hit yer eyes". Consequently, whenever it was played at home I used to run around the house punching myself in the face.

I never knew the title to Prince's song "Raspberry Beret." So I used to believe the song went

she wore a red, spherical dress
the kind you find in a second hand store.

It was the eighties, and women used to wear lots of wierd designer dresses at the time. I figured they wore them once, threw them out, and this girl bought one that was round, like a fruit of the loom apple or something.

I thought Janis Joplin was black until I was about 19.

I used to believe…

Never understood the song my niece sang.
Pupple duck street I'm in love and I wont tell you my name! this was in fact
Pappa don't preach by Madonna

I thought the Pixies song Gigantic was about the Abominable Snowman. I thought she sang "He piled and piled and piled lips and funk" instead of Hey Paul, lets have a ball.....but I still think of that monster whenever I hear that song.

I used to believe…

Believe it or not, the first version of the song "'Winter Wonderland" I ever heard was the parody version that goes, "Walkin' round in women's underwear." I believed for the longest time that the "Women's Underwear" version was the correct version and everyone who sang "Winter Wonderland" had just misheard the lyrics.

I used to think that the lyrics to Eric Clapton's song "Cocaine" went:
"She's alright, she's alright, she's alright...okay."
I couldn't understand why Eric Clapton would write a song about a girl that he just thought was "alright" and "okay."

I have a friend who used to think the dixie land song from the 70's said "I wanna hear some fu@kin dixie land"
instead of "funkie dixie land" so he would sing it out loud when his mom was not around

I used to believe…

My cheerleading music mix had a bunch of different songs and one of them was "You make a grown man cry" but all year i thought it was "you make a grown man proud" ... i was singing it one day and my coach and everyone laughed at me they thought it was really funny though and when we won we got "you make a grown man proud" put on our hoodies :)

I thought the lyrics "good girls don't cry" was "good girls don't die" i went around singing that everywheres until a friend called me crazy... whoops!

I used to believe…

Oh used to think that song that went 'paved paradise, put up a parking lot', went 'crave paradise, to put up with f*ck in life'. I was apalled when I heard my mom singing it in the car.

Also, that Justin Timberlake songs (cry me a river) that goes 'The damage is done so I guess I'll be leaving', I thought it was, 'The jammy jee jones so I guess I'll be leaving'. Dunno where I got that from.

I used to believe…

In the Sisters of Mercy song "Vision Thing" a part goes:

25 whores in the room next door,
25 whores and I neet more

which sounded like:

25 floors in the room next door
25 floors and ninteen more.

Big room indeed.

I used to believe…

When I was about six, i was convinced that the word to the macarena were 'boys have a penis and girls have vagina, bring them together and you have the macarena, haaaaay - macarena'

i was so convinced in fact, that i told all my friends, and their parents too

I used to believe…

There is a song we used to sing at Sunday School that went 'Jesus' friend of little children, be a friend to me, take my hand and ever keep me close to thee....
Now my little ears heard and my little mouth sang,
Jesus scared of little children be afraid of me....

I know I am not the only one who used to sing John Mayer's 'your body is a wonderland' as ' alice in wonderland'