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I used to believe…

When I was little I thought the song I Want Candy by Aaron Carter meant that he wanted candy, to eat. And since i couldn't understand what he was rapping i thought he was singing about different kind of candies.

I used to believe…

In the song "Oops I Did it Again" by Britany Spears there is a line that goes "I played with your heart, got lost in the game." I always imagined Britany Speras getting lost in a giant game of chess.

I used to believe…

When I was about 4 or 5, there was this song I heard on the radio all the time (apparently by Quarterflash, according to a Google search I just performed), which contained the lyrics "I'm gonna harden my heart, I'm gonna swallow my tears". I took this literally. I believed that if you swallowed your tears, your heart would harden and you would die. One day, after bumping my head on a table leg, I started to cry a little, and a tear dripped into my mouth. I started screaming hysterically, telling my mom I needed to go to the hospital. Of course she was freaking out, thinking I'd split my skull open or something. Through my sobs, I explained that I had jusy swallowed a tear, and would soon die of heart failure. Just like the song says. She looked at me in disbelief, and started laughing.

I thought, for a very long time, that in the song (I think it is by Joni Mitchell...) in which the line is 'Pave paradise, put up a parking lot' the line was really 'Gay pair of guys, put up a fucking lie'. I was corrected by a friend when we heard it in a large store and I commented on how I wouldn't have thought they could play a song with the f word in a mall.

I used to believe…

In "Will you be there" by Michael Jackson, I misheard the first line as:

"Hold me, like a pair of Air Jordans".

I just found out the right lyrics now reading this website.

I used to believe that the Beegees song 'staying alive' was actually called 'stabalise', as in the stabalisers you get for bikes, so i thought they all couldn't ride bikes yet...

I used to believe…

Alanis Morrisette hit it big in the U.S. when I was about 13. My favorite song on her album was the one that went:

"You live, you nerd.
You breathe, you nerd..."

The song seemed to be about how, no matter what you do, someone is always going to make fun of you for it. I thought this was a very cool, and very true, idea for a song.

I remarked to my older sister, "Don't you love that song, 'You Nerd'?" She laughed and set me straight: it was actually "You Learn".

I never liked the song quite as much after that.

I used to believe…

When Abbamania was on tv as a tribute thing, I watched it, and after hearing the lyrics 'thank Abba for the music', I was convinced that Abba invented music, and before they were around, it didn't exist...

I put submitted this to another website under a fake name, but I don't think they ever used it...When I was listening to a mxpx cd (crappy cd, by the way) my mom mishead a line that goes 'I'm so tired of masquerading' as 'I'm so tired of masturbating' She told me she wouldn't allow her daughter to listen to such filth! I had to show her lyrics to get her to believe me.

I used to believe…

when I was little I overheard my father call my mother sexy, so I asked my mum what sexy meant she looked embarassed and told me that it was a naughty word and I should nt use it. The following day I asked my mum what Maging meant, she gave me a funny face and told me she did nt know, I thought it must be another naughty word. Infact I thought that it was a dirty word for years to come. I had heard the Gary Glitter song:
Do you wanna be a maging maging maging
Do you wanna be a maging oh ya

I used to believe…

That the line in Desitny's Child 's Bootylischous, " I don't think you're ready for this jelly" was infact
" I don't think you're ready for FISH jelly"

As far as I was concerned no one was ready for that. EEEWWW

I used to believe…

My boyfriend mis-heard the lyrics in the classic cold chisel song Cheap Wine, instead of " I've got my cheap wine and a three day growth" He would belt out " I've got my cheap wine and a female goat"

I thought that the lyrics to the Avril Lavgine song "Complicated" were "Never gonna find your bacon!" Instead of what it actually is, "never gonna find you fake it!"

I used to think that in the ashlee simpson song Boyfriend, they were saying " i dance to your boyfriend" when actually she was saying " i didn't steal your boyfriend" i wondered for ages.. why she would dance TO someones boyfriend

I used to believe…

When I was a kid, only having started learning to read a couple of years or so earlier, there was a popular song called "Patches" by Dickey Lee. The title character is a girl, of whom the singer laments that his parents forbid him to be in love with her because she's from the poor side of town. I remember for quite some time mistaking the name of the title character (and hence of the song as well) as "Hatches". I remember my sister getting a good laugh at me for thinking the song and character were named "Hatches". She acted as if it were crazy to think anyone would be named that. But why not? People ARE given unexpected names from time to time. Anyhow, I don't remember whether it was before or after the time that my sister got such a laugh at my expense in correcting my idea of tha name of "Patches", but I was in a record store and almost bought a record that I thought at first had the title "Hatches" on it. If it was after my sister corrected me, then I guess I thought I'd prove to her that "Hatches" was correct after all. It was the kind of single records of that era, known as 45s. Anyhow my hesitation to buy it started when I noticed the title wasn't exactly "Hatches", but had an "R" in it, making it apparently "Heratches" to the best of my ability to read at the time. It did seem that my sister had likely already told me that the real name was "Patches", as I vaguely remember already having some doubt about the name being "Hatches", a doubt all the more strengthened with doubt that "Heratches" could be the correect name. So I didn't buy the record. Thinking back on it through the years, and never learning that "Heratches" is a real word, I puzzled repeatedly over what could be the name of the song on that record I saw. Eventually as a grownup, I learned that there is a song called "Heartaches", and decided that that is in all likelihood the title that I mistook for "Heratches".

I used to believe…

When I was around six, I thought that the opening lyrics to the song Will You Be There by Michael Jackson, which are "hold me like the river Jordon", were "hold me like a pickalick joe-me". I dont' have any idea how I got that, but I remember singing it too all of my parent's friends and wondering why they were laughing.

I used to believe…

In the Supremes song, Love Child, I thought that the words "hold on just a little bit" instead said "Wait (why don't you put on a condom?) Seemed logical enough.