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I used to believe…

In the early '40s, as a youngster of four, I often heard the song, "On Brave Old Army Team. (Ours was a football household.) However, I thought the words were "Unbraveled Army Team," meaning our soldiers weren't brave. I thought it terribly unpatriotic, and I was ashamed and sad that so many people didn't do something about eliminating the son.

I used to believe…

Celine Dion has a Christmas song in Fench titled "Les Cloches Du Hameau." If my French is correct (probably NOT, lol) that means "Bells of the Hamlet" or something like that.
In one line, I could swear that she's singing "Les cloches du hameau...ayyamak sa'ieeda...." Well, "Ayyamak sa'ieeda is ARABIC for "May your day be happy", and last time I checked Celine Dion didn't speak any Arabic, so I doubt that's what she's saying.

I used to believe…

Until just recently whenever I heard the song 'Hanging By a Moment' by Lifehouse, I wondered what they meant by, 'Running in a clash of where to go'. I figured maybe there were two divergant paths, and the guy couldn't figure out which to take. Turns out he's actually saying,
'Running and not quite sure where to go,' which makes more sense.

I was driving along one day with my son and a few other people and the Bee Gees song "Tragedy" came on. I started singing along and when the chorus came on sang very loudly "Hercules" which I always thought it was. Imagine my embarassment when my son told me to shut up - it was Tragedy. A tragedy in itself as I have never lived it down.

I used to believe…

Know that song that goes, "Stop in the name of love, before you break my heart" by Diana Ross & the Supremes? Well, I used to think she was singing, "Safe in the laundry room..." and everytime I heard it I would run to the laundry room and lock the door. Too bad my mom would always blast it on the stereo and she wouldn't know where I would go. Haha! :)

I used to believe the song 'Felice Navidad' was 'Release Navidad' and was a protest song about some Latin American political prisoner. Never could work out why it then went on to say 'We want to wish you a Merry Christmas'. And this was well into my twenties.

I used to believe…

Leningrad by Billy Joel

Real Lyrics-I was born in '49, a cold war kid in McCarthy time

I Heard-I was born in '49, a cold war kid in the coffee time.


I thought he was saying coffee had been invented in the late 40's...

I used to believe…

When I was little, my dad and I would watch Sesame Street together, and my dad would sing along to the songs. One day I asked him how come he knew the song, and he said he knew all of them - meaning he knew all the Sesame Street songs since we watched it so often. I, however, took that to mean that my dad knew every song ever made in the world. So I would ask him for lyrics to a song when I didn't know them, and my dad would go look them up if he didn't know them... So I decided that meant that he had a really big memory but it was too big to carry all of it around in his brain, so he would open his head and change the memory part of his brain.

I used to believe…

When my much younger sister was about three or four she was watching a video clip on television and said to me "Who is that lady?"

I said with out trying to laugh, "It's Michael Jackson" as I honestly couldn't say anything else ... Lucky she didn't ask me again!

I used to believe…

My parents had a record of traditional (I think) Greek music - no idea what the song really was but there was one I always believed the words were "a fairy a fairy..." sung over and over

I used to believe…

There was a song in the charts about 10 years ago... I think it was by Fatboy Slim... The one that went 'everybody needs a bosom as a pillow, everybody needs a bosom' + then there's another bit that repeats several times... Well, I heard it as 'It's the real Sanjeev Bhaskar + he's 45'. Which I knew couldn't be right because I thought Sanjeev Bhaskar was younger than that. So I asked a friend of mine, she said it was 'my dad's a flasher + he's 45.

I still dont' know what it actually was.

I used to believe…

Y'know that Alien Ant Farm song that came out a few years ago, called 'Smooth Criminal?' Well, I never learned what the chorus actually said, but I was not the only one who thought it sounded very much like 'Anna, are you OK, are you OK, are you OK Anna?'
Now as it happens, my name is Anna. + I soon got v. sick of people asking me if I was OK repeatedly.

I used to believe…

There's a song by Wir Sind Helden called Denkmal. It was on radio three years ago a lot. There's a line which I believed to be "Hol den Fahrschein raus" (Take out your ticket for showing it to the ticket inspectors) .. since the song seemed to be about youth culture, graffiti and someone else having conducted illegal or at least public nuisance, it made sense to me perfectly. Until I re-heared the song in full. The line actually is "Hol den Vorschlaghammer (Fedge the sledge).

I don't think anyone understands the words to Michael Jackson's song "Don't Stop "Til You Get Enough," including me.

When I was a kid I thought the chorus said "GET UP TO THE POST OFFICE" but the actual words are "KEEP ON WITH THE FORCE DON'T STOP"

I still didn't understand the words until I purchased the recording in the late nineties.

I liked the song Mr. Roboto by Styx until the part where he starts talking about murdering someone. You know, the part where Mr. Roboto starts shouting "Kill Roy!" I thought the robot was supposed to be a nice robot, and Roy probably didn't do anything to him.

I used to believe…

When I first heard the song "A Public Affair" by Jessica Simpson, I thought one of the lines went like this:

All the camels come out for a public affair...

when it really went like this:

All the cameras come out for a public affair, etc.

I was wondering why there weren't camels in the music video, since Jessica was singing about them. Then this morning I was watching the video on MTV and I put the closed caption on so I could see the words... I was so disappointed. I like my version better.