songs

I just found out that Weezer was not a person.

Carolyn

When I was about 5, my family and sunday school liked to sing the song "Climb up Sunshine Mountain." The lyrics said "Climb up Sunshine Mountain, faces all aglow." I thought that the glowing faces were what the mountain was made of. I always felt eerie hearing about little kids climb up (what I pictured to be) a mountain giant green monster faces.

Urissa

When I was young I thought that piano notes stood for words. Now I think about how could you play piano with them?

Sam

i used to think all songs were exactly one minute long, and it wasn't until i was nine that i realized that wasn't true.

Brigid Foley

i used to think air guitar was the same as electric guitar, i just thought air guitar was ran by air.

Anon

I used to think that the reason people were bad is because they listen to rap music and no other reason. But I listen to a lot of rap now, 4 years later

CS

When I was young, my mom listened to the oldies station on the radio a lot. I grew up believing that all the old songs were very recent. It didn't even occur to me until later that there other styles of music, and that the songs I'd heard weren't necessarily the most popular ones at the time.

Dae

I used to think that in the song "beer for my horses" that toby keith and willie nelson actually drank whiskey and gave beer to their horses lol

kyle

When I first heard as a child the song, "What Child Is This?", with its line "Whom angels greet with anthems sweet", I thought that anthems were some kind of flowers.

Heather

I once was terrified of the Christmas song "Deck the Halls" because I was certain that the line, "troll the ancient yuletide carol" referred to a big mean troll tending to a fireplace.

Annie

As a child, I heard the song "Bristol Stomp" by the Dovells. I assumed then that the title dance was named for the only Bristol I then had heard of, the one along the Tennessee / Virginia border. After growing up, I learned that the original (and probably most famous) Bristol is in England. I decided I surely must have been mistaken, and that Bristol, England was surely the dance's place of origin. Eventually I learned that I'd been wrong both times. The actual place referred to in the song is Bristol, Pennsylvania.

Connie

By the time I was nine, I firmly believed I already knew every Christmas song in existence. I was completely blown away when I found out that there were even more out there that I'd never heard of.

Anon

I've always been a huge Beatles fan. When I was younger, I remember listening to "Ticket to Ride" - "I think I'm gonna be sad, I think it's today...the girl that's driving me mad is going away." Couldn't figure out for the life of my why someone would be sad if the person who was making them mad was going away - shouldn't they be happy? Of course, I figured it out!

Elizabeth

i used to think the air guitar was a real instument

allen

You know that song 'Heven is a Halfpipe' that goes:

'If I die before I wake
At least in heaven, I can skate,
'Cos right now on earth, I can't do jack,
Without the man upon my back.'

I was only little when I first heard it, and my friend and I had started to learn to skateboard. We were very confused by the last couple of lyrics in the chorus, but in the end, we decided that 'Jack' was a trick that we hadn't heard of, and this guy was really crap at it, and had to have the inventor of the trick on his back, telling him what to do all the time, and in heaven, he'd be able to do 'Jack' perfectly.

I'm forteen now, and I only realised the other day!

Ex-skater

Until my late teens, i believed the air guitar was a kind of electric guitar powered by air. But I was ashamed to ask my friends, they'd think I was not "in" if I didn't know this cool instrument.

jane