songs

i used to to think, without having ever heard the song, that 'jesus freak' was a cover version of that old song 'super freak' - the one that sounds like 'can't touch this'. I used to go around singing 'jesus freak jesus freak' to the melody. I don't know why. Later on when older I figured it would sound different but still liked my version. I finally heard the song last week, It sounds nowhere near what i had in mind!

me

My Mom use to try to keep is from having the radio on before school and she would say, "Sing before seven cry before eleven". We use to like to sing along with the radio and she really just wanted us to be quiet.

Annmarie

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

when I was a kid in the 90s there was this song that went "Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thrusday, Friday, Saturday, EEE-ven on Sunday...every day of the week." I though that song was meant to teach kids the days of the week and when my kindergarten teacher asked us if we had ever heard a song about the days of the week, I proudly sang that song.

OK, so yeah. My teacher had to explain some stuff to me.

Katie

When I was little I thought when you played a CD somewhere the band would have to play the song and then i got confused that if while i was playing the song someone else would and the band wouldn't be able to do it

May

I grew up in Brooklyn, NY near the Ocean, which had a boardwalk. The boardwalk was fine to walk on during the day, but at night, had an undesirable element living under it (that’s the fear my parents had enstilled in me anyhow). Homeless people and people going there to do drugs (much scarier to a child than an adult). Anyhow, when I had heard that 50's or 60's song "under The Boardwalk" on one of my Dad's radio stations, I thought it was absolutely demented. The Boardwalk!??! A romantic destination!?! That’s crazy!! The "Boardwalk" as I knew it was in the mid to late 70's. The one in the song "under The Board Walk" (under the board walk, down by the Sea, on a blanket with my baby is where i'll be- that one) was written in a simpler many years prior (or by someone who lived in an area that had a more attractive Under board Walk Element). It wasn’t until I was 9 or 10 my confusion on the song and why it spoke of such an undesirable place as a romantic destination (to sit on a blanket with your baby) was cleared!

Eric Spector aka Esteban

I used to think the Beach Boys song "Kokomo" was about Kokomo, Indiana.

Jane

I used to believe that if I sang the Diet Coke song the way Ray Charles did in his commercials, I'd get sick.

Lila

If you are a canaidien and you are familier with O Canada.When Iwas in kindergardan. When I heard on guard for thee.I thoght that one person was on duty for the whole Canada.At recess the librarian came outside.I thought that she was the only person for duty for canada

matthew

I use so be so afraid of the song "Black Hole Sun" by SoundGarden. I would run out of the room everytime that song was on and the video for that song made it worse it made be thing that the sun was going to explode and that everyone was going to have messed up head.

Beware of the Sun.

I used to believe Radiohead sang "Kiss from a Rose" before I knew what the song was called. I have no idea why I thought this.

Lucy

I used to believe that you can sing whatever you wanna say that doesn't mean anything in a song. When I knew you can't,I was like shocked to know how they memorized songs so fast..

Frugen

I used to believe that when you listened to the radio, the musicians were all at the radio station playing live every song and I wondered how they got all the equipment in and out so fast.

Jessica

I didn't know that song 'Skip to the Loo' was about skipping to the restroom. I thought it was about skipping to the beat of a song. For years I called music beats, loo.

Tina

Until recently (I'm 17) I thought the song by The Who, "Happy Jack" was about an unpopular Australian politician who managed to usurp and abuse most of the country's power. Because the people hated him, they tied stones to the ends of rope, slung the rope over him and drowned him. I believed the line "They couldn't stop Jack or the water's lapping/ and they couldn't prevent Jack from feeling happy" referred to the water lapping over his head as he drowned with a smile on his face because of all the immoral things he'd done. The best part is I didn't even realize I believed this until I listened to the song this year and memories of my odd little story came back!

Nora Walker-Hobbs

My grandmother used to sing me the Bushel and a Peck song and I thought she made it up for me....I had entirely forgotten that until I read Lucy's post here saying the same thing. Thanks Lucy!

helen

I used to believe that song from the 70's "Doing it right on the wrong side of town" was about anal sex.

Arturo Pfaff

I was never priviledge to know the real version of Twinkle Twinkle little star until recent. What 27 years later. The version that I know is, "Twinkle, Twinkle, little start who the hell you think you are, Up above you think you're it, won't you sit in a pile of shit... Twinkle, Twinkle little star how i wonder where you are....

Denise R.

when i was little. i used to think tiny people were inside the radio singing, i couldn't understand how songs were played

jmac

I used to believe that little guys played the music right in your headphones, and the player was their home.

Molly