music

I used to believe…

when i was a kid i thought that rufus of rufus and chaka khan was a person, not a band.

I used to believe…

My husband thought the Pat Benetar song "Hell Is For Children" said "Be a good little boy and you'll get a new toy, now grab all your crap off the swing!" It really says "tell grandma you fell off the swing". I guess he thought the person in the song was really anal retentive about the cleanliness of the playground!

I used to believe…

When I was eight years old I thought the Billy Joel song "scenes From An Italian Restaurant" said "well they got an apartment with deep pile carpets and a couple of painted brazzieres. The real lyrics are "a couple of paintings from Sears"
My sister heard me (unfortunately) singing it wrong and I still hear about it to this day! :-(

I used to believe…

in sting's / the police's song ''roxanne''. I thaught that it was ''rock sand''

I used to think that U2's "Take me to the clouds above" was "take me to the closet love"

I used to believe…

O.K... I had the perspective of the Star Spangled Banner all wrong as a kid. When they said, "Oh say can you see?" I though they were just saying "Say the word "can you see." because I simply thought the "Oh" was a singing filler-in. I never understood why they said say "can you see", but there wasn't a line where we could actually say it.
It doesn't stop there. After they told us to say "can you see", they expected us to say it by the "dawn's early light." What? That was WAY too early in the morning to be singing some song on the horizon.

I used to believe…

In the theme for 'Good Times', I always thought that the line 'temporary layoff' was 'temporary lady'. I don't even know why.

I used to believe…

When the rap song, Bubba Sparks, Miss New Booty, annoying as it is, came out, I didn't know what to think of it. At first I thought music had totally gotten flushed down the commode. Then I thought the producers must've been high at Sea World.
When the lyrics are really :BOOTY, BOOTY, BOOTY, BOOTY ROCKIN' EVERYWHERE....!!!! (3)I thought those morons were saying...

BOOTY, BOOTY, BOOTY,BOOTY ROCK IT LIKE A WHALE!!!!!! ROCK IT LIKE A WHALE!!! ROCK IT LIkE A WHALE!!!! (Trust me, pay real close attention to the last three lines of the chorus. I could barely beileve my ears, but quickly learned to accept it because rap is loosing it's touch anyways.)

I swear, for months all I could picture was Shamu in his aqaurium doing the booty call, brushing up against the tank's sides with his mouth wide open in self-gradification; and I could only "imagine" what the music video looked like.
And lets just say my dad fell in a heap of eternal laughter when I sung it at the top of my screeching lungs for karokie night at the sushi bar.

......I still hear it........

I used to believe…

When I sang the American national anthem as a child, I thought that the line, "...by the dawn's early light" was actually "...by the 'dawnserly' light", and 'dawnserly' was a word that meant something aking to 'beautiful'. My parents thought it was cute, when I used 'dawnserly' in a sentence as a substitute for beautiful, and laughingly corrected me. I was a touch ashamed, though, and disappointed that such a word didn't actually exist.

I thought, until recently, that that song went
'There's gonna be a party tonight'
instead of 'heartache tongight'

I used to think that "Wake Me Up Before You Go Go" went: "Wake Me Up Before It's Over"

I used to believe…

The song "Living Off the Wall": where he sings "just enjoy yourself", I used to think it was "just control yourself".

I used to believe…

one of my friends favorite songs was "hips dont lie" by shakira. one day we were at work and we were listening to it. and she starts belting "OHHHHHHH, DONT YA KNOW - MY HIPS DONT LIE.." instead of "im on tonight - my hips dont lie.." she still thinks its her way.

I used to believe that if you were nearly out of blank printer paper, the best way to get new paper would be to take the last sheet and photocopy it many times.

I also used to believe that a prima donna was someone who aspired to be like Madonna; therefore I remember being very upset whenever someone referred to me as one. I didn't like her teeth.

I used to believe…

When my brother and I were younger (I was ten, he was seven), we heard the song "I'm Your Venus" on the radio, and we thought it was "I'm Your Penis." Seriously......we'd even go around the house singing it, much to my parents dismay/amusement. We didn't get why someone would write a song about a planet, and since the song was about love, well.....I guess you could say we put two and two together and came up with five, lol.

I used to believe…

Theres a punk song called "Ruby Soho". In the song the lyrics go "He's singing and she's there to lend a hand, He's seen his name on the marquee but she won't ever understand" I misheard the lyrics as "He's single and she's down giving head , He's seen this dame at the market and she won't ever understand" I found out the real lyics after embaressing singing mine in front a old friend. I now know. In my defense the lead singer has a very rough, slurry voice and he's hard to hear right a lot.