Thursday, April 26, 2007

Song lyrics

I read somewhere recently that someone thought the lyrics to Kiss's "Rock & Roll All Nite" were "I want to rock & roll all nite, and part of every day" instead of "party every day." I laughed, because I used to think the exact same thing. And I thought it was mainly because of my responsible geekiness. You know, if you're going to rock & roll all nite, you can do it part of the next day, but not the whole day. Then I heard AC/DC "Dirty Deeds" this morning and remembered how my friends and I thought the lyrics were "Dirty deeds and the Dunder Chief." Never mind that we had no clue who the Dunder Chief was and what he had to do with dirty deeds. I'm generally terrible with understanding lyrics. In the Cult's "She Sells Sanctuary," I was sure the singer was saying "paperback ride." Yes I know that doesn't make any sense, but maybe I had "Paperback Writer" on the brain. And one of my all time favorite mangled lyrics is courtesy of my friend Jane, who thought for sure that in "La Isla Bonita," Madonna was dreaming of bagels instead of San Pedro.

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